<p>To check your Eli account on the 31st? Or check asap?!</p>
<p>Or perhaps to open the letter no matter what size it is?</p>
<p>Will you:
Tear it open right away?
Sleep with it overnight- maybe it will have a higher chance to accept you?
Have someone else open it for you?
Open it slowly and hope for the best?</p>
<p>Any opinions?</p>
<p>maybe the best option is to have a third party open it and only hand you the letter. however, depending on whether it has been folded three times or if it is crisp could play minds with your head. there is no perfect way to go about this.</p>
<p>I plan to view my decision somewhere else. I will see whether it is good or not.
When I come from school, the place is quiet. I will then go on the website and get the decision out. After that, I will simply play loud music and dance in-front of everyone. They CANNOT hate what I will do. They would dance with me. </p>
<p>Any bright ideas</p>
<p>I am going to check my decisions for my match schools before I even peek at Yale. If it's a rejection, then at least they'll soften the blow...</p>
<p>The letter doesn't arrive in the mail until about a week after online decisions become available, so I'm checking as soon as I get home. Granted, I won't get home until maybe 8pm, but we'll see. I've already been through it once (I was deferred), and I'm hoping the second time around I'll have reason to be a little more excited.</p>
<p>No way will I check my Eli account. I will be too terrified to click on the link. I'll just view my rejection via regular mail....</p>
<p>I got it!</p>
<p>Log into your eli account and shut the monitor off. You make a grid out of TINY sticky notes on your monitor. You peel away one at a time.. like minesweeper. And hope for the best...</p>
<p>You'll know immediately when you log in, whether or not you are looking at the screen. If music starts playing, you're in. If not...</p>
<p>mal77, that sounds cool. takes too much time though. someone pre-package that, and we can all order the service...</p>
<p>I'm going to have to check myself. If I don't, my dad will, and I would much rather read the bad news for myself than make someone else tell me.</p>
<p>I'm going to get it over with.. chances are I won't get in, so I won't be too terribly worried about it (i hope, at least)</p>
<p>i got it. i remember my interviewer telling me that if ur accepted music plays and a bulldog shows up or soemthing.
so im going to log in and quickly shut off the monitor and turn on the sound.
that way i wont actually have to read my rejection</p>
<p>i bet the sound thing is a load of bull (no pun intended)</p>
<p>none taken. LOL
Are you serious? Music plays in the background! That would be the music that I turn aloud. It would be so noisy, our neighbors will have to hear it. </p>
<p>Oh my!</p>
<p>I have heard that sometimes the music doesn't work, so don't assume an automatic rejection. The minesweeper idea sounds terrible. I think I'll check the way I take of a band-aid: just tear it off and hope it isn't infected, so to speak.</p>
<p>Well, since I'll be checking it electronically.....</p>
<p>I have a systematic approach I've used for checking all my standardized test scores (and will continue to use with admissions decisions:</p>
<p>1) Load page
2) While page is loading (before the info comes up), I quickly cover the screen with my hands
3) I close my eyes
4) I take big, deep breaths for about 1-2 minutes
5) I open my eyes
6) I slowly start to slide my fingers apart, revealing the words between the gaps.</p>
<p>Eventually, I see the decision and either flip out or sink into deep depression ahaha</p>
<p>If this was back in the day, and decisions were snail mail only, I would pull a Charlie from Willy Wonka:</p>
<p>Sloooowwwwly peel off one edge and pull it out haha</p>
<p>^ I did that with SATs, but methinks I prefer the band aid approach.</p>
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i got it. i remember my interviewer telling me that if ur accepted music plays and a bulldog shows up or soemthing.
so im going to log in and quickly shut off the monitor and turn on the sound.
that way i wont actually have to read my rejection
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<p>It's too bad my volume is connected to my monitor. No monitor = no sound. Sigh...</p>
<p>The minesweeper idea is definitely not good. You would just stress yourself. </p>
<p>What is the first word for a Yale acceptance letter. Is it congratulations? It is a paragrapgh and then the acceptance statement? HELP!</p>
<p>The music thing is not fake or a rumor.</p>