<p>How is everyone feeling?</p>
<p>I just realized I lost my Eli ID. Goddammit. :P</p>
<p>ugghh, I’ve got so many mixed emotions. Anxious, relieved, worried, hopeful, pessimistic… I think I get a new feeling every moment. Sure this all might sound like a drastic overexaggeration but it’s a big deal to me. I have grandparents who never went to college and parents who went to a local community college, so when they found out where I was applying, they were ecstatic. I just wanna make 'em proud. :)</p>
<p>I’m optimistic right now…which worries me. Is that possible? lol</p>
<p>I’m expecting rejection so that it doesn’t hurt too terribly. However, my anxiety has been quelled a little with acceptances from Northwestern and Johns Hopkins. I’ll still be nervous, but I’ll be okay if I don’t get in.</p>
<p>^It’s the opposite for me. I got waitlisted at Johns Hopkins and I’m worried that if I can’t make the cut for a school with a 30% rate, then things might not be looking so good for yale with a rate 4 times worse. :(</p>
<p>I dunno. Nervous, but kind of… in disbelief that I’ll actually be getting a decision from Yale. And extremely pessimistic. </p>
<p>I know I can deal with the rejection, it’s more dealing with everyone who is convinced I’m so smart that I’ll have no problem getting in, you know?</p>
<p>^ Aaaa-freaking-men.</p>
<p>This past week:
Everyone: “ZOMG, so you’re totally going to get in everywhere, right? I mean, how could you not? You’re valedictorian and everything!”
Me: “Um, no. Actually, I’ll probably be rejected everywhere, and like half of Yale’s 28,000 applicants were valedictorians.”
Everyone: “Pshh, whatever. I bet none of them have as many awesome ECs as you, or have your SAT score, or write essays as good as yours!”
Me: “Actually…they all do.” <em>siiiiigh</em></p>
<p>@ Icestorm815 - Or you can view it this way - Maybe JH thought you would lower its yield rate b/c you would get accepted to an ivy league school? More of a WashU thing to do (burn…), but it could happen. I wouldn’t give up just yet.</p>
<p>Plus, go look on the Harvard forum for all those inspiring stories about how people were rejected everywhere else except Harvard. It could be the same with Yale (or Harvard if you applied there).</p>
<p>I’ve got one here - A girl at my school 2 years ago was flat-out rejected from Georgetown. She was accepted to UPenn and is now a student there. So just because one college doesn’t accept you doesn’t necessarily shed light onto other colleges’ decisions.</p>
<p>^I couldn’t agree with the both of you two more!! :D</p>
<p>Edit: Thanks Peytoncline I appriciate the encouragement. I think the reason that I may have not gotten in was because two kids that go to the same magnet school as I do got in and they have slightly higher grades (ie: A- vs A) and better ACT scores (ie: 32 vs 34). I’m just ticked off because one of those kids was a leader of a huge cheating ring and would post all the answers for our homework online the night before they were due. He’s a complete jerk to top it off. I hoped that would have came off in my counselor’s recs, but I guess she didn’t have the heart to pull the trigger. :(</p>
<p>^ Lolz at the WashU comment.</p>
<p>I am trying so hard not to expect anything good, but there is still one glimmer of hope in me that refuses to dim… just goes to show, that though I have acted like a “debbie-downer”, a “negative-nancy” all throughout this past school year, the innate optimism of the human spirit still endures within me.</p>
<p>Be honest. How many of you have actually shed tears over this whole process?</p>
<p>I was bawling in the car as I tried to tell my dad that I’ve realized the bleak reality of how my very unimpressive stats look against everyone else’s…after sifting through all these CC threads, the ugly, cold truth just hit me like a rock, when I realized that after all this, I probably should never have applied in the first place. I mean really, who was I kidding???</p>
<p>So right now, I am struggling to accept my fate, which is going to Geneseo. I’ll just check my Yale, Cornell, Brown, Harvard and Princeton decisions for the heck of it. I’ve waited months for five rejections, and I might as well accept them before I experience another pretend-catharsis over nothing.</p>
<p>^ I have no idea what your stats are, but you have a cool writing voice :)</p>
<p>With waitlists from both UVA and Northwestern (accepted at WashU though, I know you’ll love that), I have absolutely no expectations for Tuesday, as opposed to December 15th, when I was still somewhat hopeful (dare I say optimistic?) about Yale.</p>
<p>Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I’m in Peytoncline’s position, except my acceptances came from Duke and Vanderbilt. I have no reason to think I have a chance at all, and yet my hope refuses to go away. It’s going to make rejection that much harder.</p>
<p>Yeah, I threw in the WashU comment b/c I was wait listed there, yet I was accepted to JH and NU (take that, WashU!). Lol, j/k, I know WashU chose the right people for its freshmen class.</p>
<p>I’m totally 'laxed…listening to Bob Marley (and Damian/Stephen!!). Yeah, his music can do that to you. =)</p>
<p>^Are you sure you’re not a pot head? 
jk</p>
<p>I fully expect to be rejected, but for some reason I can only imagine the feeling of getting accepted… ugh.</p>
<p>@Icestorm</p>
<p>lol! I’m too chicken to even touch a joint. They smell horrible, anyway.</p>
<p>But the Marleys have an unusual way to make you feel so calm…I don’t know why. :D</p>