<p>WWWard: If you make it to New Haven later this month, be sure to visit Pepe’s Pizza in Wooster Square - potentially decisive factor in your daughter’s choice.</p>
<p>oldblue99: 
OK… thanks. Will do.</p>
<p>guyz chill… you’ll be fine. Look at the first couple of pages of the 2015 SCEA results thread. Just go look at it. Please, you should. It proved to me that ivy admissions is not a meritocracy. The reason you’re not getting in was not because your SAT score wasn’t 50 points higher or your rank was too low (for most of you), it was because you were a victim of the whims of the admission office.</p>
<p>I guess at this point…may the odds be ever in your favor</p>
<p>So stressed out.</p>
<p>-insert mini heart attack-</p>
<p>-insert breathing problems-</p>
<p>^ I feel you…this waiting is so stressful. Knowing that they’ve 99% probably already made the decision is even more stressful.</p>
<p>So anxious too!
So many huge assignments due this Friday as well as finals next week…</p>
<p>^^Yeah, it feels so stressful knowing they’ve decided</p>
<p>wanted to also say that this is the website we will log onto on Monday to check the decision with our Eli username and password:</p>
<p><a href=“Application Management”>Application Management;
<p>I’m literally not stressed out but then I come on this thread and see everyone else stressing out which totally stresses me out. #CCproblemz</p>
<p>Either my daughter is extremely abnormal or a consummate actress (which she is aiming to be) because she seems totally un-phased by the entire process. The wait and uncertainly stresses me out as her father, but she is completely unaffected. I guess that I am thankful for it, but it simply strikes me as unusual. I guess it also helps that she is engaged all this week in theatrical competitions.</p>
<p>But I feel for you all. Best of luck… with both the stress of the wait and in the final verdict.</p>
<p>^^^well, I mean, we’re not like this in real life. We come here to vent. I’m sure that your daughter vents in some way.</p>
<p>Haha, “real life.” ^</p>
<p>I love how we all refer to the internet as if it is some sort of alternate universe ;)</p>
<p>MikeNY5: Maybe so… but if she does, I have yet to see it. I am around her a great deal and since this process began back in August, I have only seen her vent about standard HS issues… mainly other girls… lol. I guess it’s possible though that she goes off and secretly vents her frustrations. </p>
<p>I will be the one stressing at 5pm EST on Monday though. And most likely the silly countdown will have to start all over again… until March. That is really what will annoy me the most personally, as a deferral means the waiting continues. </p>
<p>But I am hopeful that this thread will see a # of acceptances. That would be an invigorating positive…</p>
<p>Hi in the EA email it said decision would be coming out Dec 17th but everyone is posting December 16th on here… Can anyone clarify?</p>
<p>db84n6: The Yale website now confirms it as 12/16</p>
<p>Then again, I am operating under the assumption that “real” is, indeed, a useful term. I mean, it seems quite subjective. What relates physical events with falsehoods and truths? Nothing. Therefore, my rejection will not be based in true, objective fact, but, rather, upon my own subjective, personal truth. So, basically, even if we’re rejected, there’s still hope.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Clearly true… I originally posted this yesterday…</p>
<p>Before anyone despairs over a single college rejection, consider these past rejections: </p>
<p>Tom Brokaw – rejected by Harvard, Scott McNealy (Sun Microsystems co-founder) – rejected by Stanford and Harvard, Steven Spielberg – rejected by the USC Film School (3 times), John Kerry – rejected by Harvard, Meredith Vieira – rejected by Harvard, Ted Turner – rejected by Princeton and Harvard, Warren Buffett – rejected by Harvard Business School, Katie Couric – rejected by Smith College, John Schlifske (President of Northwestern Mutual) – rejected by Yale, Jann Wenner (founder of Rolling Stone Magazine) – rejected by Harvard, Harold Varmus (Noble Prize in Medicine) – rejected by Harvard, Paul Purcell (Robert W. Baird & Co. ) – rejected by Stanford, Art Garfunkel – rejected by Harvard, Lee Bollinger (Columbia University President) – rejected by Harvard</p>
<p>Success will find those with the perseverance to make it so… regardless of the subjective decision of one or more admissions committees…</p>
<p>thank you!!!</p>
<p>@WWWard, great list. It really helps with the anxiety. Also, may I ask the reasoning behind your daughter’s list? It doesn’t seem like she is applying to many strong theatre schools other than Yale, Brown, and Northwestern (and Brown and Yale don’t even have conservatory aspects).</p>
<p>To take our minds off of yale… what are your guys’ other favorite schools? I had to physically restrain myself from ED at Cornell. The campus was so amazing, but Ithaca is soooo isolated.</p>