<p>I am so nervous right now! I really hope we find out tomorrow!</p>
<p>Damn. One or two days. Im not prepared for rejection. Even less prepared to win.</p>
<p>Javrie CONGRATULATIONS!!! It really looks like you’re one of the first to know!! Oh my God, that is amazing!
Tomorrow? I really hope that I (and all of the rest of you on here!) get this scholarship! It would help SOO much. I’m so anxious right now…</p>
<p>Waat? Why don’t get to be the first person to know? So I’ll figure out if I get it… or not! Get it and cry in excitement. Don’t get it and cry in disappointment and get it over with. ASAP. Tomorrow and Saturday I have to go to a college and stay overnight so I won’t be at home if anything arrives… Or figure out if I get it or not based on the posts on CC… Why are they doing this to me??? HUHUHUHUHUHU I won’t be able to enjoy my college visit!!! Or maybe I’ll nag my roommate to use her laptop, which is kinda bad. Haha.</p>
<p>Oops I forgot… Congratulations Javrie!!! So now the guessing and wondering why the school did that to you guys is over right?!</p>
<p>Waaa… I can’t bear this anymore… Why can’t they just tell us NOW through emails so we can get it over with? Or at least give us a specific date that we will know if we get selected or not, like how most of the colleges do… This is a very big scholarship with sooo many applicants, for God’s sake… :/</p>
<p>12:00PM is when the mails come for me… Aaaah but I’ll leave the house at 10:00 tomorrow!!! Why???
LOL going to CC does make you become anxious over everything!!! 
But then anxious with companions, all hugging each other VIRTUALLY. Haha…</p>
<p>Well it makes sense that they announced it to them because they are in DC where the foundations are based…</p>
<p>Javrie CONGRATS! still anxious as well, </p>
<p>Tomorrow H A S to be the day that we are notified if our dreams have come true. If not, then there must be a reason for everything. I thought I’d share a quote that pretty much epitomizes this experience for me and hopefully offers words of encouragement. It’s from The Count of Monte Christo:</p>
<p>“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!”
— Alexandre Dumas</p>
<p>^Great quote. I agree though, “there must be a reason for everything.” Hopefully, we all get this. If not, we will still find our ways to great and excel. Keeping my fingers crossed!
And hopefully we know tomorrow.</p>
<p>On a side note…too bad the whole “call their number, pretend you’re a scholar that forgot their id, enter SSN and Pin/Birthdate and hopefully find that you’re in” thing doesn’t work this year, like it did last year. I guess the Gates Reps got smart about it, haha. Though a couple times when I’ve called, the machine said “Please wait while we access your account…” before saying “We cannot find this SSN in our records.” I wonder if that means anything, that they were about to access my “account”? Haha, probably not, I’m overthinking it/trying to make hope from nothing. It’d be nice though. </p>
<p>Well, I’ll just wait until tomorrow to see, hopefully. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>It seems that they’ll tell us tomorrow and not today… Since tomorrow is Saturday, it would be more convenient for some people because they might not be at home to receive the packets during weekdays.</p>
<p>How are people notified if they become scholars… what is this “packet” you’ll are talking about??</p>
<p>Has anyone heard anything today yet??</p>
<p>When you’re a scholar you get a big packet in the mail. It contains info about how Gates will pay for your education.</p>
<p>Still nothin’ :(</p>
<p>have you checked your mailed today</p>
<p>My mails will come in 2 hours, but I won’t be at home!!! 
But I think it’ll come tomorrow… since tomorrow is weekend, most people will be home to receive the packet…</p>
<p>Don’t fret. (I know its hard not to) Just keep telling yourself that no matter what happens, you’re still the amazing person that you were when you didn’t even know what Gates was. College will benefit from your presence. </p>
<p>Good Luck!!! :)</p>
<p>Javrie, I think it’s easy for you to say that since you already know you’re a scholar… 
Congrats again!</p>
<p>Its still true!! Lol</p>
<p>Congrats Javrie!!! What were your stats?? GPA?? EFC?? and leadership…since you got it maybe this will give the rest of us insight on what they are looking for…if you dont mind</p>