<p>well friends, here we are - the week where everyone secretly starts to check their mailboxes in the hopes that they pulled everything together and mailed out ED notifications early. how’s everyone holding up? estimates as to when your letter will arrive?</p>
<p>holding up? what’s that? well I’m not because I’m a nervous wreck right now. 8 days!!!</p>
<p>I’m nervous too! I have two friends who did EA to Georgetown and then two that did Yale, one who did Brown, and my girlfriend is ED-ing to Penn… so we are all kind of sharing the load of stress. I have a feeling we’ll get it by Saturday. I’m so glad I have a busy week so I’m not thinking so much about it!</p>
<p>My friend and Bio lab partner applied ED as well to haverford, so we’re just lending emotional support at this point.</p>
<p>Same here, i have tons of work to do so i don’t think about it as much. also, a lot of my friends are doing ED to Penn and Cornell so we kinda share the pain. Did anybody fill out for Financial aid? or filled out the CSS profile?</p>
<p>Hey, first time posting here (but hardly the first time reading - you guys have been stressing me out for the past few weeks.) Haverford judging our past 150 weeks or so is making this one impossible to get through. I wish I could just go into some kind of controlled coma.</p>
<p>What are you guys interested in studying?</p>
<p>I’m a nervous wreck! I’ve got a very laid out plan for what everyone in my house will do when the letter arrives.</p>
<p>I’m going to double major in Political Science and History and then maybe (ie, this is impossible enough already) minor in Philosophy. I don’t plan on sleeping the next four years either!</p>
<p>I want to major in history and probably minor in econ. We’ll see. I want to also take some philosophy classes, and a few art classes. And oh, french and possibly chinese, too. I’m taking both now, but may not want to pursue them. Who knows. As of now I only care about getting in (like many of us!). Major is definitely secondary for me.</p>
<p>Haha, just curious–what’s your plan Emster? I just plan on getting the mail ASAP.</p>
<p>My mom usually gets the mail before I do on her way to pick up my sister from school. So I’ve told her that if she sees something from Haverford to hide it under a book in my room so I can’t see it without moving the book. Then I’ve asked them to try and avoid being in the same room or communicating with me (which is how I will know it has arrived) so they wont give anything away. Then I will go up to my room, calm myself down, and open the envelope when I am ready. I don’t want to have anyway of knowing until I am collected enough to open it.</p>
<p>This probably sounds a bit severe, but when I got into high schools, my mom drove to my school right before softball practice and said it looked like good news in front of all my friends even though she had no way of knowing. I just want to be able to find out on my terms.</p>
<p>I took french since fifth grade and if I get into Haverford, I’m never taking it again! I barely scraped through the SAT II in French. I’d like to be fluent, but there are so many classes I’d rather take in college.</p>
<p>Wow, that’s quite a plan. I heard that if you get at least a 600 on a language SAT II you fulfill your language requirement at Haverford. So assuming you did that then you will have room for another class, which is cool! If I get in I’m going to take the May test and hopefully get at least that so I can test out of French 1. I too most likely wont pursue it. I’m still impressed with your plan to get the letter. Let us know on friday/saturday/monday how it went! Hopefully you can tell the story next year!</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to come off as arrogant and implying that I’d be studying whatever it may be at Haverford.</p>
<p>I don’t really have a game plan as far as the mail. That part isn’t completely under my control. I imagine I’ll just open it sitting at the table with whichever immediate family members are home at the time. If it’s good news, family will hear first. Then, for some reason, I feel like I should tell my closest friends who’ve already gotten in ED, then closest friends who haven’t heard from their schools. Given good news, who are you guys telling?</p>
<p>You didn’t come off as arrogant. No worries. I’ll tell my friends, girlfriend, and family I suppose. First I want to blast music and dance around my house though if I get in. It will honestly be the best moment of my life if I get in so I feel as though I owe it to myself. My brother, who’s incredibly shy, even danced when he got in 3 years ago. It was awesome. I’m hoping it’s a family tradition! </p>
<p>If I get rejected I’ll start working really hard on regular decision apps… boo…</p>
<p>Any athletes here? 40% of Haverford students are varsity athletes, so you’d have to figure we’ve got a few wandering around here…</p>
<p>i thought, emster, i was going to have a staring contest with my envelope, as keenon so eloquently put it, before opening it. but i think at this point if i take too long to look at it ill syke myself out (size, weight, ridiculous things that i shouldnt evening think about but just rip it open instead) so im just going to sprint up to my bathroom and read it there. i dont want anyone to see my immediate reaction (mostly because i have no idea how ill react, but i dont really like crying in front of people, although of course thats what ill end up doing to my family if i dont get it). if its good news, well then, i dont really need to plan for that. im sure ill be able to follow my gut on that one, but mc, dancing may very well be involved. =]</p>
<p>I’m hiding it under a book so I don’t syke myself out.</p>
<p>After my family, the first person I will tell is my favorite teacher who wrote one of my recs and is a Haverford grad herself. Then I will tell all my friends (who will probably have already asked me) and my college adviser. If I don’t get in… Well, I don’t even want to think about that.</p>
<p>I play soccer and have played softball, but I’m not good enough at either to play on the varsity level even at a DIII school. What about you guys?</p>
<p>lax, but def not good enough for DIII (sadly, JV my junior year). I’m thinking some great club games will be right down my alley.</p>
<p>heh my mom comes home for lunch everyday and brings in the mail. So it’s going to sit there on the kitchen table waiting to be opened. I don’t want anyone to see my immediate reaction either, but since nobody’s home when I get there, I should be fine with that. I think I’m going to cry either way. I’ve stocked up on tissues and chocolate to lend emotional support.</p>
<p>I take this Chinese class the last two periods of the day and I don’t have it on Friday because my final is Wednesday so I will be home early to get it. I figure I’ll park in front of the mailbox, get out, and brace myself. If we get it Saturday that sucks because the mail comes super late on Saturday at my house. I had an anxiety dream about it last night! Ah! We’re all going crazy!</p>
<p>My friend told me that her mom has a habit of opening her letters, so she’s afraid when she gets home, her mom would then tell her if she got in or not. =O</p>
<p>Oh, I never said what I might study. I am pre-med at the moment and I was thinking of majoring in that new neural and behavioral sciences program. sounds pretty neat. Though I want to take as much history, philosophy, and anything else I can get. I love LACs. =)</p>