How Did You React to Seeing: "You are Admitted...Congratulations!"

rupee2
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:06:01 +0000

Well, first off I had applied for an NROTC scholarship with my choice as Vanderbilt. I would check the status page for the scholarship every day. Finally, I saw Congratulations! and I jumped up and down and then ran downstairs with my laptop in my hands screaming I got it I got it I got it! My dad was in the room and I gave the laptop to my mom, who started screaming, and then I hugged my dad and started crying and shaking. Later that week I received the scholarship package and an acceptance letter to UT Knoxville, which my dad opened while I was at work. I told them I wanted to open my next letter.

Well, a month later, my dad walks into my bedroom on a Saturday afternoon waving a very, very thin Vanderbilt envelope. My heart sank to the bottom of my stomach and I seriously thought I was going to throw up. I brought it to my mom, too scared to open it, and my dad, my twin sister, and I all waited anxiously as my mother neatly opened the envelope. Funny how I couldn’t even open the envelope even though I told my parents not to. Well, I looked away, holding my stomach in despair, and all of a sudden, my twin sister starts screaming and jumping up and down, she having been the first one to see the Congratulations! line.

I exhaled and grabbed the letter, seriously not believing it. But there it was, a big fat we accept you letter to freaking Vanderbilt. It was beyond a reach. And it was ALL PAID FOR already thanks to the NROTC scholarship. Everything fell into place and it felt so great. It had been really worrying me.

Still, over a month later I go to bed every night, thinking “I am going to Vanderbilt!” And that one thought has kept me over the moon. It feel GREAT to be accepted to your top-choice school.