<p>I was in my school’s library when decisions came out. Websites froze up as people scrambled to get their decisions, but I finally managed to break through the crowd and click the link to get the decision letter to pop up. I quickly read three words:</p>
<p>"Dear (my name),</p>
<p>Congratulations"</p>
<p>Which was enough for me to throw my hands in the air and yell “Oh my god!” just a bit too loud for the library. Hah…</p>
<p>I jumped up and sqeauled! I heard from my dad because the college called when I wasn’t home. When I got my letter. i couldn’t stop grinning all day!!!</p>
<p>i went up to my mom and said “Ha, you were WRONGGGGGGGGGGG!!!”</p>
<p>Because apparently my mom thought that i have no chance at Columbia SEAS b/c i didn’t get interviewed. But it looks like I got in w/o an interview :D</p>
<p>I went into a paroxysm of joy, my dad was happy for me, yet I saw a tear come out of my mom’s eye.</p>
<p>colgate: my first acceptance. i just got out of school when the mail arrived at my house. my mom called me on my cell and yells into the phone, “I HOPE YOU LIKE IT WHERE IT’S COLD!!!” i raced home, and my mom was holding the big envelope in the window right above my driveway! i went inside, opened the envelope, and saw the typical “congratulations!” letter…followed by the personal note that the Colgate dean puts on every admissions letter. i was ECSTATIC, my mom cried (and then i laughed at her for crying.)</p>
<p>lehigh: my safety school. i got it on a saturday, the day after i received my Colgate acceptance. i was eating lunch with my family when the mail came. the package had a huge “CONGRATULATIONS!” printed across the front, so since it was my safety, i wasnt in a real hurry to open it since i knew i got in…i was like “ok, let me just finish my lunch.” when i did open it, i read the letter aloud to my parents. it was then that i realized that i had been selected as a recipient of the Dean’s Scholarship ($10K a year merit-based). i was like “OH MY GOD”…wasn’t expecting money from anyone.</p>
<p>georgetown: came on monday. my mom called me after school and was like “its a small envelope, but its kind of heavy…” so i came home to open it. at the time, i didn’t know that georgetown sends a little envelope regardless of your decision. i opened the envelope: ACCEPTED to the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. I jumped in the air while doing a fist pump, and screamed “YES!!” while my mom nearly fell on the floor and yelled “OH MY GOD,” and then proceeded to call my dad and scream into the phone “SHE GOT IN!” i was thrilled.</p>
<p>now is the hard part…choosing between gtown and colgate. i didnt apply for FAFSA so i have to pay full tuition either way. i may see if i can show lehigh’s offer to these schools and possibly get them to give me some money since the scholarship was merit-based…if anyone can offer me any advice on this, PLEASE PLEASE do.</p>
<p>pittsburgh: my safety school, but also my first acceptance. When I found out in the mail, I was like, I GOT INTO COLLEGE WOOOOO! That was cool.</p>
<p>drexel: my other safety; i was kind of like, meh, cool, and I got a small scholarship. </p>
<p>wash u: COMPLETELY unexpected and by far one of the reachiest (word? haha) schools I applied to (besides cornell… rejected). I saw the envelope on my side doorstep after hearing from someone mere moments before that wash u decisions had been released earlier that week (SO weird). I was like, okay, sweet, I definitely got denied, so I’ll check online when I get home. Saw the envelope, and thought, oh that’s a nice waitlist package… I opened it and pretty much freaked out when I saw the letter. best acceptance by FAR.</p>
<p>rochester: second best acceptance; this was my first choice before i got into wash u, so I was pretty happy, but this feeling was crippled due to the previous wash u acceptance. nice big scholarship too. bonus.</p>
<p>bu: another, meh, cool, but I don’t really want to go…</p>
<p>still waiting on Umich… but their lack of organization turns me away… sorry umich.</p>
<p>So, before heading out the door to go grocery shopping with my mom, I decided to check my email. I got a email from Stanford and the first thing I see is “We regret”. Oh great, I thought, I might as well just check out the status of all my other colleges too.</p>
<p>Then I slowly and nervously typed in my username and password for Brown University and clicked status. Boom, I see Congradulation! My mouth just dropped and I screamed. I held my palms to my mouth, I could not believe it! My mom joined me and she began to jump up and down and she couldn’t contain her excitement. She grabbed the phone and called my dad.</p>
<p>It was an amazing feeling. I wasn’t sure if I would get in!</p>
<p>went the whole day shopping in seattle,
and came home at 8:30pm, when they were released at 2,
decided to check my emails (I knew I was getting rejected)</p>
<p>saw stanfords and screamed 5 times, my parents thought someone killed me,
I got in</p>
<p>half an hour later I was like, oh **** got to check yale,
got in
screamed some more.</p>
<p>i was just apathetic…like…eh whatv its just harvard</p>
<p>I logged on to my college email and saw a bunch of new emails. I read one from Emory that said that the decisions were coming out at 7. I had lost track of the time and thought that I would be waiting for awhile, but I look down and see 7:21. My heart starts racing, my breathing and hands get a little bit shaky as I navigate into the web portal. I see congratulations. I don’t want to yell, so I just hold it in and raise my arms and walk over to my mom in the other room. I just hug her for about a minute while I try to become calm enough to tell her. She’s happy but honestly not that excited because Atlanta scares her, but my little brother runs over and jump-hugs me. HAha. And then I go back to make sure that I actually got in.</p>
<p>I know this is long and overly-detailed, but ya… it was just a powerful moment for me, especially since I had been really down (rejections from UCLA and UCB)</p>
<p>I screamed for my brother and subsequently started crying and shaking :D</p>
<p>^ for what school?</p>
<p>i smiled and cheered for most of them. but when i found out i got into penn state, my first choice, i literally paraded through my house screaming and jumping up and down. luckily, no one was home.</p>
<p>haikumarukuchan - Tufts :D</p>
<p>Well, on the 31st I knew all of the Ivys and possibly Stanford would come out, so when I got home after tutoring I went straight to the computer. I checked CC first (the willpower!) and yes, all the boards had exploded like I expected.</p>
<p>So I shakily went to the Gmail portal. I got my password wrong - not once, not twice, but 3 times. Finally I got to the inbox and saw mail from Stanford and Harvard. I decided to check Harvard first. When I saw that I got waitlisted, I just started laughing for no reason. I still don’t know why.</p>
<p>Still cackling like a maniac, I clicked on Stanford’s e-mail, and two words registered: “sincerest congratulations”. My cackling reached a fever pitch and I ran downstairs and out the door, waving my hands and screaming like an idiot.</p>
<p>Similar to harharsayz, about 30 minutes later I realized that I hadn’t checked Yale, and I just shrugged when I saw that I was rejected.</p>
<p>After being waitlisted at UVA on the 26th, I had been in a pretty ****y mood from about 5:03 PM Thursday to about 11:01 AM Saturday morning. So when my mom comes into my room with a THIN envelope from Washington and Lee, I took my cups of pens and pencils and chucked it at my wall while cursing. Although I thought I was going to be let down again, I opened the envelope and searched through the papers. Inside was an invitation to “Accepted Students Day.” I jumped up, screamed “ACCEPTEEDDDDDDDD!!!” and screamed some other things with it too probably lol. I think for ten minutes I just kept on and off hugging my mom and dad lol while being in a state of pure ecstasy.</p>
<p>I never cared where i was going to or where i was going to end up.
believe it or not some people or like that. to be honest, i was more concerned about paying for college because my dad is unemployed, my mom works 2 part time jobs and efc is 0.</p>
<p>when i found i got into UCLA. yay. UCSD. yay. UCSB w/ scholarship. whoopee. UCB. yay.</p>
<p>i dont even think both my parents know yet.</p>
<p>but anyways, event though i have not had a lobotomy (no more emotions!) done on me, i didnt really care. </p>
<p>that is the truth.</p>
<p>good day cc’ers.</p>
<p>i laughed, and a wave of relaxation overtook me.</p>
<p>I was on a rolly chair and awkwardly slipped forward out of it when i clicked onto the Dartmouth admission letter and fell out of it in such a weird fashion that my pelvis somehow hit the floor first and then I landed on my stomach. It was quite embarassing because I was in the middle of a news room, but luckily, not many noticed.</p>
<p>Brown had been my first choice since junior year of high school and I wasn’t admitted as a senior. So I went to a LAC and applied for transfer. I was admitted to Cornell and right after exams my dad and I drove to Ithaca and checked out the campus. We even got a Cornell sweatshirt. I remember telling my dad that we shouldn’t get anything because “we still aren’t sure where I’m going next year.”</p>
<p>On the drive home, I remembered that Brown decisions were officially available that day. So I called them up and this woman went through this whole rigamarole about my name, date of birth, social security number, and a few other things. I kept thinking to myself, "Is she really going to ask me all of this stuff and be like “sorry, you weren’t admitted”? So after all that, the woman goes “one second please…<em>pause felt like forever</em>…congratulations.”</p>
<p>I immediately told my dad “I got in!” So gratifying to get into my dream school after being convinced it just wouldn’t happen.</p>