<p>Time stopped along with my heart.</p>
<p>I reacted by hugging the acceptance packet to Pomona, even before I opened it. Everything else I was excited about, but this was my top choice and a reach for me, so I was so happy.</p>
<p>I was even happier when I looked inside and found that their grants made it almost as affordable as my fourth choice and more affordable than my second and third choices.</p>
<p>For Wash U my mom had texted me while I was at school saying that I had received a letter from Wash U and that it was delivered by UPS. I just thought that it was going to say that something was missing from my application so I started to freak out. I had tennis practice after school and sped home after to see what the letter was. I opened up the envelope to find the acceptance letter and started laughing thinking it was a joke. Then I realized it wasn’t and texted all of my friends that I had gotten in. It was one of the best moments of my life.</p>
<p>I have been shaking and squealing for about 20 minutes already. I just heard from Pomona :)</p>
<p>well I haven’t seen 1 yet, so ■■■…all of my letters, say “we are writing to inform you, at you have not been admitted to our freshman class”</p>
<p>When I got the letter from Cornell I thought it was something else from the Mutlicultural department. My Dad came in gave me the envelope and walked upstairs. I sat down open the letter and smiled for like 45 seconds then reread everything like 5 times to make sure it wasn’t sent to the wrong prson. After that I ran upstairs and screamed “dad I got into Cornell!!! Can you believe it?” Then we went outside to get in the car and drive to my mom’s work so I could tell her. On the way out to the car I was all giddy and randomly yelld “SCREW COLUMBIA” since I had been denied ED. Then we went to my mom’s work (she works at an old folks home) and I said mom you need to read this. She said well what is it? Is it somthing bad? I said IDK I guess it’s alright (acting kinda depressed). ANyways she read it, started screaming and jumping and freaked everyone of her coworkers out because they all thought one of the old residents had died hahaha. The most excitd I hav ever felt!</p>
<p>here’s my response:</p>
<p>“…WHERES THE FINANCIAL AID AWARD???”</p>
<p>I cried and jumped up and down. My mom and I were ecstatic about Northwestern. Then, my friend, who had gotten in as well, texted and asked if I had gotten in. I replied, “Yeahh!” Word went around and a lot of my close friends called and congratulated me. One of them actually cried, “__________!!! Congrats!!” She and I both screamed because we both got into our top choices. So, I eventually just posted the status on FB since everyone did that. People were congratulating me and most of us from this summer session had all been accepted by top-tier college/universities, which was pretty exciting. The End. I can relax now.</p>
<p>Logged onto Pioneer Web and it said “Welcome to the Class of 2013”. I was a little confused and in disbeleif so I quickly clicked on the admissions decision button, read the words “It is with great pleasure that I welcome you” and started crying. Grinnell is the first competitive LAC that I have gotten into and it came right after a waitlist from Haverford. It was perfect.</p>
<p>These are enjoyable stories. </p>
<p>As for myself…
The anticipation was building for UF’s decision. Six o’clock PM on Friday the 13th. Finally the day arrived, so I decided to see if I could get my decision a little early around 5:15. I logged onto the status page and there it was: “CONGRATULATIONS!” I was so stoked that I would be attending Florida in the fall. I started clapping and saying “YES!!!” to myself, but not overly loud. My mom was downstairs, so as I was walking down she asked, “Did you find out?” I looked down and shook my head, and she was like, “You’re kidding.” Then I looked up, smiled, and replied, “I got in!” She started tearing up because she was so happy I got into the school that I’ve been wanting to go to. Then we proceeded to call family members to inform them that we have a Gator in the family. lol</p>
<p>Definitely the best reaction compared to my other acceptances.</p>
<p>When I got into my safeties I was happy but it wasn’t a huge excitement because I knew that I had a really good chance of getting into them… but when I got into Johns Hopkins… omg my heart stopped beating for about 10 seconds. I didn’t think I would get in so I almost chewed my fingernails off when my e-mail was loading yesterday and when I saw it I couldn’t believe my eyes… I stared at it for about 3 seconds before it sank in. And then I was screaming all over the place :D</p>
<p>lub dub. lub dub really fast… :D</p>
<p>I knew I was in at UCLA already, but I didn’t think I was going to get the Regents as so few students receive it. Stared at the link in the FA awards section in disbelief… then started uncontrollably crying. I called my dad and we were both crying (he lives in another country) … such a relief for my family as we can’t afford college otherwise.</p>
<p>So I had been waiting for six weeks to hear from UMich (the first round of decisions was out on Halloween, and I didn’t get in until December 11), and like the previous six Thursday mornings, I logged on to the online thing at about 5:30 AM, not really expecting at that point to see anything, since I was sure I was going to get deferred and they weren’t positing deferrals online. I got so excited when I saw the “view decision” button, since according to people on CC, that pretty much meant an acceptance. Basically, I just yelled down to my parents whom were both downstairs that I had gotten in.</p>
<p>For the other schools…the last three of my schools (I applied everywhere EA) were supposed to come on the same day a few days before Christmas. My mom had stayed home from work that day, and I called her from school to ask if the letters had come and she was like “No…” but we figured the mail was just late because there had been a ton of snow the week before and it hadn’t been cleared very well or melted. But even when the mail came, there weren’t any letters.</p>
<p>She wakes me up at five the next morning to tell me that all three had been sitting on the doorstep when she went to pick up the paper and that my dad was opening them. Then she cried when she found out I had been accepted to all 7 schools to which I had applied (though, the truth is, I had aimed kinda low).</p>
<p>I start screaming and jumping around with my parents. It doesn’t matter what school it is. I get excited. :)</p>
<p>Earlier that day I had been rejected from three other schools, so when I logged on to check my Northwestern app I was prepared for major disappointment. When the copy of my letter loaded onto my screen, I initially thought it was another rejection because it was only one page long. Then, scanning the first line, I saw, “Congratulations!” and sucked in a big breath, carried my laptop over to my dad and pointed at the screen wordlessly.</p>
<p>“I got in!”
“… to Northeastern?”
“What?!?! Hey, no, dad!”</p>
<p>I love reading these stories!</p>
<p>For me:
I was about to go with my little brother to the Speech Team meeting, and my mom told him to grab the mail before we left. She said, “Maybe there’s something from college!” and I awkwardly laughed it off. I was expecting my rejection letters two weeks from that time.
My brother (freshman) walked into the house and said “oh, there’s somethign from NYU” and I grabbed it. It was a way tiny envelope and it said “Congratulations! Join Us!” on the front. My brother shouted, “it means you’re in!” and I said “no, no, it can’t be, not yet”…then I read the first sentence of the letter to myself, then screamed it out loud and started screaming and laughing, then my mom put my dad on the phone and halfway through telling him, I started sobbing uncontrollably. (haha, tho my huge dog started barking loudly because he was quite alarmed) </p>
<p>I was 15 minutes late to the team meeting and couldn’t put away my ear-to-ear grin for the rest of the night. Great day. :)</p>
<p>UCSD - laughed since I already knew I was in, but it was my first acceptance
UCLA - relieved, then a little sad when I didn’t get the Regents’ Scholarship
UCB - smiled a little, then was ****ed that they didn’t post my financial aid (that was all I cared about)</p>
<p>I had also been told that there was a large envelope from Caltech waiting for me at home, but since I hadn’t actually seen it I tried to contain my happiness. For the rest of the afternoon, though, I would sometimes randomly start laughing to myself. When I got home and saw the fat plain white envelope (that obviously was for the waitlist) I felt a bit sick.</p>
<p>(As an aside, I’d like to point out the irony that Caltech sends out the letters before posting decisions online because they want to spare you potential humiliation. The EA and RD results from them are the only decisions I’ve had to open in front of other people.)</p>
<p>The first acceptance is the best. After that, the others are just “meh, that’s interesting” :p. I like having lots of options available.</p>
<p>I was in class. Right after lunch I walked in to class and got on the computer. When I logged into my portal, I saw congratulations and I said OMG and did a little clap thingy and the whole class began to clap bc they knew how much I wanted to get in!! it was magical.</p>