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

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<p>I opened the mail box 97% ready for a rejection when I find this big envelop/package with the college name.</p>

<p>At that point I still had no idea what to expect and figured it was a pamphlet or some add to apply…opened it and I only got to the part of the letter saying I got accepted. After that utter silence…:stuck_out_tongue: I called my dad right thne and there but couldn’t really register what happened. Great feeling of excitement, relief. Couple minutes later I jumped in the air repeatedly and screamed. xD</p>

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<p>CA and zepplin, which colleges?</p>

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<p>That’s not really true. For most people the first acceptance is to a safety they have little interest in actually attending.</p>

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<p>yeah i was thinking “meh” for all my safeties and such when they came in. and then i got a little worried that those would be my only acceptances and i wasn’t cherishing the moments of knowing I got in enough… </p>

<p>and then i got my northwestern acceptance via iPhone and i screamed and jumped up and down during lunch in the middle of the all-state honor choir conference i was at.</p>

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<p>SUNY Geneseo, I know it’s just a state school and probably a safety for most of the kids on here but for someone with my stats this was an extreme reach. =]</p>

<p>^ I don’t know my first acceptance felt pretty good, I had this impression that all the colleges including my safeties would reject me. Since SUNY Stony Brook was a match school for, I was quite excited to know I had one decent school to attend. Though my acceptance to Geneseo was just magical…it’s always nice to make your top choice.</p>

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<p>My Notre Dame acceptance wasn’t really a big surprise, since they had emailed me a few days earlier saying they were really interested me but that they needed more documentation for financial aid. But when I got my Notre Dame acceptance I jumped up, screamed “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!” and then ran to my mom to tell her. She screamed to and for a while we kind of just stood there, hugging each other and screaming at the same time. Then when my Dad got home I tried to pretend I got rejected by putting on a sad face but I couldn’t do it - in the middle of it, I burst out laughing, which gave it all away. My dad gave me a hug and a pat on the back. We celebrated afterwards by drinking wine.</p>

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<p>I thought I wasn’t going to find out from most of my schools until April so when I saw three letters in the mail, I assumed that they were financial aid application reminders or something similar.</p>

<p>I was talking on the phone while I opened the first letter and was completely shocked. I said something like “Oh my god, I got in.” Then I opened the second letter, thinking it wasn’t an acceptance or rejection letter and got even more excited. By the time I opened my third acceptance letter, I was practically crying.</p>

<p>I love the fact that my friend was like “Ok… that’s great but can I finish telling you my story?”</p>

<p>None of my family shared my excitement but whatever, I was happy.</p>

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<p>My first acceptance came as a surprise because it came about 3 weeks early from one of my top choices, Amherst college, as an early write acceptance. I was expecting my first acceptance to be from my safety school. At first, I thought it was just an update letter but then there was an enrollment form, which I did not realize was an enrollment form, until it said in huge bold letters “CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING ADMITTED TO THE CLASS OF 2013.” I collapsed to the ground and didn’t even scream. I was just on the floor on my back, dog staring at me, and started to read the first letter. It took about 30 seconds to really set in so when I got up, I just screamed at the top of my lungs. That will be a moment that I will never forget, ever.</p>

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<p>My reactions have been fairly quiet, although I’ve been really excited. Usually, they involve running downstairs to tell my parents, who kinda look up and are like “Hey good job! :)” and then I run back upstairs to tell all my friends online… lol. That’s the general pattern. My first two acceptances were in the mail, though (both early notifications of acceptance/admission to special programs), so both I and my parents kind of had an idea that we’d be getting good news and weren’t like “OMG!!”</p>

<p>The best one I’ve witnessed was my friend’s reaction to his acceptance to BU’s Accelerated Medical Program. A second after I saw the words “Accelerated Medical Program” on the screen and hadn’t completely processed them, he was like, “MOM! DAD! I GOT INTO BU MED!!! :smiley: :smiley: :D” eheheh it was soooo cuteee! His parents were really really happy and called some relatives, then some more relatives called for a different reason and his parents told them, and then more people kept calling/texting him congratulations. (: It was adorable & heartwarming lulzzzz.</p>

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<p>When I got into Pratt Institute, my first choice, it was a complete surprise. I mean, I’d been kind of half expecting the fact that I was going to get accepted (I had kickass test scores, pretty good grades, a recommendation letter from an alumni, a really good portfolio in my opinion, and also an awesome essay according to my teachers), but since all the good opportunities in my life have literally been slipped out of my hands since I was about eleven, I was also kind of subconsciously waiting to get rejected.</p>

<p>It was a Saturday night (lol, this sounds like a news story) and I signed onto the email I’d created specifically for my college letters, hoping to hear from another school I’d applied to regarding a problem with my application (and the problem with that school is still not solved FYI; it seems no matter how many effing times I mail or fax my transcript, they still can’t seem to receive it), and not expecting anything from Pratt. I wasn’t expecting anything from them, because I know that the admissions people don’t work on weekends, and since it was a Saturday I thought it wasn’t a possibility that anyone would be able to send me anything.</p>

<p>But there were two emails from Pratt, and I didn’t even have to open them to know the results, because one had the subject line “Congratulations!” and the other one “Now That You’ve Been Accepted”. So I opened them, hardly believing it.</p>

<p>I told my parents who were happy for me, because they knew it was the school I wanted to attend, but they’re not aware that it’s like one of the most famous art schools in the country or anything like that, because when it comes to colleges and universities they’re pretty clueless (they’re not from the USA and their English isn’t that great so they don’t really spend their time reading that kind of thing). So they’re kind of just mellow about it, happy for me for getting the one I wanted. They’re proud, but since they don’t know about the school’s reputation and all, they’re just a proud of my acceptances to my safety schools, where literally, the only requirement you need to get accepted is to have a pulse.</p>

<p>So I’ve been very happy ever since, but I still don’t expect to be going because of how expensive it is. If I don’t get the financial aid I need, that’s another opportunity I can kiss goodbye. I won’t really be ecstatic until I know for a fact that I can go.</p>

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<p>For my CMU acceptance, I actually screamed for a good minute while jumping up and down, hugged the nearest person (i luckily knew her), ran to tell me college counselor and then called my parents.</p>

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<p>On Thursday night, I saw that Hopkins Interactive said decisions were still being made and they were talking about how stressful the whole process was etc. I had been expecting decisions on Friday but after reading that I figured they would come out on Saturday. When I came home at around 7pm, I logged on to check my mail as usual and got TOTALLY CAUGHT OFF GUARD WHEN I SAW ‘CONGRATULATIONS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY’ IN THE SUBJECT LINE! It took me about 10 seconds to actually process the subject heading before I finally opened the email and read the letter. I got up from my computer immediately and started jumping up and down clamping my hand over my mouth so the neighbours wouldn’t hear me screaming then I ran to my mom (who was on the phone) and screamed “I got into Hopkins!!!” and was shaking her. Omg that was almost the best feeling ever. Then I came back to the computer and read the last part of the email which said that financial aid packages could be seen online at 7pm., so me and mom nervuously clicked the link (with me starting to feel dejecte because I wasn’t sure if we’d be able to pay) ONLY TO SEE THAT I GOT PRACTICALLY A FULL RIDE!!!
Omg. I was speechless. I didn’t even realise that the numbers they were showing me were actually mine! I had to check it like 5 different times, JHU has always been my dream school! I can’t wait for that acceptance package!</p>

<p>(I had also gotten into UChicago that Wednesday and I was really excited about that too because one of my friends had also gotten in and I was really considering it (and Cornell) because I was starting to really doubt my chances at JHU, but that JHU acceptance just blew everything out the water!)</p>

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<p>i spazed out when i got my pratt acceptance letter. i was basically saying “oh my god, oh my god, oh my god…” under my breath for about an hour. and ohgooglymoogly your right - not many people know the school, so my parents were saying the school looked horrible, and they would not pay to send me to such a bad school (including MICA), but they WOULD send me to SVA. i got into all three ironically, even though i was sure i would get rejected from all of them. i ended up not going though, because of financial reasons. sucks. </p>

<p>as for the uni of washington acceptance letter, when i opened the letter, i just said “eh.” as i was expecting to get in anyways, and i just threw it on the table and went back to playing games or whatever. my parents had no idea i had gotten in until days later when they actually started asking. they were saying “you got in??! why didnt you say so sooner…?” all happy and stuff. confused, but all happy. </p>

<p>i think its alright though, even though i didnt end up going to my dream school, i feel like im slowly appreciating UW more as time goes by.</p>

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<p>i knew that Colgate University was sending out their admissions decisions on the 25th. Since I live about 40 min away from Colgate, I knew I would find out whether I got in or not the next day. On the 26th, I was home from school and waiting for the mail. Of course on this day the mailman was behind schedule. I had to leave for practice, but I could not wait until after practice. I finally found the mailman in my neighborhood, and when he handed me the large envelope I immediately started freaking out. I opened the letter right there and ran home screaming. I was so excited! For the rest of the day I couldn’t stop smiling. :)</p>

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<p>who doesnt know pratt?!?! i can understand not knowing mica, but even people who dont know any art schools know pratt</p>

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<p>^ Most people that I tell I want to go to Pratt Institute don’t know what it is unless they’re really into art themselves. Lately more people have started to hear about it ever since Pam from The Office attended it.</p>

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<p>how strange! i just assumed it was fairly well known, as far as schools go, but i also live in nj and will be applying to almost exclusively art schools next year</p>

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<p>i found my acceptance packet on my desk after coming home at 1.30 am following a dinner celebration for winning the indoor drumline state championship. i was like, cool! </p>

<p>and then i passed out :P</p>

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<p>I literally screamed and jumped around for 5 minutes. There might have been a tear in there. I had been getting waitlisted from every non-safety school I got into and had just been rejected by Berkeley an hour before so it felt AMAZING. Especially NU beats all those other schools lol.</p>

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<p>Screaming, haha</p>