<p>This is SUCH an awesome thread. I smiled a lot and pictured many of you guys’ stories. As a transfer student for Cornell University, I am REALLY looking forward for my decision (hopefully acceptance). If I am accepted, I will add on to these excellent pictures of 18-year-old’s best moments.</p>
<p>Haha, these stories are beautiful. You guys are awesome. =)</p>
<p>I got the envelopes for Vanderbilt and Oberlin Saturday, registered that they were fat, opened them up, and went straight for the finaid packet. The aid was good, so that was cool.</p>
<p>I probably need therapy for lack of excitability, looking at all you people’s responses 
I mean, I would have been ****ed if I had been rejected, and getting waitlisted at other schools was mildly obnoxious, but my reaction to being accepted was like “oh, that’s nice.” Pleasant surprise and stuff. My parents were just like “well, you’d BETTER have gotten in, we’ve been paying so much for college prep private school.” Maybe I got my abnormal pragmatism from them >___<</p>
<p>well, my first acceptance came from U of Maryland and since I was half-drunk when I received their notification e-mail, I didn’t react at all and actually thought who was joking with me lololol</p>
<p>I got my first acceptance in early March, which was an Early Write from Williams College. </p>
<p>I saw the big envelope but disregarded it, thinking “oh they’re probably sending me a pamphlet about fincancial aid.” I opened it, and it said “Likelihood this big purple folder means what you think it does: 100%”</p>
<p>…I-I sat down in shock and awe right then and there and started crying. </p>
<p>(embarassing, I know, but I really couldn’t help it – I was so happy. It was one of my top choices)</p>
<p>Most bittersweet thing in the world… “Congratulations… your accepted! But, you get no aid”…</p>
<p>I was in my uncle’s guest house where I was staying and I didn’t quite get that I had been accepted so I went running into the actual house kinda out of breath and made my mom come with me so I could double check I wasn’t imagining things and then I started screaming and running around literally in circles and ran back into the main house to tell everyone… then I called Australia and everyone else I knew in LA</p>
<p>I was so nervous before I got the acceptance to Oberlin because I was sure I wouldn’t get in. I read it over and over again and had never had a bigger smile on my face before then. The next day, I found a small envelope that was inside my Oberlin acceptance package and saw that I got the John Frederick Oberlin Scholarship! I was so ecstatic.</p>
<p>when i saw my acceptance online i literally started SCREAMING! it was so excited!</p>
<p>Honestly, I wasn’t expecting it, so I looked at the letter over to make sure it wasn’t some kind of college advertisement. Then, I rushed to the phone and called my parents and ‘acted’ excited. However, I never got that ‘acceptance high’. Even now, I’m not as excited as I should be with my acceptance.</p>
<p>smiled, thanked God and told my parents…no screaming shouting jumping here :p</p>
<p>I found out by phone, but I was pretty sure I was in. The admissions office called me on my phone during school as I was preparing for my Grad Pictures. I was very excited and the ironic thing is that when the photographer was taking my picture she told me to “think about my future”, all that was going through my head was that I was in with an amazing scholarship !, I’m so happy that I can still look at my exact expression since the picture was taken a few seconds after the good news.</p>
<p>i got my big envelope from uncw (dream school) and screamed “OH MY GOD” ripped it open…and was joyous for a split second until I saw “…spring 2010”</p>
<p>that completely ruined that moment, i would have been screaming and running around and jumping and calling everyone, but i just sulked instead. but i’m happier now.</p>
<p>that’s amazing, romantic in a sense. hell of a lot better than mine. congratulations!</p>
<p>Oooh, I’m new here so, like, this is one of my first replies. I got all my replies back and all of them were big smiles and excitement and jumping around. Two of them I got totally huge financial aid, and one of the others I’m sure would be pretty awesome as well. Usually, I got lightheaded. Haha.</p>
<p>In addition-- if you are admitted to the Class of 2013 at Harvard today and would like to be featured in the Crimson please shoot me an e-mail with your phone number.</p>
<p>Jillian Kushner
Staff Writer
Harvard Crimson
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<p>I would like to be in the Harvard Class of 2013. Pick me! Pick me!</p>
<p>I read my acceptance to Cornell about 20 minutes after my waitlisting from Dartmouth, Brown, and Notre Dame. I was scared that I was going to have to attend my safety.
I had spent the last 20 minutes pounding the computer desk and throwing pens everywhere. When I saw “Congratulations on your acceptance…” I jumped up in the air, threw some Rocky punches, and proceeded to do flying ninja kicks in the air, despite my sore hamstrings from track practice. Then I inevitably posted my excitement on Facebook. Some of my friends knew before my Mom!</p>
<p>i honestly was slightly shocked…the first time</p>
<p>it’s like a drug…the more acceptance letters that come the less exciting it becomes… but then again i’m not the kind of person that shows alot of emotion</p>
<p>im just chill right now</p>
<p>I hope Banana Sandwich says something interesting soon.</p>