<p>thanks for the congrats! PLEASE GO TO BARNARD WITH ME!!! Sigh I only feel connected with you guys (everyone in this thread). I visited the barnard 2013 ED group on facebook and everyone was like in their own little world. LOLLLL anyways, I love you guys. I just wanted to say that you guys are such fun, intelligent, and beautiful people. 
please donāt forget about me once youāre IN. :P</p>
<p>Im feeling extremely shifty in terms of college applications right now. I got rejected from Berkeley today although they sent me a supplemental questionnaire in January and gave me the option of a guarantee transfer program after two years in Mercedā¦ it seems they want me but just not for 2009ā¦and therefore Barnard is pretty much my last/only hope! I am so nervous.
Oh btw, if all of you NYC girls got them in the mail today, when do you think they will reach CA? Iām guessing saturday?</p>
<p>And @ fishgills, sorry if its a little off topic, but if Berkeley sent me a supplement and has even given me the option of transferring after two years, do you think itād be worth a try to appeal? (they didnāt downright reject me and I donāt really wish to spend two years in Merced)ā¦ in the case that I donāt get into Barnard
^P.S., Anyone else care to share their opinions on this?</p>
<p>foreverpetals, I donāt know much about appeals, but my dadās a teacher and he says it usually only works if something has changed since you applied. I think the UCs are just seriously crunched for space this year - the budget cuts have been absolutely horrible, and weāre seeing that come out in things like your decision. I guess we picked a crappy time to go to college. 
Definitely give it a try, though! Good luck! <em>hugs</em></p>
<p>And, god, I hope the decisions get to us tomorrow! I canāt wait any longer!</p>
<p>The UCs are cutting back and getting the most students probably ever. 70,000 applied to UCSD and there were only spots for 7,000 or something. Crazy. And donāt worry about Berkeley, foreverpetals. One of my sisās best friends is a crazy student, super high sats, 4.9 gpa, 5 on all AP testsā¦and she got accepted but 2nd semester. So she just started a few weeks ago instead of in the fall. Thatās how packed it is right now. Even the most qualified students arenāt getting in because there are SO MANY kids right now. </p>
<p>Iām in CA too. Saturdayās my birthday party. A rejection letter will probably come right in the middle. gah.</p>
<p>Aww, this is probably the only thread on this whole site that would ever say such caring words. I appreciate it a lot. Iām also glad that you guys know how I feel!! I guess I am just feeling a tad shortchanged; perhaps if all else fails, merced wonāt be that bad of an option. </p>
<p>Iām still crossing my fingers for all of us though! Itād be exciting to go to college in the city with a few other Californian girls (and freeze to death willingly)<3! Donāt lose hope, inasummertown! And also, happy 18th birthday =) Enjoy it!!</p>
<p>Thanks! It would be awesome to have a california girls coalition! I am a tad bit scared about the weather but I only applied to east coast schools so Iāll have to deal. Iām in San Diego and we get 3 inches of rain a year max! Whatever happens itās going to be very, very interesting. haha.</p>
<p>California girls coalition, I like it! And Iām super-excited for the weather (though a bit scared, yes, heh). Iāll definitely have to get some warmer clothes, but itās going to be so fun! Snow, yay!</p>
<p>Iām from South Florida, so Iām no stranger to excessive precipitationā¦but I AM a stranger to winter. Iām only considering Northeast/Midwest (but really only Northeast), so Iāll have a fun year freezing all over. Iām actually SO excited I canāt even deal.</p>
<p>I know, snow!!! What is snow, again? Haha. Instead of snow days we have heat days and fire days! </p>
<p>So I posted my crazy story over on the Bryn Mawr thread but I wanted to share it here because I had a CRAZY day:</p>
<p>(bryn mawr released their decisions at 4pm EST)</p>
<p>5 minutes to 1pm (Iām in CA) my mom and I hear all these sirens going by our house. We ran to our big front window and looked out to see about 20 police cars on our street and the street that intersects ours. More cop cars are showing up every minute and the police are jumping out of their cars and leaving them running in the middle of our street (which is really busy because I live just off a freeway exit). They run up to the houses across the street and into the back yard. More and more cops are showing up every second. Helicopters show up and 2 ambulances and a fire truck just as itās 1pm so amidst the blaring sirens, I ran to see if I was accepted. At the same time my mom was on the phone with my dad, who was at work, telling him what was happening across the street. I check my account and start screaming, āI GOT IN! I GOT IN! I GOT IN TO BRYN MAWR!!!ā</p>
<p>My dad through the phone hears me screaming hysterically: āTheyāre coming in! Theyāre coming in the front door!ā</p>
<p>At which point he thinks our house is being infiltrated by whoever the cops were chasing, and nearly has a heart attack. </p>
<p>So anyway weāre not sure what happened. There was a car that had driven up the embankment on the street that intersects our and I guess the guys in it tried to run. They took away a bodyā¦I donāt know if it was from crashing the car or if he was shotā¦and they caught the other guy up by my house and took him away in an ambulance. It was intense.</p>
<p>Ahaha, inasummertown, as if the college admissions process needed to get <em>any</em> crazier! I love that your dad thought they were coming in, hee. Congrats on the acceptance - what an epic scene! XD</p>
<p>@foreverpetals, sorry that Iām responding so far behind! I really have to agree with what pepperimps and inasummertown said about the UCs drowning in applications.</p>
<p>My advice is to visit Barnard and visit Merced and Berkeley to see which community you like better. Of course, thereās financial factors and everything, but I think itās important to choose a place youād be comfortable with. Iāve lived in NYC and in Berkeley; the communities are soooo different. Not only that, but the class size and student attention given by teachers varies greatly between a liberal arts place like Barnard and a big public u like UC Berkeley. It really becomes a personal preference thing and what environment encourages you to learn more.</p>
<p>Also, UCs are being SO WEIRD in their decisions this year. I was rejected from Davis, San Diego, and LA before getting accepted to Cal. I never thought that college decisions showed a very accurate reflection on any of your capabilities, but this year, with the largest pool of applicants ever, colleges are really just choosing whomever THEY want. It seems, that when it comes down to it, colleges choose the student they think will fit in at their school (but still stands out). It has less to do with the applicantās transcript and intelligence and more with whatever the hell the college wants because they have the opportunity to be incredibly picky.</p>
<p>CANāT WAIT until WE are the ones to pick and choose THEM. :P</p>
<p>In in in in ininin!!!</p>
<p>yayy congrats!</p>
<p>Congrats to all you future Barnard ladies!</p>
<p>Does someone want to start an āofficialā results thread for future applicantsā benefit?</p>
<p>ā¦My mail doesnāt get here until 3 PM ish. I donāt know if Iām going to the beach anymore. Itās going to be a LONG day.</p>
<p>I know how you feel mp153, Iāve made up my mind that I am staying home. My friends think that I should hang out with them today. But I just cantā¦I have to be homeā¦</p>
<p>oh manā¦i still feel pressured cus i want you all (everyone that wrote on this thread) to get in. GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>Yeahā¦I have today off, so I was going to go to the beach with my friends to have fun/get tan for prom/try to relax, but it was really cloudy this morning so the girl that was supposed to drive went back to sleep and now none of us can reach her. So much for that. I guess Iāll do somethingā¦watch a movie, maybe. Wallow in self-pity. Blah.</p>
<p>ā¦right after I posted that, the girl whoās driving texted me so I guess I AM going to the beach. Now hereās the real question: Should I ask my mom to drive to the beach if she sees a large envelope in the mail? Or will I just freak out if she tells me it wasnāt there? Decisions, decisions.</p>
<p>^^ I think you should go to the beach and wait on the envelope until you get back. The sun will relax you and waiting for your motherās call will just add to the stress.</p>
<p>Hope you get some good news!</p>