<p>I get out of school at 12:20pm on Friday, so I’ll be home when I get my decision. I’m just gonna have my cat there with me.
@matrix…What about The Greatest Day by Take That? It’s the perfect song for that hope we all share in anticipation of our decisions!! But I’m not sure…since it would make those who are left out feel bad (even me, if I get rejected!).</p>
<p>@Sophus I love you. If I get rejected, hyperchondriac music on repeat. Maybe some Hoodoo too.</p>
<p>For me? get outta bed…time zone problem</p>
<p>I will be writing my history final paper as I await my Stanford decision. That and study for my physics semester exam… </p>
<p>Otherwise I don’t think I would be doing anything differently. Thankfully I have a day off on Friday so I can relax before finals.</p>
<p>@sakata aww man that sux!</p>
<p>@keepyourshirton where u from?</p>
<p>@sushi hahaah i love the choice i gotta admit!! im thinking that “coming home” is my pregame upto the actual decision and once i get it, ill play “hall of fame” if i get “congrats”, “just a dream” if rejection, and “written in the stars” if deferred (get it?? haha i still don’t know my destiny thats “written in the stars” even after one swat at it!)</p>
<p>or maybe i might just ditch it all if i get accepted and plug up some heavy bass speakers and play some HUGE trap music with bass boosters and dive into the bliss hahaha</p>
<p>Yup I’m on the West coast. SoCal, whooo…</p>
<p>For me it’ll probably be London Elektricity - Just One Second (Apex VIP) ([London</a> Elektricity “Just One Second” Apex VIP - YouTube](<a href=“London Elektricity "Just One Second" Apex VIP - YouTube”>London Elektricity "Just One Second" Apex VIP - YouTube)) on repeat for a while. I’ve found that it goes great with both happy and sad moments.</p>
<p>And there’s no way I would be able to handle getting my decision to the tune of Baby Blue by Badfinger. I associate that song with happy memories of Breaking Bad and I don’t want any college decision to potentially ruin that.</p>
<p>Shanghai, man. The city of magnificent food, crazy nerds and the occasional hazy weather…</p>
<p>Wow, Shanghai. How are you holding up in the current pollution? I have a lot of family there and they say it’s terrible right now.</p>
<p>It has cleared up today! How nice is that to see blue sky and sunlight! We’re so much more fortunate than the guy holed up in Beijing you know: whenever the fresh monsoon from the Pacific is here people cheer, whenever the desert wind from Mongolia arrives in Beijing people eat dust…</p>
<p>My friend showed me a picture of a gas mask that had been used in Shanghai for less than a week, and it was almost black (the original color was white). I want to know too, how do you deal with the pollution there?</p>
<p>@Keepyourshirton that’s ironic considering when the monsoons come when we visit my dad’s home in Bangalore, India, the monsoon season is seen as really annoying because everyone dries their clothes out in the sun and it rains so much.</p>
<p>if anyone here is asian, do yall truly believe the top schools and their statements that they don’t have quotas or determine decision based on race/ethnicity? (im asian too haha, indian)</p>
<p>Stay indoors and laugh at the guys who loves to wonder outside and show off their masks, if that’s what you are asking.LOL</p>
<p>In fact it really depends on people. I feel fine, but a lot of my friends had runny nose or sneezed like a machine gun.</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon I honestly don’t know, but the evidence suggests that is the case when you look at the results threads and such.</p>
<p>@hindupowers love the username man! represent!!!</p>
<p>Yeah I’ve visited Shanghai and Beijing many times, that air is really tough to deal with if you’re not used to it. But when it clears up, it’s gorgeous.</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon
I’m half Asian and half white, so I honestly don’t know how I’m going to be treated in terms of race. I don’t think that top schools have quotas for Asians or White people persay, but there is no doubt that being a part of an underrepresented minority helps. Whether being in the majority hurts, well, that’s not my place to say, I don’t know.</p>
<p>@Hindupowers
The monsoon here is kinda different, not so wet and certainly a lot weaker. I heard about yours in my Geography class a lot.</p>
<p>@matrix</p>
<p>I don’t. But then again I am in fact international, so the quota is there all the time. It’s more like the Asians tend to be less heterogeneous in ECs and interests and backgrounds for reasons we don’t know, and universities don’t like that.</p>
<p>@matrix</p>
<p>I don’t believe for a second that they don’t consider it all. It’s probably not THAT big of an advantage to be an URM, but why would they even ask you for your race if they’re not going to consider it?</p>
<p>Ooh, Shanghai. I haven’t been there at all, most of my family’s from Guangzhou. You must have strong sinuses, because I’d be dying instantly.</p>
<p>Hahaha “don’t determine based on ethnicity.” Well okay, it’s not as bad as “I’m Asian and therefore going to be rejected from every top college I try for” but there’s still that iffy “is the reader going to be biased because they see that I’m Chinese?” Applies to any race or ethnicity, really. I’m always afraid of those people who see that you’re Asian, then automatically look to your math scores. Not everyone is like that, but I’ve met too many.</p>