<p>^ Then you’ve answered my question!</p>
<p><em>pockets Sev’s meta-answer</em></p>
<p>Happy Birthday!</p>
<p>I spent my 18th taking a maths prelim. PLEASE do something fun for yours.</p>
<p>^ sev, I’m handing you the Birthday cardboard crown now because it’s already 3/23 in Israel - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!</p>
<p>I totally think someone should make a youtube trailer for ivy countdown… that would be epic!</p>
<p>But we couldn’t post the link on this thread!!!</p>
<p>Oh, Irony, you slay me.</p>
<p>sev1991
Happy birthday!!! :o)
That is pretty awesome…
Whoop! Whoop!</p>
<p>happy almost birthday 
i graduate on my birthday this year. great present!</p>
<p>There are loopholes in all things… take the addmissions date agreement between the ivies yet they still send out likely letters… proof loopholes are amazing :). And sev1991, happy birthday as well :)</p>
<p>The trailer idea is hilarious, and I would totally do it.</p>
<p>Did some people really work thier entire work in high school to get into a school like Yale? For me I didn’t even think about applying and was dead set on going to my state U until my biology teacher told me I should try for something better. It just did not occur to me when I was in high school doing the work that I should do it for college. I kind of just lucked up in this process I guess, because I got some of the qualifications for top schools without even realizing it.</p>
<p>@Dbate: My exact same circumstances… I didn’t even really know anything about the ivy leauge until last year when I got something from Dartmouth and began to do research into it all (I am a wikipedia addict… I admit) and decided to apply to a few school. Of course now that it’s almost here and I’ve gotten 2 liklies I’ve decided just going to state would of probably been a bad choice for me…But I love how it all worked out. Haha.</p>
<p>I guess I’m the opposite - It might be that I had older siblings going to college…</p>
<p>I always felt that the majority of things I was assigned to do in school were pure busy work, but unless I did them well, I wouldn’t be able to study what I really enjoyed where I wanted…</p>
<p>Yeah, I came here looking for info… realized pretty quickly I could find it anywhere but here lol!</p>
<p>I am sooo nervous and have totally procrastinated on my HW all because of college acceptance anxietes. And it’s ridiculous, because no college is going to post decisions on a Sunday.</p>
<p>The good news is that if they’re posted tomorrow, I won’t be able to concentrate for the rest of the week!</p>
<p>Yeah I agree spunaugle, the only top school i wanted to go to was Duke, but I did not even know it was a top school until recently. </p>
<p>I just feel bad for the people who are like sophmores on here, I mean if i were thinking about all this stuff sophmore year I would have burnt out.</p>
<p>Oh, I know. My biggest concern sophomore year was my upcoming drivers test and trying to find a date, haha. I’d totally be dead by now if I had focused on college for that long. </p>
<p>and yeah I bet having an older college sibling would have an effect, I’m the oldest in my house and my parents didn’t go to a full university, so this is all uncharted waters for me.</p>
<p>Getting into Yale was never one of my high school goals. Going to college is just one of the smaller things in a greater goal I have for my life, and going to a good fit college would allow me to achieve that to my best potential. I never thought about college until late, late sophomore year, and it wasn’t until junior summer that I started getting a real feeling for what that “good fit” college would be like. I actually avoided Ivies for a long time because I didn’t want it to be about prestige… but Yale just ended up on the top of my list for a variety of reasons.</p>
<p>I feel bad for the people whose environments pressure them into thinking getting into an Ivy is the only way to prove your worth. I would say the sense of accomplishment I’ve gotten from finishing summer reading lists and my extracurriculars far outshines which colleges admits me. Getting into Yale would only be an affirmation of the pride I’ve taken in what I’ve done in my high school career.</p>
<p>^ Don’t feel bad for us: Some of us like it - because we’re proving things to ourselves, not others ;)</p>
<p>I’m sure there will always be the robot that views success as algorithmic and views an acceptance letter as a stamp of approval on a stepping stone, but I think they constitute the minority of applicants.</p>
<p>They probably have killer stats though. lol</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that advanced schooling is in my future so I wanted to go to college for cheap. That attracted me to the top Ivies and I applied to my state school where i recently got an almost full ride. But the more I learned about HYP (the only Ivies I applied to because they have AMAZING financial aid) the more I wanted Y and P and not H. For me Yale and princeton are my top two. But I hope I only get into one that way I don’t have to make a choice and it wouldn’t be like I was keeping someone else out. </p>
<p>After decisions come out I can’t wait to look back on here and see the people who actually get in. I was reading an old thread where people were all anxious and then later got in and it feels a little I don’t know preternatural to look at the past post knowing who eventually got in.</p>
<p>@DBate:
How funny that you actually brought up that point. During my 8mile run today I was reminiscing about my high school career and how it all started.
I emigrated from Mexico to the United States when I was 7 almost eight (not a single word of English in my vocabulary). My older brother and my mom and I left Mexico for a variety of reasons. My mom worked two full-time jobs and a third part-time job for about 8 years.
As for me, attending college was a blessing as it was. Didn’t matter whether it was a state college, a community college, or an Ivy. They handed out rankings junior year. And my counselor approaches me my senior year (I had never seen this lady) asking me where I wanted to go to college. My answer: Hmmmmm…</p>
<p>So I decided to apply to Y and P and H because of their financial aid and because I was strong enough academically. It was more of an afterthought to be honest. And I also did Dartmouth, Duke, Notre Dame, and Cornell.
But I know of many freshman and sophomores who are desperate to attend an IVY. It is their ultimate goal in life. It is quite scary. I’ve been telling them that they WILL burn out by the end of their Junior year and that if they do everything in favor of getting admitted that they are not being human. Colleges afterall want students who are human and interesting not robotic and programed.</p>
<p>I guess we will end up enrolling in the college/university that is right for us. Everything happens for a reason.
And once again best-est of luck to everyone…</p>
<p>yale freestyle diss #1</p>
<p>yale, it’s an epic fail. the frail counterpart to harvard’s existence, a nuisance like a kid brother. just another wannabe university trying to look cool by spilling acid on their towers – just leaves the relationship sour. our campus, located on the charles river, would send a shiver up your spine. it’s the reason for your decline.</p>
<p>-tp of cc</p>
<p>^…sweet skills with the verses, but no thanks. :)</p>