Congrats @bancqsy! 
FYI…there is an interview story thread from,last year, y’all might want to go read and revive. There are so,e pretty funny stories there. @bancqsy glad things worked out so well for you!
am I the only one who’s not freaking out?? I’ve already accepted my fate of not getting in… a long time ago… The only reason I applied was that I knew if I didn’t, I would regret it cuz I didn’t even try. I never went into the process thinking that I would get in. I HOPE that I will get in, but the odds are against me.
good luck to everyone else though!!! 12 more days!! you got this
Do you guys have any plans as to how you’re gonna spend M9? I’m deciding if I should try to fill my whole day with activities and come home and open all my decisions at once.
@ilovechoateeeee ok i’ve been freaking out a ton, and while i’ve been trying to learn to cope w rejections now in case on m9 that happens, i also feel that if i do get rejected, it’ll still hurt a lot because of how much it means to me - i spent hours, days, reading about schools over the summer, and worked super hard on the application and all that. like, it means a lot to me, and ah i’m freaked out, but we have to wait for m9 
@livelaughxc i’m honestly trying to clear up m9 and have it reserved for the decisions, because i know that i’ll be really stressed out - i mean i’ll probably take a nice bath in the morning to try to calm myself before decisions come out, but i don’t really want to, i guess, interact with people because i’ll probably be a nervous wreck :")
@livelaughxc I’ll be at a robotics competition (which will be a great way to take my mind off of everything). The difficult part is that, if I get accepted, I won’t be able to compete with my robotics team next year. So I won’t be sure how to react while at the competition 
Finding it weird to think as of today most decisions are probably already made and adcoms are just tweaking things at the margins.
@Boarding2019 we got an email from Exeter saying they were missing one of our financial aid forms and needed it immediately… so Exeter is already at the financial aid stage, which is crazy to think about. Trying not to read into it too much…
@livelaughxc I was going to have speech states but… lol
I will probably work that day? Idk. If not, I’ll go out to lunch with my dad and open the decisions I have received then and then the rest I’ll open them as they trickle in. I’ll probably just relax all day.
@CavsFan2003 going out to lunch sounds fun! I feel like, since it’s likely a one-time experience, I’d like to have the experience of opening the portal with everyone else? Idk I just feel like it’s part of the experience.
I want to open the portal alone and then tell my parents
@ilovechoateeeee same. I want the chance to think about it before talking to my mom.
@ilovechoateeeee and @ThatScorpio that is interesting perspective. As a family, we said we would all crowd around the computer while SwamiJr “drove” and opened the decisions. It is his life but we all have invested so much in the process that we feel like it impacts all of us so we wanted to see the decisions at the same time. Maybe we will reconsider and ask him if he wants something else. He is so laid back…he said he’s not even thinking about the decisions. It is good to see him refocused on everything else in his life.
I agree @TheSwami. This is not a decision that only affect the student. It affects the entire family. And whether you realize it or not, your successes and failures are felt and shared by your family members, especially your parents. Something to think about…
My parents respect my decision. Last year they opened it without me so I feel that it is fair I open it by myself this time. I get that it affects the whole family but it’s not like I’m not going to them them later…
@buuzn03 totally agree and glad SwamiJr gets it. We don’t talk about it much but he understands this decision will change the family dynamic in a major way. He thanked us near the end of the application process. He gets the sacrifices that we all make ($$, time, days off work, flying and driving up and down the east coast, etc.). This does not even touch on another reason why we want to be there when the decisions are out…financial.
@buuzn03 I think it’s a very personal decision. It’s important to remember that already not all family dynamics are the same… not every applicant is lucky enough to have multiple parents who are so supportive. Some of us, even though our parents support the overall decision, have parents that have been much less involved. My parents are going through a divorce, so my application had very much taken the backseat in the more recent months. I can send you a pm with all of my reasons if you’d like, I just don’t feel comfortable posting in the public thread. However, I would like to say that there are many reasons why somebody may choose to look at the decisions alone, and we should be very careful to judge them for it.
I guess it’s more about your confidence in getting in. If I feel like I’m not getting into any schools, I would probably do it along and have the time to process it. But since I will be on a plane, I don’t have much of a choice so I’m opening it with my family in the car right outside of the airport.