<p>^funny But Cruel</p>
<p>“Why don’t you draft a letter to the LAC explaining how you feel and go talk to your counselor. If you feel trapped, it might make you feel better to bring the LAC into the loop”</p>
<p>Here’s the problem. This student doesn’t want to get out of his/her ED contract until the decision from Harvard or any of the “other” schools have been made. In other words, not just taking an ED spot from someone, but an RD one as well. </p>
<p>Not sure what your GPA or EC’s are, but with SAT’s of 2090 Harvard is a stretch anyway.</p>
<p>cogitoergosum - Re your post #95:</p>
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<p>Sounds like an edge to me.</p>
<p>cogito, what do you think your parents would prefer, having an honest daughter who goes to an LAC, or having a dishonest daughter, one whose dishonesty may cost her admission to the LAC and every other college to which she applied?</p>
<p>Seriously, you need to 1.) talk to your parents; 2.) talk to your GC; 3.) find your integrity.</p>
<p>Not necessarily in that order.</p>
<p>hmm, i think that there’s not a great chance you’ll get into harvard, but if harvard rejects you, i’m sure that they wouldn’t bother looking up a person that they don’t want. but if they accepts you, i think they mite look u up and find that you’ve applied ED to another school and then resciencd ur app</p>
<p>She didn’t apply just to Harvard. She apparently applied to a number of schools after signing the ED agreement.</p>
<p>^I think Harvard will accept me.But nothing is guaranteed.I thank all of you for posting your opinions.We may not agree with each other but that doesn’t matter.I think this thread will help future applicants to weigh their decisions carefully.Come april and I will let you know what Harvard decides.</p>
<p>This is a very sad thread. I feel awful for cogito, who seems to be stuck in a situation for which she (or he) is not terribly well prepared, and who seems to lack any meaningful kind of advice or support. If I thought that there were a lot of kids out there like this, I would (finally) agree with Princeton and UVa about dropping their programs.</p>
<p>As for you, cogito: Start getting yourself psyched for the LAC, and for thinking that you dodged a bullet when you didn’t embarass yourself by doing what you are proposing here. Really, you will love it.</p>
<p>why do u think harvard will accept you?</p>
<p>^Narcissa, that is confidential</p>
<p>@ cogitoergosum,</p>
<p>I think that you are wrong in this case when you write, “We may not agree with each other, but that doesn’t matter.”</p>
<p>To me, it matters quite a lot whether someone is honorable or not. I could easily list off other posters to whom it also matters.</p>
<p>^Okay it matters.But I wish all of you to be in my place and feel the burning remorse I feel for signing that document.</p>
<p>so you knew that Harvard would probably accept you…after you applied ED?</p>
<p>did you win like an insane award between then and now…haha like Intel</p>
<p>Maybe the OP got a Harvard likely letter. If so, it should be fairly easy for any the Harvard admission staff lurking on these boards to ferret out the identity of the OP. But maybe the OP is being clever and Harvard is not the school in question?</p>
<p>if i were the OP, yeah i wouldn’t have said the name of the school in question…</p>
<p>You are close(;-</p>
<p>“^Okay it matters.But I wish all of you to be in my place and feel the burning remorse I feel for signing that document.”</p>
<p>The only reason we’d be in your place would be if we didn’t bother to withdraw our other applications after getting an ED admission. Probably most of us posting here either are too wise to apply ED to some place we didn’t want to go to or are too ethical to not have withdrawn applications after getting an ED admission.</p>
<p>The only reason you’re feeling burning remorse is that you didn’t follow the ED rules you agreed to. No sympathy from me.</p>
<p>Oh, and a couple of years ago someone tried something similar to what you’ve done on CC. They posted about a situation without revealing the exact name of the college that they got a regular admission to. People figured it out. It’s not that hard.</p>
<p>i think you’re in a VERY tricky situation. if you felt that this school was a slight reach even for you, chances are it’s a very good school. go and transfer or something. wherever you got a likely letter from, you’re probably a very valued applicant and they will probably accept you in a few more years.</p>
<p>btw what’s close? Greta’s prediction that u got a likely letter?</p>
<p>^You are pushing me.I would PM you after exactly one year from now.
ALL the mom’s here are CRUEL.</p>
<p>You want sympathy? You know what? You’re a perp, not a victim. The “cruel moms” here have kids who, in your position, would follow (and have followed) the rules re ED because they agreed to them and because it is the right thing to do. They understand the value of keeping their word. I see no reason to show compassion to someone like you who doesn’t want to follow the ED rules simply because they don’t suit you. You lack a moral compass, and it will catch up with you. I don’t think I have ever encountered a more disappointing student on these boards.</p>