<p>Just got my email as well and I submitted Oct. 31st.</p>
<p>This just got me MORE nervous if that is even possible…</p>
<p>I think it was by first name cause mine came at 3:36 EDT</p>
<p>OMG I cannot do any of my homework! I can only stress out about Penn or watch Desperate Housewives!</p>
<p>I hate this. I just want to know.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the number of ED applications for each school this year?</p>
<p>Got the email at 4:30 this afternoon!
It definitely increased my impatience and anxiety lol. Submitted my app November 1st… so I don’t think the date submitted influenced anything. :)</p>
<p>@shiver Not a clue, but it’s definitely gone down by a couple percentage points. Probably about the same ratio as last year though…</p>
<p>I got my e-mail a couple hours ago, submitted on Halloween.</p>
<p>^ The total number of ED apps went down by .98% (from 4,571 last year to 4,526 this year), but shiver’s question is how many ED apps there are per school (CAS, Wharton, etc.). That’s a state secret that Penn usually won’t reveal.</p>
<p>At this point, I think it’s coming too quickly. I have the feeling my dreams are going to be crushed.</p>
<p>Now if only my Penn financial aid confirmation email would come…</p>
<p>@accordingtome: Doesn’t everyone on this thread think the same way? I’m honestly terrified for my life just thinking about clicking the enter button and seeing a big fat SORRY.</p>
<p>…you’re terrified for your life…</p>
<p>@All: I literally have been preparing myself for the words “I am sorry…” (reject) or “We have decided to postpone…” (defer). Arghhhhhh.</p>
<p><em>shudder</em> seeing that email made it REAL
my god…
i got my email at 3:54 PM if that helps and i submitted my app on Oct 29!</p>
<p>don’t worry guys, i’m sure WE’LL ALL GET IN AND CELEBRATE!</p>
<p>accordingtome- DUUUUDE, me too. Everyday keeps going quicker and quicker and I find that my days have been passing faster than ever. That makes me terrified.</p>
<p>But I had a really awesome epiphany today. And I have a quasi suggestion that really helped me. If you have a second choice school that you still really like, but don’t know as much about it as you do about Penn, look into every detail of it. Find what you absolutely love about your second choice school. Today I spent my time looking into a school that I just moderately liked, and I realized how much I really love it. As much as Penn is our “dream school,” (and I would die if I got in) I’ve found it extremely beneficial to just really love somewhere else too.</p>
<p>Also, I just got mine twenty minutes ago…</p>
<p>@ EmPaige21</p>
<p>I love you dearly for making such a wonderful suggestion. Just browsed through the website of my second-choice school and admired pictures of the campus… It really helped dispel my super gloomy mood about possible (or probable) rejection from Penn! The nerves are still there though.</p>
<p>I am actually so useless right now. i haven’t been able to sleep for the past couple of nights because I am so scared for the 9th!!! I actually have started to think of my second choice as my second…first choice. if that makes any sense. it is going to make it easier if <em>gasp</em> i am rejected.</p>
<p>I completely get it, acceptmealready. (Referring to your “second first choice” assertion)
And hope you get some sleep tonight.</p>
<p>Applying to Penn is kind of the “You won’t know until you try” approach where if we never sent our early application, we are automatically giving up. In this case, even if I’m rejected, I’ve decided that means it’s just not meant to be for me, and at least in twenty years I can say “well at least I made an attempt.” I completely understand why we are all terrified, (a few pages back I was the one saying “cry cry cry cry” and having mental breakdowns) but I’ve decided this doesn’t determine my long term happiness or self-worth, and it shouldn’t do it for any of you, either.</p>
<p>hey guys ive read this entire thread and ive decided to join the convo during the last week before decisions!
applied ED to CAS!</p>
<p>i cannot wait until next friday. im trying to be positive and tell myself it’ll be okay…hopefully that works.
anyways, just wanted to wish each and every one of you guys good luck! quakers16 (:</p>
<p>@empaige that’s a good point! at least we gave it a shot.</p>
<p>@45Percenter : Oh so its a secret! That’s why I couldn’t find any numbers from last year either.
@Empaige21 : I love your logic. “Applying to Penn is kind of the “You won’t know until you try” approach where if we never sent our early application, we are automatically giving up.”</p>
<p>Until the last moment I was thinking of applying early decision to my second choice since I thought my chances at Penn-Wharton would be very slim. But if I didn’t do an ED in Penn, I would have thought all my life “what if I had got in?”.</p>