The Ocean
Dearest TASPers,
I remember a conversation with Tess in which she described her feelings about the future as "standing on a cliff backwards and only hearing the ocean". It was a sentiment that I believe we all felt and still feel to some extent. We, being the people we are, have spent a lot of time on our futures: planning them, dreaming about them, dreading them in some ways.
I know that I myself am anxious to know where my precious taspateros will be scattered next year and it seems that this is the time where a lot of foggy uncertainty is finally beginning to solidify into a bright and shining future.
So I have a proposal for all of you.
Can we share a little bit? Let's tell of our successes, our glorious failures, the in-betweens. Remember that there is no shame here. We are a family. So, let's acknowledge the elephant of college admissions that has been chilling in the corner of the room for a while.
Shoo, elephant, shoo!
I'll put my plans in a comment on this post.
Don't be a stranger,
Josh
I remember a conversation with Tess in which she described her feelings about the future as "standing on a cliff backwards and only hearing the ocean". It was a sentiment that I believe we all felt and still feel to some extent. We, being the people we are, have spent a lot of time on our futures: planning them, dreaming about them, dreading them in some ways.
I know that I myself am anxious to know where my precious taspateros will be scattered next year and it seems that this is the time where a lot of foggy uncertainty is finally beginning to solidify into a bright and shining future.
So I have a proposal for all of you.
Can we share a little bit? Let's tell of our successes, our glorious failures, the in-betweens. Remember that there is no shame here. We are a family. So, let's acknowledge the elephant of college admissions that has been chilling in the corner of the room for a while.
Shoo, elephant, shoo!
I'll put my plans in a comment on this post.
Don't be a stranger,
Josh
posted by Josh at 6:04 PM
6 Comments:
well I am in the purgatory of waitlist-dom at Harvard, but I'm taking it as a sign.
I am now 80% sure I will be going to Yale.
I'm still up for a writing scholarship at WashU and awaiting the Stanford letter, so I'm not burning bridges yet.
UChicago shafted me on FinAid, so my merit scholarship doesn't help much.
I got in to NYU, the Tisch program for dramatic writing, but I think not.
love,
josh
I got wait-listed at Harvard (which I expected). I got rejected from Yale (which I did not expect). I am glancing at Duke and Georgetown, but they are both giving me problems with financial aid (non-custodial drama), so I currently have pretty acceptance letters from them, but no money. Same with Cornell and Emory, but they were the safeties anyway. I will probably be going to UChicago. I also got a merit scholarship, but they gave me zero financial aid to cover the other 14 grand for room and board. Oh, well.
As for Teddy, I guess I had a mouse in my room that scared away that elephant. As for glorious failures/rejections- Swarthmore,Haverford,Wesleyan,Cornell, Oberlin. As for waitlists-Davidson, which is more than I expected. Therefore it looks like University of Alabama at Birmingham.
I got into Birmingham-Southern but like Davidson is virtually all white and Vestavian-ehh. I'm staying on the wait list at Davidson although chances are slim as well is motivation to go there. Why did I apply to such selective schools?(I dunno) But I have been looking at Hampshire College in Mass which looks a lot more ...for Teddy than those other schools so I might transfer next yr..hopefully.
Way to go guys and Have fun next yr!!
Love,Teddy
In order of when I got an acceptance letter/notice...(no rejections, all smiles):
1) U of MN. Yeah, right.
2) Stanford. I've been joking that they were my safety school after the EA application and it turns out that that's pretty much how I think of it now.
3) Wash U. Up for a full ride (interviews start on Thursday) and, if I get it, it probably skyrocket's to the top of my list, or at least near the top--thereby making my decision very very hard.
4) Chicago. $0, Luukas. 'nuf said. I blame my disaffected interviewer.
5) Cornell. I think it's now safe to post on the blog that due to a now-corrected "administrative error" I'm actually in CBTA. Ergo, that is my choice if nothing more comes from Wash U, and it is still a credible threat otherwise. Oh yeah, and I'm also up for some sort of petty book stipend, which is their excuse for circumventing Ivy rules about April 1 notification.
I'll keep you posted.
BTW, when I figure out how to post the Butler pictures you will notice that I convinced my friends to make a second trip and I am now posing in said pictures.
BBTW, thanks to Josh for making a magnet thread that's actually working.
BBBTW, way to go everyone
UNC, Amherst, Princeton, Duke, Wesleyan, Harvard, Chicago, Cornell, and Yale let me in.
I'm wavering. It is possible that I will get full-tuition at Duke, and I'll see this weekend if that's more appealing than I anticipate it being. UNC, Amherst, Wesleyan, and Cornell are pretty definite nays. Probably no Yale...which leaves Princeton and Chicago. Princeton gave me good aid. Chicago's is second-best, but I like it the most, I think, for whatever reason. Who knows?
Harvard: in
Stanford: in
Yale: rejected
Come on all you harvard people, you want bulldog days or rainy, Boston days? (please pick the rain)
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