One of GC's friends just got the great news that he was accepted to his ED school.  I can't post more info here because, believe it or not, he hasn't told his parents yet. (UPDATE: They now konw. It is Cornell.) 

GC has other friends who are doing phenomenally in the process with acceptances to Dartmouth (crew), Grinnell (basketball), Bard, Wisconsin and Tulane.  Many others are waiting to hear about their Early status at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Dartmouth, WashU, Vassar, Michigan, McGill, Bowdoin, BC, NYU and BU. 

For those who have been accepted, the general mood is not "Wow – I got into my dream school," but rather, "Thank goodness I don't have to complete any more apps and can start to slack off immediately – Bring on the senioritis!"

But on College Confidential, things are different.  The Early applicants are still working on supplements for their second and third choice schools, while compulsively refreshing their emails every five minutes to see if decisions have arrived.  Here are some random posts from kids waiting for decisions:

(applied EA to Stanford)

(applied ED to Dartmouth)

i am sooooooooooooooooooooooooo nervous my best friend and I both applied ED and she has such higher grades than I do…..ahhhhhgg

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