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omg I GOT INTO TUFTS! I'm so seriously shocked by this. It's more selective than Vassar or Haverford (or ok maybe around the same as Haverford?) and I was expecting a rejection, at best a waitlist. But I got in! Now I don't know what to do. I had kind of dismissed it before, but I think I just did that because I didn't think I'd get in and wanted to soften the blow, you know? But at one time I really loved it. And I've been having trouble with Berkeley vs. Macalester, and Tufts is kind of a compromise between the two. It has the opportunities and prestige that Berkeley has but it also has the smaller size and more liberal arts feel (even though it is a university) of Macalester. Wow. This is going to take some thinking, now.

I also found out I got into UCLA yesterday after I posted, but... once I got into Berkeley I kind of assumed that would be the case (although I did hear of several people today at school who got into Berkeley and not LA, so you never know). I also got rejected by Stanford, but, you know, whatever. I'm pretty much convinced they only accept like 8 students a year and that they just accidentally put the % next to the 8% acceptance rate.

Anyways. Nothing else has been going on other than everyone getting into colleges and everyone talking about colleges all the time (which is pretty apparent from all my posts this week). The only other cool thing that happened this week is that I found out a poem I wrote for English got selected for the little poetry journal thing my English teacher puts out every time we write a poem. (I don't think I explained that very well.) It's not a huge deal, she selects like... 25-ish poems out of her... 100? maybe? students and then puts them all in a booklet and stuff and yeah, anyways, the poem I wrote for that assignment was chosen which was really shocking because I am awful at writing poetry (my first poem was terrible) and it was a bitch to write. But it made me really happy to see that.

So only two colleges left to hear from: Amherst and Brown. Unlikely I'll get into either (2 people from my school already got into Brown, and they don't like taking more than 1-2 from each school), but I guess there's always a chance.

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smarty pants! :P

Heh, I think my school is just really competitve, so from freshman year everyone does everything they can to do as well as possible so they can get into all the Ivys and Stanford and such.

Congrats on Tufts, that's awesome!! (And the poetry thing too!)

Thanks so much! :D

Congrats! =D

Thank you! :D

OMG yay! :D i am so happy for you, especially since Tufts is what you wanted in the first place. aww. and there's still all the other schools like vassar and stuff, so you don't have to decide yet.

stanford is so strange sometimes. for years they don't accept anyone from our school, and this year they accept 3, two of which are twins who we have dubbed "The Standford Twins".

(2 people from my school already got into Brown, and they don't like taking more than 1-2 from each school), but I guess there's always a chance.

There's definately a huge chance, because last year, six (i think?) kids from my school applied and 4 got in. :D

Hee, thanks so much! I really appreicate that. :D

I know, Stanford is bizarre. It was my first choice when I was like a freshman, but I got a lot more realistic over the past year, so I'm not too devastated I didn't get in.

Yeah, there is always a chance, but I got my letter from Brown today anyways and I did get rejected. I'm fine with it, though, because I wasn't expecting acceptance.