when you found out you got in, how did you react ?

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Lannister said:
I got my first acceptance just now, while I was alone at work (I work in an ice cream store). I stopped what I was doing, made myself a celebratory ice cream, sat down and ate it, and then started sobbing for a solid ten minutes. 🤣

Edit: had finally stopped crying when a group of residents from a nearby hospital walked into the store. Started sobbing all over again. They were very confused.
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This post inspired me to get off the bus (before my stop) for some Haagen-Dazs 🙂

Congrats!
 
I was sitting in lecture on my phone (clearly paying attention) when I got the email notification. Pretty sure I reread that email at least five times to make sure I wasn't deluding myself, and I missed most of what the professor was saying as a result. I spent the rest of that hour impatiently waiting for class to end so I could call my parents and tell some of my close friends on the way to my next class.

It's been a few weeks since that email, and every time I think about it I still feel like jumping for joy. Whenever I start worrying about the other schools I've applied to, it's so reassuring to tell myself "it's okay, you have one acceptance! You're going to be a doctor for sure!"
 
I was in my research lab, sitting at my lab mates desk (as usual because she has such a comfy chair), when I went to check my phone for an upcoming tutoring appointment and saw an e-mail from EVMS. My initial reaction was to freeze up, the world stopped, and apparently my lab partner said I had a jaw dropping look on my face. Then I jumped out of my chair and yelled "I GOT IN!" This was followed by dancing around in circles, hugging all of my lab mates, and reading the e-mail 5-10 more times to make sure it was real. Then I began calling and texting everyone that'd been waiting to hear the news. That evening, I went to dinner by myself, bought a huge delicious meal, then went home to read a book and go to sleep because I had work the next day.

EDIT: I definitely broke down and started crying after making some phone calls. All I could say for about 10 minutes was "it's finally over, oh my gosh, I don't have to ever apply again, I did it, I got in, thank God it's over".

All in all, it is still very surreal and I often forget that I'm actually going to medical school next year. In the mean time, I'm attempting to relax.
 
Pretty sure I had a mild panic attack in the hour before the decision was to be posted online (status). Felt so relieved. Kept looking at it throughout the day to make sure I didn't misread it. Not much of a celebrator to begin with, and I didn't tell my family until the snail mail came in.
 
Bumming around on social media while in bed when I got the emails this morning, then ran through the house crying and screaming to tell my family. Not my most composed moment, but one I've been waiting for for such a long time!
 
When I got the email (I had been checking religiously for weeks), I was studying with my girlfriend and I gave her a big hug. Honestly I wasn't as emotional as I thought I would have been, and part of it feels surreal as I've been waiting for years for this moment. A couple times every day I think "oh wow.. I'm going to be a doctor" and I get overwhelmed with happiness. It's just a deep satisfaction.
 
i was pretty sleep deprived after having to knock out 2 midterms back to back with a paper due the next day. i get the email directly after i take my second midterm and i just get this huge feeling of relief and happiness, but i didn't really get to enjoy it, honestly. then i get all of my academics out of the way and go celebrate with my best friend. still, it somehow hasn't fully hit me. but these past few weeks have been really blissful and relaxed. it has been an ongoing feeling of happiness and pride in my accomplishments and genuine and absolute excitement for the future 🙂 but honestly, i had more of a reaction on the spot to getting my first interview than i did to actually getting my first acceptance!
 
wavvvvvves123 said:
i was pretty sleep deprived after having to knock out 2 midterms back to back with a paper due the next day. i get the email directly after i take my second midterm and i just get this huge feeling of relief and happiness, but i didn't really get to enjoy it, honestly. then i get all of my academics out of the way and go celebrate with my best friend. still, it somehow hasn't fully hit me. but these past few weeks have been really blissful and relaxed. it has been an ongoing feeling of happiness and pride in my accomplishments and genuine and absolute excitement for the future 🙂 but honestly, i had more of a reaction on the spot to getting my first interview than i did to actually getting my first acceptance!
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it's almost the weekend, so...

rage

rage hard
 
whatever happened to the person who started this thread ?
 
I got accepted via a phone call. Pretty sure I made the poor professor on the other line go deaf for a couple seconds. I sorta screamed it on the phone. I was like "oh my god that is so awesome". And then I realized that there are no more secondaries to write, no more applications to fill out, etc. Now I don't know what to do with the extra time I have on my hands. lol
 
I don't know what I was expecting, honestly. It was a Sunday so I didn't expect it to go out that midnight. It was also my birthday so I wanted to just spend the day happy. But at midnight I got one email and I was on the phone w my bf and I kind of just squeaked. Even better the next morning (day of my birthday), I got one more acceptance, and later on in the day my bf told me he got in too. I was over the moon then because I wanted to go to med school with him and it seemed impossible because he already got in two years ago but turned it down so we thought he would be blacklisted.

Anyways, we didn't get in the same school, but I interviewed there and if I don't hear on match day I might just send them a LOI, but yeah that whole pre match day was amazing.
 
Reading these posts brings back all the emotions I experienced going through this last year, and reminds me how lucky I am to be in medical school now. Med school is hard and exhausting and stressful, so holding on to a sense of joy about medicine and excitement towards entering the field is crucial but also very tricky to maintain. It's a good reminder for me -- I try to stay grateful and positive as much as possible but hey, nobody's perfect! Even the most optimistic of us burn out sometimes. But this thread is a good antidote for that. 🙂 so thank you and congratulations to you all!
 
if i ever get accepted, i'm pretty sure im going to hop in my car with every intention of getting a ticket... we'll find out if the "just got into medical school" excuse works ha
 
I was accepted exactly at midnight. I jumped out of my bed half-naked, ran to my parents room and told them (although I'm not sure how much they heard since they were sleeping). I then ran back to my room and jumped up and down while cussing profusely. And once I calmed down I hugged my dog and my two Guinea pigs. I then pulled an all-nighter thinking about what school I was going to attend. And I got three more acceptances the next day and repeated the routine all over again...except I was fully clothed that time.
 
I was at work when I found out. The school had told us at our interview day when decisions would come out. I'd been obsessively staring at my inbox and refreshing the portal since 9am so, needless to say, when 3:30pm rolled around and I hadn't heard anything I was starting to freak out. I was actually JUST about to call the school and ask if decisions were still coming out that day. For some reason, I decided to refresh the portal just ONE more time before I called. And when I did, a tab appeared that said "Offer of Admission!" And then I got the email a minute later. I read it about 10 times just to make sure I wasn't imagining it. Then I called my parents and grandparents, texted my friends, my partner, my PI... Haha. I left work after that and met my friends out for nachos and beers. Still can't believe I'm in!!
:highfive:
 
I was at work sitting at my desk. My email went off at 9:44, but I was too busy to check it. I didn't expect to hear back for 4-5 days so I wasn't really waiting around.

About an hour after I receive the message, I finally checked it. I agreed to wait to open the email with my SO, but the subject line began with "Welcome......".

My heart skipped a beat and I began to smile from ear to ear, but I had to keep my composure. No one at my job had any idea that I was applying to medical school (they still don't know about it). I forwarded the message to my SO and sent a text saying "check your email". I received tons of excited responses beginning with "OMFG!!!!". I made an excuse to go on break early to call my SO, then my mom. They were more excited then me.

Next, I sent a screen shot to my brother/best friend that said "WE MADE IT, [insert my name] STUNT ON THEM HATERS". He responded with a reply from the same song; telling me I was on my Lupita Nyong'o before calling me laughing loudly and screaming congrats. After my early break, I went back to work.

That was the best 15 minutes I've ever spent at work.
 
I recently was accepted to my top choice. I was in the bathroom getting ready for work in an hour when I got a notification from my phone saying somebody from SDN posted on xxxx schools thread and my heart skipped a beat and it said OMG ACCEPTED. then the next 10 seconds took forever as I feverishly refreshed my phones email. I saw a congrats, promptly screamed making my parents think I died in the bathroom. I came downstairs bawling knowing I got into my 1 and that I wouldn't have to travel halfway across the country for med school, found a way to compose myself, not die in rush hour traffic and make it to work
 
I knew I was going to get my first post-interview decision (from one of my top choices) around noon. I was in a basement computer lab debugging a code for a final project to try to distract myself, but as it got closer and closer to noon I could feel my adrenaline start to rise. Mind you, this place is a dungeon devoid of light and happiness - a haven of unfriendly engineers where you get shushed for typing too loudly. The clock crept past 12 and I'm on the verge on a nervous breakdown. I'm panicking about being rejected and I need to see a friendly face. I can't cry in front of these people - emotions do not exist in the computing center. I'm about to bail out and go find somewhere else to be when I glance up and happen to see a close friend and teammate had come in and sat down a few rows over.
So I essentially accost my friend and bless her- she did a fantastic job of calming me down and chatting with me for a few minutes. We're gossiping about team drama and her future plans when it happens - 12:17 PM - THE EMAIL. And the one-line preview starts with "It is a p..."
I TOTALLY lose my chill and yell "IT IS A P! IT IS A PLEASURE! A PLEASURE!" while gesturing aggressively at my phone in an "I'm tellin' you" fashion. Then, quieter: "you're darn right it's a pleasure"
A few seconds later I got it together enough to actually open the e-mail, do a little happy dance, and hug my friend. Then I stood up, looked around at the sea of annoyed faces, and walked out and up the two flights of stairs to the daylight. Called my parents and cried, called my best friend and cried, called my coach and cried. I had left my jacket in the dungeon, so this is all while pacing around the quad like a madwoman in a t-shirt in December.
About 10 minutes later my heart rate was back below 180 so I decided it was time to descend back to actually get some work done. No one was too happy to see the loud, overexcited white chick re-enter the pits of cold mathematical despair. But I didn't stop smiling the whole day 🙂
 
member000000000 said:
I was at work sitting at my desk. My email went off at 9:44, but I was too busy to check it. I didn't expect to hear back for 4-5 days so I wasn't really waiting around.

About an hour after I receive the message, I finally checked it. I agreed to wait to open the email with my SO, but the subject line began with "Welcome......".

My heart skipped a beat and I began to smile from ear to ear, but I had to keep my composure. No one at my job had any idea that I was applying to medical school (they still don't know about it). I forwarded the message to my SO and sent a text saying "check your email". I received tons of excited responses beginning with "OMFG!!!!". I made an excuse to go on break early to call my SO, then my mom. They were more excited then me.

Next, I sent a screen shot to my brother/best friend that said "WE MADE IT, [insert my name] STUNT ON THEM HATERS". He responded with a reply from the same song; telling me I was on my Lupita Nyong'o before calling me laughing loudly and screaming congrats. After my early break, I went back to work.

That was the best 15 minutes I've ever spent at work.
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Oh my god, *perfect* song choice for that moment haha congrats!!!!!!!!
 
justheresoidontgetfined said:
I knew I was going to get my first post-interview decision (from one of my top choices) around noon. I was in a basement computer lab debugging a code for a final project to try to distract myself, but as it got closer and closer to noon I could feel my adrenaline start to rise. Mind you, this place is a dungeon devoid of light and happiness - a haven of unfriendly engineers where you get shushed for typing too loudly. The clock crept past 12 and I'm on the verge on a nervous breakdown. I'm panicking about being rejected and I need to see a friendly face. I can't cry in front of these people - emotions do not exist in the computing center. I'm about to bail out and go find somewhere else to be when I glance up and happen to see a close friend and teammate had come in and sat down a few rows over.
So I essentially accost my friend and bless her- she did a fantastic job of calming me down and chatting with me for a few minutes. We're gossiping about team drama and her future plans when it happens - 12:17 PM - THE EMAIL. And the one-line preview starts with "It is a p..."
I TOTALLY lose my chill and yell "IT IS A P! IT IS A PLEASURE! A PLEASURE!" while gesturing aggressively at my phone in an "I'm tellin' you" fashion. Then, quieter: "you're darn right it's a pleasure"
A few seconds later I got it together enough to actually open the e-mail, do a little happy dance, and hug my friend. Then I stood up, looked around at the sea of annoyed faces, and walked out and up the two flights of stairs to the daylight. Called my parents and cried, called my best friend and cried, called my coach and cried. I had left my jacket in the dungeon, so this is all while pacing around the quad like a madwoman in a t-shirt in December.
About 10 minutes later my heart rate was back below 180 so I decided it was time to descend back to actually get some work done. No one was too happy to see the loud, overexcited white chick re-enter the pits of cold mathematical despair. But I didn't stop smiling the whole day 🙂
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As a CS minor, I have to say, this is so great.
 
On October 15th, I knew there was a chance I would hear from one of the schools I had interviewed at. I checked my email all day, but nothing. At around 4:30 I went to drop off my suit at the dry cleaners and was telling myself that it was okay, there was no reason to think it was going to necessarily come the first day. As I was sitting in the parking lot I got the acceptance email. I started sobbing. Like a serious ugly cry, my face was bright red and my eyes were all scrunched and I didn't even care. The relief of knowing that everything had paid off was just amazing. I ran my suit inside and then called my dad still crying to let him know.

After that I drove to my sorority house, ran inside with my car still idling in the parking lot and headed to my best friend's room and we just hugged and cried. My other sorority sisters came out to see what was going on and when I said I had been accepted everyone just kept hugging me and jumping up and down and sharing in the excitement. They had all watched me work and study for so long and it meant so much to be able to tell them I had made it.

Then we went to the bars. Don't remember everything from later that night but it was a hell of a time.
 
Jumped up and down like a kid and screamed at the top of my lungs.

In the next few weeks I'll be eating an expensive dinner with my family, dropping off booze to my letter writers, and drinking with my friends.
 
I was driving while feeling super panicky because I knew calls were going out that day (and that several people had received calls already). I told myself not to panic until 4pm PST, then my phone rang from a blocked number. OMG YES! Of course, I was a blabbering idiot when I picked up but definitely kept it together...but bawled in the car after hanging up. Cried the whole way home because I realized all the neuroticism and worrying could finally go away. It was also affirmation that I didn't totally suck at interviews...so it made all my WL decisions from previous schools easier to swallow.
 
I was in a lab class when my email dinged with the unexpected news. Stunned and shaking, I word vomited the news to my classmates and professor while double checking that the school's email address didn't have any typos.

After verifying that the address was indeed legit, I ran out of the lab, still in PPE, mouth agape, and called my girlfriend first and then close family. The tears started when my mom started crying over the phone. My grandma was making her bed when I called. She dropped the sheets and screamed at the top of her lungs with excitement.

I've been on cloud nine ever since. It's ridiculously cathartic. Any time a little stress starts to creep in, I just let it go, which I haven't really let myself do throughout college.

It seemed like things couldn't get any better than in that moment, but they keep getting better and better. I'm excited. I'm terrified. Most of all, I'm humbled and honored that committees think that I have what it takes to be a good doctor. I'm looking forward to finishing up college next semester, traveling a little bit, and starting the next chapter.
 
I was in my hospital bed after receiving my 3rd pulmonary valve replacement when I got called by my first school, and while I was on the phone with them got a call from another school... couldn't be too excited though because I spent all night with odd pre ventricular contractions so I had to stay chill hahaha. Getting accepted in the hospital where my dream of becoming a physician started was pretty neat though 🙂
 
Styrene said:
I didn't feel any particular emotions. I don't generally react in that sort of way. However, I felt very relieved that all the time I spent studying for classes and the MCAT weren't a waste.
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I am the same. I remember checking my email and was just like "oh sweet," finished my bag of chips, then high-fived my friend or something, who was equally calm about the whole thing. Which makes this thread rather funny to read, that people severely disrupted their surrounding environment/people when they had their reactions. Sounds awesome. lol
 
I saw this thread recently and I figured I'd add my story to it!

I was accepted on November 15th in the evening. I was just sitting on the couch watching the NFL, pretending to study for exams. I was kind of disappointed because I thought that if I got in I was going to hear back in the morning. Anyway, I took a break from "studying" to look at my phone, and I saw an email with the subject thread "IMPORTANT", and I didn't know what on earth it was.

Anyway, I opened up the email and that was (arguably) the most important email of my life up to this point. I dropped the phone I was reading it off of out of shock (it was already somewhat broken and this just made it more broken). I then called my parents and best friends on my "barely alive" phone.

The next day my parents drove up with a bottle of champagne and my dad took me to buy a new IPhone 6S. It was a good day.
 
I received my admission offer today morning. Coincidentally, my exams results were out today as well. I was showing my mum my grades for this semester when the email from the school came. It was the offer and both of us shouted for joy.. I can't describe the level of happiness in that instant.
 
Oh man this is such a happy thread, I love it!

Here's my story. I was in NYC for an interview at another school, and my boyfriend and I extended the trip into a vacation. We were waiting on a train at Penn Station and I looked down at my phone and saw that I had an email from a med school I had been waiting on. I'm pretty sure my heart stopped beating while I fumbled to unlock my phone and read the first few lines. When I read "congratulations" I immediately burst into tears and flung myself at my boyfriend (who figured out what was going on pretty quickly). I'm pretty sure everyone at the station thought I was totally nuts, but it was one of the most incredible moments of my life so far. It felt like it was straight out of a movie!
 
All of these stories give me chills, but good chills!

I was sitting in the library when I received an email titled Final Admission Decision and my heart immediately skipped a beat. Opened the email to the acceptance and couldn't stop laughing. Luckily it was 8AM and the library opened at 7:45 so no one saw my manic state. Called my mom and brother to tell them of course [That lady raised an Ivy-league lawyer and a soon-to-be doctor as a single mother, God bless her].

A bottle of Bombay Sapphire, tonic, and a tasteful cigar capped the best Monday of my life.
 
On interview day, we were told that we would get a call on a particular day. After neurotically glancing at my phone in between sessions at work, I was pretty upset that no phone call was received. "That's alright," I thought - the alternate list will have movement and I will make sure to keep the school informed about what I am doing.

The next morning, I woke up to an e-mail in my mailbox. I expected it to read "alternate list" and had to scroll back when my eyes quickly glanced over the word "acceptance." That was it.... I jumped out of bed at 6 am and went for a run. My pandora playlist happened to have THE MOST PERFECT playlist for the day and occasion. I cried tears of joy throughout my run and came home to my mom giving me a big hug. It was surreal. Hope to make the most of this opportunity, because I know it is just the beginning of what I want to accomplish and the impact I want to make. Here we go!!! 🙂
 
So I was at work in the ED, checking my email when I got a surprise. I hadn't expected to hear anything that day. The subject read "xxx school: Acceptance" and I let the huge sigh of relief come over me, since this, my first acceptance, was so late (February). The doctor I was working with (a funny old guy) got on the ED intercom and announced that I got into med school. Haha.
 
I got the phone call for my first acceptance, and one of my top choices, in the middle of a movie in the theaters. I saw the area code and recognized that it was most likely an acceptance call. I got up and BOLTED over people's legs, popcorn, etc, looking like a completely crazy individual trying to find the nearest exit haha.

Got the call, thanked the dean, took a deep sigh of relief and then completely mentally dropped the fact I got accepted. I finished the movie before allowing myself to remember what happened lol.
 
When I got the call (from an unknown number) I immediately assumed it was my sister who was calling on one of her friends phone's to mess with me, so after the Dean said "Hi this is Dr. Soandso", I said "Haha nice try E____, but I'm not falling for that" and hung up. Only to then realize that it in fact sounded like the admissions dean I talked with during my interview day and in fact not my sister. They still let me in haha:smack::claps:. The Dean had quite the laugh with me about it when I talked with him/her on my return call after I apologized a million times.
 
I had just arrived for work approx. 45 mins late after a night of heavy drinking (thanks Taco Tuesday & your reasonably priced beers). I was exhausted with a pounding headache, and sad that I was about to enter my reapplication year after sitting on 4 WLs and 1 radio silence. Got a call from an out of the area number on my personal cell, which I usually don't answer during work hours. Maybe it was the immediate need to silence the loud ringing (which I usually never have turned on either), but I answered. When he identified himself as one of the doctors from the school, I had that heart pounding, hangover curing, immediate disbelieving sensation wash over me. Told him I couldn't believe it, mumbled some stuff about not deserving a spot, thanked him profusely, then told everyone in the office (a medical practice). Then called my mommy 🙂
 
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