Thousands of high school seniors learned if they were accepted into their dream schools around 5 p.m. on Thursday.
Their reactions reflected a range of emotions as they posted their fate to social media accounts:
First, the ecstatic ones:
AND MOHAMMED GOT INTO PRINCETON #Princeton2020 @SuspiciousLimes pic.twitter.com/nNiDrGefc9
I'M. LIT. #Brown2020 pic.twitter.com/YgvRK0rtgg
Dreams do come true...proud to be a part of Harvard 2020! #Harvard2020 pic.twitter.com/WReYNtYfPK
- Connor Thompson (@connorthomp16) April 1, 2016
#IvyDay look at us with our ice cream..... gotta love rejection ???? pic.twitter.com/idZJmPwOtm
- c r y s t a l (@cloudedflame) April 1, 2016
update: i took all 6 L's #IvyDay
- chaia. (@chaiafornia) March 31, 2016
Im actually shaking
- jorge (@jorgeivvan) March 31, 2016
Dartmouth 2020 vs. Cornell 2020 #cornell2020 #dartmouth2020 #blessed
- T R I S T A N (@Tristansbetter) March 31, 2016
And so the university admissions saga finally draws to a close: #Yale2020 and #Princeton2020!!! I can hardly believe I just wrote that...
- Maya Burhanpurkar (@MBurhanpurkar) March 31, 2016
Immensely proud of @anniecmyk for being accepted into #Yale2020! I admire her so much & consider myself very lucky to call her a friend.
- Nicholas J. Bique (@NicholasJBique) March 31, 2016
MY BROTHER JOSH GOT ACCEPTED TO YALE!!!!!!!!! #BlackExcellence #Yale2020 pic.twitter.com/L4Hv2Xib0M
- BlackGirlsYouTubeToo (@JuicyLorr) March 31, 2016
Going through all the #Harvard2020 posts on Twitter fills me with a special kind of joy. Welcome to the family, and congratulations ??
- Eduardo González (@ed_gonzalez6) April 1, 2016