<p>After spending my whole christmas break on my essays. After waking up christmas morning to do them. After staying up new years eve to do them, does anyone else miss them? I dont know about you guys, but i spent day and night on my essays, and i will probably never use them again. And they are gone forever, and who knows? I may have wasted my winter break for nothing. I may just be rejected from every college. Come on, i’m not that nerdy. Who else misses their apps?</p>
<p>OMG! I feel this same way… going to bed at 6 AM… waking up a few hours earlier (i wokeup at 1 pm today 
)than usual to make my way to my children… they were my children… I poured my heart and soul into those essays… I succumbed to the grammatical beating of my fellow CC members and Vera Wang because of my APPs… my children… I’ll miss them :(</p>
<p>I was so hurt… so broken… that I kept my UPenn with me for a couple extra minutes… I gave her away at 12:19 :'(… I’ll never forget how heart breaking it was. </p>
<p><em>sighs</em></p>
<p>i don’t. sorry, you’re a nerd and you’re not “cool.”</p>
<p>just kidding. all my love. but really, i don’t miss my applications.</p>
<p>Cuz ur essays were so esoteric</p>
<p>LOL - we parents miss them too - they kept our child within our sight for probably the last time. Sure, they took the place of our family vacation, sure they substituted for the rare family together days only possible during school vacation, for the rare family time with brother home from college, they subsituted for a trip to the museum or, heck, a party with friends, heck, they subsituted for normal conversation! Oh, sure, son could have started them in August, but did he believe he would have to write 32 long and short answers? No, of course not, and neither did we parents. Hats off ot all of you for the marathon writing campaign. I sure hope it proves worthy of the time you have all given. When you are presidents of colleges, please find a new system for college admissions!</p>
<p>CONCURED RILEYDOG. I will be completely heartbroken, no lie, if im rejected from every college. I revised and revised my harvard essay. I constantly changed my Common app one. I worked my butt off on Cornell and Stanford. And once the letter comes, all my hard work will either go to waste or have done me some good.
I’ll be truthful, this is the ONLY TIME i have ever revised so much. AP Lit? Nah i did it in like 30 minutes. These were the best essays i have ever written, revised until there were no grammatical awkwardness.</p>
<p>:( I can’t believe Penn, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth… are all gone. Just like that… Ugh. I guess I can visit them from time to time… but the relationship would be similar to talking to a brick wall… They are no long burgandy and full of life; they’re now grey- beaten to the pulp and robbed of their charisma. :(</p>
<p>Brilliant post, Rileydog. Brilliant post. It’s good to see that someone besides Kevin and myself feel the pain we’re experiencing at the moment… Hopefully this will pass… Hopefully I’m just experiencing some withdrawal effects… Hopefully I can find another high… Hmmmm… Writing a few scholarship essays seem appealing at the moment…</p>
<p>My babies… taken away from me by time. :(</p>
<p>“When you are presidents of colleges, please find a new system for college admissions!”</p>
<p>As much as I hate the admissions system, or at least the process of writing essays and taking standardized tests, I don’t know if it could be any other way. The pleasure I took from writing some of the essays was mitigated by my concern that no matter how clever I might think my writing is, I have no idea what would offend an admissions officers’ sensibilities. What is tastefully crude (often in its honesty, as the case may be) for one person may be unforgivably offensive to another. Meh.</p>
<p>UniqueUserName - great name, btw. Well, in our family we have a ton of engineers and science types. They contribute to society in the most amazing ways yet, only one of them can WRITE, and spell. Still, you would be impressed with many of their accomplishments and contributions to society. I do not think the Tufts essays would have predicted these contributions. I am particuarly annoyed with Tufts tonight (smile). </p>
<p>Frankly, I agree with you about the standardized tests. There are too many 4.0s out there of varying significance and investment. Plus, I have found little evidence to support the admissions officer’s oft reported statement that they “know each school” in their area. Not sure how to solve the problem with inequality of opportuntiy though, because that is a real concern if we are comparing standardized tests and grades. Perhaps a true national emphasis on education would help. </p>
<p>But, I think you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned - how to know if you are impressing or alientating admissions rep x or y. Presently, there is no training or certification for admissions officers. You can be hired right out of college with no training in anything, perhaps a degree in English, Psychology or, what the heck, Business. I don’t mean to malign the many dedicated admissions officers but there should be some coursework or training when the stakes are so high. There should be some measure of accountabiltiy. Parents and students are spending enormous amounts of money to attend college, a tremendous amount of time and effort visiting and applying to schools, and kids are entrusting their high school lives and future opportunities to someone who may only have one credential - that they are a recent graduate of the school. Obviously this varies from school to school but being an admissions officer has become a profession - and that requires some measure of ability and accountability. </p>
<p>OK, I didn’t mean to turn this fun oriented thread into a downer. As a parent, I am thrilled to see those babies heading to supplement never never land.</p>
<p>im surprised only a few ppl miss their essays lol</p>
<p>WTH are you ppl talking about??? how can u miss ur essays. ME, after I did them, I submitted and thanked God that I never have to do anymore after I got accepted ED to Cornell !!!</p>
<p>Miss your essays? Like reading them… dont you have them saved on your hardrive?</p>
<p>you spent way too much time on them lol</p>
<p>this post makes me feel kind of bad b/c i honestly can’t say i spent a ton of time on my essays…although they were well-written and original, i really have no idea what will appeal to an admissions officer</p>
<p>cornell is such a major over-reach school for me, that i’m not really worried about whether or not i get in. I’m honestly expecting to get rejected, that doesnt mean i have low self-esteem, im just being realistic - RD CAS w/undecided major and gpa under 3.7 - haha anyway there are other schools I really like</p>
<p>It’s understandable that you miss them.</p>
<p>For the past few months, we have all lived in College-Application-Land where nothing mattered except clicking that submit button before midnight on Jan 1… I don’t know about you guys, but I BSed a lot of homework and even skipped a few days of school to finish.</p>
<p>Now, all the adrenaline of frantically trying to make that deadline is gone… and we have to get back to real life… which is probably good, I guess.</p>
<p>Oh, gosh!
I thought only I felt this way!!!
I am so glad you opened this thread, Kevin! 
It feels really weird, after doing at least one essay every single day, thinking over and over how to write this or that essay, thinking why I want to go to that school, thinking of my EC’s, my values, my writing and grammar, going to sleep at 4:30am just to finish them after having someone read over and tell you their opinion.
It feels weird and I do miss my kids… they were getting better the more I wrote!
I feel really weird that none of my remaining apps have additional essays to write. And I might be looking for some other app to fill just to have something to write.
Just might…</p>