I had a gut feeling that if you hadn’t let go of Harvard yet, there might be a good reason. You will be amazing there! Congratulations on all your hard work and validating acceptances–now, go celebrate.
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Congratulations! Time to celebrate!
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woke up and having a lot of second thoughts. i’m having trouble getting excited. not sure if it’ll pass but i’m kind of freaking out. thank god for therapy today haha
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Buyer’s remorse – so common it has a label. Totally natural, and it doesn’t mean you made the wrong decision.
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Truth is, there is no bad decision - at least that one can be aware of up front.
Your final five and then final two - you could have had five different people choose a different one, each one for various reasons.
No one knows if they chose the right school or not until - at least a semester and realistically a year after they’ve been there.
So you made your choice - go in, take advantage of opportunities, and hopefully it all works out.
Part of the issue with being so successful is choice - it sounds great on paper but it also makes it tough when it comes time to checking.
Sometimes I envy the kids who apply to just one (like their local school) - they don’t go through this uncertainty.
Best of luck.
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i know the chance/match me portion of this post is moot but i like that you can follow my journey through the thread so i’m back with a few updates.
- been off CC/reddit for a while now–the community here was great but my obsession was a little bit unhealthy so it’s probably a good thing that i’ve been away. i definitely want to still chime in and give back though (feel free to @ me on threads you think i might have helpful additions to–anything with applying to uk schools as a us student, education major schools, self-studying aps, etc
) - probably going to be around a bit more also as my brother applies to college! somehow it feels far easier to organize/nag him than myself lol.
- i graduated! our school doesn’t officially rank but through scoir 2024 results i could see that i was 3rd in our class (3.98 UW/4.49 W on what i believe is a 4.6 scale??. the other two kids had 4.51 and 4.53 W. one is going to oxford for PPE and the other is going i think to middlebury!). i told myself i wasn’t going to senior slide so i could keep my GPA for graduation (graduated with a 3.97 UW due to one last A- in physics C which i am happy with). i probably should have slacked off a bit more as i realize now literally no one cares about your high school GPA. oh well.
- buyer’s remorse is mostly gone and i am happy with my choice. i think going with my gut was the right thing to do.
- committed two days before the AP scores with refund cancel deadline and was riding that high and forgot to cancel my exams/research policies. i ended up sitting for all 7 exams. currently trying to figure out where to find my scores early if i can. if anyone knows my.harvard and has ideas please let me know haha.
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