Hi y’all,
Hope everyone’s doing well! At the time of writing this post, I was quite evidently not in a fantastic headspace and was going through the classic “doubting myself because of the entire college admissions process” period of waiting for admissions. I very much appreciated the time you all took to respond very sensibly to my post, although I will say that at the time, I definitely didn’t find too much solace in them since I was just nervous more than anything else, which is why I couldn’t muster up the energy to respond to all your lovely comments. Also, I thought that “I need money” would communicate that I needed aid but apparently not, LOL! That’s on me 
I wanted to give a quick update. Brown Class of '27!!! 
Honestly a dream come true! Because of aid, Brown’s cost of attendance turned out to be cheaper than Berkeley’s, which was my second choice. So, I guess everything worked out after all, and I wish I could tell myself from two months ago that I’d be fine. Thanks again y’all!