@Lindagaf knows her stuff, and is one of the many CC’ers who have been around for the ‘what went wrong’ tears that come around every spring.
I repost [url=<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways%5Dthis%5B/url”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways]this[/url] link and [url=<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/there_is_no_formula%5Dthis%5B/url”>http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/there_is_no_formula]this[/url] one over and over- b/c they are true. Now I am adding [url=<a href=“https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/opinion/check-this-box-if-youre-a-good-person.html%5Dthis%5B/url”>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/opinion/check-this-box-if-youre-a-good-person.html]this[/url] one from this year. Read them and take them to heart.