Freaking out! I think all colleges will reject me

MYOS1634
Mon, 16 Feb 2015 00:34:38 +0000

You still have time, I think, to apply to UWaterloo and Canadian universities.
In addition, you can take a gap year if all fails.

Good colleges have good adcoms. These really do use holistic admissions. Your application will be read, top to bottom, once. The objective data will go onto a little summary card. Then the subjective data will come in, the officer will write notes on that. Then s/he’ll exchange your file with another person, called “secondary reader”, who’ll go through the application too. All students who make it through go through table reading. Then there’s a discussion. There may be an additional read. Then the Dean of Admissions decides the last cases. So, yes, your entire application will be read, and read, and read.