NO MORE HUMBLE BRAGS! Please. I vote that people just brag. Or at least be honest and say, "I worked my frickin butt off (not to mention I kissed countless butts) for my perfect GPA, I got tutored up the wazoo and raised my ACTs from 28 to 34, I had my dad’s friend (who gave H a zillion $$) write me a BS recommendation that I’m gifted and charismatic and altruistic, I’ve used advanced marketing skills I didn’t know I had to come up with a winning product, ME, that somewhat resembles myself (if you stretch your imagination); I’ve expended so much effort on the application–culled over every word–had my sister (a professional editor) re-write two of my essays completely (she started them over and changed the topics). I feel cheapened and haven’t really learned much of any value over the past three and a half years. It’s impossible at this point to know what I do for real reasons and what I do to get into Harvard. I going crazy.
@smollhuman I have a couple of bets going on with friends, mainly involving dinners, regarding who gets in where with our EA decisions. Either way there will be food parties, either way there will be crying, the only difference between acceptance and rejection will be my mood ;D
@collapp77 Yeah I hope that shined through in my essay. My short response activity answer I hope represents how much happiness and being with others matters to me. I discussed crying in the arms of my teammates after winning my state championship and how loved and happy I felt.
@tuty143 I’m sure the admissions officers saw that! Keep your hopes up; you seem like a strong candidate!
I don’t brag because I don’t think I have done anything really. Numbers are numbers and don’t mean anything. That’s one reason why I can’t wait to go to college. I actually want to do something useful with my life, to really impact someone. It makes me so happy when my friends or random people say that that I’m their hero or they look up to me. Sure GPA and all that’s important, but the true gift is being able to extend your positive qualities unto others
I was reading my supplement essay today, and I had the biggest regrets ever. I took a risk with my essay topic, and I’d rather not say what it is. Anyway, I’m not sure how it will be received in AdCom. UGH, ,I am so anxious! Practically every moment of my life for the past week has been consumed by the prospect of a deferral or a rejection. Probably a deferral…but I am still keeping my hopes up for an admission!
@QueenN22 ARE WE THE SAME PERSON? everything you say is just so similar to my own ideals. I always say that you can be as smart as you want but it doesn’t matter if you don’t have people who love you and support you. Like my life is so unique and spectacular in its own little ways so I wan’t to learn about other people’s lives which are just as unique and even more spectacular.
Does anyone else really like to people watch? Especially at the airport…
@redrabbit23 People watch? As in, watching people? Haha, jk, I think it’s a fine pastime.
But hey everybody! On the topic of senior year grades, it must be slight inconsistencies here or there in your high school grades. I’ve got a 4.0 and no requests for grades. Lots of other people I know who applied early are in the same boat.
Relax and stare at the stars!
@redrabbit23 I, for one, think airports are petri dishes of personality XD there’s nothing like a delayed flight to show who people really are.
Btw I’m glad everyone liked my playlist.
@redrabbit23 ME! My friends always think I’m judging but I’m just an observer. I just say things that I feel based on what a person is doing. Usually it’s not mean-spirited but sometimes being too blunt is a bad thing. People at the airport are so interesting. So many emotions going on and its the few casual places where everyone is so different
@orionsagittarius this last summer my mom and I got stuck during a layover in Chicago and had to stay overnight due to delays…in the airport…so i was just curled up on gate seats while randos watched me sleep :-/
@flautamagica @archaeologygirl History EE buddies! Mine’s on the Russo-Japanese War 
@karakoram nice!!
Guys this thread is dying! What’s everyone up to?
@flautamagica browsing CC in class 
homework! trying to stay off college confidential
Oh nice haha