<p>My mentors loved my essay, even before they help me edit, so I guess that’s a good sign. </p>
<p>These supplements though. Although I’m almost done with all of them, they are looking mighty UGLY.</p>
<p>@TinnyT WHAT!? Almost DONE with them!? I’ve barely even almost STARTED them! Jealousy is at an all time high right now.</p>
<p>@catchtwentythree, Lol, now that there are no more people at the schools I want to go to to stalk, my evening is looking pretty pitiful. Just kidding, even if there were more people to stalk, that would still be a pretty pitiful evening.</p>
<p>Right now I’m looking at how I’m going to re-invent my wardrobe completely before I go to college. This is what my life has come to right now…</p>
<p>@collegeluva Well don’t feel that jealous. I am submitting 5 applications (including essays, recs, test scores etc…) on September 14 for this college mentoring program so I have to speed up the process. If it wasn’t for the program, I probably wouldn’t have even started my common app essay lmao.</p>
<p>@collegeluva101 Hey I feel ya, my weekend has been spent watching Breaking Bad and avoiding college apps.</p>
<p>I am also worried about college wardrobe. I don’t even know where I’m going to college yet I’m worried about what I’m going to wear.</p>
<p>12 essays to write. I’ve written 1.</p>
<p>I found 2 small geckos roaming around in my room. The general consensus seems to be to keep them alive and let them roam… good idea? Lol, I don’t mind them but I don’t feel comfortable sleeping near one that’s about 2 feet away from my headboard.</p>
<p>I’d prefer to go to a college that’s somewhere cold, so I’ll probably end up looking for jackets and sweaters. If I stay in a warmer climate, though, I won’t worry too much about what I’ll be wearing.</p>
<p>I only have 3 essays + 2 short answer q’s besides the Common App and I have 8 schools on my list so far. I’m kinda surprised Cornell doesn’t have a supplemental essay.</p>
<p>ybrown234, go on the Common Application section of the forum… </p>
<p>There seems to be an error with Cornell - apparently there is a supplemental essay.</p>
<p>Well, that makes sense. They did have one last year, after all. I guess I got 4 essays, then.</p>
<p>I’ve spent the last hour catching up on the past forty pages of this post - LOL. I told myself I was going to stay away from CC now that I’m actually applying to college and reading the chanceme? threads would probably make me sob endlessly, but I figure this thread can’t do me too much harm! </p>
<p>Parents just reality-checked me into not visiting any more schools until after I apply, due to crazy airfare rates. <em>sigh</em> but Mom, I really don’t want to write unnecessary essays!! Too bad I can’t keep myself from adding more schools to my list every time one catches my eye. It’s becoming a serious problem. I already have 2 schools I love, but I can’t help but feel like I could be missing out on a school and I would hate for that to happen. </p>
<p>My parents also think me invincible - “Oh honey, of course you’ll get into every school you apply to even though you have some ivies and all their acceptance rates are less than 25% !!!1!!!” It makes it really hard to remind myself that I need to stay realistic and realize that I most likely won’t get into any of my top schools… anyway I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than devastated and crushed.</p>
<p>My problem is I know I have an unlikely chance of getting into the top schools, but I still have hope that I will and I know I’ll be disappointed when I don’t. So I don’t want to expect to, but I can’t help but expect an acceptance.</p>
<p>I know what you mean! I know there’s a big chance I won’t get into Yale, but I still imagine getting the acceptance, and telling my friends and family.</p>
<p>Surprisingly I have made most of my college decisions on where to apply and where to ED. And I have Asian parents. This is exciting.</p>
<p>My grandparents are forcing me to apply to Yale, and don’t seem to understand that I have zero chance of getting in. I don’t think they understand how smart and, I guess, go-getting (for lack of a better word), those <em>top</em> kids are, seeing as there are none in my town.</p>
<p>@catch: From what I’ve gathered, freshman year at MIT is notoriously easy, especially because it’s completely pass/fail. So, all of the sophomores I know say that it’s super chill and not as bad as everyone says, while the juniors/seniors/graduates are like, “lol don’t listen to them; they’re still babies, and it’s actually hell here.” One of the seniors I know took Calc as an 8th grader, and when I mentioned that the sophomores I asked said it was easy, the fleeting expression of terror that crossed her face was a bit more than unsettling.</p>
<p>My own TA majored in Aerospace Engineering and only pulled one all nighter throughout her whole time there- the night before her first PSET was due. Someone found her and told her to ask for help next time, and from that point on she went to bed around 10-11 or earlier much more often than the vast majority of CC does. But I think she might actually be a genius, so.</p>
<p>Okay guys, I start school tomorrow, and for some reason I’m nervous? What’s up with this I’ve spent the last three years up in that joint- I know where my classes are without looking at the map, I know the fasted routes to all my classes, I’ve met/know a little about all of my teachers, I know where I’m sitting during lunch (sort of, but at least I already have friends to decide this with!).</p>
<p>WHY AM I NERVOUS IS THIS NORMAL AGHHH</p>
<p>At my school it’s literally a huge mix, we have the ivy and top school kids with APs, SAT subject tests, etc. We have above average and average kids and we have kids who don’t know what a subject test is. I have some funny stories too actually. While kids take subject tests it’s usually for the corresponding AP they took that year or something just the trend i noticed in my school, well was sitting with this one girl who’s not smart and she was like I might just take one and I’m like no you shouldn’t. She was offended, but she doesn’t even need it so. Then, I took an SAT prep class in school as a scheduled class and most of the kids weren’t that smart, this one kid who’s very pretentious and smart I guess was boasting about the subject tests he was taking and this one girl who’s not smart asked like what’s that. Of course we both knew she would never take one. I said nicely though, they’re if you’re talented in a subject or if a college requires them and then he yells at me angrily they’re also for getting into competitive engineering programs. I told him I was aware, but I didn’t like being yelled at. Also, I told him my SAT score after my first one which I did awful on and he goes oh that’s good for SUNYs well I wasn’t planning on applying to any of them. Anyway, I believe knowledge is power, I love to research information and find out as much as I could that’s why I come on CC.
As essays go I wrote my CA one, but it’s really awful and I don’t really know what to do at all. I then have 4 apps that aren’t common app and I know for one of them I have to write a different essay. I have to also write 2 essays for honors programs.
My first day of school is tomorrow.</p>
<p>@superstarlala that’s exactly my problem… even if I repeat to myself over and over “I won’t get in I won’t get in” there’s still that little part of me that’s going to stubbornly believe I will. I’ve certainly worked hard enough for the past 12 years, and I know I’m smart enough, but it’s all up to the adcoms and that’s what terrifies me because it’s utterly unpredictable. It’s enough to drive a person crazy lol.</p>
<p>Enjoy high school. Trust me when I say it goes really quickly. I’m a senior now but I feel like I could still be a freshman sometimes.</p>
<p>Make the most of it. Really focus on your extracurriculars to help yourself stand out when it comes time to fill out your college application.</p>
<p>^Huh? Are you a senior in high school? </p>
<p>Cuz we all are as well.</p>
<p>@rachel That’s great advice, but that would be more suited for the 2017 thread. It’s a bit too late for us to focus on ECs.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone starting school tomorrow, which also includes me!! Last first day of high school. Once homecoming ends, ill have nothing to look forward to ha.</p>