<p>You can use my time machine to see what the stock market is like in 50 years and invest in those companies that are looking great and make a ton of money. Compared to your gains, my machine’s cost is a bargain. Now only if I can make enough of these machines to sell to all my nervous customers on CC. 
:D</p>
<p>I would love one of those time machines! Is their any way it could go back in time though? I would have loved some more time to study for my SSAT, haha.
I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one having bad dreams about the 10th. I’m really really hoping Deerfield’s letter/package comes on the 10th because I’ll be gone on the 11th, and I really don’t want to receive the news from a text message. </p>
<p>PS: How do you make all the smiley faces?</p>
<p>When you do a colon and a parenthesis it’s a smiley face :)</p>
<p>Guys, my brother applied to some schools and I am soooo nervous for him!!! I am applying to the same schools next year - what if he gets in and I do not or the other way around? Has that happened to anyone here???</p>
<p>in my planner i’ve written little countdown numbers next to each date (9 days!! etc) but I make sure to write the number of days on the day it actually falls on instead of writing it in advance so i can savor how close March 10th is… 
very slightly insane!</p>
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<p>Why, yes, Pulsar, I confirm what my wonderful agent said. We’ll take up your offer! And I was thinking Back to the Future sports book, too! 8D But we’ll have to talk about the price; like my agent said, we could take a loan, pay you twice the original amount later, and perhaps even bring you back a hoverboard.</p>
<p>Technically, though, couldn’t I ask future me what my acceptance letters were like? Or would that cause one of those crazy paradoxes where time ceases to exist? D:</p>
<p>Although I’m more of the mountain log cabin type rather than the beach type. Hm… I’ll wonder if I’ll get into Harvard…</p>
<p>Extremely extremely extremely nervous.</p>
<p>YeloowUbi- Just because of this recent convo, I want us to go to the same school. :D</p>
<p>@MarkAlex1 - 8DDD That would be really fun; what schools did you apply to?</p>
<p>The school would probably get good publicity, too. Imagine the headlines…
“XYZ Academy Students First to Travel in Time!”
“Time Traveling Discovery at XYZ Academy!”
“XYZ Academy Signs Multimillion Dollar Deal with NASA!”
“XYZ Academy Donates a Million to the Endangered Parrot Foundation!” </p>
<p>It would be a dream come true.</p>
<p>I’m like 2010hopeful. Let’s just say I applied to a lot…</p>
<p>o_o I’m assuming around 10 then? :D</p>
<p>I’m worried that I didn’t apply for enough, although when I finished my essays, it felt like I did… (I did enjoy some of the essays, however. Andover and a couple of others were really fun. 8D)</p>
<p>i applied to a lot, too</p>
<p>^ my andover essay was the most random thing in the world. it was a huge risk… they’ll either love it or hate it, and i’m thinking it might turn into the latter. whatever, it was worth a try</p>
<p>I originally applied to 6, but we narrowed it down to 5 since I didn’t feel like I would fit into one of the schools. I think that’s about average.</p>
<p>I think they like random stuff. It’s a change from the typical essays that they must get sick of reading after the fiftieth time. C:</p>
<p>I hope my Andover essay was unique (their topics left a lot of room to be creative, which I liked); I don’t know if it was, for I’m not the one reading them. Right now, I’m trying not to think too much about how I did, for that is for the admissions office to decide.</p>
<p>I can relate to how you feel. I re-read my essays for the first time yesterday since I sent them, and thought they were far from my best work. That’s probably just me being over-critical on my own work, and I’m sure we all did better than we believe.
On one of my essays in particular I took somewhat of a risk and answered the question with a twist! I showed it to my Grandmother when I was done and she just loved it! I hope the AOs feel the same way! </p>
<p>Ps: Does anyone else feel like the shorter essays are easier because you know your limits and you don’t have some much to cover (like your whole life story summed up in 1000 words)?</p>
<p>I don’t want to dare reread my essays. I’d probably lose all hope.</p>
<p>I think answering questions with a little twist is a good idea, especially if you apply to a large school.</p>
<p>To the contrary, I felt differently about those essays. It made me feel as if they were limiting my answer. I had to rewrite one of my essays about four times because every time, it had too many words.</p>
<p>However, I didn’t like the ones where they gave a question that could be answered well in 300 words, and they gave a 3000 word limit.</p>
<p>hahah, i don’t have the guts to reread my essays, either. maybe after march 10th… then again, maybe not ;)</p>
<p>i didn’t like short essay limits at all! i loved the deerfield one, where it was as long as you wanted it to be – whenever there was a firm limit (ie, SPS, 600 words), my essays always turned out being like, 650. or if the limit was 500, 550, and so forth. so i had to cut out a lot 
what really freaked me out was how some (ok, one) schools only asked for a 200 word essay! that’s barely an essay, it’s more like a short answer… and that was the ONLY essay component of the application. i think writing is my strong suit, so that didn’t work too well…</p>
<p>I’m not sure, either. I’ll most likely just copy and paste them without looking onto a file in my computer, and I won’t open it till twenty years later. Okay, so maybe not that late. I just know I won’t be looking at them for a while yet.</p>
<p>D8 The Deerfield one about the best advice had a terrible limit, though. Every time I rewrote it, it was always too long! D:</p>
<p>The Deerfield advice one is actually the one I was talking about! I don’t remember the limit, but I do remember having to cut and cut and cut until it was the perfect length.
I feel like all essays that are very general and vague are hard to not have a limit on. I never know which direction to go in. I feel like I can be more creative when I see a more specific question. </p>
<p>Did anyone feel that even though they are normally good at writing, like @DiveAlive, they did terribly on the SSAT essay?</p>
<p>Yeah, I cut and cut, too. It was very frustrating, since I knew it was making my essay worse.</p>
<p>I liked Andover’s questions on that. C: I felt they were specific enough but also gave room for creativity.</p>
<p>I almost ran out of time on the SSAT essay. I don’t know how it was for other people… I don’t think they look at the essay that much, though. At least I hope not.</p>
<p>My SSAT essay was… the saddest most incoherent thing in the world. In my defense, my essay topic wasn’t all that great either.</p>