HS Class of 2013 Lessons Learned

luisarose
Tue, 21 May 2013 17:50:19 +0000

Prepare (write!!!) your applications for all the schools you want to apply to (safeties, matches, etc.) and apply to a few EA or one ED/SCEA. If you get into a great school early, don’t spend ~$600 on applications and score-sends for other schools, like I did (sent everything in before hearing a ‘yes’ from MIT headdesk)
Don’t trust chance threads. Obviously.
Don’t assume anything about your elite school admissions, and if you can help it, don’t even tell people you’re applying. An annoying girl at my school publicized the fact that she was applying to Oxford and all the Ivies, then got rejected by all of them…and everybody knew about it. Everybody.
On that note, your safeties should be SAFETIES, not matches.
Don’t blame AA for your rejection, it’s petty and wrong.
Have fun with it, seriously! I had a blast getting ready for college :D