RD decisions snailmailed 3/28, online on 3/29 5PM EDT

Coopjust
Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:29:01 +0000

OK, “I honestly would have attended”.

Hamilton was my #1 school…
-The waitlisting, especially in the fashion it was done (50 minutes late when admitted students found out on time) was EXTREMELY insulting.
-The fact that the majority of schools do housing priority by order of deposit. If you come from the waitlist you are the most likely to be in a forced triple, etc.
-The anxiety of waiting until JUNE (Most schools are late May) to find out whether or not you got in from the waitlist.
-Waiting on financial info from the school until then. Merit money is gone, and you don’t find out the rest of it until (read: if) you get in.

Sorry, but this whole college app process has made me a nervous wreck. I’ll go to my second or third(Dartmouth was above Hamilton but there is no way I am getting in, so Villanova or Union College- both are excellent schools too), pay the deposit now, and relax throughout April. I don’t need the stress to be honest.