Hi people. The J31 deadline is tomorrow so I’m guessing most people are done with the application process. I’m curious, what was your favourite and/or least favourite part of the process.
I’ll put the essays for both. There were some essays that really beat me up. I had 11 to do and just kept rewriting everything, especially the introductions. But when I got them done and was really proud & satisfied with them, it was the best feeling.
There a couple words and phrases I wish I could change now, but overall I’m confident.
I LOVED the interviews, they were definetely my favourite part. I have mixed feelings about the essays, I love writing but I’m a perfectionist. The part I liked the least was the SSAT HAHA.
Same honestly. I walked out of the exam room thinking I absolutely bombed the SSAT. That week or so of waiting for results destroyed me. I ended up doing well but I really gotta work on my self confidence.
I loved my interviews (For the most part) and I loved finding new things about the school that interest me. My least favorite part was definitely either the essays or the SSAT since I can not do standardized tests and for essays theres some phrases I want to change and a few topics I want to change.
i loved my interviews (for the most part) one of them was really bad and the interviewer was asking me weirdly personal questions and i think i came off as a little bit braggy in my first one
weirdly enough, my least favorite part was seeing that my school uploaded my transcripts LOL i was stressin
I wish I could see exactly what my school uploaded. for transcripts. I definitely don’t want BS to know the difference between my term and exam grades.
I really, really liked my Cate essays. The rest were fine; no high expectations.
Now that I’m done I’ve just kind of moved on to the next project to keep myself busy. No looking back at my essays or else I’ll internally die and shrivel like a rotting banana, and no watching videos and videos on schools because that just attaches me more to them. I’ll be imitating a stone until the days leading up to M10. What’s done is done and the best thing for me is to work towards a different goal. Onwards!
Finishing was the best and most satisfying part. Worst part was interviewing. I don’t like social ‘small talk’ especially with people I don’t know well. I prefer to have meaningful, philosophical conversations but Idk how to go from: what’s your favorite color? To: why do you think humans fear the concept of death? So that’s that.
I’m in this weird in-between state where I get that the process is done and I’m content with everything, but I’m still in the BS fervour. Like the past couple months have really been BS focused so the internal hype kinda has to die down.
It is good to be done, but hard to really put this out of one’s thoughts. Tell yourself not to think about something and…
We try to distract ourselves, and reading this thread is helpful as it reminds us that we are all in this together.
Any thoughts as to the importance of the parent interview? Never certain how much it matters. In some cases, it was obvious that it was not really relevant (focusing on do you have any questions); in other cases, not so sure.
i have this same issue— i could be doing something completely unrelated and i’ll realize and then start internally freaking out (oh my GOOOOOOOOOOOD i could literally be at boarding school this time next year)
I don’t like the wait either but DS completed the applications and hasn’t looked back. He is doing his ECs enjoying practicing and auditioning for area and state . Also his sport is in full swing. I presume he loved the interview process. He didn’t like the SSAT prep part during the summer but did fine. He loved the one liners for Hotchkiss. Some schools asked the same questions to the kid and the parents which made it tougher.
Lol I hoped sooo bad someone would ask me something abt philosophy, but, nonetheless.
Very interesting topic btw, because death is really unlike any other fear in the world. Fears in general are categorized as a rational response to the potential that something bad will happen (most of the time), but death is inevitable. An outcome of life. The only ‘unknown factor’ being ‘when’ and partially ‘how’. Therefore, fears as a whole are a matter of ‘what if’ while the fear of death is a matter of ‘when’. Maybe we don’t fear the concept of dying, maybe we fear the loss of opportunity, time, and the unknown of what happens after death.
I wish I could’ve talked about this. The written essay I submitted was about it (kind of) though (based off the Book Thief, great, philosophical book HIGHLY recommend) I’m sry I belted out there. My friends don’t want to hear abt my philosophizing life and death and this is still kinda sorta related to bs, right??
True, true. I myself am now officially a hypocrite because I went on to youtube and binged boarding school vids after my initial post. I should be studying for a test. What am I doing?
i don’t mean this in a condescending way at all but assuming you’re applying to 9th grade you actually remind me a lot of myself when i was first starting out highschool lol i was super into that stuff back then (still am into philosophy but now i read the political stuff)
