To the deferees, rejectees, etc.

anon34665770
Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:01:26 +0000

I definitely agree. I mentioned this to my dad a couple of days after I was deferred, and he sort of waved me off but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. In October, when the bulk of us are doing our EA applications, we are naive and unsure about how to fill out a college application. My guidance counselor wasn’t really a lot of help, and I pretty much had to figure it out on my own. I think my essays and talent at picking out what to include on my app and what was trivial enough to throw onto a resume sheet and send in to the school separately also improved, and I applied to Harvard completely last minute just to see if my luck would change. I do feel that that was one of my strongest apps, and I think that next year’s EA crowd should learn from our mistakes and do a couple of applications first before they tackle Yale’s.