When are they gonna release the application!?

anon89723960
Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:07:36 +0000

Oh, don’t get me wrong - I was really frantic about actually getting in to places. But I was pretty chill about the application process itself. You organize. You fill out the basic forms for schools, make sure SATs/transcripts/recs get sent, and write the essays. The essays take the most time, but it doesn’t take a month to write this sort of essay :). I started with 4 applications and ended up doing 11 (16 schools total) because when I finished the first 4, I realized it wasn’t a big deal to do another (and then another, and another :D).

Really, I think the application process is stressful because older generations keep telling the younger ones to be stressed out about it. I sort of missed the whole, “You should be flipping out over your essay not being Nobel Prize worthy” lesson. W00t for obliviousness!