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We Interrupt This Program To Bring You…Early Admit Decisions

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Feeling alone as you swim through the terrifying waters known as the college admission process? Have no fear! We have several seniors blogging about ups, downs, and random in-betweens of their college process for the next 12 months (from June 2014 to June 2015!). Sit back, relax, and get that “OMG I totally get you, bro” feeling. Information for how to contact a blogger will be at the bottom of his/her posts.

I don’t know what I expected when I hit submit for my Early Decision Barnard application. Fireworks? A deep sense of peace? I felt neither. Instead, I started planning out the next task on my to-do list.

I was surprised at myself. I’m the obsessive type. I expected to stay up at night, tossing and turning and worrying, to re-read my essays looking for typos and misplaced words, to google Barnard multiple times a day and frantically comb through the results for any information that would give me a clue to my decision. In that moment, I was proud that I had remained so calm.

Fast forward to now. I’ll get my decision in less than a month. My heart speeds a little whenever I think that a letter with my name on it is probably already printed. I wonder if the Barnard shirt I so proudly wear now will soon reduce me to tears. Most people block Facebook or

Twitter, but I’ve blocked College Confidential. To say I’ve got it bad would be an understatement.

But it shouldn’t be like this. I’ve often heard the admissions process compared to dating, and I like the analogy. I, a lovesick student, have penned my marvelously sappy love letter easier than most other lovesick students, and I eagerly wait for Barnard’s response. Maybe they’ll send a sappy love letter back. Maybe they’ll say they aren’t interested. Either way, it’s okay. If I get an acceptance letter, yay! I’ll get to be wed to my true love. If I get deferred or rejected, also yay! I’ll have a chance to write other love letters and hopefully, I’ll find a match.

I can read your mind. If I’m so everything-will-be-alright-in-the-end, why am I memorizing Barnard’s homepage rather than doing my Statistics homework?

I think it’s finally hit me. Long gone are the days where my hardest decisions were regular or sour Skittles or what color my history binder should be. Now I’m picking things that will affect the rest of my life (though one could argue that habitually choosing sour Skittles can affect the rest of one’s life for the worse). Despite my apprehension over Barnard, I’ve also heard it said that it matters not where you go to college, but what you do while you’re there.

It’s perfectly fine to be worried about your decision. The application process symbolizes the transition into a new, more independent stage of our lives. Maybe you outward worry about decisions, but you’re really worried about the new environment. It’s okay. When you emerge, blinking, into what they call the “real world” next fall, you’ll be surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of other first-years who have the same doubts as you.

But back to decisions. Because I know I’m a fragile soul, I going to prepare three of my own decision envelopes. I’ll open one based on the response I get from Barnard. Accepted? I’ll congratulate myself on a job well done and tell myself that I deserve it after all my hard work. Indeed, that’s important to remember. This is the reason you subjected yourself to all those all-nighters and countless hours of standardized testing. Don’t let anyone tell you that your new home isn’t good enough. You caught their eye and they caught yours, and a match was born. It’s a special moment for you. Celebrate.

Rejected? This one will be hard to take.  In the words of YouTuber Yes Reneau, there are three steps to take when facing rejection.

1. Go to the store.

2. Buy some tissues.

3. Buy some stamps and mail those tissues off. Those colleges are going to cry when they realize they missed out on you.

I’ll have to remember that Barnard may not have wanted me, but that plenty of other schools do. Now, instead of being bound to one person (or school), I’ll have options and more freedom in making my college decision.

Deferred? This one might hit me the hardest. Barnard saw something in me, so maybe I’ll be luckier in the regular decisions round. This decision will give me more options, just as being rejected would.

Throughout the college admissions process, we have to remember to look on the bright side. It might feel like the end of the world if you get a rejection letter, but that isn’t so. One of my favorite quotes is “No is the second best answer you can get.” At first, I was confused. When is “no” ever a good answer. But then I realized the wisdom in the saying. Of course you want a “yes”, but when you get a “no”, you can move on to other prospects. Even if you’re deferred, you have a definite decision on the way.

Good luck to all of my fellow prospies receiving Early Admission decisions!

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