Is it just me or are all high school seniors sick of the college process?
By now, we have found from most, if not all of our selected colleges if we got accepted or rejected. So you've narrowed it down to your top choices, sent in FAFSA, got your financial aid packages, only to have not enough money. So you search and search for scholarships.
Has anyone stopped to think that we have been going through this college process of deciding and choosing for almost two years? We started with the PSAT in junior year, then worked for the SATs in junior year, maybe looked at colleges. In the summer, maybe some people studied for SATs again and took them or wrote college essays. In the fall, we applied to wrote essays, applied, sent transcripts, and first quarter grades. Now, we have to decide what college to attend. Then mail a deposit and application for housing to the college.
Isn't this process too long? Isn't there anyway to shorten this? Like when we take our SATs they suggest what colleges to go to according the scored so we don't end up applying schools that we'll get rejected from?
I'm so sick of college and I haven't even gotten there yet.
Is It Just Me
By pkubik08 - Posted on March 30th, 2008
Don't stress too much about it. I went about the whole process in my usual laid-back and lazy manner, and I'm finding the only stress is coming from procrastinating on scholarships. I will admit that I got extrememly lucky, finding only one college I wanted to attend, applying to only that college and getting accepted, but I know from the experiences a lot of my friends have had that it doesn't help at all to be stressing over it. It's just an added complication that you can surely do without.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
i totally understand. i am about to graduate high school.. i know college will be best for me but it is sooo stressful and im not even there i csnt imagine actually being there..