Better Late the Never

Well, there's only a week left in this blogging competition and I choose today to sign up and start this wonderful blog to voice my thoughts on current events. If I had known about this sooner, I would have signed up for it earlier. I mean what's better then having the chance to win $1,000 to go towards the consistently growing college tuition by writing about events that I care about? To think I that I have been writing op-eds for my school newspaper all this time when I could have been writing about for $1,000.

Speaking of consistently growing college tuition, as December 1st comes closer, many high school seniors across the nation scramble to finish applications as many of college's early action deadline draws closer. Personally, I began my college application process a week after school began, thinking, "Hey why not get a head start on the game?" Yeah, well as you can see it's November 29th and I still have
University of
Maryland College Park,
University of
Connecticut, and
Rutgers left to finish. I find it a shame that many of my fellow classmates are paying the ridiculous $30 rush fee for sending their SAT scores all because they thought their consolers sent their SAT scores for them.

There’s so much involved in applying for Early Action. I mean, yes, you have three years to get grades and participate in the activities that would impress the schools you apply to but even if you start the application process in August, some school’s deadlines for Early Action are in November and that gives you basically 3 months to compose a application that would impress a board of admissions of your selected school. Also, in those 3 months teenagers try to organize school, a job, community service, family time, social time, and whatever free time you have left after that.

It’s no wonder that teenagers have the highest suicide rate. If you don’t get into college, kiss your future goodbye. The competition of getting into college is like a bunch of show moms and dads backstage at a beauty pageant; students compete to get the top position in an extracurricular activity at any cost to make their involvement with school just a little bit better. It’s crazy. I don’t know about you but as a senior I’m trying to figure out Advanced Placement Biology while trying to decode Calculus and on top of that preparing myself for the Advanced Placement Literature exam in March by reading books that require the wildest imagination to understand the symbolism of a bench. That’s just the educational part. On top of my education, I have to manage an award winning school newspaper because as editor-in-chief the newspaper is like your child; it will only achieve if you help it achieve. So, the education and extracurricular are covered, then there’s the weekend job for the doctor that lives forty five minutes away because I want to show responsibility and commitment. And with any luck, if you are a first generation Americans such as my self with crazy parents who believe that you should know your mother language, you also have to foster time to learning and mastering a language other then English. Then there’s the community aspect where I attend and help out with my youth group every Sunday and when homework isn’t a overload, attend bible study on Mondays. What I don’t understand is that how do you show this kind of dedication on paper to an admissions officer who has never met you? How will he ever know that you spend more time then teachers in a school building working on the newspaper? How will he ever know that the responsibility you hold at your job is so grave that the slightest mistake may get you a lawsuit at 17 years old? And in that time also manage a social life. So while you try to find the answer to those questions, I have to go back to my Rutgers essay which is due in approximately twenty four hours because I just found out that because I applied regular admissions to my number 5 school, my chance of getting accepted just went down about 30%. All because I didn’t decide to apply to the school until two weeks ago and just my luck their early action date was November 15th… well, I guess better late then never.