First you apply and applying is the hardest thing you do. It takes hours just to do one application and if its a private it will take even longer. Once finished you must wait months to get your admission. But if its a calstate in a few weeks you will probably get a response. Just recently I received my admission to Cal State Long Beach. The next day at school I told my friends and all the one's who applied there got in except for my friend Bere who did not. That was the one school that she really wanted to go to. It was her dream school and to see her not get in was devastating. She had good grades but she didnt get in because she had two D's. All in all, college applications are a drag. I still have to wait a month and a half more to hear the rest of the responses. I just wish things could be easier and they could tell you if you were accepted in at least a week or two. I think many seniors this year would like that, I know I would.
Here's a small question for all you who appllied to college last year or years before.
Was it not a drag? Did colleges get your hopes up and then destroy them when the letter came? Did you even go to college? Did you get into the college of your choice and do you like it there now?
College Applications, what a drag?
By karinaisspecial - Posted on February 15th, 2008
Tagged: College
• Better future
The pain for me doing college applications wasn't just filling them out; it was writing the essays. I'm not a bad writer, but the topics were so boring it was just insane.
Applying to college is a drag. The colleges I applied to all let me in, but several didn't offer me as much financial aid as I'd hoped they would, so I couldn't afford to go there. I got in to the one of my choice, though, so that's good.
Good luck with the process. I'm sooo glad I'm done with that now ;;
Were all pretty boring when I was applying. I think it's intentional . . . Although there are a couple of good prompts out there. For example "write page #173 of your autobiography" is a prompt that offers a all sorts of possibilities.
I only really looked at a few schools. I wanted to take a year off and roam the Italian country-side while studying art and political history. My father opposed the idea, however, and now that I'm in my 4th semester of college, I can kind of understand where he was coming from.
Nevertheless, if anyone who reads this is thinking about taking a gap year, I'd recommend it. From what I've heard, they're incredible.
College admissions is nothing. I applied to four schools, heard back from all four of them before Christmas, and got into all four of them. For medical school, I submitted my applications in JULY. I heard back from ONE before Christmas. Two I heard back a few days before I started second semester this year, and both were rejections. I don't hear from two more for another 2 weeks to a month, and the one I heard back before Christmas was a waitlist, so I'll hear back from them again sometime in April. Two schools I haven't heard anything from, no interview invite (which all schools require, and since I have a single medical school in my state, it means lots of plane tickets)... nothing.
And medical schools can accept you right up until the first day of class, keeping you in limbo all summer, not knowing if you're going to get the chance to go or not.
College admissions is nothing.
~C
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You also before you go to school education on your financial doccuments ie financial aid. Some colleges will take advatage of you also I would recomend watching it ever so often. once a college gets the FAFSA code they can change it even if you left the place. Your friend could go to an online college then get some grades then transfer to her dream college.
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