<p>If I wasn't sure if my daughter was ready for boarding school before, I am now. She takes her sweet time with these essays but she has not whined once about fitting in the time to work on them. She is determined. I will be glad when it is over, though. </p>
<p>Anybody else out there still not pushing the button?</p>
<p>I haven’t pushed a button, but it’s my mom that needs to finish. :)</p>
<p>Ahh, the stress of last minute submission. Personally, it is my second favorite part of the process with actual admissions/decisions being the only thing to beat it.</p>
<p>Yes! Prepschoolhopes has it right! 
Good luck and you’re welcome to join Procrastination Nation… tomorrow.</p>
<p>DS finished over the break, but we decided to just let everything sit for a moment before pushing the send button. We re-read each application last weekend and made a few minor changes to most of them and some big changes to one of my essays. I’m happy that I did, because that essay is much stronger now and better supports what DS was saying in his. One thing that we tried to make sure of is that, on a school-by-school basis, everything that our kid wanted to say was said. There are so many overlapping essays and short-answers etc. that we lost track of which points had been made where. So for that one school, what I considered to be an important trait of DS’s was never mentioned. After re-working my essay we fit it in. Everything was sent Sunday night!</p>