<p>I had a bunch of friends send me a list with how to get my mind off of Boarding School until March 10th. I thought it could maybe help some other people whose thoughts about Boarding School are consuming their minds, and I added some tips of my own (which I need to be following...). </p>
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<li><p>Keep an open mind - What's meant to happen, will happen, right? If you end up not getting in, it wont be the end of the world, there is always next year.</p></li>
<li><p>Stop telling yourself that you will get in - Become familiar with the thought of rejection. Obviously, no one wants to do this, but don't tell yourself you will get in. This will only make a possible waitlist or rejection hurt even more. </p></li>
<li><p>Focus on what really matters - Re-reading the mailers that your schools sent you won't help your chances, and same applies to thinking about. Are you going to increase your chances of acceptance anymore than just thinking about it? No. Your applications are over, move on. </p></li>
<li><p>Accept the fact that what is done, is done - Tying in with the above, admit to yourself that you have done everything that you can do. </p></li>
<li><p>Think Positive! - Instead of moping around until March 10th (and possibly past), and instead of filling your head with the thoughts that 'if I am not accepted, someone better would have taken my spot', think positively. Start thinking about everything you have done to make your application even possible. Hey- you're applying to boarding school, not a lot of people have the guts to do that and actually go through with it. </p></li>
<li><p>Know that someone better is not potentially taking your spot - You are you, there is only one. So saying that someone better than you has taken your spot is technically incorrect. Because no one compares to you. Admission Officers admit the students who they feel like would fit well at the school. So if you aren't accepted, that school maybe wasn't the right choice for you. They are the ones missing out.</p></li>
<li><p>Do something productive - Stop wasting your time thinking about Boarding School. Instead, do something that would catch your boarding school's attention. Start something so that, if you are rejected, you have something else to put on your application. </p></li>
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<p>I hoped this helped at least someone!</p>
<p>Also, to help with a possible rejection, make a list of why you DON’T want to go to the school(s).</p>
<p>Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. </p>
<p>If you have read the book, The Secret, you know what the power of positive thinking can do for you.</p>
<p>I went through this last year. Time will fly by. You can’t make March 10 come sooner, you can’t slow down time. You will waste time dreaming. You will spend time doing things you love. March 10 will come and go. There are no strategies to survive, you just will. Trust me.</p>
<p>Also, if things turn out to be unfortunate for you, such as a WL or rejection, you’ll want to go back to pre-M10 days, when you didn’t know the results. Also, a little waiting never killed anyone.</p>
<p>Imagine yourself in your back-up options, and fall in love with it. You’ll be surprised how happy it makes you. Picking out courses and going to games at the day school I got into has been a blast. I would still rather go to boarding school, but now, my back-up doesn’t seem so bad.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, DON’T re-read your essay… X_X </p>
<p>GMT is so right! You’re going to find a typo. You’re going to find a typo. You will find a typ.</p>
<p>I guess I’ll take those words of wisdom then. I was planning on re-reading all of my essays on March 9th to boost my confidence, but now that I think about it, that’ll only make me even more apprehensive. </p>
<p>I’m all about confidence, but look at it this way: would you rather have high confidence and be let down or low confidence and be surprised?</p>
<p>haha for me low confidence and surprise 
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<p>I agree with @whyamievenhere lol</p>
<p>I would like to go that route, but it’s hard for me…</p>
<p>“Don’t think of a boarding school as the end. It is one of the many paths to the goal whatever it may be. Boarding schools or not, you can get there and will know what you need to do. If you have a big picture of your goal, you won’t feel so lost if you are not accepted on M10. A big picture for now doesn’t need to be concrete. It could be ‘be more nice, be academically more competent, be better at writing, or enjoy EC of your choice.’ If you have this, you will not be so lost. Enjoy whatever you want to do, try to form stronger friendship with your existing friends and keep up the good school work including all the ECs. These are what you will continue doing no matter which school you enter.”</p>
<p>I copied the advice that I wrote to my son last year. </p>
<p>So don’t waste your precious time and don’t even come back to CC until M10. :-* </p>