<p>OP, one thing you could do between now and when you get the letter is to spend a little quality time with your match schools. Explore every corner of their websites, look at the pictures of happy students, dig into what made you apply to those schools in the first place, pull up the course catalog and “plan” your first semester schedule. In other words, take your focus off of the dream school and try to fall a little more in love with a school where you’re more likely to end up.</p>