<p>Thanks. When you were excepted, did you feel you did well on your application? Were you confident you would be excepted? Did you immediately know you wanted to attend Andover? Did you send a first choice letter?</p>
<p>Oh. And in the gallery there’s a video of a SLAM halftime show. Long story short, SLAM is incredible. I know people who go to basketball games just so they can see SLAM perform because, as well as playing the halftime show, they stand behind the basket (like cheerleaders but not - cheerleaders aren’t as cool as SLAM) and play routines for everything from opponent fouls ("You foul - you touch too much, you foul - you touch too much) to end-game routines when Andover is clearly going to win (“Uh, yeah, we 'bout to take it to ya face, uh, yeah, we 'bout to take it to ya face”). Very galvanizing.</p>
<p>Well, Andover was my first choice the whole application process. It was the holy grail for me and I was not at all confident I’d be accepted. I feel as if I did the best I possibly could have on the application, but that’s never a guarantee of anything - like admissions at elite colleges these days, admissions at top schools can be a crapshoot. Again, I felt I had done all I could do - high SSAT scores, high grades, and what I assume were good recommendations. But my perception from CC (I, too, became worried when I saw the stats of people with a million extracurriculars and seemingly impossibly perfect grades) was that I just might not be good enough.</p>
<p>Prepare for failure would be the best thing to do. It’s a crapshoot.</p>