<p>I’m a parent, and my advice is that it’s a mistake to give your heart exclusively before you know that your love will be returned. I mean that both for your personal relationships, and your college search. It’s fine to fall in love with Yale, but it’s not fine to fall in love exclusively (before you’ve been accepted). So the best thing you can do to relieve your anxiety is to stop telling yourself that you know Yale is the best/perfect/only place for you. Put your energy into finding other awesome schools to love, put time into your applications to make sure they reflect you as well as possible, and have faith that it will work out for the best.</p>