<p>I had it last night. In it, I'm at the airport with my Dad when I run into a classmate who is also applying to colleges in the US, and she's all, "So where are you going?". I suddenly realize that I have no idea, and also, somehow, I don't have any furniture for my dorm room (wherever that is). My reply: "I have to buy a desk!" and then, "I need to go home and see where I'm going!" We drive home and it turns out I haven't sent in any applications yet, and suddenly it's the last date for sending in applications, (even though in my dream it's June and not December) and I have about nineteen essays to write, so I try to put a brave face on and announce that I can't go to the US yet because I have to finish my essays. Time is ticking and I'm panicking trying to get my computer started and I realize I haven't retaken my SATs yet (but apparently, even though I haven't sent in any apps, I've applied to top-tier schools with the 2090 I have now) and there's a letter from Yale (not viewbook) alongside the other brochures...</p>
<p>I woke up drenched in sweat. Reading about deformed babies and quartering in The Other Boleyn Girl didn't exactly help me go back to sleep. So I sat around trying to dissect my completely ludicrous dream before realizing that I was being an idiot. Hah. </p>
<p>(Great timing, though, considering that I got my eleventh grade exam results two days ago and am now officially on the brink of college application year.) Anyone else have crazy college admission dreams?</p>
<p>I had a nightmare about attending UCI and not talking to ANYONE</p>
<p>I was like the only loner there, it was weird… the skies were gray and no one was there all of a sudden. It was like I was the only kid at UCI.</p>
<p>Anyways, that’s the nightmare… I think it’s connected with the uncertainty of my financial ability</p>
<p>Bawwwww a 2090 is SOOO bad</p>
<p>my college nightmare is coming true…i’m gonna have to turn down a scholarship at my top choice…i’ve got to go to my second choice so that i can study some b.s. engineering i don’t like(i can’t even major in what i want) so i can put myself through med. school though i want to do law so that my dad can say, ha…i’m a success while i feel like a failure cause i couldn’t do what i wanted to do…</p>
<p>they tell you this life is your own, they lie… they lie big time. just to make you feel a bit better now but crummy later. and stupid…</p>
<p>sorry, to bring down the mood…i’m just upset.</p>
<p>And you’re going to follow your parent’s wishes because…</p>
<p>…because they’re funding you!</p>
<p>(It started out as a rhetorical question.)</p>
<p>no duh…i thought that was a given… even with a scholarship i’d still have to take out loans since my parents EFC is so high. </p>
<p>anyway…that was just a rant… i was gonna major in what i wanted or major in what they wanted, minor in what i wanted and leave home and pay them back by checks or something. that way my nightmare wouldn’t come true.</p>
<p>Yep, I had mine a couple days ago because I got the email saying WashU’s application for next year was up. And that night, I had some dream where I applied to like every single college and got rejected by every single one. Even the state school…where you only need like a 20ish ACT.
And then I realized I’ve been checking the wrong email or something that actually belonged to another kid at the school and he has been checking mine. And then I ended up not going to college or something and took a gap year instead.</p>
<p>ironmetal250: It’s just that I’m an international needing almost a full ride, so I need much higher than 2090 to get that kind of funding at a good school. For example: BU’s average SAT score for acceptance is something around 1900, but for a half-tuition scholarship it’s something like 2280.</p>
<p>hopeful-gtb: Wow, I’m sorry. I totally understand how you feel because if I don’t get in somewhere with a LOT of funding my parents will make me stay in India and study law. I’d make a terrible lawyer.</p>
<p>Smile614: Haha.</p>
<p>haikumarakuchan: Dang. You actually (sort of)figured out what your nightmare means.</p>
<p>why is it that its brown parents who seem to force and (sucessfully) make their kids do things they don’t want. I think if you want to make it here so badly, you will totally get where you want. good luck!!! often those dreams mean anxiety about not knowing if you’ll reach your goals or not. the furniture probably could represent your need to make yourself proud(you know, owning stuff makes people proud), and finally the home/airport setting probably means you’re nearing the time between what is comfortable and what is mysterious, adventure vs. routine, etc…</p>
<p>well, that’s how i would interpret your dream.</p>