<p>What advice do you have for us now that you've gone through the whole process?</p>
<p>Are you happy with the amount of colleges you applied to? Where should we seriously go to look for scholarships?</p>
<p>All advice is accepted!</p>
<p>best advice:</p>
<p>do what you love…
but do it WELL.</p>
<p>Don’t complain during the application process, because waiting is the worst part.</p>
<p>If you’re applying for financial aid, apply EARLY! I cannot stress this enough, there are so many students deprived of aid that they need desperately because they weren’t aggressive enough during the fin.aid season.</p>
<p>^personal experience makes me second that about financial aid
and know how much you’ll have to pay, that is very important cuz it sucks when you get in somewhere that you can’t afford</p>
<p>THERE IS ONLY ONE MONTH BETWEEN ACCEPTANCES AND WHEN YOU HAVE TO DECIDE!!! It may seem crazy now, but this is an insanely short time! Do your visiting ahead of time–and then, if you can, visit again, because it will all seem reeeaaalllllyyyyy fuzzy by the time those acceptances come in! and… just like your mom is telling you… WORK ON THOSE ESSAYS IN THE SUMMER! You cannot believe how hard it is to juggle everything once school starts in september. :)</p>
<p>When do the college essay prompts for applicants this year come out? (I don’t want to work on outdated prompts?)</p>
<p>WORK ON ESSAYS THIS SUMMER. People told me to do it, I didn’t because I was avoiding the inevitable, and was overwhelmed in the fall.</p>
<p>python, the prompts are almost all the same year to year, you can start working with old prompts and should be fine.</p>
<p>so if you apply in October/November to school
your saying to apply for Finaid janurary 1st?</p>
<p>Apply to no more than 4 high reach schools. This year was extremely competitive, and I’m assuming that next year will also be very competitive. Don’t apply to all HYP, stanford, MIT, etc. Apply to a lot of schools in your SAT/GPA range that you would love to attend. I wish I had applied to more of those schools. Also apply to your local state school, just in case it doesnt work out for you financially. Apply to 2-3 safeties that you can live with but are sure of acceptance (this includes the local state school!). </p>
<p>As for scholarships, apply early. Financial aid application is available Jan 1. Ask your counselor for a list of scholarships you qualify for.</p>
<p>Don’t underestimate yourself. I wasn’t confident in myself at all and I didn’t reach as far as I should have…I applied to way more safeties than I would advise, just because I didn’t think I would get in anywhere else.</p>
<p>Unlike the others, I don’t think working on your essays over the summer is necessary at all. I didn’t. Also, I applied to 11 schools and only wrote 2 essays and used a total of 3! One was the one I used for the bulk of my applications, one was a supplemental for a college that gave you that topic after your normal app was in, and one I had written last year as an assignment for English. And don’t be fooled…If you use the Common App (or heck, even just lots of colleges), there will be a choice on writing on a topic of your choice.</p>
<p>CONTINUE TO RESEARCH YOUR SCHOOLS AFTER YOU APPLY! So yeah, you know that you like the school so you apply. But how much do you really know about it? Talk to current and former students. Look at the curriculum. Research the program(s) you’re interested in. Visit (stay overnight if you can)…Remember how I said I applied to 11 schools? Before I had heard from most of them I had cut my list down to 5/6.</p>
<p>Get your safeties out of the way early; take advantage of early action schools, or free “VIP/personalized” applications. It will help you sleep at night.</p>
<p>You have NO reason to stress until you get rejected from your safeties.</p>
<p>I agree with everything said so far.
In addition…</p>
<p>Don’t let senioritis TOUCH you. Senior year is muy importante and you do not want to show a drop in grades first semester OR second semester. Colleges see your first semester grades, and sometimes your third quarter grades! They are still important.
I know the last month or so of school of senior year is when senioritis truly, seriously hits, but even then, do not drop more than a full letter grade in your classes - you’ve gone through this whole stressful year, applied, waited, waited, waited, and finally accepted! and the last you want to do is get rescinded! It’s not hard to keep your acceptances! Just don’t totally slack off!</p>
<p>Also, rejections happen. It does not make you a worse applicant, student, or person. It doesn’t mean people who got in to that school are better than you. Allow yourself some grieving if you want, then move on. The process pretty much works itself out for everyone and you’ll end up going to a place you love.</p>
<p>Apply early to rolling schools, don’t procrastinate on applications and essays, and show those admissions officers how fantastic you are.</p>
<p>Make sure you pay attention to the college’s scholarship deadline. Especially those that require you to apply by a certain date if you want to be considered for their scholarships. Especially public colleges.</p>
<p>Also, make sure that you keep tab of your teachers around the time for your mid year school report. Be aware of the grades they put in your progress report. Trust me, a C- is a big deal when you’ve been getting A’s the first term and you realized that it was due to your teacher’s mistake.</p>
<p>you know that girl that you have had a crush on for the last 3 years, well ASK HER OUT ALREADY. This is most probably the last year you will ever see her, and you have nothing to lose if she says no.</p>
<p>^ lol nice</p>