<p>Wow, thank you! What you wrote was exactly the "symptom' my mom has...</p>
<p>But the thing is: she makes me nervous a lot... I have posted about the fin. aid thing couple of days ago. But I guess everybody was busy replying the chancing threads...</p>
<p>Does financial aid officers really know my final verdicts as they open my file? What my mom told me sounded like if all my reach schools has surely rejected me. This totally throws me off b/c I really took it easy at the beginning, thinking that if i get rejected, it's no big deal anyway. But now she just keeps making me nervous by repeating same pessimistic stuff over and over again. At the same time, she also stresses that it's OK to get in "lower" tier schools. As she keeps contradicting herself, it really makes me become more nervous.</p>