After we submit all the application materials, anything else needs to be done? Or just waiting for March 10th? A few schools are still holding virtual seminars or virtual tours, would participating in those seminars show the school that you’re particularly interested in their school? And lack of participation would tell them that maybe we’re not as interested in? Would admission officers read anything into it? We already attended a few virtual sessions before the application so just wondering whether should attend more.
Normally, this is the “sit and wait” period. Pick up a hobby to distract you…do not dwell on the “what ifs” or “should I haves”. Just be confident in what you submitted and hope M10 comes sooner than later with good news.
Most schools did not have these virtual sessions preCOVID, and would just have one “Spring” event on campus. Many could not attend due to travel logistics/schedules. So, I would not worry about it. If you have gotten all the info you need and want, do not attend. Especially if you are just doing so to “appear” interested.
Personally, I wouldn’t attend any info sessions after submitting. I would rather distract myself from the entire process and distance myself from all the schools because I like to prepare for bad news, so any good news comes as a pleasant surprise.
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You can follow @buuzn03 excellent advice.
OR.
Here are my Top (Bottom?) 10 Ways to kill time to M10:
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Review all your essays and scan for errors. Bonus points for printing them out and circling any mistakes in red pen.
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Mentally review every single interview and make a list of anything that you wished you had mentioned, but didn’t.
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Bask in the memory of the zoom interview where you forgot you were wearing pajamas on the bottom until you stood up to go get your parent without turning off your camera first.
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Do a deep search in your email box and see if you accidentally called any schools or AO’s by their wrong name. Tip: focus on emails you sent out to many schools with the same subject line so they are all stacked in your email box and you never really know who you are replying to. Fun times.
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Click around all the schools’ websites and find at least a couple of really cool programs or unique offerings that you never mentioned you would be a PERFECT fit for.
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Decide to send in a hail-mary video of you playing your sport and set up an iphone in your backyard and try to recreate an actual volleyball game until it gets dark and you realize it’s hopeless so delete the file and mourn three hours of your life that you’ll never get back.
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Open every single email you receive from the SSAT people about schools you have never considered. And now, consider them. Bonus points for searching on CC and reading comments from 2009 about said schools.
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And why not expand that list? Make up a list of schools you almost applied to and didn’t, and now rethink that entirely. Bonus: send out a few emails to those admissions departments to ask if it would be too late to book an interview, and then decide against it.
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While you are at it, boardingschoolreview and niche offer all sorts of opportunities for second guessing yourself. (Reverse game: just focus on the negative Niche comments about the schools you DID apply for.)
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Spend a few hours on the chance me forum and doubt everything about yourself. Then, in case your ego is still intact, head over to the official M10 results thread and spend some time scratching your head wondering how in heck SuperKidXYZ got rejected from 11 schools, even after casting a wide net.
(I’m of course TOTALLY kidding.)
But, between last year and this year, we have done some version of probably every item on this list. Sigh.
My advice: be like @buuzn03. And a goldfish. Be a goldfish. (Ted Lasso!).
xxxooo to all!
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This was very funny.
I just discovered today that schools, an unknown number, have portals that I must discover and may or may not have missed instructions for.
Did I mention unzipped trousers in one interview?
I will, admittedly, have to go back and read my post and remind myself not to think of the “what ifs” and “should we haves”.
I will say that now that the fray of completing the applications/meeting deadlines is behind us, we attended a session with a clear mind and it reminded us of why we applied to the school in the first place. We had gotten burnt out with virtual events, but it had been about 2 months since we attended one. I’m glad we did.
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bumping this. Can we leave some ideas of how to healthily pass time and get our minds off of admissions? I’ll start with a few things:
-learn a new instrument
-write a research paper
-watch a new TV show(i recommend Cobra Kai and All American)
-write a report on the difference between a book and its corresponding movie
-read a new book series
-watch movies virtually with friends
-write a book
-write a screenplay
-film a mini documentary
^^^Just some suggestions. Feel free to add anything!
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Here are some of mine!
-go shopping online for things you’ll never buy
-go outside, touch some grass
-go to bed super early and wake up super early and watch the sun rise
-meet up with friends you haven’t talked to in a while, virtually preferrably
-choose a random hobby and look at the corresponding subreddit forum to see what they all hate (e.g. for some reason mechanical keyboard fans seem to hate Cherry MX Brown switches)
-start journaling
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What I’ve been doing
- stickerssssssssssssssss =P
- watch YouTube, watch Netflix, watch every video in your sight
- Bullet Journals!
- Play video games haha
- Draw
- Practice better handwriting… (my handwriting is chicken scratch)
- Don’t get senioritis early (unlike me)
- Make food, make drinks, make b r e a d
- stitching/knitting, etc.
@mondaydevil I really like your list…add to it-- go to the nearest park and swing as high as you can like you did in grade school!
oh-- and all of y’all could take up baking…and send any leftovers to my address! LOL
oh my god this brings back memoriessss I love this idea!!
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What are leftovers? LOL.
But yes, take up dessert making. Become a chocolatier!
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