<p>This week: Get through last week of classes.
Next week: Get through finals.
The week after next (and probably the hardest): Get through the killer wait for decisions.</p>
<p>OK the past decision threads are awful to look at. I kinda wanna cry.</p>
<p>This week: Get through 2nd to last wk of classes
Next week: Get through last wk of classes
The week after next: Get through finals, and get decision in the midst of them!!! If I get in I won’t wanna study and if I don’t get in I won’t wanna study!!!</p>
<p>I just keep telling myself… 9 days left of classes…</p>
<p>“If I get in I won’t wanna study and if I don’t get in I won’t wanna study!!!”</p>
<p>Story of my life.</p>
<p>^haha so true.</p>
<p>one of the ways i’ve been mentally justifying my current procrastination is by telling myself that if i work hard and don’t get in, it’ll all be for nothing, so i might as well kick back now :)</p>
<p>Crimson looks sooo goood doesn’t it?</p>
<p><em>ducks and zooms away from rotten crimson tomatoes aimed at nose</em></p>
<p>Haha, peace. I’m a Yale SCEA’er and I don’t have a favourite colour at all! I don’t really get this ‘favourite’ stuff. Is it obvious that I’m going to have trouble with the Princeton app? :)</p>
<p>Hah Pixie traitor. 
Not that I should say anything. </p>
<p>I DETEST the Pton and Stanford apps. Most awful things ever invented.</p>
<p>And the $90 application fee just makes Stanford’s application that much more painful.</p>
<p>Agreed. Why is it so high anyway?</p>
<p>Wow. That’s expensive.</p>
<p>^^I think the aweful supp and high fees are a combined underhanded attempt by the Adcoms to discourage less than stellar applicants so that they have also less folders to open blearily post christmas blues and yawn over.</p>
<p>I thought that the Pton app didn’t need much work once you’re done with Yale? </p>
<p>Here is the trick for those of you who say Princeton app is evil (I’m assuming its because of the additional essay since that’s pretty much the only thing on the supplement.): </p>
<p>The last prompt choice for the additional essay is “Using a favorite quotation from an essay or book you have read in the last three years as a starting point, tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. Please write the quotation at the beginning of your essay.”</p>
<p>You pretty much just have to find a quote that fits the content of your previously written essays (that you submitted for Yale) and simply copy paste the content. This works fantastically if you wrote either your commonapp or your Yale supplement essay on a significant experience.</p>
<p>Even if you didn’t should be able to fit it in, since most essays are about how your life has been affected by something. You are not explaining the quotation or anything, it just has to be related to what you are saying.</p>
<p>^Good advice impetuous. Just to be clear, you definitely do not need to refer to the quote in the actual essay? Only putting it at the top?</p>
<p>Well the prompt says “using it as a starting point.” and then "write the quotation at the beginning of your essay. "</p>
<p>The quotation isn’t the main part of the essay. The instruction says: "tell us about an event or experience that helped you define one of your values or changed how you approach the world. "</p>
<p>It is the experience or an event that you are describing that is important. The quotation is simply the "starting point. " As long as the quote is in line with the central idea of your essay, I would say it would fit the prompt perfectly. </p>
<p>I love recycling essays. I used the exact same two essays for the UC app as well. (had to add a few sentences on each but the same essays.) Managed to finish the whole app in 1.5h yesterday :)</p>
<p>Plus, I’m a pretty bad writer (and I mean, bad) and I just can’t imagine writing more essays…</p>
<p>I’m curious about the questbridge results.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t talk about the Princeton stuff here!! Lol.
Now, back to Yale…</p>
<p>14 days, 21 hours and 18 minutes</p>
<p>Oy. Two weeks starting tomorrow. That’s not a lot. I’m going down to visit some Yale friends on Friday. That’ll help pass the time.</p>
<p>!!!</p>
<p>…Sometimes I feel very optimistic and cocky–Oh, I’ll get in to like 90% of the schools I applied to. I HAVE to. But usually I’m like, I’m not gonna get in anywhere!!!</p>
<p>And I really have no idea which is more accurate. :(</p>
<p>It’s December!</p>
<p>Haha, it’s been december here for 15 hrs now 
Time difference.</p>