This is so typically me

Colleges and Universities A-Z Bowdoin College
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<p>SO </p>

<p>Bowdoin calls my guidance department this morning for my first quarter grades. I need grade changes. I probably could have gotten these two weeks ago but i didnt think i needed them till the end of the first semester. I give the necessary papers to my teachers who give them to the main office where changes are made. Afternoon comes. Bowdoin adcom is, by this time, in committee deciding the fates of everyone who applied from New York. I cant get the grade changes because of the weird bureaucracy at my school on changing the transcript. I’m pleading with my assistant principal to sign what needs to sign and get my new grades in. So Bowdoin’s still in committee. I have to rush between the principal and the chairman of the guidance dept to get the final signatures so that the chairman can call Bowdoin and tell them my grades. Finally chairperson calls up admissions and relays the grades. But, of course, not after the chairperson completes a length conversation with the president of the local community college. </p>

<p>So here is my version of what i think happened at Bowdoin. The chairperson probably talked to some dopey intern who, upon getting the grades, probably BURST into the committee room, disrupting everything holding in his hands a paper with my grades on it. Adcom is just about to make a decision on, who other than, me and then they get my grades and alng/aldskbgalk idk…something else happens who knows I’m so scared</p>

<p>This is so typically me. Little dopey things like having to get grade changes before submitting my first quarter grades always complicate the important things in my life. Like who knows. If i dont get in it could just be becuase they didnt think my application was up to par OR it could be because they completed their decision while my transcript was missing a grade for indep study research and when i got a B+ in physics. Who knows? Maybe had they seen that I got As in both those classes things would have been different. Or maybe they didnt care that there was this little clitch. You see? I just dont know. All i know now is that out of all the thousands of applications they got mine is singled out and NOT in a good way…</p>

<p>So typically me</p>

<p>i dont know if they’re done but they were literally just deciding NYs fate no more than twenty minutes ago…</p>

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<p>hmmm....i wonder why they asked for your grades too
you submitted your SAT score right? u had an awesome score. Im nervous that they didn't call for my grades now.......</p>

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<p>Well my frosh GPA was pretty low (like a 3.3), and while I've had consistently good grades since, its possible that they wanna make sure that I didn't drop off or anything. </p>

<p>But idk. The guidance department chair at my schools seemed to think that they were asking everyone. Maybe the adcom hasn't made it to Idaho yet? For a while i thought they were doing it alphabetically, but who knows.</p>

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<p>You are too intense. Focus on what you control...</p>

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<p>I flipped out about my physics grade too. But it's not like they'd think "oh, well we were going to accept this person, but their physics grade is bad...so no. denied." They know it's mid-semseter and you will probably raise the grades by the time they get on your legit transcript</p>