<p>I only found the jpeg for the ACT, I couldn’t find one for the Plan or PSAT.</p>
<p>Thank you @lunascreatures! Good luck to you, too!</p>
<p>@shamu7789 Thanks.</p>
<p>Anyone know whether College Board provides SAT jpgs? I’m searching the site but it looks like I’ll have to submit my own.</p>
<p>@ichilove I’m submitting PSAT, and since College Board doesn’t report PSAT scores, I photocopied the student copy. Since it asks for an “official” report to confirm, I’m going to ask my counselor to report it however she knows how to do it.</p>
<p>Erg. As the days pass and I work on the app, I alternate between being more and more convinced that I won’t get in, and thinking “but maybe I will!”. My age is against me, and I don’t feel like I make up for it with extraordinary service or amazing deeds - all I really have is my academics. I hope my essays are enough to make me considered but I don’t feel like my answers to the questions given help explain why I want to go to UWC so much. I’m really just hoping for an interview very hard right now - I feel like I’d be able to show why I fit the UWC mission more there.
Rant over, I just felt like this was the best place to complain :P</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: Thanks. Also: what I love about this thread is that it’s a terrific place to vent worry and ask questions. Everyone’s been very helpful, plus we’re all in the same boat so sharing the same anxiety. My family members have learned to hurry away the second I bring the UWCs up, to avoid a half-hour-long rant! -oh, and I feel the same about how much an interview might help.</p>
<p>I’m almost done with the application. I just have to finish one short answer response and shave another down, but then I’ll be finished! Of course, I’ll still be terribly nervous for about a month. </p>
<p>(I’m also trying to stop myself from fantasizing about the schools, so I won’t be as terribly disappointed if I don’t get in.)</p>
<p>@ichilove I can definitely relate to trying-not-to-fantasize. I feel like I’ll be even more disappointed than I otherwise would be because if I don’t get in, I have to do my last two years of school in a normal high school…but in a different state than I’ve lived in for most of my life. Moving kinda sucks but UWC would make it so much better!</p>
<p>@ichilove and @lunascreatures – I can totally relate to you guys. I want to go to a UWC so badly, but I’m trying not to think too much about it. I know that either way I’ll be super disappointed, but it might not be as bad if I don’t fantasize about it. I read all these posts and see how amazing all of you guys are, and I feel so inadequate–like they cannot possibly choose me to interview over any of you. I really wish I’d found out about the UWCs last year!</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: From what it sounds like, you are a sophmore. I know it’s hardly any consolation, but even if you don’t get in this year, you could always apply next year, right? (I totally get that it’s not much consolation, and that it’s really far away, and that you’re moving, which really stinks, but I’m just going to be annoying and try to help you focus on positive alternatives, just in case. ; ) Sorry. I had to say it. From what I’ve read though, your academics sound pretty good!)</p>
<p>@knoxandonyx Yep, I’m a sophomore, and if I don’t get in I’ll definitely apply again! Thanks for what you said. I’m trying to focus on positives as well, but really, neutrality is easiest - I’m just trying to go with an “It’ll be awesome if I get in, and if I don’t, I’ll figure it out” attitude. I guess I’m putting off feelings until I find out if I got in or not :P</p>
<p>in other news, I finished one of the rewrites and I finished my personal statement! two more (complete) rewrites to go. I’m trying to think of not-vague responses to prompts 2 and 3.
3 days to write them. eek.</p>
<p>For the standardized test, if I want to submit a score I have yet to get back, can I do that? If so, how? I felt so much more confident on my PLAN than the PSAT and would much rather submit that but I don’t have it yet. It says on the app that they can only consider test taken before Jan. 10th, but if I submit them after…?</p>
<p>@lindzmm I really don’t know. I’d email about that!</p>
<p>@lunascreatures I’m going to ask my counselor about when we get the test back tomorrow and if I don’t get it by tomorrow, I’ll email. I feel like my school probably has them considering how long ago the test was.</p>
<p>@lindzmm yeah, schools can hold the results (though I do not see a reason for why…). I know ours held the PSAT scores, but it was only for one or two days, luckily.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures Not sure why they would, but you never know.</p>
<p>On another note, I’ve just got to edit my personal statement and I’m done! I’m starting to get really nervous… It’s so hard to know what they want or what they’re looking for.</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: I get what you’re saying. It’s kind of my mindset, too. Hope that you do, but don’t expect it and try not to think about it. I’m rooting for you though! And I’ve got two rewrites to do too, plus the finishing touches on my personal statement so it’s getting suuuper nerve-wracking. Also, what are your top UWC campus preferences?</p>
<p>@knoxandonyx after the top two, my choices kinda fluctuate, but currently the standing is Atlantic, RCN, Adriatic, Maastricht, USA, Pearson, LPC, Costa Rica, Mahindra, Mostar, Waterford, UWCSEA
looking at that list right now I want to move Costa Rica up! but I like maastricht and USA and pearson and hmm maybe I like LPC less than CR and really Mahindra seems kinda low…
so. mainly, Atlantic and RCN are my top two, and Waterford and UWCSEA are my bottom two.</p>
<p>Costa Rica is up there for me, as is Adriatic, and also Mahindra. LPC and UWCSEA are closer to the bottom, and everything else is solidly middle. (Although of course, even the UWCs at the “bottom” send my into a tizzy at the idea so it’s not reaaaally “bottom”…)</p>
<p>@knoxandonyx yeah, the ones closer to the “bottom” for me are only there because of a mix of two or three aspects that I really could deal with easily.</p>
<p>on a different note, what’s your personal statement about? I’m writing about ignorance about environmental issues (for the first prompt).</p>
<p>@lunascreatures: Someone who has influenced me (prompt two). I feel like maybe I should be doing an issue I feel strongly about (prompt one), but honestly, I think I’m more authentic talking about my grandpa. And hopefully my voice will push through.
Yours sounds really cool, though. It’s an issue I feel strongly about too! :-)</p>