<p>Have any of you dealt with people that act like they're #1 and know everything? It seems like I've been dealing with a lot more of that than usual lately, and it's really starting to get on my nerves. Some of these people are my friends so I can't get too angry at them (It's impossible for me to stay angry at them) as well as people that I barely know. However, it has been just enough to aggrevate me. </p>
<p>Some of it deals with college admissions stuff (not Northwestern but other places I've applied to) like them saying "the only reason I'll get admitted is because my dad went there" or "I'm just applying to see if I'll get in even though I have no intention of going there" or even "I'm the wrong color to be able to go there (on the diversity issue for places like Michigan)." </p>
<p>To the first, all I can say is that I hope that there is more in that application than just family ties. The purpose of college admissions is to makes sure that you want to learn and to make sure you can do the work and not who you know that went there. Also, what about those people that worked their butts off for the past four years and actually earned that admission? </p>
<p>To the second, all I can say is why are they applying in the first place. You're wasting the adcoms time that it took for them to review the application as well as might be taking someone else's place who would love to go there. Why even waste your own time of filling out the application if there's no chance that you'll be attending the next year? </p>
<p>The third just plain, well, ticks me off for obvious reasons. Plus, on top of this, people at my home school that I don't really even know are just yelling and bossing people around and acting like they know everything when they don't. </p>
<p>All of the above put together basically sums up why I'm in an extremely crabby mood right now. I'm sorry, but I just needed to vent.</p>
<p>That's about all that I have on my mind right now: college. I love my house, my family, my friends, my schools, my life. However, I just think... It's time for me to see and be a part of something new. I'm to the point where I really don't care anymore about the different schedules that the Math and Science Center and my home school have this year for the first time ever or that some people have really been painful lately in my eyes because I know that I will only have to put up with it for only a few more months (I know that sounds bad, but I really feel like I've been stretched lately). However, that doesn't mean that I'm going to slack off this final semester either. I'm really not the slacker type, and I'd beat myself up mentally before I'd be able to do it because that's just not me. I'm just to the point where I don't want to put up with the small things anymore, and it angers me when it's thrown in my face to the point where I can't avoid it.</p>
<p>nomad: LOL. Yeah, I know how you feel. They can put us out of our misery any day now. Any news would be welcome (even though I know that if they're reading this, they're laughing at us, saying to not hold our breath, and that we've gotta wait till the end of March like everybody else). </p>
<p>Oh. Thos is too depressing so I'm going to go annotate. LOL. That sounds like I'm storming out of the room to go do my English homework. It's even more depressing because it's true.</p>
<p>Believe it or not, there is some of the same negativity in the adult circles. If I had a nickle for each time I heard "isn't that too much of a reach" I could send all four of mine to college without incurring any debt. </p>
<p>This is the most stressful point of the whole process in my opinion, the waiting. There are just so many intangibles that play into the application process, that nothing is ever a sure bet. It's hard not to take 13 years of hard work personally. </p>
<p>I wish all of you the best in the next few weeks, and with any luck you will be reporting your successful admits on the boards soon.</p>
<p>I feel slightly better today because I experienced a lot less of the negative comments, etc. I believe that the less of that I get right now the better (and I'm sure that can be extended to parents and students alike). We're in too stressful of a time period to deal with that even though I'm still slightly peeved that a respected adult I know even stated and pushed the fact to me a while back that it's extremely difficult to get accepted at Northwestern and that they need to see something special to get accepted (which kind of goes off of what texastaximom said). I already know that so I don't need other people repeating it to me again and again. As if I don't have enough on my mind right now!</p>
<p>Oh well. I heard today that I'm in the final round to get one of the Outstanding Students of America scholarships (said there were between 40 and 50 students left). That's one thing that can always cheer up a future college student: the possibility of getting free money.</p>
<p>yeah I know what you mean, it got back to me that one of my friend's parents was saying I had no shot at my "reach" school. I mean come on, is it really his place to say? I realize that he is bitter because his own kid didn't get in a few years ago and that yes, there is a definite possiblilty that I will be rejected, but honestly stop being such a jerk.</p>