<p>So, the time between applying and hearing back seems kinda lengthy [2 months? kill me.] and my brain is exploding with anticipation. So what should I do in the mean time?</p>
<p>Maybe like, write a novel? Or like, solve world hunger? I feel like no matter what I do, it's not on my college/ scholarship resumes anymore, so it doesn't matter. haha.</p>
<p>I know what you mean. I know a lot of people who have worked really hard throughout high school, and now that they’ve been accepted ED, they’ve stop caring to some degree. Though, most of them realize that they can’t exactly fail classes because their acceptance will be taken away :P</p>
<p>It would be a worthwhile pursuit to spend a lot of that time further researching your colleges. There will be so little time to decide. Have you visited those that you aren’t that sure of? Have you looked into each school’s AP credits allowed, and what your core curriculum looks like. What would be the first classes in your preferred major? How hard is it to get the classes you want? What about housing, that’s a HUGE issue and requires a lot of research. When you only have April 1-30 (ish)…it would be great to have a headstart on all these issues. I know you’ll revisit them later, but…when you can say “Oh, yeah…I remember college A has specific houses assigned to a particular group of freshmen…I didn’t really dig that so much”…it will help you cull through the details faster when you’re “in a tizzy” later.</p>
<p>take some naps</p>
<p>after I got into Chicago EA, I took SO MANY NAPS.
read some books? Do more chores? Have fun and good luck!!!</p>
<p>I don’t even know what to do with myself anymore. I actually have my acceptance, but that almost makes it worse because there’s nothing left to do. I have been heavily researching, working on applications, and filling out financial aid forms for six months. For the years before that, I was researching and/or plugging away at bringing up my GPA. Now, I don’t exactly want to let my GPA sag, but the law of diminishing returns says I can gain a lot more time and waste a lot less effort by getting a 3.8 instead of a 4.0. </p>
<p>So… I have all this TIME now! I spend obnoxious amounts of time on the internet. I’d like to start reading again. I have read maybe ten books for leisure in the past three and a half years, whereas in middle and late elementary school I could easily digest 5-10 books in a single week. The problem is that I don’t know what to read. Sometimes I like fantasy, but fantasy can be really bad. Scifi is okay sometimes… I like books with depth, but not the classics (which I find boring and uninteresting). I like extremely long books or series. I’m open to anything, but most things don’t interest me. So, needless to say, I have a newly-discovered time to read, but nothing to read in that time. Suggestions are lovely.</p>
<p>Anyway, where was I going with this? Okay, research. I have read and plan to read basically the entire Stanford website.</p>