<p>I can't believe i'm even feeling like this. A few minutes ago I was typing up a checklist of what to bring to school for my first year in college. Honestly I kept wondering what I had just got myself into!?</p>
<p>However as I was saving, I noticed a sub folder called "college" which hadn't been opened in months. In it I saw lists of saved essay drafts, supplements and my own documents from those now distant days of applying. One in particular hit me...it was my supplement for my top choice school. I had been laying awake at nights almost preparing myself for that rejection to a school where my stats were clearly just too low, where my chances really did seem slim. I wrote what was then a rather emotional and sort of a last ditch effort to show how much it would mean to me, how hard I had worked to make up for the bad grades and how much I wanted to go...</p>
<p>...now i've just finished this list of items which I am bringing to that very place in the fall. This was my first glimpse back and though i'm still very nervous for some reason I feel just slightly better. It was just sort of odd reading that.</p>
<p><em>you can completely skip over the above rant if you want</em></p>
<p>I'm sure most people here don't even care about all this since there's really no relevance to you guys which I understand. However for anyone that's doing college apps this year. Don't give up and I wish you all the best of luck. As stressful and crazy as this application process seems sometimes, I think I might have learned a little bit about myself and what could be done. I hope you guys can get something out of it as well, rejections, acceptances and wait lists aside.</p>
<p>^ yea i’m doing college apps this year =[ and i’ll need all that luck btw which college are you heading off too? and good luck for your college life.</p>
<p>Thanks desi_chick, i’m going to SUNY Geneseo.</p>
<p>It’s probably not a big deal for the level of students on these forums but it was definitely a big big reach for me and one of the few schools I saw myself at.</p>
<p>Yeah I have a folder with all my college app stuff too. I keep it just in case there’s ever a facebook discussion: “What were your short answers?” haha</p>
<p>Going along with this story, I spent less than an hour on the supplement to my top school because I felt it was not worth it to bother with my pathetic stats and such (3.38 UW gpa), but look where I am now :). The point is, there is always a chance despite all the doubt you may have.</p>
<p>demoz: Can you recover anything through like email attachements and the like? Although sometimes, I wish I deleted my folder. I went back and read some of the essays once and I was like “dang, son, why did you have to pick this dumb topic?” </p>
<p>Anyways, I second the general advice here. I’ll add: have the confidence that when you are all said and done, you will end up at a fantastic school (not necessarily your dream school, but probably a few schools will grow on you, especially if you’re accepted). There are a few unfortunate cases I know where this didn’t happen, but that was more than anything because these guys/gals set their standards to high and didn’t apply to enough (or any) match schools.</p>
<p>And to further the non-hope thingy, I sent one school (deferred EA, and I didn’t think I had much of a chance) an update form and, after my parents looked over it and before I sent it, I quickly added something like: “I’d love to go here, but I can understand your reasons for not accepting me…” So I had pretty much given up hope and I tried to not have the adcom have a guilt trip by being like “This acceptance would make my life! If I get rejected, I’ll be depressed forever!” or something like that. But I got in, long story short. So don’t give up for those reach schools (I def. did, to the point where I almost didn’t apply in the first place which would have been terrible in retrospect!), although definitely do not count on an acceptance.</p>
<p>Eh, I won’t even worry when i’m applying. I realize that the people who look at applications are robotic in nature. They don’t have any feelings anyway.</p>