For all of you college-bound seniors who have started on your Common App, have started to ask your teachers and counselors for recommendation letters, and have started to pull your hair out because you\u2019re only confident that you can\u2019t do it – you\u2019re worrying for nothing because college applications don\u2019t mean much of anything.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s right. I said it.<\/p>\n
Prestigious colleges are never going to have a set formula for admissions. They can\u2019t because they all look at applications \u201cholistically\u201d. That\u2019s the way it is.<\/p>\n
So rather than worrying so much about not being good enough, realize that it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with that. Your SAT score is not an indication of how good of a person you are, it doesn\u2019t tell anyone about how funny you are. According to studies, it\u2019s not a magic number that predicts your future, and a score of 2400 doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019ve cured cancer. And frankly, I wish it did, but it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
You hear stories all the time about how perfect 2400s are rejected. So what does that tell you? That all of the use for that scoring is arbitrary? Maybe. Surely, SAT scores and college applications serve some sort of purpose. Absolutely. But the fact that someone got a 2400 and you got a 1920 simply means that someone got a 2400 and you got a 1920. Beyond that, who even cares?<\/p>\n
But of course, you won\u2019t believe me because these scores \u201cwill determine the rest of your life\u201d and \u201cthey\u2019re an indication of who you are and what you have done.\u201d But they won’t, and they’re not. And you probably won\u2019t realize this until much later after this whole process is done.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong; college applications are necessary, but they\u2019re not the end of the world. That being said, avoid extra, unnecessary stress by just getting them out of the way early. The only thing you need to worry about are the essays anyway because they\u2019re the only things you truly have control over when you start applying.<\/p>\n
Realize that college applications are no more and no less than a way colleges know who\u2019s applying and who they can accept. And, once more, the reason they don\u2019t matter is because that piece of paper is never going to tell you who you are.<\/p>\n
So chill out. College will come and it will probably be the best thing ever. You\u2019re going to be someone\u2019s roommate and someone\u2019s best friend. You\u2019re going to have heartbreak. You\u2019re going to have the best days of your life. You\u2019re going to get a great education. So let go because life doesn\u2019t wait for you to give your opinion on what you want. Life simply happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For all of you college-bound seniors who have started on your Common App, have started to ask your teachers and counselors for recommendation letters, and have started to pull your hair out because you\u2019re only confident that you can\u2019t do it – you\u2019re worrying for nothing because college applications don\u2019t mean much of anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[882,2178],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-college","tag-julissa-higgins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t