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Waiting for your college acceptance letters

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Waiting for your college acceptance letters can be excruciating. Here’s how I survived that anxiety-inducing time.
Essay by Miles Kirkpatrick

College-application season is over. The personal statements have been written; the résumés have been submitted. All that’s left for applicants is to wait.

When I was applying to eight schools last year, I remember this awkward period as extremely stressful. Submitting that last application and no longer needing to revise supplementals and fine-tune Common App activity descriptions can be a weight off the shoulders. But the months between submitting applications and hearing back are ripe for anxiety and worry.

Waiting for months to find out if I got into the college of my dreams was painful. Plus, I kept reflecting on how I could’ve done better throughout high school. Weeks of this sort of reflection weren’t productive or enjoyable.

But here’s how I got through the waiting period with my sanity intact….

https://www.businessinsider.com/college-acceptance-wait-anxiety-2024-1

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