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DEAL WITH COLLEGE APPLICATIONS STRESS
by the student editors of CHOOSE THE RIGHT COLLEGE & GET ACCEPTED!, a Students Helping Students® guide
“The application process really stressed me out and made me doubt myself: Did I volunteer enough? Are my grades high enough? Am I a well-rounded student?”
Senior,
South Lake High School
The college application process is inherently stressful and you probably won’t be able to avoid all of it, but here are a few tips to help you get through it as smoothly as possible:
• Become a maniac for organization. It sounds like an overused cliché, but if you’re organized about what you have to do, when you have to do it, and what you need to do to get it done, you’re half-way to success.
• Trust your gut. Advice from your parents. Suggestions from books. Your friends’ opinions. The amount of information you absorb while choosing and applying to college is overwhelming and sometimes conflicting. Keep an open mind, listen to feedback, but remember to trust your own gut feelings and reactions to everything from where you should apply to what you write your essays about.
• Be flexible. Rarely do things turn out exactly as you planned, and if you’re unprepared for change you’ll be more stressed than if you expect some of it from the start. Your first choice school may turn out not to have a great major in a field that’s caught your interest half-way through the application process and you might need to find another number one choice.
Don’t beat yourself up for being “wrong.” Instead, give yourself credit for learning more about your interests.
• Take breaks. Day after day of college stuff can get overbearing. Give yourself a break once in a while, do something you really enjoy and that has nothing to do with college, and air out your mind. You’ll feel better and work more effectively afterwards.
• Know when to stop. You should do your best on everything from researching schools to working on your essays, but there is such a thing as doing too much. If you’re researching the 100th school or working on your 50th draft of revisions, stop and think about whether you’re going too far and whether what you have isn’t good enough already.
Copyright © by NATAVI GUIDES.
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