The Septimus Notes

Saturday, November 12, 2005

|Complete.|

My applications are complete at the four schools to which I applied Early Action: Boston College, UPenn, Cornell and Georgetown.

Of all of them, I'm most likely to hear from Georgetown first. According to LSN, the earliest dates anyone heard from the other three last year were 12/9 for Cornell, 12/16 for BC and I forget UPenn's but it was also in December. As well, UPenn sent out rejections before they sent out acceptances, so I think I'd rather not be included in that first wave of decision letters if last year is at all representative of how they do things.

Applying to law schools is suddenly very real. At this very moment someone might be flipping through my file. Looking at my past coursework, my essays, scrutinizing every move I've made since August 2000 (or earlier, as some schools want to know where I went to high school and even my pre-college work experience). They know more about me than I do, because they know all of this about me, as well as what my professors and dean all of think of me -- information to which I've "waived" my access rights (why do they even make it optional when it's so clearly not an option?).

There have been people to go complete at Georgetown one day, and receive an acceptance in the mail five days later, which means it must have taken Georgetown, at most, two days to decide on them. Knowing this fact only makes me feel less and less special with each passing day. But I have to keep reminding myself that I don't have good scores and it's going to be hard for any school to decide to accept me, so it might take until the last day before I hear anything.

It's going to be a long six weeks (five plus international mail transit time).

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 07:59.
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