Excited for the college and the whole process that comes a long with it?
Every high school senior in the right mind becomes very excited to go to college. What they don't realize is how much time and effort it takes to be accepted to college, and move into those 10x10 dorm-rooms.
The whole application process is one of the worst experiences in the entire world. First, these colleges practically ask you for your entire life story. Considering these applications do ask you around a thousand questions, they make it seem like they want to know absolutely everything about you. These applications ask you about your education history, parent's backgrounds, and religious affiliation. It's pretty astonishing that they don't ask you about your first boyfriend, or at what time in your life you may have your first kiss. Either way, you're finally finished with what seemed like the fifty-five page application.
But wait! There are still the important teacher and guidance counselor recommendations. Here you are, thinking the worst is all over, but it's not. Now, you must go bother your teachers and upon their busy schedules, ask them to write a few pages about you, listing all your wonderful qualities. Then, there's the guidance counselor's. Do colleges really think that guidance counselors have the time to sit down and right pages and pages about a million and one students? Guidance counselors can in some cases have up to at least seventy-five kids to look out for. How are they possibly supposed to build strong relationships with seventy-five kids? On top of that, these counselors are expected to write heart-to-heart recommendations about these kids, when they hardly even know them. I suppose it's important to know every one of your students, especially when a new guidance counselor is chosen for a new set of kids each year.
Now on to the SAT portion of the applica
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