the Sam Jackson College Experience

I sent my reply card back to New Haven almost as soon as I got it; there was no question that I would be going to Yale next year. It wasn't that way when I sent in my application November 1st, though. So what changed? I would not have applied early if it had been [...]

This was on the front page of the Exonian today, reported by my super-excellent best buddy and fellow senior Boaz Chandrasekhar: 64% of Exonians applied early to schools this fall. This is up from 58% last year. There are 315 people in the class of 2006, 30 of whom are postgraduates. Boaz wrote "early decision" [...]

I have spent far too much of my time in the last 24 hours looking for school mailing addresses to label Teacher Recommendation letters. I am in fact only giving one teacher a complete set of stuffed envelopes, since of of my two teacher rec-writers is in the Nicaraguan jungle right now and has hers [...]

Remember how before Thanksgiving break I said I had to do all my essays and applications for every school on my list? I had two essays written then: one common application essay and one generic 'supplement open response' essay. Fourteen schools left for which I had not yet prepared applications. Where do I stand now? [...]

Today the entire senior class spent faculty meeting (a free block for students this morning) performing 'mock admissions' with their counselor groups. We had three former Exonians' common applications in front of us and were given an academic profile for a school--we were to serve as individual readers. We had 10 minutes for the first [...]