March 14th, 2005
::stomach churning:::
HL1440 has a nice little post about deadlines and seat deposits and it’s making my stomach hurt.
We don’t have all our information yet. We can’t even begin to have a serious conversation about where we’re going to end up until we both know where we can end up.
It’s looking more and more like I’m going to have to deposit at more than one place, unless a miracle happens and we get all of our information TOMORROW. (Psst: if our schools are listening, please send stuff NOW.) I admit I’m in a better spot than HL1440—he’s still waiting on many schools’ decisions whereas I know my decisions have been made. But Mr. Angst isn’t, and that makes things a little trickier, since there are two of us. (In HL1440’s case, there are two of them, also—his girlfriend is going to graduate school. But they seem to be entertaining the possibility of being in different places this fall. We’re not.)
Why do schools extend their decision-making out for so long when they know students have to send in seat deposits? They have to know that stretching things out for so long means more students will double-deposit. Double deposits may mean more money for the schools, but only at the expense of having to deal with more paperwork when they have to fill a late-summer empty spot. (It also increases student anxiety, probably not a good thing.) I also don’t understand, really, how the waitlist thing ever works. I simply cannot imagine changing my entire plan a week before school starts. That’s maybe just ME, but yeesh! Once I make a decision, I’m going to try as hard as I can to be happy with it. Pinning my late-summer hopes on getting off a wait list seems like a BIG waste of energy.
So for now, I’m ignoring the (short) stack of deposit slips. Instead, I’m getting up early to clean our bedroom and make the bed, empty the garbage, give the kitchen a once-over. Focusing on the house is so much easier. I should have switched my attention weeks ago.
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When?
Aspiring lawyer posted today about the fact that all schools should make and send out their decisions by a certain date and have the same deposit deadlines. I couldn’t agree more
Can you send deposits to more than one school? I didn’t know you could do that.
JW is still holding out for Harvard, but I doubt I’ll get in (although I’m still trying). So I’m trying to figure out how much of our stuff we can fit into a 1-bedroom apartment, and he’s ready to move back to MA if I get in off the waitlist on the first day of classes.
Oh yes. It gets expensive, but you can do it. I don’t WANT to, by any means, but if we’re on the fence, it MIGHT be worth it.
On the other hand, I would like to make a decision and be done with it. I keep hoping that somehow the decision will be made for us (if, for instance, Mr. Angst doesn’t get into his school in DC). Things in my life never work out that way, though.
I’m still waiting on two schools that I think I would go to if I got accepted. I really think the chances of me not hearing until this summer are high, but I’m pretty mobile (within the state), so if I need to change where I’m moving just a month before the move, I can do that. Dealing with a house, another person, and a-whole-nother application process sounds a lot more stressful.
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I haven’t really thought through the whole moving thing. If we don’t sell our house right away, we’ll be paying for two places, which we won’t really be able to afford if I’m not working. The only way to avoid that is to sell the house before we leav…