by Jack Brown, St. Mary's College of Maryland, '26
As a first generation student taking a gap year, the application process was difficult for me. I graduated in 2021, a year before most of my peers now. I essentially had little to no help, as neither of my parents had applied to any colleges themselves and I had no...
by LJ Pasion, University of San Diego, 2024
As the college application process ends and the college decision season begins, I’ve been thinking back to where I was this time last year. A year ago I was just like you all, biting away at my nails, waiting for college decisions, and wondering constantly if...
by Danica Drezner, Boston University , '17
March… The time of year when the transition into spring is accompanied with the anticipation of finding out whether you have been accepted or rejected by the colleges. For me, March marks the anniversary of a series of rejection letters I had received in 2013. I have...
by Raquel Diaz, Reed College, '20
I haven’t visited a Flame Broiler since last year, around this time when the emails seniors receive are groundbreaking seals of fate. (At least, that’s how they felt.) It was afterschool during the warm spring days of southern California, when I sat eating with what...
by Benjamin Hoertnagl-Pereira, Johns Hopkins University , '18
It’s a bit surreal to think that one click controls the direction your life will take, sending you to either soaring in ecstasy to your dream or plummeting downward into uncertainty. This one click represents years of preparation, months of refinement, and hours upon...
