I got into two more colleges: NYU and Villanova, but it's not like I'll be able to attend either of them. Ever since FAFSA said I'm not eligible for any aid, all my hopes of going to a private school have gone down the drain. I was riding on the possibility that I'd get a lot of financial aid so my parents wouldn't be dishing $40,000 a year for school. Whatever, now my hopes lie in those merit scholarships. Woohoo! Those late nights doing APUSH work better have been worth it.. 
I found out that a certain someone in our grade got nearly $41,000 in aid. A portion of that are loans, but still! Minus the loans? That's a lot of aid. Ultimately, he/she said his/her family'll be paying about $10,000 less than a SUNY school. Ugh.. I then heard that FAFSA only grants aid to families who make less than $30,000 a year. How can you live off that? That's barely anything.
I don't mind going to Binghamton. It has a great reputation and it's a lot less expensive to attend. I can save up that money for graduate school, I suppose. But what if I don't go? I just feel like all my hard work was for naught. It sounds selfish and self-involved but I just didn't imagine myself going to a SUNY school. It's all good, just my thoughts and rants.
I'm 6 for 6. Three more to go and then it's decision making time. Yup, wonderful times ahead. I predict at least one rejection from the pending group. Oh! I got an e-mail saying my rejection letter from Johns Hopkins is coming in the mail. I laughed because I didn't send a full application to them. LaCour sent in my CommonApp without telling me and I had changed my mind about which colleges to send it to. I didn't pay the application fee but he told me to just see what would happen; that some schools overlook that and process your application anyway. Obviously, Johns Hopkins doesn't. Oh well. 
29 March 2007: 8:04 PM - I'm now 6 for 7. Just got my rejection e-mail from Harvard. I'm not heartbroken but I do feel disappointed. I applied to see if I could get in. I probably wouldn't have been able to attend anyway because of the expensive tuition but, again, that's where FAFSA was supposed to help out. Plus, I knew I had a very slim chance of getting in anyway. I'm definitely not a Tina 
or a rich kid with the money to pay tutors for every subject I was having trouble with [and for standardized testing assistance]. My SAT scores weren't going to propel me to the top of their students-to-accept list either. Oh, and how many asian kids go for Pre-Med at Harvard? Yeah, quite a lot. I'm just glad I tried. I'm glad I won't be thinking about the "what if" had I not applied. At least they were courteous about it. Mr. Fitzsimmons, Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, wrote "I wish I were writing to report a different decision, but the competition was so rigorous this year.." I know the message is generic and is sent to all the other students who weren't accepted but it still sounded nice. 
Well, two more left and I can finally focus on choosing one! My prediction? One acceptance and one rejection.
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