Hi! I would like to apply!

SAT, Letters of Recommendation, SAT 2, CommonApp, TOEFL, Supplements, Application Essays, College Counseling, Deadlines, Forms, Documents, Transcripts, ETS, College Board…
Sounds familiar? Am I boring you already? Well if you are a senior you have heard these words too many times. I know I have. So, now let me take you into the, what should I name it, the “interesting” world of college applications.
It all begins the summer before your senior year. After spending a few weeks by the seaside and you have had enough of going out, you sit on your computer, go to CommonApp and start browsing colleges that you would like to get into. After a while you manage to narrow your list to 10-20 colleges and you are ready to have a meeting with your college counselor – the person that is going to help you survive this quest and the person that is going to clarify all of those forms and things you need to fill in that just sound like gibberish. Now you further familiarize yourself to the CommonApp – your ‘best friend’ for the following 5 months. Here you have to fill out personal information, all of the activities you have participated in (summer school, community service, seminars…), upload your personal essay, write supplements for all of your selected colleges, and find teachers and counselors to write you a Letter of Recommendation. But wait! That is not all. While you are doing all of this, you need to sign up for your SAT Reasoning Test, a few SAT 2 Tests and of course the TOEFL. And then comes the hard part: you need to actually take these tests and try to do your best.
And then after you have filled out everything, done every test possible, and paid the fees for these applications YOU ARE DONE!!!! Now, the only thing you can do is just way and see the outcome. However, after this seemingly gruesome experience you will see that it was worth it, and you will be sitting somewhere at college campus enjoying the fruits of your labor.