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  • 2:08 pm on July 20, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: application, early decision, help

    Woohoo, today was a Work On College Stuff day… I was proud because I finished my Case Western Reserve supplement… too bad it only asks for your name, address, and social security number ; )

    I got pretty far on essays, too! I’m excited!! As I get further with them, I think I’ll post them here for the awesome MyChances community to give feedback on :D

    I also realized that I hate binding Early Decision. Carnegie Mellon has this, and I want to apply to other places ED as well, but it seems they have other plans for me. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do? I really want to go to Carnegie, but I was hoping to apply to the other places ED… hmm. Should I do regular decision on any binding ED schools, or should I stick with Carnegie??

     

    • gingeralelover 6:42 pm on July 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      yea unfortunately carnegie mellon’s ED program is binding, and this is the same for many other colleges too. if i were you i would take a look first into other schools, but if you think CMU is that great of a choice for u then, go for it. i guess it also depends which school ur applying to in carnegie mellon. which one? cuz they all have very different standards.

    • ImagineThat10 8:58 pm on July 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’m just applying to the Mellon College of Science. and I think I’m definitely going to look into other places, too. I’ll wait to make my final decision until after I’ve visited the campuses, I think. Thanks!

  • 8:49 pm on June 1, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: application, depression, mental health, rejection

    “Should I mention depression on my college application” article from US News and World Report








    From my experience… probably not.





    I have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (inattentive type), both onset since childhood. I also suffered from bulimia nervosa for some years. Even so, my grades have been consistently high (A average), only dropping an INC in one or two classes occasionally.


    For my personal essay, I chose to write about my life-long struggle with depression and studying. (Now I think about it, I might have implied that I had attempted suicide, BIG MISTAKE) Although I have clarified that I have recovered from depression, my condition has improved only since last year. So understandably most schools I applied to saw me as a “not-quite-stabilized” case. I guess my application may be better received if we were not in the middle of a recession; schools have to be extra vigilant about the students they are admitting- the expenses and liabilities incurred are incredibly burdening.


    Frankly I am not exactly authoritative in giving advises, but personally I would recommend applicants not to disclose too much about their mental health issues, unless they have been resolved for more than a couple years. Statistically, relapses still occur within 2 years of recovery.



    On a personal note, as depressed as I should have been, I didn’t shed a tear when I received the news that most colleges I applied to rejected me. Being crestfallen over it only gives them more justification for denying admission. I was only rejoicing that one school recognized the potential I have in spite of my risky circumstances.



    So who is not fully recovered now, huh?

     

    • JH 8:11 pm on June 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Nice! You can repeat that last line in one year, too, once you pass the window when most people relapse. Maybe you could save your rejection letters and send them back to the other schools when you start getting awards, etc. Do it!

    • Cathy 3:12 am on June 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      FWIW, This is a year when EVERYONE gets rejected from most of the colleges they applied to. My daughter applied to SEVENTEEN. She was rejected by all but 4, and one of those waitlisted her. Believe me, it was hair-raising to wait for one envelope that would accept her, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. Then she got practically a full scholarship at one of those Accepts. But she went to the one that was highest ranked. In her senior class one boy applied to 25 colleges, was rejected by 24, waitlisted at Harvard — and got a call last week he was in at Harvard. Go figure. And yet another, the grandson of the pres of the school board, got in NOWHERE. He’s going to a local Community College instead, and hoping to transfer. This kid is varsity tennis single, 3.5 average with Honors and AP classes, lots of extracurriculars, no mental health issues — but they rejected him. It’s just not a good time to be a h.s. senior, period. Don’t take this personally. This is the world right now, these are the times that try mothers’ souls, this is life. Welcome to it. You were accepted; that is all that matters now. You’re only going to one college. BTW you can transfer, too. As for mental health discrimination, I can tell you my daughter has a good friend who grad’d 3 years ago and has been in and out of Oberlin w/ bipolar; evidently this is quite common there and they treat it as business as usual. I think some schools can deal with it. Some can’t. Whos needs them? Good luck.