College Admissions Procrastinators

College Admission Procrastinators January 1 So many students wait until the final hours to complete their college admissions essays. If youre a high school junior, dont follow in their footsteps next year. It never ceases to amaze us how many students wait until the very last hours literally to work on their college applications. And were not even talking about fine-tuning applications. Were talking about writing essays from scratch, figuring out which schools to apply to, and more all in the final hours before January 2nd strikes. Its unbelievable. Why on earth do students wait until the last minute to work on the most important applications of their lives? What were they doing this past summer when they should have been brainstorming and writing all of the many admissions essays? What were they doing in the fall when they could have been doing such if they didnt think to work on this material while school wasnt in session? What were they doing for the last couple of weeks after they learned of their deferral or denial at their Early Decision or Early Action school(s)? Did they think theyd just submit the same application to equally as competitive schools in Regular Decision when t heir odds arent as strong and theyd get in this time? Oy vey. We literally have students emailing us two hours in advance of the deadline if we can review their essays. Its quite absurd. With two hours left, sure, we can tell these students all thats wrong about their admissions essays. But will these students, with now less than two hours left, actually have time to fix all that is wrong with their essays? Absolutely not. So many students and their parents think that because theyve strung together 650 or 500 words on a page, that those words are good. No, no, no. Those words, just about every time out of ten, are poorly strung together and they convey to admissions officers the precise opposite of what they should convey. So that deleted comma and that semicolon instead of a colon arent going to make the difference in the final two hours. These students have already wasted all of the time that they had to craft and hone these all-important admissions essays. High school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, take a lesson from these procrastinators. Take a lesson from their mistakes. Dont be like them. Dont wait until the very last moments to make changes to your admissions essays. Dont make these important decisions that can alter the course of your life to the hours before January 2nd. Its absolutely insane if you ask us. Just insane.