College

So I have a 100% acceptance rate. How exciting. I've been accepted at Utah State University, Northern Arizona University, Brigham Young University- Idaho, and Oklahoma Baptist.

I was offered $15,000 from Utah State, plus an additional $400 housing scholarship. They also kept telling me to apply for the honors program. And they sent me really nice chapstick.

Northern Arizona didn't offer me anything. But they keep sending me crap. And they have a whole bunch of cool speakers and events on campus.

BYUI was super frustrating. First, back in October it took them 3 weeks to find my ACT scores, which were sent along with my transcripts. I emailed, called, and chatted with them and each time they told me they weren't there. I even paid ACT to send BYU the scores. So I had my school call, and what do you know? There are my ACT scores behind a piece of paper. Now my application was complete, before the early decision deadline. I checked the application status once a week until the 4 week mark, then I checked every day, since they said 4-6 weeks. Once day, around Christmas - when everyone I knew who applied had already heard - I checked it and it no longer said they had my transcripts and instead said they needed my GED. What the heck. I'm still in school, earning a degree, I don't have a stupid GED. So I called and they claimed I didn't go to a nationally accredited high school. Yea right, my school is one of 7 schools "accredited with distinction" in the state of Colorado. So the director of my school called and talked to the admissions and they told me I have to talk some test. The Compass test, which is basically the ACT. So I had to spend another $50 on a stupid test. Plus, the day it was scheduled was a snow day because it was negative something outside. Coldest day of the year. It broke records. And I had to take the light rail. In the end I exceeded the scores they wanted me to get. They wanted 22 math and 70 reading, I got 42 math and 99 reading. Waste of my time.

A couple days later I was accepted. I didn't care. They were too frustrating. At this point everyone that was accepted was getting track assignments. They were all getting fall/spring. That is the worst track ever. Who wants to go to school for a semester, go home for a semester, then school for a semester, then break for a semester. I decided that I would go somewhere else if that was the track I was assigned to. Thankfully I was put on the fall/ winter track. If BYU wasn't so cheap I would definitely consider other places more seriously.

Oklahoma Baptist sent me one of those, "Send us your name and your grades and we'll let you know if you're in deals" No essay, no fee, why not? So I did it. They offered me like $14,000 in scholarships.

So yea. The end. I'm a whiner.