And finally, after many an anxious hour, Notre Dame has wait-listed me. It was a very polite and complimentary wait-list email, and a far better thing than the rejections I got everywhere else. But now all my hopes hang upon one fickle wait-list.
So if you so happen, peradventure, to be sitting prettily upon a Notre Dame offer that you just haven't quite deigned to turn down yet, I heartily encourage you to strike while the iron is hot, lest the people like myself of the world should have to go back to being lawyers.