Rolling Admissions and Application Burnout

[NervousNellie]

I applied to two schools with an application deadline in mid-January. I have two other schools to which I plan to apply, one which has rolling admissions and one which has an early preference deadline in March. I need to get these applications in soon because I want to have all offers on the table around the same time in order to evaluate them together.

That said, anyone else get burnt out in applying before all applications are complete? I probably wouldn't be having SUCH a hard time, except (1) I had a big issue with one of my letter writers and ended up having to scramble, and it totally drained me and (2) these last two schools are asking for really different types of personal statements and essays than the other two, so none of my work so far is really applicable and I am more-or-less starting from scratch.

Ugh. It would be so easy to just give up right now!

Edited February 4, 2010 by NervousNellie

[Smaudge]

Yes I'm feeling it right now. I have one last MA program to apply to (deadline Feb 15), and I was putting it off to see if I heard anything back this week. I don't even really want to go to this last program, but I added it as one final safety... and it's a possibility that I'll need it. The app is supposed to be done in one sitting, so I'm not too worried about it, but I don't even want to think about doing it right now.

We have a serious case of Applicationitis.

[johndiligent]

By the time I got to my last application, I was a bit tired of doing them up. But they did get easier every time I did one, so I found that the amount of effort I actually had to put in was proportionate to my energy level, thankfully.

[modernity]

I have one more to do, and I definitely don't feel like doing it. I've had to change my personal statement for every school- because while they all are doing what I want to do, they're doing it in different ways and I didn't want my statement to seem generic. I already dropped one school though - when I realized how hard it was to write my SOP, I realized that the school wasn't for me - so I need to apply to this last one.

Everyone else is finished it seems, and waiting on acceptances so it makes it frustrating.

[ColorlessGreen]

*Cough* I still have one more application to go too *cough*. The deadline's March 1st, it's my alma mater, and it's almost done. With my statement of purpose and one LOR, it would be complete, but I just can't seem to do it. I already paid the application fee, so I really ought to just send off the rest of my materials and get it done with.

[southerntransplant]

Yes !! I thought there was something wrong with me for feeling so burnt out and completely lazy. I have two more apps with deadlines in March and April and it is so hard to complete them. I would have three more to apply to but one school was asking for everything to be sent in one complete package. After hours of fighting with my printer I decided that school was not for me. :/

[urbanchic]

Yea, I have one more app left too..due March 1/rolling admissions. Every thing is arleady turned in. Just don't know if I feel like doing it especially when it's a reach and I'm really tired of writing SOP.

[socnerd]

Yea, especially since I've put in 14 applications so far! As far as I know none of them have rolling admissions which stinks because I have to wait so long to hear from anywhere. I pretty much used the same SOP for each one, just adding on details about each school to personalize it, I know that wasn't good but not much about my application is. I have such low stats that I wanted to spread things around to give myself the best chance (which still isn't good). I also have 3 schools on retainer with later deadlines that I've started the apps for in case I get rejected from all the ones I've already applied to. I feel like this will be a never ending process for me. Oh well, at least my recommenders are sympathetic and willing to keep helping.

[Venetia]

I'm glad to hear that other people also got applicationitis! See, it's an actual condition, not just me being lazy. All my applications are in, thank goodness (they all had January 1st deadlines). I was very organized and had all of them submitted by mid-December...except one. It was a different program to the others, and so needed a completely different SOP. I put it off, and put it off again, and finally wrote something at the last minute and submitted it on the deadline. The last minute SOP makes me think that my chances for it aren't as good as they could have been. When I submitted it, I genuinely did not care (completely opposite to my previous behaviour of quintuple-checking each sentence in the SOP!), but now...