Seniors, if your college applications were due one week from today, how would you spend your time this week?
How much more relaxed would the rest of your process be if you pretended that the deadline was a week away and did the work now?
I’m not suggesting you should necessarily submit that work right away. College applications shouldn’t be rushed.
But, like many difficult and even scary projects, sometimes just starting is the hard part. Dive in now and you’ll have plenty of time to refine and polish later. And you’ll give yourself a chance to be that rare senior who submits perfect applications long before the deadlines.