The Race for College Admissions

Well not so much a race, as much as a colosseum of cats, clawing and hissing at each other.

Let's admit it. It's September! The cool kids are talking and thinking about Homecoming or football, THEY are the lions, and WE, are the kittens.

The kids who are taking and retaking both the ACT and SAT so that we can apply Early Decision to Ivy Leagues.

The kids who are pestering counselors about school forms while they're trying to fix first semester schedules.

The lions are getting high and getting drunk, and the kittens are staying up until 1am on eprep dot com. For real. I have done it.

And meanwhile, us kitten are few in litter at our own school, but reading College Confidential, we find the cougars. The kittens who started way earlier then us. We scored 30's on the ACT and they scored 36.

The lions could beat up the cougars, but the cougars could outwit the lions. And us kittens can't do anything to anyone.

And now, the lot of us are placed in a mad dash to submit everything before November 1st, when College Admissions will seal our fates as we quiver in fear of December 15th's notification date.

The lions will hang back and apply regular decision in January, the Cougars will cross the finish line, and the kittens will jump in and hope to scrape by.

Here's to all the kittens, racing toward Early Admission.

This was a bad metaphor and I apologize.......