Approaching senior year’s home stretch

As the school year winds down, more and more seniors are committing to college. The excitement and camaraderie is evident, as Hewlett High School seniors come to school dressed in apparel from their chosen institution.
They proudly show off their new university bumper stickers on their vehicles and are sporting collegiate-themed clothing and accessories from their shoes to their iPhone cases (literally)! The pride they feel is what they have been waiting for since freshman year, and now it’s finally their time to flaunt it.
Even for the students who haven’t yet declared which school they’ll be attending in the fall (me included); the acceptances are slowly rolling in. Personally, I find it thrilling and exciting to go home to find a letter from a college in the mail with my admission decision inside. The adrenaline rush I get when I open an envelope or get into one of my top schools has truly been incomparable with anything else I’ve experienced.
“I feel like all the seniors, at this point, are tired of waiting,” senior Val Elefante said. “It has been a great four years in Hewlett but I think we are all ready to begin the next phase of our lives.”
Other students have already committed to college, nearly five weeks before the national deposit deadline of May 1.

“It is such a relief to finally know where I’m going to be spending the next four years of my life! The long, dreadful college application process and the waiting period are finally over. Now, I can sit back, relax and enjoy the remainder of my senior year with my friends,” Divya Lall said.
The homestretch has finally arrived here at Hewlett High and I, along with many others, await anxiously for my last admissions decisions to be released. Before we know it, it’ll be May 1, and we can finally celebrate our decisions! For now, however, we can sit back, relax and cheer each other on as our classmates declare where they will be going next fall.