Navigating Overwhelming Anxiety During College Application Season
Kristin Dean
High school students experience a season that arrives with a stack of deadlines, essays, and decisions. The college application process starts with excitement about the future and quickly transforms into overwhelming anxiety. These young adults face sleep issues, relationship struggles, and daily functioning troubles related to the pressure to create the perfect application. They face pressure to choose the right school to secure a future that hasn’t even started yet. This can become a burden that carries a lot of weight. It is a season in which students try to make life-altering decisions while simultaneously getting through the last year of high school. They are expected to curate and present...
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