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![Crunch time: the time between coming back from spring break and the May 1 national college decision deadline.
Seniors scram to pick their college to attend in the fall semester. A lot of emotion, like anxiety, stress and uncertainty, tends to stick around this time of year. A lot of students wonder if they’re making the right decision or not.
Kathy Green, Nonnewaug’s College and Career Resource Center counselor, believes that stress plays different roles in trying to make a decision during this crunch time.
“There are a lot of stress factors that can be added to making a decision with picking a college,” Green said. “One can be parents who are asking constantly about making a decision. Another is the impending transition, or moving on to the next phase. Emotions can run high. Finances can also play in that stress level category, [as well as] what programs different schools offer, and even crushed dreams, like not going to your dream school.”
Senior Jeff Bernardi has been holding off on choosing one of his top two schools for next year: Norwich and St. John Fisher. But why was he holding off making the decision for so long?
“The reason I took so long with my decision was because the prospect days that the [wrestling] coaches wanted me to go to were recent, and I want to see how they ran their program before I signed,” Bernardi said. “These days gave me new insight into the programs and helped make my decision easier.”
Bernardi said that he wasn’t stressed even though he did everything at the last minute. He has decided to attend Norwich in the fall.
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