The reason I’m on this forum is because everyone around me has accepted me getting into University as a done deal. I received the hardest academic award to achieve at my school which basically made my teachers, friends and family all say “don’t worry you will get in.” I didn’t do too amazing on my exams I think, and it’s frustrating whenever someone says that me getting into my course is confirmed.
Whenever someone says “don’t stress we all know you’re going to get in based on your performance.” I always respond with, “nothing is confirmed, exam marks haven’t been released and scaling still needs to be taken into account,” but even then, everyone just says I’m being paranoid. It’s actually getting to the point where my family is planning on throwing me a goodbye party since I would be studying in another city, this is nice yes, but it’s making me panic and stress because I might not get in. Everyone has already prepared for me getting into my course and if I don’t, I would feel extremely awkward and ashamed. I’ve desperately tried explaining that nothing is confirmed and that we shouldn’t be making assumptions based on the INTERNAL assessments and everyone just brushes that off.
I do not want anyone saying, “you’re going to get in stop stressing” because they don’t understand that my exams didn’t go too amazing, and that some of them count towards 50% of my raw score. I went into the exams with,
59/75
50/50
50/50
38/50
71/75
65/75
These are good internal marks and they do give me a great start, but if I didn’t do too well on my exams, I might still rank pretty low.
Basically,
What can I do??? I can’t wait another 6 days because people are already acting like I got in. A bunch of other acquaintances of mine (who got early offers) are also asking me to join them as a roommates, and my teachers have already said goodbye to me and said that I will have a great time moving to the city, when I HAVE NOT even gotten in yet.
If I open my email from qtac next Saturday, and didn’t get a good enough score, every single person around me will probably be confused and disappointed. My year coordinator has told me that she will be up at 9am ready to check my atar too because she’s excited to see where my hard work has gotten me.
Don’t get me wrong, I worked like crazy this year, 3 hours every day, 6 hours leading up to exams, but I had a couple questions on the exam where I just completely screwed up, I got confused and that is 100% my fault. But since everyone saw my internal marks and saw me working hard, me getting into my course isn’t even a question, even though I constantly correct them.
I always hear “when you are studying blah blah at university,” and I always correct them to saying, “if you study...”
Does anyone know what I should do?
My entire circle around me has accepted that I will get in!
What can I tell them???
Ps: sorry for the long post, I don’t know where else to go because whenever I talk to someone about my concerns all I get is, “You are just stressing, don’t worry, when you get in you’ll see there was nothing to worry about.” It’s causing me to stress so much and I’ve been so distracted that I actually suffered a workplace injury (burned a massive hole into myself). Now I’m on bed rest and I’ve been running all these scenarios on what I will do and how I will tell people that I didn’t get in. If I tell them I didn’t get in, they’ll probably think I’m trying to prank them, which is going to make it all worse.
What do I do? How do you personally cope with stress? I’ve been counting down the hours until ATAR releases and it’s getting really bad for my health, I can’t sleep before 2am anymore! (I need 77, and 75 for my fall back course)-I know that this isn’t something in the 90’s, but I think I kind of bombed my exams so reaching this atar might be harder than expected for me.
Side Note- I wasn’t born in Australia, I’m from a country where having a university degree is kind of mandatory (in my family at least), so this is adding to the stress.