College application, or several, is an achievement. You should allow yourself to celebrate and feel proud of your accomplishments before you get your college admission results. However, waiting to hear from the colleges can be anxiety provoking. It can be so difficult to acknowledge that at this point the decisions are largely out of your control. You have earned your grades, involved yourself in activities, taken standardized tests, written essays, visited and researched colleges, gotten letters of recommendation, interviewed, and yet it isn’t over.