Stress

One of the most stressful parts of the application system is making sure that all the supplemental documents are in by the deadline. Recently, I had a scare with one of my transcripts. I ordered it two weeks ago and it was taking forever to be notified that PTCAS received it. I still haven't, and now I was freaking out. If I don't get that transcript in by August 15, I might as well kiss AASU goodbye because it is a firm deadline and I couldn't even get everything in on time. So this morning I finally had to know for sure when my transcript was sent out and if PTCAS received it. I called up the school first and they told me when they mailed it, which was the day after I sent in my request. At least I know there wasn't any problems on their part. Next I called PTCAS to see if they have gotten the transcript. After waiting on the phone much longer than anticipated, I finally got a hold on someone. They told me that it was received five days after being mailed out and that it was probably still processing. The final day that it will take for it to be processed is next week. So now I will keep an eye out to check my status update to make sure that it is processed and everything is good.
Hearing that they do have it released a lot of stress on me and now I can focus on getting the last of my references in. I'm not that worried about those. I know that one will get theirs in soon and the other I will see in two weeks so I can ask them about it. After that, I won't have to worry about anything anymore with this application with the exception of getting in.