You're worked to the fullest
but you don’t know if
it will all go as planned
the way you would like.

All you do is study
but you may not get
the grade that you worked
so hard to receive.

All of this stressful
work
I put in my life just
hoping it will pay off.

You hope that the college
you apply to will appreciate
all the long hours, studying
and all those sleepless nights.

You make an “A” and you
feel so proud, but now the
shameful “F” comes along and
not knowing what went wrong.

That “F” really ticks me off because I study
and study and you see what I get, the hours of
stress
I put into that “F”.

The long nights we face
filling out college applications
will not go unseen because
of the effort we put.

You have finished the application
and now all you can
do is wait for that
letter to decide your fate.

It all comes down to a single letter
that you received in the mail:
you're in or
you’re out.