Plan B: What to do if you don't get into IB
Today is the day. It's the day you get to see who got in to the IB, and who didn't. Your heart is pounding and your friends are texting frantically about which acceptance page they have open. You, along with hundreds of other students, are continuously refreshing the page with wide eyes and adrenaline coursing through your veins. The clock on your bedside table ticks over to 07:59. You have one minute until results are published. You begin to count down the seconds until the moment you get to know if you got into the IB or not. The minute feels like an hour, a day, a lifetime, but it finally comes. The clock strikes 08:00 and you hit refresh once more. The results have been published. You immediately begin sifting through the names faster than you can even properly read what they're saying and everything seems to be a blur. You realise that the names are organised in alphabetical order and you stop sifting for a moment and skip straight to the section your na