<p>I'm posting this now because I don't expect you to return to this forum if you receive rejection. I don't usually like to get involved in these sorts of forums, but I see so much tension here that I'd like to try to relieve you a bit. I'm not saying anything you haven't heard, but hopefully through repetition you will take it to heart.</p>
<p>"First decide who you would be, then do what you must do."
If you're going to university to become defined as a person, you're not ready to go to university. Sometimes being rejected or having our plans postponed can be the finest result, because these things can be more valuable once we grow a bit older. Don't let the university you attend - whether it's Harvard or a community college - define you. Create yourself. If tomorrow you are met by disappointment, stop pretending that you're god. What do you know about what is best? You don't even know what's going to happen tomorrow, and that's why you're here reading this now.
If tomorrow isn't what you've hoped and prayed, remember that attempting is a powerful principle. There is none stronger than the Knight of Faith, who, knowing and acknowledging that something is completely impossible, nevertheless believes that it is possible, in virtue, that is, of the absurd.</p>
<p>Weep not, for the world is your oyster.</p>