<p>I just wanted to share something that i read and experienced with my sister. Right now, most of you are DREAMING and freaking out about college admissions. That is completely understandable. Yet...what if something doesn't go as planned? What if you DON'T get into cornell?</p>
<p>My sister was waitlisted at her top three schools. She was devastated. The kind when you hold it in and seem ok, yet i knew she wasnt ok. i heard her crying all the time. It was hard to take. </p>
<p>Now she is a freshman at her next choice college. She is happy. Not even regular happy, she is EUPHORIC. She loves her college. As the article in USA Today says.."I've known lots of kids who haven't gotten into their first-choice school. They go to their second or third choice, and they come back, and they're so happy, they wonder why they wanted to go to their first choice in the first place."</p>
<p>After reading that article, i asked my sister if she could imagine herself at her first choice college from earlier. The same college that she was dreaming, obsessing, and praying to get into. She replied, "No. Not at all. I think they would have been way too uptight and i wouldnt have made the friends i have here and I just CANNOT see myself there at all. I would never leave this place for one of the other colleges, i couldnt." Ok maybe not that exactly but she said it all to me. </p>
<p>So. As December 15/11 fast approaches...whether it be wonderful news or news that you weren't quite expecting...BREATHE and understand that HEY...everything happens for a reason. </p>
<p>My sister didnt believe it, but now she KNOWS it. </p>
<p>That being said....best of luck to all of you- no matter what the future brings.</p>
<p>Yeah it is definitely important to realize that when you are being scrutinized by such a small group of admissions officers, you can't let their decisions become what you value yourself as personally.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that success is never defined by the college you go to. EVER. It is just a status symbol. Think about all of the richest people on this planet. How many of them went to the Ivies? A lot. How many graduated? Hardly any. (Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page come to mind)</p>
<p>You know what sucks for me, I have been so sure that I will get into Hotel School ED that I have been preparing to get in. I have like gone to stores and been like, wow, i need this, this, that, and this, for when Im at cornell. So if I don't get in, I may cry. But then go to BU, get drunk, and not cry anymore. :)</p>
<p>What... BU has a hotel program? I thought it was hospitality... I only know the better colleges for hotel are Cornell, Purdue, UN of Las Vegas, Virginia Tech....</p>
<p>When I was at the Cornell Summer Program centered in the Hotel School, one of my professors said that this was the list of Hotel/Hospitality School As far as I can remeber:
1. Cornell University
2. Ecole de Hoteliere Lausanne (In Switzerland)
3. Boston University
4. UNLV
5. Rochester Instiute of Technology
6. Purdue or Michigan State University</p>
<p>i can't immagine not getting in, but I'm trying to prepare myself. What will I tell other people if I get rejected lol? How will I ever finish the rest of my apps? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Trying not to think about it now. Hopefully won't ever have to! :) GL to all.</p>
<p>To be honest, I think your going to find it alot easier to do your other apps if you get rejected/deferred. At least that's what happened to me after I got deferred to UMich :P</p>
<p>whatttt? BU is number three? for real? i didn't realize how top tier it was in hotel schools.. i always thought it went, cornell, swiss one, UNLV, mich pennstate</p>
<p>That what I thought too, But BU has realy gotten involved and put a lot of money into its department. At Cornell, Penn State students are refered to as "Retards" but only in respect to Hospitality.</p>
<p>Thats why I'm not going to kill myself if I don't get into Cornell. Worst Case is that I spend a little while in Boston "the greatest city" before I transfer into Cornell.</p>