<p>Since most of us didn't get our mail yet and will probably get rejected(based on statistics), what are the best ways to deal with rejection? My decision will probably come tomorrow since I'm in NY.</p>
<p>Dust it off and pick yourself up again.</p>
<p>I'm going to need a damn good way to deal with rejection considering it's all I've been seeing.</p>
<p>Rejected from Wharton (ED), Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Northwestern, and MIT (as the top sprinter recruit for track/field).</p>
<p>Tomorrow UChicago and Princeton await in the mail. My two favorite schools too to boot. If I don't get into at least one, then I get to choose between NYU and freaking Carnegie Mellon. What a waste of a 1580, double digits of AP/IB classes, and about 4 years of my youth I could have spent drinking and smoking non-stop.</p>
<p>1) Remind yourself that the odds were always against you (9 rejects for 1 accepted was the only fact you could be sure of when you applied).
2) There a lot of fine schools out there where you may be happier.
3) Life is not made or lost by a decision by one person (or committee) you never met. You control your life, not them.
4) There is no guarantee you would have been happy at Pton. Kids drop out or transfer.
5) Ask people you respect where they and other great people went to college. Research heroes and role models. Many great people went to schools other than Pton.
6) Use it as a motivator. Think of sending your resume 20 years from now to Pton to remind them what they missed.</p>
<p>Now go make that resume great!</p>
<p>After i got deferred from Princeton, all I have got are rejections or waitlists </p>
<p>RJ: Yale, Penn, Duke, Northwestern, MIT, Brandeis
Waitlist: Carleton, Colby, Williams</p>
<p>I have made up my mind that I am ready for any more rejections there to come.</p>
<p>I'm not hoding onto any inkling of hope for Princeton. I only got into two colleges today, Cornell and Brown.</p>
<p>I received only rejections today too..JHU Yale Harvard...only Princeton left now but I am sooo not going to get in. holyspirit, I partially know what you feel, I have been also doing AP/IB for last couple of years. Oh well, come what may.</p>
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<p>Hey, that's exactly what I'm feeling now too! My friend who was on drugs throughout high school got into the same colleges I did, except that I spent my nights in studying and doing EC work. Yippee.</p>
<p>well I got my jhu bme and cornell today, so my way of seeing it is that pton would just be nothing more than a bonus</p>
<p>whats bme?</p>
<p>oh thats just the biomedical engineering major which I heard was harder to get into. not sure though</p>
<p>yeh, i got rejected from harvard today, probably just setting me up for a similar result with princeton. oh well, i dont NEED them.</p>
<p>drink.</p>
<p>there ya go.</p>
<p>To whomever said they don't NEED Princeton, kind of true I guess. But I'm anal and I just wikipedia'd the past 20 or so Supreme Court justices and major Political Analysts. About 99% of them come from Ivy League/equivalent backgrounds and about half I'd say from Princeton undergrad alone.</p>
<p>Though that isn't a very empirical study, I think it's pretty telling of what one's chances for the pinnacle of success, at least in the narrow field of law/political analyzing, are sans top undergrad degree.</p>
<p>p.s. I have some vodka waiting for me this weekend =P.</p>
<p>hey jsut wondering, what were your track times. I'm on the track team here at princeton.</p>
<p>Ummm well MIT is a Div III team for track, so I don't know if these times are on par at all with Princeton's...so don't laugh at me =P</p>
<p>It's late and I'm extremely depessed so I don't have exact #'s either...
55m = 6.65ish
100m = 10.8ish
200m = 22.9 or so.</p>
<p>then everything else is just random crap.</p>
<p>Even though I haven't gotten an official rejection from anywhere, my track record doesn't look so hot. But if it continues, maybe I'll still come away with a waitlist!</p>
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I'm going to need a damn good way to deal with rejection considering it's all I've been seeing.</p>
<p>Rejected from Wharton (ED), Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Northwestern, and MIT (as the top sprinter recruit for track/field).</p>
<p>Tomorrow UChicago and Princeton await in the mail. My two favorite schools too to boot. If I don't get into at least one, then I get to choose between NYU and freaking Carnegie Mellon. What a waste of a 1580, double digits of AP/IB classes, and about 4 years of my youth I could have spent drinking and smoking non-stop.
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<p>We are on the same boat. Rejected at Wharton (thought i had a good shot), harvard and yale. Waiting on pton/stanford/nyu</p>
<p>see. i'll probably get rejected from pton and stanford too, but hey, if we both end up going to NYU. lets be friends! </p>
<p>and your comment on supreme court justices and political analysts. Well i founded amnesty, founded the political science club, founded an intercity youth political organization, which is recongized by my city's mayor and my province's premier (aka governor), with over 70 members and it works on projects with the damn city itself. And i got flat out rejected from harvard and yale. Who the hell ever said those schools are for future politicians</p>
<p>Hey I feel you. I almost bashed my head through the wall today as i got rejected from UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Harvard.</p>
<p>I am a legacy to Columbia and Harvard too. Dang it seems as if four years of my life have gone down the toilet.</p>
<p>I'm waiting on Stanford, Princeton, and Brown. Hope I get into at least one.</p>
<p>MAJOR agreement, holyspirit. try being rejected from 4 top schools in 2 days, and then facing up to the fact that you get to go to the biggest university in the nation, where despite the championship football team (HOOK 'EM HORNS!) ... the education is somewhat not up to par. (University of Texas is what I'm referring to). I haven't heard back from Princeton yet but I was deferred ED.</p>