<p>Well a lot of people have started to hear back from competitive schools and obviously everyone who applied didn't get in. </p>
<p>Have any of you had others mad or jealous at you because you got in somewhere they didn't? Have you ever felt the same way about somebody else? What do you say in response to the haters?</p>
<p>Discuss.</p>
<p>All (minus some) in AP Eng “hate” (not serious though…just joking) me for going unblemished so far (soon to not be though as UC Berk, Ivies, and Stanford come D: ).</p>
<p>I haven’t, since I haven’t gotten any rejections yet, but there was pretty bad incident involving my friend. She made a joke on facebook that would usually be harmless, but since decisions for a certain school had just come out, one girl who was rejected took it offensively and lashed out at my friend. Over facebook, where the whole world could see. So I thought that was pretty classless (the comment involved name-calling), but I just hope the whole thing blows over.</p>
<p>I just don’t TELL people that I’ve gotten into Cal already through regents and Columbia through a likely and Williams through an early write. It’s sort of awkward when your friends are rejected from these places and those easier to get in to… But then when people ask where I’ve gotten in so far I sort of lie by giving an abbreviated list.</p>
<p>Basically it SUCKS. I mean not that I’m not really happy to have gotten in to these places, but I hate how if I tell people I’m cocky/conceited, but in order not to tell them I have to lie to them, which feels really condescending…</p>
<p>it’s awkward for me because i’ve gotten in to a really good school (USC), but i really ant to go to school on the east coast. my first choice hasn’t sent out acceptances yet, so when i tell people i don’t really plan on going to USC, i get dirty looks and “your crazy!”-s. i only applied there because my parents went there. it sucks because it’s starting to make me feel bad about getting in, and i shouldn’t have to feel guilty about getting into a good school.</p>
<p>also, i haven’t gotten rejected yet. some of my classmates have only received rejections or only got accepted to their safety and i know they all hate me right now. i keep telling them that they ARE going to college, even if it’s not the one they wanted, but it’s to no avail. i should be feeling great about getting these acceptances, but i’m not.</p>
<p>and it doesn’t help that i got a likely letter from dartmouth.</p>
<p>Yesterday is yesterday for me. 
I’m satisfied with 20k scholarship from UM.</p>
<p>I definitely feel you guys. I applied to UW which is pretty much a crap shoot unless you’re the perfect student. People with higher stats that were wait listed or rejected are just really mad at people with lower stats, but better ECs and essays… They don’t realize that admissions is oftentimes given a holistic approach… It’s frustrating…</p>
<p>I do not even want to attend a top school for undergrad, but I am extremely jealous of a kid in my class who got into Duke. I was deferred, and could still get in, to Brown, but I am not going to attend if I get in. Nonetheless, that human urge to show off and be a hero to others makes me jealous. On the other hand, this kid was an athletic recruits; however, he is a smart athletic recruit - a student as good as me.</p>
<p>I make myself feel better when I realize how competitive the top schools are and how miserable people often are. I will graduate with little or no debt, raring to go for grad school; t costs a boat load of money out of state. For someone going to medical school, for example, the combined medical school debt and undergrad debt would probably be at least three-hundred thousand.</p>
<p>I don’t apologize for my success and no one faults me for it. Anyone with a problem with a friend’s success has a misplaced sense of entitlement.</p>
<p>Ugh, yes. People have gotten early writes/likelys from schools that I applied to…I hate to be that person, but objectively, I’m a better applicant (yes, both stats and essays), but they’re URMs.</p>
<p>Yes…kind of because it makes me feel awful …and regretful about not trying harder & if I had…I know that for sure I could have been a pretty competitive applicant since My URM & low income statuses could have given me an edge. I seriously pity myself everyday and I really wish I could go back in time and change so many things…:(</p>
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<p>^^ Yea, cause i’m black, i’m getting into harvard, right/…?</p>
<p>■■■■.</p>
<p>Yeah, one of my friends got a full ride to Georgetown. I’m really jealous, not only did he get into a good school - he’s also going for free.</p>
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<p>It’s not that my friends necessarily have a problem with my success. I just feel really bad about how I’ve been more successful than them in this process, and so I feel I can’t even TELL them. Like my one friend got rejected from a UC and wanted me to tell her all the schools I’d gotten in to so far. It’s bad enough that I got in to that school; I wasn’t about to tell her I got a likely from Columbia too! But then I was lying to her, and that felt crappy also. It’s sort of a lose-lose situation. If you do well you feel guilty and bad, and if you do poorly you feel jealous and crappy too.</p>
<p>@daxlo: hahah noooooo I never thought of it like “just Cuz I’m black I’m gonna get into HYPS blah blah blah”…I just thought of it as I have good hooks like URM/low income/geographical diversity(? not really one but almost since I live in mn…)
I just feel really lame about if I hadnt screwed up my sophomore maybe I could’ve. been the one getting a full ride at my dream school…
But I also feel bad for letting good opportunities slide by me.But it’s okay though…surprisingly I’ve matured a lot during HS so I’ve learned from my past mistakes and definitely wont be repeating them in college & in the future :)</p>
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That makes no sense at all. You and your friend are two completely different individuals. There’s no reason for him/her to feel entitled to the benefits of whatever you achieve, nor for you to feel so bad about doing better that you can’t even share your happiness. Plus your friend isn’t going to feel much better when you officially hear from Columbia and possibly even better schools, yet he/she would be devastated if he/she knew you were lying now.</p>
<p>I never said my friend felt “entitled to the benefits of whatever…* achieve,” and this is likely not true. Nevertheless, the fact that I got in and she did not could still sting. And whether there is a reason for me to feel “bad about doing better that you can’t even share your happiness” or not doesn’t mean I don’t still feel that way. You can’t change how you feel. Finally, my friend doesn’t have to ever know about Columbia unless I tell her, and anyway, a regular admissions decision is less of an accomplishment (albeit still a great one) than a likely letter.</p>
<p>To me it makes complete sense… I don’t want my friends to feel bad, so I don’t completely come clean about where I’ve gotten in. This, in turn, makes me feel bad for lying, but I view it as the lesser of two evils.</p>
<p>screw seeming conceited I’ve worked my a** off and deserve to be proud of my accomplishments. Not saying I deserve the acceptances - I know it’s a privilege and I’m incredibly lucky - but I do believe that I deserve to feel good about them after all the work I put in.</p>
<p>I’m in at the 5 I’ve heard from (waiting on 5 more) with full tuition at one of them. I’m not going to go around bragging, but I’ll definitely share the good news :)</p>
<p>Arrogant? Maybe a bit.</p>
<p>Yes, and no one actually says it but they just say things that are just rude and clearly stem from jealousy. It’s so dumb, I’m embarrassed to tell people I got into Penn because of that. It’s not like HS was a walk in the park for me, I put in effort where others didn’t. It’s not even the top students who are jealous, its the kids who take one or two APs and think they’re awesome because they have straight-A’s. And it’s frustrating that some of my friends can’t just be happy for me, I guess. :/</p>
<p>It sucks, I got into my state flagship with a full ride, and a lot of my friends REALLY want to go there…one of them just got in spring semester and a few got in, without any money.</p>
<p>I DON’T have any desire to go there, but when I say that people think im CRAZY. I really want to go to a private school, or a Va state at least, but they’re all totaling in at at least 30,000, with room and board…:0 it sucks because people think im being ungrateful when I say I’d rather NOT go there.</p>