<p>I feel… weird. My three best friends have received the following:</p>
<p>-acceptance to first choice school, William & Mary
-acceptance to first choice school, Tufts
-acceptance to Georgetown and full ride to William & Mary</p>
<p>I’m very very proud of them and excited for them, of course. I just feel weird because the only admissions decision I’ve received so far is from my safety school. The rest are coming quite soon, but I still feel totally out of place among my besties in regard to future. In a friendly way, I’m jealous that they already know they’re headed off to great schools.</p>
<p>I’ve let all of my friends know ahead of time that I won’t be telling them any of my decisions. I will only tell them what school I eventually decide to go to. It’s been a little difficult, because people will ask me straight out whether I got into a certain school or not. It is actually a lot harder sticking to it after I got a totally unexpected likely letter from a school, but I will stand by it.</p>
<p>There’s a very easy way to deal with this that doesn’t involve lying or sounding stuck-up. Just don’t say anything. If someone asks you, tell them the truth. Don’t brag. Just be honest. If someone else got in somewhere you didn’t, congratulate them.</p>
<p>It is a tough way to end secondary school.
Feelings of entitlement are all over these boards. How to gain residentcy, lousy financial aid packages, hooks…</p>
<p>One of the teachers at my d’s school put up an acceptance board and told the students to post their acceptances. It was suppose to be supportive and allow students to help celebrate their own and other student acceptances. Unfortunately, it has caused some very jealous feelings among students and nasty comments from those that did not get into their first choice schools.</p>
<p>I don’t brag, but if people ask, I tell them honestly. Its pretty ok as most of them have no idea where I’m talking about except for a friend of mine (my bestie) who aplied to 3 of the same schools as me, got waitlisted at 1 and was rejected by 2 while I was accepted to all 3 with an early write from 1. Talking about that in the car is always awkward as I want to feel proud but I also don’t want her to feel bad… it’s pretty complicated.</p>
<p>And then, I feel jealous that a friend of mine has gotten into Brown and I’m like: “I should’ve applied there.” But then, I remember that the only ivies that truly fit the crieria for what I wanted were Dartmouth (waitlisted) and Columbia (rejected) and I know I would not have enjoyed Providence, Ithaca, Pennsylvania in general, etc.</p>
Solid advice, and normally I would agree, but you never know how someone else takes this. Keeping quite offends some people, and being honest and frank offends others. It really depends on what kind of people your friends are, and their own circumstances as well.</p>
<p>I’ve been exceedingly lucky with my acceptances, so Wednesday was incredibly awkward, since one of my best guy friends and our val faced a slew of rejections and waitlists at his top choices. He was especially crushed since he’d been accepted to Stanford and JHU the day before and got his hopes up for a happy Ivy D-day. Another peer was rejected everywhere but our (admittedly great) state flagship. </p>
<p>I’m teetering between Chicago (which a friend got rejected from EA), Princeton (which the second guy would’ve killed to go to), and Harvard (which the val has been infatuated with since freshman year). </p>
<p>I feel awful in the sense that wherever I go, my decision not to choose the ones others wanted more than anything will seem like a flippant dismissal of that school (excuse how awkwardly that was worded). Luckily, the val has been terrific about the whole thing, though I do feel awful when he’s talking about how bad his JHU finaid is likely to be and how he doesn’t want to leave his family to go all the way to Cali. Gah.</p>
<p>I never got bitter, but I was annoyed for a day or two. The val of my class got there by cheating. All through high school, he was stealing exams, hiding answers, tons of people reported him, but nothing could ever be proven. I have the best scores of my school, but I’m like 25/400, while he’s #1. He got in somewhere I was waitlisted (and I believe it was his top school, besides Harvard, which he didn’t get into), so that was mildly annoying. He was a legacy, though. But then I got in somewhere that routinely calls the other school its backup college, so I stopped being annoyed. Even if I don’t go to the other school (most selective to accept me), it’s nice to know I got in there.</p>
<p>Now, I feel bad about one thing. I applied to the University of Florida (my state school) as a financial safety. However, almost everyone at my school (those who aren’t diehard Florida State University fans) applied there as their dream school. A lot of seemingly deserving people were rejected. I was accepted, with a NM scholarship, but I feel bad that it was my safety. Luckily, I was out of the state when decisions came out, so I didn’t have to tell everyone I got in. That would have been awkward.</p>
<p>Yeah, I felt the same way about admissions at Berkeley. By the time their decisions came out I was already pretty sure I was going to go elsewhere, and I was also pretty sure that I was going to get in.</p>
<p>I didn’t get into Brown, but nobody I knew did, which made it somewhat better. But my friend didn’t get into Stanford even though he got into UPenn and Princeton, and he sulked and sulked even though my other friend who got rejected ED from Penn was really hurt. He couldn’t get over his distress about not getting into Stanford, and everyone was really angry at him because we could see how he was hurting her. That too helped me really get over not getting into Brown and being 100% happy with the schools I did get into.</p>
<p>I was one of few people to get into Northeastern, and people constantly mention it. And I’m jealous of this kid in my class becase he got into a certain school that waitlisted me even though my extracurriculars, test scores, and grades are much better…I didn’t really want to go there but it just makes me mad that he got in but I didn’t.</p>
<p>Rejected from UCLA and Cal (probably due to unweighted GPA/lack of ECs), both of which I seriously liked and have a good amount of people from my school (both this year and last) attending. I felt better after learning that some people (who I think are pretty cool and am surprised they aren’t going to top schools either) are going to where I am, though. (Does that sound weird? It was my guaranteed safety, though it’s still got a decent rep.) And the tired old ‘it’s what you do while you’re there, not where you go’ cliche comforts me.
I think my class at my school was one of the strongest graduating classes in years, and for some people I know (but don’t know too well) who got into really impressive schools, I know they deserved it and seriously want to tell them more congratulations than a simple Facebook like.</p>