<p>^ I think my biggest issue with posters like the OP (there hae been similar others every so often) is a real sense of entitlement that oozes off the page. That, mixed with resentment against perceived “injustices” done to them, makes for a very bitter, very obnoxious and immature post.</p>
<p>Maybe such posters will look back a few years from now, happy in whatever college they are at, and shake their heads and laugh.</p>
<p>What entitlement! What florid prose!</p>
<p>^ A reference to me?</p>
<p>I DID say that the spirit or essense of the post was a sense of entitlement (why else would the OP be complaining about how the “system” has screwed him over?).</p>
<p>I DID say the OP’s post was written in a pseudo-literary style. (Though, to be fair, it really isn’t THAT bad. At least it reads ok - it’s just too needlessly “confessional” for my tastes)</p>
<p>I did NOT say anything to the effect that the OP has florid prose. He/she doesn’t.</p>
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<p>No but I don’t see why we can’t both get in. Unless you’re advocating the belief that my acceptance would simply be taking up a seat, a seat that should be reserved for someone else? In my opinion, if the only reason why admission committees did not admit me was because they thought they would be doing injustice to other applicants that they also had to reject, why, that’s not a good reason at all.</p>
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<p>OK I’m sorry to hear that. I still fail to see how others’ having similar or worse situations makes mine any better. I could get into a “nah you’re wrong, my life is worse” kind of thing (which it arguably is–I just left out most of the details), but what purpose would that serve? My life’s being worse than your life does not make yours any better. It goes both ways.</p>
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<p>Am I not entitled to the right of feeling entitled? Notice how I never complained “why don’t they just accept me!?” I’m not saying I should be blindly accepted. What I am saying is that, I am part of system in which it is easy to fall and hard to get back up.</p>
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<p>They must’ve been addressed to me; otherwise, they would’ve ended in question marks.</p>
<p>So…what is wrong with my style again? Not all of my essays read like this, and I don’t see how it “was written in a psuedo-literary style.” Sure, it may be more formal than what one would come to expect on the Internet, but I don’t believe that all noncasual writings are uptight. If it is simply a matter of taste, then that’s fine.</p>
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<p>I was talking about the OP, but joking/exaggerating, mostly because it was 4 in the morning. Usually, if I’m talking about a post somewhere near mine I put carets or an @[name of the poster to whom I am responding].</p>
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<p>There’s a difference between a more formal style and a pseudo-literary style. Most of it is right there in the “pseudo.”
When I was reading your post, which I admittedly skimmed, somewhere around 4 in the morning, when my reading comprehension was probably not all that great, I noted that your syntax often seemed strange. Like you had looked some of the words up in the dictionary or thesaurus and understood only the denotation – and perhaps not even that fully – and not at all the subtleties of the connotation.</p>
<p>When I first read your post, I still had some sympathies for you, but as I skimmed through these pages and read your responses, you’ve simply lost all of my respect.
We’re all going to face rejections, disappointments, and falterings at some points in our lives. But do you know what separates the great people from the average? They have the will-power, the attitude, and the willingness to get up, and fight again.
You’ve been stressing that your situation, your school, and “the system” has undermined your success. You’ve been saying that you as a person is higher than what your transcript indicates. Yet, from what you’ve posted so far on CC, I can only see you as a bitter, disoriented, self-centered teenager, not someone destined for any sort of success.
First of all, the world is NOT FAIR. I’m sorry if that breaks some kind of equilibrium you’ve been fed, but the truth is this: the rich do tend to fare better, and some people do live under more fortunate backgrounds. However, what man has in this day and age is not a birthright to EQUALITY, but a birthright to HOPE. We can hope to make our lives better, and through an overwhelming amount of work, dedication, and self-explored talent, we can ride over those who had a better starting point than we.
You, however, did none of that, ignored the fact that many others had much worse backgrounds than you but have managed to far surpass your level of achievement, but simply chose to come here and complain about a “system” that you claim is unfair. The truth is, the “system” we have here is NOT perfect, but it is so much better than many others in this world. It’s the fact that you’ve been blindfolded against anyone but you that has led you to cast blame to the others you can’t see, until you get what you want.
Open your eyes, and get real.</p>
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<p>No, I didn’t use a thesaurus. If some words seemed poorly used, it was because they were the first to pop into my head that seemed to fit. If I ever use a word in a wrong way, it’ll be because I don’t bother to find better substitutes, not because I found it in the first place.</p>
<p>After scanning through my original post for “big words,” I can’t spot one that was used in a different connotation that it is usually used it, mostly because most of them were all-purpose adjectives.</p>
<p>000ace000, thank you, that post was exactly what I wanted to say.
But to add to it…</p>
<p>OP, please read this article, “When Success Follows the College Rejection Letter”
[When</a> Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ.com](<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704211704575139891390595962.html]When”>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704211704575139891390595962.html)
If you really
, then you can find some comfort in this article and move on.</p>
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^These are fine things to do; keep doing them for yourself because you “truly enjoy them,” and someday they WILL help you. It’s not “too little too late;” maybe too late to impress college admissions officers, but ultimately that doesn’t matter–that process is pretty much concluded for you, now you need to move on and make the most of what you have. </p>
<p>As Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale said, “It’s not where you get in, but how you come out”
Read this article too: [Steve</a> Leveen: College: It’s not where you get in, but how you come out](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>College: It's not where you get in, but how you come out | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>So if life is not fair, then use it to your advantage. When life hands you something, make the most out of it.
Good luck.</p>
<p>You are not dumb, and you know it, but that in itself is not going to get you anywhere. You lack maturity, you expect things somehow to magically fall into place for you and your lack of dedication is evidence of that. It takes maturity to realize that you need to do a lot of boring in things in life in order to succeed and so even if you hated school you should have stuck with it. Your classmates realized that and so now they are going wherever they want and you’re stuck with exactly what you had coming. Im not trying to be mean or anything, just giving you my honest opinion. What you can look forward to though, is that if you decide to really dedicate yourself to your undergraduate education (whatever school you go to) is that you can still end up at a really amazing grad school… which quite frankly is even more important…</p>
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<p>Haha. Sorry if I seemed overly sharp!</p>
<p>I thought it was a reference to me because in a previous post to another OP who posted something similar (a very fake-lyrical, ridiculously long list of complaints about the system in a similar over the top style - but worse) I called that OP’s writing florid and entitled. </p>
<p>I was kind of struck by the similarity/coincidence of your post!</p>
<p>Anyway, kumbaya :)</p>
<p>Let me get this straight: you don’t want to “play the game”, but you want to attend Harvard Business School, the epitome of “playing the game”? You won’t be able to graduate from Harvard by doing what you’re doing now. You seem to have this view that Harvard Business School is a magical place filled with joy and candy and unicorns and sex, where working strictly on things you’re passionate about will be celebrated by everyone. That’s not at all what it’s like. The majority of the work you will do there will be work you won’t want to do. And, based on your posts, you wouldn’t do it if given the opportunity. Why should Harvard Business School accept you? You are a presumptuous loser who is trying to start a philosophical debate to distract from the fact that you are a lazy loser. A lazy, unintelligent loser. Intelligent people know they have to work to get what they want. You clearly don’t.</p>
<p>The OP reminds me of Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye.</p>
<p>Very interesting. I always felt like I was meant to be greater than I am… I do not know if everyone has the same feeling, but some things are set and stone, like my natural intellect, aka SAT scores. Although not as high as others, some people have to work harder than others. It’s a fact.</p>
<p>So what I’m trying to say is, everyone is different… Everyone has benefits and neutral disabilities. Some may have all benefits, and some may have all disabilities. But it’s up to you to make the difference.</p>
<p>It’s all about your mindset man. Think positive, think universally, think to God. Okay, the God part was personally me, I’m a Christian and I’ll have to say, prayers work to unrealistic odds… But good luck.</p>
<p>You want the prize, but you’re unwillingly to play the game that so many other students work tremendously hard to ‘perfect’. If you got accepted with that kind of entitled, pretentious attitude, then THAT would be unfair.</p>
<p>How is lamenting about your life to random strangers on an internet forum going to help you? You try to come off all noble, proclaiming that you’re not fishing for compliments, denying that you’re trying to indirectly insult successful applicants. Really, what was the purpose of your original post? Your opening questions was something along the line of “Why am I not getting into these schools?” When people attempt to answer, you reject them all. You argue against every person in some sort of pretentious mock debate style; you don’t even acknowledge or thank the posters who are trying to be helpful and give you encouragement and hope. I don’t believe that you’ve ever said a ‘thank you’ to any of the well-wishers, because that wouldn’t satisfy your need for attention. </p>
<p>If you wanted to rant, write it in your diary. Don’t come to an online forum and then be shocked/offended when people respond - though I’m sure you’ll find a way to argue that point as well, with some cooked up philosophical argument.</p>
<p>I don’t know about you OP but I never did anything specifically for my apps so I’ve always held the “if it’s in the cards then it’s in the cards, if not well then f*** 'em” attitude which to be honest I think the members of CC could use a bit of…</p>
<p>EDIT: nvm</p>
<p>it might be better just to let this thread die</p>
<p>To Jaddua, you need to chillax and stop being so insulting. It does no good to this thread and you aren’t helping the situation with your pointless insults. You through your posts seem like the immature one. To antonioray, all of us feel, at times, that we are meant for the greatness; the only thing that seperates those that feel it and those that are it is hard work and dedication. Best of luck.</p>
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<p>Firstly, I never mentioned anything regarding maturity. It’s clear that you’re trying to act all high and mighty, like you’re insanely mature, but you’re quick to point out and whine that you think I’m immature? Secondly, why did you single me out? Thirdly, what was the point in even posting in a thread that the OP wants to let die?</p>
<p>I know it’s prob best if the thread dies…but i would like to say something briefly and echo what some others have mentioned.</p>
<p>OP, I get what you mean about how, once you fall, it’s hard to get back up during your high school years. Your freshman GPA does follow you, and can factor into your college decisions. But seriously, the time that you spent cleaning up your act junior and senior years isn’t wasted - HOPEFULLY the lessons you’ve learned will carry you through the next couple of years in college, help you get a good start your freshman year, and then you can think of transferring/doing whatever you want later.</p>
<p>for better or for worse, i’ve come to the conclusion that regardless of how we do in high school, what matters for grad school/careers/etc. is undergrad. Yeah, you’re going to a state school versus others who go to brand name schools. yeah, you might have to distinguish yourself a little bit more. But you reap what you sow, and things’ll work out if you put in efforts.</p>
<p>Instead of feeling depressed over the last few years of your life, look forward. Seriously, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>I chose you because you are the only person that has posted that has thrown out unneccesary insults at the OP without any reasoning.</p>