<p>How can you deal with rejection from your dream school? Knowing that I already applied to my dream school from previous two years and got rejected each time, is third time a charm? Or should I look elsewhere, I want to get out of here through.</p>
<p>look, all of you guys who think not getting your so-called ‘dream school’ means the end of the world need to understand that it’s not.</p>
<p>Dude, your life will continue no matter what school you end up in. Just because a school is your “dream school” doesn’t mean that its the best place for you, necessarily. You may have gotten in, and then found out that it wasn’t all you ever thought it would be. Seriously though, just continue working hard, and you will be just fine 
Just be sure to make the most out of wherever you go, and don’t let a rejection discourage you</p>
<p>I don’t know if this will help, but whenever I am extremely bummed about how something turned out, I read this.</p>
<p>TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,<br>
And sorry I could not travel both<br>
And be one traveler, long I stood<br>
And looked down one as far as I could<br>
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5</p>
<p>Then took the other, as just as fair,<br>
And having perhaps the better claim,<br>
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;<br>
Though as for that the passing there<br>
Had worn them really about the same, 10</p>
<p>And both that morning equally lay<br>
In leaves no step had trodden black.<br>
Oh, I kept the first for another day!<br>
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,<br>
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15</p>
<p>I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I<br>
I took the one less traveled by,<br>
And that has made all the difference.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter which way you go, because at sometime you will look back and realize that you taking “the road not taken” made all the difference. Getting rejected is only the first step in accomplishment, you will recover and you will be stronger and start a new trail traveled by no one else. If anything else, you must stay positive and optimistic. I hope that helped somewhat.</p>
<p>So life may not be fair; you will have to learn to deal with it. You should NOT take college admission as a judgment of who you are or as a way of determining self-worth. Handling defeat gracefully is a sign of strong character and we should all practice that more often.</p>
<p>bjt, go to undergrad somewhere else and then beat out a UCLA student for a graduate spot. Get it done buddy ;)</p>
<p>Going from university back to CC was probably the hardest reality I’ve had to deal with.
All I can say is, you still have a lot of time ahead of you (unless you’re like 40 years old…) and there are so many opportunities to do what you want with your life.</p>
<p>grad school is what matters, screw undergrad prestige.</p>
<p>i agree @xelink… and I know that it is upsetting to those of you that didn’t get into LA or are fearing rejection from UCB but there are worse things in the world then getting “stuck” at a mid-tier UC. College is what you make of it, just have fun, enjoy the next 2 or so years, work your ass off and get into your dream school as a grad student</p>
<p>@ Tras: best poem ever-
I live vicariously through it lol</p>
<p>Some of the happiest people I know are currently studying at CSU’s and “mid-tier” UC’s. It’s not the end of the world. UCs are very comparable in terms of academics, it’s just the prestige that Top 100’s put on them that makes them seem so different in rigor. Forget the prestige.</p>
<p>FYI, UCSD Econ ranks on par with UCLA econ…</p>
<p>just letting you all know.
and UCSD management science probably outranks UCLA biz econ too.</p>
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<p>the mid tiered UCs are all top 50 in the nation…</p>
<p>You guys, please stay optimistic! If you want to go to UCLA, you can stay again another year. I know that sounds bad, but if you pull up your GPA and find amazing extra curriculars, you’ll get in for sure! </p>
<p>Btw, being admitted to any UC is an amazing amazing accomplishment (coming from someone who got into UCLA). And if you want to go to UCLA that badly, you can always get a 4.0 after transferring to another UC and apply to UCLA for graduate school. I’ve heard UCLA is very cut-throat, so now you have the opportunity to have a kick-ass GPA that will land you into grad schools that other UCLA students with lower GPAs will get rejected from.</p>
<p>Good luck! and stay optimistic!</p>