<p>Wise words everyone. Unfortunatly, if I am accepted somehwere and choose to go, I’m out 500 dollars in deposit money xD</p>
<p>@PxAlaska: ??? Better than me-I’ve only got $21.60 in my account now (never been a good saver…there’s always some trinket that I want to buy. XP)</p>
<p>"???"? What do your question marks question?</p>
<p>""???"?"?</p>
<p>I’ll just make it even more confusing-what do your question marks question question?</p>
<p>I’m questioning your questions.</p>
<p>I’m questioning your question questions.</p>
<p>Originally, I was wondering why you said that you had 500 dollars in deposit money. But this is much more fun.</p>
<p>pmsing Sorry @GoldenRatio</p>
<p>Okay…that’s nice to know?</p>
<p>I think if I’m rejected I’ll definitely be upset, but I’ll deal with it, because I always remember that even if I don’t go to boarding school, my current public school is in the top 100 in the country, and it’s INCREDIBLY challenging and full of opportunities. Plus, at the school I go to I get to be the star of the academic world just because it’s a small school with little (but intense) intellectual competition. Not to mention it has an amazing theatre program and a champion mock trial team and super nice people and programs unique to it.</p>
<p>Wow I’m so sorry about the rant, I just realized I took this as an opportunity to list out everything I love about my school to subdue my fears, but it did help so I advise everyone to do so as well!!!</p>
<p>Oh and thank you so much to everyone who shared their wise words of advice for facing rejection, it made me feel so much better! :D</p>
<p>The word “rejection” is my enemy! I hate it!</p>
<p>I am as pragmatic as the next person, and I will be the first to admit that I do not think I am all that extraordinary in schools like Andover and Exeter, that receive more desirable candidates than they have spots. </p>
<p>Still, I do not think that a rejection letter (which I am promptly awaiting, to be completely honest) goes out to define what I will do in the rest of my years in high school. Certainly, it may suggest specific trends about the opportunities available to me at that time, or my capacity for essays where the prime subject matter is me, myself, moi and ego; but to allow that to have any bearing on the path I will take in the future is beyond me. Successful performance is all about commitment to a long term plan, and I am willing to lay one down and stick to it, regardless of the school I find myself going to next year.</p>
<p>This does not go without acknowledging what an educational experience applying to such high-end, hotshot institutions has been. I think the excitement of potentially going into such a competitive environment has inspired me to apply changes to my everyday life in order to be intellectually stimulated - awakening my love for all things related to learning.</p>
<p>I hope you all get what you want; and, to be completely realistic, that cannot entail all of you getting into your first choice schools. It can, however, occur under all of you pursuing your dreams and aims, and setting out to define a field, regardless of whether you stay home or not. Let the impeding weight of your life changing inspire you; not confine you to perceiving success as a one-track road.</p>
<p>kthnxbye luv u all</p>
<p>I already got accepted in a school my mum collected me from school we where in the car and she told me I had only done the test 3 days ago from the day she told me so I was not sure I smiled and did my happy dance if I didn’t get in I cry and try other schools.</p>
<p>@hamburger110: Haha, I’m imagining “Rejection” challenging you to a fencing duel…en garde! :D</p>
<p>@AmbiD77: I wished my public school was as good as yours! :)</p>
<p>@GoldenRatio: to be honest, you should become an English teacher. Seriously. I love your words! Sounds like a combination of them dancing together and create quite a fiesta( im trying :D) and yes! I really wanna stab that word if that word was a person!</p>
<p>If you are denied by a school, do not be hard on yourself. I was denied to the only school I applied to freshman year, but I applied again to more schools as a new sophomore and got in! If I hadn’t been denied for freshman year to the school I applied to, I would have never applied to Choate. I would have never met the amazing people who I consider life-long friends. As cheesy and clich</p>
<p>@GoldBlue: Only if you are applying to freshman. If you apply to soph year and you get rejected, BAM! Door closed!</p>
<p>@hamburger not necessarily… you can apply for junior year as well. people do fine at public schools. the thing i miss about public school the most is no competition. at choate, i have to actually try to stand out and keep up with other students.</p>
<p>@hamburger110: Awwh, thanks! :)</p>