<p>X person: "Hey so how'd the colleges comes out?"
YOU: "They're all right...I got into some great schools"
X person: "Oh yea! That's awesome! Like the ivies?"
YOU: "Nah I got rejected from Harvard and YAle"
X person: "Didn't u apply to UPENN, brown, and duke?"
YOU: "Yea about that..."
X person: <em>the look of the implicit comprehension"
YOU: "Yea...I got rejected from them too"
X person: "Didn't you get into anything good?"
YOU: "I did! LIke i got into honors program for ALOT of schools like villanova, drexel, rutgers, penn state"
X person: *Looks apathetic</em> "Oh that's great!"
YOU: "Yea...it's not too bad"</p>
<p>Well, it is too bad. It hurts. I've worked for three goddamn years, did as well as the val in my grade, and while she got into two ivies, I got rejected from the ones i applied to. Ugh...I know i'm not supposed to take this personally but it's really getting to me. I feel like the college I go to measures my personal merit even though it really doesn't. I feel like the college defines me. Why do ppl in high school have to overexaggerate prestige?
I'm going to an easy UG so i could have a better shot with med schools...why can't anyone get that???!!!!</p>
<p>haha, many people have the same concern as you. Funny thing is, undergrad is what you make of it. ANd guess what, if you are truly going to med school, it does NOT matter where you want to undergrad for the most part, especially from the great schools you have gotten accepted to. I will be attending Dental school next year, and i have meet a few dental students that attend the Dschool I will be going to. Many of them have gone to either NYU, or another private university, paying an enormous amount of money, while I went to a state school and paid a fraction of the cost, and ended up in the same Health professional school as them. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, its where you end up, not how you get there in my opinion. You should be proud you have gotten acceptances to these amazing schools, and most likely will have a far greater college experience at villanova. </p>
<p>My advice: try to go to a better valued college, obviously the one that cost the least as well as provides the best education. Goodluck.</p>
<p>Well this may be true. But it’s not like a majority of Ivy acceptees blow off their studies in college. They work twice as hard in colllege. They take advantage of the awesome resources these Ivies provide. They do well. So while the quoted statement is true, these acceptees do make themselves in an awesome position in undergrad. Let’s say i go to Rutgers. I do alot of activities too and I take advantage of Rutgers’s opportunities. It just won’t be the same anymore as the person who took advantage of the resources at Cornell, let’s say. That’s what irritates me becasue had i gotten into an Ivy I would have been able to make my experience more valuable. Now, I can’t.</p>
<p>meursalt: You’re on your way to a great future. Don’t let the decision of a school define you; it’s their loss. My dad, who has an IQ qualifying him as a genius, attended Drexel University for Chemical Engineering after being rejected from MIT for undergrad. Come grad school, he and his classmates who did well were accepted into Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, and MIT - among others - for grad school. You were accepted to some great schools (and their Honors programs, no less!); do well, and you’ll undoubtedly have as much - if not more- success as a Harvard undergrad in life…and have some debt to spare!</p>
<p>Fortunately, I am doing pre-med. Undergrad prestige matters very little. I’m actually happy in a way. My acceptances would have further fed my narcissism. Now, I’m more humble.</p>
<p>What are other ways to make oneself humble?
I think i entered this process with the mindset that these colleges would come begging for me. I need a reality check.</p>
<p>If people say “like the ivies” to you, it’s because they’re stupid and uninformed and don’t understand that there are great schools outside of the Ivy League sports conference.</p>
<p>Personally I joke about my rejections all the time… particularly to the kid ranked 1 below me who got into Stanford. I’m always suggesting we start a rejection wall so I can be the first to put mine up.</p>
<p>If people say “like the ivies” to you, it’s because they’re stupid and uninformed and don’t understand that there are great schools outside of the Ivy League sports conference.</p>
<p>Be happy about where you’re going and don’t worry about what other people think. I feel like you’re going to be one of those kids at your “easy UG” who parades around like you’re better than everyone and just there cause you got merit money and are going to some incredible grad school. Don’t be that person. Enjoy college. Enjoy people.</p>
<p>Have you heard " everything happens for a reason"? Let it flow, feel lucky, grateful and proud for getting into schools like drexel, Rutgers, and all the schools that admitted you! Ivies weren’t your call, so what? Who says getting into an ivy means you are smart or successful? Love the school that admitted you, enjoy the next 4 years. In 4 years you will be thankful for not getting into the Ivies and will laugh at this post. Who cares what people say? You will find a lot of people along the way who will admire you, hate you, agree with you, disagree, etc, etc. Learn to draw a line and don’t let them get you. You’vr done a great job!!! Be proud of yourself.</p>
<p>In reality, you probably WILL be more qualified than the majority of the students if you pick one of your lesser acceptances, but you just need to keep that to yourself and get over it. You’ll still have a great time in college. And make great friends, even if their SAT is 200 points lower. And at the end of the day, if it’s as easy as you think, you’ll have a 4.0 and be on the way to grad school with no debt. </p>
<p>Your friends may not understand, but you’ve clearly won in college admissions. Enjoy it darn you!</p>
<p>Hmmm…friends with 2000’s on the SAT’s don’t sound too bad I’m just joking haha.
Thanks for the encouraging words. I seriously needed to get over myself, not these colleges. You helped me with that. Thanks alot!</p>
<p>@ lullinatalk; if the following is even remotely true, their (distasteful) response is more about you than them. The assumption of anyone who holds Ivies so dear is that the air is more rarified, the students more superior, and that a host of opportunities await which can’t possibly be garnered at any other college, all of which is hogwash.</p>
<p>“This just described my April. My parents actually hate me for not getting into an Ivy. I can hear hatred in their voices.”</p>
<p>Enjoy, study, do well, be a mensch, fall in love, that’s really the best revenge.</p>
<p>In my opinion, a state school would be 100 times more fun, probably a lot less stressful, and in your case, just as rewarding when compared to any ivy. </p>
<p>When i first read this, I was tempted just to say “u mad”, because EVERYONE who applies to the Ivy league schools has worked hard in high school. Life is what you make out of it, not what college you get into. </p>
<p>It must be pretty cool to think that you’ll probably be a doctor one day. That’s how I look at it.</p>
<p>Sounds like you have a good attitude about all of this. There’s no need to look for ways to teach yourself humility; life will teach you–generally when you’re not particularly interested in the lesson. (I realize I’m being a condescending adult here, but perspective is one of the good things that come with age, along with pesky things like presbyopia.) So you weren’t actually “destined” to get into an Ivy school. You’re destined for great things. (I’m assuming; sounds to me like you are.) You have a sense of humor and you’re self-aware; don’t underestimate the value of those characteristics. I will say to you, a person I do not know, what I say to my daughter’s super-achiever best friend. Yeah, you’re smart. But that’s the least of what you have to offer.</p>
I’m just joking haha.
I understand your point though</p>