<p>I’m glad I don’t have to deal with all this, and I never will.</p>
<ol>
<li>Rejection isn’t the end of the world.</li>
<li>Wait-list isn’t the end of the world.</li>
<li>Getting accepted doesn’t mean life will start being fair to you.</li>
<li>ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN.</li>
</ol>
<p>So, good luck. Although luck has nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>Luck has a little bit to do with it. </p>
<p>Congrats though, Geekorathletic - I’m guessing you got into UPenn ED?</p>
<p>Haha, not much luck involved anywhere.
You guessed correctly. I’m guessing Stanford accepted you? Congratulations if that’s the case.</p>
<p>I 
UPenn! Just hope they me back, but I find out Thursday hehehehe.</p>
<p>What I’m trying to say is -</p>
<p>A college adcom will decide to admit each student for a specific reason. There’s no luck in THAT.
But there are a lot of factors out of your control - things that you couldn’t have seen or prevented in the admissions process. For example - the strength of the pool, or maybe what each college is specifically looking for to bolster some aspect of their entering class.</p>
<p>Yeah I definitely agree luck is a super limited aspect of college admissions -</p>
<p>And yes I got in to Stanford ( : But still waiting on Ivies.</p>
<p>Life does not end with a rejection. Read below link:
[When</a> Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ.com](<a href=“When Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ”>When Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ)</p>
<p>Rejection sucks, regardless of the circumstances… but yet…</p>
<p>Sometimes the most beautiful discovery in the world happens at the end of a dark tunnel oozing with self-hate, when you realize that life is more than a decision by some silly admission committee. You are who you are no matter how people judge you, so as long as you keep faith in yourself, things will always turn out OK. </p>
<p>So keep the faith people.</p>
<p>^ That’s just called rationalization.</p>
<p>The school itself won’t make you a success story, only YOU can make you a success story. If you are a fighter and not a quitter, if you are determined and motivated to succeed then no matter where you go to school, sooner or later it’ll happen.</p>
<p>Great stuff! I just hope this thread stays afloat till D-day so people can read it and feel marginally better :D</p>
<p>Didn’t get in…:(</p>