<p>I just got rejected from Penn and I feel so bad right now. At this point I really wanted to be alone, but my mom(like any other parent) offered her shoulder for support...I told her that I would rather just be alone and not talk at the moment. Still, what comes out of her mouth.... </p>
<p>"Well, you should have expected it since you knew we talked about you getting rejected."</p>
<p>" You probably won't get into the first choice school you applied to."</p>
<p>"Stop acting so emotional, you are being such a drama queen."</p>
<p>These statements didn't come consecutively, but through a conversation we had after learning about the rejection, though they all did occur in the past hour...</p>
<p>Let's just say...I am not in the happiest of moods...</p>
<p>I'm a parent with two waitlist answers so far today, I think she's up there upset over the third waitlist or reject. From the parent end, I'm sure I said the wrong thing mostly, because there isn't a right thing to say. Your mom tried, I tried, she told me to leave her alone and I did. It's very hard on your side of it, and it's a different hard on this side, when you know nothing you can do or say can make it any better. We all try, it just never helps.</p>
<p>When I got rejected from LA, my mom said things like
"I knew you wouldn't make it"
"You're SATs weren't good enough"
"What were you thinking" and even
"I wonder what's going to happen if you never get anywhere in life"</p>
<p>two weeks later, I got into berk:</p>
<p>"I always knew you could do it!"</p>
<p>parents are parents man. We gotta take it with a grain of salt. And I gotta admit, if I were a more insecure, this kind of crap would probably scar me for life. You didn't get into one of your top choices, whether you're being overemotional or not, your parents should be there to let you grieve. Don't trip, I gotcha back kid!</p>
<p>I can SO relate to you all, this was from my dad, not really my mom who is totally cool and sometimes too positive. He has no idea what it takes to get into decent schools these days, I mean he wanted me to go to BC, because HE thinks its a good school, he had me apply I knew I wouldn't get in and guess what.........I didn't. I mean why put ourselves through this rollercoaster of emotions when we will know the outcome? They do mean well, but for some they have attached themselves to you through this process, and your rejection becomes "their" rejection and also don't forget this guys........it FORCES them to look at THEMSELVES to see what maybe they could have done differently, or maybe they should have pushed, etc...........don't kid yourself for a minute to think that they don't think that way, remember we are the kids and they are the wiser adults, but in the end thank God it works out, for all of us, we go off to school, we are happy, they get a bumper sticker for their car, they are validated as being a success since they have a kid in college and WE ARE ALL HAPPY!</p>
<p>It's better when your parents are not around you to say anything. seriously, i finally gotten over my UT austin rejection from few days ago and gotten over Cornell's which i have gotten today... just let people think.</p>
<p>Haven't had to deal with an rejections yet, but when I got accepted to UCLA and UCSD, my mom told me that I was probably accepted just because they want the OOS tuition.</p>
<p>my mom said she didn't want me going to Cornell & only let me apply ED because she knew I would never get in. I got deferred & rejected today so I guess she was right. But it still hurt.</p>
<p>I want to practice for next year so I can get it right. Regardless of how prepared you are, and even if you understand the reality, the lottery aspect, the longshot.... I know a rejection letter still feels like a kick in the gut, so I will say either nothing, or at the most "sorry," allow 8 hours for grieving and at that point suggest we get on with our lives..... How was that?</p>
<p>shaddix, i wish i can say the same. but im running out of schools that havent already rejected me.
acutaly i still have carnegie mellon which im happy about. but honestly its kind of hard to be happy when i have 6 rejections all ina row all in one day. and my parents are like "cmu is too expensive... so dont decline ur UT offer yet" and i dont want ot go to ut. asldfkj;</p>
<p>when i got rejected by stanford early action, my dad just yelledat me saying "well u konw it was coming. it was yourfault why are you being all mad over it"
that ****ing bastard.</p>
<p>and today he just sighed and jus stared at me. he thot i'd get into harvard. i ****ing told him NO IM TOO STUPID and he just doesnt get how insnae ivies are. my asian parents are so freaknig naive its like fcking frustrating to get anhything thru their heads. </p>
<p>actually now mydad is like "well its ok u stil have uchicago and rice left"
hes like bipolar. </p>
<p>ugh im like so <strong><em>ing *</em></strong>ed off at myself for wasting my 4 yeares fo high school
esp because at like some of the schools i got rejectedby, my friends got accepted.
im sorry but
its really ahrd to be happy for them when i got rejected and im in a higher rank / gpa than them, and when i though i had the advtange bc i did so much more supplementary fine arts stuff.
ugh all of my piano/violin stuff is waste
everything is ***
i am like crying for no reason becuase this is ultmiately my fault for being stupid in high scholl
askl;dfj ;aklsjd AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I hate life</p>