Come on, admit it… 
Well, a few of my friends have broken down and cried. Mostly when rejection/waitlist letters were coming in that were unexpected. I cried when I found out we might not have enough money for me to go to the college I really wanted to enroll in.
If you’re not too proud to admit it, have you ever cried during the college admissions process? Of stress, dissapointment, too much pressure, rejections etc?
<p>I'm counting on it. I will probably cry when rejection letters roll in, in a few months...</p>
<p>If you are rejected (the preferred term is denied), just remember that they are rejecting the application and not you. Nobody can possibly learn enough about you by reading the applicatiion so that you should care that much about what they think. Some colleges have over 15000 applications. If you are sad because you can't go, then that is one thing, but don't feel that you are lacking as a person.</p>
<p>Besides which, the extremely selective colleges just don't have room for everybody. For everybody that they accept, there are four or five almost identical candidates that they have to deny/waitlist simply for lack of space. That is why some colleges waitlist more people than they accept. The adcom members don't feel right denying someone who is identical to someone they just accepted, and so they will say waitlist instead of deny.</p>
<p>No, but I think I'm a lot more laid back with it than other people are. Even thinking ahead, I can't see myself crying if I don't get accepted to my top pick. I know I might eat those words, but it's just not my nature. I tend to be one of those people who believes everything will work out in the end, so although there are some schools I'm really set on, I won't be devastated if I end up going somewhere else.</p>
<p>My parents are incredible and don't pressure me like those of other students. Their stance is "go where you're happy," so I don't feel the need to get accepted anywhere to please them. I also don't care much about "prestige" schools -- I just want to go somewhere good where I'll get the education I need for my future goals.</p>
<p>I do get stressed thinking about the timeline. I'm going to be filling out applications this time next year, but I still need to visit some schools /and/ do my interviews. Logistically, that's going to be a pain. The money aspect of it gives me some stress, but I also know there's no college I'm obligated to go to if they don't give me enough financial aid, and I can always work for outside scholarships.</p>
<p>Maybe I'm really abnormal, but I hope not. I see some people ready to rip their hair out, and I really hope that's not typical of all students going through this. :/</p>
<p>I should also add this: I never think that any college is going to reject me because I'm not good enough. I just think they might accept other people because they're also good. I know I'm good enough for the colleges I'm going to apply to, and if they don't see that, oh well. I tried, right?</p>
<p>I cried when i got my acceptance letters. Especially when I looked at the UCLA webpage and said," Congratulations." i didnt even finish reading it and went berserk. i pretty much woke up my brother and my parents and they went dancing. I cried cuz after a lot of iwent through, something good came up. But, i also cried when I couldn't conjure up the money for USC, the real true school i wanted to go to.</p>
<p>I cried after I got into Stanford. I looked through all my mail and the last letter was a huge envelope with "congratulations" on the front. I didnt even open it. I just started crying right then and there. Its the best feeling to get into your dream school. That moment will stay with me forever and I doubt I will ever feel so happy in an instant again.</p>
<p>I was euphoric after I found out I was probably admitted into Duke back in early March I believe. This was actually before the official acceptance was sent or placed online--I was invited to an invititational weekend, which indicated I was likely admitted unless something evil was discovered in the coming weeks. I didn't cry--I was giggling like an idiot, but I kept making sure this wasn't the world's twisted sense of humor--a dream.</p>
<p>The official acceptance came out the night before my flight to Duke. So if I had been rejected for some reason, all hell would have broken loose. Anyway, I was relieved as soon as I saw the "Congratulations...."</p>
<p>I think I wanted to pull my hair out when I realized I had to keep up with deadlines for 11 different schools and write more essays, because not every application had similar essay topics.</p>
<p>Not even close. The Stanford rejection came on the weekend, and I was far too busy to be concerned. I was out fixing up the yard when I learned about it, and I went to get a haircut right after I saw the letter. I definitely thought to myself, "this is kind of big...there goes first choice," but at the point when acceptance/rejection letters come, you really don't remember the application process that well, so it's not that tough. You don't think, "Oh, I worked so hard on that application, and this is what I get." It's more like, "Oh yeah, I remember when I submitted the app...it was at 11:59. The Internet was down so I had to drive to my mom's office. That was pretty crazy." You remember all the negatives. The essay that you rushed and finished in a day. The last minute scraping together of everything. I was amazed that they even acknowledged my application and sent me a nice letter. So it wasn't upsetting at all. It would have been if I didn't get into UCLA or Berkeley.</p>
<p>I cried when I got rejected from Dartmouth in the ED round, and I cried when I saw the financial aid package that made it possible for me to attend Wellesley. </p>
<p>For different reasons, obviously. I'm somewhat of a crybaby, I suppose...but I don't mind.</p>
<p>You must have missed the posts in the past from people who say : "OMG....I made a 1550 on the SAT (the old one) and I have 4.3 GPA, 1 billion hours of community service, leadership, etc...OMG OMG..Can I get into <insert ivy="" league="" school="" name="" here="">?? I will die if I don't get in. Please help!!!!!!!!!"</insert></p>
<p>Yep a few on CC must have cried.</p>
<p>I'm sure I will come decision time next year, but that's just because my standards are high. You should aim and aspire for a lot of things, but its important to not be over ambitious, which could lead to high expectations, which leads to the crying upon rejection.</p>
<p>I cried around february, HARD...lol....my grades had dropped from all the stress of getting my financial aid together and worrying about getting into the school of my choice, but it all worked itself out. So to all those getting ready to go the process, crying and stress is normal part of the game, it happens to us all.</p>
<p>yeah...i havent even applied yet</p>
<p>not yet...</p>
<p>I probably will when I get rejected or waitlisted. I don't think I'll cry if I get accepted rather I would run around in joy.</p>
<p>As obsessed with some schools that many CCers are, I'm sure there are some whiners...</p>
<p>I'm sure I'll shed a few tears when the rejection letters arrive next spring, but I won't admit to it if questioned by my friends ;)</p>
<p>Oh I've cried several times :)</p>
<p>First when my class teacher wrote me a rec which was all of 4 sentences long.</p>
<p>When the Stanford short essays refused to write themselves.</p>
<p>When the Princeton admissions office lost my SAT II scores.</p>
<p>Then when I sent my mid year grades to all my schools (they weren't pretty)</p>
<p>Finally when I got the acceptance letter from Princeton :)</p>
<p>I was very, very fortunate that mine were tears of joy rather than tears of anguish when I found out I was accepted to Duke - my #1 choice. I couldnt apply ED b/c of fianances and was depressed for months waiting for the decision. 2 rejections b4 Duke's decision did not help at all :( but I didnt really cry for those, just felt very lost and depressed.</p>