<p>How do you settle for something significantly lower? Say, settle for Emory after getting rejected from Harvard? Or Yale? Or Stanford? It doesn't matter...how do you make yourself feel good about going to a school that is still quite good, but not as good?</p>
<p>You man up and realize that McGahee may be gone come next season.</p>
<p>You feel sucky for a while, maybe inferior, then you get to Emory and meet your new professors and your new friends and before too long you forget about whatever HYPS school you dreamed about and realize that the school you're at is probably better anyway.</p>
<p>Welcome to life. Funny thing about life. Sometimes, you don't get what you want.</p>
<p>OH REALLY???? Tarhunt, I had no idea!!!
Haha just kidding...of course you don't always get what you want....so I want to know how I can convince myself that Emory is what I want.</p>
<p>Hm. For me, it just involved thinking over and over again that I am going to be happy no matter what and it's not the end of the world.</p>
<p>But if you're really hoping to fall in love with a school, why not visit it again (or for the first time)?</p>
<p>You move on with it.</p>
<p>u watch porn</p>
<p>You realize that there's so, so much more to life than getting into the perfect college. I guess what really worked for me was sitting back and realizing how lucky I have it...I have a great family, amazing friends, a nice home, reasonably okay health. Then you think of the four billion other people who don't even have those things, and you realize that WOW - you're going to be getting a decent education regardless of where you go. And then you realize that you're incredibly lucky :-)</p>
<p>"u watch porn"</p>
<p>The words of an experienced person in the bitter road of life.</p>
<p>I'm sure you've heard this before, </p>
<p>You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you might find
You get what you need</p>
<p>porn is what got me over my college rejections ~_~</p>
<p>Tarhunt - You shouldn't have to convince yourself that Emory is the one. It may not be, but it may be. Anything is possible in that respect, and the only thing you can do is give Emory the chance to be the one.</p>
<p>im sure theres always those crazy ones that "shave their wrists" when they find out their 5.0 gets them denied from harvard.</p>
<p>But whatever
oh</p>
<p>and i reccomend u dont shave ur wrists</p>
<p>You shoot yourself in the head like a rockstar for not getting into a school that defers people with perfect SAT scores and perfect grades.</p>
<p>Or pr0n.</p>
<p>At some point its all about destiny. One has to believe there is some greater plan. Yes, there are things that we can control, but there are things that we cannot. One can work their hardest in high school and have extraordinary achievements and talents in academics and extra curriculars and extraordinary community service and put together the best application they could and still not get into one of their top choices. But things happen for a reason. Maybe it was meant for that person to go to a different school because their destiny was meant to go in that direction. Perhaps they might meet their closest life long friends there who would one day shape their lives, or the person they would one day marry, or have a great career opportunity that would never have happened somewhere else.</p>
<p>Well, if you feel you must attend HYP...</p>
<p>There's always GRAD SCHOOL! =] </p>
<p>On the other hand, where you go shouldn't affect you so much because what you make of the university's opportunities is what actually matters.</p>
<p>porn and sleep cures everything.. no lie.</p>
<p>but what I did was mourn a little.. and then I got excited about other colleges. I might be rejected from them too, but knowing that I did it once gives me hope that I can do it again.. and I trust Fate with putting me somewhere where I end up happy. (:</p>
<p>This is why you should choose a list of schools that you would be content with going to ANY of them, even the safeties.</p>
<p>Going to a prestigious college isn't the sum of your whole life. Hinging all your self-worth and esteem on that seems pretty pointless.</p>
<p>On a side note it completely depresses me to read all the lists of Amazing Accomplishments of Academic Rigor and Charity some posters here can produce. No, for serious, it's a bit sad people do so many things they may or may not have done voluntarily for the EC only. For the admission letter only. Education has never been this benign measure stick of actual human worth, quite the opposite, it's part of a very mind-numbing and automated routine everybody sort of has to go along with being valid.</p>
<p>But you can set some personal limits to that. Admission or no admission says nothing about who you are or can be. None of your friends or family CARE what school you go to, and if you do the best you can of your situation, I guarantee you, neither will your future employers/employees/co-workers</p>
<p>And, to bring out the "think of the poor africans" card... There are people outside of this country, this hemisphere, your own age and up that have never even HEARD of college - nevermind Harvard or Yale. It means nothing to them, these words. They get on. You'll get on better. </p>
<p>Face it, 99.999% of most people you are ever bound to meet won't be disappointed in you in any way, so why should you be so harsh on yourself?</p>