<p>After being rejected from Penn yesterday, I literally don't have any motivation to apply to my long list of regular decision schools. I don't even have enough motivation to type more than a few sentences in this explanation. I feel like all my dreams got crushed in a matter of seconds...</p>
<p>Dang I’m sorry:/ I haven’t been through this but maybe let yourself grieve for a bit, don’t restrict yourself from feeling. But then you need to face the facts and keep going onto your goal. Not getting into your top school must be devastating, but you can’t give up. Everything happens for a reason,cliche but think of all the other possibilities and opportunities that will arrive. Keep an open mind and don’t be afraid to express your feelings. Good luck</p>
<p>Just try to let your emotions flow out naturally and don’t suppress them. I know how you feel since I also got a college rejection yesterday as well - Stanford :(. Try to take the mindset that you’ll find a better fit elsewhere and that you have to just keep pushing forward. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>penn state?</p>
<p>No, he meant U Penn. Yeah, mental preparation would really have helped. As I try to think, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Time generally heals wounds like these, but just work because you know you have to.</p>
<p>I’m sorry about Penn! First of all, know that the application process doesn’t say anything about you- your application was rejected, not you as a person. I know it doesn’t help but I felt I should get that out there and hopefully it’ll sink in. But to the point, I’d say not to worry about it right now. You’ve just gotten horrible news, so allow yourself to be upset and unproductive for a bit. Take the rest of the day to mope or get distracted and do whatever you need to do. Then, either tomorrow or by next weekend, once you have some perspective and aren’t as upset, try to move on and finish your other applications. But it’s ok to take some time.</p>
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<p>If there’s anything I’m going to hate about Penn it’s that people will confuse it with Penn State…</p>
<p>appeal it. go for broke. if i got rejected by my dream school (FSU) i would die, then die again. then i’d appeal it.</p>
<p>what were your scores/gpa?</p>
<p>^No disrespect, but there are differences between appealing to FSU and appealing to Penn. </p>
<p>As far as I’m concerned, why would you want to go to a school that doesn’t recognize and fully appreciate your abilities? I know I wouldn’t want to go to a school that rejected me because if they rejected me, I’d know they were idiots. </p>
<p>Get back on that horse. Penn and whatever school you go to will have only been a tiny fraction of your life experience anyway. I mean, after I become rich and famous, I might dedicate a chapter or two of my autobiography to my experience at Wisky but I’ve gotta move on to the good stuff eventually…</p>
<p>Remember the cliche, college is what you make of it.</p>
<p>“I feel like all my dreams got crushed in a matter of seconds…”</p>
<p>That is so silly. Did you plan on your life stopping after four years at UPenn? By the time you’re done with grad school/working, undergrad will feel like a distant memory, and you’ll wonder why you made such a big deal of it. UPenn is a good school, and there are many others.</p>
<p>Wiscongene is right - that’s the way to look at it.</p>
<p>Also, it’ll all work out. Somehow, somewhere, this time next year you will be an undergrad at another great college which recognized just how amazing you are. You will get an experience you would never have had at Penn. That’s life.</p>
<p>It might help to start Penn-bashing right now and looking at the good points of all the schools you’re applying to.</p>
<p>How you’re feeling right now - It’s normal, but it’ll pass. If I get rejected EA, I’ll feel the same way.</p>
<p>Watch MLP, obviously.</p>
<p>You WILL have low points at some point in high school. Think to yourself all of the great things that come along with applying to college: less stress, one (or a few) less things to worry about, and possibly a few acceptances. If you remind yourself daily what those things are, you’ll find your motivation to apply had been replenished.</p>
<p>And I’m sorry about your Penn rejection. There’s lots of other schools out there you’ll love just as much as Penn, if not more! And you can always transfer after a year or two at another college.</p>
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<p>First of all, I am very sorry. You never get used to the feeling of rejection, no matter how often it occurs. But still, don’t let college get in the way of your education. If you really want to do well, you will find opportunities wherever you may end up. You can keep going or wallow in self-pity. Your choice.</p>