How long did it take you to get over a rejection from 1st choice univ ?

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<p>i mean.. people say that even if you get rejected from your "dream" school, you'll eventually end up happy wherever you go. </p>

<p>As I look around on CC and even just the people around me at school, some of us are SO in love with our top choice, in most cases HYPS/ivies/or other ivy-caliber universities.</p>

<p>so if you're currently a college student who's attending a school you originally weren't planning on or "dreaming" about going to, how long did it take you to get over that rejection from your dream univ?</p>

<p>are you completely happy where you are right now?</p>

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<p>My current College originally was about the 7th choice of my 9 universities. I ended up going because I got good financial aid, with the knowledge that if it sucked I’d just suck it up and return home after one year. What can I say, even though there are aspects that annoy me, I completely love my college, and I can’t see me at any other school. This also has to do with the amazing friends I have here, but really in general, I like it a lot.</p>

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<p>i was rejected from berkeley. It kinda saddened me at first, but I moved on, and plus i’m really happy where i’m at right now. I think i would regret attending berkeley(if i get in in the first place), because the economy is in the toilet XD</p>

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<p>i was like i will go somewhere else, and if i dont like it just transfer after a year</p>

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<p>about 3 seconds. but there were a number of schools i really liked so i wasn’t really emotionally connected to one over all the others.</p>

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<p>I had no “dream school” per se but when I was rejected by my ED school, I stared blankly at my computer screen for an hour. I was ****ed about it for the whole weekend esp. since several of my friends got in (jealousy!!!), but I had to get over it and fill out my other apps. Whatever. My current school isn’t perfect, but I’m happy and life is fine.</p>

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<p>A couple weeks or so. I was really upset at first, but after looking at my other options I started to get over it.</p>

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<p>square: where are you going now? I have to admit that right now my top choice is berk, but I’m planning on going to LA if I don’t make it.</p>

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<p>A few minutes, although that’s probably because I had already been accepted to a few other schools that I liked.</p>

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<p>I don’t think I really ever got over it. I spent one year at a state school and transferred. I won’t lie; I really enjoyed myself at the state school, made great friends that I am still in contact with, etc but I always had my thoughts on transferring and was always stressed about getting good grades to put my self in a position to be an attractive transfer candidate. I had so many doubts and never thought it would work, but my transfer credit was accepted, I’m on track to graduate on time, and here I am already more than half way through my first year at my dream school! Wow, time flies. Just make sure you enjoy it and be where you want to be.</p>

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<p>I got rejected/waitlisted from my top 3 choices in schools (all reaches). It took me about 3 seconds to get over it, because I was just excited about going to schools out of state in general and had already gotten acceptances to other schools (that were affordable/with scholarships). I love my school right now and couldn’t be happier in terms of school choice (today, re-thinking my top choices, I likely wouldn’t have been as happy as I am now had I ended up going there).</p>

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<p>it took me about a week. the first few days I was REALLY upset, and I even sent in an appeal! i’m over it now because I realize I can always transfer to it if it is indeed where I feel I belong. </p>

<p>random question, but can you transfer after just one year at a college? i never understood how that worked, because don’t you usually apply late fall sophmore year and then find out decision spring of sophmore year? as in that’s two years.</p>

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<p>About half an hour.
Later that night, I sat down and wrote a list of what I really wanted in college (I had spent so much time obsessed with my #1 school, that I molded what I thought I wanted around it), and realized that I’d be happier somewhere else.</p>

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<p>I wonder how many people get accepted at their #1 dream school and attend only to find out is was not what they had hoped for?</p>

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<p>Oh my god, it took me a ridiculous amount of time. In high school, I regret to say I was obsessed with getting into the Ivies (esp. Brown/Yale) and was rejected. Even though I pretended I was okay, that high school graduation summer was just painful. Knowing that my friends were going off to Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc while I was attending my state school wasn’t too easy to swallow. It took me about 8 months to get over everything. Now that I’m here at my state school, I just look back and think how silly I was. It really doesn’t matter where you go. I’m pretty happy (minus my current dorm situation). I might transfer though, but we’ll see.</p>

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<p>I don’t even remember. </p>

<p>Then again, I was a lazy bum in HS. </p>

<p>I would probably go to a school that was “better” if I had to do it over again, but I doubt it would be that big a deal.</p>

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<p>I expected reject letters from my top choices (Stanford and MIT) so I wasn’t really crushed…the only reason I’d be *<strong><em>ed/sad about a college decision is if I don’t get in to a safety/match or if someone who I know for a fact has lower GPA, lower SAT, less EC’s and has a less appealing college profile and got in. Also, legacy, reverse discrimination, and athlete recruits *</em></strong> me off sooooooo much. Nothing about the people, just the policy, so if you got in through those ways good for you congrats im not hating on you just the policies</p>