<p>if there are any college students out there please help me out with my problem. i may not get accepted to the school I haven been wanted to go to for YEARS! ill be really disappointed if i dont get in. if there is any college students out there that dont get into their top choice school, please explain to me how you got over it and how long it took. thanks alot</p>
<p>btw, the school im talking about is usc but luckily i applied to 25 other schools and have got accpeted to i st.marys of cali .</p>
<p>well I'm not a college student but I did apply SCEA to Stanford, my absolute dream school.. and I got flat-out rejected. It was the biggest, most ridiculous pain ever, and it sure as hell didn't help that people kept telling me everything I didn't want to hear -- "you have so many other opportunities", "it's their loss", etc. Pretty much cried for a week.</p>
<p>It still kind of hurts to think about it..</p>
<p>But since then I've fallen in love with so many other schools. And I see everything that was wrong with me going there.. it seemed perfect but it wasn't really (WAY too close to home, too!)..</p>
<p>I think it took me a good month or so to really get over it. Not completely, but you'll be fine.</p>
<p>25 other schools?! That's a massive load you've got there. </p>
<p>I'm a junior in college now; actually accepted by my first choice school (JHU) - not enough financial aid to go, but didn't get into an honors program at the close second school (UT-Austin) which would have made things a lot easier. I was devastated (especially because I was a particularly strong candidate), but I got over it and am going to a school that I am fairly happy at. </p>
<p>It takes a bit of time, but I'm pretty sure, with 24 other applications, you'll get in somewhere that may be just as good or even a better fit. The way I look at it, rejection from your first choice isn't going to be important when you're older. You've got to keep college in perspective - it's just a short stop on the way to the REST of your life.</p>
<p>I was rejected from Yale. Getting an acceptance packet from my #1 choice the same day instantly removed the sting. </p>
<p>Like jadex, I had to turn</a> down my #1 choice due to financial reasons, which absolutely SUCKS. That lasted until I got on campus, after I which I settled in comfortably.</p>
<p>Yeah many of my friends were rejected from their #1s last year. They felt really low about it for a few months, but that changed when they actually got to college. The whole college experience wrapped them up and now they don't even think about their "#1 college" anymore. I have one friend who used to talk every day during the summer about attempting to transfer to her #1...once the school year started though, I never heard a word about transferring again.</p>
<p>Life has to go on, it probably isn't your first disappointment and it won't be the last. That's kind of the way life works.</p>
<p>No matter what the setback you have to be able to move on. You gave it your best but it just didn't happen. Put a alternative plan in place and if your still interested in that school transfer in at a later date.</p>
<p>Many kids don't get to go to PSU the first 2 years either but do transfer in for the final 2,3, 4 years.</p>
<p>You will get over it quickly as soon as you put your mind to your new plan, meet new friends and get immersed in your studies. Remember the glass is always half full, never half empty.</p>
<p>I applied ED to Columbia, my dream school. I think the biggest mistake was convincing myself ahead of time that I would get in. That made the flat-out rejection much worse. In retrospect, however, it's probably all for the best. I got the chance to look into some other schools and contemplate taking a year off, both of which I never would've had the opportunity to do had I been accepted ED. Now, three months later, the idea of being rejected still sucks, but it happened and there's nothing I can do to change that. Now I'm over it and freaking out about the next round of decisions. Let's hope Barnard liked me better than Columbia did!</p>
<p>I haven't been rejected by a school yet, just a deferral from harvard, but my friend was rejected from Stanford SCEA. He's in love with the school and it still remains his first choice. He's planning to apply transfer as a freshman in college. If you REALLY have a DREAM school, then don't give up. There's a thread about someone who applied to Harvard THREE times before he got in.</p>
<p>thanks for this thread, ucplaya05; it's quite the welcome change from the chances threads and the threads with everyone freaking out, waiting for the end of March (myself guilty as charged). </p>
<p>I was deferred/rejected by my first choice.
I still cried about it a month later thinking about my friend who was going there and my other friend who turned it down.
I got over it when I got to campus and started making friends and realizing that my school is amazing too.
But it's still a little disappointing when people ask me where I go. I reply, "Vassar.....?" hopeful that they'll have at least heard of it. Not usually the case.
I still love Vassar.</p>
<p>i was rejected by my first choice. Took me 5 minutes to get over it.</p>
<p>Not really that big a deal. College isnt everything in life. It depends on your mentality
i did get accepted by a school earlier in the day too though. so that must have eased it :) still have to wait for others</p>
<p>I was rejected by Carnegie Mellon. To console myself, I reminded myself that I applied to a program that only accepted 50~ students. About a month later, I was accepted to my second and third choices. If I hadn't been accepted to those two schools, I'd still feel pretty crappy right now. Good luck, man.</p>