<p>Deferred at Cornell while all of my other friends were accepted at their top choices… but I think the worst part about it isn’t that you didn’t get into your dream school - it’s that you feel like you’re going to get deferred/rejected by EVERY other selective college on your list. I for one, no longer feel any hope for UMich, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Brown or Berkeley. </p>
<p>If you do in fact apply to a less selective college before like someone advised in one of the posts earlier, I think that you should choose a college you’d be perfectly content going to. I also applied to Case Western since it had no application fee and no supplement… and even though I got accepted there with a good scholarship, it didn’t really help dealing with my deferral at Cornell - because I didn’t really want to go. </p>
<p>Imo, if you want to be able to accept your rejection, apply to a few schools that are close to as good as your dream school for your major. One of my friends applied to Cornell ED and UIUC… he wasn’t at all disheartened by his cornell (his top choice) rejection since he already had UIUC going for him. That’s the easiest way to deal with it - just get in somewhere almost equally as good. And this way you won’t feel like you’ll get rejected at your other schools as well.</p>