<p>So i just got rejected from a top program at a public university that i was pretty sure (75%) i would get into. I have had my heart set on it for 2 months. So now i feel like i wasted all 4 years of high school. Any ideas how to cope? im seriously upset by this, and everyone at my school is going to say, just get over it. But its not that easy for me. This was what i have wanted for such a long time, and no other school seems satisfactory now.</p>
<p>ouch…i’m really sorry. it was your dream after all.</p>
<p>you should have cake. (and eat it too.)</p>
<p>Cake is always amazing. Albertsons (if you have one where you live) makes these mini one person sized cakes. They are amazing. Get a chocolate one.</p>
<p>I’m sorry :(</p>
<p>Try some pumpkin pie. Always makes me feel better.</p>
<p>You’re not the first- or the last- to get rejected from your first choice. </p>
<p>Solution: Safeties =/</p>
<p>it was my safety. thats why i was so sure of it. The program was prestigious and all, but i had much higher stats than a ton of other people, and had all the leadership and service that they were looking for. I was one of only 10 people to be rejected. I havae other safeties, but i dont think i can be as happy with them. This program was incredible! and i was in love with it. I just am so dejected because i feel like my high school was a total waste since i cant even get into this program at a public school!!! (and i need a full scholarship). This program had mentoring, internships, tiny classes, study abroad, everything!</p>
<p>ouch</p>
<p>well if it helps any,
that doesn’t make your stats any less brilliant just because the program freaked out and rejected you, you’re still the same high achiever you always were</p>
<p>Aw come on, give me a hug :)</p>
<p>If the school was dumb enough to reject an awesome student like you, then it can’t be that great of a school. Onwards and upwards!</p>
<p>i just feel like being a high achiever has been pointless now. i mean, even if i get accepted into the ivies where i applied, it wont make a difference because i cannot attend. do you ever just feel like this college process is a way to rationalize and validate the four crazy years we spend in high school? i feel like my parking didnt get validated as i move onto the next stage of my life.</p>
<p>There was never a cake, guys</p>
<p>well you still have your knowledge of calculus and physics and so forth</p>
<p>if you worked hard in high school, you will be richly rewarded with good grades in college</p>
<p>especially if you deserved a better college</p>
<p>a bunch of people get into good colleges and then do badly and end up miserable, hey SOMEONE has to be in the lower 50% of the class, and it won’t be you because you worked hard in high school and took the trouble to learn your material better than the other kids</p>
<p>so give yourself a pat on the back because you got yourself a well-rounded education!</p>
<p>haha yeah i have no knowledge of physics. my school screwed up science in general. And i really just wish i had a good friend to talk to, because none of my friends have worked as hard as me, and they assume i will get in everywhere. and i just get frustrated talking to them. and teachers tell me to just get over it. the worst is when my mom says, “well God just has something else planned for you.” like that helps.</p>
<p>hey dude yeah dont worry instead go do thangs</p>
<p>thanks…i think</p>
<p>blasting my rejection letter with a potato cannon really helped=)</p>
<p>^ You did that?</p>
<p>Didn’t you get a likely letter to Rice?</p>
<p>i did, which is another reason this rejection is so disappointing to me. i may blast the rejection letter, although they claim they still want me to come. how can they expect me to come if all i will think about for four years is being rejected from their program!!!?? i mean, to me that is just stupid.</p>
<p>:( .</p>
<p>if only people in my school would understand. i dont want to face them today, because they will just laugh and tell me to get over it. they think that my life is perfect since i do well in school</p>