<p>Okay so I'm sure most of you have seen me complaining about my rejections, but I do not know how to recover from them. I promised myself that I would not cry if I got rejected because it is part of life but it has been so devastating! Yesterday I received 6 rejections (ucla, ucb, rice, jhu, duke, and stanford) and I am absolutely crushed. I don't understand why I was rejected because I have good scores/grades, take hard classes, speak two languages fluently, involved in several community service organizations, club and class officers/leaders, and am a storm survivor. I know this is really immature and I should suck it up but I can't. On Monday I'm supposed to hear back from Yale, Columbia, Vanderbilt, and Emory and I just want to get into ONE school but after getting rejected to all of those schools there is no hope for me. How can I stop being sad? I just want to move on with my life.</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm near the same boat. Just know that there are others like you, and we're all in for the long haul. Know that no matter where you go, as long as you're intelligent/hard worker, you'll succeed (works for law school, for example). </p>
<p>Or if you're more revenge-driven, make them regret it for rejecting you, by trying even harder where you get in. (At least, that's how I feel.)</p>
<p>Some people can speak 3-5 languages fluently...</p>
<p>but that's deviating from the point...</p>
<p>I think you'll get into somewhere, at least Vanderbilt right?</p>
<p>If not, CC is always a good option. Nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>few people spea 3-5 languages fluently....and to the OP</p>
<p>Its a messed up year....and its not personal....and you are sooooo not alone....wherever you end up, you will be surrounded by people who went through the same thing...</p>
<p>and its fine to cry...its healthy to cry....</p>
<p>i was also rejected from 4 colleges : duke, stanford, ucb and mit. the counselor told that ucb is my target college but i didn't get through. one of my friends with horrible stats got into ucb which was his dream school
i am just waiting for the ivies and a few top college results to come out on monday.if it is again negative, i don't know what i will do. i have been thinking about these colleges for the past 8 months day in and day out and now every admission officer regrets about not admitting me.</p>
<p>This is why your safety school should be a rolling admissions school, which you are already in early on. </p>
<p>Check out University of Missouri...I know they don't have any firm application deadline. They have automatic admission if your top 10% and have ACT of 29 or greater (or some SAT score greater than something). Check out a school like University of Wisconsin Milwaukee..they have a July 1st app deadline. Otherwise check out a school like Wisconsin - Madison, and apply for Spring semester.</p>
<p>I am in the same bout i got rejected from 7 schools and one of them being my dream school NYU. I am crushed and I am feeling so depressed I am just hoping that I get into Rutgers because if I do not I have no idea what I am going to do. I really want to move to the east coast.</p>
<p>thanks for the comments everyone. im happy i have a good safety, tulane, but i just really have worked too hard to just go there. i don't know i'm still extremely bitter. i just want april 1 to hurry up and come so i know the rest of the college's decisions.</p>
<p>citygirlsmom, you sure about that?</p>
<p>English, a language learned in school, language spoken at home (for the millions of immigrants/2nd language learners applying to college). That's three already. You also have parents who speak two tongue languages and that transfers onto the child.</p>
<p>no one should take their rejections personal. every single top college saw a significant rise in the number of applicants this year and i know that it was hard to make that final decision. i got rejected from my top choice school and i was completely crushed then, while talking to a friend, i realized that i did everything right. there was nothing more i could have done in order to get accepted. it was their loss. you all need to realize that in most cases there was simply nothing more you could have done, that school just wasnt the school for you at the time. if there was more you could have done (i know someone is gonna complain about visiting, better essays, ect ect) it is too late to do it. why waste time being sad about something that you cannot change and have absolutely no control over? its ok so cry but after you are done you need to wipe your eyes and make a plan. you still have a few schools left and who knows you may get accepted into a few. if not you can look at schools who still have slots open and you wouldnt mind going to. transferring is always still an option. everything happens for a reason and life is full of lessons whether you choose to learn from them or not. who knows you might end up completely happy wherever you choose to go. just remember to keep a positive attitude while letting your life unfold.</p>
<p>i hope that made some kind of sense</p>