Here’s the mantra we gave our daughter after she was rejected from her then-top- choice:
You will bloom where you’re planted. If you didn’t get into a particular school, it’s because no matter how you felt otherwise, it simply wasn’t the place you were meant to go.
Don’t let this rejection of your application— not you, but your application— make you feel badly about yourself. Enjoy one day of ice cream therapy, then look at the choices that remain