<p>No, I wouldn't think that I'd wasted my time. No matter what college you eventually get into, all of the work that you invested into getting into your top school doesn't just disappear. This is why most people apply to more than one college.</p>
<p>no way...It definately kept me awake and motivated through tough classes. I learned in high school because of my goal. Also, all that AP Credit saves me money. Most ECs ended up being fun - esp. true for sports, but you can make friends doing anything. Even studying for the SAT/ACT/SAT2s were helpful, as they improved my cramming skills. The application process helped out my writing and paperwork abilities - which I will need to apply for scholarships to pay for 2nd Choice University.</p>
<p>If I didn't get into any of my 12 schools, i would definetly feel like I've wasted my time.
Because I'm an international applicant from overseas. I live in a country where collges dont care about ECs. I could've settled for 1 or 2 ECs and could've settled for the best university in this country (already accepted) and could've worked 500 times harder in school work and could've partied all weekend. But I dont mind about the ECs because I found that it was a personal process where I've found myself truly passionate about the ECs that I'm in now.</p>
<p>BBBUTTTT:</p>
<p>I wouldn't have had to write essays for 12 schools - and no I DID NOT reuse my essays. I wouldnt have spent over a grand on college application fees, SAT scores sending (I made many mistakes where I had to resend resend resend), POSTAGE - fedex is $36 (had to send many times by fedex because colleges didnt recieve some stuff and wanted them right there right now).
And I would've been able to study harder, with less stress, for my national exams in November and December. I wouldn't have had to research about each individual schools and put in a lot of thought about where I was to live for 4 years, because I couldnt visit any of the schools and NO ONE knew anything about colleges there - counselors, peers, no one!
I wouldn't have had to go to my vice principal (we dont have counselors) and slowly explain the process of applications an what an ivy league was (he idnt know) and explain how to fill out the forms for 2 long months - he was so busy all the time and didnt actually get the grip of how to fill out the forms until december.</p>
<p>So yes. With exception to my ECs, I would think I had wasted my time.</p>
<p>Honestly, no. Every year, thousands of applicants don't get into the college they want. Face it, it's a challenge to get into your dream school, right? And it's definitely a disappointment when you're not admitted. But what's more important is getting into a college for a practical education. Yes, you may feel like you've wasted your time studying if you were denied admission to College X, but hey, you got into Colleges A, B, and C. Doesn't that say something about you?</p>
<p>Wherever you end up begins a spectacular story. It's where you were meant to be. :)</p>
<p>Honestly, if I end up going to some college that students, who didn't work as hard in high school, got into as well, I would be REALLY disappointed. I'd feel like I wasted all my time and work in HS when someone who didn't really work as hard got in too. </p>
<p>This college process is really stressing!</p>
<p>^ i wouldn't
in the long run, it's all about the knowledge, insight, and experiences i have gained in high school. regardless of the college i go to, it will be a good foundation to accomplish whatever i want.
high school isn't all about getting into college, after all.</p>
<p>Honestly, not getting in would be just depressing. Yeah, I'd probably feel like I wasted 4 years of my life. </p>
<p>I'm sure I acquired a good work ethic and whatnot, but it simply would not make me feel better... It's good to do well for 4 years, but at the time of the rejection, I will probably become more pessimistic.</p>
<p>Basically, yeah, you did waste your time. That's life</p>
<p>Yeah, kind of. I'm working my butt off now to clean up past mistakes and if it ends up not working out then I will feel it has all been wasted time that I could have used to pursue other interests.</p>
<p>Of course it would be wasted. I take all the AP classes and do all the activities that I do for college admissions. It's easy to get a 3.3 and sail into UCSB, but I want more than that. I haven't gone to sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning and stressed about countless tests just to end up at UCSB.</p>
<p>Absolutely not. I haven't done a single thing in high school or college merely for the sake of a "good" transfer application. If the name is that important to you, take a year off to learn things on your own - jobs, volunteering, independent studies (you don't need a goddamn grade to engage with books, oftentimes literature the average school curriculum would never have you get your hands on!), then re-apply. Being active for the sake of looking good only sounds very sad.</p>
<p>No time is ever wasted, not even if you were in prison and kept dropping the soap. Unless you're moping about it, of course...</p>
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Of course it would be wasted. I take all the AP classes and do all the activities that I do for college admissions. It's easy to get a 3.3 and sail into UCSB, but I want more than that. I haven't gone to sleep at 2 or 3 in the morning and stressed about countless tests just to end up at UCSB
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<p>thats how exactly how i feel.</p>
<p>will a 3.3 even get you into UCSB anymore unless you're a URM? I dunno if it'll even get you into Santa Cruz at this point. </p>
<p>anyway.....I don't really have a top choice so I don't know if I have anything to contribute here, but if I did have a top choice I'm not sure if I felt I'd wasted my time because except for like freshman year I've put in almost no effort in my classes and gotten nearly straight As (nearly = I would've had to make an effort in math to get an A, and I didn't). Yep, I'm one of those annoying smart people you hear about who never studies :-D but I know I'm going to have to work a lot harder in college and I'm preparing myself for that. </p>
<p>Yeah if you don't get into your first choice, just remind yourself that it's their loss because it IS their loss. College applications aren't really a representation of you anyway, they're you in a tiny, stereotyped box. Try to be happy wherever you wind up. And now I'll stop spouting cliches :-p</p>
<p>good luck, all of you. I hope you go to college where you want to go.</p>
<p>I would certainly feel like I wasted my time. I would probably regret not just dropping out of high school, going to a community college, and graduating when my friends are just getting into college. I wouldn't regret taking "hard" classes, because I learn more and they aren't hard anyway. I would regret essentially wasting four years of my life when I could have learned more and perhaps grown more going to college.</p>
<p>I don't think you wasted your time in high school, but you wasted your time doing the application.</p>
<p>you can actually learn in high school... you can actually have useful knowledge</p>
<p>its not all about which college you get into</p>
<p>I would get pretty mad, I'd probably break a lot of stuff, drive extremely fast and that would be that. I would then go off to become extremely successful out of spite to the college.</p>
<p>The only time I would feel "wasted" is the time I wrote my applications. Most of the things I've done in high school are what I wanted to do rather than what I did for colleges, so I would never feel my high school year was wasted :)</p>
<p>I know what you mean. Since nearly my entire high school career has been based on and around how to get into that one college I'm dying to go to, I would be pretty crushed. Although I wouldn't feel as if I've wasted my time, I'd just feel extremely depressed and lost and not know what to do after that. Just recently, I got rejected by TASP, which is what the past 4 months in my life has been revolved around. I feel really bad, and it's as if all my dreams were shattered by one sentence of "sorry, you didn't make it". But after a bit, I got over it. I think it wakes you out of your reverie of blindly after one goal. You get a chance to step back and see that there are other opportunities out there. It may be a good thing in the end. You never know.</p>
<p>i would definitely feel that ive wasted my time. i would regret the times that i turned down the chance to have the best time ever with friends for studying the unnecessary details on a certain test to make sure i can get that 100. is it really worth doing hours and hours of SAT practice and getting that great SAT score but still get reject from the college of your dreams?
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...this is probably one of the issues that depresses me the most. its sad that so much work put in will only get me to an university that i couldve gotten in easily...</p>