<p>i would probably be pretty bummed out.. but you really cant dwell on it</p>
<p>THE college you want? Maybe.
A college you want? Definitely.</p>
<p>If, when I apply, I am not accepted into ANY college: x.x
Else, as long as I'm not going to my state school, should be okay.</p>
<p>oh definitely,
all those nights when i got only 4 hrs of sleep, studying subject tests and the sat
i cud hav just gone to my safety school (UT) just 'cause i m in top 10%</p>
<p>I've had fun in HS, I don't think its been a waste even if I did get rejected</p>
<p>Working hard in highschool builds character:</p>
<p>But its all about the effort the one puts into the process (as I have posted elsewhere before)</p>
<p>"To triumph without peril brings no glory"</p>
<p>If I didn't get into the colleges I want, I would feel like I had wasted some of my time. I know it's not supposed to just be about college and your grades, that you're supposed to be happy about learning, but I would feel like I wasted my time taking classes that I did not like to get into that college. I would feel a bit disappointed that I could have maybe taken a class I enjoyed more learning about instead of taking a hard class that would make me more appealing to colleges.</p>
<p>I don't think I would drop out of high school if I knew I would be rejected. I'd probably even still take some AP/Honors classes, such as English, just because I enjoy the subject and I like being smart. I would, however, get mad that I had to struggle through a year of, let's say, AP Chem, with the most horrible teacher I have ever met just because it would look better... especially when I could have taken something like Psych!</p>
<p>I applied to 17 US schools because I'm an Asian intl asking for aid. I guess I would feel okay going to the top 8 of the schools I applied to, but it's going to be hard making decisions when fin. aid is a major factor. I do feel like I did waste time applying to so many schools if I didn't get into anywhere I really really loved, but doing the iBDP has been fun. I loved doing my 16 paged Extended Essay on English lit, and studying for the SAT II Lit has been fun(I couldn't wait for an excuse to order English books on Amazon.com and have them shipped to China). I learned a lot by giving up the easy 800 on SAT II Chinese and instead self-studying US History. I guess the college application process and high school have taught me more about myself and helped me form my future goals. Good luck to everyone waiting on RD decisions.</p>
<p>HEy! anyone apply to Oxford or Cambridge....?</p>
<p>It's all what you make of it.</p>
<p>If you're basing the majority of decisions of what to do for your current high school on getting into a specific institution for your undergraduate education, then I highly suggest you re-assess your goals and what you want in life.</p>
<p>Some people have excellent cases - some extenuating financial circumstance means they'll need top grades for scholarship qualifications, or you've visited the school and know yourself so well that you're practically guaranteed to be happy if you could just make yourself worthy of that environment, or you want to study with Professor so-and-so for his amazing work in, say, cell membrane communication.</p>
<p>Kudos to the people who are willing to believe that from this point to graduation your personality, interests, and life circumstances will change little. Kudos also to the people in difficult places where a great undergraduate education seems like the only way out. </p>
<p>The issue of globalization is a little frightening, in the sense that your competition for jobs has increased from 300 million to say, 3 billion (let's not argue about statistics and countries' qualifications here). Maybe you're wanting to get into a great college to ensure financial stability. I don't know.</p>
<p>My point is, you need to find your reasons. If your reasons are good enough to invest yourself into four-ten-whatever pages of information to strangers who don't know you who might have had too many females from southern California interested in Chemistry for the class of 2012 - and for that bizarre set of coincidences alone, decide to shatter your life plan, then the focus from your reasons for wanting to go there should be able to transfer to whatever next life goal you set up for yourself.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I feel like I wasted some of my time because of the school I've chosen to go to. That's a different story. I'm in a semi-conservative, protective home environment, but things get better for me the more opportunities I have to take responsibility for my own happiness. </p>
<p>No one else can tell you how to feel as if you have had a fulfilled life.</p>
<p>I actually didn't put hours of extra effort into my applications- sure, I spent time on them, but the learning and grades? They were for me. I just like doing well, no matter how much effort it requires. That includes doing well socially. I don't see why anyone would sacrifice years of their lives trying to achieve one thing that, in the end, swings on chance just as much as effort. The best thing to do is chill and enjoy life. If you get in, great! If not, there are plenty of amazing colleges out there that aren't highly selective. You just have to look for them.</p>
<p>On one hand, I learned things, which is important. Even if I don't get into one of my top schools, there are still good schools out there that I wouldn't mind, like University of Toronto, McGill, University of Western Ontario, and University of Saskatchewan. (All of which are still fairly prestigious, but I know a lot of really underqualified people who have gotten into them) </p>
<p>On the other hand, I've spent my life trying to get the highest education I could, and then go on to be a respected member of the global community who has the academic support to really influence the world. It's quite idealistic, but it's my dream.
In addition, it would be impossible to accept. I'm one of those kids who thinks that anything under an A+ is a horrible mark, anything under an A is a fail. The great stress and anxiety I've gone through to make it even this far, and how much farther I'd have to go, would probably feel like wasted efforts.</p>
<p>So I'm not really sure, I guess I'm sort of gray on the whole matter.</p>
<p>No. If someone had told me at my freshmen year that I wouldn't get into any of the top colleges, I still would have done everything the same.</p>
<p>But then, I didn't put in that much effort into my schoolwork or SATs.. The stuff that I spent most of my time on was mainly programming and research, and I would have done that regardless of whether it impacted my college decisions or not.</p>
<p>I definitely would... I felt I would have wasted major time and effort, as well a lots of money, if I end up going to a safety or my state college</p>
<p>In my situation - no. I have spent my time at high school studying hard and taking difficult courses so I could get an understanding of the world. Even if colleges did not exist, the amount of work/seriousness I put into high school would be almost the same.</p>
<p>College admissions fall into the whole scheme of things. I work hard in high school not to get into college, but to learn and expand my horizons. Then, I honestly put down my background on college applications and see if any would like to take someone like me. The letters come, and I choose to attend the one I like the most of those I'm accepted to.</p>
<p>I aim high with admissions - every college that I truly love, whether or not they in my league, I apply to. Naturally, I would not be expecting accepts on some of them.</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>I guess I have a skewed sample because I've already gotten accepted to my #2, but I feel that even if I hadn't, I still had a blast in HS and it would've been well worth it.</p>
<p>A little bit, but oh well, life goes on. It would kinda suck, having spent 4 years pushing yourself every day for hours to do stuff you often don't want to do, and not having it pay off how you wanted.</p>
<p>Getting up at three in the morning to study, having little free time, driving myself insane with the stress; yes, I would feel more than a little upset if I didn't get into one of my top choices. But, there's nothing one can do, so I would just have to get past it.</p>
<p>yes.. i go to the top hs.. and kinda waste my child hood studying.. get straight Bs.. </p>
<p>woot!! did i mention that my dream is UCLA? jeez i can already envision a rejection letter</p>