<p>I didn't sleep for a week for EA last year. I was so scared. I checked it all day...and when I got home, I was going to check one more time to make sure I got rejected before taking a nap...and then I got the Bulldog...Happiest single moment of my life.</p>
<p>By far.</p>
<p>I can't tell you much about rejection, because I was fortunate. But remember: your worth as an individual is decided by you. You, if you get in, make Yale great. If you go somewhere else, you'll make that great. Colleges don't make you great. They depend on bright kids such as yourselves to make them great.</p>
<p>ahhhh, i have been telling myself not to get too excited and that the odds of me getting in are very slim and I tell everyone that I would be ok with a rejection, but everytime I think about the fact that it's only 10 days... I get thsi feeling like my heart sinks, ew. i hate it.</p>
<p>Stop it. It is not an embarrassment to get not get in. </p>
<p>I'm from a high school that never had anybody go out of state. The kids in my class made fun of me, told me I was never going to get into schools like "Yale" and 'Harvard"...</p>
<p>But I did. And even if I hadn't...I tried. You have to be upmost proud of yourself in either case. Hold your head up high...you tried. Perfection isn't demanded of you, only that for everytime you fall, you get up one extra time. You go to your school and say "I applied to Yale". If you get in, great. If you don't, still great. Because YOU did it. The others? They didn't. And at the end of the day, trial and error is more important than apathy ever will.</p>
<p>Ferney, that's very encouraging. My high school is similar to yours. Me and my brother are the only people that applied to any out of state schools, let alone ivies and other elites. We rarely send students to top schools, except afew to Berkeley and UCLA.</p>
<p>Then be proud dear. You have nothing to be ashamed about. Hold your head up high. You, applied to Yale. That is something they can't take away from you.</p>
<p>lhDCpage I did the same thing!! I didn't want anyone to know that I applied to some of the top schools because I didn't know what they would think. I didn't want to be embarrassed when I wasn't accepted. I also didn't want them to say stuff about me applying to those schools because most in our school stay in the county much less the state. Only recently did I start telling a few people about it, and that's only because they were conversations I couldn't get around. And most of those people still don't know all of the elite schools where I applied.</p>
<p>Anyways I'm glad I found CC because people here are going through the same things that I'm going through. People from my school don't understand why I haven't heard back from schools or why I don't know where I'm going to go. I think CC should sell T-shirts that say "Don't ask what college I'm going to until April 1st." I'd wear it everyday. They also don't understand that my above-average stats at my school don't guarantee me admissions anywhere because there are thousands of people with stats comparable and better than mine that are applying to the same schools.</p>
<p>mickley0007 That is exactly how I feel! I haven't told anyone except a few friends that I applied to ivies/elites, because NOBODY else does it, and I don't want to them to think that I think I'm better or something. Its true that I have stats a bit higher than most of the students at my school, but its so difficult to get into a top school nowadays. Whenever teachers or other students ask where I'm going, I always say something like UCLA or UC Berkeley, because those are the schools that the smart kids at my school are supposed to go to. Teachers are slightly disappointed at that answer though I've noticed because they expect a little more out of me, or just because everyone applies to UC schools.</p>
<p>I like the T-shirt idea immensely though! lol</p>
<p>jgonzo I am just like that expect its 'probably penn state' which by the way might just be where i end up (and it's not really a bad thing). Still the majority of my school is pretty impressed impressed with penn state</p>