Congrats to those who got accepted but…
Dear anybody who got waitlisted or rejected,
I want you to know that you are a wonderful human being. Nobody on this Earth is the same living, breathing individual that you are. You are unique in every sense of the word and nobody can take that identity away from you. You are more than a name, and certainly more than a collection of numbers. You are not just a GPA or a class rank or applicant #12345. You are more than just a test score. When you get those college decisions, I want you to know something. You are are a beautiful, ambitious, successful, hardworking, and talented person. You do not need a school to tell you that about yourself - you should already know it. Nobody could ever take your place even if they tried. There is more to getting into college than just being a qualified applicant. Thousands of qualified applicants get rejected or waitlisted each and every year because the role of luck and chance is so great. Where you go is not who you will be. Who you will be is who you decide to be. It’s no secret that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college and it’s no secret of where they went to school. But did you know that Steve Jobs went to Reed College? I bet you never heard of it before. Did you know that Obama started at Occidental College before he went onto Columbia? Did you know that the CEO of Starbucks went to Northern Michigan University? The degree of your success depends on what you decide to do with yourself, not where you go to school. It is agreed that going to an Ivy League school or Stanford or MIT puts you at an incredible edge and greater advantage in the world. But what is important is that you took the opportunity to try. You took the opportunity to learn. It is your choices that define who you are, not your abilities. Not getting into these schools does not mean that you failed. Not getting into these schools does not mean that you worked all of those years for nothing…that all simply isn’t true. “Maybe the reason why all the doors are closed is because there is one to lead you to the perfect road.” The ultimate dream is not to go to perfect college. The ultimate dream is to love yourself for who you are, to find a career you are passionate about, and to understand the secret of happiness.
Today you didn’t fail. Today you took one more step towards the future.
Sincerely, a person who wants you to love yourself.
Oh wait. I read that letter completely wrong. I did NOT get into BME. Woops. Guess I got a little overboard there. But congratulations to everyone who got in! And to those that didn’t I don’t think Johns Hopkins knows what they’re missing.
Oh wait. I read that letter completely wrong. I did NOT get into BME. Woops. Guess I got a little overboard there. But congratulations to everyone who got in! And to those that didn’t I don’t think Johns Hopkins knows what they’re missing.
@chickenmcnugget You’re about to learn the hard way how life works. If your parents can cover it, you go; if they can’t, you go to another school. Congrats on the acceptance though! Still a huge honor!
To everyone who was rejected/waitlisted/was accepted and couldn’t afford it: You guys’ll be fine. You’ll grow to love your second choice, no matter where it is. You’re smart, ambitious people by virtue of being a member of CC (most of us are, am I right?), and I’m sure you’ll carry those traits wherever you go to school. Your education is entirely what you make of it, and not going to Hopkins won’t close a single door (especially wrt graduate school–if you’re interested in that, save your money! Loans are a killer!).
Oh my god I got accepted!! Whoa!! I’m so happy right now and and off to wait for Stanford with my S-thread children
I got really great aid!: 65,000 And I actually thought I got into BME. They letter was so congratulatory except for one line. I made an acceptance reaction and the whole time kept screaming I got into BME. LOL!
Congrats to those who got in and my many condolences to those waitlisted and and not offered admission:(
@emenya I thought the same thing! I even posted that I got into BME earlier. It was all ‘wow, congrats on getting in’ but then that one little line that said ‘we could not offer you a spot’. You were at Vision at Rice as well right? Highly anticipating that decision!
And I actually thought I got into BME. They letter was so congratulatory except for one line. I made an acceptance reaction and the whole time kept screaming I got into BME. LOL!