Life Sucks, My State University is a Joke and I Wasted My Efforts

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>I worked my off for four years, did countless volunteer hours and went half-way around the world to apply to good colleges. I KNOW I qualified for them (compared to some other acceptance posts I see) and yet I'm on a wait-list for two and so far only my state safety has accepted me.</p>

<p>Everyone goes "Oh! What a good school!" but these people are... normal. They're not CC people, they're just Jane Doe or Bob Smith who are happy they can get into ANY university. </p>

<p>I HATE that university! It's ranked #38 in the nation but I hate half of the people that go to it, the look, the 'school spirit'. They're not academic, they're 'getting by', and I'm going to have to compete with over 5,000 overseas students for a class rank. How the (*^$ am I supposed to get a decent class rank if my classmates came from India Institute of Technology!?</p>

<p>You don't go from community college to Harvard and you don't go from a StateU to anywhere great. Anyone who says I'm beign arrogant may be right, but excuse me if I busted my ass for four years and people get in to this school without even doing half of the work I did. I worked too hard, and I'll still end up with a mediocre life.</p>

<p>Screw. This.</p>

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<p>maybe if you didn't have that attitude schools would have wanted you</p>

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<p>wow, that sucks. </p>

<p>but such is life.</p>

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<p>i guarantee that is going to be me next year...</p>

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<p>It's not a bad attitude; it's real and honest and completely understandable. =&lt;/p>

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<p>Sucks to be you. Should have chilled.</p>

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<p>i recognize your name from your posts here in the hs forum, and i feel for you. still, there's hope in the waitlists...you should try to make an effort to show that they are your top choices...</p>

<p>if you do end up going to your state school, don't worry about it. My mom went from a good (top 200, but nothing special) school to an ivy. It can be done!</p>

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<p>Being dumb is ok.</p>

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<p>You're talking about Wisconsin, right? Isn't that one of the best public schools in the country?</p>

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<p>yeah I don't see how you can be complaining about wisconsin... there's a good chance that I'll end up at kentucky.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I didn't want to go to Wisconsin either. So I opted to go to Missouri instead...oh wait, thats #92 in the nation...oh dumb me, what a dumb decision! Oh wait...it has the #1 journalism school in the nation, and encourages interdisciplinary studies (unlike Wisconsin...where you'll be lucky to get the classes you want your fresh/soph year). Its not all in the rank. If I can go to Missouri, be a great student there, I like my chances for law school at University of Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, etc. Its not all in the rank. </p>

<p>Then again, that type of pretentious attitude is probably why those top schools didn't accept you.</p>

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<p>I feel the exact same way!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>My college at first I thought it was soo great and only smart people go there. Now everyone got in and I feel like it's not so special. I worked harder than the people who got in and I'm ****ed. I could've relaxed those days I spent cramming for a test. Dang....:(</p>

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<p>What college sciencenerd?</p>

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<p>Well, OP, now would be a good time to stop living for your resume rather than your life, choose to do things that truly interest you, work hard at them, and go to Harvard, Berkeley, MIT, RISD, Juilliard, fill-in-the-blank institution for graduate school and get a life.</p>

<p>By the way, I've never even seen the place, but I was always under the impression that University of Wisconsin rocks.</p>

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<p>Wow, please calm down. My brother went to Arizona State, worked his ass off and is going to graduate school at Berkeley. Make the best of your situation.</p>

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<p>University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. 'Pretentious' isn't even close. Are we still living in the 1800s, where pride was the ultimate sing or something? I'm proud of what I've accomplished, I'm just not happy that I'm going to have to bust my ass for another four years AND THEN maybe not even get into anywhere good.</p>

<p>Rank means next to nothing. Having 31k+ students in a school and huge classes makes it harder for me. "Oh, but Silvestris! You can get schoalrships/excel in school/work with professors!" In a class of 200, will they even know what I look like :(?</p>

<p>Excuse me for thinking that I deserve better than to 'just survive' college. It's too much an investment in time, money, and emotions to 'just survive'. I want to excel.</p>

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<p>I don't get that. How would you be more likely to excel in a higher rank school (Ivy League, etc.), where the students were better in high school, and the environment is more cut throat, than at a state school?</p>

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<p>OP. everyone works for their grades. you can't say that you worked harder than EVERYBODY.</p>

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<p>Then I'd say you wasted your efforts by applying to a school you detested. Were there no better safeties to be found?</p>

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<p>I think Bob Smith is a pretty good guy so I don't know what you have against him.. But fyi, the valedictorian of my local community college went to Cornell.. so it's not hopeless</p>