Miserable in college

@girlygirldancer, you are not alone. It is normal. My daughter and son went through the same thing. She cried and called us often. What worked for daughter was volunteering in a clinic. She met like-minded people and met her best college friend there.

Son met a bunch of guys in his dorm because he noticed a bunch of guys who walked together to get local grub. Their school didn’t serve “meals” on the weekend, so everyone had to go off campus. He made friends with people who had like-minded food preferences.

You are a dancer? Can you volunteer to teach local kiddos? Start a uni club that teaches dance.
It will get better. Can you do intramural dance groups?

See, you need to know that friendships in college are different now than when your parents attended.
Back then, we “HAD” to talk to dorm mates because we didn’t have cell phones and computers. We had to write home to ask for money. We had to ask for help from roomies and people across the hall. Believe it or not, it was easier to make friends back then because there were no real distractions other than school work and parties.

Don’t give up yet. You’ve invested a lot of time, from the minute you started high school to applications to admissions, you’ve spent a lot of time getting there. Give it a chance.