<p>Well, Stanford is my last fight... my last battle charge, or would it be better to compare it to my final walk to the guillotine (sp?) ? Having been rejected from Yale, Harvard, and Duke, this is my last chance. Although if those other decisions are any indication, things aren't looking so good.</p>
<p>But I am find myself unable to be bitter, because a friend of mine who I consoled once about their future brought up something I had said a few months ago to her about the fact that you can drive a Honda Civic, or a Lexus, and they'll both get you the same place... and I guess that's true for us our college experience. We all have our aspirations (I am a firm believer that CCers will cure cancer, AIDs, find out how much wood a woodchuck can chuck, and of course master the fine art of procrastination)... and if we remain focused enough, any college can be the vehicle we want it to be. Its not how we reach the goals we set for ourselves, but just that we reach them. </p>
<p>So I while I was very tempted to give in after all those rejection letters, I'd rather not waste any second of my life mooping about it when I could be using those seconds to reach my ultimate goal (eating fourty three Big Macs while ascending the Sears Tower... backwards...)</p>
<p>So keep on Rockin' in the Free World.</p>
<p>I've been rejected from MIT, Penn, and Northwestern, and, like you, Stanford is my last hope. I was defered early action, so I am prepared for the worst later today. In fact, I've come to expect rejection at this point.</p>
<p>I really didn't understand the Northwestern rejection, and I probably never will.</p>
<p>I've been rejected from Vassar and Northwestern, so Stanford is my last prestigious school. I'm not expecting an acceptance, but a waitlist or a rejection. It would be nice that my cynicism is proven wrong, but it hasn't yet. =</p>
<p>Did you guys think Ivy and the top all your life? Since 4th grade I've always thought about it as a nice place to go and get networked. However, after yesterday, all those dreams were slightly dashed. It's a bit of a shame, too, cause I didn't even get waitlisted. It just seems that you can work your butt off and expect nothing in return, always thinking that it's for you and bettering yourself, and then begin to think about a payoff. Just dunno, kinda lost. High school has been super hard and it's a little crazy to get rejected by harvard and yale. :-/</p>
<p>I would still be picking stanford over them, though, so I'm glad that i still don't know yet.</p>
<p>Amnesia, I have been thinking it not since 4th grade... but 3rd grade rather.</p>
<p>Actually I havent, in high school, I have just worked really really hard, dangerously hard. I was not endowed with pure genius, but a helluva work ethic. </p>
<p>Its just really disheartening that it amounts to nothing. I guess I could take the route and realize I learned a ton in high school, but still, Its just really scary that all that hard work does not always pay off. Its depressing actually... makes me want to slack in life... we shall see.</p>
<p>my dad went to stanford and i still remember in like 7th grade he gave me a list of things i needed to do/be in order to go there...</p>
<p>"Its just really disheartening that it amounts to nothing. I guess I could take the route and realize I learned a ton in high school, but still, Its just really scary that all that hard work does not always pay off. Its depressing actually... makes me want to slack in life... we shall see."</p>
<p>same here, especially when I look at other people's decisions and my decision and there is no real pattern. but i guess that's what makes college decisions 'special' - if we knew what they were thinking, where would the mystery/excitement be?</p>
<p>I didn't apply to Stanford, but I'm sort of sharing your mentality. </p>
<p>Plus, the colleges you mention have med, law, business, grad schools, etc. </p>
<p>Keep On Rockin' indeed.</p>
<p>i feel the same way</p>
<p>Does anyone else feel like in a way they don't want to know their decision to Stanford either? Like you it's my last push, and its been my dream school ever since i visited it, and I don't really want that dream to die just yet. Not that I would be depressed, I got in to William and Mary so I'm happy... but still.</p>
<p>I wish the decisions would be telepathically revealed to us without words. like you just suddenly knew where you were going...I sound crazy :p</p>
<p>My dream of going to Stanford has been shattered before. Now it will be shattered again.</p>
<p>yeah so fking nervous right now. I cant even bring myself to imagining the rejection without cringing</p>
<p>yes, there is no perfect meritocracy in this world</p>
<p>many of the geniuses in history did not go to well known universities, and many were not rewarded enough financially for their findings. Some of man's best ideas came from people who were not appreciated until after their deaths
ie Mendel</p>
<p>well, i'm going to wal-mart</p>
<p>Today, in the forum, was Wolffys last stand.</p>
<p>I'm in the same position as you Wolffy 25. I worked really really hard last year to rank second in my private school. But yesterday I was rejected at Yale, while the girl at my school who got #1 at my school by like .2% was wait-listed, and wait-listed at Columbia. It's just depressing because I busted my but last year, sacrificing my social life, and they don't even care. Stanford is my last school that's up with the Ivies in academic prestige, but apparently only one person ever has been accepted from my school. It's such a bummer.</p>
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<p>Ya, sucks to be people like us. Staying up till 5 am for two weeks craming for SAT II physics cause i'm not in AP or IB sucks. I ended up with an 800 too... all useless now eh? Also, ya, i had no social life whatsoever this year and last either. managed to get 2nd in my large public high school, yet i'm rejected from wharton harvard yale, and princeton too. Stanford is probably a reject as well..</p>
<p>oh well, life goes on. let it be.</p>
<p>agrophobic:
relax, dude. one's school does not a career make. honest.</p>
<p>you're gonna be okay, with or without stanford.</p>
<p>My school had about 10 or 15 of us apply to prestigious places. Each and every one of us has been rejected/waitlisted. Life indeed does go on.</p>