<p>I am soooo sick of waiting. I feel like everyone around me is getting into great schools, and I guess I've had my fair share of them too but I know I could do better. </p>
<p>Ivy decisions are coming out on Thursday and I kind of wished I applied to more schools even though I applied to like 12...though at least four of them were those I know I would get into. Today I just recieved my first rejection while others around are celebrating...ik ik poor me right...but ugh, I just want to know already.</p>
<p>It’s okay! Assuming you’ve applied to a wide breadth of schools, you should have several–and at the very least, one–acceptance coming your way in the coming week. Know that regardless of which schools make what decision regarding your admission, you’re the same talented individual you were before this process began. Someone else’s evaluation of your application–a process which, aside from being too narrow to truly evaluate your skills, has far more to do with the demographic needs of each institution than how you stacked up linearly against the rest of the applicant pool–does not determine your self worth.</p>
<p>But so you’ve already been accepted to some good schools? (I did get that part right?) So calm down, yes the Ivy decisions come on Thursday, but you get to go to a good college regardless of the outcome. I applied to 6 schools, with 1 saftety, 1 that I didnt really want to get into (despite it being an amazing school, 3 Ivys and 1 that might as well be an Ivy (because its going to be just as hard to get in there. When the rejection to the school I didnt really want to go to came I got super nervous and I started imagining what I would have to do if I didnt get into my safety (which is BU btw and having only 1 safety is stupid lol) but now that I only have the tough schools left and I already know that no matter what I get to go to BU and live in Boston (one of my fav cities) and go to good school (yes I know its no Ivy, but prestige won’t matter if you don’t graduate in the top of your class these days, since competition for grad school is even worse) </p>
<p>So do what I did and calm down! 
Yes it would suck not getting in to an Ivy if you genuinely believe you have the stuff for it (I KNOW), but realize that as long as you have a good college option you have more than a lot of students!</p>
<p>Just don’t compare your circumstances with others’ because it’ll only hurt you more.
In my case I go to a private high school that sends more than 30% of its students to Ivies.
It’s like “if you excel here, you can get into Ivies.” And since I got near-perfect SATs, ten 5’s in APs, and several leadership positions in publication and student government, etc., counselors have been excited and expecting about my college admissions. But after getting rejections from Yale, Amherst, Duke, and MIT and getting waitlisted by a few others, – and also the most irritating part has been watching loads of friends getting into those colleges – I just decided not to care about it until I can check decisions from other schools on April 1st. I figured out that the more you develop an obssessive and anxious attitude, the more it hurts.
Well, Most of us aren’t mature or brave enough to deal with everything that is happening to us (rejections and waitlists) nor with everything that is happening to other ppl around us. (getting into to colleges from which we got rejected) I guess we should just believe that things are gonna be fine, as they have never really been devastatingly harsh on us. :)</p>