<p>Oh, well congratulations :)</p>
<p>And there’s no way that I’m checking with anyone</p>
<p>Messiah, good thing I’m not your daddy… I haven’t said anything that would warrant a chill pill</p>
<p>Knowing the low admission chances, I’ve basically memorized the rejection song. It’s better than a letter, or at least I’ll have something to sing if the e-mail/letter arrives. [YouTube</a> - “You Got Rejected” (On Harvard Time Music Video)](<a href=“"You Got Rejected" (On Harvard Time Music Video) - YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1n7I47cBQ)</p>
<p>^I will chase them for 20 blocks with a knife if these people come to my door and sing that song to me on Mar. 30th.</p>
<p>Just kidding.</p>
<p>No, not really.</p>
<p>felixfelicis–that story almost exactly described how i felt when i read the email from the school that i had my heart set on. </p>
<p>I’m feeling pretty ambivalent about any rejections I get now…</p>
<p>Hey chells319, I’m sorry about what happened with Stanford. I have a friend who has been rejected by three of his top choices consecutively, and so he has been through that moment a few times. His mom literally didn’t speak to him and had no shame conveying her disappointment. He called me crying after the last rejection and was on the brink of running away from home. I wish parents were more understanding…</p>
<p>That’s horrible. That parent should have been ashamed of her/himself. How many of us parents wouldn’t get into their alma maters if they applied today - with today’s competition? MOST OF US! I know I wouldn’t…high school is so much harder than it was when I went and all of us should be proud of our kids and what they’ve accomplished.</p>
<p>Sometimes parents make these things more about themselves than their kids.</p>
<p>To chells319: I commiserate with you whole-heartedly. That story describes how I felt when I received my Stanford EA decision. I’d been waiting the whole day for the decision to come out, but the instant I saw the email pop up in my inbox, I just had a feeling of incredible dread…And as it turned out, my instinct was spot on. </p>
<p>So, like you, I’m trying not to think of my Harvard application results…</p>
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Man, what the college process can do to us…
I wonder if anyone has committed suicide…probably. I can imagine :eek: …</p>
<p>^ Many I am sure.</p>
<p>People who would commit suicide as a result of a college reject likely have mental health considerations aside from one particular event. If it’s not a rejection from a school/program, it’ll be something else that triggers it…</p>
<p>^for the same environment/event, people react differently, of course. but then, some schools (with heavy academic pressure), like some countries (norway?), have a higher suicide rate. thus the environment/events have some blame too. but then again, for such general events like college admissions/rejections (which is as general as holidays — i.e., the increased suicide numbers around holidays), it should be the individuals than the outside events. however, will these individuals carry the ‘suicide’ genes around and more likely take actions later on if not now? Wind, don’t be so cruel to these poor kids.</p>
<p>He is right though. It is not JUST the admissions rejection, it will be a build up of pressures and failures.</p>
<p>If you are (and this will sound insensitive) doing yourself in over an admissions decision probably means that it would have happened at some point anyway. The college thing just happened to be the trigger at the wrong time.</p>
<p>… whoa, 
sorry for triggering a touchy subject. My bad. I shouldn’t have said anything, but I feel for felixfelicis’s friend. Running away is a hard thing to do. It’s sad…</p>
<p>@toughyear: I’m not sure how you got the impression that I was being cruel. Am I saying HS students should take the application process more lightly? Absolutely. It’s not the end of the world. It may seem like it to some–heck, the application process was nerve-wreaking for me a few years ago–but one learns to accept failures. </p>
<p>@nine9knives: Yes it’s a touchy subject, but I don’t think we should dance around it and not talk about it. The more we avoid it like the plague, the more mental health problems are swept under the table in society…the more mental health problems will be stigmatized in society. We need to tackle the issue and get people who need help and counseling all the resources we can give them. </p>
<p>Look, if someone who is battling depression gets in. Ok…they won’t try killing themselves now. But what if they feel friendless in college? What is they get homesick? What if they fail an exam? Will it all go away just because they get in? No. And suicides pop up every so often at schools like Harvard, and Stanford, and NYU and the flagship state unis, and community colleges etc. and around the world for that matter. </p>
<p>Frankly, even the most successful people can succumb to suicidal thoughts. I just heard the story of a very talented composer–who committed suicide before the age of 30 last year. Brilliant career ahead of him, awards, professional recognition, performances etc. Certainly, from the outside…it doesn’t seem like failure. So, I’m not sure what triggered it…stress from self-expectation? Self-criticism? Setting standards for one-self that can’t be reached by any actual human?</p>
<p>Sorry, double post</p>
<p>Hey 
, I’m all for taking on problems head first, but I’m just sorry that I sort of hijacked this thread topic. But, I don’t think you were cruel and I agree with you. I think some do need to take the college process a little lighter…but some can’t because they are strained and trapped, like felixfelicis’s friend by his parents, and can’t realize it until they get out of the environment and finally grow for themselves. But at least for me, I think I finally learned to let go this weekend after considerable thought. If I get into Harvard…GREAT, but if not, oh well… it’s pretty d*mn hard to get in.</p>
<p>But yeah, self-expectation is a really good thing as it can drive us to do great things, but it can be a really bad thing too. A harsh thing. A killer. :(</p>
<p>Hey, I figure this is probably a good place to drop this without starting a new thread. I received an email today from the Harvard Admissions office asking me to clarify something on my application - which summer program at Harvard I attended and if I could email them a transcript. Does that mean I’m /not/ yet sitting in the reject pile?</p>
<p>Yes, it looks like they are still looking at your application.</p>
<p>Another possibility is that they haven’t even looked at all of the applications. Princeton told my college counselor that they hadn’t even looked at all the applications yet (this was late last week).</p>