<p>Hi rubyniu</p>
<p>Congratulation on you acceptance at UCLA. I am happy for you.
Also it is great to hear from you and am glad that you are feeling better.</p>
<p>The thing about acceptance is gives you a great feeling of self worth and the reverse is true too. But part of growing up is learning that rejection is not the end of the world. </p>
<p>Let me humour you a little we are all looking for acceptance all our lives from parents, teachers, friends, bosses, co-workers,in-laws, girlfriends, boyfriends…So when it comes to colleges it sure can be heartbreaking because you can not even out or get back at them. So that is the reason for frustration i guess.</p>
<p>But coming to my D rejection at wharton. Getting accepted at a place with 18% acceptance rate and that includes legacy,athletes,and other hooks, quite a challenge for an international student. But i can say that was the best thing that happened to her as she was forced to apply ED-II. The ED-II decision was absolutely last minute as all other applications were planned as RD only</p>
<p>D was keen on combining her flair for languages- 5 languages, with a passion for international relations and politics- 5 years of active MUN, strong math skills, interest in psychology and love for business studies, love for traveling, a decent flair for writing and a reader of all kinds of world literature, combining a variety of her interest and pursue a career of those. The program that she got accepted for is tailor-made for her. </p>
<p>Sure we would have been proud parents telling everybody our D goes to Wharton. But I know in my heart that she is a big city girl and she loves the east coast and has lived in big metros all her life , has a taste for life that comes with it. The only thing that that she lost out on was Wharton prestige,so to say, and the program was not a hundred percent fit for her, it was second best to say the least. </p>
<p>There is a place we are meant to be, there are things we are meant to do, there are people we are meant to meet like you and me, there are relationships that are meant to be made and for all that we need to in the right place at the right time. But we need to make the effort to give our best and best will come back to you. You will do great and be a successful person because you have just learnt to accept and move on. UCLA is a great place to be in. NYU did not reject you ,they had only so many seats and you were as competent as the other candidates, and if it wasn’t you it would have the next candidate, who might or might not have handled it as bravely as you did. So give yourself a pat on the back and Congratulations once again.</p>
<p>I wish you the very best and take care.</p>
What you said to me really was very kind! I appreciate you :)</p>