<p>I think most people must have dealt with that person who always inquires what grade you got after every test, what colleges you're applying to, and which ones you got in/rejected and tries to glean other information. Then there's the other person who is so paranoid/competitive that he/she never tries to help other classmates, is rude, and uncollaborative.</p>
<p>How do you guys deal with over-competitive/nosy people? </p>
<p>Also, has anyone experienced bitterness from classmates who got rejected from the schools you got into? Most of it is passive-agressive but there also tends to be blatant anger. What's the best way to deal with that? You certaintly wouldn't want to lose any friends because of the college process or deal with passive-aggression all the time, so what would you do?</p>
<p>Some suggestions or advice would be helpful.</p>
<p>I actually can understand the blatant anger part.</p>
<p>If a kid gets rejected by his dream school, but sees that a kid in his high school got into that same school with a far worse academic record, we can’t expect the kid who was rejectedto be happy about it. Of course, his anger is misplaced, because the current state of affairs in college admissions is not the doing of the classmate who got accepted.</p>
<p>A friend of mine was waitlisted at her dream school, and then found out that this kid who’s a slacker and a complete stoner got in. She’s usually not competitive, but she was pretty ticked off, I would’ve been too.</p>
<p>I don’t make straight As or apply to top-level schools, so I don’t have to deal with nosy people lie that. I have had to deal with people who got WAY to competitive over grades. Like 11th grade someone accused me of cheating because she was always a perfect student and I did way better than her on this project. I had to go through this whole process with administration to prove that she was just a bitter, vindictive, over-competitive jerk.</p>
<p>My only rejection was from Wake, but that was such a reach for me that I don’t really hold any sort of bitterness against people who got in, especially because I love my actual top-choice, even though it wasn’t a reach, a lot more. I congratulate them and move on, and I don’t prod about GPAs and test scores, so if they have worse stats or not doesn’t really matter to me.</p>