perfect poem for all these CCers

Applying to College
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<p>made by urs truly, just fill in "Brooklyn College" with the "all-accepting" college in your area.</p>

<p>Screw Harvard! Forget Yale!
That’s the anthem of my high school career!
Darn you Dartmouth,
You conned me Cornell,
I’m stuck with no colleges, gee that’s swell.
Columbia doesn’t want me, neither does Princeton,
NYU said no, and Brown just laughed,
looked at my application and threw it in the trash.</p>

<p>What more do you want from me, perfect SATs?
A #1 class rank and 5's on all the APs?
“As a matter of fact we do,” says UPenn,
“and if you REALLY want to get in,”
“be in 5 Varsity sports, write your own book,”
“climb Mt. Everest....,”
“and maybe we’ll talk then.”</p>

<p>“Argh, that’s impossible, how can I compete?”</p>

<p>“Well I’m sorry dear student, I’ve got a thousand kids who ain’t as weak;
one’s met the President, another a cure for AIDs,
looks like your inadequate, sorry,
can’t let you in.”</p>

<p>...</p>

<p>We’ll here on out, here’s what I’ll do
I’ll show the Ivy League and Co what I’m all about
hard-working, determined, creative,
motivated, focused, and strong,
I’ll make the “top-notch” schools “reach” for me and then I’ll blow them off
don’t need to goto Harvard to be a super-star</p>

<p>College Admission stress for what?
Remember who we are,
We’re the same teens, oversleeping, sometimes lazy, who hate waking up for school,
and now...us, of all people, so stressed to get in?</p>

<p>Don’t worry...if anything, there’s
Brooklyn College for the win.</p>

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<p>Nicely written, I like it. You're pretty good!</p>

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<p>To weep, or not to weep: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The letters and emails of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of adcoms,
And by opposing end them? To be rejected: to not get in;
No more; and by a rejection to say we end
The stress and the thousand natural shocks
That applicants are heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To be rejected, to not get in;
To reject: perchance to weep: ay, there's the rub;
For in that rejection from Stanford what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this long wait,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long a wait;
For who would bear the mocking and laughter of classmates,
The oppressor's wrong, the parents’ harsh words,
The pangs of despised love, the email's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That applicant merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his rejection make
With a thin envelope? Who would bear
To grunt and sweat under a weary page,
But that the dread of something after rejection,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No senior returns, puzzles the mind
And makes us rather bear those waitlists we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make rejects of us all;
And thus the native cheer of acceptance
Is sicklied o'er with the pale doom of rejection,
And enterprises of great sorrow and grief
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. - Soft you now!
The fair campus! Professor, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.</p>

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<p>I got one:</p>

<p>U G L Y
U AINT' GOT NO ALIBI
U UGLY
UH UH YEA
U UGLY
I got rejected yes its true
but i ain't blue
'cuz i'm not ugly like u</p>

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<p>haha, great</p>

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<p>Ok I must say that these are totally hilarious. Hamlet + college rejection = ultimate evil.</p>

<p>Must get back to homework...</p>

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<p>I really like OP's poem!</p>

<p>Flowed decently and was unique not just ABAB rhyme - got some talent ;)</p>

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<p>Awesome, both of you.</p>

<p>QuizQuick, I may just have to share that one with my college counselor (my old English teacher).</p>

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<p>Thanks somebodynew. :) Too bad Stanford didn't notice my creativity. btw somebodynew, you once PMed your Stanford essays, but I never PMed mine. Would you still like to read it?</p>

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<p>Love the poem, theRGS. QuizQuick, that was pure genius.</p>