<p>I have recently been rejected to the college that was my first choice. I am very sad and now I don't know how to figure out what other schools I want to go because my heart was set on that one school. I have some colleges in mind but I'm not sure if I want to go to those colleges. Does anyone have any suggestions?</p>
<p>yeah... don's stress out</p>
<p>I also got rejected to the college I wanted to enter</p>
<p>just, follow your heart and ask aaround universities that are similar to the one u liked</p>
<p>bye</p>
<p>I'm so sorry, fungirl. It's really hard when you've had your heart set on something.</p>
<p>Now for the advice - take the weekend to cry. Let it all out to the people who care about you, which can include your friends, but doesn't have to. Then on Monday, do the applications to the colleges "you have in mind." Look for other colleges similar to the one you didn't get into, and apply to those. Apply to schools that look OK, that meet your objective criteria, even if they're not ones you think you want to go to right now.</p>
<p>By the time April comes around, and you have your acceptances, your whole mindset will have changed and you will find the one you want to go to.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Sorry about that.</p>
<p>Give yourself a little mourning time, like Chedva recommended, then pick yourself up and look for similar colleges.</p>
<p>Even though it feels huge right now, it will be just a blip in the road by the Fall.</p>
<p>Hang tough. You'll have other loves.</p>
<p>Don't worry. You will end up happy. I have a friend who was deferred from his first choice school, Yale, and was absolutely crushed, because it was his dream. Then he got into Princeton and Harvard and hasn't given Yale a thought since! True story :D</p>
<p>that must be awful to have to go to Princeton or Harvard.</p>
<p>OP - don't be too sad. If your first choice was Princeton, I'm sorry. If not, go to one of the schools that you are somewhat interested in. If you love it, stay. If you are still thinking about your first choice, apply to transfer.</p>
<p>I know what u mean. I have my heart set on NYU. and if not there then Emerson. if i dont get into both I really wont care what college I go to anymore. I'd probably go to a cheap college and try to transfer.</p>
<p>Judging by her back posts, it looks like the OP's first choice was Emory.</p>
<p>fungirl -</p>
<p>Give yourself a few days. Make sure you get enough sleep. Eat good food. Do something that you love to do but don't usually find the time for.</p>
<p>Then you'll be fungirl77 again, and ready to get back on your feet.</p>
<p>When April comes, you'll have good choices and things will look very different to you. When one door shuts, another opens -- believe in this and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just keep your eyes and your mind open.</p>
<p>I wish you all the best.</p>
<p>If Emory was your first choice, you might want to apply to Oxford College of Emory U. After two years at Oxford, you'll automatically start taking classes at Emory U. You'll get the intimate LAC and the bigger university experience, and come away with an Emory BA/BS/BFA degree.</p>
<p>^^^^^^^ best reply so far.</p>
<p>I've thought about it, and college is what you make of it. You could have gone to your first choice, and hated it because it was not exactly how you expected it to be. I have friends who got into one of their lower choices, and are perfectly happy. Just have some fun and relax for a few days, then work on any of those other apps you need done by the first. Good luck, and I know you will be happy with your options in April.</p>
<p>It'll end up all okay. I know a student who was rejected from her ED choice, and ended up going to her FOURTH choice college. She is a sophomore, LOVES it! She can't imagine being anywhere else. Sometimes things just end up working out even better than you can imagine right now! Good luck!!</p>
<p>I'm so sorry - - I was very concerned about my daughter as she also had her heart set on a certain school. I was going over in my mind how I would help her if she had been rejected and here are some ideas I came up with:
1. why did you want that school? can you pick out one or two key characteristics of it and find these things in another school?
2. what didn't you like about your first choice. No place is perfect. Surely your top choice had some negatives. try to find some other schools that have these qualities that the first school lacked.
Hopefully using these ideas you can come up with some other schools that you can be happy with.</p>
<p>Your school is waiting for you. The perfect place. It meets all of your needs and will give you what you want. Go find it.</p>
<p>All the advice up above are great! Definitely give yourself a mourning time- I cried for a whole weekend over Stanford... I knew it was a reach but I was really excited by the idea of going all the way out to CA! My counselor suggested just applying to a rolling decision school to "vent" on so you'd have an acceptance letter in your hand by February. I wound up not doing it... just because a month later when I decided it was time to mail it, I didn't care anymore- in a good way. That I was moving on.</p>
<p>College is what you make of it... true cliche but even so when you look at similar schools to Emory... I've really enjoyed my schools with a small LAC atmosphere in a small town with amazing academics. Heh, yeah, nothing like Stanford... but this way is a better fit... </p>
<p>Just chill and get your other applications in!!!</p>
<p>k...you need to think of your #1 school as a guy...a guy you had a crush on for sometime, and because of that crush, you didn't pay attention to some other wonderful guys (or girls- can't assume anyting these days) anyway or somethings that might not have been so perfect...so after this weekend, just open your eyes and start looking at all the other possibilities out there and there are a lot...</p>
<p>it is not like you did anything wrong, but NOW is the time to go, yeah, there are some great choices out there and I am going to pull myself up and put all I have into the other applications....</p>
<p>think about what you found attractive at your fave school- and what your priorities are, those do change once you start looking at option</p>
<p>a few weeks ago my D went to see a school she didn't have a lot of interest in...she didn't think she was interested in a school with a decent sports program or a traditional campus, etc...turns out, yeah, she likes that aspect of her HS and would indeed miss it in college...kind of gave her pause to think that her #1 choice school wasn't so strong in those areas</p>
<p>so, don't give up, don't think all is lost, cause I promise, you will find the right school...</p>
<p>and that jerky guy you had a crush on didn't deserve you anyway</p>
<p>Hey guys, I'm a new user, and I'm here to say that all is not lost! During my senior year of high school, I was <em>crushed</em> when I (and my twin sister as well!) got waitlisted at my first choice school. I cried, wanted to kick things and was just plain devastated. We decided to split up and to attend two "safety" schools. Two years later, she says going to Miami of Ohio was the best decision she ever made, and yesterday I was accepted to my first choice for transfer!!</p>
<p>Just make sure to go to a school where you feel comfortable. You may end up loving it, like my sister has, or you can always apply for transfer down the road. I know a TON of people who have transfered- many of whom to the very schools they were rejected or waitlisted from the first time around. Great schools too: Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Saint Mary's, and UVa, for example.</p>
<p>Take heart! There is life after rejection (and high school!).
Mal :)</p>
<p>Don't worry, but get working. You'll need to sort things out if all your plans were based on going to that college. If you got in somewhere, then you're ok, but make sure you've learned you lesson.</p>
<p>Don't follw your heart, as the other person said; it'll lead you between your sternum and spinal cord.</p>
<p>I'm very sorry. I'm applying ED and I can't imagine how I'd feel if that college said, 'Thanks but no thanks."
All these suggestions seem to hit right on the mark. I know I'd mourn pretty badly, but I think I would just have to keep the mindset that there are a lot of other great schools out there and one's got to be just as good a match. Best of luck and hang in there!</p>