<p>napster, you commit samurai ritual suicide and light urself on fire simultaneously for getting into ucla</p>
<p>Napster,</p>
<p>There are always going to be those less qualified than you getting what you want. There will also be those more qualified than you not getting what you want. And all sorts of other permutations.</p>
<p>Life isn’t fair. However, how we handle the unfairness is the mark of character. So what if someone less qualified got in? Plenty of more qualified people didn’t.</p>
<p>Just be glad you are so fortunate to have a bounty of options.</p>
<p>While I strongly disagree with the OP, I have to say admissions this year are a bit peculiar. Let me start off by saying I am far from the most superior candidate for admission. In fact I’m fairly certain my SAT score falls into the lower quartile…</p>
<p>However, I know someone who was admitted with a 1610 SAT score. This individual has no special circumstances or anything of that sort. I am NOT mad that this person was admitted, in fact I find it wholesomely plausible. I just found it a tad bit befuddling…</p>
<p>That being said, congratulations to all whom were accepted.</p>
<p>thecotton,</p>
<p>Admissions to college are a funny thing, and you often find yourself looking at the lower quartiles and wondering, “Huh?”</p>
<p>It’s best not to dwell on any of it, in my opinion. Your achievements are your own, not anyone else’s.</p>
<p>Napster appears to have a very large head of self-esteem. It was so nice of him to “invite” his parents into “his” room for this occasion. Napsters parents should probably thank him for allowing them to put forth the money it took to apply to his colleges.<br>
I think Napster should decline the admission to UCLA and join the peace corps for a few years.</p>
<p>I’m a third year UCLA student and I can sympathize. UCLA is a good school but it’s no monumental feat to get in as an undergrad. If it was stanford or Harvard or something then yeah, you should be ecstatic, but UCLA…you did what you were supposed to in high school so congrats on that i guess.</p>
<p>I know exactly how the OP feels. UCLA accepted many from my school this year, which made my own acceptance feel less special because it was less exclusive.</p>
<p>“It is wise to have an attitude of gratitude.”</p>
<p>I like this, momfirst3. Another one I heard on CC, that has stayed with me:</p>
<p>“Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out”.</p>
<p>I believe Napster . . . and think his/her “empty” or disappointed feeling is just a real-life comment on how ridiculously competitive and whacked the whole college admission process has become . . . unless you’re the most select and BEST one, you’re nothing (popular thinking). Don’t blame Napster–blame the process . . . but keep in mind that, like money, college can’t buy you happiness. If you want to succeed-- and can stop worrying about labels and what other people think-- you can do anything.</p>
<p>I completely feel you Napster. It just gives you this annoyed feeling in your stomach when a person who didn’t try nearly as hard as you did, took less rigorous classes than you did, scored lower than you did on the SAT, had a lower GPA than you did, etc… gets in to the same school as you. That is part of the reason why Ivy acceptances are as humbling and exciting as they are; EVERYONE has truly earned their way in, no matter what their stats are.</p>
<p>Really? Because I’ve met some Ivy grads out here in NY that weren’t exactly super spectacular, even stats-wise.</p>
<p>@UCLAri</p>
<p>Actually, you’re right, I completely forgot about the legacies and donor acceptees, lol. But, OVERALL, everyone has earned their way in.</p>
<p>Well, here’s my “statistical” take on it.</p>
<p>If you look at an Ivy, the general distribution tends to be tighter, and more heavily in the “amazing” range. UCLA has a longer “less-than-amazing” tail on the left than, say, Harvard has. But both will have similar numbers in the median.</p>