<p>and the idea of somebody dropping out of a competetive school with a 4.0, and basically squandering his talent, quite frankly makes the rest of us want to puke.</p>
<p>preMEDguy312, legendofmax, and rohan2k6...I totally agree with what you guys have said.</p>
<p>chanman: Grow a spine and stop wallowing in your own self-pity! No one has a perfect life and MANY (probably most) don't get what they want, but you can't let that keep you down. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>For those of you who are new to this whole saga, here's the beginning of chanman's story: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=129004%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=129004</a></p>
<p>It's been an entire year and nothing has changed.</p>
<p>I think there's a good lesson to be learned from this: EXPLORE YOUR OPTIONS and don't get too attached.</p>
<p>whats the lesson?</p>
<p>I drop out of college, but that doesn't mean I don't have other opportunities...
I already am planning new things, and I'm investing in real estate</p>
<p>If i turn out a failure...then there's the lesson for becoming too attached.</p>
<p>I suppose you didn't really mean this:</p>
<p>"Wharton has been my dream school. I tried my best, really, but I am still a failure."</p>
<p>The lesson isn't for you. It's for those of us who are in the process of applying to colleges.</p>
<p>chanman: Please re-read the beginning of your "Why Transfer Essay." I think that is why you got rejected. "In college, all I think about are grades." I have read through your essays and I do not think that's what Wharton is looking for.</p>
<p>Chanman:</p>
<p>At the risk of sounding harsh:</p>
<p>You are not a failure by any stretch of the imagination -- it's laughable that you think so, frankly. But it's also troubling that you could have such a limited view of success and failure. It comes across as a real lack of maturity, in spite of the fact that you say you have matured.</p>
<p>Your essay on why you want to transfer doesn't make any sense. You say Michigan is full of a lot of great things including people eager to learn, but that you are not inspired. Wharton, you suggest, is what will turn things around for you and turn you on. You talk about needing to find a place that will allow you to pursue anything you can possibly imagine.</p>
<p>Schools want people that show they can thrive in just about any environment. You have thrived at Michigan. You needed to have embraced that and said that it was great at Michigan, but that there were very substantive reasons why you should be at Wharton. And these should be better articulated than what you said.</p>
<p>The way you wrote that it sounds like unless you are affiliated with Wharton, you have no motivation, you have no ability to learn, etc. Schools want people that are going to get more out of them than saying "I go to Wharton" and through affiliation with them alone become someone confident and worthwhile.</p>
<p>You need to get a life. Michigan is the dream of a lot of kids. You need to embrace it. If you the entrepreneurial type that you wrote about in your essay, be entrepreneurial. If you decide to work and not go to school, fine. Take the time and do something tremendous or daring. And get a girlfriend (if that's your bag) or start a business or something.</p>
<p>Grow up, though. And in so doing you'll become the kind of person that can get into Harvard or Wharton or at least a top 10 or 15 b-school for graduate school, if that's what you decide later that you want.</p>
<p>I'm no expert, but I definitely think you don't have the maturity you claim you do. It shows a great deal of maturity to face dissapointment and move on in an appropriate manner. You've done quite the opposite. Additionally, if this is the way you react to setback...business seems like a terrible career choice.</p>
<p>Furthermore, it's no secret that Wharton is extremely difficult to get accepted into as an external transfer. You knew your chances were slim regardless of how qualified you are. You should have prepared yourself better for this. That may sound judgmental, but that's the way it would seem to an adcom.</p>
<p>I completely agree with the people who said your essays were over the top and made you come off as arrogant and conceited. I read them over just now and I feel that way, as well. I didn't feel you were genuine at all.</p>
<p>True, I am not mature. And what I say in my essays may not completely be true from the heart. But would you have said that it portrays me as arrogant and conceited if I didn't give up on Michigan??? What if I said I am going to keep up the good work at Michigan? Would my "maturity" image change?</p>
<p>I let other people read my essays as well, but on the other side of the story. I told them I got into Wharton. Apparently, they said my essays were very genuine and inspiring. And they said I have really matured.</p>
<p>This was just a way to see how the CC community viewed this process. I wanted to see how the admission game played.</p>
<p>Thank you for your responses,they really helped me see a lot!</p>
<p>By the way, I'm going to Wharton.</p>
<p>I can happily sign off the admission game now and smile to my dream. Although you guys might think otherwise, I think that what I wrote, how I put together my application. was great, and I'm proud.</p>
<p>CC-thanks for helping me achieve my dream!</p>
<p>^Uhh...What was your dream exactly? I thought it was to get into Wharton and now you're saying you have achieved your goal.</p>
<p>I sincerely hope, for your sake (although I don't know you personally), that you are able to move on, and that you will eventually realize how good you have/had it.</p>
<p>This reminds me of Death of a Salesman.</p>
<p>However, with the opposite outcome. You will succeed, even if it means taking a different path to get there.</p>
<p>Thanks for making me feel better about myself OP. Dropping out of UMich is one of the dumbest and most selfish things you could do. You have no idea what I would do to attend a school like UMich.</p>
<p>I would advise counseling because you're entirely clueless. I think you have some obvious emotional and maturity issues that need addressing immediately.</p>
<p>I agree</p>
<p>Whether or not you were actually admitted, I still stand by my original post</p>
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<p>I second that. I would think less of Wharton if they admitted you with the attitude you have and the essays you wrote. It's not that you don't have great potential; it's just you aren't exploiting that potential, and you haven't matured enough, IMO.</p>
<p>"By the way, I'm going to Wharton"</p>
<p>Wow, I just lost what little respect I actually had for Wharton (not that I believe it for a second, though).</p>
<p>I don't really get why he's such a "tool". All he's shown us is that people's opinions of his application are heavily affected by what he puts down as his admissions decision. (and made some people look a bit silly along the way)
It just shows what most intelligent people have know all along... that people on here aren't all that good at judging applications.</p>
<p>he's lying. look at his essays. can you imagine someone with that type of writing ability being admitted?</p>
<p>I think he got admitted cuz it looks like he wanted to know how CC would judge his app by posting a whole new thread, he won't post a new thread with his complete application a short time after rejection, he would be busy with depression and anger. But I agree that his app isn't very impressive</p>
<p>Congrats chanman</p>