<p>I’m so glad I came upon this thread!
The Conquistador, what you said about not marketing yourself well…that is me…I have done a lot, but when it got to the applications…i didn’t have any experience, and I was basically on my own for everything…
i have only been accepted to UVa (a great school, i know) and GTech…and Fordham…with all my other rejections/waitlisted…I have been rather down…and this next week will not help…
i am more so angry…angry with my school, (when they heard i got rejected to mit, my counselor said: that must be God’s plan for you not to go there…what do I say to that…>??..and when I got into UVa–still waiting from other schools though, right?) maybe i’m just reading in to it way to much…
also angry with my parents for sending me to a ***** school…
I am trying not to be bitter because I know in the end I will be happy wherever I go, and it is not the end of the world…but right now…I feel very bitter and angry…<em>end of rant</em></p>
<p>one more thing…i feel like 4 yrs of working my a$$ off has not paid off…not at all…</p>
<p>^ Same. However, it just hasn’t sunk in for me that I haven’t gotten into any of the private schools I applied for. I’m still relatively happy. I really need to snap back to reality, because this isn’t working. I honestly just can’t think about what I’m doing next year, when I really need to sit down and figue it out. I’m having a hard time realising I’m ****ed.</p>
<p>^ haha…exactly!! Out of 10+ schools i applied to, i only got into 3…but strangely…I’m kinda numb to that fact right now…I guess it will sink in after this Thursday…</p>
<p>I have only two schools left; Brown and Yale. I really don’t expect much, because I just got rejected from Stanford, and waitlisted at two schools with a ~15% acceptance rate. I doubt I will fare well in schools with sub-10% rates… Especially since the Ivy League is less kind to weaker SATs than Stanford has been known to be.
Luckily I have UC Berkeley and UCLA, but recently, my distaste for a public school has grown tremendously and I’m scared I will have to be lost in the populations of a faceless UC. Anyways, it’ll sink in more, and then I’ll get over it. :/</p>
<p>Yeah… I wanted to go to a small school in/near a big city… UVA? I think not… And same… All the schools I got rejected to are a build up to more rejections. I hate to complain about it… But no one at my school gets it…</p>
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If by mediocre, you mean 3.8/2060, I did not do better than you.</p>
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Same here. It freaking sucks.</p>
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I HATE THAT.</p>
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I know. I can’t see the big picture. I can’t. This is all that’s occupying my mind and it is ALWAYS THERE.</p>
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Basically agree with everything you said.</p>
<p>@drpvv - You sound exactly like my friend. I hope I get over this. I just know that I won’t be happy for a long, long time. I have no more expectations, no more hope.</p>
<p>I just wish colleges could know how heart-broken I am.</p>
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…I understand entirely how you feel. There’s no one at my school who I can talk about this to. And I can’t pretend to be okay anymore.</p>
<p>This is a thread for complaining. For angsting. Nobody’s going to judge you here.</p>
<p>^thanks!! The one thing that makes this better is knowing I’m not totally alone… You are graduating early? Good for you!! I wanted to but my parents wouldn’t let me…
I guess for the past wk I’ve buried all my feelings- I didn’t tell anyone except my younger sister about my rejections… Like seriously, what’s the point? I don’t need their comfort…</p>
<p>They can’t comfort. They’ll just say things like, “Oh, you’ll be great wherever you go” or “It doesn’t matter where you get in, but what you do with it”. </p>
<p>Their comfort is pity. I have enough self-pity of my own to wallow in, thanks.</p>
<p>^exactly! The classic is: God must not have wanted you there! ( I go to a Christian school)…I want to say… No going to this school is what ****ed me up…but no… I just smile and pretend what they said didn’t matter to me at all…</p>
<p>I know. I can’t properly talk to anybody. Lots of my friends didn’t even apply to the schools I did, and those that did were flat out rejected, so I can’t really complain to them about a waitlisting without seeming pretentious. Nevertheless, I have like no chance of getting off the waiting list, so I might as well have been rejected. I guess it just helps my faltering ego a little bit more. Lol…
It just hurts a lot not getting in anywhere that you really want to go. I put so much time and effort into my Stanford app (upwards of 35 hours) delicately weaving a personality into it. And it hurts a lot to know that no matter how much effort I would have put in, I didn’t even have a chance of being wait listed. And I honestly think none of my other apps were are strong as that one, so it really doesn’t make me feel better when others say, “Well different schools look for different things!” The more I look at my stats when I post them on a decisions thread, I am reminded that even if I worked really hard in high school, much harder than my peers and largely succeeded relative to those in and of my area, I am a very weak applicant that had my head in the sky when I was applying. If I could go back, I would have applied to more schools that I would have better been able to gain admission to. I guess I severely underestimated just how hard it would be to get into those selective schools this year, and now I really have to pay the price. :/</p>
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<p>Like I said, I did NOT DO WELL. I did it to the point where I can only apply to safeties and NO top schools at all.</p>
<p>^yesss!! One thing I learned over this year is yes, I might be great in my school, or even my city… But we are dealing with the world… So when people at my school say: you’ll get into anywhere don’t worry, or you’re going to harvard right ( I didn’t even apply there)… It annoys me! And my guidance counselor ( yes, my guidance counselor) was soo surprised to hear I got waitlisted to rice… I wanted to slap him and be like yeah, I’m now a small fish in the ocean. You should have known that… Uuhhhhhggghh</p>
<p>I thought I had it bad when I got rejected from U chicago and Northwestern. At least I have U Toronto and McGill and Waterloo in Canada with relatively small costs because of scholarships o.o</p>
<p>You guys have it bad.</p>
<p>Same here. I’m waitlisted and I still have some hope but, let’s face it, it’s a very, very long shot. It just keeps my head floating high enough to breathe.</p>
<p>Those are the thoughts that go through my head all day. Every day since I heard back from Stanford. I wish I had applied to more mid-levels too. I feel like an idiot. A fool. I wasted perfectly good money on applications to schools I didn’t have a chance to get into. </p>
<p>I didn’t think it’d be this hard either. Sure, I made jokes about the inevitable failure, but I didn’t think it’d actually happen. I still had that stupid hope that accompanies unattainable dreams. I wanted to be in the local newspaper, dammit.</p>
<p>I’ve thought about what I would give to get into an elite college. I would give up having babies, getting married (I’ve never wanted either), my ovaries, my kidney (these I want, but they’re dispensable).</p>
<p>People were constantly asking me about going to Harvard. Even my parents’ friends at their reunion. Then again, this was back before I took AP Calc and still had a 3.9 GPA and hope for the future.</p>
<p>Ha. Ha.</p>
<p>Bah! EXACTLY. I hate how so many of these people who don’t know crap think it’s so easy to get into an Ivy League school and all you need is straight A’s. And then they scoff when you say you are rejected. Anyways, I’m at a point where I am largely getting over what other people think, so I will see if I can put that into practice now!
My guidance counselor told me that based off the last couple of people from my school to get into Stanford, I should have no problem. It makes me laugh, because she really doesn’t understand how it works. I was pretty much on the same level as the past people to get in, but both of them were first generation, low-income, and URM. Of which I am not any, and she’s going to be all surprised I was rejected. >_> She told me, that when I was applying to Stanford, that I have to take the ACT, because they don’t accept the SAT. Where is she getting this from?</p>
<p>^omg!! Same here at the URM thing… The one girl this yr who was the first ever at our school to get in a ivy (upenn) is native American…(half… She doesn’t even look it… I look more hispanc than she does native American… Sadly looks don’t really count) and my stats are wayy better than her… Her SAT score was like 1800 smt!! Soo unfair!!! But bc of that my counselor is soo surprised with my rejections!! </p>
<p>And… Same, all students at my school are like, oh you have great grades, and extracurricular stuff.= harvard… I’m like ***??</p>
<p>The average ACT score for the college I’m going to is 19.</p>
<p>I got a 33.</p>
<p>This is not meant to be.</p>