<p>To those who feel that it's not fair that you were denied and that you wasted your time in high school: If you really feel like studying and learning more is a waste of time and you're only doing it for external gratification, then maybe you should be denied from academically rigorous schools. Just a thought. Maybe your teachers could tell you weren't actually academically motivated for learning's sake and suggested that in their recommendations.</p>
<p>By waitlisted do you mean deferred? Isn't it early to be hearing about a waitlist? Anyway, you have to look at the College application and look at how superficial it truly is. People apply for the name rather than what they will get out of it and that is sad. People go through high school to prepare for college, which makes sense, but they do things only for the college rather than for themselves. And just because it is an ivy doesn't guarantee the best college time or education. From what I hear, ivy league life is extremely cut throat and stressful. Why put yourself through that? Go to a decent school that you have tons of aid/schoalrships to and then continue on to graduate school. You'll be ahead of the pack with little to no debt and maybe even a higher degree of education.</p>
<p>^^^^ Many people say its easy to go to A graduate program in the country, if you go to a "decent" school, but its not....</p>
<p>For example for Pre-med, Northwestern has a 80-90 percent medical school acceptance rate for its pre-med students, rice has a 87 percent pre-med acceptance rate, ivy's and other top schools have a 80-90 percent pre-med acceptance rates..while "decent" schools have lower medical school acceptance rates for their pre-med students</p>
<p>I know plenty of kids that have gone to "decent" undergraduate schools, and when they applied to ANY regular medical school they've been rejected....They ended up going to some medical school in the caribbean because they couldn't get into ANY medical schools in the U.S.</p>
<p>That is why it is so critical, imo, for "future grad-school" students to get into the top undergraduate programs, because then they are on track for "A grad school". The top undergraduate programs in the country have much higher graduate school acceptance rates for their pre-grad students...</p>
<p>"To those who feel that it's not fair that you were denied and that you wasted your time in high school: If you really feel like studying and learning more is a waste of time and you're only doing it for external gratification, then maybe you should be denied from academically rigorous schools. Just a thought. Maybe your teachers could tell you weren't actually academically motivated for learning's sake and suggested that in their recommendations."</p>
<p>Uhhm. To this poster, MAYBE the high school activities that students achieve at are <em>not</em> what would be most productive towards the end of learning? There is lots and lots wrong with our educational system in terms of allowing students to just be fascinated by knowledge and enjoy it. Lots. </p>
<p>A simple example is how the AP curriculum in math and science often is watered down to an extreme, fails at getting many students excited about the right aspects of the subjects, and submits to the GPA-mongers who take 5 AP courses, get A's, and ultimately have no deep understanding of the respective subjects.</p>
<p>I just got rejected from my top choice, and rejected from my top major from my third choice. I suppose I haven't heard from everywhere yet, but I feel miserable. I felt like my first choice was such a good fit for me. It was exactly what I wanted in a school and the only one like that. I thought that going to that school would be the best thing for me. Apparently, they don't agree :( Grrrrrrrr it's so frustrating! And so important because it affects what I'll be doing for the rest of my life!!!!!! And now I feel like I should quit doing theater (what I want to major in) because I can't be that good if I didn't get in. I'm obviously not going to have a career in it.... But that's what I've always pictured myself doing. It's kind of hard to have all of your dreams crushed in less than 5 minutes! Blahhhh sorry for the long vent :(</p>
<p>I just got rejected from my top choice and I can't stop crying. Hahaha. They accept about seventy percent of their applicants, too. I am a worthless piece of crap because I referred three of my friends to that school and they ALL got in and I didn't.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHA. I wasted my life. I wasted my life taking honors and AP classes that I didn't do well in. I should have taken stupid-kid classes.
I also wasted my life in key club, drama club, track, gay-straight alliance, debate...and volunteering EVERY SATURDAY at a food cupboard! Because they don't want me. Haaahaha.</p>
<p>"I also wasted my life in key club, drama club, track, gay-straight alliance, debate...and volunteering EVERY SATURDAY at a food cupboard! Because they don't want me. Haaahaha."</p>
<p>You didn't waste your life, you learned to be a more productive individual. If you consider volunteering as a complete waste of time simply because it didn't get you into your top university, then you didn't deserve to be accepted in the first place. Students need to pursue activities and interests they are passionate about, not club-hop for the sake of stacking a college application. Your considering of regular classes as "stupid kid" classes and being part of the gay-straight alliance as a burden only speaks to how generic you are as a person- the world, let alone American universities, doesn't need more generic people.</p>
<p>I am anticipating rejections as well- but I won't be crying over my own shortcomings, I'll just suck it up and move on. Hey, we all have a right to be depressed, but don't deprecate yourself, your teachers, or even your clubs just because you couldn't have it your way. Even at burger king, you can't always have it your way.</p>
<p>damn good post</p>
<p>got rejected by dartmouth in december.</p>
<p>I'm expecting mostly all rejections so I can't really be let down. :p</p>
<p>Hello everyone. </p>
<p>I admire you all for enduring these rejections, and I can only hope that I'm able to handle it as well as you when I face the same next year. For those whom rejections hit unusually hard, know that after spending four years at the college you choose I doubt you'll still be brooding over your undergraduate rejections. These months will be minor memories.</p>
<p>If anyone feels discouraged I recommend you take 3 minutes of your time and watch this if
you haven't already.
YouTube</a> - Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life</p>
<p>Ah, always regret posting two seconds after a rejection letter (looking above, haha). Of course I don't consider those things a waste of my life. They're what my life has consisted of for years. If a college doesn't want me, it's their loss. I am a damn good applicant.</p>
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<p>^^^^</p>
<p>That's the spirit.</p>
<p>Lol, I'm anticipating quite a few rejections as well, but somehow I think I'll survive. I'd really love to go to Brown or Columbia, but I feel good knowing I've gotten into Wellesley. Hopefully my financial aid is good enough, because I'd rather not go to UF (accepted there). </p>
<p>Our school has never sent a kid to an Ivy league, and I was just really hoping I'd be that kid. I've only gotten Wellesley and UF decisions so far, so I won't give up hope, but I always remind myself to be realistic, and that I can do my best no matter where I go. :)</p>
<p>haha me too... sucks lol... i knew it was coming once i read my peer's letter</p>
<p>denied by dartmouth ED. got into usc, uci honors, uw, willamette</p>
<p>i'll be visiting after i get denied from cmu, berkeley and h mudd. and michigan.. haha kidding!
im ready for some rejections though =/</p>
<p>iv got a stanford ea rejection</p>
<p>i expect quite a few though
esp considering the international tag :/</p>
<p>expecting rejections from YPBC! But hope for Duke, Emory,JHU,and most of all Georgetown!! i love Georgetown!!</p>
<p>I got rejected from st. andrews, king's college and edinburgh university (all UK). what can I say...got into glasgow (and northeastern) though.
I don't even want to think about US colleges...although, they do evaluate applications differently.</p>