<p>I'm starting to lose it...I've yet to wait for the ivies and Stanford, and I feel I'm just a loser, unqualified for life...</p>
<p>Get some perspective.</p>
<p>What’s the worst thing that could possibly happen? You don’t get into anywhere, and you can choose to either go to a community college, or take a year off. Either will be a good experience for you.</p>
<p>College doesn’t need to be a rush, you know.</p>
<p>Same… 
this sucks…</p>
<p>@cgarcia: there was this dude on cc who was rejected everywhere, took a year off and applied to the same schools again, and got rejected at every school again. Luckily he also applied to MIT the second time (not the first) and got in there… but still, you can’t really apply again if you’ve been rejected.</p>
<p>You should always have safety schools. I am sure that some schools out there aren’t bad (this is an understatement by the way). Ivies, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, etc. aren’t the only good schools out there. It’s not like it’s the end of the world ya know.</p>
<p>You can certainly apply again if you’re rejected.</p>
<p>All applications will have weak points that can be strengthened. If you really had your heart set on MIT, there’s no reason to believe that subsequent applications will be hopeless.</p>
<p>I don’t plan on waiting a year; cgarcia made a comment that taking a gap year was no big deal and I was merely responding to that.</p>
<p>By the way, isn’t your situation better? You still have one more school that you can hope for…</p>
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So this is broadly true, but I think the take-home point is that Andison took a year off and strengthened his application, then was very successful in his applications after his gap year. He wasn’t admitted to the schools that had denied him the first time, but for the most part he applied to a totally different set of schools. (I should check up on him, by the way – he should be graduating this year!)</p>
<p>I don’t think his story indicates that it’s impossible to be admitted after being denied. It’s true that the same application is unlikely to be denied one year and accepted the next, but that’s why people take productive gap years and improve their applications, as cgarcia is suggesting. Your life is a marathon, not a sprint.</p>
<p>well…i’m not going to wait for a year…</p>
<p>Everyone needs to calm down. Most of you are very qualified applicants. You will get in somewhere. I was rejected from Stanford SCEA, and let me tell you… those 3 months of waiting for RD were insane. </p>
<p>Getting into MIT was a total surprise. You guys are lucky you get to think you’re not worthy of college acceptances for <em>only</em> about a week :P.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>Selter</p>
<p>Handala, you didnt apply to any safties?</p>
<p>most safety schools give acceptances by now, so im thinking you would have at least 1 acceptance to negate MIT’s decision</p>
<p>I’m sure most people on this site are pretty qualifed. So you didn’t get into your top choice schools, its not the end of the world. Go to your decent safety and maybe transfer.</p>
<p>Well look on the bright side- you probably have safeties. But in my case I haven’t applied to any safeties. And yet I’m not too worried. I’m planning to take a year off if I don’t get into the place I want.
@AshwinSundar : “well…i’m not going to wait for a year…”
I wouldn’t call it "wait"ing. There’s so much you can do in a year. Forget about trying to strengthen your application. You could join as an intern in an industry that interests you, do a whole lot of community work, join a whole lot of classes to improve your skills in various aspects, travel abroad, etc. These are things you’ll enjoy doing and at the same time improve you as a person. So your simultaneously strengthening your application and enjoying while at it. Don’t lose hope so soon! Best of Luck!</p>