<p>Just a fun thread. I'd probably set myself up for disappointment so it doesn't hurt too bad, then tell myself there just wasn't enough international spots and apps are a crapshoot anyway... Then I'd eat some oreos.</p>
<p>You? :P</p>
<p>Kill myself
but in all seriousness, I’d be disappointed. Skip school for a few days. Permanently delete my facebook. Then plan a transfer plan for next year.</p>
<p>Go to an alternate amazing university that I’ve already been accepted to where most likely I’ll end up paying less as well.</p>
<p>Well I haven’t applied yet (just a junior), but when I do, I’ll definitely cry for a couple days every time I think about it… and I’ll probably skip school for a couple of days…</p>
<p>Lol, next year is going to be horrible…</p>
<p>It’d be pure, unadulterated pain.</p>
<p>I got deferred(polite rejection) . And that hurt so much. I don’t want to imagine what seeing “rejected” written in those sugar coated phrases that are mailed to 30k others will do to me 
It makes me dread March. Suchhey love-hate relationship with March I have (March was when my girlfriend alighted on this earth to make the earth suchhey beautiful place) .And then April looms. May’ll be worse. I’ll labor through June. And then maybe. Just maybe find some respite…before its all downhill for the next four-five years. At the end of which (assuming I reach the end alive) I’ll have another chance at redemption. I won’t squander that if I’m still alive because for every damn second of the previous four years I’d have wallowed in self-anger at the life and decisions I made…I wouldn’t regret them though :S I’m like that.</p>
<p>So yeah, once I get rejected and destiny signs my bond with misery I’ll accept it knowing I deserve it every bit for not being “right” and making sure I listen to my heart more than I should. Silly thing nah, hearts are? Make you do, make you believe all sort of stuff. Lofty heights seem so scale-able when viewed through the heart-o-scope. Hearts must be banned. They must be crushed and buried and not believed in. Because what was once a hearth of hope must indubitably burn out into a pile of singeing cinders.</p>
<p>Had I not had a heart, had I not felt rather than thought I wouldn’t be here, in the present, writing out this elegy for a future for my iniquities of the past. But then, would I want to have it that way? Would I want to swap this whole roller coaster ride for a heartless, cold thought out and calculated process without letting my heart set so firmly on something?(who am I kidding? “letting” pfft. As if hearts listen) . Would I want to not-set myself up for disappointment and shield myself from the pain that comes hurtling down to shatter my glass house of dreams?</p>
<p>I’d say no. Not that I’m a masochist. But I’d not shun the pain or run away with it. I’d embrace it. The pain means I have lived. That I have had the courage to let my heart have a free rein despite knowing the high likeliness of getting hurt. </p>
<p>And if not for anything…that is what I must thank Harvard for. For representing so much and hence making me feel all this plethora of emotions. For making parts of me hurt, that I did not know existed. And for all the intense hope that coursed through me all these months setting each particle of me on fire.</p>
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<p>There’s a right answer and a wrong answer (lots of wrong answers, actually) to this question. Isurus has the right answer.</p>
<p>ColumbiaGirl, that answer is pretty much guaranteed to apply to you. I don’t know where else you have applied, exactly, but I know that if you are even remotely credible as a Harvard applicant you can get admitted to Toronto, Waterloo, or McGill* with not much more trouble than filling out the application (which doesn’t even include an essay unless you are applying to an honors program). And those are amazing, great, world-class universities that offer an individual student more first-rate opportunities than one person could possibly exhaust. They all educate a much wider range of students than Harvard does, but they all have plenty of students who are Harvard caliber. </p>
<p>I won’t tell you that you should go there rather than Harvard if you have the chance to go to Harvard. But I will tell you that if you are the kind of person who could really take advantage of Harvard, and you go to one of those universities with a positive attitude and the same determination to get the most out of things, you will get every bit as much out of your Canadian university as you would have gotten out of Harvard. And you will pay less for the privilege.</p>
<p>One final thing – I am pretty sure that Harvard does not consider Canadians as “International” applicants. They are evaluated with their U.S. peers on the same standards.</p>
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<li>UBC, too, but I don’t know as much about it other than it is pretty.</li>
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<p>If you get rejected, you will be in good company. See: [When</a> Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ.com](<a href=“When Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ”>When Success Follows the College Rejection Letter - WSJ)</p>
<p>:O Wait really?? (about the Canadian not being international). A few people told me that Canadian IS considered international… </p>
<p>And LOL dw, dw, getting rejected to these schools wont ruin my college experience. (But thank you gibby for that link, it’s great xD) It’s just a fun thread 
As I said, I’ll eat some oreos and get over it. Thanks for the post though, it was very true 
If I get rejected to the Ivys, then NYU, then I’ll probably go to UoT or something and have an amazing experience :P</p>
<p>I will be on the phone with a friend. We’ll be laughing our heads off together at the idea of having applied in the first place (if both of us get rejected). XD</p>
<p>We both think we have no chance at harvard but applied anyways… because you never know, you know?</p>
<p>Cry my heart out for an hour or two, and go back to studying for AP exams coming. Everything happens for a reason. If I get rejected, that just means I don’t belong to Harvard YET; there’s always a grad school.</p>
<p>Dust yourself off, hit the delete key and look at all of the wonderful emails that say Congratulations! </p>
<p>One of those schools will be lucky to have you and you will (i very much expect and hope) not look back upon the rejection with anything but an “oh, well…their loss…”.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong Harvard is wonderful but it is not sine qua none. As the great Negro League pitcher Stachel Page once remarked-- “never look back, something may be gaining on you…”</p>
<p>After I’ve successfully pushed aside thoughts of suicide (IF I get four other rejects too, cuz after that- I’m pretty much doomed to hell), I’d call up my mum and my best friends one after the other and hear them all exclaim ‘WHAT! Has Harvard officially lost its mind?!’ because that’s just how sugary sweet they are.</p>
<p>And then I’ll just be glad I don’t have to leave them anymore =D</p>
<p>I’ll have moments when I’ll wonder why I WASN’T good enough, but then I’ll have moments when I’ll realise there was obviously better in store for me.</p>
<p>CHEERS! XD</p>
<p>If rejected by all the other colleges along with Harvard, I don’t know what to do… The range of my activity will be from + infinity to - infinity…</p>
<p>If accepted by some other college I have applied, Harvard rejection wouldn’t mean a nix.</p>
<p>Go to Chili’s to celebrate. It’s become a tradition for me to celebrate all major academic events like that.</p>
<p>Also remember that if you didn’t get in to somewhere you want to go there is always a gap year–don’t just go somewhere because you need SOMEWHERE for September. It is highly (although not unheard of) unlikely that you will be able to turn a NO to a Yes after a gap year–unless that Noble or National Book Award comes through–but you can take stock, calmly and cast your net more widely-- you will discover that there are a host of colleges and universities that in most cases you probably hadn’t even seriously considered and that you would have a great college experience if you attended.</p>
<p>The gap year will also give you some maturity-- a chance to work in the “real world”, perhaps travel, perhaps do some work in a lab, or on an academic project. You will(the data is very clear about this) a better student regardless where you attend if you gap-- of course don’t become like “Orlando” in the YouTube video “Gap Yah” (which has gone viral in the UK where there are large number of gap yearers each class…)</p>
<p>Haha, leave it up to etondad to inject some humour into this humourless thread.</p>
<p>What will you do once you get rejected? </p>
<p>Well, I will find solace in the fact that I will be in the company of some very remarkable ‘rejects’ and move on. </p>
<p>Go enjoy what remains of senior year and make plans for prom – it’ll all work out in the end!</p>
<p>If rejected, I’d tell my parents. They’d console me, and I’d have to tell my friends obviously, when prompted (actually, I’d probably just go to school like LOL REJECTED!, or, more likely, i’ll be asked on FB). </p>
<p>Odds of rejection are so high so I’ve tried to prepare myself for coping with it. </p>
<h2>It doesn’t help that everyone says I can make it, when I know the chances are slim. </h2>
<p>Good luck to everyone else; know that college will not define you.</p>
<p>^^I am with you on that!!! People have known that for all of my life I have wanted to go so badly but I honestly don’t feel to confident so I have already prepared myself for the worst!!! I will cry if rejected but if accepted I will be jumping for joy with suprise and exhilaration!!! People keep on saying “oh, youv’e go this” or “I know you will get in” and I KNOW for a fact that the chances are atom thickness slim that I won’t get in especially because my test scores SUCK to me!!! Good Luck to the future acceptees!!! (I pray to God that I am one of them!!!)</p>
<p>I will be disappointed and then check whether I got into Yale. If I get rejected from the two ivies before and then Harvard and Yale I’ll be upset but i’ll get over it. I’ll prolly then go out to dinner with my family and turn my phone and computer off for the night so I don’t have to deal with friends asking me whether I got in or not.</p>