<p>Oops! I meant Munich! XD sorry</p>
<p>You must be really insecure or have some other types of issues if you’re that intent on hiding something like this. Who cares if other people are jealous? Good for them. o_o</p>
<p>People are only allowed to ask you questions if the answers define who you are?
You must not have very many friends.</p>
<p>^^Hahaha, my post was a joke! </p>
<p>And to the whole insecurity issue: No, it’s just that some people are REALLY obnoxious about it. I know a junior kid who asks me almost EVERY DAY if I’d gotten into any more colleges. Drives me nuts. :P</p>
<p>*“I’ve decided that college is overrated and too expensive, so I will not be going to college at all.” *</p>
<p>I like this also, but I’d admit if I heard it from someone I’d think it was a copout.</p>
<p>What I’m more likely to say is:
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Shut, the **** up!**</p>
<p>y’all are insecure if you even give a F what somebody else thinks.</p>
<p>just tell the truth.</p>
<p>I got into College X.</p>
<p>It’s not about what college I got into for me, but the colleges I didn’t get into.</p>
<p>I think people are genuinely interested-just give them the list of acceptances-some people even enjoying bragging about their rejections. I know of a few people who outright told all who asked that they didn’t get in anywhere (just about the truth).</p>
<p>Or you can be a normal person and just tell them where you got accepted to…?</p>
<p>Or we can be creative and make life fun!!</p>
<p>^There are other ways to have fun lol</p>
<p>My guidance counselor reads the acceptances in morning meeting every week, so there isn’t really any point in trying to hide anything. Who cares? You aren’t going to see any of these people after 2 months anyway. I’ll be happy to laugh about my rejections.</p>
<p>Awanderr – is this a private school? Are you talking about an internal meeting with the GCs. If public it is violation of child’s privacy.</p>
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<p>My school lists all the acceptances on a board in the front of the school. There really isn’t a way to avoid it; they make us tell our guidance counselors where we were accepted so they can put it in their database, and then your name ends up on the wall. A friend of mine found his name on the wall, but he never told his GC; rumors can get you up there too.</p>
<p>Cafesimone: Thanks for your ORIGINAL post.
It was meant to be fun.
In no way do I believe as some have taken it to be a lesson of how to be “noisome” (a rather improper and over dramatic use of the word contextually, by T26E4, I might add) or cocky or annoying to others.</p>
<p>The ones who have taken it that way are either
A) Left brain centric and have a trouble exposing their creative side electronically.
B) Need to get over themselves and get out more. It was a joke. This isn’t an admission office.
C) Nervous about whether they will get into their first choice (their dream school) and can’t explain the discomfort or admit the possibility or likelihood of failure.</p>
<p>Either way, I think that your post provided a very needed distraction for me while waiting for USC’s SCA Screenwriting program to get back to me with an admissions decision.</p>
<p>Trust me I harbor no ill will toward anyone.
For those of you seeking to figure out my post’s signature, NAMASTE, and its etymology:</p>
<p>It is the highest Buddhist blessing, it means the God in me sees, recognizes, and worships the God in you. </p>
<p>How can one sign off every post he has ever put on the internet and have “some serious issues”? </p>
<p>I read, write and speak English very well. However for those of you who are having trouble discerning the intent, meaning and purpose of my post, I will attempt to clarify:</p>
<p>Truth be known: I am African-American, I was a jock and a geek. I lived in a trailer for a time as a teenager when our house burned down. I had children early. All of my friends smoked too much weed and drank too much alcohol. Some of them manage local convenience stores.
See, good writers write about things the have an emotional connection with. I was the black kid growing up in the white world. The smart kid who had to “act black”. I was teased by my own people for being intelligent and fought with whites for not being one of them. By high school, I was both the bully and the brat. It not an excuse. I need affirmative action like I need a hole in my head. Being black is not a challenge to be overcome. It’s an opportunity to excel and I have always stood on my own and excelled on my own merit. </p>
<p>To this day. </p>
<p>If anyone can speak authoritatively on the life subjects presented in my post, T26E4, that person would most definitely be me. I can also stand in judgment. I recognize however when I am judging. You should get a better handle on that. You asked me how I could judge someone. The question itself is rhetorical in nature. And thereby, flawed. It is one you must ask yourself. First. Before venturing off the porch to run with the big dogs.</p>
<p>I have no problems and no hangups. Trust me, I have sneakers older than most of you on this site. And I mean that quite literally. I attended NYU in 1984 on full scholarship. Ran a very successful, dot com, way before it was fashionable to do so. I put two daughters through ivy league schools and now am going back to school again myself for something that I have always wanted to do.</p>
<p>I am long past teenage angst. I am well over myself. I am not 18 anymore. There is winter in my beard now. But I remember. The roads diverge into two discrete paths there. And I have come a long way back down the first.</p>
<p>I was having fun. I took the post as it was meant. If my tone was offensive to some of you…good. As I have previously said: writers write. If what they have written affects you in a certain way. EXCELLENT. It was their intent and purpose. Perhaps the moralistic lesson in that is “Don’t be that guy or gal. Don’t be the bully or the brat”.</p>
<p>I was just letting off steam.
The waiting is nerve-racking.
Thanks again, cafesimone.
I needed that.</p>
<p>NAMASTE, and GOOD LUCK EVERYONE…again</p>
<p>Greg</p>
<p>If anyone asks, just mention the most mediocre school of the bunch you got accepted to. Don’t mention any of the others. That way, you answered the question, and gave a limited response too.</p>
<p>i would just like to say that I hate it when OPs have to get defensive about their threads because other CCers complain what the purpose is, its a stupid idea, etc (happens quite a lot) - it really ruins the thread, so if you can’t help please don’t post~~ keep your opinion to yourself because it’s not very beneficial</p>
<p>If this is a public school, they cant make you tell them. Some colleges notify GCs. I dont mind telling my Ds GC, one she is a nice person, two, she knows how to keep a confidence, three, she can use the info to adivse others, without naming names.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t like the constant questions about acceptances and rejections. Maybe you could just say that you will let people know where you will attend after you have decided, and don’t bother mentioning any of the other schools.</p>
<p>thank you Bengalmom! That is such a good answer… this is all helping so much you guys</p>