<p>idreamofEA190, can my daughter have your spot on the waitlist of UVa???</p>
<p>This is idreamofEA190’s “friend” about as much as it is for people who ask advice about their “friend” who has a venereal disease. Obviously, idreamofEA190 <em>is</em> the friend, which is why he’s getting all huffy about people telling him the truth. If he really got into all those other schools, he should go. Like everybody else manages to do. My son got rejected from Yale despite wonderful everything, and being a double legacy (me and my father), and he hasn’t given it a second thought – he’s going to the University of Chicago, and I’m sure he’ll get every bit as good an education there as he would have at Yale, and, perhaps, be happier. Because I think even the most diehard Yale booster would concede that Chicago is a more interesting city than New Haven!</p>
<p>Donna</p>
<p>I said I wasn’t going to post to this thread anymore, but I’d have you know, DonnaL, that it really is my friend and not me. I’m done with the college admissions process, and I have been for a long time. I got into Stanford SCEA, and I would be thrilled if my friend came with me, but only if that makes him happiest. Besides, wouldn’t it be a <em>little</em> arrogant of me to describe myself as the second coming? 
There’s pride and then there’s delusion.
Everything I’ve been told on this board is germane, I understand that. I’m aware of the inexactitude of college admissions. But sometimes it helps to get your frustration out, especially in this case where there is no one to blame. So it seems to me a little untoward to go to a thread on a college discussion site that is obviously meant for the benefit of some really disappointed people to vent and discuss options, just to preach from on high about getting over it “like everybody else manages to do.” My friend will get over it. He will be successful in life, probably more so than many of the kids who actually got in because that’s just the kind of person he is. In my personal opinion, It’s Yale’s loss, not his. It’s a crapshoot. I get it. But I have never been so close to a case that was so egregious. Forgive me if I’m a little PO’d. I’m no saint.</p>
<p>And with THAT, I will leave this board for good. Hopefully this time it sticks.</p>