Can't Get Mind Off Stanford Admissions...

paleselan
Sat, 21 Feb 2015 17:17:10 +0000

Yale was my dream school. I applied SCEA and got deferred, meaning that I’m probably gonna get rejected in the regular round.

How do you take it? Well, there’s no way you can brace yourself for a rejection/deferral. No matter how much you can look at the stats, there’s always that sliver of hope that you will be accepted. There’s nothing worse than having that sliver of hope completely crushed. After the initial point, it’s a very hard 1 to 2 days. Then, you look at all the other options you have, all the scholarships you were offered elsewhere, all your friends (who probably also got rejected), and you leave it in the past.

It’s not easy, but it’s not life-ending.