<p>I’m so glad that I got my Bryn Mawr acceptance before being turned down by Smith and Wellesley in the same night. I can only attend one school anyway.</p>
<p>Just a been there, done that…I applied as a freshmen to my “first choice” University. I was rejected. I decided is I couldn’t go there I wouldn’t bother applying anywhere else. Add to that, that I didn’t qualify for much financial aid, and it was an easy decision to not bother with college (at least in my mind). Now, over 10 years later I know what a mistake that was. I decided to go ahead and take a year of courses at the local community college. I applied to several places as a transfer including that coveted “first choice”. I found out just yesterday that I have been accepted as a transfer student.</p>
<p>What did all this tell me? That if I had been willing to accept that it was not an option to go there, attend another University and then apply as a transfer down the road, I would probably been done with grad school now instead of just starting my real undergrad work. Just don’t let rejection bring you to the point where no college is better than a “second choice” college.</p>
<p>Rejected by Duke…</p>
<p>Waiting for Rice…mostly a rejection. But still, i am going to be optimistic.</p>
<p>I’m posting this quote from Columbia’s admissions director, because it shows how much luck is involved in whether or not someone meets a particular college’s needs for a particular slot in any particular year. Though not getting admitted always feels personal, the fact is that admissions committees “construct” a class out of a lot of equally academically qualified people. Though it hurts, it is not a personal failure, and it is beyond your control, no matter how great your stats. </p>
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<p>My D got her first rejection earlier this week. She was moping about it - until she spoke with a friend. The friend’s reaction - you’ve been accepted at five schools and rejected by one. I’ve been rejected by five and accepted by none.</p>
<p>A little perspective helps.</p>
<p>My son received three rejections yesterday, including his first choice. Even his counselor was surprised by this one. Even though he has been accepted to three other schools in the past few weeks, three in one day is difficult!!! Still have to hear from two more, but am not particularly hopeful. Any advice?</p>
<p>accepted UMICH
waitlist at MIT
waitlist at Duke
awaiting Harvard rejection
awaiting Yale rejection
awaiting Princeton rejection
awaiting Stanford rejection…</p>
<p>gonna be a bad couple days</p>
<p>rejected at skidmore. </p>
<p>but i got over it. since i already sent in my deposit to geneseo</p>
<p>I will add my 2 cents. What you need to realize is there are LOTS of excellent schools out there. If you did your research, applied to schools that have what you are looking for, you are going to end up some place that will be good for you. It may not be the one you most want to go to, but once you get there, you will wonder what all the fuss was about. </p>
<p>I have 3 sons. Sons #1 and #3 were both waitlisted (essentially rejected) from there #1 schools. Son #1 has graduated and was delighted with the school he attended. He had the opportunity to apply to his former #1 for grad school and new at that point that the school was not right for him. Son #3 is extremely happy at his current school. </p>
<p>I think the thing you need to do is accept the fact that it didn’t happen and you are going to make the best out of the choices you have left to you. If you have a positive attitude, you are going to go off to college in the fall and find a great place to be.</p>
<p>That negatives list is a good idea, but all I can come up with for Georgetown is that some people are stuck up. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I had myself obsessed with LSE (in the UK) for about 2 years. In order to meet their requirements for admissions I did a ton of extra credit work (A Level Mathematics in addition to my IB program.) I didn’t get in and, surprisingly, didn’t even care.</p>
<p>If even ONE school has accepted you, you should let yourself be happy about it. I’ve received five waitlist letters in a row, and while I’m kind of kicking myself for not choosing a “safer” safety, I seriously thought at least one college would offer me admission.</p>
<p>Oberlin, Kenyon, Carleton, Macalester, and Washington University put me on their wait lists. UChicago is my first choice and the only school I haven’t heard from… waitlisting or outright rejection likely.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone. :)</p>
<p>the last two letters i’ve gotten have been rejections. MIT and Duke. So now i’m sad. and worried.</p>
<p>I was denied by Vassar (ED 2). I got over it pretty quickly, since I applied to both Wesleyan and Oberlin, which are schools I really like.</p>
<p>Well yesterday, I got waitlisted by Oberlin, and I’m absolutely devestated. It was one of my “likelies”, and I was really prepared to attend since I’m most likely going to be rejected by Wesleyan. I’ve been so depressed for the past 24 hours… there were three instances in that time period where I almost broke into tears. I’m a guy who hasn’t cried in years, btw.</p>
<p>So far I’ve been accepted to SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton, but those are my safeties. And I don’t see myself being happy in either. I was rejected by Brandeis, but I wasn’t really devestated. It wasn’t a fit for me.</p>
<p>Now I wait for rejections from Wesleyan and Colby… is there anything I can do?</p>
<p>Capricious - Sorry about all the waitlists! My son was rejected from Kenyon and we thought it to be a pretty safe match, not an out of reach school. Alll of the schools my son applied to have received a record number of applications this year which has not helped anything. Good luck on UChicago!</p>
<p>My personal view is that being an undergraduate away at college is a fabulous learning and maturing experience (living in a dorm with peers or in an apartment with friends, meeting new people, being in charge of your own time and schedule, fnding out about things you’ve never been exposed to before, etc. etc.) and that experience is a worthwhile one no matter where you go to school. As others have said, schools will have flaws, and not everything will be to your liking, but every school will have sufficient positives to make going there a good experience if you go with the right attitude.</p>
<p>seuferk, I was rejected from MIT and Duke as well, and I think we need to really be optimistic.</p>
<p>I applied ED to Princeton and was deferred. I also applied to Oxford and received a rejection.</p>
<p>Thankfully enough, last week I was accepted to Stern, which is amazing. I’m still hoping for more acceptances later today, but I’m being very open to attending Stern.</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>I am not sure if parents are welcome. Please clarify. I am waiting at home for my son to get back from school and open his email. Has had 2 rejections, MIT/Caltech, should not have even applied, he is not the tech type, Asian math grind, has too many other interests, 2 languages to AP level, art hist etc in addition to math/sci. Got into Duke and Columbia, we wish we could give the Duke place to the kid who wants Duke so much. So, help me out, is Columbia good? Especially for engineering? How about Duke? I know at some level any college would be fine, it is about your willingness to learn eternally. The day before he was put to death Socrates was learning a new tune. His jailer laughed at him and asked why he was wasting his time since he was about to die. The famous answer, “So that I may die having learned one more thing”. So, the capacity to be an eternal learner is already in you or not and no college is going to affect that. That +character will make your interior life very fulfilling. Having said this I am still hankering after US News rankings. What is wrong with me?</p>
<p>I was rejected Columbia ED. It wasn’t my dream school, but as the time for decision letter arrives, I’m feeling more and more hopeless about getting accepted into ANY university. :(</p>
<p>moment of truth at 5:00PM.</p>