“Happy Decision Month”
lol, love it.
I am sure we all will be everywhere emotionally during this month haha. Far from happy. More like anxious, indecisive, afraid… but on March 31st, relieved, excited… happy.
Does anyone else feel like they have to prove a point with their college decisions?
Aside from my constant humor at school, I feel like people at school think just because I don’t stress over school or complain about my grades that I don’t take this kind of stuff seriously. I mean honestly, I have a strong self of self; I know who I am as a person. I’ve practically raised myself and even now I’m still taking care of myself. I know what I am capable of and I don’t want to let decisions dictate that but wow, it would just be so nice to prove people wrong. I want to show that you don’t need to be the kid who comes off as knowing everything or have perfect grades to make it far academically.
tl;dr I’m out here trying to slay.
CC is starting to drive me nuts now that it’s decision month. It’s like everyone thinks they have to start freaking out over their infinitesimally small chance at getting in somewhere all at the same time.
@XoXdreamerXoX Exactly.
I keep reading about people who are expecting likely letters like what even. Stop.
My grandpa is like “I’d be so proud if my granddaughter went to Yale!!!” and I’m over here like…grandpa…do you realize how unlikely that is…
I don’t understand how some people can fixate over this stuff
Because its their future. They need to satisfy their parents’ demands. Prove all haters wrong ;).
After the 6+ years of working to go to an elite college it is just nerve-wracking because in a way I don’t want the decisions. Why do I want to know that I have been rejected like 94 out of every 100 applicants? My chances for acceptance at Yale or Princeton are so minuscule that I prefer the thought of being accepted to getting my decisions.
I just hate the thought of having to wait for a rejection. Like, I’m willing to wait for an acceptance (and a lot longer than just 3 months) but if it’s going to be a rejection, I’d rather just know now and get it over with, you know?
Especially since the ivies/ivy level schools have definitely already made the first cut, probably already second, and a ton of people are already rejected.
@letmeseetheworld Your post basically sums up my life.
You guys will be accepted to at least one fantastic college. Sure, maybe not Ivy League, but then again, somewhere like UMICH (cough) is certainly nothing to be disappointed in.
Look at it this way, if you don’t get into Yale or Princeton or whatever, 10 years down the line, you won’t care. You’ll have a job and will have more worries than what the name of the college on that diploma says.
I get why it sucks to you guys. You busted your butt for 6 years in some whack high school filled with awful people and some of the worst classes ever. So yeah, getting into your top choice would be very appreciated as a way of justifying your high school stress moments, but honestly, I feel that’s not what education should be.
Personally, I find it silly that some take the hardest classes (12 APs 9 IBs and a lot of ECs) just to stand out as opposed to classes they actually enjoy. If you enjoy Art and hate Math and Sciences, why are you taking AP Calc, AP Bio, AP Stat, and AP Physics C all at once? You should love the material you’re studying. And that’s what I believe education should be.
“But what about jobs? Art majors don’t have as many opportunities as Engineers.” Well, if you’re in Engineering or Math or whatever just for money, yeah, you should reconsider that. Yeah, you may struggle a bit as an artist or whatever, but at least you’re doing something you love.
Sure, you get bragging rights that you did get into Harvard, or Yale, or Dartmouth. And yeah, we’ll congratulate you and be happy for you. But in the long run, no one, outside of close relatives and friends, will honestly care. Sorry if I sound harsh, but I mean, I see people being happy about getting accepted to their school and I’m happy for them, but really, I honestly couldn’t remember what colleges most people got into.
So yeah, that’s just my thoughts on the situation. To sum up my point, don’t stress over these decisions because in the long run, you won’t care. You’ll be sad for how long? A week? Then you’ll get over it and move on. That’s the only way to succeed. Move on. There has to be some college out there for you. And do what you love. Don’t let others pressure you into something.
-written by an idiot that put more effort in this CC essay than my 2nd semester classes
@AMan236 lol, 6 years in high school? I’ve also put more effort reading your post that I have in my spanish class this year.
UMICH
It still amazes me how hard working, encouraging, and intelligent everyone on this thread is. I remember joining CC a year ago to get some tips for standardized tests and stumbling on this thread. I’ve daydreamed about getting accepted to my dream school, the immense recognition I’d gain from my friends, and the great opportunities that I will have at that school. While getting into an ivy is impressive to people “in the know”, it’ll just be another school to people who don’t care about rankings. And those “in the know” like your future employers or grad school admissions officers will know that a top 50 school could be just as excellent as an ivy.
Maybe a nobel prize winner doesn’t work at your school, but chances are, you will never meet them as an undergrad anyways. I know a lot of people who have graduated from ivies, and most of them had the typical undergraduate experience you’d have at any other school, and now work with people from top 50 schools and foreign schools that aren’t even ranked. In the end, it doesn’t matter which school you went to for undergrad, people might be impressed because they know how hard you had to work to get accepted, but they won’t fall in love with you or hire you just because of your diploma. Since everyone on here is super intelligent and hard working, I’m certain that you’ll all make the best of your university experience and build impressive resumes that will make you stand out in the real world!
That being said, I know how disappointing and frustrating it can be to not be accepted. I was deferred from Yale SCEA, and the 17.4% acceptance rate still stings. I remember crying for an entire evening and missing my school’s Christmas recital because I thought I’d let my teachers down, I thought my friends would think less of me, and I thought all my future plans will be ruined. I remember finding out who were accepted from my city and thinking I wasn’t as good as they were. All I can say now is that I’ve been so stupid. What one school decides, what a group of 40 adults sitting in a room for 8 hours everyday, staring at applicant files until they all begin to look the same decides speaks nothing about who you are as a person! Although I have yet to receive the final decisions from my top choices, I have been accepted to some great schools and I know my life will turn out fine, regardless of what happens on March 31st.
For anyone who has gone through this process, you have gained invaluable skills that will take you so far in your future. Studied hard in challenging courses? You’ll excel in the college curriculum! Involved yourself in extracurriculars? You’ve made so many friends and memories, and you now have things you are genuinely passionate about. Participated in competitions? You’ve learned incredible communication and thinking skills, not to mention you will never be afraid to put yourself forward! Survived those insane AP, SAT and ACT tests? Those skills will come in handy for the MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, and basically any test you need to take to take your profession to the next level!
If you applied to selective schools: you now have a handful (or more) interview experiences, which will help you for internships, jobs, and networking! You wrote a billion essays in a few months, helpful for all your future work, grad school apps, and finding jobs! Even if you end up going to the same university as tons of other high school classmates, some who might not have worked as hard as you, you now have so many advantages because of your hard work, that you might not even know right now!
No matter the decisions you receive in March/April, you will all go on to do amazing things. In five years, you will be so immersed in your job, your grad school studies, or experiencing the world and all that life has to offer, that what college you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted to will be irrelevant. You might not even remember how much you wanted to go to one school over the other, or which one of your classmates ended up where.
I’m so honoured to be part of this thread with all of you, and I wish you all the absolute best of luck in your futures! Thanks for reading this incredibly long motivational post 
@kuriosmind - Thank you so much for that post. I definitely know what it felt like to have been deferred from Yale early, especially considering that the acceptance rate was nearly 20%–Yale was my SCEA school, too. Best of luck to ALL of you this month <3
@glasshours Deferrals are the worst! Glad we’ll get actual decisions, for better or for worse, this time (unless it’s the waitlist) 
Is Yale still your top choice? What other schools have you applied to?
We just got our taxes back! Time to update my FAFSA. My mom was unemployed for three months, so I’m really hoping I’ll get the Full Pell Grant.
I’ve already basically accepted that I’ll be rejected by my reaches, and that’s the attitude I had when I applied to them,. So basically, you just just gotta stop caring :] :]
Update: Well, my EFC is 0, pretty depressing.
So is mine, how is that depressing?