Is anyone else devastated from their Smith rejection?

sarahfylw
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:18:28 +0000

Perhaps I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up for Smith, but I actually believed that I had a fighting chance. I received my rejection at 11:30 this morning and spent two hours crying uncontrollably.
Their rejection letter seemed a little harsh, and included something along the lines of “compared to the other applicants, you weren’t qualified” (alright, it didn’t say that, but something along those lines that still stung.)
After spending the last year working tirelessly to get almost straight As, being the president of a club, and giving up my social life, I suppose I just thought it was going to turn out better.
My grades in Freshman and Sophomore year were not very good, but I have a medical excuse, and I managed to bring my grades up to almost all As, a 34 on my ACT, and a 2100ish SAT score.
How do I deal with my rejection letter? I find out from Middlebury tomorrow and I’m frightened, if I didn’t get into Smith…well, I doubt I’ll get into Middlebury.