Is it really that hard to get in?

Adaman
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:11:27 +0000

Thanks unalove. I’ve had this feeling all year (and I’m sure most of this year’s applicants have too) that, if I just get in to college, nothing else matters. That everything will be great and suddenly the rest of the year will be sunny and happy and I’ll have nothing left to worry about. Part of the reason getting deferred hurt so much was feeling that, even if I could get into Chicago RD, I was being robbed of that euphoric experience. I still look through the results thread and sometimes think, “If only that one had been me, what would I be doing right now?”

But you’re right, there are always problems in life. Getting into a particular college does not suddenly add rainbows into the background of every scene in your life. I know that if I had gotten in, I probably would be really nervous now about other things, and in a few weeks that euphoria would probably wear off. I don’t know, maybe I’m just saying stuff. I guess there isn’t a real point to what I’m writing. Suffice it to say that, unalove, your post made me feel better =).