Post Rejection/Decision Day Depression?

SouthernHope
Thu, 02 May 2019 16:21:24 +0000

I’ll tell you a funny story about a kid who graduated with my oldest (so he’d be a college senior now). At decision time, he was presented with a wealth of choices…not just regular college things but things like the robertson at duke and the morehead-cain at UNC and something at one of the CA schools…and then regular old admissions like at uChicago. he agonized…he struggled…he literally talked to every person he could find at every college. So he chooses one. 24 hours later, he’s hit by a thunderbolt that he’s selected the wrong school…he’s devastated…he can’t even talk about his decision…he can’t believe how it was possible to make a decision so misguided. But it’s too late…the other choices are gone.

You know how this ends…the last 4 years of his life have brought him more challenges and happiness and friends and success than any kid should be able to have.

Regrets are normal…now set out on that path.