Post Your Admission Decision Here

quicken
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:03:59 +0000

I know this is a very hard time for seniors was they are waiting for their results. Or receiving them.

You have to know, there is a great deal of serendipity in this whole process. That’s why the results can seem so strange – got in to more competitive school, rejected from less competitive school, or whatever.

Some of you will be rejected from your top schools, and end up lower down on your list. Several things to know: first, this is not a judgment of your skills, your intelligence or you as a person. When you have thousands of people going for hundreds of spots – and 95% of those people are in the same range of skills – the odds are against you everywhere. No matter your skills, no matter your success. Schools are looking for a student body of wide ranging backgrounds and talents. They’re not going to take all tuba players, or everyone from Idaho. So, if you were counting on your sculpting as pushing you over the top – but they already admitted two sculptors in ED – then it doesn’t help. So again – serendipity.

But I have one other thing to tell you: For most of you, your first choices are based on impressions – how you felt walking through the school, what the students you ran into were like, the cache of the school name, the US News ranking (which is really unimportant), reputation of a particular department. You will find, in the end, that NONE of this matters. All of these schools are the tops in the country. You WILL be happy, wherever you go – unless you don’t let yourself be happy because of grumpiness about your results. You WILL make good friends, you WILL get a top-notch education.

So, my bottom line: Feel good about yourself. You are among the smartest, most talented young people in this country. You are on your way to a great adventure. You will get a great education. And – thought it might be hard to accept this week – you will be happy.