Sad Day on the Princeton forum

mackinaw
Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:52:15 +0000

Many many years ago, I too was disappointed by not being admitted to Princeton, Stanford and a couple of other places to which I applied. This was long long before the ED craziness and so we couldn’t focus so much on just one hoped-for school.

And so I went off to college somewhere else. And then I applied to graduate school (doctoral studies, law school) at Princeton, Stanford, and a couple of other places. I was admitted to P and S, as well as the others. I turned down P and S and went elsewhere. And I never regretted those decisions. Justice was done. I had been admitted, but I had other priorities by that time and followed them.

Moral of story: life isn’t over because you don’t get into some of the the school(s) you apply to out of high school; in fact, your possibilities at those very schools aren’t over. Make the best of the options that you have now and make the best of the next 60-70 years of your life.