So, I'm waitlisted, what do I do?

tropical_penguin
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:32:20 +0000

I agree with j07. I saw someone struggle with Harvard too last year, and the results were detrimental. She couldn’t function through all of AP testing (thank goodness she only had 2). Then she got rejected on the day of graduation and she actually skipped it as well as Grad Nite because of everything she went through. Right now she’s unhappily off at Stanford (well, as unhappy as she could be) and fuming that she had to miss so much because of Harvard. She’s also developed such a terrible grudge against it that no one can say its name in her presence.

The moral of the story is to just bring closure to this whole process, as sad as it is, at least, that’s what I’m doing. The chances are just too small to get our hopes up. We might say to everyone and even ourselves that we know there’s no chance, but just by mailing that thing in (in all its prestamped glory) and trying to go through the process of getting all those letters that I’m sure all of us will try to get, we’ll have this subconscious bit of hope left that will be completely squashed (in all likelihood anyway). This is as far as we go. It’s sad, but it’s true.