What will you do when you get rejected?

Solrak
Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:02:11 +0000

@efeens, I’m well aware of the people who apply just to apply and lack a bunch of ECs, GPA, and even test scores. I was talking about the people who are in the top of the pool of applicants, who are well aware they have the upper-hand over most of the applicants. All of those who apply to Harvard, aren’t all competent applicants, some applied who knew they were unqualified to begin with. But I wasn’t talking about those people.

Secondly, I never used the word ‘confident’ at all. Please learn to read a little more coherently, and with more scrutiny. For the millionth time, I am not telling anyone to be confident OR optimistic. I am targeting the people who apply and are in the top percentage of the pool of applicants. I am simply saying, don’t think of anything positive or negative while you’re waiting for the decisions to be released, just wait patiently until the release date. I say this for one reason, because you DO NOT KNOW what will happen.

It’d help if you knew what my premise and conclusion were about to begin with. I never said that if you’re not confident, you don’t belong at Ivies. Where did you read that? Take a look at what I mentioned in my first post.

"If you can’t handle rejections, then you’ve made a mistake applying to these ivies, because they want strong and competent applicants, not feeble adolescents who will break down because they can’t get what they want all the time. "

Those are the kind of people who don’t belong in Ivies to begin with. It shows a lot about their character. Most people enter these Ivies were the best of the best in high school, but then they enter college and see that they no longer are (because a lot of talented kids get into the Ivies AND do well) because sometimes they have trouble maintaining B+ grades, resulting in a mental break down for a few people.