What's more painful?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Waiting for a college decision</p>

<p>OR</p>

<p>Getting rejected?</p>

<p>why?</p>

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<p>getting rejected. Why? Cuz its like a stab in your heart like you aren’t good enough to be accepted at their school.</p>

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<p>^It’s not that you aren’t good enough; it’s that your application didn’t click with that one admissions officer who happened to read your application. But yes, I suppose a rejection would hurt more.</p>

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<p>@bsmd: if you had said what you said in response to a person who was waitlisted, i would agree. </p>

<p>anyway, i think getting waitlisted is worse than both. you might find yourself hoping and hoping and kept in anxiety only to be rejected a second time.</p>

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<p>Bsmd11 would know about what’s more painful.</p>

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<p>Waiting for a college decision is agonizing because you might get rejected. Getting rejected is agonizing because you just got rejected.</p>

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<p>Haven’t been rejected from any schools yet (that comes March 30th), but I think I can speak for a lot people when I say that waiting for decisions is like having your balls in a vicegrip and not knowing what they will look like when you finally get them out.</p>

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<p>I haven’t gotten any rejections yet, but got deferred from my 2 top schools. The wait definitely sucked worse than the deferrals but idk how rejections would go.</p>

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<p>It’s a pretty logical answer. Rejection is the worst.</p>

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<p>Well like I would rather find out right away if I made it or not than having to wait, wonder, and worry if I made it or not</p>

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<p>If you let the wait consume your life, I imagine it’s much more painful. But if you spend that time between January 1 and March 30 digging into your classes and extracurriculars and spending time with friends, it shouldn’t be too bad. (Though I admit it’s a bit agonizing now that most of my friends know where they’re going, since few apply to non-state schools.)</p>

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<p>I’d rather wait an extra month and get into my first choice school.
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<p>Better question: rejected by a girl or rejected by a college?</p>

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Well, I don’t know. I have experienced the waiting, and I imagine being rejected will hurt more. At least with waiting there is hope.</p>

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Haven’t experienced either (“yet” on the colleges), so would defer to someone who has, but I would assume a girl (or opposite gender, to be more inclusive), since that’s a personal rejection, rather than “We didn’t like your stat block enough.”</p>