<p>^Yeah, exactly.</p>
<p>But anyway, I know that it may be hard to understand that college rejections may be embarrassing for some, but it can make sense. Again, schools that are very competitive generally have college at least looming in the background since freshman year. There is great competition in the last two years regarding everything - SATs, grades, ECs, leadership, and so on. We’re talking about people “failing” the college application process, which is also at least four years of work and probably more, given that the parents/students themselves had things in mind even in middle school. If college is the culmination or eighteen years of your life (regardless of whether it’s good), then failure causes understandable humiliation, especially when many of your friends may have been accepted.</p>
<p>It’s just a matter of people defining themselves by the colleges to which they are accepted. It doesn’t matter if it’s good or not. They do.</p>