You'll Get Over it- I Did

darth1289
Wed, 23 Apr 2014 17:34:38 +0000

@Debater1996 Good for you!! I am a Chicago Alum and even with that I will tell you, students should not really worry about being dinged by any College. Life is a Marathon and there are many many great Universities in the US, Univ of Virginia being one of them. Focus on getting a good education and if you are still interested you can get another shot at Chicago for grad school.

I have been prowling on College Confidential for a some time now and it breaks my heart to see how stressed out kids get about a single school. There are many more things that will determine your success in life besides the “School” you go to.

Don’t get me wrong. I still have fond memories of my Chicago days and loved the intensity and intellectual gravitas of the school and made great friends there, but it was just one part of my life and I firmly believe that the University gained as much by my being there as I gained from the University. The people making admission decisions at all these schools are human and they often make mistakes, so I would advice everybody who got dinged at Chicago or anywhere else, shrug it off and move on to bigger and better things. When you look back at your life at 70, I don’t think you are going to feel that you missed out in life because you could not attend a particular school.