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Bing Wu · 12-19-2006, 12:06 AM

I've been through almost exactly what you're going through - dealing with rejection from top choice colleges. I have to say, the first few days (possibly weeks) are the worst, you just feel like the bottom's been blasted out of your plans for life. What's life worth now?

None of the Ivy Leagues would consider me, but I was admitted to some decent schools here at home in Canada, and four years later I'm pretty happy with the education. Life just sort of... continued, despite rejection from the Ivy Leagues. I started to realise that my life doesn't hinge on one event unfolding either one way or another, and there are many things in life worth doing besides going to an Ivy League school. Like living, for example :-)

12-19-2006, 12:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
Bing Wu Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: San Francisco, CA, USA Posts: 459	I've been through almost exactly what you're going through - dealing with rejection from top choice colleges. I have to say, the first few days (possibly weeks) are the worst, you just feel like the bottom's been blasted out of your plans for life. What's life worth now? None of the Ivy Leagues would consider me, but I was admitted to some decent schools here at home in Canada, and four years later I'm pretty happy with the education. Life just sort of... continued, despite rejection from the Ivy Leagues. I started to realise that my life doesn't hinge on one event unfolding either one way or another, and there are many things in life worth doing besides going to an Ivy League school. Like living, for example :-)