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SteveDallas · 08-04-2005, 12:46 PM

Oh yeah,

How To Realize That Being Turned Down By A College Is Not The End Of The World

As a former employee of a pretty prestigious college, I would occasionally run into students or their parents who had been turned down by that college and who remained unaccountably bitter about it. I'm not saying it's not OK to be disappointed, but when you're halfway through the fall semester of your sophomore year at a university anybody would say is an excellent one, and you're still spitting nails because you didn't get into some other school that you had your heart set on, you really need to get over it.

The really amazing thing was that they felt compelled to unload on me about it. What did they think happened in the admissions office? "Yeah, this one looks great. But send his file over to Systems & Networking so Steve can check it out. We don't want to admit anybody without his say-so."

08-04-2005, 12:46 PM	#3
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	Oh yeah, How To Realize That Being Turned Down By A College Is Not The End Of The World As a former employee of a pretty prestigious college, I would occasionally run into students or their parents who had been turned down by that college and who remained unaccountably bitter about it. I'm not saying it's not OK to be disappointed, but when you're halfway through the fall semester of your sophomore year at a university anybody would say is an excellent one, and you're still spitting nails because you didn't get into some other school that you had your heart set on, you really need to get over it. The really amazing thing was that they felt compelled to unload on me about it. What did they think happened in the admissions office? "Yeah, this one looks great. But send his file over to Systems & Networking so Steve can check it out. We don't want to admit anybody without his say-so."