Advice for coping with the thin envelope
We've been there, we've worked with a bunch of kids who didn't get in where they wanted, and we're still out here pounding the pavement on your behalf...so if you're dealing with the disappointment of not getting in...here are a few coping strategies.
1. There's still time. Sure, not with your A-list school, but there are TONS of colleges with rolling admissions dates that go well into the Spring. LIKE MAY AND JUNE.
2. Learn about something called "transferring." NOT transferring to another school, but transferring the negative energy into something else. Seriously - you've spent all this time working on this activity and joining this group - all to try to get in, and what did it get you? Take a step back and get involved in something that YOU want to do. Even if that means reading a book you've always wanted to read and couldn't because it's not on the approved reading list.
3. While we're on the "transfer" subject...A lot of students don't get in the first time around, go spend their first year somewhere else, re-apply after kicking royal hiney, and get in as a transfer. (I've got a good friend who tried this approach at Colgate and it worked.)
4. Think Canada. I am not paid by the Canadian Government. But there are great schools up north -- your application is still welcome at lots of them and a bunch of American students come back after 4 years and it's like they've lived abroad.
5. TAKE A YEAR OFF. My wife did the gap year thing before it was even called that. She was a Rotary Exchange Student and, funny enough, she didn't get into her first or second or even third choice of country. She was a high school graduate and didn't fit the traditional mold (most students take maybe their Junior or Senior year in this program, not do it after high school) they stuck her in a place that wasn't even on her list. Brazil. Changed her life forever. Mine too.
Finally, we're here to help. FREE HELP, PEOPLE. Sign up with U Sphere and use this code -- 9EF -- and your application ain't costing you nothin'. It's our way of trying to help make as many matches as we can.
Hang in there. The ride can suck sometimes, and can be absolutely phenomenal other times. And the in-between isn't bad.
1. There's still time. Sure, not with your A-list school, but there are TONS of colleges with rolling admissions dates that go well into the Spring. LIKE MAY AND JUNE.
2. Learn about something called "transferring." NOT transferring to another school, but transferring the negative energy into something else. Seriously - you've spent all this time working on this activity and joining this group - all to try to get in, and what did it get you? Take a step back and get involved in something that YOU want to do. Even if that means reading a book you've always wanted to read and couldn't because it's not on the approved reading list.
3. While we're on the "transfer" subject...A lot of students don't get in the first time around, go spend their first year somewhere else, re-apply after kicking royal hiney, and get in as a transfer. (I've got a good friend who tried this approach at Colgate and it worked.)
4. Think Canada. I am not paid by the Canadian Government. But there are great schools up north -- your application is still welcome at lots of them and a bunch of American students come back after 4 years and it's like they've lived abroad.
5. TAKE A YEAR OFF. My wife did the gap year thing before it was even called that. She was a Rotary Exchange Student and, funny enough, she didn't get into her first or second or even third choice of country. She was a high school graduate and didn't fit the traditional mold (most students take maybe their Junior or Senior year in this program, not do it after high school) they stuck her in a place that wasn't even on her list. Brazil. Changed her life forever. Mine too.
Finally, we're here to help. FREE HELP, PEOPLE. Sign up with U Sphere and use this code -- 9EF -- and your application ain't costing you nothin'. It's our way of trying to help make as many matches as we can.
Hang in there. The ride can suck sometimes, and can be absolutely phenomenal other times. And the in-between isn't bad.
posted by Dave Van de Walle at
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