Accepted into my dream school but can't afford it!?
Attending the University of Pittsburgh has been a dream of mine ever since I can remember. I applied and was accepted. I have all my information turned in and i even have a room assigned to me in the dorms. I have also been accepted to clarion university and have everything registered there too. I do not like clarion at all. Its in the middle of no where and basically anyone can get in there. I have worked hard all through high school and earned extremely high grades and i feel all my hard work is wasted going to a school like clarion. My problem is that clarion is within my budget but Pitt is about $7,000 per year over my budget. I have already applied for all the scholarships possible but still cone up short. Is there anyway to get money to make Pitt affordable? Would writing a letter to the university explaining my situation help at all? Or would it be a waste of time?
I got accepted in my dream school in USA. I got 82% in 11th, but due to some personal issues I think I won’t be able to get 80%+ in 12th. Will this effect my admission?
It should not be a problem until it has been specified in the offer letter. Some of the universities offer conditional admissions subjects to fulfilment of certain conditions at the time of registration. The conditions range from academic scores, SAT or English proficiency scores. Kindly read your offer letter throughly to ascertain whether any specific conditions have been mentioned.
What does it feel like to get accepted to your dream school?
Vindication.I was accepted into two institutions both slightly unconventionally. I applied early for my undergrad, and did a special student program at the other.In the case of my undergrad I really knew where I wanted to go after the tour/portfolio review junior year of high school, worked really hard on the application and my portfolio while my peers were still visiting colleges, and poured a lot into the process. When I got accepted, I forget if it was an email or letter, with headstrong arrogance my response was something along the lines of "of course I did", then putting it away in a file so I'd always have it safe. Every other acceptance letter I received was met with disdain, to my parent's annoyance since they wanted me to consider other options and go for the best financial aid package.My special student application was similar and I would have been blown away with surprise if I had not been accepted, that's what you get with over confident arrogance I suppose. In this case my parents were very surprised and happy, as I didn't even tell them I was applying. Imagine getting a random phone call from your kid... "hey mom what's up, nothing much is going on here, oh I just got into special student program for the fall at ivy league..." :PIn both cases I felt as though I'd gotten exactly what I'd worked for, but writing this out does make me seem quite arrogant, and I probably was.
How can I recover from not being accepted to my dream school? It seems that everyone I know was accepted except me. Life goes on, I know, but in this moment I just feel lost.
I have seen this in my life over and over again that when things do not work according to plan there is a very good reason for it. I always say that to myself and I tell my kids to believe that as well.I always wanted to be a physician but my father ended up going as Military Attache to Afganistan and my High School did not have a biology lab. I switched to liberal arts much to my dad’s disappointment but ended up being one of the top freelance journalists in the country and I was just 18. My dad was and is very proud.My son Gautam Narula was rejected by several start ups for a summer internship when he first dropped out of college to write an award winning memoir and then returned to finish college. I told him that is because something way better than the startups is waiting for you. And suddenly out of the blue he had Amazon, facebook and Google interview him.We were looking for a house in boston and the one that we liked sold before we could make an offer..I said the same thing to my husband..its because something way better is waiting for us. The house we live in now is far more beautiful and has much more to offer than what we wanted to bid for.There are so many instances that I can mention. Words and thoughts have energy and power so stay positive and believe that your dream school is the one you will eventually go to. We always end up where we are meant to be. The road may not be as we planned.My son dreamt of going to MIT as a child but his life took a turn when he met this death row prisoner and he did not even apply to MIT his then dream school! He wanted to stay in state to remain close to the inmate.Funnily later MIT was the first school he spoke at when his memoir Remain Free about his friendship with the deathrow inmate got published. And he said to me..thank God I didnt apply here. Its a great school but for my dad..not for me. So ideas and what you want from life are constantly evolving.The great poet laureate of India Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan said it aptly..and I paraphrase..if you get what your heart desires thats great. But if you do not, it is even better because then a higher power decides it for you.Often what we want may not be what we may need.Good luck in this new chapter in your life. Your attitude will determine how much fun you will make it for yourself and for others around you!
If you got rejected from your dream school(s), what would you do?
When I was 9 years old, my older brother got rejected from MIT. I vowed that I would dowhatever it took to get in there, so that I could turn it down and go somewhere else instead (because I wanted to be a lawyer).For 8 years, I did everything I could to get into MIT. I joined the right clubs, I got the right grades, got a 2350 on my SAT, andtook all the AP classes my school offered (plus a few more). I didn't seriously consider the school until I visited it before my junior year of high school, and I realized that it actually could be the place where I got the degree I wanted (Linguistics, because of Noam Chomsky, an MIT professor emeritus).When I was 17, I got rejected from MIT. I had been deferred out of Early Action, and a few days later I learned that my best friend’s boyfriend (who had completely different clubs than mine, but lower GPA, SAT, and AP scores) had gotten in for Computer Science. I felt very disappointed, even cried a little (though especially because I didn't know he applied and nobody told me he got in for 3 days after it happened) but ultimately waited to hear back from my other reach school, Brown. I hadn't been extremely invested in it, though I did love the campus and academics, so it didn't really sting when I got rejected again.That left my two safety options - RPI and UConn. I, after visiting each campus and a few emails with RPI’s financial aid, settled on RPI, because for slightly higher tuition could allow me to pursue a dual major and graduate a year early. I will graduate with about 15,000 in loans, unless I stay for a 4th year to get a master’s degree.Ultimately, I think that getting rejected from my dream schools was the best thing that could have happened. I was so focused on their shiny new campuses, interesting students, and the prestige of beating the odds for admission that I never really considered whether those schools were the best path towards what I actually wanted to do, and who I actually wanted to become. RPI was really the best choice for me from the start, and only through some harsh rejections was I able to see that.Dream schools are wonderful, and the people who get into their dream schools are incredibly lucky. But don't forget that the best place for you to grow and develop might not be the place you expect from the brochures.
Waitlisted at my dream school... what to do??!?
OMG I got waitlisted at William and Mary too!!!!!!!!!! (No lie, I really did.) I just chose my second choice school. I mean, if you really, really love the college and absolutely don't have a second choice, I would recommend calling and talking to an admission's counselor. Good luck w/your college career!
I just got rejected from my dream school...?
Applying to top schools is a crap-shoot. Often there's no good reason why one person got in and another didn't. It's certainly happened to me a few times. Fortunately, I've liked almost all of the schools I've ever spent time at (as a student, and as a visitor, or attending a conference, or interviewing for a job) - that's well over 30 schools. There's no one school for everyone. You might have had your heart set on one, but you'd probably be happy at many schools. So hopefully you got into a few others and you can still make a choice, and don't go into it resenting the school and feeling sorry for yourself not getting into the other school. Besides, even if the school isn't quite as highly ranked, that just means you'll be at the top of your class instead of in the middle somewhere and more likely to get scholarships and funding.
I didn't get accept into my dream college?
What are your SATs? I need your SATs to do this. Please post back. In addition, let me know if you've done any honors/AP classes, and if you did APs, how many. ETA: Go to www.collegeboard.com and look up colleges that you like, including New Paltz. Compare their SAT averages to yours, and apply to those where your SATs are a fit. If your SATs were sort of low, and you only took regular classes, then yes, that's why you didn't get into New Paltz.