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I still have my Princeton rejection letter from back in march. It is sitting in an otherwise empty drawer.

I have gone out of my apartment exactly twice since March 23rd, 2012. I believe I am near having an absolute mental breakdown. A breakdown of all that is me.

Princeton was the home for me. Princeton has always been my home. I tried my hardest throughout the awful, gut-wrenching experience that was K-12 and was near as perfect as everything as I could be. Top 5% GPA, a plethora of ECs, passion and love for my study of choice (computer science) and a special kind of love for Princeton.

So why did they reject me?

I did everything, everything I was told I needed to do to succeed. So why has this happened to me?

I wanted to study in Princeton for 10+ years. Afterwards I wanted to become a professor and spend the rest of my days in the one place that I loved.

How do you deal with the rejection, /sci/?

I don't know what to do with my life anymore

>> No.4725231

>How do you deal with the rejection, /sci/?

I don't, because I never attempt to do anything I'm not completely sure I will succeed at.

>> No.4725235

apply again?

>> No.4725238

>>4725227

Realize that there is more out there if you take the time to look. You always should have a back up plan in life, lest you want to end up in a dead end for a while... like you did.

Pick yourself up. Dust yourself off. Do something with yourself.

>> No.4725241

You can't possibly be serious. Nobody is this fucking worthless and pathetic, right?

>> No.4725242

I know it's hard to hear right now, OP, but if you feel like you're in it for the long haul in academia, you should save some money by going to a less expensive school for your foundation classes. Since it sounds like you are serious about Princeton, you will work hard and not become too attached to your other school.

>> No.4725249

>>4725227
You need to be a minority to enter Princeton bro, sorry bout that.

>> No.4725251
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4725251

Just go to a community college re-apply later, you'll save a shit ton of money.

Now stop crying, faggot.

>> No.4725255

Anybody who gets that attached to a college is obviously unfit for the real world or any kind of social situation, period.

OP, you are literally fucking crazy and I hope for the sake of those students are Princeton that you never get in.

>> No.4725257

Princeton is a shitty university Carlton. If you want to learn Comp Sci, MIT is much better.

>> No.4725260

OP didnt the rejection letter said why did you got rejected?

>> No.4725262

>>4725227

This is pathetic on so many levels. OP is a humongous faggot.

>> No.4725266

Apply for the UCLA, it has a better Comp Sci program than Princeton. OP, never get attached to universities, only a fool would do that.

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Ask yourself this, is worrying about why they rejected you helping you in any way? Is it even possible to know why they rejected you? As a person with GAD I know a little bit about this. The most exhausting thing a human being can do is worry about something they don't have control over. It's futile, and just makes you worry more and get more exhausted. You have no say in their how they accept applications. So stop worrying about the why and focus on what you are able to do. Ask yourself "what can you do about this." Like are you going to reapply and/or apply for another school?

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4725271

>tfw OP's "trolling"
Nice try Carton Banks

>> No.4725276

Dear students, this is a classic case of a troll. As you guys can see here, OP posted some really retarded post in order to bait other posters. A way to know this is a troll is the fact that OP did a bait and flee tactic. He has not replied after making this thread. Meaning he had no intention to answering our posts because he made it up.

>> No.4725280

DYEL?

>> No.4725281

>>4725266
>never get attached to universities, only a fool would do that.
Grad student here and this is the ultimate truth about post secondary school. You are not there to make friends or cutesy memories. Nobody else is. Specially at a high strung uni like Princeton. People there will rip your throat out if it meant that they could get more funds for their projects/a higher GPA/any kind of advantage, period. This is why I am eternally grateful that I entered university later than most of my peers. I knew exactly why I was going to uni, I knew what it meant to me and my future and I knew that I had to make the most out of it.

A lot of people get caught up in the "culture" of universities and they get too attached. That's when all their problems usually begin.

>> No.4725284 [DELETED] 

>>4725281
Yeah, the important thing is loving what you are gonna study. I personally give rats ass to the culture of my university. Maybe its because I studying Engineering, meaning it has more use in the real world as opposed to more academia based studies.

>> No.4725285

>>4725281
>People there will rip your throat out if it meant that they could get more funds for their projects/a higher GPA/any kind of advantage, period

God damn this hits close to home. Almost too close. Just when you think you are making a bunch of lifelong friends who will be there for you when you most need them.. that's exactly when you'll see everyone's true nature.

>> No.4725287

relax, op. princeton girls are fucking hideous. actually this is the same for pretty much any ivy league.

>> No.4725289

>>4725281
>a higher GPA
How could you backstab someone for an higher GPA? Its not like you can steal somebodies A's.

>> No.4725290

OP IS A TROLL IGNORE THIS THREAD!

>> No.4725292

>>4725290
OP might be a troll but I believe this thread brings up an interesting thought(s) about the nature of "overachievers".

>> No.4725294

Figure out where you fucked up, consider your courses of action and either try again or move on.

It's no Princeton, but when I finished high school here in Australia I failed to get into Medicine in the only university that has it in my state (we have an undergraduate medical degree, before someone points this out). The point is, I didn't let that failure get to me. I sat down and considered my options: I could try to get in through graduate entry by finishing another course first, I could move interstate (where I got an offer) or I could take a year off and try again. In the end, I went for the latter, and while it was hardly a valuable year overall, it forced me to get my shit together, redo the admissions test and interview, show some initiative by finding a relevant job, etc. Second time round, I got in with flying colors.

I don't know how applying to Princeton works, but surely a single letter of rejection doesn't doom you for the rest of your life. Figure out where you fucked up and learn from your failure. We all screw up in life, the point is to take something out of the experience, instead of letting it tear you down.

Just try to consider all your options rationally and if it's what you're truly passionate about, it will work out for you eventually. It just takes a bit of effort.

>> No.4725296

>>4725281
Really? I always found high school to be the most competitive place yet. In university (at least in my course), people genuinely make an effort to get along and help each other out. Hell, if you go onto the facebook group somebody made at the start of first year, you'll notice comprehensive summaries of everything we've done being posted up before exams. It's really quite nice.

>> No.4725302

Ivy league people always sound so absolutely miserable.

>> No.4725306

OP, one of my best friends in high school was rejected from Princeton. He scored over a 1500 on the SAT (when it was on a 1600 point scale). Graduated 6th or 7th in our class of 1150 students in what was at the time one of the best school districts in the country (Plano ISD). He was active in many activities and had a plethora of recommendation letters. I have never met a smarter person than him to this day. I don't know if he was crushed when they rejected him, he didn't really talk about it. But you know what? He got into the University of Chicago, studied economics, and is now a lawyer. This dude is going to end up on the supreme court one day, mark my words. They lost the opportunity to have him be an alumni.

tldr; rejection is fucking awful. Prove that they made a horrible mistake by going somewhere else and excelling at everything you do. There is no better way to assuage your wounds and get revenge.

>> No.4725307

OP I was rejected by Caltech and UCLA. I tucked my tail between my legs and went to shitty UC San Diego.

To this day I still feel like a fucking loser, and I hate fucking Gooks.

>> No.4725309

>>4725306
I dont get how a university rejects you even if you have the requirements. Its bullshit that they dont put black and white requirements on the admission page. It makes you lose less of your time filling out an admission document.

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>>4725307
>To this day I still feel like a fucking loser

I almost feel sorry for people like you. What a pitiful existence you are.

>> No.4725325

>>4725309
There are so many qualified and overqualified people that it's pretty much a lottery nowadays.

>> No.4725330

>>4725325
This this. I know somebody who got a 1300 on the SAT and got into Berkeley. Yeah, 1300 out of 2400. Had extra cirriculars and high GPA, but nothing unusual for a Berkeley student. Also she's barely a minority (Chinese, but been here for 10 years).

>> No.4725339

>>4725307
I go to UBC.

I seriously don't know how gooks can live with themselves. They are just such a weird fucking race

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>>4725325
seconded
i know someone who got into UCLA that really wasn't terribly smart or remarkable in any sense. they were native american but, UC isn't supposed to be able to do affirmative action any more.

>> No.4725356

>>4725231
that's why you don't have a gf?

>> No.4725369

I really do feel sorry for Americans. Firstly, your high school is far, far behind our A level system in terms of content covered and speed it's covered at (we learn what you learn in your first year or two of uni whilst we're still in sixth form - i.e. 17 or 18 years old).

Then you have a retarded university system where you can't study what you want straight away; you don't get "pre-meds" or "pre-laws" or anything like that in British universities. And to even get into this backwards system seems to be a gamble, and not reliant on merit.

At top UK unis, it's very much a meritocracy. Only the strongest candidates get in to Oxbridge/Imperial/UCL/LSE/Warwick etc.

It's not even as if the British system is perfect - far from it - but it's THAT much better?

>> No.4725390

>>4725339
Fuck yeah. What year/faculty/major?

>> No.4725391

It's just one school - pick yourself up. Take your hard work and knowledge somewhere else and be successful on your own terms.

>> No.4725393

>>4725390
EE 4th

>> No.4725394

>>4725369
yet america continues to crank out the academic elite of the world.

wtf britain?

>> No.4725397

>>4725393
Cool to see someone else, I'm in math 2nd

>> No.4725400

>>4725394
>academic elite
The academic elite comes from Asia and Europe. Nearly all science and math PhD students in a decent amercian university are foreign.

>> No.4725402

OP just become a spiteful grumpy old man to the university. I got rejected from my first choice UW and just went to WSU. Now I'm the leader of several projects for a biotech company in Seattle and do whatever I can to avoid highering UW students and favoring WSU grads. Not like it makes a difference when they're barely given any responsibilities with only a bachelors.

>> No.4725408

>>4725397
enjoy your 320 :D

>> No.4725409

>>4725400
I'm talking about the best, not the most.
funny how you don't understand.

>> No.4725410

>>4725402
why do you blame students for the decisions of the dean of admissions?

>> No.4725415

>>4725400
Yet they come to the US rather than stay in their own country for their masters and/or PhDs...

>> No.4725416

>>4725400
That's just because there are so many people in countries like India and China. In general, we let in so many foreign students it's impossible for Americans to be the dominant population. Nothing to be ashamed of.

>> No.4725422

I should also add that the top students from countries like India and China, and I'm talking about those from the IITs, and Tsinghua university do not outperform Americans or students from any other nationality at the top universities.

>> No.4725441

actually I know why I initially got rejected from Humboldt as a transfer student. They even had a number I could call to find out how I could become more eligible, so I called. Turns out my transcript came in all fucked up, and my high school AP credits didn't show up. They fixed it and now I'm in.

>> No.4725442

lol faggot.

this isn't your blog.

>> No.4725445

>>4725441
I got into ETH-Zurich for a PhD but they told me I had to wait an extra year before I could join a funded project. It was also in the pure sciences, and I'm not sure I want to be in academia. I chose a US university, but part of me still thinks it would be great to spend 3-5 years in Switzerland.

>> No.4725453

>>4725445
Who knows. There are some sweet campus research jobs in the sciences that allow you to travel all over for conferences, maybe even to Europe. I have a couple friends in computer science (one specializes in security, the other supercomputers) and they both get to travel a lot.

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4725457

UK has no college sports, or pretty cheerleaders. So your college system sucks, that is why you are a bunch of soccer sissies.

Gif of average UK student.

>> No.4725459

>>4725457
is this true? if i go to college in england will there be no jocks?

PARADISE

>> No.4725474

>>4725459
We've got scratters, chavs and LADS instead

>> No.4725485

>>4725474
>>4725459
Heh, the university where I'm at in Belgium only has science and technology, and nothing else. It's pure heaven

>> No.4725489

>>4725474
but not within the campus

>> No.4725490

>>4725457
Wtf has a university to do with sports?

>> No.4725505

>>4725457
Yes, yes we do you're an idiot.
>>4725459
Nope, Jocks aren't really a thing here but there are people who like sports tons.

>> No.4725507

>>4725505
if you were really english you'd write sport, not sports

it's easy to remember

uk: maths sport
usa: math sports