Where did you get in? Where were you rejected?

I applied to Penn early and got in. I had my application to Georgetown ready to send out when I got my acceptance letter to Penn, so I never sent it.

My dumbass guidance counselor told my parents I was "fooling myself" that I could even get into GW, which I was considering as my safety school. My lame high school encouraged everyone to go to SUNY schools and if you didn't want to, they could be pretty obnoxious. My best friend was interested in NYU and her guidance counselor did everything he could to discourage her (she ended up at SUNY-Binghamton).

I imagine it was a dark day in the guidance office when 4 of us got accepted to Ivy League schools early and on the same day (2 went to Yale and 1 to Cornell).

 

Got into San Diego State and Sacramento State (didn't apply elsewhere... kinda had my heart set on those two choices), went to SDSU.

 

I've thought about going back, but the time commitment & money never seemed worth it.

I don't have kids yet, but I do think about how it's going to be hard to tell them to go to college when I didn't (graduate).

I'd really only want to go back if I could go to a top school and was prepared to bang out straight A's.

I'd love to get an MBA. I think that would interest me, but I think I'd have a tough time talking my way into a program without an undergrad degree.

My friend swears his brother was able to, and I know Bush's former "body person" got into Harvard's MBA program without getting an undergrad degree, but I don't think I can get a letter of recommendation from GWB.

 

Accepted: K-State

Rejected: None

I think I poked around with Washburn and perhaps Iowa State. I definitely sent stuff to Washington and Lee. I never seriously looked anywhere besides K-State, though. My parents both went there and are long-time season ticket holders. I've of course been a fan since birth. I could have gone elsewhere if I had wanted to. I just didn't want to.

Sometimes I regret that a little when I think about what it would have been like to go to a really, really big school or maybe a more prestigious Ivy Leaguer or something (If I could have gotten in), but I couldn't trade in the memories I have, so I'm happy with how it worked out.

 

I've been out of college for 20 years and I still have that dream.

 

When I was a senior in HS, my father let it be known to my mother that, despite the divorce decree, he was not going to be paying for college after paying for my brother.

So I only applied to four schools: Penn, Cornell, Binghamton and Brooklyn College. I loved Penn and was told after my interview I was a lock. In fact, my guidence counselor was already exploring scholarship and financial aid options.

I get into the other three and there is no word from Penn by April 15th. Or the 16th or 17th. So I call them and they won't even speak to me. The next day I get a rejection letter. I'm gutted.

It all works out as Cornell's state funded school gives me a nearly full ride.

Flash forward 4 years. I am applying for law school and I'm in a pretty good spot. I get into a number of places, including Penn. After I get into a choice I liked more, I send the Penn Law dean of students my law school acceptance letter stapled to the undegraduate rejection letter and a note "We're even".

 

I also have that same nightmare.

Until my "involuntary work situation" a few months back, I NEVER had a nightmare about work. Not in 15 years of doing this for a living.

However, I STILL have that college nightmare.

It's May. I'm supposed to graduate. I have had a Russian Literature class all semester. Showed up for the first two or three. Don't even know the professor's name. We're well past the drop deadline and I am "s-c rewed".

Even years later, this dream terrifies me.

 

Hey!

 

35 for me. Maybe DocTalk can come aboard and try to explain that to us.

 

Sorry, can't be everywhere at once. And yes, she matriculated very well, thank you.

 

Awesome.