College admission has been my career for almost eight years, but just before leaping onto this side of the desk, we invested two years as a school that is high in my home state of Louisiana. We was never ever formally the school’s ‘college counselor,’ so I was spared from having to write hundreds upon a huge selection of letters of recommendation. But during those two years, as a result of my role as moderator of the learning student Council, I happened to be able to get to know an amount of seniors have been going right through the admission process. As we prepare to mail out decisions regarding our scholarship decisions, which I am sure will leave a large number of students dissatisfied, confused, and questioning our judgment, a certain meeting with one of my personal favorite Student Council members is fresh on my mind.

With regard to this whole tale, let’s call him Scott. Scott was the superstar of our school. He had been Class President every year during senior school, he was the pep rally emcee, and I would go well over the word limit that this blog allows if I were to continue listing all his accomplishments. To top it off, he ended up being just an incredibly likeable kid. I reached know Scott real well since I relied on him for a great deal of what our Student Council was asked to do. Scott had the period that is final of school day down, in order my day was winding down, he’d often come by my office to hang out.

One day, with a couple of months kept in their year that is senior came by looking as bummed out as I had ever seen him. He shared beside me that he had been denied admission to his top choice college. To make matters worse, one of his true best friends, whom he had planned to room with on campus, had been admitted. I didn’t really know what to Scott to help him out. In ‘counseling school,’ we discovered that sometimes, the approach that is best to giving advice to somebody who is depressed is always to not say anything at all, so that is what i did so.

That this rejection was probably the first time in nearly four years that Scott had been denied something as I was driving home, it dawned on me. He had been chosen for each leadership position, each club, and each team that he sought out during senior high school. And now, he was told ‘No’ by an university. Any of us in Scott’s shoes would react the way that is same after several years of success we were suddenly up against what seemed such as a failure.

After pouring through hundreds upon hundreds of applications during our scholarship review process, and having to reject so numerous terrific pupils the chance to be given a scholarship, i’d bet that lots of our applicants feel like Scott did on that day some seven years back. My amazement at just how much our applicants accomplish during their high school careers is matched by my disappointment it work for all of them that we can’t make. It’s the ugly truth of our process, and of any admission that is competitive, for that matter.

But let’s go back once again to Scott for an instant. Three years ago, he was visiting Los Angeles, so he and I got together for dinner. He’d just graduated from college, where, to no shock, he previously once again shmoop do my essay become a frontrunner on the campus community, albeit at a campus that wasn’t their first choice school when he was a school that is high. And I also’ll never forget what he said when he told me that he previouslyn’t gotten into the graduate program he had been hoping for: ‘I’m not concerned. We’ll eventually figure it away.’ Exactly What we discovered for the reason that moment is compared to all the great things Scott discovered since he left senior school, the maximum of all was the capacity to cope with rejection. He did not become an epic failure he was denied from his dream school, and he had grown up so much in just a few short years like he might have felt when.

So at this time whenever our scholarship decisions have left lots of you feeling a glum that is little I hope Scott’s story provides some comfort. As opposed to harping on the increasing loss of a scholarship, attempt to concentrate on the possibilities that still lie ahead. You may not recognize it now, but there are more out there than you can possibly imagine.

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March is really a pretty month that is awesome. Month Spring is right around the corner, we are wrapping up decisions on thousands of applicants and it’s my birthday! We understand it’s tough waiting to hear right back from us and we have discussing how exactly to stay busy during this time around. On time while you all are waiting for us to send out final decisions, we are putting in long hours to get everything out to you.