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hathycolI have just been declined from Edinburgh.
I'm feeling rather... I'm not sure, downbeat about that. No, that's not true. Getting rejected from York was okay, because I didn't want to go there anyway, it's English, and the only person I know who got in was Iona, and I've known since I was 14 that if I did half as well as Iona academically then I was doing pretty well. But Edinburgh. That hurts. I wasn't going to go there, it was a third choice and one that was written out of the equation when the unconditional turned up, but...
I've been rejected from all universities that are in the Top 20 universities in Britain, bar St 'Take Forever to Process' Andrews. For all my almost-Communism, I am a complete and utter intellectual snob when it refers to myself. This, I suppose, shows that I have double standards. I know that any university in the top 100 is a damned good place to be educated, and getting into university is a bit of an achievement, I suppose, despite all the hoohaa about declingin standards etc etc but this is getting bad. I always thought I was intellectual elite material. You know, with my four As and a personal statement that is filled with Things I Have Done.
I suspect I may have been deluding myself. Will someone tell me the next time I do that? Thanks.
~Hathy_Col~
I'm feeling rather... I'm not sure, downbeat about that. No, that's not true. Getting rejected from York was okay, because I didn't want to go there anyway, it's English, and the only person I know who got in was Iona, and I've known since I was 14 that if I did half as well as Iona academically then I was doing pretty well. But Edinburgh. That hurts. I wasn't going to go there, it was a third choice and one that was written out of the equation when the unconditional turned up, but...
I've been rejected from all universities that are in the Top 20 universities in Britain, bar St 'Take Forever to Process' Andrews. For all my almost-Communism, I am a complete and utter intellectual snob when it refers to myself. This, I suppose, shows that I have double standards. I know that any university in the top 100 is a damned good place to be educated, and getting into university is a bit of an achievement, I suppose, despite all the hoohaa about declingin standards etc etc but this is getting bad. I always thought I was intellectual elite material. You know, with my four As and a personal statement that is filled with Things I Have Done.
I suspect I may have been deluding myself. Will someone tell me the next time I do that? Thanks.
~Hathy_Col~
