College admissions: Life after rejection
Here’s a great article from the Los Angeles Times on student’s options and alternatives in case they get rejected by their first choice colleges:
With nearly perfect grades at a prestigious Los Angeles prep school and high SAT scores, Emily Podany should have nailed a spot at Stanford. But when she applied early to study astrophysics at her dream school, the Palo Alto university flat-out rejected her. Podany was crushed.
"When you see the small envelope, you just know it’s not good news," said Podany, 18. "I just felt very sad for a couple days. Then that turned into anger at myself for not doing better.
