02/19/2009 "Dealing with Rejection"

So today Mr. Abrams gave me a newspaper article that he thought I may be interested in. Normally I wouldn't be interested in reading newspapers, but the caption seemed to catch my brown eyes (haha). "When the alma mater of your dreams says no" was the title of the article. Basically to sum up the article it was about a High School senior boy who applied to a University that he was sent on getting into. He GPA was great, SAT scores were great, he had the whole package. However, he received a letter stating that he did not get accepted. It was the only college that he wanted to attend and he had so many great things going in his favor. I guess the college didn't see the great things the student had to offer. It kind of made me realize wow, I almost didn't get into my number one college and I would have be absolutely devastated. When I got put on the waiting list for WVU, it made me realize that I wasn't going to give up! And I didn't! I feel very bad for this boy because I know how it feels, it almost happened to me. I wish him good luck in his future and I hope everything works out for him!