GUEST BLOG: Focus On The Opportunities That Lie Ahead<\/title><\/p>\n<p>University admission has now been my career for almost eight years, but just before jumping onto this side of this desk, we invested two years as being a high school counselor in my home state of Louisiana. We was never formally the school’s ‘college therapist,’ so I was spared from having to compose hundreds upon hundreds of letters of recommendation. But during those couple of years, as a result of my role as moderator associated with the Student Council, I became able to get acquainted with a number of seniors who had been going right through the admission process. Once we prepare to mail out decisions regarding our scholarship decisions, which I believe will keep a significant number of students dissatisfied, confused, and questioning our judgment, a particular meeting with one of my favorite Student Council members is fresh on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to this tale, let’s call him Scott. Scott was the superstar of our college. He was Class President each year during senior high school, he had been 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 well, he was just an incredibly likeable kid. We reached <a href=\"https:\/\/shmoop.pro\/\">shmoop.pro<\/a> know Scott real well for so much of what our Student Council was asked to do since I relied on him. Scott had the final amount of our school day off, in order my day was winding down, he would often come by my office to hang out.<\/p>\n<p>One time, with a couple of months left in their senior year, Scott 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 close friends, whom he had planned to room with on campus, had been admitted. We did not really know what to Scott to aid him out. In ‘counseling school,’ we discovered that sometimes, the approach that is best to giving advice to some one who is depressed would be to not say anything at all, so that is just what i did so.<\/p>\n<p>As I had been driving home, it dawned on me personally that this rejection was probably the first time in nearly four years that Scott was denied something. He was chosen for every single leadership place, each club, and each united 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 same way if after many years of success we were suddenly faced with what seemed like a failure.<\/p>\n<p>The opportunity to receive a scholarship, I would bet that many of our applicants feel like Scott did on that day some seven years ago after pouring through hundreds upon hundreds of applications during our scholarship review process, and having to deny so many terrific students. My amazement at exactly how much our applicants accomplish during their high college careers is matched by my disappointment it work for all of them that we can’t make. It is the unsightly truth of our process, and of any competitive admission process, for example.<\/p>\n<p>But let’s go back again to Scott for a moment. Three years back, he was visiting Los Angeles, I got together for dinner so he and. He’d just graduated from college, where, to no surprise, he previously once again be a frontrunner on the campus community, albeit at a campus that was not his first choice school when he was a high school senior. And I’ll remember what he stated when he told me he was hoping for: ‘I’m not worried that he hadn’t gotten into the graduate program. I’ll eventually figure it out.’ Just What I discovered in that moment is that of all the great things Scott discovered since he left highschool, the maximum of all was the ability to cope with rejection. 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\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfGUEST BLOG: Focus On The Opportunities That Lie Ahead<\/title><\/p>\n<p>University admission has now been my career for almost eight years, but just before jumping onto this side of this desk, we invested two years as being a high school counselor in my home state of Louisiana. We was never formally the school’s ‘college therapist,’ so I was spared from having to compose hundreds upon hundreds of letters of recommendation. But during those couple of years, as a result of my role as moderator associated with the Student Council, I became able to get acquainted with a number of seniors who had been going right through the admission process. Once we prepare to mail out decisions regarding our scholarship decisions, which I believe will keep a significant number of students dissatisfied, confused, and questioning our judgment, a particular meeting with one of my favorite Student Council members is fresh on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>With regard to this tale, let’s call him Scott. Scott was the superstar of our college. He was Class President each year during senior high school, he had been 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 well, he was just an incredibly likeable kid. We reached <a href=\"https:\/\/shmoop.pro\/\">shmoop.pro<\/a> know Scott real well for so much of what our Student Council was asked to do since I relied on him. Scott had the final amount of our school day off, in order my day was winding down, he would often come by my office to hang out.<\/p>\n<p>One time, with a couple of months left in their senior year, Scott 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 close friends, whom he had planned to room with on campus, had been admitted. We did not really know what to Scott to aid him out. 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My amazement at exactly how much our applicants accomplish during their high college careers is matched by my disappointment it work for all of them that we can’t make. It is the unsightly truth of our process, and of any competitive admission process, for example.<\/p>\n<p>But let’s go back again to Scott for a moment. Three years back, he was visiting Los Angeles, I got together for dinner so he and. He’d just graduated from college, where, to no surprise, he previously once again be a frontrunner on the campus community, albeit at a campus that was not his first choice school when he was a high school senior. And I’ll remember what he stated when he told me he was hoping for: ‘I’m not worried that he hadn’t gotten into the graduate program. I’ll eventually figure it out.’ Just What I discovered in that moment is that of all the great things Scott discovered since he left highschool, the maximum of all was the ability to cope with rejection. 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