#41 you're an idiot, people with HS degrees don't make 2-3 times as much as college graduates. I'll graduate in May and already have a 62k a year job lined up. If your making 120k with a HS diploma more power to you though.

Some of you people are absolutely ridiculous. Sometimes even when someone is considered very bright in school, they do not get accepted into their school choices. If you do not have any school activities or not enough activities on your application they will reject you for someone that does have more. There is absolutely nothing wrong with community college. Here in jersey, if you go to community college for 2 years than transfer to a 4-year university after, the state will pay for your tuition. It is not always a bad thing to go to community college. And qwerty, or whatever, you are lecturing someone about how it is not polite to say shut up to people on the internet while you are telling someone that their future will just be working at target.. that and telling them to aim lower? You are telling me that that is polite? Right.

Yeah, it's getting rough out there! My friend had a 4.0 GPA, did all kiiiiinds of good-student extra curricular stuff (quiz bowl, honor society-type things, student government, etc., etc., etc.) and only got into one of her two safety schools. She got all the rejections within two days of each other, too. She's incredibly bright and talented at a lot of different things, and yet she's not at all where she should be. Better luck next year. Meanwhile, maybe working for a year (if you don't end up going to your wait-list school) will help save up some cash? College is freaking expensive! Good luck, and my sympathies.

......and then you found 5 dollars....

It's hard to feel sorry. When you apply, you have all the information needed to be able to tell if you'll make it, if you won't, or if you have chances. Universities publish the cut-off marks and often the averages of people they accept, so it's wise to apply to universities where you know you will get in by a landslide as backups as well as the ones you want to go to a lot but aren't sure you'll be accepted to. You really did not think this out well.

At least you got a job =

if it makes you feel any better...I only applied to 2 schools, OSU and NC state. I didn't get into either of them but then found a backup plan and went to the OSU mansfield branch. I'm sure you'll find something until you can transfer. :)

I'm so scared that this is what's going to happen to me when I apply to colleges next year. Legitimately...this is my worst fear.

oh...and to make things a bit more hopeful...I'm now at the main campus of OSU because I transferred.

lol to #55 no way in hell you got those all the same day, and even so...you need to have safe choices. aka those with at least a 10 percent lower average then yours. then you know you ARE going to college. obviously you dont have enough common sense for that