{"id":2876,"date":"2019-01-17T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:24:50","slug":"member-view-change-your-mentality-on-college-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/01\/17\/member-view-change-your-mentality-on-college-rejection\/","title":{"rendered":"Member View: Change Your Mentality on College Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rejection is always tough whether it\u2019s at work, in a relationship, or in college admission.<\/p>\n

NACAC member Rick Clark, the director of undergraduate admissions at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has some advice.<\/p>\n

First, if you\u2019ve been rejected, Clark writes, you likely need to take a moment. It\u2019s okay that you\u2019re not okay.<\/p>\n

\u201cGo ahead and scream, cry, beat your pillow, cook or eat a lot of something (do all of those at once if you\u2019re really upset). You do you. Whatever it takes to begin clearing your head,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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But what matters is that \u201cyou will be okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere is the thing: every year\u2014EVERY YEAR\u2014we talk to current students (even tour guides!) who say Georgia Tech was\u00a0not\u00a0their first choice,\u201d Clark wrote. \u201cThey did not get in to their top school, or they could not afford another place, or a myriad of other reasons. But they ended up here and cannot imagine being anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

He lays out a few truths about the admission process and encourages denied students to switch their mindset.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Preparing yourself for no\u2019 means looking at a deny not as a hard stop, but rather as a pivot,\u201d Clark wrote.<\/a> \u201cPeople think they are looking for the perfect college. You need to be looking for the perfect mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read Clark\u2019s full list of \u201ctruths about being denied\u201d on the Georgia Tech Admission Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ashley Dobson is NACAC\u2019s communications manager for content and social media. You can reach her at\u00a0<\/em>adobson@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rejection is always tough whether it\u2019s at work, in a relationship, or in college admission. NACAC member Rick Clark, the director of undergraduate admissions at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has some advice. First, if you\u2019ve been rejected, Clark writes, you likely need to take a moment. It\u2019s okay that you\u2019re not okay. \u201cGo ahead … Continue reading Member View: Change Your Mentality on College Rejection<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Ashley Dobson","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/ashley-dobson\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Ko","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}