College Rejection Isn't Failure: What International Students Should Know
March brings admission decisions for international students. Learn why rejection isn't failure and how to turn it into success for your next application.
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So I just wanted to talk to you guys about this whole thing of studying in america as an international student, um, especially going to many of these schools that i've been recommending, where they can give you a full scholarship in order to come and study here. Now, as you guys know, it's march, and basically what that means is many schools are going to be releasing their admission decisions. And that basically means they're going to be letting you know whether you got into the school or not. Now, this is a very stressful season. You know, i've met lots of people, thousands and thousands of people who have told me that they applied because of, you know, the information that i've been giving. And I love that. I love the fact that people are taking action and actually pursuing their dreams and trying their very best to come to many of these schools that I talk about. But I do wanna be honest with you guys. These schools are competitive. Getting into these schools are quite hard. And the thing about it is, some of you are going to be rejected from many of these schools that you're applying to. But you should not look at it as failure. Even if you got rejected by all the schools that you applied to, that is not failure. In fact, it is something that is super impressive because you've been able to apply to a school in america, even Though you were very unfamiliar with the whole process, you went through it. It takes americans years and years and years to learn this process, and you were able to do it in a matter of months. So that is not failure. That is very far from failure. And what you need to be doing is starting to look at the bright side of this. If you did get rejected, it's just redirection. This is because that rejection is feedback. It's telling you that there's something in your application that needs to change in order for you to be able to come and study in america. So what you need to do is start looking at what that could be and then start working on that. Because what you wanna do after this is you wanna reapply to many of these schools. I, for instance, got rejected the first time I applied to schools in america. I got rejected. Not only that, when I went for my master's degree before I got into university of pennsylvania, I got rejected for that same exact master's degree the year before. I got rejected. So what I did is I reevaluated my situation. I reevaluated everything that I was telling the admissions officers, and then I changed it. And that allowed me to submit a much more powerful application later. This is the key. Now, if you wanna do this, make sure you also join my free community, because i'm giving a ton Of information there for free about the whole process of how you can get accepted to many of these schools in america.
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