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William Pang, a high-school senior at the Berkshire School, writes about the agonizing college-admissions process — and what he’s going to do next: Five minutes till admission decision. I logged into College Confidential one last time, scrolling through forum posts of accepted students from previous years. Having played the different outcomes over and over in my head, I was prepared for the best and the worst: if accepted to Brown, I would scream in happiness and immediately call my parents. If rejected, I would crawl into my bed and quietly listen to Macklemore’s ‘Can’t Hold Us.’


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/04/08/student-what-i-learned-after-getting-rejected-from-the-ivy-league/?wprss=rss_education The Washington Post