Take heart... admissions officers feel your pain, too!

April is a tough month for high school seniors. You have great offers of admissions from some amazing colleges, but it's hard to understand the schools who decided that you weren't right for their incoming freshman class.

We spend lots of time celebrating the schools our students get into, but we spend just as much time talking to our seniors about their denials. Admissions officers are human--people who discover amazing seventeen-year-olds in their applications, and who agonize about students that they fought hard for, but who just won't be admitted.

This article, by Angel Perez, Pitzer College's Director of Admissions, looks to remind students that they are "what keeps admissions officers in this business -- knowing that young people are doing amazing things and creating transformative experiences that will affect our world tomorrow."

This is just a reminder that the admissions process is about so much more than your GPA, and whether or not your test scores were 10 or 100 points higher than the kid next to you. And you're not going to believe this, but it's true--whether you're admitted or denied from your first choice colleges doesn't determine what kind of kid you are. And it won't even matter in a few months. In September, you'll find yourself happier than you expected. Wherever you end up.