{"id":871,"date":"2004-01-31T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T23:23:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, I was laboring over my undergraduate application right here in my house&#8230;at the <a href=\\\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/bio\/writingessay.html\\\">same computer<\/a>.  My parents <a href=\\\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/bio\/essaytutor.html\\\">spent too much money<\/a> just so that I could up with <a href=\\\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/bio\/personalstatement.html\\\">perfect personal statement<\/a>.  I submitted my application, feeling so full of it.  I felt so arrognant, thinking that I could get into any school I applied to.  At the time, I thought&#8230;how could any school overlook my outstanding gpa and extraordinary set of activities?  And certainly, several months later, I received my acceptance letters from UC Davis and UCSD, I was that much assured&#8230;until I received the acceptance letter from Berkeley saying that they didn\\&#8217;t have enough room for me in the Fall and would have to defer me to the Spring.  I didn\\&#8217;t know what that meant.  A week later, I received a rejection letter from UCLA.  And that was the moment, I realized that I wasn\\&#8217;t the top student I thought I was.<\/p>\n<p>So four years later, despite my acceptance to <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.iupui.edu\\\">Indiana-Purdue<\/a>, I am still wondering why IUPUI would decide to accept me.  It couldn\\&#8217;t be because of my medicore gpa or GRE scores.  It\\&#8217;s all like I feel that I barely made it.  That mostly, I was wearing a mask of the deserving candidate and I am afraid they\\&#8217;ll find that it\\&#8217;s only me behind it.  Tomorrow, the applications for <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\\\">Georgia Tech<\/a>, <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.iastate.edu\\\">Iowa State<\/a> and <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\\\">University of Michigan &#8211; Ann Arbor<\/a> are due.  Alas, those feelings of inferiority!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, I was laboring over my undergraduate application right here in my house&#8230;at the same computer. My parents spent too much money just so that I could up with perfect personal statement. I submitted my application, feeling so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}