HiFiWiFi
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Wait-listed at my "safety school."
What a strange thing graduate programs are. I know that fit is important, but it blows my mind that the less-prestigious programs rejected or waitlisted me while the significantly more prestigious schools accepted me.
I'm relieved that I got into my top-choice, and that I didn't need to count on this safety school. I've got a weird sort of disappointment though: I didn't want to go there, but I'm still hurt that they didn't want me, you know? Like when you think 'they'll definitely want me' and they don't it's a strange sort of feeling of pseudo-failure.
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Several of my friends who had been through this fun ride we are just getting off of said that they had got into all the schools they thought would scoff at their application but got rejected by their safety schools. I know what you mean though, though they weren't my safety schools, the two schools that waitlisted me weren't all that high on my "OMG I REAALLLY want to go there" list. Still felt not-so-great being waitlisted by them especially after 4 straight admits (for some reason, all my admits came around the same time... all the non-admits came later). I guess anything short of a yes doesn't feel great? ugh.. well it's over now!
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All rejections hurt, I guess. I was pretty sure I would be rejected from my reach school, but it still hurt to get the rejection letter, no matter how prepared I was for it. I think also, for safety schools, having the expectation that you'll get in is probably where the let-down is, regardless of if you want to go or not.
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