Yahoo Autos Top high school students are getting waitlisted and rejected from these universities, and they’re not sure why: ‘its so brutal this year’
As high school seniors continue to await decisions from college admissions departments, they’re taking to TikTok to reveal their disheartening results — despite their seemingly competitive applications.
As college-admissions TikTok is making abundantly clear, teenagers these days are feeling the immeasurable pressure of getting accepted by a top-tier school — which, perhaps, in the past would’ve been easier given just how impressive their applications are.
These TikToks, which commonly show teenagers with their faces burrowed in their hands as their statistics flash across the screen, are gaining in popularity. Teenagers are both offering words of wisdom and commiserating in the comments.
High school student @._.ruriko.x0x._ shared a video in which she’s seen covering her eyes. As a sound bite from Encanto plays, we see her personal statistics, along with the universities that have already waitlisted and rejected her:
“getting waitlisted at uci, ucsd, ucsc, usc and rejected from ucla with 4.18 gpa,” reads her caption. “created an organization 6 APS community service job/internship extracurriculars top 9% straight As.”
“like ik community college is not a bad thing but just all the effort i put in hs will go to waste”
Fellow students who are in a similar position as @._.ruriko.x0x._ are sharing how the rejections and waitlists have impacted them mentally, noting that it feels as if all their hard work the last four years was for nothing.
“its so brutal this year,” one TikToker wrote.
“my friends got accepted while i got rejected,” another revealed.
“like ik community college is not a bad thing but just all the effort i put in hs will go to waste,” someone replied.
17-year-old Kaylee (@krrkth_) gave an update on her college admissions journey.
“ucsb rejecting me and sdsu waitlisting me with my 9 AP classes 5 extracurriculars/clubs volunteer hours 3.93 UW GPA 4.33 W GPA top 4% of my class 1+ year part time job 2 features in an art show jv sport & club sports” she writes.
“…it’s only 4 years and the your life will move on.”
Unable to “escape college decisions tiktok,” 19-year-old college student Mia (@miaboba.mp3) gave an update on her post-secondary experience so far. A pretty bleak one, at that.
