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Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | 501 S. Sapodilla Ave, WPB, FL 33401

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Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts | 501 S. Sapodilla Ave, WPB, FL 33401

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College Acceptance Etiquette

As students at Dreyfoos, we care far too much about college acceptances. Whether your “I’m going to Harvard!” status gets 700 likes or your “Duke class of 2018” gets 500, we are infatuated with each other’s success, and for a good reason. This year’s senior class seems to be making a significant mark in the Ivy Leagues. With students being admitted to Duke, Columbia, Harvard and Princeton, it seems like Dreyfoos holds the true talent in Palm Beach County. As amazing as that is, it’s becoming apparent that college acceptances are more about gloating your success rather then reveling in your own accomplishments.

I know what it feels like to crave praise. After getting into Emerson College with the Dean’s scholarship I was quick to announce my success on Facebook. A simple announcement became an obsession with the number of likes I received compared to other students. I’m not the only one with this desire to be recognized. Now, more than ever, students are associating peoples’ intelligence with their college acceptances. “She got into [insert college here]? Wow, I didn’t know she was that smart!” “They got into [insert equally prestigious school here]? Whoa. They must be smarter than I thought.” Although I agree that someone who gets into Princeton is very smart, college acceptances don’t define someone’s intelligence.

We can’t make these amazing last months of our senior year a competition on who got into the hardest schools. Now is the time for us to revel in our successes. After all the work we put in for the last three and a half years, these next few months should be a time of reflection and happiness, not one of comparison and jealousy. Don’t let others’ acceptances ruin your own accomplishments, everyone here at Dreyfoos follows a different path and I have no doubt in my mind that we will all become successful in our own way.

So maybe you didn’t get into Harvard, or maybe you got into your dream school of FAU. Either way we should congratulate every single senior for their acceptances because you don’t know how hard they tried to get into that school.

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Michelly Gonzalez, Op/Ed Staffer
Communications Major Michelly Gonzalez is excited for her year on The Muse. Outside of The Muse, Gonzalez participates in Speech and Debate, competing in Original Oratory, TV Productions and Film.  In November 2012 Gonzalez received an Honorable Mention for her PSA regarding world unity at the National Scholastic Press Association in San Antonio, Texas. Outside of Dreyfoos she is an actor at KWP Productions in Jupiter and dances with the School of Ballet Arts in West Palm Beach. She plans to major in Commercial Advertising with a minor in Rhetoric and Writing. In her spare time she enjoys long walks on the beach and getting caught in the rain, preferably torrential downpour.
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