I know getting WL’ed is ultimately better than rejection, and maybe it’s just pride or my personal philosophy or whatever, but I just find the whole concept of being WL’ed to be really humiliating, no better than the school saying ‘Hey, so we didn’t really want you, but the people we actually wanted told us to f off…, so join us as the sloppy seconds pick we had to settle for?’

I get that plenty of people end up loving wherever they end up, WL or otherwise, but I can’t shake the feeling that if I did get off a WL, even if I ended up enjoying where I was, there’d always be that little voice in the back of my head reminding me that this school ultimately had to settle for me.

Does anyone else feel this way and does anyone have any tips on how to reframe this or move on from this should I get off WLs?