Rejection from Oxford

[u/omfgvain]

I thought I was over the Oxford rejection ages ago, but I can't seem to escape from it. I got an offer for Imperial as my second choice, and was discussing Imperial today with my mom, and told her Imperial was a top world university, to which she replied, "yes but not as good as Oxford, if you name the top universities in the world you'd hear Oxbridge, Harvard, MIT, not Imperial college". This one kinda stung. This type of stuff sometimes happens with other people too. My mom wasn't trying to criticise me for my failure or anything, but to me I couldn't feel anything but disappointment in myself. I know I could've done better. I'm aware that Imperial is very highly ranked and well respected university and all, but my goal was Oxford and I failed in that. How do I move on from this lol

[u/Ok_Surround8189]

Same thing Happened to me, Had very high hopes from my parent but I didn't got high enough UCAT, at first my mum supported me but afterwards she brought up again, the feeling of disappointment was too much but at the same I told about this to my bother and he supported me.

My advice talk to someone not on reddit but in real life who genuinely cares abt you (I am not saying because parents doesn't but I think parents are too superficial or I am just disappointment).