Getting rejected
I applied as general engineering (some minors in environmental engineering, maths, philosophy and physics) to Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Northwestern, Rice and Carnegie Mellon in the US and Durham, Edinburgh, Manchester and Cardiff in the UK. I got accepted to all my UK options and none of my US options. Which is so disappointing especially considering I didn't really want to go to the UK and did my application extremely late for all this schools and spent months on my US application. I don't think its fully settled in because I have felt extremely blindsided by my own ambition(?). I really thought I'd get into at least one university in the US. I am now taking a gap year to work on my application and decided to split my A level Finals in 2 since I'm going to have extra time might as well take my time. I am going to be working under an AI research company in San Francisco and doing a Tedx talk in November this year. I honestly can't think of what else I am missing in my application that I only received rejections but hopefully this is just redirection (coping) and I am also doing my SAT sometime this year. I think this post is just me needing to rant what's been brewing in my head for a little, I dont really talk about this much with my family or friends. I feel like a failure and taking a gap year I feel like a burden to my parents. If you have any advice for me please share.