Dear Zarek, we’d like to thank you for your application

There were 80,000 applicants across the nation

Here are some FAQ’s for decision information

We’d like to thank you again for your consideration

I must have refreshed gmail page about a hundred times

Checking the unread messages first 100 lines

Oh man you didn’t get in? Well I did, but it’s fine

College isn’t the end, you’ll have your chance to shine

But it was everything to me, and only now I see

It is everything to those who live in my community

I did anything I could to shield my insecurity

It was a penny fling into the bank of universities

I don’t like to admit it Physics got the best of me

Maybe I would have gotten in if I had took the ACT

If I was a different race I would have got in scott free

Then I wouldn’t have wasted my life. Oops, forgot to breathe

[Chorus]

College isn’t everything, College isn’t everything, College isn’t everything

But it was everything to me. X2

SD was nice I could have lived by the sea

Or see myself succeed if I got UIUC

Didn't get into Slo, maybe cause I was too slow

SB was super harsh, man I didn’t even know

Didn’t get UCI, I guess my GPA’s shy

Didn’t get into Davis, I don’t wanna guess why

Didn’t get LA, too little work and all play

Didn’t get Cornell either, Hey man you okay?

Didn’t get CMU, say it’s not true

It was a longshot but that program’s what I wanted to do

Didn’t get into Berkely, man that one was mean

I’ve wanted that one since there was no number one in the eighteen

But lately, my heart drops at than computer screen

Congratulations mean nothing to average teen

Who didn’t get any, I don’t want to hear what you mean

College isn’t everything? Yeah, Except everyone's dreams