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