Many college-age students are getting or responding to their acceptance and rejection letters as well as making other kinds of decisions about their lives including those changing institutions by transferring or going from community college to a four-year college/university or going to a professional school.
Just a wish of good luck to you whatever you're doing, try not to be that DUI statistic while celebrating and try to enjoy a complete college experience as much as you can despite the financial constraints, yours or your parents. If you got a rejection, don't take it so hard, you actually do still have your health which aside from the cliche is more important than any institution and there are always other opportunities, unintended or unexpected left in life. Status is an illusion if you live life on a timetable.
These have been and will continue to be turbulent times, fraught with even ideological decisions - the lure of joining religions, cult-like social groupings, the armed forces (speaking of other cult-like social groupings), or even making lasting personal commitments to others some even intimate - prophylactic or otherwise. There will be the usual dangers: sex, drugs and all the possible criminality / conformity of doing or not doing them. Saying no is always an option.
And there will be violence: of learning itself, of expectations, yours and others. Try to survive and even succeed since it's about learning how to learn, not about being taught, which also means that texting during class meetings is only important if the person on the other end is actually dying. And 85% of life is not about showing up, 100% is about being present.
But most importantly, understand your path and all the resources that this time should help you with, not because you're taking a required course, but because you know what's required of you. And not unlike musical genres the difference between jazz and sampling is innovation and authenticity, so do original written work; as tempting and easy as the web might be, even paraphrasing someone else's work comes far too close to plagiarism and it's boring for your professors to reread the texts where you got them from. Trust and reputation are all you really have - try not to fuck them up too much.
And fun, try to have that as well including respecting the idea that some of those geezers on the faculty actually know stuff about the world, too, that they've had risky experiences and can impart reasonable, non-parental counsel, and in fact don't give a shit about your parents since you're old enough to buy airplane glue, whippets, and in some places booze. Note also, that some of your professors will be sociopathic, careerist assholes as well - it'll be your job to try and figure that out before it's too late, and trust your own judgement rather than some disgruntled survivor of the same class leaving a rant online.
It's all gonna go quickly, and you'll probably make as many enemies as friends plus you'll forget whatever was blathered at commencement, so if putting a diploma on the wall of your workplace is important to you, you should rethink why you're in school, because similar to what Mark Twain said... it's only when school begins to interfere with your education, that college is definitely over.
In that sense, college will have been like music
When you hear music, after it’s over, it’s gone, in the air, you can never capture it again.
Eric Dolphy