To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me

She is saying that being herself was not good enough for the colleges she applied too. She feels that in order to have been accepted she had to do all of these amazing things including taking advantage of other peoples misfortunes. She is upset that all of her years in high school she thought she was sure to get into college just by doing what she did everyday. But now she is in the real world no one just gives you anything. I mean at home she had her freedom where no one really cared, but that is just not how college or life works. She should have done her research on the schools she applied to early on and see what kind of things other people had to offer and get into some of those same things. It's not fair because of all of those expectations take up a lot of your time to where you have no life, but you cannot change things that is just the way things are. If they accepted everyone who applied just because you made good grades, what would make their schools stand out? Nothing would make them special. Good clubs, organizations and so on are always harder to get into so you have to do extra.