I don't know what to do. I didn't get accepted and now I'm pretty depressed. Should I go for JMSS and EBSS next year? I seriously have no clue at the moment and my brain is dead.
But why are you depressed just because you missed out on being selected? Is it because you feel you have "failed" because you didn't get an offer? Do you feel that because you didn't get an offer, that you are "stupid"?
Without being condescending to the people who did get an offer, there is always an element of luck in these situations. This does not indicate that you are not "good enough" or not as good as the people who did get an offer. There are a range of factors that are outside your control that could have affected the outcome which is unrelated to you as a person.
There are good and bad things about JMSS staying at your old school does not mean that you won't be able to reach your full potential. Let me tell you about some of the negatives of JMSS. The school's only open space is one basketball court, for a school of 600 students. Have you ever try playing a game of basketball with 600 participates? The line for the microwave at lunch time can be so long that by the time you have heated up your lunch, lunch time is over. And the canteen food, OMG don't even get me started. And I never did quite get the whole point of "team teaching" with double class size ( 50 ). The list goes on and on ...
While everyone is trying to make new friends and settle into a new environment next year, you will be at your old school where you know everyone and all the teachers, already have a routine and can mostly be relaxed most of the time, competitiveness can get a bit tiring at JMSS, specially when some people are "sore losers" and even "sorer winners". And the travelling OMG unless you happens to live near the school. I felt so sorry for the people in my year who were coming from Point Coolk, I mean WTF they get up like 4am or sth to get to school.
I think the best thing for you to do is to move on with your life. So you didn't get accepted into JMSS, so what, you are not defined by the school that you attend. If you really want to, you can try again for JMSS next year or EBSS but frankly I think you might be better off spending your time appreciating your current environment and make the most of it than thinking about how your life has been ruined by an "random" event.
I mean I don't think it would have made that much difference to me if I stayed at my old school, my ATAR would still be the same and I would have still said that I could have tried harder, but I am at uni now and how I spent the last 3 years didn't make much difference really.