<p>Purely a personal opinion: I believe that the universities that rejected silverturtle (specifically) accepted applicants who are less promising. Also, as an adult observer on CC, I admire silverturtle’s maturity. Brown is a very fine school, as is Columbia. As I have posted multiple times (on different threads), my undergraduate university is one that many on CC would not even consider, and yet any limitations now in my work are my own, and not a result of going to the university I attended. Nevertheless, I do consider some of the admissions decisions in silverturtle’s particular case to be suboptimal, yes.</p>