<p>I know that there are tons of ccers in similar or identical positions, and I kind of just wanted to commiserate--are you confused? Mourning? Not sure what to do? Any opinions/advice/whines are welcome, on a thread for any and all fellow bewildered partial-acceptees.</p>
<p>Well, I was waitlisted at Cornell, rejected at UPenn, but deferred then accepted at Harvard and was accepted at Columbia. Ivies are very odd.</p>
<p>I got accepted into Harvard, Yale, Princeton and MIT. </p>
<p>Waitlisted by Columbia. Oh Yeah. </p>
<p>but id trade my acceptance to HYPM over columbia acceptance ANYDAY.</p>
<p>lol...i was waitlisted at both harvard and columbia</p>
<p>If you got into Harvard, is doesn't matter that much if you were waitlisted at Columbia...most people would choose Harvard, anyways. But I see what you mean regarding the apparent randomness in admissions decisions. I was accepted to Harvard, MIT, and Columbia but waitlisted at Penn, Yale, and Princeton.</p>
<p>I'll join the club.</p>
<p>Accepted at Harvard
Rejected by Princeton
Waitlisted at COLUMBIA (...) and Yale</p>
<p>I'll join as well.</p>
<p>Accepted to MIT and Harvard, rejected at Yale and waitlisted at Princeton. I'm extremely excited and happy with the outcome, but very curious as to why? What makes a person Harvard and MIT material, but not Yale and Princeton?</p>
<p>college admissions seems to be getting more and more random every year (or so we think). I just hope I can join you guys in saying that I was rejected from penn, columbia, and dartmouth, but accepted to stanford!</p>
<p>In case you guys haven't noticed, the process is indeed somewhat of a crap-chute. I don't think it's likely that we are going to euclidate the causes behind these mysterious decisions, as they are all made by groups of capricious people who are reviewing huge numbers of applications in a short time. I don't think there is too much more to it, and that trying to read into it to is a waste of time.</p>
<p>I think it's "crapshoot," as in the gambling game :) </p>
<p>I guess what you said is true, calipharius, but I would like to add that the same thing happened to me (accepted HYPB, waitlisted at Columbia).</p>
<p>"but id trade my acceptance to HYPM over columbia acceptance ANYDAY."</p>
<p>why?</p>
<p>Accepted at Harvard, Yale, MIT and Cornell. Rejected at Columbia and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Accepted at Harvard and Penn (Huntsman)
Waitlisted at Columbia, Georgetown, and Princeton.</p>
<p>Although I think the Pton might be because someone else from my school already got in ED. (were not a big ivy feeder or anything)</p>
<p>who knows?</p>
<p>I was accepted at Harvard and waitlisted at Boston College. I find that to be particularly odd.</p>
<p>don't look a gift horse in the mouth
be happy with your acceptance into Harvard
it just happens; different schools with different applicant pools look for different things</p>
<p>all is hard to say..just be grateful toward life, hey, u guys, u got into Harvard!!! ah..i got waitlisted though.
but to some extent, for international students, it's quite natural for one to be rejected or waitlisted by a comparatively low rank U while admitted by HYP because of the financial assistance policy. HYP are need-blind. and if u take a look at for example UPenn's FA policy, definitely not friendly enough to international students..</p>
<p>yeah, that might be a reason...</p>
<p>I thought Penn was need-blind also?</p>
<p>there is a space on the app that asks u to list where else ur applying.
if not, like for ed or ea, the schools correspond with each other to find out if a studnet has applied to more than one school.
sometimes if a college knows u won't attend bc they're far too low on ur list, they'll reject or waitlist u to makes space for another applicant who is likely to attend. yield rates, atmosphere created by students attitudes so on. usually the top colleges are blind to this but not always as evidenced by the previous posts</p>
<p>thank you guys so much; I definitely appreciate the fact that harvard is nothing to 'shake a stick at,' or my fist, or anything else -- and actually I think it's being waitlisted at upenn AND columbia AND princeton that really rankles me . but I'm trying not to make this an issue of the ego, and just be grateful for what I have</p>