<p>rejected from 1/2 the ivies</p>
<p>waitlisted from penn and dartmouth</p>
<p>not quite a rejection, but may as well be :-</p>
<p>No acceptances from top tier colleges...</p>
<p>Harvard - rejection
MIT - rejection - first choice :(
Johns Hopkins - waitlisted
Stanford - waitlisted
Caltech - waitlisted</p>
<p>tapedDuck, I'm most likely not going to Hopkins so that might help your current waitlist situation.</p>
<p>Son applied thru QUESTBRIDGE and was rejected from: Stanford, Notre Dame, Yale, Princeton and Amherst. Waitlisted at Columbia, full ride to Rice. On his way to to UCLA!!!</p>
<p>Only applied to three. But...
Princeton - rejected
Columbia (ugh I wanted to go here so badly after seeing it) - rejected
Cornell - waitlisted. </p>
<p>basically rejected at all.
i guess i'm going to berkeley or la.</p>
<p>Cornell- Waitlist
harvard, yale, princeton, penn- Reject :P
Columbia- waitlist</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, could everyone note their Academic Index # since most all Ivy addmissions start with this? This may help future applicants. My son was a 6.</p>
<p>Rejected from Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Rejected by Harvard and Princeton</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Dartmouth (god save me)</p>
<p>academic index 8. rejected from columbia and dartmouth. </p>
<p>going to northwestern or georgetown.</p>
<p>I applied to one prestige school--Northwestern.</p>
<p>Rejected. But I knew it was going to happen because I really only applied there for fun. No hard feelings. I also got into some well regarded schools like U-Miami, U-Illinois Champaign, and New College of Florida, but I it looks like I'll just go with UCF at this point, which was my ultra safety. We really just don't want to pay the money to go to the others, and I was accepted to the UCF honors program anyway.</p>
<p>Safety nets are awesome.</p>
<p>well, i wasn't "rejected", but i was waitlisted :( (dartmouth & penn)</p>
<p>Rejected from Harvard and Yale
Waitlisted at Columbia
Waiting for Brown-- my ID doesn't work and the help office was closed... I'm crossing my fingers for tomorrow!!!!</p>
<p>If none of these go through I'm still happy with Duke or Berkeley.</p>
<p>Rejected from Cornell.</p>
<p>Most likely going to Penn State in the fall.</p>
<p>khrushchevtm : Don't feel too badly. It is quite common to revel in the misfortune of someone who thinks they're better than others. When Elliott Spitzer had to resign last month, I learned a new word from the author of the LA times article the following day, which is a propos here:</p>
<p>Schaadenfreude</p>
<p>well, technically they're not ivies.. but MIT, Caltech, and Stanford... although its basically what I was expecting so it's alright. I'll probably be going to either UMich or Purdue....</p>
<p>I had a SAT score of 2240 in my first and only attempt.
I had an 800 in Chemistry Literature AND math 2C.
My IB predicted grades were 42/42, I tool the most rigorous course load, I had recos which were totally outstanding. I started my own NGO, all this while I worked to support my family.</p>
<p>And I got rejected by MIT, UPenn (Wharton), Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Besides Bentley, these were the only unis I applied to. No good unis like Boston, USC, NYU. I thought i will get into at least one of the above, so whats the point? </p>
<p>Where did I go wrong?</p>
<p>Bottomline: Dont be OVERCONFIDENT</p>
<p>In hindsight, these:</p>
<p>1) I am an international student and I applied for full finaid.
2) My essays may not have been great. I thought my grades, ECs and recos were good enough.
3) My applications were sent like, a week after the deadline, due to a messup by my courier service provider.
4) I didnt go to a counsellor. WE have these hotshot counsellors in India whocharge a bomb. I couldnt afford them. I hindsight, I should have gone to one. There may have been mistakes in my application which they could have detected.</p>
<p>I got into Bentley; I had thought they would give a student of my calibre a full ride. Turns out maximum they give is full tution, which only 2 internationals get in a year. I got only half tution. This rules out Bentley.</p>
<p>I am very confused about what to do right now.</p>
<p>Should I work hard on my IB grades, make sure that they become a 42/42 in May? The problem is i slacked in the last semester, thinking, well at least i will get into one of these Unis. Should I apply to UK to LSE? Their deadline is June. But that will require getting great grades in the IB Exams in May. And they dont give financial aid or scholarships. Is taking a loan of $12000 from my rich uncle worth it?</p>
<p>Should I take a gap year, give my SATs again, get a 2400, work on my essays, and do something worthwhile like working full time in the stock market? Do more for AIDS patients through my NGO? Work harder on my essays? give in a superb application, ON TIME, next year?</p>
<p>But it feels like such a waste of time. Will I ever be good enough to get a full ride from the ivies? Am I good enough to do ANYTHING??</p>
<p>Maybe I shud just remain in India, do accountancy, and then do my MBA in the US. But I will look like such a fool. Everybody had high expectations from me: school, teachers, family, friends. Everybody thought I was a sure for the ivies, that I would make my school and family proud. I had a full ride in my IB school too: a $42000 scholarship. They will think it was such a waste.</p>
<p>I am really depressed right now. most of my friends are going abroad, and I have to remain here.</p>
<p>Rejected from UPenn (Wharton), Cornell.</p>
<p>At least I have UChicago and possibly UCBerkeley. :)</p>
<p>It seems like the ppl who applied to a lot of ivy league schools got into at least one</p>