@AnnieBot Regular, but I’m not exactly a yield protected type of applicant. Mich was more of a match for me, my stats are good and competitive but I don’t think I’m yield protected level where I’ll get turned down by a school due to “overqualified” stats
You’re not a special snowflake. Drop the entitlement; it makes you come off as pretentious. Many of the applicants to these schools worked just as hard–if not harder–than you did. Hard work != success. No matter how hard you work, you never deserve success. Life’s unfair like that. Eventually, you might get a lucky break with an opportunity you earned through that hard work–but just because you work hard doesn’t mean you’ll get that success.
I really recommend you read this commencement speech: http://theswellesleyreport.com/2012/06/wellesley-high-grads-told-youre-not-special/
I realize that this might come across as if I’m attacking you. I’m not. You’re going to find out how the real world works somehow, and it’s better to ease in with people like me telling you how it is than to dive in head first.
But to actually answer your question: you got a shot. Admissions has become less holistic and more angular. Adcoms are holistic in the sense that they have a hole in their class, and might want you to fill it. If you have something that separates you from everyone else (let’s say you’re an oboe player), and they need that something (what marching band doesn’t need an oboe player?), then they’ll accept you. Hopkins might’ve had too many oboe players this year. Carnegie Mellon might need one more. You see what I mean?
Also, what’re your stats? CMU’s not super competitive, but I’d say you have a decent shot. I got in last year (didn’t attend due to financial reasons) and wish you the best this cycle!
same here. I am grateful to be accepted to 4 really good schools (gatech, UCLA, UCSD and UVa) but I still feel crushed being rejected by some single-digit-acceptance-rate schools and am still biting my nails for the ivy day.
The preoccupation on CC about college acceptance rates is getting out of hand. The OP has been accepted to truly excellent schools that tens of thousands of talented students dream of going to but have been waitlisted or rejected from. Getting accepted to multiple universities of this caliber is an accomplishment to be proud of, not something to be taken for granted in a fit of pique over perceived slights from other schools. Consider your choices carefully, choose the best fit for you and get on with your life. If some snooty admissions committee overlooked you, consider it their loss, not yours. Good luck.
@Vctory I was merely responding to the person who said I shouldnt be worrying about the schools I didn’t get into to which I reply is impossible for me to do so when it’s practically been the #1 thing on my mind for the last 2 or 3 years. If you ask me, i don’t even feel like I deserve to be at an Ivy school or a highly selective school, other people have way more impressive stats than mine, have worked harder, and are probably more attached to these schools than I am.
And I did get wait listed by CMU, just like I predicted in OP (but once again to be fair I didn’t request an interview or visit)
@JayDee12 3 of those schools I was accepted to are considered safeties for me, and though yes they are all excellent schools that a lot of kids are turned down from, and yes it may not feel like I’m proud of being accepted to them though I am, you have to at least understand where I’m coming from when I tell you I’m worried because I applied to 5 perceived matches and got wait listed by 3 of them. I applied to damn near 20 schools and it’ll be a pretty big failure in my eyes if I only got in to 5 of them with 3 of them being safeties, and where I actually tried pretty hard for most of those schools.
@topimpabutterfly Umich is really weird I think. From what I found, they waitlist/reject alot of RD candidates because they apply way too late.
@AnnieBot Well I know for past years I think UMich was rolling, so submitting your app later would have a detriment indefinitely.
But yeah actually I did submit my application last minute and sent an SAT II score past the deadline too