@helloooall Same. I had so many false hopes throughout this process but I’ve given up. I feel numb, essentially - it’s like I’ve accepted that my future doesn’t have anything in store. Rejected from all my RD schools so far - WashU, Rice, Pomona, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, MIT, UCLA, waitlisted at UCSD, rejected ED from UPenn. 1570 SAT, 3.9 UW, NMF finalist, lots of AP classes/tests with almost all 5’s, decent EC’s with research experience, everyone who’s read my essays told me they were great, applied for biomedical engineering. Don’t even know why I’m on here when I’m confident about my rejection.
lol I’m so whiny
Wow. That’s unbelievable!
The most common thing I tell to younger students that come up to me asking how I got into the schools I did is that it isn’t important how you do in school, but what you do outside of it. Most of the applicants have GPAs and test scores in the same range. Its what we do in the other 16 or so hours of our day that makes the difference.
The answer to this is probably already on here somewhere, but will financial aid information be immediately released with your admissions decision if accepted?
@needmoney2022 Yes!
@rosaliefontaine Lol I’m in almost the same boat as you… I applied everywhere as computer science major, and so far I’ve been accepted San Jose State, Cal Poly Pomona, UC Irvine (as Undeclared), waitlisted at Cal Poly SLO, UC Davis, UC San Diego, and rejected at UC Santa Barbara and Johns Hopkins. The schools I have left are UC Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell, and I just don’t see any way I’ll get into any of them lol rip
@nerdgirl97 yeah, it’s insane this year 
i’m in-state as well for the UC’s and i honestly was shocked that SD waitlisted me. It feels 1000 times worse because my friends have all gotten into their top reach schools.
Do I even have a chance of being admitted with a 1420 SAT?
@Penn95 : The root of the problem is the obsession with university rankings and it starts on the institutional level. Here is the % of Class Filled by Early Apps for class of 2021 – Penn 55.4%, Dartmouth 47%, Columbia 46.8%, Cornell 42.1%, Brown 41.7%. It is well known that institutions use ED to reduce admission rate so it looks more competitive. I guess one day U Chicago would have EA, ED1, ED2, … ED100 and only 1 student needs to be admitted at RD.
On the same page of “insecure” link, actually there are two articles which are quite interesting. One is “Since 2013, 14 students have died by suicide” (http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/i-care-follow-up-penn-upenn-philadelphia-mental-health-training-students). The other one is “Wharton drops to No. 3 spot for best MBA program” (http://www.thedp.com/article/2018/03/united-states-news-and-world-report-rankings-university-penn-wharton). Since Brown is an “University-College” (http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/385841-the-brown-curriculum-and-university-college-explained-p1.html), it is never going to rank high on those “rankings” which focus on graduate level world class research. Most people who choose to come to Brown are not that obsessed with rankings. That is why the happiness rate is so high. Of course, the other reason is the grading system. People get the grades they deserve instead of having to kill others in exams to survive. Most people are uninitiated in terms of what higher education is about. We feel teaching quality is priority number one and happiness is priceless. People who are looking for more intense experience that the number of hours one sleeps per night is not supposed to exceed one’s GPA definitely should go somewhere else.
@LondonVall : Your records are very impressive. (http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21027738/#Comment_21027738) You don’t need financial aids, which really helps. You are going to meet a lot of people at Harvard who are REAL STEM geniuses. According to http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/9/26/the-real-premed-requirements/ , “Half of them are pre-med, or more”. Good luck.
@yellowgreenred : Look for those two unhooked girls from MA with 1420 SAT in the past admit records. 1420 SAT is not a problem.
@yellowgreenred
One word, HOLISTIC!
@yellowgreenred I was deferred with that score. Accepted to Bowdoin and I didn’t apply test optional. It’s definitely an uphill battle, but it’s not a bad score, and I would like to believe that holistic admissions is a real thing, so if you have other things going for you I can see you getting accepted. Good luck :).
@sciencenerd123 Good luck to you too!!! Bowdoin is an awesome school so you already have at least one amazing option!!!
@rosaliefontaine I know, I think it gets more and more insane each year, especially for us CS majors actually trying to get into a CS program. Soon we’ll be seeing, “Brown has a record low acceptance rate this year, at 0.5%.” lol
Gosh this is a pity party cmon guys keep your heads up high! There are still tons of opportunities and colleges that want you. So what if you didn’t get into one of your top school! The next one sure all heck will want you. Also, we all are Brown applicants, obviously we have all proved ourselves to be phenomenal students, capable of amazing things to change our world for the better. No matter where we go we will sure as heck make an impact and become top-level lawyers or doctors or artists or politicians or whatever you aspire to be. Just be proud of who you are and if Brown doesn’t want you, you will show them that they were wrong and that they are missing out on the next big thing
No need to prove anything to anyone.
Love the school that loves you back and always give 100% (mind, body and soul) in pursuit of your passion(s). The rest will take care of itself.
Beautifully put!^
i guess you haven’t spent too much time on cc yet. People post on forums of different schools all the time.
@rosaliefontaine Which schools are you still waiting to hear from? Are there any safeties that you would be happy to go to? I know all those rejections hurt, and it’s hard to make sense out of them, but please do not give up hope. yet!
@rosaliefontaine, seconding @gencmom’s questions. Also, would you be able to take a year to work in your area of interest (a year-long internship, may be) and apply again next year?
@Gencmom To clarify, I definitely overreacted. I’ve gotten into some good schools: UNC Chapel Hill OOS, UT Austin, UC Davis/SB. I didn’t want to stay in-state unless I got into UCLA or UCB and the other schools were never my top choices, but they’re great nonetheless. I think I’ve just been feeling enormous pressure from going to a competitive school and having very successful friends - all of my friends have already gotten into Ivies/Ivy tier schools. One of them joked about “Northeastern not being on the same level as Columbia” when I said that she wasn’t in the position to claim Northeastern was too expensive when she was going to an Ivy. I’ll be alright; just feeling down from so many continuous rejections.
Thanks so much for your kind words and interest. I’m waiting for Duke, Brown, Yale, USC, Stanford, UCB and Carnegie Mellon.