@ambitionsquared she ranked 3rd in her class and 1st among all the girls. 1st ranking boy goes to Harvard and 2nd goes to Princeton. She wasn’t accepted into any of her top schools and only waitlisted by Brown and JHU. She’s on JHU’s extended wait list right now and I’m sure it’s not going to happen. She’s ready to go to University of Washington’s Honors Program and double majoring in Biology and Violin Performance. She’s already met with her violin professor and is very happy with his teaching. She wouldn’t have chance doing double major if she was accepted into either of the two waitlisted schools.
I’ve read an online report stating that in 2016, there were 19518 female applicants and 12872 male applicant–almost 7000 more girls than boys in the application pool. I’ve noticed that most of the kids admitted from the waitlist are boys. I keep telling myself that my daughter is not lacking of anything, just the school needs to balance their ratio and gives priorities to under represented minorities, first generations, legacy, etc… Being Asian is really a disadvantage.
@truth204 I wish you the best of luck in your future. There’re always next year and the year after that you can do transfer if you really don’t like your current school. life isn’t always fair and sometimes it really sucks. Try to be strong and make the most out of the situation. Everyone thought my daughter would definitely go to whichever colleges she wanted to go but she ended up in a state college not in our state. We’ll have to pay out of state tuition and it’s not cheap. I did question my daughter’s qualifications and wondered what we did wrong. She’s a well balanced student, very humble and hard working. I really shouldn’t have questioned her at first place and we didn’t do anything wrong. My daughter is at a music camp in Kennedy Center on full scholarships. She even met with our state senator and representative this morning in D.C. . She’s enjoying her life and working hard. Brown is her last chapter and I’m glad she’s already over it.
We got the letter today. I thought I would be relieved since the past three months has been hell. I’m kind of in a depressing mood since there’s no hope to hold on anymore. My daughter is an extremely motivated and hard working girl. She’s never gotten a single B in her whole 12 years of school. She started playing the violin and piano since 5 and synchronized swimming since 6. She trained 20 hours a week and still had to practice her instruments at least one hour each everyday. She took all the hard classes that her school offered. All her teachers, counselors, principals, conductors and coaches appraised her work ethics highly. I understand the decision can’t define who you are and it’s definitely not the end of the world. I just feel really low and lost right now. People always say hard working pays off but for us, it’s not true. I don’t know who I should blame, I just feel that the whole system here is just not right.
Me neither and I’m from Korea. Do you think Brown would have sent the mail/package to international students too? Well if they did, that will be so annoying as we have to wait much longer than domestic students to receive anything by mail.
@mlprbm99@pickmeup@ivylseeker From earlier email exchanges I had with the admissions office, I was made aware that Brown does intend to mail out packages to international students as well. I’m from India, and it takes about 4-5 days for it reach my place if sent via UPS/FedEx/DHL.
I’m expecting to receive it tomorrow or the day after. Just want to get this over with and finally apply for my student visa.
@pdxtigermom , I am sorry you are feeling so down about this. This process is lousy. But your daughter is not. She will take that hard-working, multi-talented person to college - wherever! - and make the most of the experience. If the only reason she did everything she did was to get into Brown and for no other reason (and really, how likely is this?), they saw through her. But if it’s who she truly is, feel blessed to have such a terrific kid and expect that she’ll go far in life. There are many roads to the same place, and the one she’s taking may have some great attractions!
@gardenstategal thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement. It means so much to me! I’d never imagine in a thousand years that my daughter would have been rejected or waitlisted by all of the private schools that she applied for. Brown and JHU are our last hope–a hope of validation for all of her hard work. I know UW is a decent school and close to home and she’d have opportunity double majoring in premed and music. I know she’d strive at UW and there’s no doubt that she’d have bright future ahead of her. We just need a validation so we know that we have raised our children right. It’s been the most difficult 3 months of my life and I just can’t imagine that we’d have to deal with this kind of ordeals in less than 2 years. I constantly feel guilty and have a lot of “should have” in my mind. There must be something wrong–was it the essays? her major? her race? I’m so puzzled! The thoughts of “should have” tortured me and put me into a deep depression, maybe we shouldn’t have come to America 22 years ago! If she was born in China, then she’d take the same college entrance tests as everyone else and she’d choose which colleges she wants to go depending on her scores of the tests. It’s very fair–you work hard and you get into your dream schools!
Also, congratulations to your daughter for her acceptance to the Honors Program (top prospective majors: (1) Computer Science & Engineering and (2) Biology):
