<p>Accepted:
UC Berkeley Spring Admit
UC Los Angeles Regents Scholar
UC San Diego
UC Santa Cruz
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
University of Wisconsin - Madison</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Boston University <----------- ??????????????</p>
<p>Rejected:
Cornell Univeristy
University of Chicago
*Colgate University *</p>
<p>Do public schools love me but private schools hate me??????</p>
<p>EDIT: Can someone move this to the Admissions forum?</p>
<p>why do you want it explained?</p>
<p>More importantly, how do you expect us to explain when you haven’t provided any stats?</p>
<p>He has a 2300 sat if I remember correctly, and a comparably low gpa (like 3.6 or something). Which is interesting, because you would think with those stats he would have faired better at private schools.</p>
<p>@enfield: Because I’m worried about the other private colleges that I applied to (that I haven’t heard back yet).</p>
<p>@bsmd: It’s just the gap, I feel, between BU and UCB is so huge that no stats would explain. But here they are for your convenience:</p>
<p>2300 SAT
3.6 UW GPA
LOTS of AP tests (mostly 5’s) but not as many classes
Several leadership
Mediocre recs/EC</p>
<p>Well private universities consider Ec’s more, due to the fact that they generally evaluate more holistically. On the other hand, they would also be more likely to look past a lower gpa, as long as other parts (like SAT) are strong.</p>
<p>But I admit your situation is puzzling. I was thinking that I probably SHOULD have applied to private universities, considering how poorly I did with public universities (I got rejected from UC davis and irvine with a 3.2UWgpa and 2300 SAT). </p>
<p>The admission procedures (especially for private universities) are really quite independent from each other, though. So I don’t know how much you can infer from the decisions you’ve received so far.</p>
<p>The admissions process can be confusing sometimes. But hey, you got into a lot of great schools.</p>
<p>Well, I’d say the interesting contrast between the GPA and SAT score must have put the colleges in a fix, which, unfortunately, made some of the colleges accept you for your SAT score (and EC’s) and other scores reject you for your GPA.</p>
<p>In other news, I got accepted into Tufts.</p>
<p>Accepted into Tufts. Waitlisted by BU. Has the world turned upside down?</p>
<p>[insert Social Network quip here]</p>
<p>What does spring admit mean? Does it mean you were a weaker applicant?</p>
<p>^Basically. Since a lot of people graduate in the fall, spots open up for the spring semester.</p>
<p>Boston University seems all kinds of weird. I just recently got in touch with a friend who did a research internship at BU over the summer – she worked with a team of psychology professors and got her name published as their assistant. Her mentor gave her a glowing rec (she was allowed to read it). I thought she’d be a shoo-in, but she got waitlisted.</p>
<p>Do you have an idea of where you might want to go yet?</p>
<p>It is somewhat odd that you were put on the waitlist, but unless you have some sort of burning desire to go to Boston University, I don’t think it’s something that you should worry about.</p>
<p>I’m not worrying about it at all; I’m just [extremely] curious.</p>
<p>The admissions officer probably didn’t have coffee in the morning. It happens, unfortunately.</p>
<p>And actually, when you think about it, it’s actually pretty damn scary knowing that your future college career might entirely depend on the admission officer’s mood on a particular day.</p>
<p>yield protect</p>
<p>Well…say you had a 70% chance to get in each one of those schools. You happened to luck out of each one of them, against odds. Considering the number of students applying however, your unlikely rejection makes far more sense. Had you applied to 70 privates and been rejected… then Id start wondering haha.</p>
<p>I’m pretty much in the same situation as you. I was accepted to all 4 UC’s to which I applied (Davis, Berkeley, LA, and San Diego), and I even got Regents Scholarships at Davis and San Diego.</p>
<p>Privates were a different story. I was accepted to USC, received a Presidential Scholarship worth over $21,000, and was invited to apply to the Freshman Science Honors Program. Then there’s the CommonApp. I applied to seven Common App schools - four rejections and three waitlists. Not even a single acceptance, lol. I think this proves that I either screwed up my main Common App essay (which I assume to be the case) or I had average/below average teacher recs. Oh well, there’s nothing we can do about it now.</p>
<p>It’s difficult for us to say why you weren’t accepted because we didn’t see all of your materials. Maybe you came off as uninterested? I can see why a college would reject/waitlist someone who didn’t really have a demonstrated interest in the school.</p>
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<p>I think that you should post again.</p>