<p>Alright so I live in NY, and i got DENIED to SUNY Binghamton</p>
<p>Stats: SAT, 760 M, 710 CR, 680 W
SAT II: 800 M2, 780 World History
Class Rank: 76/260-> would have been much higher but had an immune disorder soph year, explained in counselors rec letter
GPA: 90 -> again immune disorder brought this down quite a bit
Recs: Great
Ethnicity: Indian
School: Competitive, top 10% to ivies or equivalents
Fin Aid: No
School: Binghamton SOM
Sent the app in early December
ECs: started a business, bball, volunteering positions, couple of leadership roles, spent alot of time on these too and the lowest one was 2 years, rest were pretty much all of hs.</p>
<p>*** is going on? My friend was waitlisted here with a rank about 100 places lower than I am, and an SAT score 200 below mine, seriously what the hell?</p>
<p>SOM is much harder than the other undergrad programs/colleges in Binghamton. My grades are much lower than yours and I was waitlisted but it was for Harpur. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>They usually feel that you may be overqualified and their schoo may be your safety, so they deny the spot to you and give it to someone more of a match.
What other schools did you apply?</p>
<p>schools are random like that. i have very similar stats, and i think binghamton wouldve thought i considered them a safety (which I kinda do) if i hadn't applied early action. and now im accepted into their pricewaterhousecoopers scholars program. maybe they need to think you really want to go or something?</p>
<p>I don't think he was rejected because they thought it was his safety. I think he was rejected because SOM is very competitive and he was just barely in the top third of his class.</p>
<p>I cannot believe you how similar your profile is to mine. I got accepted into binghamton with similar GPA, unranked(but would've been 30 something out of a bout 270), similar SAT(800M 680R 660W), and I guess comparable EC?(didn't start a business or anything but AMC/AIME and other math competition stuff, internship, etc.). And I'm Korean. I got rejected everywhere else I applied to just like you... man, this college stuff really isn't making much sense any more...</p>
<p>But hey, talk to your counselor about it. If the counselor calls them they sometimes tell you why you didn't get in.</p>
<p>There's no way you could be rejected for being overqualified... I mean, unless you talked about murdering your entire family in your essay, you should have easily gotten in with a huge scholarship to boot.</p>
<p>I mean, me and a few people from my school got in with lower stats.</p>
<p>Even if it is SOM, you were definitely qualified for it, and the number of applicants isn't high enough to totally make your chances for admission a crapshoot, which it definitely shouldn't be anyway.</p>
<p>Bing said a transfer into SOM from within has jumped from a 3.4 Gpa to a 3.6 and this year will probably be higher, so very tough competition
They had 1500 applicants for nursing program for only 35 spots. </p>
<p>Might have been the ap to SOM rather than Harpur undecided</p>