<p>Everyone really liked my chances thread for Princeton, but I was still rejected. :rolleyes: (If any of this year's Princeton applicants are reading this, especially the regulars on the Princeton board, I love you guys. <3 :) )</p>
<p>Link: Tomorrow</a> we will run faster, stretch out our arms further... And one fine morning--</p>
<p>My chances threads were pretty accurate. I was told HYP were reaches by those who didnt take athletics into consideration. However, I did get into the schools I was recruited at and got rejected/waitlisted from those that I told I wasn't interested in.</p>
<p>OSU - Match/Accepted
UCB - Reach/Accepted
UCLA - Reach/Accepted
USF - Safety/Accepted
Cooper Union - TBD</p>
<p>I'm OOS for all schools... they weren't really accurate with the UCs, but it isn't surprising. UC really varies on an individual basis.</p>
<p>BU - They said I wouldn't get in - I got rejected. Which I dont mind.</p>
<p>NYU - They said I would have to be spielberg's clone to get in - I got rejected...this was my first choice...</p>
<p>Ithaca - they said I'd get in - I got in</p>
<p>Emerson - They said it would depend on my creative portfolio. I also handed in my application a day late, gave them the wrong SS# and gave my financial information late. - I got in</p>
<p>Like so many others on CC, I made the mistake of taking chance threads seriously. Now I know that it simply made me really anxious for no reason.
I'm south Asian, and I applied to Vassar, Pomona, Penn, Duke (my dream school), Swarthmore, Amherst, UChicago, Yale, and WUSTL. I was told by a few people that I wasn't qualified for anything except Vassar. </p>
<p>A quote from Bobby100 on my chances thread:
"Asian candidate, mediocre ACT and no special ECs, all but Vassar are a reach."</p>
<p>I got my Duke acceptance package in the mail this morning :) </p>
<p>Also, Harrygoldstien and others are absolutely right. The college selection process is SO arbritrary...for example, I got rejected from UChicago, but got into a more selective school. There is NO way anyone can predict these things!</p>
<p>Nope....I was told I wasnt getting into Middlebury ,but possibley getting colgate or hamilton.</p>
<p>I got middlbury and ham.</p>
<p>UCLA - Reach - Accepted
UCB - Reach - Accepted
UCSD - Reach - Accepted
USC - Reach - Accepted
UCI - Match - Accepted + Full Scholarship
UCR - Safety - Accepted + Full Scholarship</p>
<p>Chance topics are not accurate</p>
<p>I was told by about 3 people I would get into College of the Atlantic.</p>
<p>and I did, so yay! 100% correct.</p>
<p>Was told DS was probable/70% yes for Lafayette, he was accepted.</p>
<p>Was told he looked good for Colby, was waitlisted. </p>
<p>Both people told me odds would improve if he went ED, but he wasn't ready to make that decision.</p>
<p>I was told I was a Match for U Mich, I got in.</p>
<p>However, this was around Christmas time.</p>
<p>I had posted around August time, and I had gotten a no chance answer.</p>
<p>I was told, under a different user name, that with my 1880 SAT score, I wouldn't be accepted to Cornell... I stated that was fair, but that I could bring my score up significantly if I had just tried... Again, I was told that it was impossible to bring my score up to where it needed to be...</p>
<p>I brought it up to a 2170 after my second test, and was accepted to Cornell ED.</p>
<p>told i was going to be rejected by Duke with a 2060, got a likely letter and accepted RD </p>
<p>i had damn good essays though if i say so myself.. =]</p>
<p>I posted a stats page about a month before decisions, and everyone was like "oh, you'll get at least into a couple of your OOS schools." </p>
<p>Rejected:
Yale
Princeton</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Duke
Johns Hopkins
Dartmouth</p>
<p>I'm going to Rollins, and in-state school for me. The only other school I got accepted to was UF, another in-state. It was depressing, until I decided I REALLY REALLY like Rollins!</p>
<p>a little different, as this is for MFA programs, but I think it's an interesting idea. For me:</p>
<p>SCAD- safety- admitted
CCA- match- admitted
UW- wild card- admitted
Pratt- match- pending
MICA- reach- pending
RIT- safety- pending</p>
<p>I got into all my colleges: cornell, jhu, carnegie mellon, unc, usc, ncsu
they said it was reach, reach, decent, match, decent, safety</p>
<p>i only posted one chance thread: for harvard. i was told i was going to get in for sure. i got deferred, then waitlisted. but, i got in everywhere else: i got into caltech with an axline, into brown through a likely letter, into mit, into stanford, into northwestern, into case. it is therefore likely that my chances for harvard were indeed very good, BUT, silly I had to post a chance thread. CLEARLY, the act of posting a chance thread made reality defy expectations. </p>
<p>My personal expectations were that I'd get in everywhere except Princeton (and Yale, which I applied to and never really talked about to anyone cuz I applied on a whim).</p>
<p>I was told both on the Princeton forum here and by everyone I know at home were that I'd get into Princeton because of my GPA and bass trombone hook (no real comments on Yale cuz I never mentioned it).</p>
<p>I was right. Deferred, rejected at Princeton. Rejected Yale. In everywhere else (Rice, Cornell, Oberlin, Rochester, Geneseo).</p>
<p>Conclusion: I am always right and other people aren't. ;)</p>
<p>I wish that happens with me :D In at HYPM LOL</p>
<p>everything was pretty accurate for me... the only differences were that I was waitlisted at Brandeis, which people said was a match/safety for me, and I was accepted to CMU, which people generally said was a reasonable reach for me (okay, so that was accurate too)</p>
<p>overall, I think everything with my college stuff went perfectly and according to plan, and with CC to thank for a lot of guidance and advice.</p>
<p>Deferred then rejected from UPenn...the deferral itself was very surprising when I had a myriad of awards from sports to art to community service to writing. My SAT wasn't too shabby, and neither were my IB predicted grades. My parents used to work there as well. I was also rejected from Cornell...I got into the University of Chicago though.</p>