Since 3 or 4 have been asking me why did I receive my decision earlier, I will copy/paste a letter that I wrote to a person who actually pmed me the question:)
Hello,
First of all, I want to introduce myself xD My name is Ace and I am almost 20. I finished high school one year ago and since that time I have been working and preparing for college. Last year I applied to a total of 16 schools: 4 that are located in the UK (Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, UCL) 2 that are in China (Tsinghua, Peking) and 10 in the US (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Duke and UChicago). By the way, I forgot to mention that I applied for a fin. aid everywhere.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I dream to become a business analyst or a business consultant, and as you probably know there are only 2 colleges in the US that offer business undergrad programs - Cornell and UPenn. Well now, there are 3, since MIT opened new majors last year (business analytics, finance and management)
So I applied ED to UPenn, and guess what happened. I received a deferral. By April 2016, I received 10 or 9 acceptances (Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Cambridge, UCLA, UChicago, Cornell, Peking and LSE). Got waitlisted at UPenn after a deferral. I accepted a spot on the waitlist, while also paying a deposit to Stanford
On June 3, I found out that UPenn already filled all of their spots for the class of 2020. I got super disappointed. Btw, (this is my second btw, sorry ^.^) I am an international student (I am from Kyrgyzstan, a country in Central Asia, and I hold dual citizenship (Swiss and Kyrgyz). When I had my interview at the embassy, they denied me. TBH I never got upset, because I treated this rejection as a sign that I belong at UPenn, not at Stanford or any other university, and that I needd to apply again. So that is what I did.
I changed my essays and decided not to apply for a fin.aid (Berkeley and Penn since they rejected me last year). I applied RD everywhere including UPenn. I had my interview, and the women said "I have interviewed for 3 years and I have talked with a lot of applicants, and I can assure you that this time they will definitely accept you).
Sooo, NormalSeniorGuy this is my crazy but rewarding story:)
I know I said that I already got accepted in my previous post, I just did not want to confuse everyone with my story. + I knew that probably no one would actually read the entire thing. I needed the advice that is why I kept the post as simple as I possibly could.
Right now, I am waiting for my UPenn decision and I am really nervous, yet excited : )
I hope I answered to all of your questions, and if not, then I would be more than happy to answer them. Next time, introduce yourself first, it is a very good manner .^-^.