<p>i wasnt arrogant. i was naive.</p>
<p>^ I totally understand your feeling. I thought that there was no way I could get rejected, and a 100% I would be deferred since more than 60% of apps are either deferred or accepted. I had expected WAY too much and that feeling of getting at least deferred hurt really badly afterwards. After the rejection, now I have the feeling that I’ll get rejected from every school even my safeties. </p>
<p>The rejection sunk my confidence level to -10%, so I’m expecting many rejections on the first. But I learned that’s better to keep your hopes and expectations lower, so you aren’t completely crushed when you already expected you wouldn’t get in. That’s my optimistic approach!</p>
<p>It feels like 3/5 or 4/5 depending on my mood. I hope I’m not being overly confident…</p>
<p>yep thats the best outlook. its a win-win on your part.</p>
<p>Also, some days I feel more optimistic than others. One day I’ll think, “Yeah! I’ll definitely get into majority on my list!” And others I’ll think to myself, “Wow, I’m never getting into anywhere I want to go…”</p>
<p>Bahaha. The wait until april is killing me.</p>
<p>This thread needs more optimism:D:):D:):D:):D:):D:):D:)</p>
<p>haha im pretty optimistic about college acceptances but only because my chances according to a chancing website seem pretty good 
i wonder how accurate those are…</p>
<p>I don’t expect to get in anywhere. I did take the risk of applying to no “safety schools”, not because of arrogance, but for the simple fact that I couldn’t imagine myself truly happy at any school that a CCer would consider a safety. So if I get into one of the 8 amazing schools I applied to, great. If I don’t, there’s community college for a year or two. It’s all good.</p>
<p>^That was my technique too</p>
<p>I just wanna predict where I’m getting in and somehow remember to check this thread and see how right I was.</p>
<p>Accepted - SUNY Geneseo, Middlebury, Cornell, University of Rochester, Pepperdine, Wake Forest and Boston College
Waitlisted - Dartmouth
Rejected - Brown</p>
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<p>Actually, this thread needs more REALISM!</p>
<p>I’m feeling pretty good about Princeton and pretty poorly about Stanford. Probably because I put much more time into my Princeton app. But I wouldn’t be surprised at all to get rejected from both.</p>
<p>I am going to be rejected EVERYWHERE. 
March will be fun! Right now I have apps out at HYS, Columbia, and Caltech. Blegh. Should have applied somewhere I actually had a chance at.</p>
<p>I don’t know, is it better to have acceptances front-loaded or back-loaded.</p>
<p>I kinda feel like Columbia’s gonna accept me. But that is probably very wishful thinking!</p>
<p>^Psh, Haavain, you’re already in at Chicago so it’s not like you had to apply to safeties anyway.</p>
<p>Jaddua: Ha, I know. I’m super excited to be going to Chicago, don’t get me wrong, I’m just less excited to be graduating 30k in the hole. If I could do this over, I probably would have applied to a more financially generous match school or two in addition to my ultra-reaches.</p>
<p>Handala92, the fact is that, at this level, one cannot have a clue about success rates. At my son’s high school, all of the Stanford admits were EA development candidates who did not apply anywhere else. The deferred ED and RD Stanford applicants are at Harvard, MIT, Hopkins, Swarthmore, etc. The Penn ED applicant is at Brown. The single Columbia admit (my son) is at Columbia, and the rejects are at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, etc. The Princeton admit is at Yale. One of the Yale admits is at CMU, another is at a music school, and the third is at Yale. Both Harvard admits (both rejected at several schools, including Stanford and Columbia) are at Harvard. One MIT admit (rejected by Columbia and Stanford) is at MIT, the other at Yale. A quick anecdotal summary of one high school class at the top schools, based on my limited recollection of my son’s limited recollection.</p>
<p>Wow! ^ PBR your anecdote really does represent a lot of top candidates and their ultimate decisions. ( of course you are talking about EA/ED results, but it really pertains to RD apps too)I use to think that if you were good enough to go to at least one top college than all the rest ( HYMPSC) would accept you. But all the people I’ve known at top colleges were rejected from most and accepted to one or two. Example: rejected HSPMB but accepted Y, rejected HY but accepted S, rejected UofC but accepted Cal. rejected Cornell/ Uof C/ UCLA but accepted UCSD and Cal, rejected HYS and accepted P. It really just shows you that either college admissions is a crapshoot or that each school does have a different personality and is looking for a specific fit and doesn’t accept all the top students.</p>
<p>^Sorry, in my rush, I mixed the ED/EA and RD results. I’m not sure it really matters, as I believe essentially ED/EA admits would also be admitted RD, and vice versa. For example, the Princeton admit was RD, but he was admitted EA at Yale.</p>
<p>The net is that if you’re admitted at Harvard, you may be rejected by Penn, or Columbia or Brown. Or if you’re admitted at Dartmouth, you may be rejected by Harvard, or Hopkins or Northwestern. Just wait and see! I suspect you’ll be surprised, based on the line-drawing on USNWR and this forum.</p>
<p>Pbr, thanks for sharing that with us. I know quite a few people like that as well. Of course, every school has 1 or 2 students who gets admitted to every single college he/she applies to, but many people end up getting into at least a few schools they really want to attend. Basically, it’s going to be ok.</p>