<p>Here's another one for you........waitlisted at Forham, got into U Miami. I mean I know Fordham is a good school and is one the rise with much bigger application numbers but U Miami has at least to me been thought of as a better school, harder to get into. He was shocked as Fordham was somewhat of a safety for him and U Miami was a slight reach.........go figure.</p>
<p>An extremely qualified friend got rejected from UF but accepted to Boston College.</p>
<p>two years ago, someone from my high school was accepted to penn and duke but was rejected by lehigh. strong grades and high sats, so one can take a guess at why lehigh didn't take him.</p>
<p>one of my friends was rejected at carnegie mellon but then got into dartmouth and columbia.</p>
<p>Fit is in the eye of the beholder</p>
<p>notjosiegrossie-
IMO, UF is a better school, and harder to get into (especially fior an out of state student) than BC.</p>
<p>A friend was waitlisted at Western Washington University but got into Northeastern.</p>
<p>Florida: flagship state school, they have the pick of the litter and the best prize for in state applicants (26,000 this year). Not too many people's safety anymore, but still not HYPMS.</p>
<p>yeah where i live ppl don't think UF is that good of a school (just partying) and so most of our top students look to out of state colleges like BC</p>
<p>J'adoube.
UF may not be HYPS, but is is still way better than BC.</p>
<p>BC is far more selective and prestigious than the University of Florida. Even comparing them is insulting to BC. Tokenadult- thanks for posting those statistics.</p>
<p>Were you possibly confusing BC with BU?</p>
<p>Oh gosh-- looks like this is going to become a "which school is better" thread. BU is a different story altogether. UF has really, especially with its instate scholars program, grown from really strong to really, really strong. IMO, its better than BC, but they are probably close. So we are probably splitting hairs.</p>
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<p>This thread is titled in such a way that that was to be expected. :) But I replied early on with what I think the take-home message is: don't take any application for granted, and make sure to apply to a variety of colleges.</p>
<p>^^^ Yup, yup yup tokenadult. Nothing is a sure thing.</p>
<p>sorry for a stupid question but which schools are WUSTL?</p>
<p>Friend was outright rejected at Williams, got into Harvard.</p>
<p>I've noticed that LAC's play more by fit than anything</p>
<p>deutsch,</p>
<p>WUSTL is the acronym for Washington University in St. Louis. </p>
<p>ctmomof3, </p>
<p>Good to hear that your son got into one of his preferred schools. Before you revealed that the school which waitlisted him was Fordham, my guess was that it was the University of Connecticut. UConn-Storrs has become much more difficult to get into, even for in-state students, and several of my daughter's former high school classmates, all above average to good students, were waitlisted, offered admission at a UConn branch campus or outright rejected. Many of them were admitted to what I thought were better schools (not a dig on UConn, by the way, which is a fine school).</p>
<p>One of my friends was rejected from UF and accepted into UPenn. Another was rejected from UF and accepted into Brandeis. And another was rejected from UF and accepted into MIT. And finally, I know someone that was waitlisted from FSU and accepted into UF! He framed his rejection/waitlist letter on the wall of his dorm. hahaha</p>