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<p>No, I don't feel like I got screwed, but I, my family, and my friends are a bit surprised that with good stats and a double legacy I didn't even get waitlisted at Princeton. </p>
<p>However, I know that my extras were only average or maybe even below average, and I am forced to conclude that legacy in the RD round doesn't mean anything like as much as people seem to believe.</p>
<p>Mostly though, I think that this was just an insanely hard admissions season. NO ONE at my school got into their top choices...the best results were Northwestern, UChicago, and (in my biased opinion) Wellesley and Carleton for me. It was a very disappointing year for many people, I believe.</p>
<p>Well, let's just put it this way: I was admitted to ~5 schools with acceptance percentages below that of Northwestern. However, somehow, I was not admitted to NU. Though NU got more apps than ever this year, I don't understand how or why I had such a VERY different experience at NU.</p>
<p>I was/am that rejected girl in the group of friends who got into their first choices. I feel guilty, because I think I make them feel awkward, and really I'm so proud of them. They totally deserved it, I just wonder what's wrong with me.</p>
<p>life isnt fair.</p>
<p>i totally feel you
not to be arrogant or anything, its amazing how with a 4.0/2380 i did not even get admitted to either cal or ucla</p>
<p>I kind of felt that way before but I got over it. I only applied to 6 schools and I was accepted to 3, waitlisted at 2 and rejected at 1.</p>
<p>One gave me no financial aid so I was basically stuck with two schools. My other two colleges are half of what I originally wanted; to go to a LAC/women's college and to be in the city. It's gonna be tough deciding which one to take.</p>
<p>Getting rejected by Barnard, my dream school, was what made me initially feel like crap, but what can you do? You gotta live on.</p>
<p>Once again, admissions for Fall 2007 were competitive because of the whole baby boomer generation "thing." I forget what it's called.</p>
<p>I was rejected by Princeton and Northwestern, but I expected that. I don't feel "utterly screwed," but I know that many other brighter students deserved to get into Penn as opposed to me, so they should be a little bit discontent with their decisions.</p>
<p>I believe that the college admission process is very surprising, and when you get a pleasant surprise, you're on top of the world. But when you get a disheartening one, you're world seems to crash. Don't worry, you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Being top of your class doesn't guarantee you a spot in your top college. My Penn interviewers told me that colleges look for a diverse group of students and sometimes even the best are denied admission because of the need for diversity. I got a little worried after they told me that because I'm top of my class, and I knew that college admissions would still be a struggle for me.</p>
<p>Yes, I feel my son got a raw deal from Syracuse. They didn't even accept him yet George Washington, American University, University of Maryland, Fordham U, Temple U and University of Scranton all accepted him into their Honors Program and offered considerable scholarship money.</p>
<p>He has a 3.9 GPA; SAT score: 1540 (800 math; 740 verbal); top 10% of his class; coeditor of his high school newspaper; recipient of numerous scholastic writing awards; Captain of his Quiz Bowl team; etc. Great references from his teachers.</p>
<p>Apparently students with lower GPA and SAT got into Syracuse. Go figure...</p>
<p>Yes,
My admissions counselor at my school said Vandy and CMU are a match for me.
The chances thread agreed that these two schools are matches for me.</p>
<p>And what do I receive in the mail?
Waitlisted by Vandy and rejected by CMU.
I am hating it so much!</p>
<p>Somebody said I should appeal/talk to the president of the universities. I don't think it will help.
What do you guys think?</p>
<p>^^ I get what you're saying and everything, but the thing is, I was on the top of my class, did have some great test scores, but I also did have 4 state titles in 3 different activities (speech and music performance and writing), and another national award for my music as well. I worked hard in high school because I enjoyed the activities I pursued, but also because I knew they would help me have a wide range of colleges to choose from, and I wouldn't be disappointed when I got the admissions back. And the truth is, I did very well for myself. Albeit, I didn't get into the ivies (though waitlisted) I got into some top notch schools. But the thing is, I didn't get into NU and some of my friends, who had poorer grades, and almost no extracurricular involvement - did. It's hard for me just to sit back and watch as they receive benefit for partying friday nights while I stayed at home working on music, etc. Of course, the benefits of staying at home and working on music have benefits that reach further than college admissions, but at this point in my life, those benefits are very hard to see.</p>
<p>austin, do you have some other decent options? I don't really think that you should waste your time with an appeal...technically speaking, a match school shouldn't be a shocking rejection, although I know that a student with Vandy or CMU as their match is usually a very competitive applicant who has a very good chance at that match school. I seriously doubt that an appeal would do anything for you besides suck up a lot of time and energy.</p>
<p>fhimas88888888, Northwestern waitlisted some great applicants this year. We only had three admits at my school, and they all had something else going for them...a legacy, a faculty child, a theatre applicant (we think this was her push. She applied ED and...we were quite surprised that she was admitted, although I don't want to suggest that she was unqualified. She was just...not an amazing applicant, we'll leave it at that).</p>
<p>I got into UT Austin only :(
I really wanted to go to CMU, great engineering school.
I am so depressed.</p>
<p>I'm annoyed...I'm valedictorian with great ECs, recs, and essays, published poetry, average/good test scores, an unusual home life, and a love of learning. My parents flat-out refused to take me to see any schools, thus minimizing my chances of "showing interest", and now I'm waitlisted at four schools, including my top choice. I don't know what to do now...but I am mad. My guidance counselor sucks, too. She's now universally hated by the entire senior class. I'm not blaming her for my bad luck, but it might have helped to have some support. Oh well.</p>
<p>advantagious - I was rejected.</p>
<p>Well, that sucks, but the sentiment still stands.</p>
<p>^ Thanks - though I will make no attempt to even start to contend that I should have gotten into an ivy (we all should have - right? ;-), I feel as though with my accomplishments and the accomplishments of those at my school who did get in, I should have gotten in. ALL OF MY FRIENDS who I've told were surprised.</p>
<p>I feel I got totally screwed. I go to a small, supposedly ubercompetitive private school. I had ~1480/2280, 4.0 GPA, #4 in class, 8 APs. Not only that, but my ECs were great: state music, language and writing awards and publications; leadership in language club; editor of school lit mag and newspaper; position at local newspaper; hundreds of hours of volunteer work and tutoring; the list goes on and on. I only got in at Northwestern, NYU, and Bard. I was waitlisted at 6 schools and rejected by 1, including top LACs and 4 lower Ivies. If I was applying to schools that were out of my reach (which I doubt) I wish my gc would have told me.</p>
<p>^I completely agree with your comments. I am stuck in a simliar situation, as I have worked extremely hard throughout high school and everyone expected I would get into an Ivy. Yet, much lazier and less qualified people, who party every weekend and never turn in work on time, are also going to Northwestern or Ivies that waitlisted me b/c these people fit some special racial or demographic niche at colleges. My efforts seem like a waste. I could have slacked off and still gotten into the schools I have to choose from.</p>
<p>Yes, I know how it feels to have people be surprised. Like I said, I can't say that I feel screwed about Princeton, because to feel screwed about a school with a 7% RD acceptance rate demonstrates some sort of horrible narcissism, but almost everyone I talked to was like "What?!" when I said that I was flat out rejected. My friends, my mother...even my Grandmother called me yesterday just to ask where I was going to college (and if I got into Princeton). I mean, everyone has been really nice and everything--their reaction is usually, "Then who CAN get in?!", but yeah...kind of sucks to not get into the school that you have heard about your entire life, but I guess if I was really sure about Princeton I should have done ED, but I wasn't sure. Life goes on. </p>
<p>The only good part, and I say that with a large pinch of salt because I'm certainly not happy that my HS fared so poorly, is that NO ONE got into their top choices, so there really aren't kids walking around with acceptances that they don't seem to deserve.</p>
<p>I feel somewhat mad. I got rejected to 6 schools. Although four of those were reaches for me, and I don't feel the slightest bit of anger towards them, two of them were matches, and people with stats lower than me got in - the response almost everyone has. However, after days of bitterness, I am coming to terms with it. I think we all just have to accept and move on.</p>