<p>On April fool's day I was flat-out rejected from my dream Univeristy - Princeton, of course. Even as I knew it was a longshot to getting accepted at such a great school, I had hope - my act/sat's were ok not good, not bad. My gpa was the same. but I thought that my essays were good, recs were awesome and i had some hooks such as volunteering in my homecountry the summer and doing other community service projects - idk maybe, i was just setting my goals too high but w/e.
Anyways, now that I'm finally settling into the idea of not going to a GREAT school, I thought i could always try my hardest in college and apply each year for a transfer until I get accepted. However, i just realized that Princeton doesn't accept transfers!!?? what?! so was it now or never?? I'm thinking of med school, so i couldn't even go there after undergrad! so is it really the end of attending my dream school??</p>
<p>You can attend the graduate programs it has, if you are accepted.</p>
<p>Otherwise impossible if you start at another university.</p>
<p>Get over it. Life goes on.</p>
<p>You could take a year off and intern somewhere, work, and do things to bulk up your resume. But that isn’t a guarantee at all. It isn’t the end-all-be-all. Work hard as an undergrad and apply to Princeton when you graduate. Good luck.</p>
<p>Do you seriously think Princeton is the only GREAT school out there? Far from it.</p>
<p>Every year Princeton rejects thousands of applicants with stellar credentials, it sounds like yours weren’t. I don’t want to say that it was too high of a goal because that makes it sound like I view you as having some sort of limitations and you can’t achieve high goals. What I think is that given your stats an acceptance to Princeton was unrealistic.</p>
<p>But a goal of attending a really great college and then becoming a doctor might be within your reach and I hope you will continue to strive for it.</p>
<p>A1, what other school did you apply to and which ones where you accepted at?</p>
<p>Princeton undergrad is totally different from Princeton grad. Everything considered uniquely Princeton exists almost exclusively in the undergrad program. (From a fellow Princeton reject who would have given a kidney to go there)</p>
<p>There are plenty of great schools out there. Not going to Princeton isn’t going to be detrimental to your potential success. Go to the “next best” school on your list (notice I say next best because Princeton is but one of the many truly fantastic colleges in the country), and enjoy your time there. Learn, enjoy yourself, and prepare for the future. Don’t let this rejection bring you down to the pits.</p>
<p>It is time to start a new dream. Princeton has more fully qualified applicants than the school can accept. Ted Turner was not admitted to Princeton and founded CNN. Alexander Hamilton is reported to have been denied admission and he became one of the great intellectuals of the Revolution. (Princeton later granted Alexander Hamilton an honorary degree.) Harold Varmus, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering was denied admission twice to Harvard Medical School. Dr. Varmus wrote, If rejected by the school you love, immerse yourself in life at a college that welcomes you. “The differences between colleges that seem so important before you get there will seem a lot less important once you arrive at one that offered you a place.”</p>
<p>^^^^Nice post…</p>
<p>Going to Princeton isn’t going to make you any more successful than you would be-the only exception maybe being I-banking (but MBA’s etc. work for this too). Most of being successful is dependent on you. I do understand that the culture and entrancing campus are appealing. Luckily, you just have to set sites on where you are actually going. Then you will feel happy, and still have a goal for grad school.</p>
<p>Just go to classes anyways. If you’re sneaky enough you could probably last a couple years before they kick you out.</p>
<p>Hahahahhaha @ MSauce.</p>
<p>@ A : Awhh I’m sorry. If you have a really really strong case for it though, you could try an appeal?</p>
<p>I don’t think Princeton has an appeals process? Or else they would have 25,000+ people appealing.</p>
<p>I was admitted, but now as I think of it, I don’t think it was that special. Undergrad at anywhere is almost same</p>