<p>The very thought has been plaguing my mind for a while now. I wish they were a way we could see the evaluation that went on during admissions. Just wondered if anyone else was feeling the same way. After seeing the places I was accepted/waitlisted/rejected I'm a bit stumbled by the results.</p>
<p>I thought about that when I first got my acceptances/rejections/waitlist spots, but after actually going to college it doesn’t really concern me.</p>
<p>No. Who cares? You got in.</p>
<p>Get over your own ego, because nobody cares in college. Nobody cares what you did in HS, nobody cares what your SAT score/class rank/GPA was, or where you got into school at.</p>
<p>To be honest, by the time I graduated UG, I forgot some of the places I even applied.</p>
<p>I never had the intention of being “egotistical” on this thread. I just thought the idea was an interesting one that others could relate to, I guess not . . .</p>
<p>I didn’t wonder about my acceptances because I got in. 
And I didn’t really think about my rejections because there wasn’t really a chance that I would get in. But when I got waitlisted and then rejected from U Chicago I wondered how close I was. It sucked to wonder, but then you go to a school that you love and you forget everything else. :)</p>
<p>“stumbled” by the results?? ???</p>
<p>Stupid autocorrect! I meant *stumped :P</p>
<p>I didn’t have rejections, only applied to places I figured I had a good shot to get in and could afford. Although there are more selective colleges, I ended up at my dream school, so why should I care about the chances at Stanford or some such? At most places, just look at the 25th percentile test scores and gpa and that gives you a good estimate in either direction.</p>
<p>I only applied to one school, so I had no rejections. (If I hadn’t have gotten into USC in December, I would have applied to numerous other schools that had deadlines in January/February so I wasn’t ‘stuck’.) But I did wonder about my rejection from the Gov’s School in South Carolina that I had applied to in 10th grade. The chance of acceptance, I later found out was only around 5-10%, so I really didn’t stand a chance in the first place. I got over it though.</p>
<p>Wondering doesn’t amerliorate things. Either you were good enough or you weren’t. Or, in the case of being waitlisted, you were good enough, but there just wasn’t enough space.</p>
<p>Eh, I only applied to one college and I got in like I knew I would… so no… doesn’t really concern me.</p>
<p>There is no way of knowing. There is rarely, if ever, going to be a time where you’re going head to head with another applicant. You either have what the school wants or you don’t. </p>
<p>And no, I don’t waste my time on something as useless as that. I easily got into the school I’m going to and U of M and that’s that.</p>
<p>Well, not really. I applied to 9 different colleges, got accepted by 4, rejected by 4, and wait-listed by UNC. I expected rejections from 3 of the 4 that rejected me, while I realistically expected for acceptances by all 4 that accepted me plus UNC. I live in Texas, so it may have been a push to wait for North Carolina.</p>
<p>But…that doesn’t even matter now. Off to UConn I go in a month and a half !!</p>
<p>I knew I was getting into Pitt and Penn St.</p>
<p>I thought I was a match at Boston College and Michigan —> Ended up rejected by BC.</p>
<p>I knew Georgetown was a slight reach, but I thought I was going to get in/waitlisted because of alumni relation and alumni donations —> Rejected, not even waitlisted (well now my parents and sister stopped donating so jokes on them, right?)</p>
<p>It’s all good though. I would’ve picked Michigan over Georgetown had I gotten into both of them anyways. </p>
<p>I had six or so more schools to apply to if I didn’t get into BC or Michigan EA.</p>
<p>Your parents and sister stopped donating to a school just because you got rejected? Or was there something else?</p>
<p>That seems pretty extreme IMO. Their relationship with their school must not have been that strong.</p>
<p>I knew I was a weird case, so there were the schools I knew I could get into and the schools I knew were a tough bet. Actually ended up getting into two schools I thought I wouldn’t which was a nice surprise. Didn’t end up going but it was nice to know in the moment that I was a cool enough person to get in haha.</p>
<p>The only rejection that sucked was William and Mary only because I got my rejection letter the day before my family went down to visit the school and Williamsburg. I still went but it was a really weird feeling haha.</p>
<p>My sister graduated a year before, and when she found out I was rejected she was really upset. I didn’t care anyway because I knew I wasn’t going to the school no matter what (deposit already sent into Mich), but she was upset because I think she knew I had a better GPA and SATs than she did so she was expecting me to get in.</p>
<p>My parents donated 1k every year my sister was there (in addition to the 50k of tuition) and then, right before I applied, donated 5k.</p>
<p>My decisions were a tale of two extremes. I swept all the schools in my home state (CA), and got major scholarships at 4 of the 5 schools (which are top UC’s and USC). Outside of CA, I got served - 0 for 7, with four rejections and three waitlists (none of those three schools took any students off the waitlist anyway). Did I think about how close I could have come to being accepted? Of course. I was particularly bummed about my Rice waitlist because I really liked the school and I put an incredible amount of effort into my application for it. But I didn’t dwell about it too much. I had no reason to, as I got 5 acceptances and great offers. You have to look at the good things and celebrate them instead of moping over what you didn’t get. Although, to be honest, I probably would have mulled over my rejections/waitlists more if I only got accepted to a safety school or a school I wasn’t too keen on attending.</p>
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<p>What’s your problem? It’s not necessarily a matter of ego when you wonder whether you were close to acceptance or rejection. There’s a difference between a) thinking you should have gotten in because you’re really smart and b) thinking you should have gotten in because you devoted a lot of time and effort into the application for that particular school.</p>
<p>^ What questions would that answer though? How would that resolve anything. Say you apply to your dream school and you somehow found out your were very close to receiving an acceptance, but at the last second were rejected. Would that really make you feel better? Say you found out that your hard stats were enough for acceptance, but your essays didn’t make the cut, or vice-versa. How does that information benefit you now that you’ve committed to another school?</p>
<p>It’s in the past. Rejections are painful, but someone will never move on if they dwell on questions like the above. Nobody wants to be the sophomore who still lays awake at night thinking, “What if my GPA had been .1 higher?”</p>