<p>After getting waitlisted from NU, IM really really pessimistic about my chances now. I really thought that I was going to get accepted at NU and get a 50/50 with Penn. Now I feel like I dont have any chance at all…</p>
<p>IS there such a thing as getting accepted into a better school, such as Penn, after being waitlisted/rejected from a worse school?</p>
<p>Somebody please help me from this depression >.<</p>
<p>Hey, me too</p>
<p>Yes. I was accepted to Washington University in St. Louis, which has 20% acceptance, and waitlisted from Claremont McKenna, which has 30% acceptance.</p>
<p>I know someone who was accepted at MIT but waitlisted at Northwestern.</p>
<p>This kind of thing happens all the time. One school really likes your work so far, another thinks less highly of it. I'm sure you'll do fine. Really.</p>
<p>Thank you thanks you. Seriously, I forgot one thing to type in my "what will I do after possible acceptance" thread, adn that is to thank all those who helped me through midnight with my Penn essays durign that month of December and CC'ers in general.</p>
<p>haha.. I remember the midnight before the Penn due date. I finished 4 college essays in a span of 3 hrs (1 why penn, 1 penn statement, 1 why NU, 1 NU statement).</p>
<p>Yes yes, we were all there, haha. I remember all of us spammign the procrastination station in lik ethe final few hours. Anyways, I spent hours and hours on my penn essays. I think NU saw through my lack of interests in their school. All in all, I hope my love of Penn, adn my commitment to sacrifice the majority of my time for them, would pay off.</p>
<p>I hope you all good luck as well if you're in similar situation as I.</p>
<p>I remember freaking out because my dad insisted on going to visit my cousins in DC really close to the due date and them not having internet because they had just moved. I ended up putting the best effort I could into those essays though.</p>
<p>Did anyone else ruin their writing style from the essays? My writing is so choppy now because I had to cut down my essays so much to fit the limit. I can't get it to flow anymore and I want to be a writer.</p>
<p>yeah... i got rejected from northwestern and i am terrified. i know upenn, and most of my schools, are reaches but i did think there was a chance... thanks for the comfort! i know that you all are right, schools can react to your app very differently, its just really hard not to obsess and freak out with all of this over my head.</p>
<p>i really wish i'd gotten waitlisted at NU... i know it doesn't make much of a difference but it would comfort my ego. :(</p>
<p>I think college essays are so short that they're simple to write(i wanna me a writer, too). I felt like I wasn't saying anything actually important, since the one-page essay could be considered an introduction in another class...5 page college essays would certainly be interesting...</p>
<p>what schools at NU did people apply to</p>
<p>raghavp- HAHAHA, that's almost precisely what I did. Although I got waitlisted at NU, possibly because those essays weren't nearly as good as my Penn ones.....unfortunately I'll still probably get rejected there too.</p>
<p>i know someone who was rejected at Pepperdine and got into Penn.</p>
<p>not to hurt anyone's hopes, but i think pepperdine puts a lot of emphasis on faith. That's why perhaps?</p>
<p>well also there can be huge variation withthe reader of your application for whcih individual personal perpsective matters .. that being said there may be highly contrtasting opinion to same work in application by different admission officers . so u never knw which ones gets the point straight as u said and accepts u ..with open arms</p>
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<p>Weinberg. I hope I have better luck with them come graduate school applications. -.-</p>
<p>I got into NU...dunno how much confidence boost that is for Wharton</p>
<p>@callthecops2. it certainly can't be a bad sign :)</p>
<p>:).............</p>
<p>there's a kid from my school last year who got into stanford and MIT, the big boys... but got rejected from wash u. sometimes schools reject people because they are overqualified/don't think they'd actually enroll, so they save acceptances for kids who they think match up better with their school and who might actually enroll. besides, i think we've all pretty much figured out by now that the game of college admissions is totally random.. so don't look too much into a rejection!</p>