<p>felix - HA. That scared me so much, I was about to be all, I THOUGHT YOU TOOK YOURSELF OFF THE WAITLIST. lol</p>
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<p>Damnit felix, NOT FUNNY. Honestly. Just… Don’t do that.</p>
<p>So Tuesday is still the day, then?</p>
<p>I’m not sure where this post belongs, but since I am a Harvard waitlistee, hopefully I can just put it here (please DONT remove it).</p>
<p>I have been waitlisted from Harvard and MIT. A few days ago I got my final rejection from MIT. And after the quite depressing news today (only 10-15 admitees, and since I am an international student, I doubt it), I gave up on Harvard as well. (yes, I know, don’t give up hope yet and all that, but for now, but let’s say I am rejected from Harvard too). After spending so much time on my letters,I am completely defeated at this point. It seems that fate is so cruel, having the lowest number of waitlist admits at both MIT and Harvard in my application year, and how just next year EA for Harvard will be starting again.</p>
<p>I have enrolled at Cornell. Being waitlisted from my top two choices was really painful and I really thought alot (I never thought so much about different things in my life) for the past month or so. I also read alot of stuff online too about people who got rejected from dream schools, and I really tried to convince myself that I will be fine at Cornell. It doesn’t always work, but I am beginning to accept it and take this (all the rejections and waitlists) as just another learning opportunity.</p>
<p>But what makes me so hard to endure now are the reaction of my sister and mom. Especially my sister. She is actually a junior at Cornell, and have been telling me for many years who dumb people at Cornell are in general. Of course she and I both know that there are some smart people at Cornell too. She has met some CS geniuses there too (please, I don’t want to sound rude at all). She is reacting this way because she knows how smart I am as my sister (please, I don’t mean this in an arrogant way at all; but she has told me that even compared to the some of the smart people she has seen at cornell, she couldn’t find someone like me), and she thinks I deserve more than Cornell, at least in her opinion. With her unpromixing descrption of Cornell, she destroyed even the slightest bit of excitement for Cornell I had.</p>
<p>So I feel completely lost at this point. While I am trying to convince myself that I will be fine at Cornell, my sister is acting all negatively. I have nothing much left to look forward to now that the waitlists came out. Reaction of my sister and mom are even makign me worried that people will laugh at graduation how valedictorian is only going to Cornell, while the salutatorian from my class will be attending Princeton. So I don’t even look forward to graduation much, even though I worked so hard to become valedictorian for the past four years. I know this is a silly thing to say, but I have had my self esteem utterly crushed in the past month seeing people in my own grade get into places like Stanford, Princeton, and Penn (I was rejected by them.)</p>
<p>I am open to any insights and advice you cc’ers have.
I am sure most of you are in pain at this moment as well, and I hope that you all grow out of this as a better person (hopefully myself too). And of course, I wish you the very best of next four years and beyond.</p>
<p>Thank you for reading my unneededly long post.
PS: excuse my silly ID… i made it back in my junior year. You can call me Royce instead.</p>
<p>Royce, I think we call all sympathize. A lot of people in my class at school were really surprised when I told them I got rejected from Columbia, UChicago, etc. It’s really hard to bear when you feel like you missed a shot at your dream school and everyone looks down on you because of it, but I’m sure that’s not really the case. Plus - “only” going to Cornell? Cornell’s a great school and as for your sister’s reaction, not sure what to say about that. I’m sure you’ll find professors and students that challenge you there. Maybe your sister is just disappointed that you didn’t get into your dream schools? It seems weird that she would put down her own school to do so, but maybe she’s just trying to make you feel better. At any rate, don’t feel so hopeless! I’m sure no one is looking down on you at all, and as for Harvard - as much as it kills me to say this, being a fellow waitlistee - I wouldn’t give up just yet. The truth is that we have no idea who’s going to be accepted at this point, it could be anyone! Above all, don’t feel like your hard work was for naught, you got into a fabulous school and at the end of the day you can still have faith in your intellectual capabilities.</p>
<p>Royce…one of my S friends from a posh boarding school is enrolled at Cornell after being denied at most of the schools on her list. She is a very accomplished, brilliant young lady. With the admissions being so tough this year in particular, I think that you will find some really amazing peers at Cornell. Class of 2015 will be of a higher caliber as a result of so many denials at all the top/desirable schools (not that Cornell isn’t!!). Try to warm up to Cornell; there are a lot of great kids that would kill for your opportunity!</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies guys. I am already feeling better : )</p>
<p>@Royce: Your hard work has earned you a place among the very top schools in the nation. College is what you make it to be for YOU! No two people will have the same experience in the same college… don’t beat yourself down bcos of the ones that got away… remember, Cornell is still very selective and ranks in the top-20 national universities in the nation… That is nothing to sneeze at!!! I have also heard that graduating out of Cornell is not as easy as matriculating in… It isn’t an Ivy just in name, is it?</p>
<p>Okay well I’m obviously not a regular poster, but I decided that this would do more help than harm:</p>
<p>I received my Harvard waitlist call yesterday afternoon. She told me I’d be receiving an email on Tuesday. This isn’t to say that all of yours aren’t yet to come, but… thought you’d like to know.</p>
<p>(I really couldn’t believe it. I thought Ivy waitlists were pretty much a dead end, and I came off of Harvard’s, and Brown’s as well. Pretty surreal week, not gonna lie.)</p>
<p>@Cypriot,</p>
<p>Congratulations! Hope you attend Harvard.</p>
<p>Congrats! If you don’t mind telling us, where are you from?</p>
<p>it’s true… i just wanted to confirm, because one of my friends from the tristate area got accepted off the waitlist as a z-lister yesterday afternoon.</p>
<p>Oh no. I just want to cry.</p>
<p>jcamp…can you explain how you were a z-lister and picked off the wait list? I thought that a 2014 z lister would have a space in 2015 and would not be on a wait list. And if you are a 2015 z list, wouldn’t you be enrolled in 2016? Not sure how z list works…obviously!</p>
<p>Chilaxin - z-listers are accepted for the next entering class. So if they applied in 2010, they would be accepted to the class of 2016. A fate I would love to have right now…</p>
<p>^ok…I get it</p>
<p>I mean, congrats Cypriot. Not trying to be a jerk.</p>
<p>Aw, thanks guys 
I’m from around Boston, so very local. I hope you all hear some good news, but I’m sure you’ll all be headed off to great schools no matter what.</p>
<p>I have an interesting hunch. I believe the status page may already have been updated to reflect the upcoming rejections. I tried logging on to the harvard status page with my access code. The page now says it is only open to accepted students and waitlisted students. My code (which worked before) no longer works. I think we all know what that means… Would anyone else try and let me know if they are/are not able to gain access with their old access code?</p>