<p>Just wanting to see how many people were pleasantly surprised when they got letters back.</p>
<p>the school i'm attending, i applied to just for fun. then i got in.</p>
<p>and where is that?</p>
<p>You'd be surprised how many idiots there are over here...</p>
<p>I am heading off to college in 4 days, and I still can't believe I got in.</p>
<p>lol...thanks for your replies guys...I just hope I can get into Providence although if I get in, it will be by the skin of my teeth...as I have a 3.2-3.3 ish GPA and the average student there has an average 3.4 in HS. They went test optional, so I won't have to submit my terrible SAT scores...but if I get rejected, do you think it's because of the GPA or most likely other things?</p>
<p>I'm going to ucla like namaste. </p>
<p>Let me tell you...I was like totally deadpan when I went to ucla's site and saw that the letters were up. I don't know why (maybe because I always expect the worst) but I thought there was no chance I'd get in. So then there it was, the acceptance letter and the big congratulations banner. It took a few seconds to process...and then I FREAKED out. I let out a small scream and then nearly fell while I stumbled up the stairs and burst into my parent's bedroom with the news (they were watching a movie...and thought that I'd seen a huge spider or something when I came in).</p>
<p>I recall spending the rest of that day with a huge grin pasted on my face, and it was hard to take that grin off when I went to school the next day...only to find that basically everyone else at my high school had been rejected. </p>
<p>Ahh! I can truly say that that was the best day of my life.</p>
<p>hahaha, i applied to Harvard because my parents made me. I was completely banking on Columbia being the super-reach that I could MAYBE get into, if I prayed enough/bribed the admissions officer. so when i got into Columbia i was so pumped that i could go to my dream school, but then i got into Harvard too. so my parents basically made me choose Harvard, which is also a fine school.</p>
<p>i applied to princeton because it was my mom's dream and it was that token "just for fun" application. I got very close to switching it with cornell, thinking I'd have a better chance there anyway. Then i submitted the app very last minute (well, AFTER the deadline on account of their server crashing) with really dumb essays and blogged that I have a 97% chance of being rejected, the app was so dumd. AND i wouldn't even tell people I applied there. Then March 30th came and my #1 school Upenn's admission results would come online and i found that i had been waitlisted which made my soul collapse upon itself. AND I had to check my friend's email for harvard, and he ended up getting in, and I felt more like crap and spent the night crying basically. the next day was the most miserable day of my life at school, and I came home and told my mom "where are the rejection letters!?" and she said "just junk mail, and this HUGE ENVELOPE FROM PRINCETON" and she was pretty much crying and I ran around the house screaming. the whole weekend. Except I wouldn't tell anyone for like a week because I thought it was fake.</p>
<p>Well I was originally just going to apply to several In-state school but for the heck of it decided to try NYU(although it was ED). I got in except not in the program I wanted to so I wansn't binded by the ED as stated in their letter. Nevethelesss I couldn't justify the cost so I ended up going to my state school, however I will not be doing that once Gradute school comes around =)</p>
<p>Of course there are stastically MANY more unhappy surprises than happy ones. The majority of 4.0/2400s getvrejected from the very top colleges.</p>
<p>I think the happily surprised are the truly modest. The "I just had no idea my 2400 and olympic medal was good enough...."</p>
<p>If you have a 3.2-3.3 at a lesser selective college where 3.4 is the average, you have a good shot. With good essays and recs, you are totally in range.</p>
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<p>Sadly, I have to agree.</p>
<p>^^^ And I concur also unfortunately.</p>
<p>^haha. oh Bears, you should've gone to Stanford. oh wait, that's right...you guys got rejected. </p>
<p>jp...joke. seriously, don't get all mad. i love everyone i know from berkelely.</p>
<p>I applied to UCLA just for fun, since I was applying to UCI anyway and it was the same application, so I went for UCLA as well just to see if I'd get in. I had good grades throughout high school, near the top of my class, but still doubted I'd get accepted.</p>
<p>When the result letters were online, one of my friends called me really excited that she got in, so I decided to check mine. I was shocked to see I was accepted. I didn't end up going there, but I probably would have had my first choice fallen through.</p>
<p>^what was your first choice??</p>
<p>I applied to USC without realy thinking about it because my parent's friend recommended it to me... (main reason was it was easier for OOS and good financial aid) But I didn't really know that much about california schools so I was pretty oblivious.. I was going to apply to UCLA but their deadline was in november and i was pretty lazy... so I didn't even try.</p>
<p>So anyways during spring break my acceptance packet came and I was "OMG" because i found out what a good school it was (i really haven't done much research about it before then) and I didn't think it was that that much of a reach until schools that had much higher acceptance rate rejected me and i was like ***. Oh well. I'm happy about USC because their CNTV program is pretty good. XD</p>
<p>Pepperdine, where I'd wanted to go my whole life. I love that it's affiliated with the Church of Christ, a smaller school, they have a great journalism program, beautiful campus... I've only been here two weeks so far, but am very happy with my choice.</p>
<p>I got into northwestern waitlisted, basically it was just an application my parents made me do, i was dead set against it, because i had never heard of the school in my life. until they named it. i thought it was another "second rate" school (GENERALIZATION) like ucsb or ucsc (though honestly, they're not bad, just not my kind of place) so i didn't want to apply. they said a lot of schools were good schools, and i was like what? so northwestern was thrown into that category. After submitting my app and stuff, and i started thinking about letters coming back, i started looking at the schools i applied to, and i found out that nu was a lot better than i expected (this was before i realized nu was on the us news list, so i didn't know how it actually compared) so i had an idea that it was genuinely a decent school. So the day come when decisions go out online, and i look, and HUZZAH! i was accepted! so i thought. darn that tricky wording, i read the "we are pleased" or something like that and i freaked out. unfortunately, i looked at the letter again and found out i got waitlisted. i was disappointed at that, and i looked up nu more, found out that it was ranked 11th in the us that year. that kind of made my hopes disappear, since i'm not a "great" student, and didn't get into berkely or ucla (which i thought were targets, guess not)</p>
<p>needless to say, i flipped when i got a letter stating that i was accepted off the waitlist. i wish a happy suprise like this for all you this years seniors =)</p>
<p>WOW, a Cali resident that didn't get into UCLA or UCB, but got into Northwestern?</p>
<p>That's awesome :).</p>
<p>yup...UCLA</p>