HELP!! REJECTED FROM MANY SCHOOLS!

Applying to College
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Hi you guys, I am in big big big big big shock right now (Ive taken at least 5 advil in the past 2 hours)

I worked SO hard in high school and I had big goals for my future, but I have been rejected by so many places and I do not know what I did.

Here are my stats from another page:
Decision: Accepted
SAT I (breakdown): 2280
ACT:34/36 and 11 essay
SAT II: Lit (720), US History (750)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
UC GPA: 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 9%

AP (place score in parenthesis): US History: (5), Ap Bio: (4)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Gov/AP Micro, English 12, AP Chem, AP Stats, AP Human Geo/ International Relations and Chemistry Honors
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Only school awards, like student of the month, top english student, etc.

[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Music( 4 years), Piano (6 years), Dance( 9 years), Language Tutor ( I am fluent in 3 languages)
[ *] Job/Work Experience:NA
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours at my church
[ *] Personal Statement: Wrote about my culture and wrote about volunteer work in Palestine, Ukraine and Mexico (I have proof in case someone is suspicious)

[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: nope
[ *] Intended Major: Business Administration
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Ukrainian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): My essays were very personal and I made them unique.
[ *] Strengths: My ACT and SAT improved a lot between the first and second time I took them (2000-2280)
[ *] Weaknesses: Once my senior year grades come, there will be a downward trend because I missed a lot of school due to medical reasons. :frowning: I still maintained a 4.2W

Today I have been rejected from Purdue, UCSB and wait listed in UCD

Accepted into Sac State and UCR

Can someone give me some suggestions on what to do. I have a few colleges left to hear from, but I am beyond upset. Can you look through my stats and tell me if there is something that could have made me get turned down. I honestly worked day and night, I didn’t have a social life or have much fun, since I wanted to have a good future, but now my goals really have been shattered…

What should I do? Where should I go? Can someone please help me?

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Also Cal Poly SLO as of right now :confused:

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Stop taking the Ibuprofen. It does nothing for “shock” or to calm you down. In fact, it will probably upset your stomach more.

Just relax. There’s nothing wrong with the colleges you got into.

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Apparently the UC system is waitlisting a lot of students this year (in hopes of accepting them later on when the budget decision is released.) You might get off the UC Davis waitlist, so don’t lose hope yet!

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-ln-uc-enrollment-20150303-story.html

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Cal Poly SLO is a good school, too. Shcho zvami?

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I got rejected from Cal Poly SLO. I would go there in a heartbeat

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Pls take heart. You are likely to get in somewhere. And if you don’t know that even as late as May some schools are still looking.

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Do you need financial aid?

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i got waitlisted from davis also with a 2130. also something doesnt seem right… u should have gotten into purdue ESPECIALLY for business. i suggest u appeal. ull get in. unless u have some sort of disciplinary record.

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Stop taking all those extra Advils…you’ll ruin your liver. you’re over-dosing.

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How did you find out you got rejected to UCSB?@coffeelife

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@justonedad was that russian?

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Sorry! @turqluv I meant UCSD!

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@coffeelife did you apply anywhere else?

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Yes, I also applied to Boston U, Brandies, NYU, USC, Ithaca and a few other colleges. I hope for the best, but at this point I am extremely worried. :-S

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That’s a bit rough but UC admissions are looking rough this year. Look there is another thread right now with a waitlist at UCD and an admit to Caltech. All you can do is sit tight and let it play out. You will get some more admissions, I’m sure.

And don’t be foolish with taking advil, you can damage liver yes, and it does nothing for stress, dismay etc. What are you thinking? Try some yoga or meditation or at least guilty pleasure like candy or ice cream to feel better.

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Just a question: how does two college rejections= REJECTED FROM MANY SCHOOLS HELP ??

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@ds0501 Ukrainian

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I’m sorry. It looked like you had included it in the two you got in.

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Lay off the advil. Eat a cookie. Better yet, take the day off and go hunt down some Ukrainian comfort food. If you take a friend who has never tried that food along on the adventure with you, both of you will be tremendously distracted from the whole college admissions thing. Then come back here and tell us what you ate. Seriously. Happykid and I want to know!

If you don’t like UCR or Sac State well enough to attend one of them, and they turn out to be the only places where you are admitted and that affordable, that would be the time to think through the possibility of taking a Gap Year and reapplying with a new list.

Hang in there.