@coffeelife: You should not care other people say or think. UCR is a great school with many opportunities available to you, if you take advantage. Location may be its biggest deterrent for most students. Take the campus and put in near the beach and it would become probably one of the most popular UC’s. I highly recommend you visit if possible on Highlander Day. You might be pleasantly surprised. Many of my son’s friends are currently attending and extremely happy with their decision. You are waiting on several other schools, so you still have a good chance on those schools. You will end up somewhere great. Good Luck.
I also agree with many of the above posters in that you need to love your safeties as well as your matches and reaches. You need to be willing to all the schools that you have applied.
In CA, going to CC, doing well, and transferring in to a school that is more desirable than your safeties is a viable path.
As for not getting what you deserved, yeah, that stinks, but that’s also why my opinion is that you should do stuff you like and build towards goals other than “get in to a college I want”, because ultimately, a lot of that stuff is outside your control with the way the admissions process is in the US. If you did stuff you liked and built towards other goals, you would feel as bad because, hey, you did stuff that you liked and was building towards other goals anyway, regardless of how college admissions turns out.
I am waiting for a few more colleges, but if I were to get rejected from all of them ( I really hope not!), I would rather go to a CC and transfer into a UC, since I heard that it is much harder to transfer out of a CSU than a CC.
I am truly sorry, you deserved better! I know how you feel, I was waitlisted to Sac State with a 2250 sat and 4.5 gpa! Lets hope for positive results in the impending weeks
imo there is no chance you’ll get shut out of the privates you applied to. take hope and try to relax as you wait for a few more weeks. no one likes all this waiting!
Congratulations,on the acceptance from UC Santa Cruz, it’s a great university with such a beautiful campus. I enjoyed going on the tour with my D last year, as we love hiking and it seemed as we were “hiking” through the woods going from one building to the next.
My top choice is Brandeis! Brandeis has been my top choice since Sophomore year. With the decisions I have heard so far, I am slightly discouraged, but I have hope!!
“As responses come back to you from colleges, you will tend to dwell on the rejections, should you get some. It’s only natural – what you didn’t get and can’t have feels suddenly infinitely more valuable than what you did get and can have. You will be tempted to waste valuable time pondering what you could have done differently to be accepted by this or that school. You may be tempted to appeal the decision, if you had a “dream” school that didn’t come through. But there is only one good answer to make to any thin envelope you may receive: “Your loss, baby.” Then move to step two.”
— A Few Words of Advice from Jeffrey Brenzel, Dean of Admissions, 2005-2013, Yale Class of 1975
@coffeelife I hope you get into brandies and BU ( both of them are great schools. I wish I cold afford BU! ). Also, there’s hope that you get off the waitlist. However, taking a gap year is really a good option in case you didn’t like your choices. That’s what I did and I’m so happy I did it.
