<p>Just wondering how you guys deal with waiting to hear about uber reach schools when you've already experienced a lesser reach school rejection. After a day of 2 reach rejects and one safety-fit acceptance... I'm not feeling too good about Ivy Day and more importantly.. Stanford :/</p>
<p>One thing I think about is how one of my friends last year got rejected to every private he applied to except Harvard... which ended up giving him a full ride!</p>
<p>waitlisted at both northwestern and wustl. this sucks. thot i had a real chance (2360 SAT, valedictorian,etc.). wish they’d just outright reject me instead. waiting hopelessly for ivies/duke. trying to ponder wat went wrong.</p>
<p>It all comes down to what that individual school thinks of you- it’s important not to lump them together as we often do. Each admissions officer has different thoughts running through their head when they’re reading your application. Sometimes, it’s just not meant to be… other times, you get an admissions committee that thought of you as a really good fit!</p>
<p>Nothing went wrong, shanghaigirl. Highly selective schools are ‘building a class’ which means they are looking for a certain mix of backgrounds, interests, experiences - from group of applicants many, if not most, of whom would fit right in academically and socially. It can be as random as the fact that your application ended up in the stack right after someone who looked similar to you and was offered admission. </p>
<p>Don’t fret- one negative decision doesn’t say anything about the rest. Seahawks is right, each decision is an independent event.</p>
<p>Just got rejected by MIT and waitlisted by UChicago. Still 10 decisions to go. Anxiety reaching top levels…
Mostly dealing by eating lots of sweets (not very fond of, but it helps) :D</p>
<p>I was rejected at a couple state schools, waitlisted at 3 privates, and rejected at 2. Waiting for the other 5 schools is tough, I just keep thinking if it works out, it works out. There are so many story’s of getting rejected at safety’s and getting in a reaches, you just have to accept you never know what’s going to happen.</p>
<p>Hm, loving all the positive input and reminders of how random the process really is.</p>
<p>Still bummed, but I’ll try to keep my chin up and anxiety at a healthy amount for the next week :P</p>
<p>I just remember all of the adults I know who told me they were rejected from the schools they wanted but ended up meeting their spouse at the school they ended up at. Everything happens for a reason.</p>
<p>I have the same problem. I was rejected by UCLA my top choice, so now I only have UCB left to hope for but it’s almost impossible since my stats are super low. For UCLA I thought I had a chance because I received a supplemental thing but for UCB I got nothing so I think my chance of getting in is like 10%. I only applied to 6 colleges so not that many choices to choose from. However I felt lucky because I already got in 4 of them.</p>