<p>Don’t worry. With your stats I’m sure you’ll get into an excellent college.</p>
<p>Hey I’m pretty upset I didn’t get in either… I got deferred. Ugh. I wish Penn would just accept us =(</p>
<p>Sunny: I hear that top colleges apparently favour male applicants because more girls apply? I don’t know… Just something I picked up somewhere on CC.</p>
<p>Hard to do now, but compile a balanced list of schools (Dream, just right, no problem), and be really critical about your essays.</p>
<p>Hooks do make a huge difference in the college application process: URM, athlete, 1st generation, location, legacy, and “development” (connections). But what you should do is create your own ‘hook’: an unusual hobby, a collector of XX?, voluneer at XX, bizarre summer job? etc. What makes you different and what do you ‘offer’ your next school?</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t get accepted either. I even got REJECTED. Cheer up!</p>
<p>You are obviously a talented and intelligent high school student, but get over yourself. Plenty of even more impressive students got rejected too.</p>
<p>he’s got to have something good, otherwise penn wouldn’t consider him even if he’s like dean of the admission’s son. and really, applying to ivy is just a matter of luck.</p>
<p>I had a 2250 and good grades and decent ECs too and I was rejected/waitlisted from a lot more schools than I had hoped. Were you rejected or deferred?</p>
<p>don’t worry. it will work out in the end for you</p>
<p>My friend is in the EXACT same boat as you. Im not going to start listing his credentials, but Ill note that he had high SAT scores, grades, ECs, you name it. He was only one of two kids who was deferred from my school (about 7 were accepted). Looking at the other kids, most didnt even compare. One boy who was accepted has a parent who works at Penn which really gave him a leg-up, and another kid got in for athletics. It happens. Just move on and dont get your hopes down.</p>
<p>SAUGUS is an unhappy camper–ignore!!!</p>
<p>Pizzagirl is sage!!!</p>
<p>^^
OK, I could have phrased that more politely.</p>
<p>But there are literally thousands of candidates identical to the OP. He shouldn’t be so shocked.</p>
<p>This is absurd. There’s much more to every applicant than the facts you can get across on an internet forum in three lines of text. </p>
<p>I’m not going to make a definitive statement based only on your post, but I hope you aren’t actually this arrogant, resentful, and superficial normally (you probably aren’t.) But if that kind of a post is the way you generally think perhaps we have another reason why you weren’t accepted.</p>
<p>Nobody should be shocked when they don’t get into a super-selective school, such as an Ivy. We likewise don’t know what category an acceptee fulfilled, which hook worked.</p>
<p>Connections really do mean everything. A kid at my school (last year) has a 1940 SAT and a 3.5 GPA. He is involved but nothing special. He got into Wharton RD because his dad is some business mogul who knows like the dean of Wharton or something.</p>
<p>Many of you guys want to go to Penn precisely because you think it will give you valuable connections in the business world, and then you whine because it is admitting people that will help it maintain its network of business connections.</p>
<p>If this helps, I had some connections at Penn but was denied. It’s not all based on who you know. It’s who you are also. I was mostly qualified, though I guess just not qualified enough</p>
<p>reading elkingg’s post just made me feel worse. I’m applying RD to penn, just finished my apps. Going thru the app and see the glaringly empty spot at Honors and Credit took in Colleges. Not president of any clubs, but did a bunch of community service projects. Looks like my chances are very bleak. </p>
<p>btw, I did abt 400+ hrscommunity service, juz wondering how can I convey this to the college, coz its not printed in my transcript.</p>
<p>he may have had very good family connections to the school. it may feel “unfair” but it’s not “unfair”. Penn is a private business, they can do whatever they want to.</p>