I can't believe I didn't get into UPenn.

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<p>OP, sorry about your disappointment.</p>

<p>It’s hard to see others get in when you appear to be more deserving.</p>

<p>At the same time you are not alone . . . you can expect the Ivies to reject 75-80% of folks with SAT’s above 2300. </p>

<p>And UPenn even disclosed that the class of 2013 has 360 children of alums!!!
[Penn</a> Admissions: Incoming Class Profile](<a href=“http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/]Penn”>http://www.admissions.upenn.edu/profile/)</p>

<p>Applying to ANY of these schools is to a large extent lottery.</p>

<p>Which is why the mantra is . . . love thy safeties.</p>

<p>Kei</p>

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<p>“I was mostly qualified, though I guess just not qualified enough”</p>

<p>You may have been sufficiently qualified, but your categories, whatever they were, were already filled.</p>

<p>“and not what the admissions departments wants you to think you are up against”</p>

<p>I, for one, don’t share this cynicism; I don’t think adcoms “want” anyone to think any particular thing. But the book is truly excellent, and tells the story.</p>

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<p>man, rejection is gods way of protecting you. If you take that as a given, it doesnt seem so bad. Im sure you’ll go to a great school and in a few months this will be a blip on the radar</p>

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<p>Nice necrobump…</p>

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<p>Reading this when there’s 3 more weeks until the decisions are posted?
This made my day. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BUMPING IT.</p>

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<p>Schools like Penn get something like 30,000 applications each year, and at least HALF are qualified enough-so there’s no way every qualified kid can get in. My second (of four) kids had a 2360, 17 AP tests, national-level awards in music and science, etc.-and did not get accepted to three Ivies including Penn (he’s happy at MIT!). My third child loves Penn and applied ED with similar accomplishments but of course no guarantee of acceptance-so she applied to several other places RD, but only other schools she’d clearly also be happy at, includung two safeties. “Love thy safeties” is a great mantra!</p>