<p>Maybe “Tufts syndrom” – they thought you wouldnt come based on your stats. Dont blame yourself.</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong to question the outcome. It will happen over and over again in your life - graduate school, job, your significant other. My nephew was admitted to JHU, but not Georgetown - same app, same essays - maybe JHU was a better for him and adcoms saw through that from his essays. Sometimes there is fate…A President of college at one welcome new students/parents said, “Look to your right, look to your left, you may be seeing your future in laws for the first time.” It is true, it is very likely you will probably meet your future significant other at the college you will be attending.</p>
<p>Move on, make the deposit, start shopping and enjoy the last carefree summer at home.</p>
<p>…A President of college at one welcome new students/parents said, “Look to your right, look to your left, you may be seeing your future in laws for the first time.” It is true, it is very likely you will probably meet your future significant other at the college you will be attending.</p>
<p>And the significance of this statement? this says to me the college you go to is more important than academics.</p>
<p>No, it’s called fate. You don’t think it’s funny? The President and 3,000 other people did. I am sure no one ever thought of it when deciding which college to go to.</p>
<p>kayf - I think there are other factors just as important as academics when choosing a school. It is the same when I am hiring, I do not hire applicants with highest GPAs.</p>
<p>kayf, I doubt “Tufts syndrome” came into play here as the OP’s test scores and course rigor were well below the average of accepted students at USC, with the GPA being slightly below.
Posted by cherrybrandy:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-illinois-urbana-champaign/613349-official-acceptance-thread-u-illinois-class-2013-a-10.html#post1062153036[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-illinois-urbana-champaign/613349-official-acceptance-thread-u-illinois-class-2013-a-10.html#post1062153036</a>
The error was in a student in the lower 25% of applicants considering the school to be a “safety.”
<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2008v3.pdf[/url]”>http://www.usc.edu/admission/undergraduate/private/0910/FreshmanProfile2008v3.pdf</a></p>
<p>If, as the OP says, their counselor allowed them to see the records and essays of the other student, the counselor should be fired.</p>
<p>LaVieEnChocolat</p>
<p>“We were very bitter and angry and sad and depressed with this country who claims loud that it’s a land of opportunities and anti-descrimination and open-minded where everybody can reach the American dream…BS!! her hard work obviously didn’t pay…” </p>
<p>Your D has been offered admission to American University and to Oxford College @ Emory w financial packages (“nice packages for my D at Emory and American: the cost of attendance it’s almost the same at both and they offered all grants but $8000 in work study and loans($2000 WS and 6000 in loans”) not bad for an $45000/49000 education! we are happy with FA!) and to the Honors program at the University of Florida and Florida State University where she no doubt qualifies for Bright Futures Scholarships. </p>
<p>All in all, IMHO, your d has some very good opportunities/options to further her education in this country.</p>
<p>@alamemom: hahaha. let’s see…</p>
<p>the other kid:</p>
<p>SAT I (by section): 1530
SAT IIs: Math II: 680
ACT:
APs:
IBs:
UM-GPA: 3.51
Rank: 32/103
Other stats: </p>
<p>oh and… USC requires 100 TOEFL score minimum for int’l students. I got 100 and the kid got 84. </p>
<p>The problem isn’t my stats, the problem is those stats which allowed this kid to be admitted to USC.</p>
<p>PS: I didn’t say it was counselor, I said we also work with an academic advisor “outside the school”.</p>
<p>its not really “unfair” to you. you probably just didn’t write as convincing of an essay</p>
<p>I think the USC admissions staff was very perceptive in this case. I am sure you will be very happy at the school to which you were accepted. Best of luck.</p>
<p>What is this? Aren’t you happy that a kid with lower scores than you was able to get into a good school?</p>
<p>@vibragreen: I’m just irritated by USC’s admissions committee. Because when the kid got acceptance from there I thought it was guaranteed for me.</p>
<p>^Nothing is ever guaranteed in college admissions - especially not at schools where there is a subjective component to their admissions process. You can’t predict a subjective decision based on objective measurements.</p>
<p>You got your target school, and your friend got USC. You both should be happy. Quit envying the success of others and focus on your own success. You are making yourself unhappy over something that should be irrelevant to you.</p>
<p>OK let me be constructive:</p>
<p>Honey you deserved it all. This kid had no right to take your spot for whatever reason. I feel your pain honey. </p>
<p>"oh and… USC requires 100 TOEFL score minimum for int’l students. I got 100 and the kid got 84.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t my stats, the problem is those stats which allowed this kid to be admitted to USC."</p>
<p>You came up with your own answer. You know that the problem is the kid’s stat so why are you even asking how come you got rejected?</p>
<p>Instead of judging the kid and the admission committee why don’t you be happy that the kid gets somewhere to go because you did not need that spot at the school?</p>
<p>You seem like the people who applied to a bunch of school even if they know that they won’t go there but just apply because they believe that they will get in. You seem like the people who apply in a school just to see in how many schools you can get in.</p>
<p>Alright last question for cherrybrandy. Would you have been happier if you did get into this school that you don’t plan on attending at the cost of this other kid being rejected?</p>
<p>Ah, I was rejected by USC too. Don’t dwell. I’m getting over it by thinking “college admissions is just weird and random. It’s jus a bunch of people judging you, plus my app wasn’t exactly stellar so I can’t be too disappointed with the decision. And another school saw something in me,that I’d rather go to so take that USC.”</p>
<p>Being male of any race can be a plus in admissions because at virtually all schools except engineering schools, females outnumber male applicants, and females also are the stronger applicants.</p>
<p>just because you had a higher grade doesn’t mean you should be admitted. If schools admit all the people that are academically qualified, what’s the point of doing applications and rejections. just sigh up to the school.</p>
<p>@yelena: Because those stats normally wouldn’t allow a person to get in USC. But the kid did. And I didn’t with better ones. This was the problem. Do you get it?</p>
<p>And your second question… Suppose this case didn’t happen and the kid and I both received acceptances from the school. However after a while I changed my mind and decided to study at Los Angeles, or money reason, or any reason, I decided to go USC. However because of this weird and stupid process of USC’s admission commitee I don’t have an acceptance while I deserve it since a person who is worse than me got it. </p>
<p>And yeah, I wanted to put USC’s acceptance into my pocket too because at the last time I would consider all my options before making definite my decision, even though I got into my target and now thinking to go there. </p>
<p>I can be included in those bunch of people whom you defined or I’m a person who applied as much as schools in order to guarantee attending at least one college. The latter is true but who cares? What if I was in the first group? I’m saying again, if the worse gets something, the better deserves it. This is the point, if you still didn’t get it. </p>
<p>@vibragreen: No, I’m happier now to see how a stupid admission process is going on in that “mysterious admissions office”. ;)</p>
<p>Cherrybrandy: Sorry to say, but you are being ridiculous. Your hypothetical situation does not matter. So what if you changed your mind and decided to go to school in Los Angeles? USC is not worried about that – they are interested in crafting what they consider to be the best class for them. You were not part of that class, but you got into another school that you would rather go to. Why are you worrying so much about this situation? It is irrelevant to your interests.</p>
<p>You say that this person is “worse than you.” That is a terrible thing to say, and again, you have no idea if a person is “worse than you.” Your judgment is biased because you are jealous of this other person’s admission to USC, but the other student could be considered better than you in the context of admissions to a specific place. Frankly, you are being arrogant and whiny.</p>
<p>You don’t “deserve” an admissions. This is called a sense of entitlement. Admissions is something that you earn, not something that you have a right to or “deserve.” You did not earn admissions to USC this time around. That is okay.</p>
<p>You need to calm down, count your blessings (many students were not accepted ANYWHERE this year, or were accepted to schools that they do not want to attend) and plan to attend the target school to which you were admitted.</p>
<p>And also, to the earlier poster in this thread, college admissions are not random. They are systematic, and admissions officers have reasons. Just because you do not understand their reasons does not mean they are random. A much better consolation is to realize that college admissions are NOT a comment on your character or your worth as a person, and in the grand scheme of your life, this will not matter – when you are 25 and have a job you will not have cared that you got rejected from USC or wherever back at age 17 or whatever. If you are a healthy, normal person, you will have moved on with your life onto greater, better things.</p>
<p>Please try to concentrate on graduating and all the other fun things high school seniors have coming up.</p>