<p>cherrybrandy - it’s not a question of whether recommendations in Turkey are confidential…what did USC want?</p>
<p>@Grcxx3: you mean they would remain confidential right?</p>
<p>yes - I thought (and have always dealt with) colleges required confidential recs from teachers (or other people). That means…they are written and sent to the school WITHOUT the student seeing them.</p>
<p>@Grcxx3: yeah but as you see things are different here.</p>
<p>that didn’t answer my question…</p>
<p>Does USC REQUIRE confidential recs from teachers (or whoever)?</p>
<p>I don’t know.</p>
<p>I understand that things are different there. I lived for many years in the Middle East and Central Asia, and the culture in those places with respect to educational issues (among other things) is very different than it is in the US. </p>
<p>No one knows why you didn’t get in. We all have our thoughts/ideas…but no one knows. If you really want to know - contact the school. If they do give you a reason - for your sake - I hope they give you an honest answer.</p>
<p>Bottom line…there are no guarantees in life. Just because you THINK you deserve to get into a particular school, doesn’t mean it will happen. Just because you THINK you are better than someone else, doesn’t mean that other people will necessarily agree. Life isn’t fair. </p>
<p>Oh - and privacy is kind of a big thing over here. Just something you might want to think about…</p>
<p>“Life isn’t fair.”</p>
<p>100% agree.</p>
<p>Who is the one not fair? Life or USC?</p>
<p>Cherrybrandy, you are obviously right. That kid should not be admitted either… Or if they did admit him, you should also be admitted. However, I think that from now on you should forget about USC and look ahead. It is clear that you will be very successful in the other and better university you are admitted.</p>
<p>I want to note that I also appreciate your decisiveness and ambition which routes you to follow up this injustice.</p>
<p>Best wishes.</p>
<p>Anyway, who are YOU to judge who they accept?</p>
<p>Continue thinking in this way and be sure that you will never be able to have control on what you live.</p>
<p>Just inferiority complex, I say. Who am “I” to judge… Hahahha… You will never be able to be someone… Asking people who they are to judge… I think it is since that uncanniness you have… That uncanniness makes you not capable of being an individual. Don’t think that everyone is like you and should be like you: I mean should be no one.</p>
<p>Even being afraid of thinking, questioning… This is what you are. What a pity situation!</p>
<p>As Kant says, dare to be wise. Dare to know. Sapere Aude. Maybe you know, it is the motto of enlightenment.</p>
<p>You need some light.</p>
<p>. . . ended up getting rejected by the not so good USC.</p>
<p>You deserve to be at USC. pack your stuffs and go claim your sit at USC </p>
<p>Please someone close this thread because none of us know the kid who got in, even the jealous, bitter OP does not the kid really well .</p>
<p>International students don’t get freeway into colleges because the admission officers feel bad for them. I don’t know if it happened before but if your English is not good enough you are not ready to be in an American college because when you will in classes, you will compete with students who are mostly native speaker. I am an international student and I can tell you that we international student do not get any excuses for bad grades because sometimes international students score better in English and in Math in the SAT and other test than American Students.</p>
<p>@yelena: You don’t have to blame me for jealosy if you have a retarted mind to understand my main point since your first post in this thread. Honey we already found the reasons. You can just leave this thread. okay?</p>
<p>^
Prove that you can write in proper English, right now. I dare you.</p>
<p>Prove the reason?</p>
<p>^
Exactly.</p>
<p>With highest possibility I’m rejected because of the high demand in CS in the university where is not that far away from Silicon Valley. </p>
<p>The other reasons would be, they selected him for just because athletics, or it was an accident or weird emotional selection.</p>
<p>"With highest possibility I’m rejected because of the high demand in CS in the university where is not that far away from Silicon Valley.</p>
<p>The other reasons would be, they selected him for just because athletics, or it was an accident or weird emotional selection. "</p>
<p>Let me help you:</p>
<p>(I was most likely rejected because of the university’s high demand for CS applicants.</p>
<p>They might have accepted “my friend” because of his background in athletics. It is also possible that they made their decision by accident or because his application moved their emotions somehow.)</p>
<p>I’m not trying to make fun of you (you communicate in English much better than I can in any other language). All I’m saying is that, if your application sounds as incoherent as some of the things you write here, it may have been a big reason why they tossed your application.</p>
<p>How you concluded that my application is incoherent?</p>