<p>If you read all of his essays and recommendations, that seems very wrong.</p>
<p>Cherrybrandy, you’ve been many grammatical mistakes in your writing in this thread.</p>
<p>Post #94 may indicate one of the reasons why the OP wasn’t accepted.</p>
<p>I think a lot of people have typos in posts here that they wouldnt have in apps or essays, and I think they put on their application face on apps.</p>
<p>@Endicott: Sorry teacher, I won’t do it again. </p>
<p>@Northstarmom: Hmm so what’s that? My attitude to the ■■■■■■ in this thread? Yeah USC definitely rejected me for this reason.</p>
<p>I do totally agree with kayf. It is so nonsense to conclude that cherrybrandy made grammatical mistakes in his essays and other application materials.</p>
<p>Cherrybrandy,</p>
<p>Your anger seemed immature and impulsive, and those traits could have been reflected in your application, interview or recommendations, even if those who recommended you didn’t refer directly to those traits. The way to handle ■■■■■■ is to ignore them, not get into vicious arguments with them.</p>
<p>Big apologies to jaykoblives: </p>
<p>" How -have- you concluded that my application is incoherent? "</p>
<p>I feel like my essay paper is being checked by a teacher right now. You can relax. We’re not in classroom.</p>
<p>@Northstarmom: My application had nothing with my anger, I’m just irritated by those ■■■■■■ who have been attacking this thread since I opened it. </p>
<p>Because you know applications are filled out with big attention, the behavior I show here is irrevelant with the applications I sent to colleges.</p>
<p>The admissions officer who read your application probably locked the keys in their car while it was running, then stepped in dog poop while having a huge fight with their significant other on a cellphone that was running out of batteries. The other kid probably caught an admissions officer on a much better day. </p>
<p>As you have guessed, it’s a very imperfect system and luck plays a role. Your luck was bad, the other guy’s was good. Don’t take it personally.</p>
<p>@ClassicRockerDad: Yes, you are right. Perhaps luck played a big role in this process. And also, thnks for understanding my problem.</p>
<p>At a huge state school with tens of thousands of applicants there are bound to be random flaws in the process. t is a process in which human beings play the primary role and people make mistakes and have bad days. Maybe the admissions officer was hungover or had a bad childhood experience with someone with the same last name as yours. Logic does not prevail in the case of individual admissions; it only prevails when looking at the admissions process numbers and decisions as a whole and from afar. Life ain’t fail. Deal with it.</p>
<p>First of all… if you used the word ~how come~ in any form… it is actually not a word. I only know that, because I was ridiculed for using it by my english teacher in middle school and it made an impact on me. Please believe me, I am not trying to be critical, just helpful.
Also I have to agree with yelena in part, a huge lesson I am just learning… and I am much older than you…is this: if you have strengths that you are proud of… you don’t have to tell anyone. The cream usually rises to the top. The top are usually noticed. I understand that in this case you needed to basically boast about your qualifications to ask the question in this thread, however… some people come across as aggressive while others are assertive… some are boastful while others are confident. A guy can bowl a perfect game, shoot and make 50 baskets in a row, write the best essay, etc… while another talks about what a great bowler, basketball player, essay writer they are… Sometimes people create a tone…as you did in this thread… by putting down another applicant, you got a bunch of people jumping on you and misunderstanding what you meant. I understand you kind of had to set the stage to ask your question but this might be a great life lesson. Your approach is everything. That being said… Extra activities, interests, work & past volunteer history can all figure in to decisions as well. And then as was suggested your major and qualifications may be lumped into a general pool and it was just the luck of the draw. I know that it is hard to understand. But you said that you got accepted to your first choice. Congratulations! Another life lesson…sometimes you just have to move on and there is no understanding.</p>
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<p>I’m going to have to agree. Sometimes in informal writing people leave out apostrophes or don’t capitalize, but there are some very fundamental underlying writing and grammar flaws here.</p>
<p>Oh please, many people omit more than apostrophes, etc. OP, you got (oh excuse me, you were) accepted at your first choice. Don’t look back.</p>
<p>I just read this whole thread. Wow! I just wanted to add something…Classic Rocker Dad put it best! This is a human thing…full of flaws… much like the voting process and the chads in FL when voting for Bush eons ago…We can’t blame this on a mechanical error. This is kind of personal because it is a matter of opinion… So I do understand Cherry’s taking it personally
I will never forget when some obviously wet behind the ears Assistant Editor rejected a childrens book I had self published but had begun to submit to publishing companies…He had sent out a rejection letter with about 3 spelling errors in it! His reason for rejecting my book was the font was hard to read! Well, you are the publisher… change the font! Geesh! I have sold many copies of that book on my own and am confident that it is a good book but the outrage I felt for a few seconds (wanting to send the Editor a copy of the assistant Editor’s letter) makes me understand Cherry’s feelings here. I am using this story as kind of a metaphor to show how we ALL have felt insulted or slighted by something that can’t be explained in our own lives. All who replied on this thread can go back to a time that we feel human opinion played a flawed role somewhere in our past. Like a poster mentioned… life is unfair and we will learn it in future jobs, relationships, etc… I know that I watch my daughter (who is in an theater conservatory) audition for things where of course I think she is BEST and not get the part. The thing is I KNOW she will make it, I have no doubt that she is very good and will follow her dreams. Cherry, you have to just decide that human opinion is going to happen but you will make it in spite of all the rejections…it’s hard to move on when something seems unfair but I like your humor and understand your question and am glad this thread lasted this long so that I could see that you are just as human as all of us would be if it were us or our kid asking the same question. Good luck and may God bless you on your journey! Remember you are an empty book with pages just waiting to be written on! YOU can write your own story!</p>
<p>@brookesmom: Thanks for your comment, as I thought maybe an emotional selection or a personal interpretation affected my admission process a lot. And probably it did if there wasn’t a huge demand on CS major this year. On the other hand, I think I still couldn’t highlight one thing here:</p>
<p>My humor, diction, tone and attitude, especially to ■■■■■■ who started to blame me for being arrogant just because of a honest question should not be matched with my style of writing in essays or other things in applications. And it’s no true that I praised myself as you supposed, my personal statements were all honest and sincere.</p>
<p>Hi, Sorry it took me a while to reply. I think you are right. People jumped on you because of your honest question. I know that when my boss e-mails me sometimes I am offended because of the tone of the e-mail when in fact, she insists it is the sensitivity of the receiver. A life lesson. Ah and many more to come! <em>wink</em> Good luck as you are educated in the institution of your first choice!</p>
<p>It’s luck. /close topic.</p>
<p>What school did you get into btw</p>