<p>Glad you're excited about your future at Michigan. By the way, Michigan is not exactly chopped liver..........</p>
<p>Maybe a combination of destiny, karma and mojo...</p>
<p>I'm glad you're going to Mich! Good luck!</p>
<p>It All Works Out for the Best!!</p>
<p>congratulations, you're really lucky, i know getting rejected is pretty hard, especially from the colleges you basically wanted to go to, i got rejected from several private schools in the uk, not because my qualifications were too bad, but because i would have required an award of 90% =D ****.</p>
<p>I know exactly how you feel. Last year I was rejected by my top choice schools and ended up going to UVa. I couldn't be any happier here at UVa.</p>
<p>Congrats & good luck!</p>
<p>Congrats! for your admission to UMich. My S has the similar situation on 2004,
and now he is a junior at Ross B-School.
Hey, go Rose Bowl and show your support to the Wolverine next time, the USC Trojan just has too much home court advantage there.</p>
<p>My D is a violinist and got totally fixated on the Manhattan School of Music, her top choice by far. She decided to apply to NYU only as her New York back-up. After traversing the country during January-March audition season (it's grueling but you get a good feel for a school that's right for you), her last audition was at NYU. </p>
<p>Wouldn't you know that she loved it. The people were great, the non-classical and collaborative (jazz, film score) performance opportunities addressed this undercurrent of uncertainty she has about the classical music world, it's a university where she can study Spanish, record producing, music business and have a semester abroad in Prague.</p>
<p>By the time acceptances and rejections came out, the NYU acceptance was celebrated mightily and the Manhattan School of Music rejection was greeted with a smile and a shrug.</p>
<p>It really does often work out for the best.</p>
<p>The best thing in life is not getting what you want, but wanting what you've got.</p>
<p>Nice one, larationalist. I visited UMich a year ago on college visits with my daughter, and as Northstarmom said, I was thinking of frecklybeckly's experience as I went there. Once there, I understood what you and she have learned. Ann Arbor is one of the classic college experiences in America. Lots of us talk about our Alma Maters with great affection; I've noticed that UMich grads actually get choked up reflecting on it. Congratulations, and enjoy!</p>
<p>I have a similar story. I was deferred ED from davidson. during application time i was SO focused on that one school that i barely looked around for other options. after i got accepted to unc chapel hill, i quickly realized that being trapped with an ED decision would have been awful! i was so convinced unc was the right school for me that i didn't even send in my mid-year report to davidson- who knew i'd end up rejecting them...and being happy about it?</p>
<p>I have an interesting, familiar situation.</p>
<p>When i was just beginning to apply to colleges in the fall, i, like every other senior, was pretty naive about the whole thing. thinking new york would be so awesome to live in, i applied early to Columbia without knowing anything about it except for the name and how the main quad looked in brochures. after about a week of sending my app in, i deciding i didnt want to go anymore. i applied to other colleges for regular, and my interviewer from northwestern went on and on about how living in new york as a college student isnt as spectacular as it may seem. i was rejected, probably due to that fact i did the entire app the night before the deadline, which by the way i turned in late.</p>
<p>in the past couple months i started recieving admission letters. i was accepted into UMich pretty early in the game, surprising considering i also turned this app in late (i wasnt really planning on attending here). i was rejected from the schools i wanted, namely berkeley and northwestern. but after visiting UMich last week, i have to say it was completely over the top of what i had expected it to be, although i still have uncertainties about how small ann arbor is compared to LA. </p>
<p>but even so, i was planning on appealing to berkeley because of my familiarity to it and my love for san francisco. but on the friday before the appeal was due, my recommending teacher was absent and i had to turn in my appeal a day late. given that, and the fact that i missed the Cal Grant requirement by 0.04 GPA points..</p>
<p>I guess this is the way God's telling me I'm a wolverine. GO BLUE!!</p>
<p>Did you visit UMich this monday? If so, I did too!</p>
<p>I liked the campus, but IMO I like Penn State's campus more, just because its cleaner, has newer buildings and the residence halls aren't dark.</p>
<p>I also got waitlisted at my first choice, visited another, fell in love with it and can't imagine myself anywhere else!</p>
<p>Rejected at Harvard/Stanford, got into Duke, among a couple other schools...can't imagine going anywhere else now.</p>
<p>Heh, "only" Berkeley and UMich.</p>
<p>Congrats anyway. =)</p>
<p>that happened to me. I got rejected from Reed University and will be going to Rutgers. That is really the best ghing that could have happened to me.</p>
<p>At first, I really wanted to go to Brown, but when I was deferred, I realized that was a good thing and that I really liked the other schools I was applying to. An ED acceptance would have prevented me from even having a chance to consider the other schools. I ended up getting rejected from Brown, but it barely hurt because I knew I had other great options that I loved. I think that the best advice someone can give to a rising senior is to make sure to find many schools that you really like instead of setting you hopes on one. And be sure to find safeties and matches that you like as much as the reaches. This way, it will hurt a lot less to be rejected. I barely thought twice after my rejection.</p>
<p>I really, really wanted to go to Cornell, but i was waitlisted there, and I hadn't gotten any big acceptances to that point, when Tufts accepted me. If I had gotten into both, I probably wouldn't have given tufts a fair chance, so ultimately I'm very happy I could :-)</p>
<p>Rejected Harvard & Stanford...
But I'm now trying to decide amongst Berkeley, Cornell, U Chicago & Notre Dame ;)
arrrr can't decide!!</p>