<p>Dear NYU,
I hope you know that you were my "safe"school. I was almost sure I would get into your school. You were not a first choice though because you were way too expensive and way too much about glitz and building campuses in stupid pointless places and wasting tuition money just to get some stupid celebrities to attend your school. Oh and thanks for getting me to waste 70 bucks on you by sending me 500 letters every day about how interested you are in me. Im sure you were interested, considering my SAT score and gpa were wayyyyyy above your average stats. Don't worry. Im laughing inside over the rejection letter I got earlier today, because 1. I got a full ride to Rutgers and accepted to Brandeis 2. You accepted a kid who paid off someone to take his SATs for him and who I tutored in history and math. You might have accepted a complete idiot, but I know you secretly did it because his father owns several multi million dollar companies. He didn't have to ask for financial aid so he was obviously the better choice. Also, you save an extra dorm by accepting him because he is buying a park house penthouse (because GD forbid he sleeps on a dorm mattress and has a window without a view) Maybe he will fund your new campus in antarctica!?</p>
<p>I love your creativity and authentic expression in writing this letter to NYU. Hmmm, I do not know why you were not accepted given this piece of work. Maybe this should have been your essay?? Might have turned the tide in your favor? </p>
<p>I am not sure that all of it is factual. Hmm, the part about the “complete idiot” who was favored and got into NYU because of his father’s multi-million dollar wealth. NYU is supposed to be need blind. Wait, come to think of it. Didn’t I read something about the Gallatin School administrators rolling out the red carpet for Emma Watson (of the Harry Potter movie series fame) when she was visiting the school as a prospective applicant?</p>
<p>Hey, AK, sorry for your bitter disappointment. But as you wrote, you got into Brandeis (ranked higher than NYU by US News and Report), got full ride to Rutgers (an excellent state school) and NYU was your “safe” school. So, you are in a very solid place despite the NYU rejection. Congrats on your other acceptances. I just hope living in NYC was not a main pull for you. If that is the case, at least Rutgers is within commutable distance to the city for you to take some w/e trips. :)</p>
<p>I really appreciated your ability to express disappointment on paper that must reflect the thoughts of some who did not get in to NYU or were waitlisted by NYU.</p>
<p>I hope time heals you and others who can resonate with this reflection of disappointment at NYU.</p>
<p>Hey, AK, don’t be bitter. i got into Stern today, no scholarship, but a very nice offer to lend me all the money, with interest. i also applied to Rutgers, but I only got the $10,000 Carr scholarship. if i got a full ride to Rutgers, I’d be the happiest person on the planet!</p>
<p>Since no one seems to be responding negatively to this thread, I guess I will.</p>
<p>I’m sorry that you weren’t accepted when you felt like you should have been, but as you said, NYU was a lesser option for you. If you’d thought that, you shouldn’t have applied, and you shouldn’t be that torn up if you weren’t accepted. </p>
<p>I appreciate that you’re upset about it, but I don’t think you need to make assumptions - that you’re better than people who did get in or that NYU will regret not having chosen you in the future - like that.</p>
<p>I totally get you!! I didnt apply to NYU (cos Im an international and its known that NYU isnt cool unless you dont ask for finaid), but I totally get you rant. It sucks when you get rejected, today I received 3 rejections!! Vanderbilt because my materials were incomplete (I just applied to apply lol) Wesleyan, cos I read somewhere that they were laid back, good with fin aid and had a special spot to smoke pot. Vassar I really wanted to go to Vassar, "myspace"app was amazing!! I bet few of the applicants did a great job as mine.
I have AMAZING & UNIQUE EC’s, but cant afford tuition withou finaid, that is why these schools rejected me and perhaps I will keep on getting rejection letters but that is because they are looking for money, not quality.</p>
<p>Must have spent a lot of money on a fake ID for the test-taker. Wasn’t anyone suspicious when the actual person didn’t show up for the SAT? I would think all his friends would wonder where the non-test-taker “was” the day he claimed to have taken the test. Wouldn’t several people say, “Hey, I don’t remember you there that day…”</p>
<p>There was actually a recent report I saw in tv news (I think CBS and or CNN) in the last two weeks about a trend uncovered for some students to pay other students or professional test takers to bring fake IDs and take the SATs for them. One school on Long Island/ Nassau County was implicated in this. Those of you unfamiliar with Nassau County, parts of the county are considered very wealthy areas. High property taxes mean many schools that have the money and resources to encourage great achievement by the students. Unfortunately, the county budget is now in a shambles, with years of mismanagement. Nonetheless, there are many high achieving students/ parents in the county. Affluence and high pressure to perform have apparently resulted in this trend of buying higher standardized score results by some students.</p>
<p>OK, I have to respond to this. I usually dislike spreading my discontent over the internet, but AK, your posts on CC reek of bad attitude, and you need to grow up and accept that you aren’t entitled to acceptances just because you think you are qualified enough. Sure, the kid who bought his/her SAT’s got in and you didn’t, but that’s life. Life’s unfair. Life’s a b**** and then you die.</p>
<p>Your other posts on CC make you out to be very whiny and immature. Constantly disparaging other people with lower stats who got in to your desired schools is unwarranted, and disparaging schools that don’t accept you makes you seem, yet again, entitled. It’s not all grades, you know. Your snotty attitude may have come across in your essay, or your teachers might have referenced it in your recommendations without you knowing it. </p>
<p>Also, NYU was by no means a safety for you, judging by your stats. Calling a school like NYU a ‘safety’ without having a 2300+ SAT is pure absurdity.</p>
<p>Sorry for the harsh words, but I think you deserve some tough love before you go off to college. Not everyone’s going to speak soothing words to you in the future. Just move on, go to Rutgers or Brandeis or whatever, and forget about NYU.</p>
<p>I think when the poster studies Psychology 101 at Brandeis or Rutgers and gets to the topic of Cognitive Dissonance, he will reflect on his post of today.</p>
<p>OP, I really think your attitude is unwarranted. If you’ve already gotten into so-called “better” schools, why are you ranting here and spoiling people’s moods?
I had a similar experience yesterday, I got rejected by UC Berkeley. It sucked, but I had already gotten into schools higher up on my preference list, so I MOVED ON. Yes, looking at the acceptances, there were people with lower stats and worse ECs compared to mine, but I didn’t go around posting mean comments and ruining their day.
Honestly, I think its time to get that stick out of your whiny, selfish a55.</p>
<p>First of all, get over yourself. Have your little boohoo moment off in a corner if you’re that petty and virulent. As other commenters have said, this type of post really only shows you to be overtly immature. Second, I for one think it is actually worthwhile to the entire student body for NYU to try and attract accomplished celebrities -– alumni add to their prestige and thus make a graduate more appealing to employers. Third, as another poster said, NYU is need-blind –- they don’t see your financials when reviewing your app. Fourth, I’m amazed that there are actually people that pay off others to take tests. Sure, it’s easy enough considering the fact that you only have to show your school ID to a proctor who probably has never met you before, but wow. I thought people were a hell of a lot more conscientious than that.</p>
<p>He has a fake ID. I have seen it. It costed him 400 to make. Also, everyone in my school takes the SATs by ourselves at our school. He made an excuse and took the SATs in a random city hours away for no reason and told me he really paid someone bec. he couldnt break a 900.</p>
<p>(1) the word you were looking for was “cost” not “costed”. (2) Did you know people lie? I doubt anyone would say “yeah, I had someone take it for me because I couldn’t break 900”. I don’t think anyone would shed themselves in such a light, since most people seek self-preservation, especially when it comes to self-image. (3) Please explain to me how NYU was a safety if you applied to Rutgers? I thought that Rutgers was easier to get into than NYU? Oh right, it is. So let’s try re-categorizing your school selections. (4) If brandeis was your target then there’s no way NYU was a safety, they’re very equal in many aspects. Unless you have a 2300+, NYU is not a safety. (5) Admissions is not always predictable and it’s also possible that your attitude - “NYU is a safety; I’m entitled to go there” was apparent in your essays and that’s why you weren’t accepted. I know if I were an admissions officer, read this post and knew it was someone applying to my school, I wouldn’t accept them.</p>