Lol, I have mediocre stats, but am 4/4 (accepted at UCLA, UCSD, UCD, UCSB). I wanna know what part of my application was really strong and made me stand out. I wish colleges sent out letters stating why each applicant was accepted. Lol, it’d be hard but could be done. Anyways, who hasn’t been rejected so far?
<p>I haven't been rejected yet, but I think I probably will be when April 1st rolls around. I've been accepted by:
Clarkson
RIT
RPI
MIT
Rutgers
Texas A&M
U. Pitt</p>
<p>I'm still waiting on:
Cooper Union
Harvard
Cornell - I got a letter that said I would very likely be accepted.</p>
<p>If you are wondering I applied for computer engineering.</p>
<p>lol lyrical, can't have it both ways :). they have to be fair to the rejects, imagine if they told everyone why they were rejected.</p>
<p>i want them to tell me why i'm rejected....</p>
<p>Why do you want them to tell you why you were accepted? Just so you can hear great things about yourself? I believe that you KNOW why you have been accepted, but want somebodyelse to tell it to you...A letter explaining a rejection makes much more sense because that person could try to change their faults...</p>
<p>"A letter explaining a rejection makes much more sense because that person could try to change their faults..."</p>
<p>They can't really change their faults actually... no second chance in undergraduate admissions (unless community college transfer?).</p>
<p>Having colleges telling why they accepted you would be opening Pandora's Box. All the counselors and all the students would want to obtain these letters and figure out what's the magic formula, which activities give a bigger boost, and a bunch of another chaotic artificial college admissions junk. I'm pretty sure we don't want that to happen.</p>
<p>Maybe they could change their faults... in LIFE, if not in college admissions. I know it's tough to fathom, but the two are separable at times.</p>
<p>the reason you are rejected is usually not a fault...it's just that the admissions board didn't see you in their community. Admissions is based more on the community of the incoming class and not the individual aspect.</p>
<p>They can't tell you why you get in cuz in some case, it will be like "Yeah, we want you to get in cuz your parents are freaking rich and prominent so we can kinda advertise our school name."</p>
<p>^lyrical why dont you just go to ucla, great school</p>
<p>You were accepted because one of our readers wanted to go to the movies and he took a part of his pile and put it in the accepted pile and yours was one of them.</p>
<p>ha ha...one of my dad's friends is an admissions officer and he said they crumple the paper and throw them across the room...farthest win...sounds like a good plan for me at Stanford and Harvard...i used extra heavy paper</p>
<p>Stanford-
Harvard-
Dartmouth-
Amherst-
UCB-
UCLA- Accepted Chemical Engineering<br>
UCSD- Accepted Biomedical Engineering
UCSB- Accepted Honors Program
UCD- Accepted
UCI- Accepted Honors Program</p>
<p>5/5 so far...might be 5/10 soon</p>
<p>is the rejection based on not fitting into the community? Because on paper i look like a total jock, sports this and sports that, but i'm not really one. Although I dont see me really fitting into UCSD, i wish i could know hwy i was rejected. I know it would upset some people, but i would like to know if it was because of my grades, what i do in my spare time, test scores. I mean its over now and nothing will change it, but i just would like to know why because i think that I'm good enough to go there. I want to know why they think i'm not. then i'll prove them wrong.</p>
<p>When I worked for a small college, we used to do this (sort of). Our main aim was to make the admit letter a little more personalized, but inevitably the easiest way to do that is to tell the candidate what made them stand out, what impressed the admissions committee. It would be just a sentence or two, usually, sandwiched inbetween the basic material you include in every admit letter.</p>
<p>Of course, being a small school made this possible. I'm sure it's nearly impossible for UCLA and brethren.</p>
<p>randomtask: u can call ucsd admissions office during office hours and ask them.</p>
<p>I'm a take-it-as-it-is type of person, so I really don't care about the reasons why my colleges admitted me. Even if I was rejected, I wouldn't care to know why I didn't get in. I'd be sad about my rejections, but I wouldn't be sad enough to inquire why. I trust the admissions people know what they're doing; a lot of them have probably been doing that stuff for years, though their judgments appear surprising at times.</p>
<p>i'm a 6/6.</p>
<p>RAndom - every CU is flooded with qualified candidates for admission. There just isn't enough space for everybody. Rejection doesn't mean you were not qualified or that they wouldn't want you as a student...there just wasn't enough space.</p>
<p>Would a student with the same stats, but with EC's that demonstrated a long term committment toward their stated major get chosen over someone whose EC's seemed to less directed toward that goal? It is possible but the decision could be the result of something less specific, bordering on random choice. NPI</p>
<p>Bowdoin says in their letter what part of your application stood out.</p>
<p>"Having colleges telling why they accepted you would be opening Pandora's Box. All the counselors and all the students would want to obtain these letters and figure out what's the magic formula, which activities give a bigger boost, and a bunch of another chaotic artificial college admissions junk. I'm pretty sure we don't want that to happen."</p>
<p>i really agree with that statement. people are always trying to find that one silver bullet that can get you into college, but i've come to learn that it really is just.. random.</p>
<p>awakenedream: do they really tell you why you weren't accepted?</p>