<p>In some programs, the Ivies aren’t even that great of schools. For example, Ivy League engineering schools aren’t that great. UC Berkeley is a much stronger program for engineering than any Ivy.</p>
<p>I wasn’t too upset. Yeah, I had always sort of wanted to go to Princeton, but I had never thought it would happen. And as March 31st, I increasingly regretted applying to Yale, because I didn’t like it as much as Swarthmore, where I had already gotten in, and if I was accepted to Yale, my parents would have wanted me to go there. Luckily… got rejected by both, and will be heading off happily to Swarthmore. I was only sad to tell my parents. Felt like I was letting them down. But, then I remembered how hard it is to get into Swat, and my rejections weren’t really reflections on me. And I felt better. :)</p>
<p>I felt kind of bad about not getting into Cornell engineering (with their 30% acceptance rate), and getting rejected from Princeton was completely expected (I had a slimmer of hope that they saw something special in me). I was more dissapointed with myself than anything else, especially since they came right after a CMU waitlist (not for ECE). But I already had two better alternatives (than Cornell) laid out in my mind for engineering, and I got into a school later that day (non-ivy) that was my far out favorite. So the dissapointment was short-lived. The bad part was really my feeling of not being “ivy-quality”</p>