<p>No offense, I love Kj, he's awesome, but why is he on the RD list? Who added him on?</p>
<p><em>hugs Tweet</em> Ini pare rau...or...darn, I forgot how to say "i'm sorry" in Romanian... Dickinson.. DICKINSON!!</p>
<p>Aaron: Accepted - Trinity College, IUB (Germany)
Alu: Accepted - Northwestern University
Arjun Shankar Prakash: Accepted: Cornell (ED), U Chicago (EA), Cambridge (Gonville and Caius), UK and UIUC.</p>
<p>BackInBlue:Accepted- Providence College(Honors) |Waitlisted- Colby, F&M, Kenyon, Gettysberg |Rejected - Trinity, DePauw
Banedon: Accepted - Uni of Michigan (Honors), WUSTL, Uni of Virginia (Echols Honors), Lehigh (Eckardt Honors)
bondof3: Accepted - Colgate(AM Scholar), Bryn Mawr, Reed, Houghton | Waitlisted: WUSTL</p>
<p>Callthecops2: Rejected - Princeton ED, Accepted - Clarkson Uni Hon. (i didnt even apply), Northwestern Weinberg CAS
Churalska: Accepted Northeastern Uni
Deference/Acceptance/DNA: Accepted - Imperial | Rejected - LSE,
Cambridge, York, Swarthmore, Bowdoin | Waitlisted: Vassar</p>
<p>Dexter: Accepted - Purdue, U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Uni of Michigan, UT Austin, Carnegie Mellon Univ.</p>
<p>Elisa: Accepted - UPEI with scholarship (Canada)
Ellenjh: Accepted - U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, UMichigan, Grinnell | Waitlisted WUStL, Vanderbilt | Rejected - Oberlin
Elodie: Accepted - Grinnell
Enilit: Waitlisted - Franklin & Marshall, Carleton | Rejected - Wesleyan (Freeman)</p>
<p>Highfive414: Accepted - Uni of Michigan
Honzan: Rejected- Earlham, Mcgill (arts and science)</p>
<p>IHS: Accepted: Northwestern | Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected-MIT
Izzy: Accepted - Cornell College (Iowa), Beloit College, Knox College, Brock University (Canada) | Rejected - Wesleyan University (Freeman
Asian Scholars Program) | Waitlisted Mount Holyoke College, Carleton College</p>
<p>Jay01: Accepted - University of Melbourne, Trinity College
Jeanatkin: Waitlisted - Oberlin, Trinity | Rejected - MIT, Caltech, NUS, NTU, Davidson, Reed, Swarthmore, Wesleyan</p>
<p>Kjoodles: Princeton (ED)</p>
<p>Lakshmi: Waitlisted - Colby | Rejected Oberlin, Brandeis, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Melissarahman: Rejected Oberlin, Gettysburg | Waitlisted - Colby
MetallicManiac: Cornell (ED)
Misoobishi: Accepted- USC w/ full scholarship, UCLA, UCSD
MIT_Dreamer: Accepted -Caltech | Rejected - MIT</p>
<p>Radhika: Accepted - Mount Holyoke | Waitlisted - Colby
Rishabh16: Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected - MIT, Swarthmore, UT Austin
Ronty007: Waitlisted-WUSTL| Rejected - MIT, Swarthmore, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Sachit: Accepted UCLA, UC Davis, Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Rejected - MIT
Shadowcaster: Accepted - Boston University, St. Francis College |
Rejected - Colby College, Swarthmore
Smartmind: Accepted - Purdue University, Illinois Inst. Tech, Boston University | Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected - Colgate</p>
<p>Taj: Accepted - U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, U of Washington - Seattle, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
Tasslehoff: Accepted - University of New Brunswick (Canada), Memorial
University (Canada), IUPUI (Indiana) | Rejected - MIT
Tweet: Waitlisted - Gettysburg, Muhlenberg | Rejected - Colby, Hamilton, Haverford, Oberlin, Swarthmore, Dickinson, Dartmouth, Colgate</p>
<p>Visitor1: Accepted: Georgetown, WUSTL, U of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Varr: Accepted: Northeastern U, Boston U, Ohio State U, Villanova U, Rejected: Cornell U(ED) Deferred: Umich</p>
<p>Aaron: Accepted - Trinity College, IUB (Germany)
Alu: Accepted - Northwestern University
Arjun Shankar Prakash: Accepted: Cornell (ED), U Chicago (EA), Cambridge (Gonville and Caius), UK and UIUC.</p>
<p>BackInBlue:Accepted- Providence College(Honors) |Waitlisted- Colby, F&M, Kenyon, Gettysberg |Rejected - Trinity, DePauw
Banedon: Accepted - Uni of Michigan (Honors), WUSTL, Uni of Virginia (Echols Honors), Lehigh (Eckardt Honors)
bondof3: Accepted - Colgate(AM Scholar), Bryn Mawr, Reed, Houghton | Waitlisted: WUSTL</p>
<p>Callthecops2: Rejected - Princeton ED, Accepted - Clarkson Uni Hon. (i didnt even apply), Northwestern Weinberg CAS
Churalska: Accepted Northeastern Uni
Deference/Acceptance/DNA: Accepted - Imperial | Rejected - LSE,
Cambridge, York, Swarthmore, Bowdoin | Waitlisted: Vassar</p>
<p>Dexter: Accepted - Purdue, U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Uni of Michigan, UT Austin, Carnegie Mellon Univ.</p>
<p>Elisa: Accepted - UPEI with scholarship (Canada)
Ellenjh: Accepted - U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, UMichigan, Grinnell | Waitlisted WUStL, Vanderbilt, Carleton | Rejected - Oberlin, Columbia
Elodie: Accepted - Grinnell
Enilit: Waitlisted - Franklin & Marshall, Carleton | Rejected - Wesleyan (Freeman)</p>
<p>Highfive414: Accepted - Uni of Michigan
Honzan: Rejected- Earlham, Mcgill (arts and science)</p>
<p>IHS: Accepted: Northwestern | Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected-MIT
Izzy: Accepted - Cornell College (Iowa), Beloit College, Knox College, Brock University (Canada) | Rejected - Wesleyan University (Freeman
Asian Scholars Program) | Waitlisted Mount Holyoke College, Carleton College</p>
<p>Jay01: Accepted - University of Melbourne, Trinity College
Jeanatkin: Waitlisted - Oberlin, Trinity | Rejected - MIT, Caltech, NUS, NTU, Davidson, Reed, Swarthmore, Wesleyan</p>
<p>Kjoodles: Princeton (ED)</p>
<p>Lakshmi: Waitlisted - Colby | Rejected Oberlin, Brandeis, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Melissarahman: Rejected Oberlin, Gettysburg | Waitlisted - Colby
MetallicManiac: Cornell (ED)
Misoobishi: Accepted- USC w/ full scholarship, UCLA, UCSD
MIT_Dreamer: Accepted -Caltech | Rejected - MIT</p>
<p>Radhika: Accepted - Mount Holyoke | Waitlisted - Colby
Rishabh16: Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected - MIT, Swarthmore, UT Austin
Ronty007: Waitlisted-WUSTL| Rejected - MIT, Swarthmore, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Sachit: Accepted UCLA, UC Davis, Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Rejected - MIT
Shadowcaster: Accepted - Boston University, St. Francis College |
Rejected - Colby College, Swarthmore
Smartmind: Accepted - Purdue University, Illinois Inst. Tech, Boston University | Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected - Colgate</p>
<p>Taj: Accepted - U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, U of Washington - Seattle, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
Tasslehoff: Accepted - University of New Brunswick (Canada), Memorial
University (Canada), IUPUI (Indiana) | Rejected - MIT
Tweet: Waitlisted - Gettysburg, Muhlenberg | Rejected - Colby, Hamilton, Haverford, Oberlin, Swarthmore, Dickinson, Dartmouth, Colgate</p>
<p>Visitor1: Accepted: Georgetown, WUSTL, U of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Varr: Accepted: Northeastern U, Boston U, Ohio State U, Villanova U, Rejected: Cornell U(ED) Deferred: Umich</p>
<p>Thank you, Izzy...still waiting for vassar, bates, grinnell and IUB(Germany)..but..I don't believe any will accept me..</p>
<p>Aaron: Accepted - Trinity College, IUB (Germany)
Alu: Accepted - Northwestern University
Arjun Shankar Prakash: Accepted: Cornell (ED), U Chicago (EA), Cambridge (Gonville and Caius), UK and UIUC.</p>
<p>BackInBlue:Accepted- Providence College(Honors) |Waitlisted- Colby, F&M, Kenyon, Gettysberg |Rejected - Trinity, DePauw
Banedon: Accepted - Uni of Michigan (Honors), WUSTL, Uni of Virginia (Echols Honors), Lehigh (Eckardt Honors)
bondof3: Accepted - Colgate(AM Scholar), Bryn Mawr, Reed, Houghton | Waitlisted: WUSTL</p>
<p>Callthecops2: Rejected - Princeton ED, Brown, Cornell, Yale, Wharton, Accepted - Northwestern Weinberg CAS
Churalska: Accepted Northeastern Uni
Deference/Acceptance/DNA: Accepted - Imperial | Rejected - LSE,
Cambridge, York, Swarthmore, Bowdoin | Waitlisted: Vassar</p>
<p>Dexter: Accepted - Purdue, U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Uni of Michigan, UT Austin, Carnegie Mellon Univ.</p>
<p>Elisa: Accepted - UPEI with scholarship (Canada)
Ellenjh: Accepted - U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, UMichigan, Grinnell | Waitlisted WUStL, Vanderbilt, Carleton | Rejected - Oberlin, Columbia
Elodie: Accepted - Grinnell
Enilit: Waitlisted - Franklin & Marshall, Carleton | Rejected - Wesleyan (Freeman)</p>
<p>Highfive414: Accepted - Uni of Michigan
Honzan: Rejected- Earlham, Mcgill (arts and science)</p>
<p>IHS: Accepted: Northwestern | Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected-MIT
Izzy: Accepted - Cornell College (Iowa), Beloit College, Knox College, Brock University (Canada) | Rejected - Wesleyan University (Freeman
Asian Scholars Program) | Waitlisted Mount Holyoke College, Carleton College</p>
<p>Jay01: Accepted - University of Melbourne, Trinity College
Jeanatkin: Waitlisted - Oberlin, Trinity | Rejected - MIT, Caltech, NUS, NTU, Davidson, Reed, Swarthmore, Wesleyan</p>
<p>Kjoodles: Princeton (ED)</p>
<p>Lakshmi: Waitlisted - Colby | Rejected Oberlin, Brandeis, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Williams, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Melissarahman: Rejected Oberlin, Gettysburg | Waitlisted - Colby
MetallicManiac: Cornell (ED)
Misoobishi: Accepted- USC w/ full scholarship, UCLA, UCSD
MIT_Dreamer: Accepted -Caltech | Rejected - MIT</p>
<p>Radhika: Accepted - Mount Holyoke | Waitlisted - Colby
Rishabh16: Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected - MIT, Swarthmore, UT Austin
Ronty007: Waitlisted-WUSTL| Rejected - MIT, Swarthmore, Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Sachit: Accepted UCLA, UC Davis, Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Rejected - MIT
Shadowcaster: Accepted - Boston University, St. Francis College |
Rejected - Colby College, Swarthmore
Smartmind: Accepted - Purdue University, Illinois Inst. Tech, Boston University | Waitlisted-WUSTL | Rejected - Colgate</p>
<p>Taj: Accepted - U of Illinois Urbana Champaign, U of Washington - Seattle, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
Tasslehoff: Accepted - University of New Brunswick (Canada), Memorial
University (Canada), IUPUI (Indiana) | Rejected - MIT
Tweet: Waitlisted - Gettysburg, Muhlenberg | Rejected - Colby, Hamilton, Haverford, Oberlin, Swarthmore, Dickinson, Dartmouth, Colgate</p>
<p>Visitor1: Accepted: Georgetown, WUSTL, U of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Varr: Accepted: Northeastern U, Boston U, Ohio State U, Villanova U, Rejected: Cornell U(ED) Deferred: Umich</p>
<p>I got a fedex, but I wasn't at home...</p>
<p>is there any possibility that they send rejection of waitlisted by fedex</p>
<p>fedex from who ?</p>
<p>pton ?</p>
<p>No They Don't!!!</p>
<p><em>screams</em> <em>tackles You To The Ground</em> <em>smothers You In Hugs And Kisses And Chocolate</em></p>
<p>Ahahahgahahh!!! Yay!</p>
<p>Pton or Colgate.... either way- GO DNA:). Another acceptance for us to celebrate (no pun intended)</p>
<p><em>toasts</em></p>
<p>On a more serious note- a lot of us have been getting nothing but rejections flat... better things may come yet. Everything happens for a reason, a reason that may not seem obvious now. I cannot hope to comprehend how some of you feel but know that I am praying for all of you. I know this all sounds very philosophical and suss but you guys have been the best mates anyone can have, and I wish you all happyness and success wherever you go. Good Luck everyone :)</p>
<p>Kjoodles.
"God" knows I appreciate your optimism, but I find it interesting that you believe that everything happens for a reason.
This is probably not the right place, but I gotta pass my time for my Stanford decision.</p>
<p>My first question: when you say everything happens for a reason, do you mean everything is caused by something, and hence everything happens for a reason (the reason being the cause), or that everything happens to serve some later 'purpose'?</p>
<p>A little bit of both. Does that make sense?</p>
<p>If you were lazy and didn't bother spell checking your essay before you sent it off- then its your fault. Or if procrastinated too much when you should've been studying- then its also your fault. However, if its just a cruel streak of fate that you don't get in or just murphy's law in action- then nobody can blame you.</p>
<p>Everything serves a purpose- whats there stopping you when you get rejected to dump the idea of higher education and start a business that might one day rule the world. You might even take a year off and reflect on yourself and you can emerge a more complete person. Your life is what you make of it- a college is just a stepping stone but its in no way a nessecity to what you want for life.</p>
<p>What time do stanford decisions come out???</p>
<p>I see.
(I am in no way trying to argue with you or anything like that)
Of course, there could be a reason, as you say, for example one may be lazy, in which case rejections are one's own faults.
However, I do think we can all agree that this admission process is of course imperfect, and hence luck plays a role.</p>
<p>And it's true also that life is indeed what you make it out to be, and that a prestigious university is in no way a necessity in life.
However, that a modern person with mathematical background would support the idea of fate, and that everything serves a purpose, I find very interesting.
Not implying that it is wrong to support these ideas, just that it is quite unusual among "scientists".
How can life be what you make it out to be, if there also exists the concept of 'fate'?</p>
<p>Stanford decision?
Not for like 8 hours or something, I'm not entirely sure.</p>
<p>I'm of course not tackling you, Kjoodles.
You've been a lot of help to me in the last half year.
I just find it almost incredulous, reading posts on CC, and reading so many people saying "I believe that everything happens for a reason", in the sense that there is some sort of higher purpose that every event eventually serves in the big scheme of things.
I'm not sure if that's generally an American thing, but surely that's an antiquated, and essentially religion-founded view that is largely rejected in this secular modern world.</p>
<p>Where is the big purpose in me getting rejected, for example?
It serves no big purpose.
I got rejected.
Perhaps I was lazy.
Perhaps I didn't convey enough of myself in the applications.
Perhaps I wasn't what they wanted.
Perhaps I was just unlucky.
Whatever the reason may be, I'll just have to get over myself and move on, because as you rightly say, a prestigious tertiary education is not essential in life, but surely there is no 'purpose' in my rejection as such.
Would I dare to believe that the insignificant little 'I' am so important in the world, that my rejections were grandly 'scripted' by some higher being to later serve a grand plan?</p>
<p>I doubt it very much.</p>
<p>haha. thats fair enough. But do you ever have a string of events happen where you either you're either extremely lucky or extremely unlucky? It could be that a higher being in involved- or it could just myself being too lazy to think of any alternatives.</p>
<p>Would Newton had thought so much about gravity if there wasn't a terrible plague spreading and as a result he was sent to a farm? Would he still have observed the apple falling? would have had the time otherwise to consider that thought? Thousands of people dying plague isn't a good thing and may not have purpose but that event led to another and so on. Maybe Newton might still have developed physics as we know it... or maybe not...</p>
<p>Good luck for Stanford everyone :)</p>
<p>(groans) EIGHT hours! i can't wait that long!</p>
<p>stanford... god, I've been dreaming of that school since the day i turned 12...</p>
<p>well, I could give you an example of a "higher purpose" in one's failing.</p>
<p>I'm not talking abt my present failing since it is obvious that not every bad thing that happenes has a precise purpose, it's just that it happenes.</p>
<p>here is it: when I was in my 10th grade I didn't qualify for the NMO. after 3 years of participation I didn't think it was possible for me to stay at home. yet it was...not going to tell you what major disappointement I had then, but the fact is, that I became very ambitious, and moreover I decided to do a very strange thing. I found out the email adress of a very intellingent person(meaning an IMO medalist) in Romania, and I've written to him saying I would very much appreciate his help concerning math problems. for my surprise, he actually replied and was ok with that(although I was a COMPLETE strager to him) and after a few months we even met. I just wanna tell you that I'm sure I wouldn't have written him that email that spring if it wasn't for my unsuccess( that was a little bit my fault...a little bit some strange stuff that I'm not going to get into right now). What followed was a series of prizes in math competitions, the best months of my life, when I had the greatest ambitions, when I probably learnt the most things, due to the powerfull influence that my email friend began to have on me. Also, if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have been today on this forum. he is the one that made me think about appling at US colleges, and the one who gave me the best advice whenever I asked for it.</p>
<p>Although I am very fond of participating at all sorts of math competitions, I do tell you I wouldn't change my friend for my 10th grade participation at the NMO.</p>
<p>this was just to give you an example. usually failing makes strong ppl more ambitious.... it's hard for me to realize I have almost 0 chances of going to the US next fall, but I'm not giving up my plans for the future, because my dream wasn't "to study at Harvaer/Pton or MIT". My dream IS to become the kind of person I want:intelligent, sociable, active and to keep still to my beliefs :D that's all I want from life...no matter if in the US or home in Romania or n any other country of the world. :)</p>
<p><em>hugs Lakshmi</em> I love you. Beautiful example and story.</p>
<p>And I have no more creidit to sms. :(</p>
<p>oh! I'm sorry you had to spend that on me...thanks for ALL your sms!
[actually I would have rathered you had spent your credit on one sms saying congrats....but, it's no big deal]</p>
<p>no mail for me today either....so I'm really really in he dark here. how come I don't get my carleton/colgate/wesleyan decisions?????</p>
<p>everyone seems to have them but me :( not that I'm expecting anything good, but it's better after you know everything and you can go on... :)
<em>hugs you tightly</em> Izzy. I love you too :D</p>
<p>I would rather spend my sms sending congrats, too or calling you to scream out congrats as I did as hysterically to acceptance, but that will come...oh, please...let it come....</p>
<p>Maybe mail is just...REALLY the sheeeet there? Or they're hitting a few bad days?</p>
<p>Lakshmi, beautiful story! You are already succeeded!
I absolutely agree with you on the idea that 'faliling makes stong ppl more ambitious'. When I was in 9th grade, I applied one of top prep high schools in Korea. (ah, we start our hs in our 10th grade) Well, I really wanted to go there not only because to enhance my chance to go to US colleges(it's almost impossible to go very prestigious colleges in US from here w/o going through those prep schools, generally) but also to meet purpose-driven, hardworking, sociable, intelligent kids. Then, I got rejected... I cried a lot, a lot, and a lot because I thought that was the end. Next year, after I finished my 10th grade in my beloved public school, I went to US as an exchange student. And now, I am able to go to college in US one yr earlier than other kids here since I graduated from us public hs earlier. Moreover, I met these intelligent, sociable, purpose-driven kids through this forum!(luv ya guys) </p>
<p>Life is unpredictable, you know. When I got rejected by the prep hs in Korea, I thought I'd never be able to go college in US, but because I didn't go to that school, it was easier for me to be an exchange student and eventually it became the most precious opportunity in my life.</p>
<p>Life goes on no matter what. so let's ignore stupid rejections!
Maybe sth better is coming later. :)</p>