<p>Harvard = Rejected
Yale = Rejected
Williams = Rejected (I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS!)
Brown = Rejected (OR THIS - THERE WERE SO MANY FRICKING SIGNS!)
Dartmouth = Rejected
Duke = Rejected (NOT THIS, TOO!)</p>
<p>And, the cr</p>
<p>good job those wit offers and good luck to those awaiting them.
As for me- got accepted at princeton today, rejected from harvard and yale.. il hear from stanford later in the day..</p>
<p>OUuuuu. You better come to Princeton mate :)</p>
<p>What that does not kill you will only make you stronger.</p>
<p>well done jean...UC berkely's AMAZING...</p>
<p>yea im definitely coming to princeton, cya ther :P</p>
<p>I <em>know</em> it is. But I can't go there. A $1000 scholarship is not enough.</p>
<p><em>cries</em></p>
<p>That so sucked. It was worse than a rejection. It was as if I had gotten the first prize, but then someone took it away saying they had made a mistake in the scoring. It's the absolute worst that can happen to someone.</p>
<p>I believe in a higher purpose, but I am yet to see it. And had yet to be seeing it for the last six months.</p>
<p><em>cries</em></p>
<p>i think it's time. laskhmi, you're not the only one. i haven't gotten anything in th email or email etiher. :) jean how did u know UC B accepted you?</p>
<p>Logged in to MyBerkeley App.</p>
<p>Lakshmi, that was a very good example and a beautiful story.
I appreciate it.
Let me add in my two cents though.</p>
<p>Let us suppose for a minute that you weren't as wonderful a person as you evidently are, and fell into despair when you did not qualify for the NMO.
Could we still say then that you not qualifying would serve a later purpose?
Or let us suppose on the contrary that you did qualify for the NMO, and that you are as wonderful a person as you are.
Then perhaps you would have been motivated even more that you received such a wonderful honour, and you could have thought of the idea to email that IMO medallist.
Or let us suppose that you did qualify, but that you weren't wonderful.
Then perhaps you would have become boa****l and did horribly in the NMO and be a worse mathematician than you are now.</p>
<p>My point is that all these events could very well have been possible, and by far, the greatest concern is how you as a person respond to the situation.
The events themselves have no real meaning; it is how you respond to the events and come out better off or worse off.
Could we really attribute your disqualification to some supernatural being or some kind of 'fate' that is beyond us?
We of course could, but is it wise to do so?</p>
<p>Luck, which by definition is largely a random process, is again by definition not really caused by anything in particular.
And as I said, luck does play a non-negligible role in the college admission process.
So for us to say that this luck served a higher purpose would really imply a divine intervention.
Surely the explanation offered that doesn't require the existence of such a 'controversial' being is more convincing.</p>
<p>It does indeed sadden me a little to think that some people must resort to such a medieval attitude of "we are all a part of some intricate grand plan written up by God and everything happens to serve that grand plan".
I tell you an example of my 'failure'.</p>
<p>So in New Zealand, when I was choosing my highschool, I really wanted to go to this particular highschool, A, say.
I didn't end up getting in, so I had to go to school B.
I was somewhat disappointed, needless to say.
It turns out, school B suited me perfectly, and if I had the choice again, I'd choose school B over school A every time.</p>
<p>Now, must we resort to some supposed 'fate' to explain this?
People, it's not the end of the day to get rejected from universities, that we must 'calm' ourselves by 'justifying' the event with such things.
Stuff happens.
That's life.
All we can do is do our best in the things that we can control.
We can control how we spend time, so we'll try to use it well and not waste it.
But not all things are in our control.
And these things do affect the decisions.
So the satisfaction we get should be from knowing that we tried our best.
And if luck or some other thing that we have no control over didn't quite go our way, well, bad luck to us.
Somebody who deserves to get in won't get in since there aren't enough places, and there exists no particular reason why it shouldn't be us, or why it should be us.
That is precisely the point, not everything happens for a reason.
Then we have no reason to feel extremely bitter about it, since we did as best as we could.
And we pick ourselves up, and keep moving on.
We get over it.
It is indeed stupid to get so upset about something that we dont' really know the consequences of.
When I got rejected from school A, and ended up going to school B, I didn't know the consequences of that event.
Maybe I would've done well in school A, maybe I wouldn't have.
I don't know, hence I shouldn't really feel that bad about not going to school A.</p>
<p>I'd like to believe that other people would agree with me at least to a certain extent, and view it in what I personally believe to be a more rational approach to dealing with this process.</p>
<p>Sorry to have rambled on for so long.
If anyone bothered to read it, then I'd appreciate their criticism of it.</p>
<p>Regards
Eric</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: Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, WUSTL, U of Michigan (Ann Arbor)| Waitlisted- Harvard, Penn
Varr: Accepted: Northeastern U, Boston U, Ohio State U, Villanova U, Rejected: Cornell U(ED) Deferred: Umich</p>
<p>Amherst - Waitlisted. Anyone else heard from them ?</p>
<p>i got waitlisted too -
eff this - i got waitlisted at six other places.
mm i don't know if i should concentrate on my schools that were lucky enough to accept me.. or on my waitlist schools..</p>
<p>waitlisted too...</p>
<p>Amherst waitlisted</p>
<p>please dont concentrate on your waitlist schools (atleast not amherst) cuz if you do then i have a lesser chance of getting in </p>
<p>:p</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>Got waitlisted at two places, accepted at one without scholarship...</p>
<p>Choice is easy...</p>
<p>:p
@rishabh... you got in somewhere??</p>
<p>no, the closest ive come to getting in somewhere is being waitlisted at amherst (got waitlisted at WUSTL too but im counting that as a rejection)</p>
<p>mm seems like they waitlisted all the internationals..
did they even bother reading our apps? eff,</p>
<p>They are so random... you got SAT 2300, Rishabh, right?</p>
<p>Its ridiculous that they dont accept you</p>