<p>This really made me reconsider my assumptions about the admissions process at most selective schools. Admissions officers often genuinely do mean it when they say they wish they could've accepted a lot of the students that were rejected, but the decision is ultimately in the hands of the admissions committees. To all future college applicants: don't completely disregard the sentiment in your rejection letters, because if the school's admissions committee consisted of just one different person, that rejection could've easily been an acceptance.</p>
<p>so we’re picking new bloggers for [MIT</a> Admissions | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org%5DMIT”>http://mitadmissions.org) right now, and one of the senior bloggers (who is helping us pick the prefrosh) emailed in to say how hard it was to just pick 4 from 50+, and realizing that she really loved more than 4 of them, and I wrote back to say </p>
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<p>it’s simultaneously the best and worst part of admissions: getting to learn and love so many awesome applicants, and then realizing you can only accept an insanely, unfairly tiny number of them</p>
<p>Also remember, the university may supply some opportunities, but it is up to the student to take advantage of them. I wasn’t accepted to MIT for undergrad, so I went to an in-state college with a full ride, got around a 3.99 GPA, did a bunch of research and am now hoping to go there for grad school when it really matters, since not all schools do the same research or have the same labs.</p>