<p>I wasn't hurt when waitlisted by Rice and WUSTL, but was bitter when I saw non-hooked applicants who I was CLEARLY better than getting accepted. Though I will be attending a school better than either this Fall, I will probably have negative feelings for Rice and WUSTL for a loooong time.</p>
<p>One thing I can say about Stanford is... The acceptance thread is humbling. People who are significantly better than myself are getting rejected by the truck-load. And those accepted are, well, Stanford material. I certainly haven't lost any respect for the Stanford adcoms, despite their decision to reject me.</p>
<p>Summary, with Rice and WUSTL, I think they made a stupid decision. With Stanford, it's very nice to have the closure knowing they made the right decision. To all you who were accepted (and many of you who weren't), you reallllly put the past 4 years to good use. Congrats.</p>
<p>I know not everyone will agree, because just browsing through the thread so far, some rejected were clearly more qualified than some accepted. Glad I can say, that's not me!</p>
<p>That's all!</p>
<p>Aside from the factor of randomness in admissions, there are also subjective aspects such as essays and recs. Did you also view their income? But often, many comparatively under-qualified are admitted for the factor of randomness. Also, you were waitlisted, right? Many whom were waitlisted are those who would have been accepted, but they met their “quota” if you will.</p>
<p>I mean I know you can’t get a totally accurate depiction of the entire applicant’s profile from their little stat post, but the less-than-impressive ones that were accepted to Rice/WUSTL made me bitter nonetheless. Whatever the reason was for waitlisting me, I believe they made the wrong choice. </p>
<p>Anyways was intending this topic to be less about me and more about Stanford / Stanford rejects / Stanford admits ;).</p>
<p>the academic gap between the races always widens as you go down the rankings. Every school wants their minimum 10%, and there just aren’t enough qualified applicants to go around. Its why you see these colleges essentially fighting tooth and nail over the top URM applicants with free visits, likely letters, etc.</p>
<p>^Totally unrelated. I’m talking about non-hooked applicants. I know that I out-stat and out-EC many of the URMs admitted. That’s to be expected.</p>
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<p>And as you said earlier, “take your [waitlist] with a grain of salt- Many students with significantly more impressive profiles than yours were rejected by MIT/Stanford.”</p>
<p>HAHA. Not enough URMs is a thing of the past. Now there are too many of everything, period. The number of people applying has skyrocketed in all groups, and I bet the fastest growing groups are URM, seeing as graduation numbers for URMs are going up faster than those for, say, people of European descent.</p>
<p>My daughter has a strong application and was accepted to some good schools. But just heard that she got waitlisted at GWU, which I made her apply just to be sure. What gives?</p>