<p>Hiya guys.. My first post =)</p>
<p>Today was a ****ty day for me.. got rejected from Harvard ( I was prepared for that one), from yale ( i dnt care), waitlisted for Brown, and finally rejected from princeton (my fisrt choice) =(</p>
<p>I've applied to only 5 universities actually..
Stanford... is the last one...</p>
<p>Should I hope for a positive answer or not? :S</p>
<p>I was reading through that article in the LA Times about how they could fill 4 classes with 4.0's. Who knows maybe that means they'll give up on the 4.0's and make a class of 3.2's...? ;)</p>
<p>pimpfosho...'twould be my dream come true!</p>
<p>That is what I hate!!! Colleges love to boast about rejecting people with 2400s and 4.0s. I honestly think they are biased against students with 2400s and 4.0s. I feel that my perfect academics/test scores were a burden: colleges went into my application biased against me, thinking I was automatically going to be less well-rounded, quirky, interesting, and laid-back. The opposite is true! I consider myself really laid-back, calm, and intellectual...many students and teachers at school even consider me a slacker...please Stanford, see the light!!!</p>
<p>TsariNa: Little confident there? Why would you apply to only five universities, all of which are very selective?</p>
<p>brown: rejected
harvard: rejected</p>
<p>these are the only schools i know about right now. joy. not looking forward to stanford's decision today, even though i can't seem to push down that tiny bit of hope that still lies dormant within me.</p>
<p>I wish that slacking would ended up in me getting a 4.0. Slacking for me = not doing any homework = usually C's. Hopefully Stanford will see the upside in a guy who gets a 5 on an ap test for a class he got a C in.</p>
<p>Rejected at Harvard and Princeton. Waitlisted at Williams.</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm not expecting anything positive from Stanford - but it is my first choice, and I've dreamed of being admitted. I won't obsess over it though.</p>
<p>MallomarCookie, you're hardly a "slacker." You've accumulated over 2,000 posts on College Confidential over the course of a few months. You are--without a doubt--the archetypal overachiever.</p>
<p>Actually NO.. Am an international student, and mum restricted my uni choices to 5.. and she was clear bout it:Apply to the very best; if you dnt get in, u wnt be going to the states.</p>
<p>TasriNa I'm sorry to hear about that. Extra good luck to you then</p>
<p>Tsarina: Gosh, that sucks. It's a shame your mother wouldn't let you apply to at least one match school or something. I couldn't imagine telling my son he had to apply only to reach schools or not go to college, but I guess things are different for international students.</p>
<p>Tsarina....are you from Russia?</p>
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That is what I hate!!! Colleges love to boast about rejecting people with 2400s and 4.0s. I honestly think they are biased against students with 2400s and 4.0s. I feel that my perfect academics/test scores were a burden: colleges went into my application biased against me, thinking I was automatically going to be less well-rounded, quirky, interesting, and laid-back. The opposite is true! I consider myself really laid-back, calm, and intellectual...many students and teachers at school even consider me a slacker...please Stanford, see the light!!!
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<p>So many people think that, but it's false. Look to the groups with the 2400s and 4.0s. They have the highest acceptance rate. Colleges aren't biased against them obviously, and don't reject them to 'teach people a lesson'. But when they do, they boast about it.</p>
<p>Well, I need some way to explain why I was waitlisted at Harvard and rejected from Princeton, Yale, and Penn :)</p>
<p>. . . Probably cuz there were 7-10 times more talented students like yourself than they had space for.</p>
<p>Yep exactly--I gotta face those facts.</p>
<p>i thought I had no chance and I just got in.........</p>