<p>Good for you Pongo. While it is really no one's business but your own where you applied and whether you got in, if you do intend to discuss it you may as well be honest about it. Its no disgrace to be denied admission to Duke. Qualified applicants get denied admission at every school with competetive admissions. Sometimes its because they have already admitted enough applicants with your particular demographics. Other times, I'm convinced its just a crapshoot.</p>
<p>I didn't lie about where I got in...but somebody asked me last spring what I would do if I got rejected from my first-choice school, and I (jokingly!) said that I would probably kill myself. Well, they took me seriously, and I had several people take me aside and give me serious looks. Ridiculous!</p>
<p>I think the compiled list emailed to people is awful...many people don't apply to schools because of money issues, family issues, etc</p>
<p>And the list is humiliating for those that didn't get in to a school they were hoping to for any number of reasons</p>
<p>is this list of who got in where, or where students are going...</p>
<p>If I was a parent at that school with that list sent out, i would fight it</p>
<p>The point of the list is what, to make some kids feel great while making others feel like )*#</p>
<p>We have a board like that in my school too. We are suppose to bring our acceptance letters to our counselors so they can post them up. I don't really care about bragging to the whole world where I got in so I haven't bother and will not bother myself to bring them in.
I wouldn't lie to anyone about where I got in or rejected because I would be lying to myself.</p>
<p>A wall of posted acceptance letters is bragging, and hurtful to those who didn't get in. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I know a number of schools that post rejections only, which is a good way of letting kids know they're not alone.</p>
<p>Do many schools have this policy of either hanging up acceptance letters or e-mailing lists out to all students? It sounds like a very degrading, arrogant, snobbish thing to do...are you guys going to boarding schools or magnet high schools? I used to attend a foreign magnet high school that did similar things, but I decided to drop out and attend a regular public school (well, I also couldn't afford to go there any more although the tuition was only around $4-5k per year). Didn't really stop me from getting into one of my top choices, though.</p>
<p>No we just thought the back of Econ class looked kind of boring so we threw a few letters up there.</p>
<p>Also, our school, for every college some one got accepted to, averages all the statistics of everyone that got into that school. They only do it for the last year, instead of compiling over multiple years, so it's kind of useless since our graduating classes have traditionally been in the 150-160 range and it's a very small sample of students accepted somewhere.</p>
<p>My daughter's school has a "congratulations" board. Your name goes up with your college's name after you have accepted an offer of admission. No list of rejections or acceptances - only the college you will attend. The seniors seem excited by the newest additions, whether the schools are more or less competitive than theirs.</p>
<p>This is a small, private school, though, where 100% of the senior class goes to 4-year colleges (except for maybe one kid once in a while who decides to take a gap year).</p>
<p>I for one am very proud and glad for getting waitlisted (and ultimately rejected) from NYU Tisch. Even if I had gotten in, I wouldn't have been able to afford it, and I wouldn't have been able to get the experiences I've been getting at the undergrad school I'm at now. After a summer of turmoil, I went to Central Connecticut State University, kicking and screaming. But it turned out that it was the best thing that could've happened to me. CCSU sent me to England to study for a year on full scholarship, and I had the best time of my life and met my future husband.</p>
<p>So really, don't take the rejection letters too badly. When one door closes, another one opens...;)</p>
<p>Oh, and btw, I'm about to graduate from CCSU with a BA in art and am on my way to Grad school. Just waiting on the UCLA letter...</p>
<p>On that note, I was rejected from my #1 grad school, CalArts. But b/c I've already been through the whole rejection/acceptance garbaggio before, it wasn't so bad. I know that whatever happens, it'll be for the best. :D</p>
<p>College is what you make of it, not what they make you.</p>
<p>we have one piece of posterboard in our english room (every senior is in one of the three english classes) where you right up where you will matriculate.</p>
<p>There's a fine line between congradulating people who got into good schools and being snobbish. At my school, we just had an "academic awards" event where they read off the college plans of the awardees (top 40 seniors or so). Seeing as how that was early April and some people hadn't made decisions yet, it was a little strange.</p>
<p>still, u get accepted or not.. lying will just be stupid as it wont change anything</p>
<p>This guy told me he got into BOTH Curtis Institute of Music AND Juilliard.</p>
<p>He wasn't even good at ANY instrument.</p>
<p>Here's a reverse situation: my friend is the first student in our school to be accepted at a certain university in a few years. Everyone knows someone got in, but nobody knows that it's him. </p>
<p>Hmm, this guy in my class said that he got into Pomona... He's a terrible, terrible student and apparently he didn't even apply. I wonder how he got in? :p</p>
<p>"If someone really got into a good school, and they make an excuse for not going, then its safe to assume that he probably didnt get admission."</p>
<p>i wouldn't say that a good reason to assume becasue we all know what assuming does</p>
<p>btw i know a friend who is deciding between stanford and SUNY stonybrook</p>
<p>"If someone really got into a good school, and they make an excuse for not going, then its safe to assume that he probably didnt get admission."</p>
<p>well it depends on what kind of excuse the person gave you...if the person told you that they decided not to go because they flipped a coin/a fortune teller told the person not to go...then yes, it is probably safe to assume no offer of admission was ever given...but...if a person says that the merit aid offer just wasnt good enough compared to a lesser schools offer...then you wouldnt be able to tell if they were lying or not...Ive heard many stories of people turning down a much better schools due to financial constraints....</p>
<p>"Plus, it's typically obvious when a person is lying."</p>
<p>That's only because if it's not obvious, you wouldn't consider that they were lying. Why are things always in the last place you look? Because you stop looking after you find it.</p>
<p>well, just listen to the excuse... thats all that it determines
I think the church reason is stupid and no one would be so thickheaded to turn down a college for church every sunday, when u can go even in UCSD</p>
<p>our school has a list of every school every senior got into and announces the acceptances on the announcements every day (only 5 people a day) but getting your name on the list is voluntary, you have to tell them what schools you got into</p>