<p>Assuming MIT was your first choice and you were rejected, what is your #2 choice and why?</p>
<p>I was very, very new to college admissions this year. I didn’t know what SATs were until March of last year, so this application was a good learning experience.</p>
<p>I plan to go to a community college to get some traditional classroom experience. I’ll apply to MIT and several other schools for the early and regular seasons - at least to those schools that allow freshman applications from students with less than a year’s worth of college credit.</p>
<p>Ninja edit: I didn’t have a second choice. MIT has the program (age lab) I’m interested in. Few other colleges do. I’ll have to find backups that I qualify for enrollment at this year.</p>
<p>(Posting for my friend): UMich, unless she gets into Princeton with good FA. Princeton has good FA in general, so if she gets in, the FA will probably be good, but UMich is instate.</p>
<p>I dunno if MIT was her first choice or not.</p>
<p>My D was Waitlisted. She will accept her spot on the WL but she still needs to send a deposit to another school prior to May 01 to secure a place in case she does not get off the WL. So far, she is in between Vanderbilt and WASHU. But she will wait April 1st to see where else she will get in.</p>
<p>Berkeley Regents</p>
<p>I am also posting for a friend. His back-ups are Northeastern & Duquesne.</p>
<p>I will most likely attend Yale (I got in SCEA with a great finaid package), unless perhaps I get into Harvard. MIT’s a cool place, but I think H or Y will be a better fit for me, and I’m psyched to have Y as a “backup” :)</p>
<p>Oxford (if I achieve my offer - it’s conditional). Otherwise Imperial (UK) or I’ll see if I get anything else in the US. Don’t have high hopes to be honest! xD</p>
<p>I got waitlisted by MIT :c</p>
<h1>2 Cornell University (<3)</h1>
<pre><code> or University of Pennsylvania (Jerome-Fischer Program)
or Harvard(eww, THATll take some convincing)
(If I get in, we find out from ivies by 3/31 & 4/1)
</code></pre>
<h1>3 Georgia Institute of Technology (got in EA, $$ TBA)</h1>
<h1>4 Rensselaer Polytech (got in, some $$)</h1>
<h1>5 NJIT (in-state, full ride and then some)</h1>
<p>Time to revive this. What about the freshly fallen?</p>
<p>So far i’ve gotten into Swarthmore where i would be on the soccer team which is a plus, but i dont feel like i would fit in socially. I got waitlisted at MIT btw. I would love to get accepted at Yale, Stanford, or Columbia. That would make things interesting.</p>
<p>Double post sorry.</p>
<p>UMich! I’m getting quite a bit of scholarship money from Michigan and I think I’d fit in very well there! Go Blue!</p>
<p>cgarcia: </p>
<p>If I read your post correctly, it looks like you intend to apply again next year to MIT after taking some classes at a community college. You should check with MIT to see if that would be considered a freshman applicant or a transfer. I believe that it would be a transfer as once you graduate high school and enroll at a college you are no longer considered a freshman applicant. If so, you would need to complete one whole year at that college prior to starting at MIT. </p>
<p>Check with MIT, you should always know the rules of the game before you play.</p>
<p>I’m sure he would have appreciated your advice 2 years ago.</p>
<p>Congratulations to many of you getting into such great schools!</p>
<p>I got into Caltech, baby! Caltech has been my first choice all along, so the rejection from MIT didn’t really hurt too much. Although it would’ve been cool to be able to say I got into Caltech and MIT.</p>
<p>My daughter was probably going to Wellesley even if she got into MIT. She’s had her heart set on it for a long time. If she doesn’t get into Wellesley, which would surprise me, the next choice is Duke. </p>
<p>Then Virginia or Smith College if we get bad news from Wellesley and Duke.</p>
<p>Duke is a lot harder than Wellesley though</p>
<p>Wellesley! It was about even with MIT anyway. BTW I was waitlisted.</p>