<p>@RhodesSholar</p>
<p>I guess I’ll follow your friend’s path. :)</p>
<p>Also wait listed -.- . Would love to know if people actually get accepted off this thing.</p>
<p>It is certainly not a good feeling to get rejected even though i was expecting this… I focused on cornell’s application so much that I did not research enough info for brown… I looked for some general info about brown about 30 minutes and decided to apply. After i submitted my app, i found some things that actually got me to really like brown, and since then brown was my top choice…</p>
<p>I made a few grammatical errors in my essay which most likely made me look like I did not put much effort in my app… So lucky that I got into cornell. But i am sad…</p>
<p>admissions can be a mystery…I poured over my Brown application for weeks thought I had a great fit with the School of Public Health they’re opening…got a rec from my only professor here that is a Brown alum of the exact program I wanted…still no luck. Wrote my 3 Stanford supplements in 3 hours after a brutal 7 exam midterm week and submitted minutes before the deadline, minimal editing, and somehow got in. This whole process really has felt like playing the lottery. Price of admission is a 4.0 then just throw your apps out there and see what sticks…someone hit on Emma Watson for me – been contemplating how I was gonna ask her out for the past two weeks. Alas it was never meant to be…</p>
<p>stats:</p>
<p>UCLA Freshman, Poli Sci major
HS GPA: 92/100
College GPA: 3.86 (34 units so far)
SAT: 2180
SAT II: Math2 790, Physics 800, Chem 780
Rec: One strong from Math (Prof/TA actually let me draft for them), one average from History</p>
<p>Last but not the least, I am international student.</p>
<p>Rejected, but I just got into Wesleyan, so that’ll be my home next year!</p>
<p>Accepted for Spring 2013!!! Going to the London Program in the fall! Anyone else??</p>
<p>waitlisted! still glad I didn’t get another outright rejection.</p>
<p>I don’t get this. I put so much effort in to all my apps. Applied to 8 schools: some Ivies, Amherst, Stanford, MIT. Rejected by ALL of them!
I have almost maximal test scores: >2300ish SATI, four (!!) >700ish SAT2s, 117/120 TOEFL score (I am international). I am ranked second(!) in my class at my current college (hence got some glowing recommendations…), I volunteered at hospitals, worked in my vacations… I have decent ECs. Where I am from, ECs are just not that widely available to students as in the US (hollistic evaluation considering the applicant’s individual circumstances!!!). In high school I went through a stellar change: from an unterachiever to the very top of my class within a damn year. All highlighted eloquently in my personal essays. My success obviously continued in university.
What should I do to get to a good US university? I obviously need some finaid, but apparently, applicants with worse stats than mine got in even with finaid requests. I didn’t expect to get in to all of the colleges I applied to, but come on! Not 8 rejections! I am so mad right now… I just get sick when I read: “it is with regret that I write to inform you…” NO It’s not with regret. I waisted so much on this… emotionally and financially. But as far as I know myself, I’ll probably do it again next year…
Congratulations to all admitted students and condolences to the ones in my position.</p>
<p>Just got into UPenn. Now i have to choose!!!</p>
<p>^ I can’t open the portal. How did you check it?
The MyApplicant Portal is temporarily unavailable, but will re-open at 8 p.m. E.D.T.</p>
<p>BTW if you are not accepted by Wharton then definitely choose Brown. I hope to see you there this fall!</p>
<p>DuffMan1991:</p>
<p>It sucks, I know. The best you can do is try again next year? There isn’t a structural graduating timeline for College as there is for High School. Perhaps find the areas you can improve on and work on that for next year’s application?</p>
<p>@Duffman</p>
<p>That’s terrible. But, when we apply knowing that the acceptance rate is below 10% we should be ready to face rejections. There are a lot of other students in the same position as you. If you want to try again next year, then you should apply to some safety schools as well just for the sake of a back up. Any way, good luck!</p>
<p>Sorry about Brown, but congrats on Wesleyan; it’s a great school! I thought getting accepted to both would be great but now I’m stressed because I don’t know how I’m going to decide between the two</p>
<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>I hate to be that lurking type, but I didn’t post because I honestly thought that I would get a flat out rejection. And… well. My stats are kind of frightening, lol. I didn’t want to deal with the fake "oh, you can do it"s. I had a rough chance at getting accepted to begin with!</p>
<p>Quick Stats:
3.7 Community College transfer
29 ACT
1920 SAT
Biology Major
No major life changing hardships. Just a straight up passion for working with animals 
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<p>Yeah. My thoughts exactly lol. Anyway, I found out that I was waitlisted today and I’m absolutely thrilled! I love Brown and out of all the Ivies it was my favorite ^<em>^ ! Guess it really showed in my application… that or I got crazy lucky. I’m just happy that my dream school didn’t flat out reject me! Lol, but it might as well be T</em>T</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who was accepted! There are plenty of people who would love to be in your position !</p>
<p>Does anyone have any information on the waitlist? Is it ranked, are we competing against freshmen, number of people accepted off in previous years, ect?</p>
<p>Rejected, as expected.</p>
<p>Oh my god! Admitted! an intl transfer from an LAC</p>
<p>Accepted for spring!</p>
<p>For waitlist folks: I looked through the transfer thread last year, and have some disheartening news. Apparently nobody was taken off the waitlist because they had such a high retention rate. However, I did read in the Brown Herald that the Board voted to make this year’s transfer class bigger by about 50 slots (I think it was this year), so hopefully the there are some admits who are going to other places. Waitlist results fluctuate a lot regardless, because it’s hard to determine what the retention rate will be.</p>