<p>Hey hopefully this can be the official thread for crazy, unexplainable rejections. This is to open many ignorant eyes to the crapshoot reality that is college admissions.</p>
<p>Instructions:
1) post mini-profile giving some basic info about a person
2) post where he/she got rejected</p>
<p>Just to give an example/start things off:</p>
<p>1) Indian kid with perfect scores on SAT AND ACT. Black belt martial artist. Top 5 ranking with perfect gpa and hardest courseload possible.</p>
<p>2) Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, Yale</p>
<p>^i know that this kid probably didnt show any depth in ec’s or leadership so its understable why he only got into CIT and Rice. But this is just an example to show everyone else.</p>
<p>Got into Rice is still darn good</p>
<p>I need my ignorant eyes opened. :P</p>
<p>With the exception of MIT, those rejections are not that surprising or “ridiculous”.</p>
<p>Sorry, but this THREAD is a tad ridiculous. Different colleges look for different things in people, and it doesn’t necessarily mean having the perfect scores and ECs. Go ahead and flame me, but creating this thread is already evidence of someone who maybe wasn’t cut out for the top schools.</p>
<p>OP, there are HUNDREDS, perhaps THOUSANDS of kids with those kind of stats that you listed. Someone is bound to get rejected.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how to do this, but someone who’s more CC-savvy needs to go look up TheWerg and post his stuff here. Worst I’ve seen in my 2 years here. I felt worse for HIM than I did for myself almost…</p>
<p>This thread seems to have failed…utterly.</p>
<p>I think it is a more ridiculous rejection if you were accept into your reach school then rejected from your safety.</p>
<p>Not really. There are some schools that like to reject people who use the school as a safety.</p>
<p>yeah, ^^i encourage those type of rejections too where its a seemingly “safe” school to apply to but instead you get rejected and you get accepted into reach. </p>
<p>And to those of you who are *****ing, I’m just trying to help people understand how random it can be.</p>
<p>Me,
SAT:2270
SATII’s: MII:770 Bio:770 Spanish:800 French:720
GPA:3.96 UW/ 4.25 W
Rank: Top 3%
EC’s: Research, Powerlifting, 5 clubs, Supplement Representative
Letters of Rec: From a Doctor/ Generic Counselor Rec
URM: Hispanic</p>
<p>Rejected at Georgetown…that was pretty ridiculous
I also got rejected Harvard, and Yale, but those are not as easy.</p>
<p>^ If you were caucasian, I wouldn’t have been all that surprised at a Georgetown rejection. The Hispanic kicker makes it pretty interesting, though, especially for a minority quota-starved school like Georgie :)</p>
<p>“OP, there are HUNDREDS, perhaps THOUSANDS of kids with those kind of stats that you listed. Someone is bound to get rejected.”</p>
<p>2400 + 36 + top rank = extremely rare</p>
<p>^ That is true, but I think bluebubbles was not referring to kids with identical stats, but similar. I.e. 2300-2400, val or sal or top 5, 34-36.</p>
<p>A case of lottery gone bad; he figured that it was impossible to go 0/8.</p>
<p>3/500ish
2370/36
Average/above average EC</p>
<p>Reject
HPSM/Columbia/Duke/WashU/CIT</p>
<p>Now: a flagship state school in midwest</p>
<p>^that’s not thattt out there. the washu part throws me off, but maybe tufts syndrome played a role here.</p>
<p>“Now: a flagship state school in midwest”</p>
<p>University of Illinois</p>
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<p>Described e.c.'s = extremely non-rare. (Same for those listed in Post 12.) The Elites would rather have merely similar scores but far, far more fabulous e.c.'s to accompany very strong scores – all in one person. That shows multi-talent, not to mention a student who can pursue parallel achievements simultaneously, and independent of academic requirements. Overall, that’s evidence of greater promise than a couple of data points.</p>
<p>Anyway, I thought that it was said top 5, not #1. You see, Elites can get Val + very strong scores + 4.0 UW in all rigorous courses, PLUS nationally awarded arts & other off-campus pursuits. Some people have no idea regarding the kinds and levels of e.c.'s that matter to Ivies. </p>
<p>Also, it could have been essays, personal statements in applications as not stand-out or unusual vs. candidates from the same area, content of recommendations, saturation of applications from the student’s region, etc. Those wouldn’t be stand-alone reasons but could easily be tipping points, elimination points.</p>
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<p>you make getting into an ivy sound ridiculous. i didn’t have amazing, international effing ECs to get into ivies/ivy-esque schools. i had passion. THAT is what matters.</p>