<p>Partied hard with my friends at the dance. Came home and cried for an hour. </p>
<p>It’s their loss. #donewithpenn</p>
<p>Agreed, rejection is MUCH worse that deferral. It means that they decided FOR CERTAIN that you aren’t good enough for their school ):</p>
<p>Penn-etrating my heart.</p>
<p>the only one who got in ED from my school was a legacy.</p>
<p>ha. ha. that’s not me.</p>
<p>and i’m still listening to penn masala. awkward.</p>
<p>Being rejected feels like a slap in the face. When you see all those people accepted and even deferred with stats lower than yours and ECs less than yours, you wonder where you went wrong (some even ORMs and from over represented states). If one knew, one could be careful in future essays. Wish they would provide explanation of why we were rejected.</p>
<p>^ I don’t mean to be rude, but yeah… I know some kids with lower GPAs, SAT scores, less ECS and they got in and I didn’t… I’m happy for them and all but a part of me is like… What’s wrong with me? :/</p>
<p>Rejection is shaking up my confidence. Now I’m super paranoid about my RD essays. >:</p>
<p>Also
@sweetpuri:
NOT TO BE CREEPY but i was stalking your page for your stats and… how in the world did you get deffered?!? what?!</p>
<p>Got sent off by Penn too, it really nails you when your idol happens to be Benkamin Franklin…</p>
<p>No need for consolation. You’re not missing out on much. </p>
<p>Focus on other apps → get into HYPSC → Forget this ever happened.</p>
<p>Idksilly - Yeah I didn’t want to be mean too. I have exactly the same feelings as you. I lost my confidence totally when I saw the those accepted/deferred stats that are lower than mine and kept wondering what was wrong with me. But then I know of so many people that are better than me who got rejected too. So yes, we are not alone. The admission process is so random. Its their loss and not ours.</p>
<p>It sucks when one of your “friends” gets into penn with a 3.57 gpa and you have much better than that (a 3.7 at a very very tough private school!). AND she has extended time on every test she takes at school including the ACT and STILL got the same score as you…She literally had 2 days to take the test and I had 3 hours or whatever it is and we ended up with the same score. I don’t understand how this makes any sense. She has no special extracurriculars and is not a legacy and I, on the other hand, am a legacy…I feel cheated. Now, everyone probably thinks she’s smarter than me when in reality she’s basically cheated her way through high school with this BS extra time and still got into Penn. </p>
<p>Penn admissions reps I hope you read this and realize how unfair your decisions process is.</p>
<p>I wish you knew that this girl cheats in school, has extra time on everything (but doesn’t need it), and still got into your school.</p>
<p>I understand your frustration but putting down someone else that got accepted seems to show a weakness on your part. I hope you can find some peace with the decision and get accepted to another school that will value you.</p>
<p>Rejected to Wharton, but life goes on…
It’s just a setback in life; 宝剑锋从磨砺出，梅花香自苦寒来。</p>
<p>I also got rejected. i thought i had a shot at Wharton.
I worked really hard on the Penn supplements.
But applying ed to Penn was a very valuable experience, and I learned a lot.
I hope for the best for everyone. Who knows…maybe we wouldn’t have liked it that much at Penn anyway (actually no, I would still love to be there haha).
There are other colleges waiting for us!
Good luck everyone! and good bye Penn! (for now)!</p>
<p>i’m sorry guys. i was deferred at cornell so i will be applying to penn. nobody on cornell’s forum made a thread like this.</p>
<p>there’s always grad school at Penn!</p>
<p>
Columbia ■■■■■ revealed.</p>
<p>I was deferred, and even tho I would have been completely happy getting in ED and going, its nice that I get to decide where I get to go for college (I just now have to get in first). I’m hopefully going to get accepted to more than one school, so it will be my decision where I go. I guess I like that freedom… So even if I don’t get into Penn, I will be going to college on my own terms.</p>
<p>I truly think there is something to say about that…</p>
<p>And so far NO ONE FROM MY SCHOOL where about 15 kids applied early (out of 150) to ivys and upper tier schools has gotten in (about 5 deferrals and the rest rejections). So at my school, its like “you were deferred!!! THAT’S AWESOME!” when in your mind you know that it probably means rejection in the spring… But there is still Brown, Harvard, and Yale to come out. (No one applied Princeton early)</p>
<p>i really am crushed…lol i didnt think that this rejection would worry me so much…i cant see myself getting in to ANY of the rest of my schools, with the exception of the schools that i have already been accepted…GOD 5 years of dreaming lol…rejection is a harsh end</p>
<p>I wish admission officials would realize the fact that rejections during the early round hurt the self-confidence and self-esteem of the ones who face this and deters them from working on the regular apps normally. I don’t see the point in rejecting in early round. Why not defer all who are not accepted? At least the hope and confidence remains intact.</p>
<p>@rahulfan
They do that so the deferrees (?) don’t dwell on a school to which they have no chance of being admitted.</p>
<p>I know that for me, being deferred has only caused greater distraction. I find it difficult to focus on writing “Why ____?” essays now because none can be as passionate as my Why Penn essay.</p>