<p>Deferred/Rejected</p>
<p>This whole college thing has been such a huge disappointment and disaster...years of dreams -- down the toilet. </p>
<p>Final results: waitlisted at Harvard, Columbia, Cornell; rejected at Princeton (<em>tear</em>) and Yale...accepted at NYU, Tufts, TCNJ.</p>
<p>SAT's 1530, 800/770/760, 13 AP's, straight A's, strong leadership positions in many EC's I'm passionate about and devoted to...300+ hrs of comm service, great recs and essays, applied for dozens of scholarships (and won $6000 so far, mind you)...what happened? I can understand not getting into HYP...but not even Cornell CAS? I've done everything I could in high school. I can say honestly that I have no regrets! </p>
<p>But I won't complain too much...I've seen too many CCer's in the same position and worse. It annoys me how the same people seem to get into all the Ivies they apply to (though I realize that's not anyone's fault...they all deserved it). But still...it just strikes me as unfair. I've met (in person and online) too many ppl who just say "Yay! I got into Yale! Who cares about the other schools I got into? (Harvard/Princeton/Columbia/ Penn)...and my reaction is just "grr....I'm happy you got into your first choice, but why did the other acceptances have to go to you too? I could've used one..." </p>
<p>This is just very bad luck...after all, if I could get waitlisted by Harvard, I feel that I could've qualified for Columbia or Cornell, too, but I suppose they already filled up the class with enough ppl of "my type" (well rounded, not particularly excellent in any one area)...
Ugh -- totally shafted. I have classmates with similar stats and activities got into places like Yale and Harvard early. </p>
<p>Well anyway, I'll stop ranting: this is probably my last post on the Princeton board...I'll probably end up at TCNJ (a great school, but I'm sacrificing prestige, no doubt...) and have to pass Pton on my way there and back. (The school also bears an uncanny resemblance to Pton). I'm waiting on NYU and Tufts' finaid offers right now...</p>
<p>It's time to create a new dream. </p>
<p>So congrats for the last time to those who got into a top choice school. </p>
<p>Princeton...
"You alone can make my song take flight...it's OVER NOW, THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT!" ~The Phantom of the Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber</p>