<p>I applied to Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton, Brown, and UPenn. I was rejected from all five.</p>
<p>I applied to UC SB, UC SD, and UCLA. I was accepted to all three.</p>
<p>I am utterly confused.</p>
<p>My top choice is Stanford. It's been my dream since I could comprehend the concept of higher level education. I received the Stanford email yesterday at 3:03 PM PST. I still haven't opened it. By not opening it, im saving myself the misery of an almost sure rejection. Even so, I still have hope.</p>
<p>And so my question: is it worth the pain to open it? Do I have a chance?</p>
<p>I wrote the best essays of my life for Stanford. I invested so much time because I care about this school so much. I have a 2190 SAT I score and a 4.56 weighted GPA. I had a decent amount of extra-curricular's, not to many; I simply focused on the things I love to do. I don't have a perfect application, but I thought the schools I applied to would see through it and understand my personality.</p>
<p>Would Stanford see my application in a different light than the ivies? I feel like they have a completely different criteria and they have the most original personality of all the schools I applied too, one that I feel I would fit into perfectly (and still hoping that the feeling is mutual).</p>
<p>Ultimately, once again, should I check the email? I've just been in so much pain for the past few days that I wouldn't be able to bear a rejection from Stanford. Thank you in advance, and congratulations to all that have been accepted to Stanford.</p>
<p>Eventually, you’re going to have to open it. You might as well just open the email.</p>
<p>And eventually, if you DID get in, you’ll receive the Stanford information for Admit Weekend in the mail. The mail is coming next week.
Or, eventually, you’ll notice that you haven’t gotten anything in the mail.
At which point, then, you’ll know whether or not you got in.</p>
<p>You just have to open the email. And if Stanford didn’t accept you, then you must believe that you will end up where you need to be, and where you should be. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, I believe is the phrase.</p>
<p>Is it possible to be rejected by every single private school you applied to but still be accepted to Stanford?</p>
<p>Yes, actually. I was rejected from Harvard, Rice, Duke, Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth before I opened my Stanford email.</p>
<p>Just open the email. Might as well just get it over with. I understand you’re scared of another rejection but at some point in time you’ll have to move on from that. And if not, then wonderful.</p>
<p>Gets into ucla;complains about not getting into an ivy… </p>
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<p>I was rejected from Yale, Princeton, Brown, Harvard, and waitlisted at UChicago, but I got in. </p>
<p>Just read it, and know that you have great options regardless.</p>
<p>The bottom line is: you have a chance. You don’t know you were rejected. Until you open that email, you won’t know definitively if you were rejected. And what if, in 50 years, you open that email and realize you were accepted, and missed out on a huge opportunity? Are you going to enjoy going through your life with that email hanging over your head, not knowing?</p>
<p>Rip the bandaid off.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>YOLO.</p>
<p>Congratulations to those of you who got in. You deserve it.</p>