<p>I've somewhat had my hopes dashed over the past few days as my streak came to a cataclysmic crash. Rejected at Stanford and waitlisted at Georgetown, but in at UCLA, CAL, and DUKE. Is it safe to hold out some hope for Harvard if I got rejected from the best school I've yet heard back from?</p>
<p>They're completely unrelated.
In fact, you should be disqualified for even making such an assumption.</p>
<p>Kwu, That's quite extreme. I was merely making the assertion that there may be a correlation between acceptances to some schools. The fact that I asked it as a question further implies that I do not believe it as fact, but am rather attemtping to ascertain the validity of my own worst case scenario.</p>
<p>You're asking the wrong question.</p>
<p>Are your chances fantastic? Given the trend, certainly not.
Should you keep hoping for the best? Absolutely.</p>
<p>Im in the same situation. lets pray we in :-)</p>
<p>Fine. I apologize. However, your fears are unfounded, because they are irrational.
Every admissions committee is different, and you were evaluated differently by every college.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Amherst today--a top-notch liberal arts school.
Does it follow that I will be waitlisted by my three Ivy League schools?
No.</p>
<p>yeah i know, fingers crossed for those of us on this boat!!!</p>
<p>My son is a freshmen at Harvard and he was rejected by Stanford and several other schools - don't worry, there's a randomness factor that you can't control or predict.</p>
<p>I really hope so.</p>
<p>i hope so too....:( got into wellesley, though, hopefully thats a good sign(:</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm in a similar situation...into Williams early write, but rejected at Stanford and waitlisted at WUSTL</p>
<p>I know that university admission decisions are sometimes random.</p>
<p>A student could be accepted by one university, waitlisted by another, and rejected by another university.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted by Stanford, but I was accepted by UC Berkeley (in state).</p>
<p>Like you, I am waiting for Harvard, Princeton, and other Ivy League universities to give me a decision.</p>
<p>hate to flame, but kwu u try to sound way smarter than you are.</p>
<p>and its just about in every post u ever make.</p>
<p>just stop talking and trying to insert ur intelligence. ur scores, grades, comments, and acceptances speak otherwise.</p>
<p>im in the same position. its too bad because i love Stanford. oh well. still waiting on Harvard and Penn at least!</p>
<p>^ I believe we are all in the same boat. Good luck to all. "come monday...it'll be alright" (Jimmy Buffett) :)</p>
<p>thanks for all the responses. For all of us in the same boat, I'm sure we'll be fine wherever we end up. But, lets just keep hoping it'll be where we want!</p>
<p>Or, come Monday, we'll all sink together in that boat.</p>
<p>I'm also in the same boat, just that my situation is actually much worse: I got rejected from all places from which I got an answer so far (Chicago Duke Amherst Stanford), but I strongly hope that the reason was that I asked for financial aid as an international and that, therefore, I'll get into at least one of the few colleges that don't care about this. This, by the way, is also one example of how 'similar' school are actually very different: one could argue that HYPS are academically the 4 best colleges and that, therefore, they should have similar admission procedures. This, however, is not the case, since for example HYP are need-blind for internationals whereas Stanford is not. So don't worry, and in case you should not get in, you at least have some pretty nice backups!</p>
<p>I have been waitlisted by Stanford, Duke, WUSL and deferred by Wharton ED, but rejected by none yet. LOL, let's see when the streak of uncertainty will be broken</p>
<p>In at Berkeley, UCLA (both out of state), Duke, NYU Stern, and Wellesley.</p>
<p>Rejected by Stanford. =(</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>