<p>Stanford is the argueable the best university in this country so I don't really care if you label it an ivy or not</p>
<p>We're all glad for you...but, just out of curiousity, what was the point of making a thread called, "Raise your hand if IVY rejected you" if you didn't get rejected form an Ivy?</p>
<p>I meant IVY as most selective schools...</p>
<p>Well, then that's stupid. </p>
<p>Like I said, it'd be like calling a 'real good football team' an 'SEC' team. Ivy doesn't mean most selective. If you meant most selective, you should've said that.</p>
<p>The Ivy League is an athletic conference consisting of the following teams:
Harvard
Yale
Penn
Columbia
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Princeton</p>
<p>Rejected from Columbia...</p>
<p>then get the f**k out of my post!</p>
<p>Dude, it's not my fault you posted, "Raise your hand if IVY rejected you..." then list schools that aren't in the Ivy League.</p>
<p>I know Stanford is a great school. So is Duke. So is MIT. So is Caltech. So is Johns Hopkins. None of which are actually Ivy League.</p>
<p>I got 1/2 deferred from JHU... I got into the university but deferred for BME... parents won't pay for me unless I get into their BME major... =(</p>
<p>rejected from yale. have they taken anyone??</p>
<p>rejected from yale. But its all about Brown, baby.</p>
<p>All you rejects what were your stats?</p>
<p><strong>raises hand</strong> Waitlisted at Brown and Dartmouth, ultimately rejected.</p>
<p>And why is it so hard for people to understand that the Ivy league is a goddamn athletic conference? It is no judgment on a school's quality, so what's the point of arguing if some school or another is an Ivy or not? Why don't we argue about what continent France is in instead.</p>
<p>Yeah....So why do you guys think you were rejected? </p>
<p>And how does this waitlist thing work?</p>
<p>Waitlist means they wanted to accept you but they couldn't because they had to accept all the athletic recruits/legacies first, since those involve the most important things, sports and endowment.</p>
<p>Just kidding, that's just me being bitter/quasi-truthful. </p>
<p>Since schools can't accept everyone who they feel is capable of attending, they put some applicants who they feel might do well at the school on a waitlist. If there's any room in the class left after all the initial acceptees send in their reply cards, then they accept some people from the waitlist to fill in the spaces, with the goal of reaching a "target class size." Not many people end up getting in off of the waitlist because colleges usually do a pretty good job of accepting the right number of people in order to get the right number of enrollments, so they don't end up needing to take many people from the waitlist in order to fill the class to capacity.</p>
<p>Why was I rejected? Who knows. Such a crapshoot. Possibly had to do with reasons alluded to above, but of course I probably just didn't fit the bill in a few different ways.</p>