<p>Does it help you that you have shown an interest in the school before, or does it hurt because you weren't smart enough to get in the first time, so you probably aren't smart enough now? Thanks.</p>
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Does it help you that you have shown an interest in the school before, or does it hurt because you weren't smart enough to get in the first time, so you probably aren't smart enough now?
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<p>I do not think it matters; however, I was rejected from Rice University as a freshman, and accepted as a junior transfer.</p>
<p>Think about it for a moment, though, and you will see why the second option...</p>
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or does it hurt because you weren't smart enough to get in the first time
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<p>...does not make any sense. If a student were accepted at Princeton, but rejected from Harvard (and one of my friends was, indeed, in that situation), would your Harvard application have turned on "how smart you are"?</p>
<p>i think it may show some interests, but so what? who cares about whether you are interested? i am sure most schools don't care! For the schools, us students are more like pieces of a bunch of flowers, when they have a batch of 2000 flowers together, what difference will it make if they lose 1?</p>