<p>Since you’re Jewish, I trust you sang Dayenu at Passover a few nights ago?</p>
<p>(For those who aren’t Jewish, dayenu refers to the concept “it would have been enough.” It is in the context of thanking God for all his gifts – each gift is said one at a time with the refrain dayenu – meaning if God had only given us this one gift and no others, it would have been enough.)</p>
<p>Any ONE of the schools you were blessed enough to get into would have been enough. To have NINE of them – and then be questioning why not 2 others – is just obscene. Some serious attitude adjustment is needed here.</p>
<p>I’ll be honest man, I had a very similar stats to yours and I got rejected from everywhere you got accepted except Dartmouth. If I were you, I would be happy with where I got in. </p>
<p>I kinda feel the same way you do to a degree, but… maybe Princeton felt you wouldn’t have fit into their uppercrust, preppy atmosphere. Maybe Harvard was particularly intrigued by another candidates essay on black bean soup and guacamole. Who the heck knows. Just keep it up and you’ll be successful anyway.</p>
<p>Every year hundreds of students get accepted into some combination of HYPMS etc… and also get rejected from some of those schools. Thats just the way it is. My school pushes students to only apply to schools they are willing to attend–assuming you did that–what difference does it make.</p>
<p>I could be completely wrong since I don’t know you at all but it feels a little like your goal was to “run the board”. Given how many people are really disappointed with their options, this question seems a little self-aggrandizing.</p>