<p>Honestly, I didn't expect college admission to be this harsh. I thought of all those schools (Ivy & elite), I would get into some. I thought maybe, those admission officers will like me and see my potential. Yet, the reality is that there are too many applicants and we simply can't all be accepted. I don't want to whine about it, but for now I really can't accept it.</p>
<p>So, I thought of starting a thread dedicated to us- the rejects. Feel free to discuss your heartbreaking, disastrous, surprising, or even saw-it-coming results!</p>
<p>Oh and apparently this is a new thing: #massacredbytheivies</p>
<p>Waitlisted by: Bowdoin, Case Western, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Emory, Tulane</p>
<p>Accepted to: Boston U, Northeastern U, Vassar, UC Berkeley/LA/SD/D/I/R</p>
<p>Thought I’d get into match schools like Vandy or Middlebury based on my stats but was surprised, and now I realize that I shouldn’t take everything for granted. I’m very happy with Vassar though so everything’s all right.</p>
<p>Rejected: WUSTL, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, Penn, Cornell, Vanderbilt
Waitlisted: Princeton, Johns Hopkins, William and Mary
Accepted: UVA OOS, Barnard, Emory, UD honors, Richmond, Franklin and Marshall, Lafayette (with way too many loans for my puny income)</p>
<p>Still waiting for Swarthmore and I STILL haven’t gotten a password reset email from Rice so I can’t check that…</p>
<p>Rejected: University of Chicago
Accepted: University of Michigan, Case Western Reserve University, Northeastern Honors, UIUC, University of Miami (FL), Ohio State Honors, University of Minnesota Honors, Drexel Honors</p>
<p>So I only applied to one really elite school, and I wasn’t particularly surprised or saddened when they rejected me. </p>
<p>Waitlisted by Dartmouth and rejected at Cornell. Dartmouth was my top choice, so I hate that I have more waiting with even less chance of acceptance in front of me.</p>
<p>After getting accepted to University of Pittsburgh, UIUC and Cal Poly SLO, I recieved rejections from Colorado School of Mines, UCLA, West Point, UCSB and Cornell all in a row.</p>
<p>Needless to say I was feeling pretty good, but after getting rejected 5 times in a row I’m kinda back to where I started from, but I’m happy I got in somewhere!</p>
<p>I can honestly say that college decisions are all over the place. In my decisions and rejections, there was absolutely no correlation. Honest to God I think luck has to do with a good chunk of admissions. </p>
<p>I’m not going to list everything for sake of privacy but I was accepted to WUSTL and rejected from a state school (albeit a more competitive state school but regardless). There is one waitlist school that I’ll probably write an appeal letter to but best of luck to everyone in their upcoming decisions!</p>
<p>@thnkprnctn Yeah I am. I think Case is suffering from Tuft’s Syndrome because a whole slew of my other friends who got into other schools got waitlisted as well. I just got waitlisted from Colgate as well, so I’m kind of confused with all the waitlists. Just why?</p>
<p>Rejected: Rice and Yale
Waitlisted: Occidental and Mount Holyoke
Accepted: Barnard, Wellesley, Rhodes, Smith, Scripps</p>
<p>i wasn’t expecting a yes from either of the places i was rejected from, but i really thought i would get into oxy and moho. i don’t mind, though, because luckily those were two i liked the least, and i got into my top three </p>
<p>Rejected: Tufts and Williams
Waitlisted: Cornell and Swarthmore
Accepted: Haverford, Wesleyan, Brandeis and my safety schools (SUNY Binghamton, SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Stony Brook, Gettysburg and St. Lawrence)</p>
<p>I expected an outright rejection from Williams, Swarthmore and Cornell. I really thought I had a shot at Tufts (my first choice) especially since I put so much effort into my supplement essays, and my interview went great! Maybe I just thought I had a better chance because I really wanted to go! </p>
<p>My top three were Tufts, Haverford and Swarthmore, so I’m very happy to have gotten into Haverford! As of now I’m between Haverford and Wesleyan. While rejection hurts, and feels as if these schools are telling us that all our hard work just wasn’t hard enough for them, we have to keep in mind just how accomplished everyone applying is! I’m not going to let the rejections or waitlists get me down. </p>
<p>Rejected: USC, Swarthmore, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, UCSD, UCLA, Emory, Stanford, Rice, Carleton
Waitlisted: University of Rochester, Boston University (guaranteed transfer in 2015)
Accepted: 19 schools, mostly safeties. Non-safeties include UC Davis, Case Western, and UC Berkeley. </p>
<p>The only rejection that hurt was UCSD. That school is amazing. </p>
<p>@quidditchcat - That “guaranteed transfer” thing at BU is straight up yield protection - anyone who can get into UC Berkeley should also get into BU with huge merit. They’re scared that you’re too qualified and will subsequently have better options lined up. (They were right.) </p>
<p>@BlueF30: Probably just me. I don’t recommend it. </p>
<p>@preamble1776: lol, what BU doesn’t know. If I’d gotten merit, I would’ve been considering going. Someone told me I also got rejected from UCSD because I was “overqualified”. idk. But that doesn’t really make sense if I look at my stats versus other accepted people from my school. </p>
<p>@quidditchcat - There are similar occurrences at my school - our valedictorian (supposedly) got rejected from Northeastern and people were saying it was the result of yield protection - but we had admits with 2350+ SATs and 4.0s, so I don’t know. Weird stuff. </p>
<p>Rejected: Stanford (but I knew that from the beginning)
Accepted: USC, UC Berkeley,UC Davis, UCLA, UCSB, Northeastern U, Drexel U, Loyola Marymount U, U of Florida, U of San Diego, Purdue U. </p>