I think this must be a joke post
Wow. You sound incredibly entitled. I have a 2300+ sat score and I’m not even bothering applying to these schools because 1. There are more deserving students and 2. I’ve got no shot. Your uw gpa is subpar, and your subject test scores don’t stand out. Even at ucla, possibly the least competitive school you were rejected from, you would be below the 25% in terms of uw gpa. None of your ECs stand out, and I doubt colleges would care about the clubs you’re in unless you founded them or were in a major leadership position.
I’m sorry to come off as harsh, but a lot of your comments sound very arrogant. You sound like an intelligent student and have done well in hs, and will hopefully continue to do well in college. Don’t bother with those emails, just start working on your backup plan. Lastly, don’t let the rejections affect you too much, as they are all very prestigious and elusive schools.
@ambitionsquared, don’t assume that you have no shot.
Don’t expect to get in either, but find a few that you really like (they don’t have to be Ivies) and fire off some apps.
You may be pleasantly surprised.
In any case, I don’t think the OP has a good grasp of statistics. I wonder how many kids he thinks has better test scores, GPA, and resume than he has (and don’t have the attitude).
Do yourself a favor and do not send emails to the schools that rejected you until you calm down a bit and come up with a reasonable plan for trying to get off the waitlist at Columbia or Emory. Out of curiosity, what was your common application essay about?
@ambitionsquared, don’t underestimate your likelihood of getting into a highly selective school. I helped a friend’s son with his app process and essays this year. His dream school was Yale and I honestly thought he had no shot despite his stellar grades bc he had a 680 math, 720 critical reading and no spectacular EC to make up for his scores other than co-editor in chief of school paper, and he applied from westchester, NY. Plus, Yale had already accepted 2 kids SCEA and he was deferred. Well, he got into Yale RD last night, and also was accepted to Cornell, tufts, middlebury as a feb, bowdoin, and a bunch of targets and safeties. Rejected from Columbia and Georgetown.
If this is real (which it isn’t) enjoy University of Arkansas. It’s where you belong 
^^^ Actually, the one that’s pushed around here is really U of Alabama. 
“I believe I should have gotten to all these places.”
I think that says it all about whether this is a joke post or not
For the schools you applied to, I think the 650 CR really hurt you. It’s BELOW the 25% at every school. Combine that with a mediocre GPA of 3.75 and it’d be difficult for these ultra-competitive schools to accept you.
From community college (though playing music at an orchestra of a nearby four year state university):
http://hector.ucdavis.edu/UCDSO/02Archive/Personnel/0304personnel/Benavidez.htm
To the top graduating senior at a state university:
http://news.berkeley.edu/2011/05/10/medalist2011/
To a PhD student at one of the best known universities in the US:
http://inequality.hks.harvard.edu/people/aaron-benavidez
if feel like if this were a joke, it would be like “1000 SAT, 2.5 GPA, Harvard Rejected, Going to Sue?!”
i saw some video with a million views, that girl who was like “colleges lied to me” or whatever…
**Reread what you’ve written.**You’re confused as to WHY you weren’t accepted?
Yet, ALL of the posters here saw it immediately
They are not gonna change their minds.
1.) A 2210 is not good enough for those elites that receive hundreds of thousands of applications, especially, as @lostaccount and @AboutTheSame have noted, your reading Is not high, which doesn’t bode well for your stacks of required reading in STEM subjects at a university.
2.) You have a boatload of activities, like a “to-do” list, with no rhyme or reason; it is noticeably a check-off list, evident to any admissions committee. They NO likey students trying to craft a college resume.
3.) Can you spell out “entitled” any worse? Your attitude reeks of entitlement.
I suspect you came across that way on your apps.
4.). There are some Ph.D. students at my son’s school, CALTECH, who mentioned, on admitted students day at CALTECH, that they were students at the local community colleges, transferred to major California universities, and then were admitted to CALTECH for grad school. I guess they didn’t get your message of anything below the top schools being useless. You applied to CALTECH right?
Each school is building a varied class of students. The universities like students who will** “make and play nice”.**
Don’t you think it’s interesting that you were flat-out rejected? Those schools that waitlisted you are not up to your standards?
Change the attitude, bite the bullet and go to your community college or take a gap year.
I think this one is just someone stirring the pot.
The OP wrote:
Are you an international student?
“For my entire year, I worked so hard”
It takes more than a year of working hard. It also requires some common sense to put together an application strategy that has a reasonable chance of succeeding at this rarefied level. Whether this thread is legitimate or not (I’m leaning toward “not”), there are students each year who fail to achieve what they hoped, simply because they felt they were exceptions to the statistics that all the rest of us have to live by. Next time around, realistically assess your strengths and weaknesses in relation to your huge pool of competition.
This is obviously a joke post, come on guys. It’s making fun of all the other posts like this that we’ve been seeing. Here’s some examples from the post that seem to prove to me that it is a joke:
Nobody is this delusional.
The game is called Magic the gathering.
Hey, check out this list (colleges still accepting apps): https://www.universalcollegeapp.com/accepting
I’ll bet you there are some highly ranked universities on that list.
@RejectedAndSad7 Are you serious? First off, you don’t have the stats for the schools where you applied. You had a no math or science SAT IIs. Math II is a nothing score. The main thought I got from you was entitlement and attitude. No school wants someone like that. I suggest you start applying to schools with rolling admissions and work on that attitude. It won’t serve you well in life.
And I’m told schools look more favorable on students who volunteer in their communities rather than a summer in a foreign country.
@RejectedAndSad7 You say anything below a top university is useless to you. Well, they have made it clear you are useless to them.
I suppose this is April Fool’s day’s post by OP.
But if it’s not, and if I were on the adcom of those schools, I would have rejected you outright. Your scores are not good enough at all if you don’t have any hooks. And your unawareness of that seems to be a bigger problem.