<p>I would have your guidance counselor start making some calls for you to see what schools might be willing to take a look at your application. He should probably be pretty honest that you have ended up with no where to go through no fault of your own except perhaps simply over reaching and applying to all lottery schools. </p>
<p>A few potential suggestions: You might give Rutgers a call. They have been known to fit in top students like you late in the year. If you're willing to think outside the box, Hendrix College in Arkansas is an excellent small LAC with a solid economics program that has also taken last minute applicants in years past. Don't let the Arkansas address fool you - it's a very liberal and progressive school with a growing national base. McGill in Canada is also still taking applications. A few other possibilities: U of Oregon, University of South Dakota, University of Pittsburgh, Penn State, SUNY Binghampton, Indiana U, Purdue, Marquette. You may also want to consider taking a gap year and reapplying again next fall to a new list of schools.</p>
<p>i've been doing alot of thinking, and with all your kind suggestions. my parents think that perhaps i should take a gap year and re-apply to some new list next year. but in the meanwhile, other than getting a job and doing community work, i am lost as to how to spend my year off.</p>
<p>It is a great program, many students do transfer out but at least it gives you a great place to spend a year......you seem to have no idea what to do with a gap year.</p>
<p>haha yea hazmat i have no idea yet. i'm in the middle of my a-level finals now, so i don't have much time to plan yet, but am wanting to keep my options open. does st john's have an economics program? and which state is it in?</p>
<p>apply for spring semester at publics like umich.
washu is definitely private and its impossible. they are as competitive as ivies, if not more for the "lower" ivies like cornell. come on! who suggested washu????</p>
<p>Alyssa - You were a strong contender, but somehow you managed to apply to the only schools in the U.S. where you were not likely to be accepted.</p>
<p>I would look at the NACAC list when it is out. There are some excellent economics departments at universities, and to a lesser extent, at liberal arts colleges, that have been on that list in the past. </p>
<p>But nothing the matter with a gap year either. If you do one use some of it to compile a list of schools with excellent economics departments where you are likely to be accepted. There are quite a few to pick from.</p>
<p>searching through that list of rolling apps college will be difficult, since a lot of them will be expensive and not that great colleges. im sure theres SOME good ones among that list, but even schools like PSU and MSU all have deadlines. u could try joing the peace corp or something and help with AIDS in africa... or humanitarian work in SEAsia</p>
<p>btw hehe sempit... i hope what you say is true because my friend and i both got waitlisted and we had pretty good stats, but my other friend who was like worse than both of us in all areas (SAT, ACT (28wow), essays (we edited each others), ECs, GPA) got accepted. he even had a few Bs and A- on his midyear report, taking only 3 APs while I had to work sooo hard to get all As with 6AP + Government. I felt sooo bad holding that letter. :(</p>
<p>my parents have advised me to take a gap year off, so it looks like that'll be the way i am going. i will be travelling to acheh (sponsored by the community society im part of) to help the victims, and maybe take up a part time business course at a local uni. but i will still look at the NACAC list when it comes out. who knows, i might find something there.</p>
<p>but i think june05 - sept06 is such a long time. gosh i've never been out of school for so long before. shash, i have the financial means to fund my education (or that was what my parents claimed). local unis in msia? there are, but, well, it's not the US after all, if you get what i mean. :D</p>
<p>alyssa09,
I think that it is wonderful that you want to help out in acheh - it will help you grow as a person, and offer the sort of education that is rarely found in schools. God bless and best wishes whatever your path!</p>
<p>hehe thanks ohio_mom, but i went to Iraq to help during the war before, so i kinda know what to expect already. :) just that i don't quite know what else to do with my gap year. stupid statement, i know, but i'm concentrating on my a-levels finals now...</p>
<p>Alyssa, I think the gap year is a great idea, and it sounds like you will be doing something very valuable with your time. When you apply again next year, universities will be very impressed. Good luck!</p>
<p>alyssa,
so you helped in Iraq and the boneheads at the ivies didn't accept you? Sheesh. Their loss indeed. Next year, look at Brandeis, U Chicago, Macalester and Vasser if they have programs suit you. Their adcoms have backbones. </p>
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i wish to share a story with you all. i have a classmate i know since 1998. He is a rich spoilt kid, who have good brains. he is an accomplished debater, though not nationally. he doesn't have any athletic distinctions, but he plays football and basketball during Physical Education classes. Community work is "a waste of time when I could be doing something more important". No record of community service whatsoever.</p>
<p>in secondary school, he formed a 'popular' gang and ganged up on people he doesn't like. in 2002, he drove a student out from our school, because that student couldn't bear the mental abuse any longer, an asked for a transfer. he developed some kind of grudge towards me, because every year he competes with me (and another guy) for the top three places in my school (valedictorian, salutatorian, and the third placing). He tried many ways to discredit me, one of them was to spread rumours about me to all his 'believers'. For two years, everyone hated me for no apparent reason, until I spoke to our counselor, and the counselor spoke to him. The rumours stopped, but the grudge is still there. Last year, he was ranked 7th.</p>
<p>his mother is a teacher at another school, and her colleagues always tell us stories about how his mother bragged about having a clever son, how her son is always winning debate contests, and so on. once when a colleague disagreed with her over something, she snapped back, "You may say what you want, but the fact still lies that my son is way smarter than yours. Obviously you haven't been doing a good job of parenting." </p>
<p>What happened to this classmate of mine? He got into Harvard, the only one from my country. He had acceptances from Yale and Upenn too. Boneheads? Could be an understatement.</p>
<p>That is just a lesson on what general kind of person applies to these schools. Often it is just very grasping students who care nothing for others, and only for their own glory and bragging rights. Or their parent's braggingg rights.</p>
<p>But you don't seem very different. You chose your list of schools based upon the name only, it appears. They are very different schools and there is no personal preferance indicated at all or any attempt to define what matters to you in a school. Also there was no depth or attempt at certain consistency in a reach/match/safety profile.</p>
<p>I'm sorry you had to go to a school where such ugliness went on. If you have a chance, consider the many fantastic schools in the US that, while not name brand, still are prestige schools with those in the know, and will still get you 'there' and, more importantly, help you find what 'there' is to you, and only to you.</p>