Rejected from ALL colleges! Help!

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<p>I'm an international student who's applied to 9 colleges (incl. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, IVY league) and got rejected from all of them.. FML</p>

<p>I know I should have applied to safety schools but that never happened (my own fault I guess). I'm really worried about my next step since I basically have NO college to go to.</p>

<p>BASICALLY I would really like some advice on what I could do to reapply to colleges in US.</p>

<p>These are my stats:</p>

<p>IB -
English A1 SL - 6
German B SL - 7
Economics SL - 7
Mathematics HL - 7
Physics HL - 7
Chemistry HL - 7
Biology HL - 7
ToK (B) + EE Bio (A) - 3</p>

<p>SAT I - 1950
SAT II:
Maths II - 800
Biology - 720 (I was having a bad day :-/ )
Physics - 720</p>

<p>EC
Violin (played for 10 yrs)
Symphony orchestra (10 yrs)
Lab work in Bio
Science competition (National prize winner)
Biology Olympiad (no medals but...)
Hospital volunteer work</p>

<p>Ps. Anyone have any suggestions for gap year as well? :D</p>

<p>THANKS!</p>

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<p>■■■■ ARE YOU SERIOUS?! well I’ve heard of it but IDK what to say. Do you have to re-apply to a new set of colleges/</p>

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<p>community college</p>

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<p>Well since I don’t have any colleges to go to I’ll have to reapply but despite my credentials do I really need to go to community college or apply else where? :S</p>

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<p>Please help!!</p>

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<p>I’ve never heard of this situation – I mean I’ve heard of it but I’ve never known for it to happen to someone. GL. I would say get your tail off the computer and try to contact someone that can offer you great advice. Or just hope someone here can relate to you =[</p>

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<p>i guess the only think you can do is check when schools are accepting apps again and reapply.</p>

<p>or go to community college in the mean time, of course this means having to apply as a transfer in most cases which makes things much harder.</p>

<p>didnt even apply to 1 sure-shot school , hmm you should of applied to berkeley</p>

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<p>It was not wise to apply to only the most selective schools in the United States with a 1950 SAT…you were never guaranteed admission to any of them. You should’ve had more safeties, so now I would go with community college for a year.</p>

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<p>Check this website for colleges that still have spaces. This site will be available until August 31st, I think. Good luck!</p>

<p>[Space</a> Availability Survey Results 2009](<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Research/SpaceAvailabiltySurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx]Space”>http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Research/SpaceAvailabiltySurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx)</p>

<p>If that link doesn’t work just try [The</a> National Animal Control Association](<a href=“http://www.nacanet.org%5DThe”>http://www.nacanet.org) and type in ‘space available’ in the search box. Make sure you look for the 2009 list. It didn’t come up first in the results list when I looked.</p>

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<p>Ok Well I must have typed something wrong in that second web site as I can’t imagine the animal control site will help you! Sorry about that ! (LOL)</p>

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<p>do a gap year helping other country and doing internships to really boost your app… GL that really sucks but some times when you aim for the highest you get smacked down to reality</p>

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<p>You can try working for a year and build up your resume. But you probably should have applied to colleges in the top 30s also. Those are impressive scores and I’m sorry you didn’t get in.</p>

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<p>I agree with Jspencer1770. If you are averse to applying at a university at your own country (or perhaps you’ve exceeded the deadline there as well), the only choice you have is to take a gap year and apply later. </p>

<p>Harvard and Yale have explicitly said that they look favorably towards gap years, but note that some institutions have a limit of how many times you can apply. For example, Yale has a limit of 3 application attempts to any of there institutions within the applicant’s lifetime. </p>

<p>And it really does matter how you want to spend your gap year, as well. For example, some gap year students have traveled to Africa as an ecology volunteer and promptly applied the next year. Now, I don’t know your specific interests, but if you do decide to take a gap year, remember to do something in an area in which you seek to major. For example, if you want to major in biology (which many Asians seems intent on doing), find a year-round internship at a known institution.</p>

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<p>THANKS GUYS!</p>

<p>So I should try and raise my SAT scores and do something of interest for a year…</p>

<p>What I’m really worried about is, is it worth a shot to re-apply to those colleges or is it automatically a no, no??? :frowning: (as in is there a policy regarding re-applying students?)</p>

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<p>Again, any thought or advice will be v. appreciated!</p>

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<p>I wish you luck!
by the way do you live in Europe? Because there are soo many great schools there!</p>

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<p>Ummm I’m not telling you you aren’t qualified, but they rejected you once and admissions is probably a bit harder the second time around. I would aim a tad lower. Don’t think about prestige, think about what will be good for you. Clearly, based on where you applied, you were thinking about prestige lol.</p>

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<p>Short answer: you need to be more realsitic about your chances; 6.2% of people with your SATs were accepted into Princeton </p>

<p>Use your analytical powers to identify schools where your SATs place you in the top 25% of that school - those are your safeties</p>

<p>Same process: where your SATs place you in the bottom half of the middel 50% range; those are your reaches.</p>

<p>Then sort for type of school (e.g., engineering, LAC, arts, etc.) and you have your list.</p>

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<p>get a job that doesnt req college degree?
sorry about your situation…if i were u, my parents would b hella mad at me</p>

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<p>ouch im sorry to hear that</p>

<p>but as for your gap year
get a job
and as a grease monkey, build a car!</p>