<p>got rejected from Stanford, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Duke. Whatevs. It was a good run.</p>
<p>Sounds familiar. On to BU, PSU, W&M.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got rejected from Columbia, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, and Harvard. 
Yay for state schools!</p>
<p>even a kid with a 2400 on here got rejected from harvard yale princeton standford</p>
<p>Did you not have any safeties?</p>
<p>Those were all my common app schools. I got into all of my UCs luckily, including Berkeley. no private schools though. and I got into U of A (In-state school). So it’s either berkeley for 54k/y or U of A for free.</p>
<p>link to 2400 reject please</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1114274-official-yale-class-2015-rd-results-thread.html#post12302350[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1114274-official-yale-class-2015-rd-results-thread.html#post12302350</a></p>
<p>you can find all of the other rejects too but this is the one for yale</p>
<p>just look at the brown results thread. practically no 2100ers get in without a hook.</p>
<p>I like how Ivy League school decision threads are the only threads where kids actually say they were rejected. I wish an average school would have someone put there stats up and say they were rejected…</p>
<p>I’m a 2200er… it’s BS…</p>
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<p>My son got rejected from Yale, Princeton and MIT with a 36.0 ACT, 240 PSAT, dual 800 SAT IIs, a 1/400 class rank and absolutely killer letters of recommendations. Read the threads, there were others, too. To get in these days, you need to either be a URM, a legacy, an athlete, or have national-level ECs.</p>
<p>He did, however, get into Brown, Williams, Amherst and Northwestern, so we’re not going to cry about it – you can only attend one school and any of the above will provide a stellar education. The state flagship would have been fine, too, if that had been his only option.</p>
<p>Let’s all try to remember that college is just a stepping-stone, not an actual measure of success. Plenty of people go to state schools, many even start at community colleges, and end up doing great in life; on the other hand not everyone who graduates from an elite school finds a job. Find a college that will accept you, do your best, make friends with a couple of great professors there, and try for a top grad school if you’re still interested in the prestige name brand. Don’t let a temporary setback derail you from long-term success.</p>
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<p>Hey LI - congratualtions on your son’s fantastic acceptances!</p>
<p>That’s a fantastic batting average in a wacky, difficult year! Especially looks like the tippy top LACs really love this guy.</p>
<p>@LoremIpsum: Mind if I ask you where your son is considering? (It’s Brown isn’t it?)</p>
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<p>Thanks, Bovertine! I hope you did well, too! Lots of poor students got sandbagged this year by plummeting acceptance rates, and I feel for them – especially those who are still in limbo with 5-6 waitlists to top schools and only safeties guaranteed; I do suspect, however, that many colleges will have to dig deeper into their waitlists as their own yields plunge.</p>
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<p>It would be really tough to turn down Brown, but it’s not my decision. The Brown open curriculum and excellent math/physics/computer science curriculum are really tempting. Williams, on the other hand, offers a close-knit community where a once-shy kid (before he started prepping for interviews with strangers) could thrive. Northwestern has its Integrated Science Program, described as a mini-MIT within a broad liberal arts school; it would also allow my son to graduate in 3 years, being the only one that will accept his many AP credits toward graduation.</p>
<p>He’s going to visit Brown and Williams this month and we’ll pop over to Northwestern, too (we’re in Chicago) before he makes a final decision. It’s not going to be easy because each offers some aspect that’s a little special.</p>
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I did fine. Well, actually nobody in my house was applying this year, and I was rejected from my own first choice about 35 years ago :). But I’m almost over it.</p>
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The kid rejected from Yale with perfect SAT/ACT scores is a URM (NHRP). It’s a tough year.</p>
<p>Congrats on your kid’s excellent achievement.</p>
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I am a little confused by this statement. According to the NU website it indicates the following:</p>
<p>Students entering in September 2006 or later may satisfy up to TWO of the twelve Distribution Requirements through Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate credits. These credits must be in two different distribution areas.</p>
<p>Can you elaborate on what you mean?</p>
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I haven’t looked at the AP credits pages for the better part of a year and I could be confusing the results with other schools where my son either didn’t end up applying or where he was rejected (Princeton has an Advanced Standing program). He also has a standing offer at UIUC which will take a year or more of his AP/college credits.</p>
<p>Based on this page:
[Use</a> of AP/IB Credits: McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern](<a href=“Undergraduate | Students | Northwestern Engineering”>Undergraduate | Students | Northwestern Engineering)
my son already has 8 classes’ worth of AP credit, with another 5 possible by the end of this school year. I don’t know if the small print elsewhere takes this away – if so, it may (probably would) make the difference in which school he ultimately selects.</p>
<p>But isn’t your son looking at the ISP program? If so, I know many AP classes will not carry over. For example, you cannot get out of Biology or Math regardless of score. I think AP Chemistry allows you the best transfer of credits. See info from the ISP site.</p>
<p>Credit in sciences may or may not exempt a student from an ISP course. A 5 on the Chemistry AP test exempts the student from freshman chemistry. A 5 on a Physics C exam may allow placement out of ISP Physics after consultation with the professor, but students are cautioned that ISP Physics goes beyond AP Physics. Students are not exempted from ISP Biology or Math on the basis of AP tests. In math, students can occasionally be exempted from a course on the basis of work beyond AP Calculus.</p>