<p>"too few spots to many applicant is what many kids heard this year". with an average of 1600 kids applying for about 250 spots what happens to the other 1350 students. if a kids got rejected at every single school he or she applied to what is one to do? if your an above average expectional student but the only feedback you got from prep schools is too many applicants to spots evidentally where does that leave you? some may argue this but i sort of feel that a student who is able to get accepted to a hades school is able to succeed without attending a hades school, if your already a perfect student how can a prep school help you, wouldnt a smart but not perfect student bennefit from a prep school alot more than a perfect student. i know that kids who get accepted to hades are not perfect but if their able to get in when more than 1800 kids are getting rejected they much have something significant? what is a smart well rounded student who keeps getting rejected from schools and college every succeed if he or she keeps falling under the rader? i feel its one thing to reject a student but only if it is because the school think that the student is able to get into another prep school easily and she or he must get in somewhere, but what is all the schools go by that mentality and the student dosnt get in anywhere. </p>
<p>rejected students are slipping under the rader people are are not being heard by prep schools</p>
<p>food for thought people.</p>
<p>no one is a perfect student deerhotch
also, they want diversity. they can’t have to many from one region, ethnic group, gender, etc</p>
<p>Maybe, just maybe, life wants you to go in a different direction. Sometimes we don’t get what we want - but often, if we pay attention, we’ll get what we need.</p>
<p>This week was brutal, but it doesn’t mean that students left without options won’t go on to do better things than if they matriculated. And it doesn’t mean students who get into a school will fulfill their potential in the future.</p>
<p>It is, what it is. No making sense of something that seems so illogical.</p>
<p>What I do know - in hindsight - is that this is a really rough ride for adolescents but you will all be way ahead of the game come college admissions time.</p>
<p>That was pretty deep.</p>
<p>Deerhotch, I totally empathize with you and I understand what you are trying to say - what happens to all these great, well rounded kids who are trying to get ahead by going to BS and yet they do not get accepted? </p>
<p>There are a couple of former BS applicants now thriving at their local schools who have posted in the past few weeks. One is bamagirl95. The other, I cannot recall. But they both offered very positive stories of how they moved on after M10 and having no bs options.<br>
I don’t know how to link to the thread…but here is the title and you can search for it…</p>
<p>Advice From a Former Applicant</p>
<p>Remember that you alone determine what your mindset will be and how you will tackle your future. Which reminds me of a quote I vowed to make my mantra. I should take my own advise and take this up again…
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<p>If the your theoretical rejected student is just as qualified as your theoretical accepted student, then isn’t the rejected one also able to be successful without it? Plenty of people have gone on to do significant things without HADES or Ivy League. </p>
<p>Maybe, no matter how “well-rounded” you see yourself as, you’re not fit for boarding schools. The admissions board is made up of plenty of faculty who have been admitting and declining for years. It’s possible they do not think certain students will thrive at BS.</p>
<p>Or maybe you’re a tuba player, and there are already ten in your class and they figured they didn’t need another one but some other school might need one–but it turned out there were plenty of tuba players everywhere else as well. Maybe a fluke.</p>
<p>If any declined student is on their death bed in 70-80 years and thinks, “My life would have been so much better if I had only gotten into Hotchkiss,” then maybe it was truly a fluke. Much short of that, I think a truly “ideal” candidate would make the most of any situation. </p>
<p>But maybe it’s easier to say that from the other side. Does anyone really know?</p>
<p>What is very hard for a high achieving applicant who is used to being #1 to understand is that you entered a new level of competition. The majority of students who apply to a school believe that they have reasons to be accepted. As you learned, the application process is time consuming, and can be expensive if you apply to many. Most applicants who apply are qualified to be accepted. Out of the qualified applicants, admissions officers put together a class with a mix of students that make it a vibrant boarding community.</p>
<p>I am very sorry that this happened to you. If it’s any consolation, it also happened to many great applicants who only applied to very competitive schools. Not that many are willing to post about their lack of success. </p>
<p>Applicants are better prepared in the college search. It is rare to find someone who only applied to the most competitive schools.</p>
<p>I can assure you that your success in life is not contingent on getting into a very competitive boarding school. Clearly, you are a talented and hard-working person, and those factors are much more important.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I got rejected at all my schools. </p>
<p>I’m the valedictorian and I’m the best our community’s got (not to be cocky), and I got rejected at all my schools. The reason why I applied in the first place is to find a better environment because where I am right now, my peers are lazy and unproductive and just wants to go to community college when they graduate.</p>
<p>But right after M10, I went to the states(I’m international), and I went out for Chinese. My fortune cookie said “Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” Hope that’s true.</p>
<p>Best of luck in the future everyone!</p>
<p>dude jerry bro i feel the exactly how you feel about not wanting to be at the school im at not and trying to do something different. the thing is though bro guys like us are falling off the radar man and what will happen when we apply to college what if every college we apply to thinks " well thats a well rounded kid but we have to reject him, he will definatley get in somewhere else" but we just keep getting rejected and we get in nowhere</p>
<p>jerry if you liked this thread check out my other thread it kind of ties in with the same theme
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1101061-appealing-admissions-decision.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1101061-appealing-admissions-decision.html</a></p>
<p>I think I just found myself another twin on CC. :D</p>
<p>Here’s a serious question: What can we do?</p>
<p>As our grades go up, accepted students are thriving at prep schools with opportunities, while we suffer in our bad public schools. We are stranded in quicksand. The courses, opportunities, grades and environment is in no match with GLADCHEMMS, let alone HADES. The number one rank school in my province, is all filled with rich kids that bribed DA to get accepted. </p>
<p>Crappy public school with underachievers vs. Corrupted private schools. </p>
<p>Which one would you choose?</p>
<p>Falling off the radar during BS admissions only means that we will fall off the radar during university applications. Nothing is going to change for us.</p>
<p>Only if AO realize some applicants without the credentials can take advantages of prep schools morethan some admitted students. The reason why the applicant does not have the credentials is because of his/her current environment. With a proper environment, the student would be satisfied with whatever he/she was missing back home.</p>
<p>I would love GemmaV’s opinion on this. Sorry for spamming this thread :P</p>
<p>jerry i could not agree more. mediocre rich kids who get into hades pre schools can survive with even going to a hades school and they will be fine but its the people like us who actualy can benefit significantly from a prep school. what will happen for us when we apply to prep schools i duont know but probably the same thing that has happen to us during the BS admissions process, colleges will look at us and say " well theres a smart well rounded student but we just cant accept him". are you canadian by any chance?</p>
<p>I agree with your post jerryeps. I also have to add that it irks me that legacy kids, as well as kids with parents that donate tons of money, have the chance to go to these top schools. they almost automatically have a higher chance of getting in. i know one person who got into a HADES school, because his/her parent went there (i say his/her because i really don’t want there to be any hints or clues of who i might be, incase someone who knows the people im talking about or myself lurks around on here). this legacy kid that i know is really an average student. and im not just saying that because im mad that he/she got in. his/her grades are not great, they are all B’s. he/she also doesn’t try their hardest at all, and depends on friends to help with homework and classwork.</p>
<p>now, i know someone else who got into all of the HADES schools he/she applied to because their parent has a LOT of money. he/she also has mediocre grades, and honestly does not care about school. </p>
<p>i know it sounds like i’m bashing these people, but really, i just want to put it out there that legacy and/or rich kids have a better chance of getting into schools, replacing other non legacy/rich kids that have much more potential to thrive in those schools’ environments. </p>
<p>does anyone beg to differ? opinions? thoughts?</p>
<p>jerryeps, may I suggest that instead of banging your head on the doors of HADES/GLADCHEMMS schools, where acceptance rates are 15% +/-, you look at the hundreds of other BS in the US of A. There are many schools that would love to have such talented students as those who post often on CC but weren’t fortunate enough to get into one or more top BS’s this year. Get on [Boarding</a> School Review - College-Prep & Jr. Boarding Schools](<a href=“http://www.boardingschoolreview.com%5DBoarding”>http://www.boardingschoolreview.com) and search for these other schools. They are there.</p>
<p>i feel that legacies are 1950s type of thinking, people this is the 21rst century times have changed, admissions considering legacys during an admissions process is antiquated. how about accepting the kids who arnt legacies would that make alot more sense, why would a legacy need a heades education more a non legacy? kids whos parents pay full blow dont even need to attend the best prep school, kids who arnt full blow need the opportunity alot more and usually ebnefit from it more too</p>
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<p>deerhotch–</p>
<p>I know you are disappointed, and I’m sorry you didn’t get what you wanted. It’s too bad that you didn’t apply to some of the other boarding schools out there, which are not HADES. You must be able to see the irony in the fact that some with more prestige than you were accepted at schools you looked at, and did not look beyond, based at least partially on prestige. </p>
<p>The important thing for you to keep in mind is that without the legacies and their parent’s donations, without the “full blow” students? There actually IS no financial aid. Who do you think is paying for that?</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>There are a quite a few fantastic BS out there, and the top kids from each of these schools actually have a better shot at the prestige colleges someone like you will undoubtedly pursue than those at the bottom of the class at HADES. If you were not accepted, you are unhappy, but perhaps fortunate. There are a lot of reasons not to be in a place where you aren’t #1. One of them is the need for financial aid when you apply to colleges.</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
<p>i am disappointed but i am not angry this thread this isnt about disappointed its about real situations that happen to kids, the intention of this thread is to talk about real issues that are affecting rejected students, and how smart kids are falling off colleges radar.</p>
<p>smart kids do NOT fall off colleges radars. Trust me.</p>
<p>You do not need to go to HADES to get into HYPS, and, in fact, if you are the top student at your public HS, you will have a better chance than if you are in the bottom 3rd at at a HADES, and believe me, somebody is going to be in that bottom third, come senior year. </p>
<p>Again, good luck to you.</p>