<p>haha... great idea... but i dont think anybody wants to spend 20 minutes typing up an answer to those question... usually surveys are not that extended</p>
<p>Please choose one:
Male
How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest)
9</p>
<p>Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.
Nope, they were all reaches.</p>
<p>In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.
They were highly competive (not sure about most). Judge for yourself: Carnegie Mellon - CIT and Cornell Engineering</p>
<p>Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?
Nope.</p>
<p>Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?
Yes, I was accepted to Johns Hopkins, University of Michigan, and Penn State University Park</p>
<p>Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?
Yes</p>
<p>On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?
Not quite sure what you are asking...I'm guessing you want me to rank my rejection colleges in order of preference: 1. Cornell 2. Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?
Meh...didn't really care after a minute.</p>
<p>If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to? I was only able to check my Cornell decision online - I checked once and printed out the letter for my parents.</p>
<p>If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times? I opened each letter and read it once.</p>
<p>What have you done with the letters since? Kept them...they are probably somewhere on my desk</p>
<p>When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were? I notified my parents and friends right away.</p>
<p>Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people? No, I don't feel irritated at all.</p>
<p>What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it?
Something on the lines of "oh well, I don't care."</p>
<p>Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it? Yes, of course I appreciate sympathy.</p>
<p>How readily would you discuss real options? When (or have you) begun the discussion of viable options? I discussed them with my parents on the same day I got my letters.</p>
<p>Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected? No, I felt there was nothing I could do.</p>
<p>If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you? N/A</p>
<p>Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity? Just cranked up some music and went to my normal activities.</p>
<p>Do you feel angry with yourself? Not at all.</p>
<p>Has your view of the school changed? Still the same, fighting off senioritis better than most (even though my grades still suck).</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there? I am kind of resentful towards how Carnegie Mellon does admissions - almost only looking at grades/SAT's, which unfortunately doesn't paint a very diverse student body.</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school? Nope.</p>
<p>Are you blameful of the situation? Nope.</p>
<p>Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions? Nope.</p>
<p>Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest then the outcome would have been different? Yes.</p>
<p>Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively? I thought about it for a moment and it drifted out of my mind.</p>
<p>Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.) No, they were not my top choice schools.</p>
<p>What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better? I think I'm doing as well as I was doing 1st sem of my Senior year, although I've hit some bumps so far in the 4th MP.</p>
<p>If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it? Just lots of viewbooks...I still have them in my room.</p>
<p>Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future? Not at all.</p>
<p>Has your opinion of yourself changed? Not the slightest.</p>
<p>Are you negative about your current options? No.</p>
<p>How do you feel about the situation now? I'm happy how my college process turned out.</p>
<p>What is your attitude towards next year? I'm looking forward to it.</p>
<p>Have you been able to make a decision about next year? Yes, it wasn't easy, and if I was accepted to my other schools the decision would have been even harder.</p>
<p>If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it? N/A</p>
<p>Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before? I wasn't really affected much in the beginning.</p>
<p>Please choose one:
Male
How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest)
10</p>
<p>Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.
Brown University-NO</p>
<p>In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.<br>
Highly Competitive</p>
<p>Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?
Yes.
Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?
Yes.
Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?
Yes.
On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?
1.
When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?</p>
<p>I was okay with it because I had been expecting it.</p>
<p>If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to?</p>
<p>I checked once, when the decision became available.</p>
<p>If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times?</p>
<p>Did not receive skinny envelope</p>
<p>What have you done with the letters since?</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were?</p>
<p>I knew my options the same day and had made my decision once people started to ask.
Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people?
No.
What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it?
No significant emotion.</p>
<p>Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it?
How readily would you discuss real options? When (or have you) begun the discussion of viable options?
Yes. Readily. The same day.
Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected?
No.</p>
<p>If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you?
No.</p>
<p>Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity?
Proceeded with normal activity.</p>
<p>Do you feel angry with yourself?
No.
Has your view of the school changed? No.
Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there?
No.
Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school?
No.
Are you blameful of the situation? No.</p>
<p>Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions?
No.<br>
Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest
then the outcome would have been different?
Yeah but who doesn't.</p>
<p>Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively?
Yes. No.</p>
<p>Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.)
Not really.</p>
<p>What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better?
Better.</p>
<p>If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it?
No paraphenelia</p>
<p>Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future?
No.
Has your opinion of yourself changed? No.</p>
<p>Are you negative about your current options?
No.</p>
<p>How do you feel about the situation now?
I am fine with it and happy with my choice.
What is your attitude towards next year? Excitement</p>
<p>Have you been able to make a decision about next year? Yes.</p>
<p>If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it? Yes. I am a resilient person.</p>
<p>Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before? Yes and then some.</p>
<p>sorry to bug but for all those who responded if you could answer one more question!</p>
<p>how would you categorize the way that you have responded to grief or trauma in the past?</p>
<p>thanks to all!</p>
<p>1.) Gender - Male</p>
<p>2.) How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest) - 8</p>
<p>3.) Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.
i.)Stanford (EA deferred, rejected RD)
ii.) Columbia (waitlisted)
All the schools were reaches</p>
<p>4.) In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.</p>
<p>Most competitive</p>
<p>5.) Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?
No</p>
<p>6.) Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?</p>
<p>Yes</p>
<p>7.) Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?
nope. </p>
<p>8.) On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?
Stanford was 3, Columbia 4</p>
<p>9.) When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?
laughed at stanford.. was too happy to notice anything about columbia waitlist. (i got into Harvard and Yale first, then wiatlisted by columbia). Got into Princeton on the day i got rejected by Stanford. </p>
<p>10.) If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to?</p>
<p>checked a couple times</p>
<p>11.) If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times?</p>
<p>Read it once and threw it away. (DIE STANFORD DIE!)</p>
<p>12.) What have you done with the letters since?</p>
<p>threw them away. at least Stnaford. Columbia's waitlist is somewhere in my pile of college stuff.</p>
<p>13.) When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were?</p>
<p>knew i was going to Harvard or Yale. Stanford and Columbia didnt matter.</p>
<p>14.) Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people?</p>
<p>Nope. </p>
<p>15.) What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it?
Emotions? What is that?
16.) Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it?
no one gave me sympathy (u kidding me?)HYPM >>>>>>>>>>> Stanford</p>
<p>17.) Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected?
no. stanford hates my h.s.</p>
<p>18.) If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you?
no</p>
<p>19.) Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity?
huh?</p>
<p>20.) Do you feel angry with yourself?
No.</p>
<p>21.) Has your view of the school changed?
nah. Have always hated Stanford.</p>
<p>22.) Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there?</p>
<p>ive always hated Stanford. GO BEARS!</p>
<p>23.) Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school?</p>
<p>No</p>
<p>24.) Are you blameful of the situation?</p>
<p>no</p>
<p>25.) Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions?</p>
<p>i love them.</p>
<p>26.) Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest then the outcome would have been different?</p>
<p>i dunno. maybe? probably shoulda showed more interest during my columbia interview</p>
<p>27.) Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively?</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>28.) Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.)</p>
<p>hypm>>>>>>>>stanford</p>
<p>29.) What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better?
same stuff.</p>
<p>30.) If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it?</p>
<p>i never had any stanford stuff, have a columbia shirt but i still like columbia a lot.</p>
<p>31.) Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future?</p>
<p>Nope</p>
<p>32.) Has your opinion of yourself changed?</p>
<p>im still as hot as ever.</p>
<p>33.) Are you negative about your current options?</p>
<p>hypm?</p>
<p>34.) How do you feel about the situation now?</p>
<p>trying hard not to get rescinded</p>
<p>35.) What is your attitude towards next year?
there better be some fine girls in Boston..</p>
<p>36.) Have you been able to make a decision about next year?</p>
<p>harvard. new haven and new jersey sucks.</p>
<p>37.) If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it?</p>
<p>im still as cynical as ever.</p>
<p>38.) Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before?</p>
<p>i guess so.</p>
<p>Screw Stanfurd. GO BEARS!</p>
<p>Male Female</p>
<p>Male</p>
<p>How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest)</p>
<p>10</p>
<p>Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.</p>
<p>I was qualified for all of them, but they were all the type of school that is a reach for anyone. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Stanford, Columbia, Georgetown, UVA (waitlist), U Chicago (waitlist)</p>
<p>In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.</p>
<p>Most competitive</p>
<p>Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?</p>
<p>I suppose</p>
<p>Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?</p>
<p>No</p>
<p>Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?</p>
<p>N/A</p>
<p>On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?</p>
<p>1-9</p>
<p>When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?</p>
<p>bitter amusement</p>
<p>If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to?</p>
<p>Checked when it was available, most I didn't even finish reading once</p>
<p>If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times?</p>
<p>Read just enough to find the decision</p>
<p>What have you done with the letters since?</p>
<p>Left them on the floor, I assume my parents collected them somewhere</p>
<p>When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were?</p>
<pre><code>Only when prompted
</code></pre>
<p>Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people?</p>
<p>Slightly</p>
<p>What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it?</p>
<p>Bitter amusement</p>
<p>Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it?</p>
<p>resentful</p>
<p>How readily would you discuss real options? When (or have you) begun the discussion of viable options?</p>
<p>Discussed, but not getting anywhere with it</p>
<p>Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected?</p>
<p>Appealed one</p>
<p>If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you?</p>
<pre><code>Pretty much
</code></pre>
<p>Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity?</p>
<pre><code>Didn't do much, but then slowly cracked as I reflected more and more on my options for next year. There's a lot more to it than just college though.
</code></pre>
<p>Do you feel angry with yourself?</p>
<p>Very</p>
<p>Has your view of the school changed?</p>
<p>Not really</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there?</p>
<pre><code>Not on the whole, although certain individuals yes, but others not.
</code></pre>
<p>Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school?</p>
<pre><code>I assume at some level, but not to a great extent
</code></pre>
<p>Are you blameful of the situation?</p>
<pre><code>Of myself mostly
</code></pre>
<p>Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions?</p>
<pre><code>Not for the rejections
</code></pre>
<p>Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest then the outcome would have been different?</p>
<pre><code>Who hasn't
</code></pre>
<p>Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively?</p>
<pre><code>That I've thought about extensively
</code></pre>
<p>Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.)</p>
<pre><code>Yeah, but it's not just a single school, but rather a tier of schools.
</code></pre>
<p>What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better?</p>
<pre><code> Could care less about the work I'm doing now
</code></pre>
<p>If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it?</p>
<pre><code> Never had any
</code></pre>
<p>Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future?</p>
<pre><code> Never had much to begin with, but this pretty much stopped it
</code></pre>
<p>Has your opinion of yourself changed?</p>
<pre><code> Nah, might've broken a few delusions, but nothing fundamental has changed
</code></pre>
<p>Are you negative about your current options?</p>
<pre><code>Highly
</code></pre>
<p>How do you feel about the situation now?</p>
<p>Not particularly good</p>
<p>What is your attitude towards next year?</p>
<p>Pretty bad</p>
<p>Have you been able to make a decision about next year?</p>
<p>Nope</p>
<p>If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it?</p>
<p>N/A</p>
<p>Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before?</p>
<p>Nope</p>
<p>Female
9</p>
<p>Rejected from Penn and Columbia. Statistically I was qualified, but these schools are reaches for anyone.</p>
<p>Yes, I was accepted to several other schools of equal caliber.</p>
<p>Most Competitive</p>
<p>I thought Columbia was my dream school.</p>
<p>At the time of learning about my rejections I knew about some of my acceptances but did not know about all of them.</p>
<p>My opinions of the schools have changed but Columbia was #1 and Penn about #8.</p>
<p>I wasn't all that upset actually because I had a pretty good day that day learning of some great acceptances. I wasn't really set on going to Penn and I was actually pretty over Columbia since I was deferred.</p>
<p>I was emailed, and read the email right when I got it. I read the whole letter and laughed at how stupid it was.</p>
<p>I saved both the email and the letter so that I can remember it and maybe one day remind them of what they missed out on. </p>
<p>I called my mom right away and waited for my dad to call me since he was at work. I told pretty much everyone I know if they asked.</p>
<p>I didn't mind if people asked, it was nice to be told that the school made a mistake and that I really am a smart person.</p>
<p>I was a little upset, but mostly content with my decisions. I had many great acceptances to cushion the blow.</p>
<p>I did appreciate the sympathy. My friends reminded me that I'm still great no matter where I go to school.</p>
<p>I didn't try to figure out why I was rejected. Since the process was over I didn't feel that it would accomplish anything.</p>
<p>Although the week of admissions decisions was stressful, I managed to behave in a normal manner the whole time.</p>
<p>I was not angry with myself.</p>
<p>My opinion of the school has changed. I don't resent them for not accepting me though. My best friend will be going there so I still like the people. I guess I don't respect the school as much because I saw some very bad admissions decisions.</p>
<p>Yes I do resent people that were admitted to every school they applied to because I don't think anyone has earned that right seeing as many people are rejected from their top schools.</p>
<p>I do know that my interview had to do with my columbia decision and for that I have strong feeling against her. She was not a good person. Maybe I should be glad that I won't be going to school with people like her.</p>
<p>I felt a little anger towards my school because it underappreciated me and didn't give me the same opportunties as others.</p>
<p>I feel like the outcome would have been different if I had a better interviewer. I know that I do wonderful interviews which makes it even worse that that lady screwed me over.</p>
<p>I can't think of many decisions that negatively affected my application.</p>
<p>I don't think about going there at all except visiting my friend.</p>
<p>I'm actually doing very well this semester even though it doesn't count for anything.</p>
<p>I have a sweatshirt and shirt for columbia, neither of which I have worn since December when I was deferred. I'll probably donate them to a shelter or something.</p>
<p>No I haven't lost energy.</p>
<p>My opinion probably has changed but i can't figure out exactly how.</p>
<p>I am extremely positive.</p>
<p>I'm very excited for next year. I want it to start as soon as possible.</p>
<p>I have made my decision. Since I had so many good options it was difficult, but I decided.</p>
<p>I don't really care about Columbia anymore since I'm so excited about Georgetown. I've actually made my friend going to columbia jealous about all the cool stuff I'll get to do that she doesn't.</p>
<p>Please choose one:
Male</p>
<p>How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest)</p>
<p>High School - 2 (just making sure my admission doesn't get rescinded)
College - 10 (of course)</p>
<p>Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.</p>
<p>The rejections were all reaches except UCSD</p>
<p>UCLA
UC Berkeley
MIT
Cornell</p>
<p>In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.</p>
<p>most competitive.</p>
<p>Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?</p>
<p>MIT</p>
<p>Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?</p>
<p>Not really. I guess UCI would be a dream school for a lot of people, but it's pretty mediocre for me.</p>
<p>Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?</p>
<p>No, actually they were the last school to give me results. March 31, 5:00 AM</p>
<p>On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?</p>
<p>Uh, #1-5, haha</p>
<p>When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?</p>
<p>"Wow I got rejected from schools where my gpa is 0.4 to 0.6 below the average, that was SO UNEXPECTED!"</p>
<p>If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to?</p>
<p>I pulled 10 all-nighters waiting for UCI. When nothing came i finally settled with checking about 10-15 times a day. Might seem excessive but I'm on my comp from the time I get home from school until I go to sleep (comp nerd right here)</p>
<p>If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times?</p>
<p>Yeah I opened it. I read until I came across the word, "sorry" and I literally threw the letter on the ground and left it there.</p>
<p>What have you done with the letters since?</p>
<p>I'm planning on taking the MIT rejection and framing it on my wall. Hey, there's not many people who have the honor of bragging about an MIT rejection :)</p>
<p>The rest of the letters I think they're in a stack somewhere along with other garbage.</p>
<p>When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were?</p>
<p>I used AIM to msg a lot of people. And I announced it on College Confidential. Come on, I know all you people did. </p>
<p>Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people?</p>
<p>No and No. Though it irritated me when my parents would tell me how stupid I am compared to other people.</p>
<p>What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it? </p>
<p>School pride. Anteaters, go!</p>
<p>Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it?
How readily would you discuss real options? When (or have you) begun the discussion of viable options?</p>
<p>Nobody gives sympathy for UCI. at my school it's pretty much expected that all the AP students move on to UCI or better.</p>
<p>Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected?</p>
<p>Ah yeah. UCSD said i was short by 384 points. I could've bsed those points into my application easily. So I appealed. No good. Appealed to Berkeley. No good. Appealed to UCLA. Still waiting.</p>
<p>If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you?</p>
<p>No, it's obvious that appeals barely work.</p>
<p>Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity?</p>
<p>What else could I do?</p>
<p>Do you feel angry with yourself?</p>
<p>No, I felt angry with admissions policies like AA and other crappy comprehensive review stuff.</p>
<p>Has your view of the school changed?
Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there?</p>
<p>Not really, but I did visit UCLA which I got rejected from and it was incredibly embarrassing because this girl from my school who got in was visiting on the same day and I had to confess that I was just visiting for the hell of it even though I didn't get in. But I did ask her to prom, so everything's all good now :)</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school?</p>
<p>Dude, one of the guys in my class got into Harvard. That's just ownage. I congratulate him for trying in school. Unfortunately I'm the type that completely unmotivated, but smart enough to bs my way through high school.</p>
<p>Are you blameful of the situation?</p>
<p>I blame society for not voting me the coolest man alive. I blame colleges for poor admissions process. I blame bias. </p>
<p>Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, all the time. My parents ***** at me all the time about how stupid I am (I guess UCI is where all the retards go), my high school is so stupid they banned cell phone usage completely (and this is a high school in one of the safest cities in America), and I blame the American government in general for just being crappy.</p>
<p>Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest then the outcome would have been different? </p>
<p>I should've lied like crazy like most people did. My friend wrote 500 hours of fake community service. He got into Berkeley, UCLA, full ride to UCI with lower SAT, lower SAT IIs. Higher GPA though.</p>
<p>Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively?</p>
<p>Not really. I believe in fate. There's only one path you can travel down life and in this universe, this is the only one (go quantum physics!)</p>
<p>Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.)</p>
<p>Maybe transfer.</p>
<p>What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better?</p>
<p>How is it humanly possible? Senioritis kills all.</p>
<p>If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it?</p>
<p>Nothing. I still have my UCSD stuffed bear. </p>
<p>Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future?</p>
<p>No, I just want to get away from my parents.</p>
<p>Has your opinion of yourself changed?</p>
<p>Yes, I am much better looking than before.</p>
<p>Are you negative about your current options?</p>
<p>No, it's all good.</p>
<p>How do you feel about the situation now?</p>
<p>Life goes on. You can't always have what you want.</p>
<p>What is your attitude towards next year?</p>
<p>I'm getting out of the house. That's all that matters.</p>
<p>Have you been able to make a decision about next year?</p>
<p>Well, I decided where I was going to go, didn't I?</p>
<p>If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it?</p>
<p>The realization that I can't have everything I want.</p>
<p>Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before?</p>
<p>Lol, this survey is really repetitive. I'm looking forward to college no matter what. I can move across town to UCI, lol.</p>
<p>Female
How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest)
*10</p>
<p>Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.
*Rejected from Harvard and Yale EA (deferred EA, then rejected); both were reaches</p>
<p>In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.
*Most competitive and highly competitive</p>
<p>Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?
*No. My mom made me apply to Harvard because I'd already completed the common app :)</p>
<p>Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?
*Yeah, I got into Penn and NYU Stern, and I was thrilled with both</p>
<p>Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?
*Stern sent me a likely in March</p>
<p>On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?
*2 and 4</p>
<p>When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?
*A lump in my throat</p>
<p>If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to?
*I checked once. I hadn't really expected to get into any of my reaches.</p>
<p>If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times?
*I opened it and read it once, but I already knew that I'd been rejected.</p>
<p>What have you done with the letters since?
*They're somewhere in my room.</p>
<p>When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were?
*I'm not in the same country right now, so I emailed my parents to tell them.</p>
<p>Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people?
*Not really.</p>
<p>What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it?
*A little bit upset, but I spent a lot more time talking about the schools I was accepted to.</p>
<p>Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it?
How readily would you discuss real options? When (or have you) begun the discussion of viable options?
*Once I found out I was rejected, I honestly didn't spend much time thinking about those schools anymore.</p>
<p>Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected?
*No. </p>
<p>If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you?
*N/A</p>
<p>Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity?
*I spent a TON of time considering whether I should go to NYU or Penn.</p>
<p>Do you feel angry with yourself?
*Based on the schools that rejected me, I think it would be a complete waste of time to feel angry that I didn't get in. However, I was angry that they both admitted a guy from my class who did all his EC's only for colleges.</p>
<p>Has your view of the school changed?
*Not really. I spend a lot less time thinking about them now that I know I can't actually go there.</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there?
*Only the greasy slimeball who got accepted even though he put no time into his club positions and got elected class president all four years because his older brother was the captain of the football team.</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school?
*No. I'm really happy that I'm going to Penn.</p>
<p>Are you blameful of the situation?
*No.</p>
<p>Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions?
*I've always felt angry towards my high school, but not because of anything related to college admissions.</p>
<p>Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest
then the outcome would have been different?
*Yeah, but that's over now. I haven't thought about any of these things since the first week of April</p>
<p>Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively?
*No, I kind of blew off the rejections. </p>
<p>Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.)
*Still considering them for grad school.</p>
<p>What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better?
*I haven't really done anything in school this entire year because I'm an exchange student, and the teachers treat me like a guest. I've been putting more effort into my math and economics classes, though.</p>
<p>If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it?
*I have sweatshirts from both of them. I still wear them around the house.</p>
<p>Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future?
*No. I'm just excited that I finally know where I'll be for the next four years, and I can't wait for school to start.</p>
<p>Has your opinion of yourself changed?
*No.</p>
<p>Are you negative about your current options?
*Obviously not.</p>
<p>How do you feel about the situation now?
*It's over. I don't really care anymore.</p>
<p>What is your attitude towards next year?
*I can't wait. I think I'll have a great time at Penn.</p>
<p>Have you been able to make a decision about next year?
*Yeah. I had a really hard time choosing. I'm glad I didn't have to choose from Harvard and/or Yale, too.</p>
<p>If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it?
*I think my attitude's been pretty much the same.</p>
<p>Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before?
*Moreso. I feel so relieved to be able to start planning and have so much of this admissions crap off my chest :)</p>
<p>*Moreso. I feel so relieved to be able to start planning and have so much of this admissions crap off my chest < amen!</p>
<p>i know it's a litte repetitive but each question falls under dif kubler-ross stages (denial, depression, anger etc.) but i really appreciate all of those who responded.. anyway if you could answer one more question if you all read this:</p>
<p>how would you categorize the way that you have responded to grief or trauma in the past?</p>
<p>thank you!!</p>
<p>Here you go:</p>
<p>how would you categorize the way that you have responded to grief or trauma in the past? It all depends on the situation. For personal issues (relationship, family problems, etc), I generally consider to be very serious. I respond with a lot of grief to those issues (ex. not eating, quietness, feeling tired, maybe mild depression). For other things such as school and education (which I take seriously), I don't usually try to get bogged down too much. I always try to approach everything optimistically.</p>
<p>Female
How important in your priorities are school & your further education? (1-10, 10 highest)
*10</p>
<p>Of the schools to which you were not admitted, did you feel that you were statistically qualified, or were most of your schools reaches? If you would be willing to list the schools which did not offer admission, please do so.
<em>Vassar--I wasn't statistically qualified but I felt that my attitude, extracurriculars, writing, and general personality traits would make them consider me anyway.
McGill Arts and Sciences--REACH.
*Emerson College Honors Program--I thought I should have gotten in.
*Binghamton (waitlisted for fall, admitted for spring.)--That was weird *</em>*.
In what range were most of the schools to which you applied: most competitive, highly competitive, more competitive, competitive, less competitive, or special.
*Highly competitive, more competitive, and special</p>
<p>Of the schools which did not offer admission, was any your dream school?
*Vassar until I wised up to McGill</p>
<p>Were you accepted into a school to of equal or higher caliber to which at the time you were just as happy have had the option of attending?
*Yeah, McGill Faculty of Education!</p>
<p>Did you know of this admission prior to receiving the rejection?
*McGill, yes.</p>
<p>On your list of schools, what number rank did the rejections come from?
*1,2,3,4 but 2 also accepted me into another program. 3 accepted me into their regular program but not the honors program. 4 waitlisted me for fall and let me in for spring. So I only got 1 flat out, "get the hell out of here" rejection. That wasn't too bad.</p>
<p>When you found out, what was your initial physical reaction?
*Vassar--"Yep." (lol I had no intiial reaction b/c it was expected.)
*McGill Arts and Sciences--"Oh." (see above)
*Emerson College--put hands on hips in outrage--"WHY DIDN'T I GET INTO THE HONORS COLLEGE?"
*Binghamton--Laughed, then reread it.</p>
<p>If you checked online, did you check multiple times to make sure it was right? Did you check right when the decision was available, or wait? Could you have checked online, but chose not to?
*Binghamton I checked a few times. Just to be sure. I also put it in my profile because in the wording of the decision, they made it sound like they accepted me, rejected me, and waitlisted me all in one decision. I thought that was pretty funny.</p>
<p>If you received a skinny letter in the mail, did you open it? Did you read just enough to find out the decision? Did you read it all the way through? Multiple times?
*Vassar I tore up. I decided that reading it would be paying them more attention than they deserved now that I had been rejected.</p>
<p>What have you done with the letters since?
*I lost the McGill rejection but kept the McGill acceptance for education. Emerson I chucked.Binghamton I lost.</p>
<p>When you found out, how did you tell other people? Did you call to notify your parents and others close to you immediately? Did you tell them only when prompted, or not until you knew what all of your options were?
*Told everyone. My parents got the vassar one before I did so they told me.</p>
<p>Did it irritate you when people would ask about it? Did it irritate you when your parents would talk about it with other people?
*No.</p>
<p>What type of emotion did you exhibit when you did speak to others about it?
*Vassar--a little dissapointed, not that much though. Emerson--confused, slightly outraged. Binghamton--made a joke out of it.</p>
<p>Did you appreciate sympathy, or were you resentful of it?
How readily would you discuss real options? When (or have you) begun the discussion of viable options?
*I didn't get any sympathy and I didn't need any. I got into McGill! </p>
<p>Did you seek an appeal, or contact admissions to find out why you were rejected?
*No. They'd probably tell me some horrible detail that I'd obsess over for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>If you were waitlisted or filed for appeal, has your focus been on that rather than schools who accepted you?
*Well my dad was making me consider Binghamton because of money so I was going to send them an appeal letter. But I didn't.</p>
<p>Following your initial reaction, what did you do? Did you proceed to normal activity?
*Yeah. Which is obsessing about college.
Do you feel angry with yourself?
*No...I'm a weird applicant with a 1280 SAT, a 3.4 GPA, and my record isnt one of a star student or valedictorian by any means. Frankly, no school except SUNY Purchase was a sure bet.
Has your view of the school changed?
*Yeah--APPLY. Results truly are unpredictable...you could get rejected from a safe bet and into a reach, and you'd rather go to the reach than the safe bet any way, so why not apply and hope something like that happens?</p>
<p>Are you resentful toward the school and its admissions process, or those who go there, or those accepted there?
*Well I'm a little bitter about the whole American process of getting into college, because it's SO DAMN HARD to get into a highly selective school in America. McGill for instance doesn't ask for extracurriculars or disciplinary records but it's still an AMAZING school with talented students. So I'm wondering if all this jumping through hoops, early decision, reccomendations, reach, safety, match, essay crap is worth it.
Are you resentful toward people you know who received no rejections and/or got into their top school?
*No. McGill became my top school the moment I clicked on the link for school of education and saw "Admitted pending final results."</p>
<p>Are you blameful of the situation?
*No.</p>
<p>Have you felt angry towards your parents, your high school, or other institutions?
*Angry at my GC specifically b/c she told everyone in AP Humanities to apply to the same schools regardless of their personalities--BU, Vassar, UVM. She told me that I'd get into Vassar but not Hamilton College, even though Vassar is far higher ranked than Hamilton. She told me to consider Hobart and William Smith (what and WHAT?). She said I wouldn't get into NYU because NYU is one of the top schools in the country (uh, McGill is as good if not better than NYU.) . She told me not to take Latin because I wouldn't be able to handle the extra work, even though there's no HW and latin boosted my GPA by an entire point. She said I couldn't handle AP Environmental and I'm doing well in it. I have to commend her though for telling me to take Topics in Mathematics, that has raised my GPA by a lot. Also, her telling me to apply to Skidmore was probably not too far off. I didn't apply, but I would have done well there, especially as an English major...one of my really good friends is going there so I can tell I would have liked it there...but that's all water under the bridge now. WOOHOO MCGILL!</p>
<p>Have you wondered if you had approached your application differently- used a different essay, gone early action, shown more interest
then the outcome would have been different?
*Yeah but everyone thinks that way. Really though my main accomplishments happened in senior year after I applied...NHS, finalist for scholarship, lots of medals...pretty sad, huh?</p>
<p>Have you thought about the effects that various decisions you made in the past might have had, and a scenario to which things could have worked out differently? Have you thought about this extensively?
*Yeah...not going to specify exactly what, but absolutely.</p>
<p>Are you still focused on the school that rejected you and how you can get there in the future? (entertaining ideas of transferring, taking the year off, etc.)
*Nope. Now I'm aiming even higher---COLUMBIA GRAD SCHOOL BABY!</p>
<p>What has your attitude been toward the work that you are doing right now in school? Are you doing as well as you normally do? Better?
*I slipped third quarter and have to keep reminding myself to work...the words "pending final results" dance around in my head...actually, I still don't work, but I think my GPA will go up fourth quarter anyway because APs will be over and we won't do anything anyway except stupid busy work, which I should do OK on.
If you had paraphernalia associated with the school, what have you done with it?
*The only paraphenalia I have is MCGILL paraphenalia.
Since the news, have you lost energy for the present or the future?
*Present? Yes. Future--IT'S THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME ALIVE.
Ah, senioritis.</p>
<p>Has your opinion of yourself changed?
*Yeah, positively. I'm not a crappy, stupid, lazy student. I'm a strong student going to an excellent university.</p>
<p>Are you negative about your current options?
*HELL NO!</p>
<p>How do you feel about the situation now?
*Thrilled.</p>
<p>What is your attitude towards next year?
*I will be the student and person I should have been in high school.
Have you been able to make a decision about next year?
*Hmm...let's see...it was a tough one...BUT MCGILL!</p>
<p>If you have been able to form a new attitude since the news, what aided it?
*I'm a finalist for a scholarship. </p>
<p>Has your energy for next year been restored to what it was before?
*I'm drained but that's just the senioritis talking.</p>
<p>I thought I was done taking the suvey! :eek:</p>
<p>How do I respond to grief or trauma? </p>
<p>Similar to what asdfTT123 said. Serious things tend to bother me (subdued mood- but only briefly). I tend to quickly get over stuff by trying to move on (e.g. start planning for grad school, etc...). I have an optimistic personality. :)</p>
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Emerson College--put hands on hips in outrage--"WHY DIDN'T I GET INTO THE HONORS COLLEGE?"
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<p>ROFL. That's how I felt about UNC. :D</p>