<p>With a few days before decisions are released (hopefully Friday) and having decisions from many other schools already, are rejections and waitlists from other top-notch, selective schools a decent indicator of the decision? </p>
<p>I know many people say that every school is a different situation and that you shouldn't compare yourself at one school with another, but are several rejections/waitlists from schools of similar selectiveness predictions for Stanford? </p>
<p>Just today, I got waitlisted at Rice as well as CalTech (a week or so ago) and rejected from MIT. However, I've been accepted to other decent schools (obviously of less selectivity), such as Wesleyan, Bowdoin, and RPI. I'm starting to lose hope in being admitted to Stanford (as well as all the other highly prestigious schools I am currently waiting on).</p>
<p>Should I expect a definite rejection? or is there still hope?
(Please no comments on "expecting the worse to spare the dissapointment")</p>
<p>The schools you’ve been rejected/waitlisted at, are essentially top-tier schools and that is not an indicator of your chances at other top schools (Maybe you didn’t show enough interest to Rice). You’ll find out on Friday, don’t worry about it until then.</p>
<p>I’m sorry that’s a lie. For instance, say you know nothing about two students except that Student A got accepted to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton, and Caltech. Student B got rejected from all those schools. You’re told one of the two gets accepted at Stanford, and you’re asked to bet on which student that was. Do you take Student A or B? </p>
<p>Now I know this is an extreme case, but it does go to show that other acceptances/rejections can be a good/bad indicator for similar schools. That said, there are plenty of people who get rejected/waitlisted at similar schools who get into Stanford. My friend got waitlisted at Harvard, rejected at Yale, and accepted at Stanford. I got waitlisted at Caltech, rejected at MIT, but got accepted into Stanford. The list could go on. Being waitlisted at Caltech and Rice means you are very solid applicant, and maybe Stanford will use a spot on you. Maybe they won’t.</p>
<p>PS I get a sense that Caltech looks a lot for fit, so you just may not have been nerdy enough.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can use it as an “indicator”–there might be a correlation as Senior0991 suggests, but definitely not causality. </p>
<p>Anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean much in the large scheme of things, but perhaps my situation will calm you down a bit: I was waitlisted at Pomona and WUSTL, but I got a likely letter (early approval, early notification, whatever you want to call it) from Stanford. Who knows?</p>
<p>no, i don’t think other decisions are good indicators
sure, i think there is some correlation between getting into top schools (for instance a student who does get into harvard, mit, caltech, etc. may be more likely to get into stanford since they are clearly a strong applicant)
however, i really think each admissions office is independent of one another
i applied early action to UNC and was rejected…sort of scary, i thought i had no chance at top schools since i was rejected from UNC
i have since been admitted to washu, rice, pomona, vanderbilt, northwestern, usc (interviewed for full tuition), and full rides at both umiami and washington and lee…still waiting on a few more schools
basically, after getting rejected from UNC, i didn’t really think any of this would have been possible
i’d say a few schools are a poor indicator of others, especially stanford who seems to care a lot more about passions, etc. than some other schools that are more stat based
you already have good options, and i hope the rest of decisions go well! good luck! =)</p>
<p>Yea…Im really losing hope…I got waitlisted at NYU and rejected at University of Virginia…I have my Ivies and Stanford left, which I hope I’ll get into atleast 1…</p>
<p>Yeah, I have a few acceptances in the bag, but I was waitlisted at both Georgetown and swarthmore. I’m definitely hoping that’s not s predictor of how I’ll fair with Stanford and my other schools.</p>
<p>I have UCLA in the bag but I was waitlisted at NYU, but that just comes to show that it’s SO RANDOM. It helps if you just consider your decisions as separate, because in the end only ONE acceptance will change your perception about your “luck”.</p>