<p>I'm getting more and more nervous as the release date gets closer. I figured it would be good to have a thread for those of us that get rejected, so that we don't have to look at people talking about their acceptance in the other EA thread. To start with though; what are your plans if you don't get in?</p>
<p>Applying to WashU, Carleton, Northwestern, a few of my state schools, maybe Columbia or Brown</p>
<p>Pretty much the same here. Carleton, Northwestern, Grinnell, and then Bradley is my safety (my oldest sister got a full ride there with worse stats than what I have).</p>
<p>I don’t even want to think about rejection but my next choices is Barnard College.
I don’t think I’ll get rejected though. Most likely a deferral…? Like, what even gets you rejected?</p>
<p>Not sure, but I’m preparing for the worst. Does anyone have stats on how many people get deferred vs. rejected, and how many deferrals get accepted RD?</p>
<p>I really don’t know where else to apply, I want to stay in the Midwest (too costly to travel) got any tips?</p>
<p>And I’m not sure about that. One year they said on the Uncommon Blog that they deferred more people than they rejected. Ouch.</p>
<p>I would recommend checking out Grinnell. The FinAid is still great, but it’s less selective than UChicago. The downside is that it’s in the middle of a cornfield. Not a great night life in that town.</p>
<p>I have a cornfield in my backyard. Legitimately. There were SOOO many Nebraska jokes cracked on my UChi visit. So I’m not sure if that’s for me.</p>
<p>So what are your guy’s high schools like (big/small? über competitive? how many applied to UChi)</p>
<p>My school is ~2000, and we’re known for having the most MIPs out of any school in Nebraska (37 one year) if that tells you anything. Otherwise, it’s very stereotypical (think high school musical). Around 7 kids applied to UChi EA alone, destroying my confidence</p>
<p>About 10% of deferred EA applicants are accepted in RD round. UChicago provided the statistics. I don’t have the exact stat for deferral rate but I heard Chicago sends out unusually high number of deferrals. I’m not sure whether this is right tho</p>
<p>^^ probably just going to go cry now. I really thought the email would go out today :(</p>
<p>We still have hours till admission office closes today. It’s still possible for Chicago to send out date-notification emails.</p>
<p>@nebraskagal My whole town is in the middle of a cornfield, which is why I want to go to Chicago, instead of another school in the middle of a cornfield. My high school is around 125ish kids. There are 38 in my senior class. The highest ACT score after mine(35) was a 27, and I’m the only senior with a GPA above 4.0, so not very competitive at all. It sucks, because they don’t offer a lot opportunity-wise, but the plus side of a small school is that I’m in a lot of leadership positions (Class President, Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, Scholastic Bowl Team Captain, and lead guitarist/leadership type role in pep band). I find it crazy when I read on here that people have hundreds of kids in their class.</p>
<p>I kinda wish I went to a smaller high school - my school is considered medium-sized with about 1400 students. There are 380 some people in our senior class so I’m competing with about 15 people with stats equal to or higher than mine (35 ACT, 4.4 GPA). Not to mention that there are 3 higher ranked schools nearby with at least twice the number of students in them, each. So…I really don’t stand much of a chance at Uchicago 
Ironically, opposite to you guys, I’m probably going to end up going to a school in the middle of cornfields.</p>
<p>Yeah, I can’t really complain about my school size. I have a pretty solid relationship with the teachers that wrote my recs for me, and one of them even took the time to ask specifically what UChicago valued in a student. I told her to touch heavily upon my participation in class and how much I contributed to discussion. The downside, I guess is less to do with the school, and more to do with the fact that I have to drive 20 minutes to the nearest city for my part time job and if I want to go out to eat/do anything with friends/girlfriend.</p>
<p>I attend an international school in Seoul, so I can’t complain about my class size (101) and my city. However, my school only let me apply to one school early, so I couldn’t do ED and EA. ): The other schools I’m applying to are: Northwestern, Swarthmore, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, NYU, Barnard, Tufts, Vassar, University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, and McGill.</p>
<p>McGill, UBC, and UT are very easy to get in with decent gr 12 grade! and they take lot of international students unlike top U.S universities. I saw some people (especially some U.S applicant) calling Mcgill ‘harvard’ of Canada, but its acceptance rate is over 40%. So you should have no worry about Canadian universities admission.</p>
<p>@HateSMUS Yeah, I’m not worried about Canada because I’m also a Canadian citizen!</p>
<p>I’m probably either going to end up going to a UC (preferably Berkeley because of their Econ and pre-Biz programs) or USC (hoping for a Merit scholarship). My semi-safety is UC Irvine and I would love to go there too because it’s super close to home and I spent two entire summers there and began to know the place really well.</p>
<p>To be honest, this whole college application process has left me kind of jaded. I’m still trying my best whenever I can, but I think I’ll just count on doing the best I can whereever I do end up going. No point stressing out about decision dates and deferrals, really. Just put your heart into it and let the chips fall where they may. [:</p>
<p>My school size: ~1800. </p>
<p>IMO, making connections with teachers has to come naturally. I would chat with some of my teachers after class not just on the course material, but on stuff like movies, music, and current events and these are the teachers I got to write me some letters of rec (they came out great). I wasn’t going out of my way to woo these teachers over–it was because I genuinely found them interesting and our conversations interesting as well. </p>
<p>It’s never too late, however. Undergrad scholarship apps rely a lot on recs from HS senior year teachers, so you can still develop some meaningful connections with the time you have left in high school :)</p>
<p>The one piece of advice for you, is to always hope for the best, do your best and let it go. To be so young and planning for rejection, is just too much. Remember that you can make your path wherever you end up and sometimes providence leads you to a better outcome. There is always a way and things usually turn out for the best when you get out of the way. Relax! Relax! Relax! Now…get some sleep!</p>
<p>my high school has around 4500 kids. its a rly big public school, which means most of us don’t get close to our counselors or our teachers /: on the upside, our school is the best in the area. its extremely competitive, though, so stress level is high. i live about 30 min away from uchicago too (:</p>
<p>i applied to UC Berkeley, UMich, Northwestern, Brown, UPenn, U of I, NYU, and maybe Brandeis.</p>