<p>Rejected-Duke, JHU, Northwestern, Rice, University of Texas(not top 10 thats why, and I applied to Engineering, for bme) fml
Waitlisted-WashU, Emory, Boston College
Accepted-Local State School</p>
<p>Stiill Waiting on Cornell(no point, not going to check, its a rejection) and Vandy(mail hasn't come in yet for the day, if its not today, its a rejection/waitlist)</p>
<p>Stats
Asian Male from Dallas
Rank: Top 15 percent
Gpa-3.8 unweighted, 94/100
Sat Score- 1500/2200</p>
<p>FML!!!!!</p>
<p>Whats the point of trying in school, no point in working hard in life, could have jsut made all B's in high school and a 1700/2400 sat score and still would have gotten inot my local state school......</p>
<p>Well, you had best write to your top choice of the waitlist list, tell 'em how you got the shaft everywhere and are garaunteed to go there if they take you. In the mean time, place a housing deposit at your local school</p>
<p>aw that does suck, but you did get into your state school.
It seems bad now, but you should hope for the best for Cornell and Vanderbelt.
Also, you can always transfer when you’re in college.</p>
<p>I know exactly what you mean!!!
I have 8 rejections
1 waitlist… but everyone’s waitlisted at Wash U
and 2 acceptance: my state university (which literally anyone could get in… And I’m serious totally serious about that. I know plenty of examples), the other is Boston University</p>
<p>I really really don’t like how I worked so hard, did everything to improve my grades and GPA… yet I might end up going to the same school people that did nothing in High School has gotten into!!! I really don’t like that!!!</p>
<p>I think being Asian, International student, with HUGE financial need doesn’t help me any at all… especially not in the current economic situation…</p>
<p>I feel your pain…got in at state school (UW-Madison), Mizzou Journalism school, and NYU. While I have these 3 options, I hate Madison but the 'rents made me apply (and a get a scholarship b/c I’m ranked 2), don’t want to go to Mizzou b/c they’re only good for journalism, something I am having second (and third…and fourth…) thoughts about…and then I got my financial aid from NYU today…and let me tell you, there are a lot of zeros behind that five!</p>
<p>Anyways, I have only been rejected by one school (Notre Dame) whereas I have been waitlisted at WashU, Northwestern, Boston College, and Georgetown. Still unlikely I will get off a waitlist…so much for working my butt off in high school to be ranked #2, while people much farther below me but with similar EC’s/recs/test scores have gotten into virtually all of the schools I was waitlisted at…aaahhhhh…admissions is a lot of luck at top schools…</p>
<p>ugh, this sucks. I hope everything works out for you!</p>
<p>If that is true, you are NOT the kid with no acceptances. You are just one more kid who didn’t get into the colleges/universities he/she hoped to go to.</p>
<p>You did pick a Safety. And you are indeed accepted there. You will be fine there. In fact, if you apply yourself there the way you did in HS, you will be more than fine there!</p>
<p>I sympathize with all of you: It does hurt to have worked hard in high school and find that you have the same options as class-mates who didn’t. But wait-lists will be moving this year, so position yourselves to get a second look by the adcoms:</p>
<p>1) Keep up the effort with grades and ECs. Its not over yet.</p>
<p>2) Send in a letter updating them with new achievements AND a strong statement about your desire to attend. (If they are chosing between two comparable candidates, the one who says “This is my first choice,” is a step ahead.)</p>
<p>3) Have your guidence counselor make a pitch for you: If there are 10 kids from your high school waitlisted at University X, it helps if you have an advocate who says, ‘you want this kid.’ </p>
<p>4) Make a list of the things you like about your safety. Read everything you can about the school. Find out about semesters abroad, the special programs, their areas of differentiation. Make an effort to get emotionally invested.</p>
<p>Its hurts more right now when your surrounded by hs peers celebrating their successes. In Sept., no one knows that the school you are attending wasn’t your first-or fifth-choice. </p>
<p>I know its hard to have perspective right now, but the educational experience you have is much more dependent upon who you are as a student and a person, than where you go to school-especially as an undergraduate. There are smart, interesting, motivated kids at every school. And if you REALLY can’t look forward to your safety, consider a gap year and reapply.</p>
<p>When he says “local state school” that probably means something not particularly appealing at all like UT-Arlington. If it’s Tech, then he’s OK. Otherwise, he needs to make a huge push to come off one of the waitlists.</p>
<p>This won’t help the OP, but others reading this who want to avoid this should take a close look at his list (assuming that’s the whole list). What do you see? A list of very selective schools, and one safety school presumably much less selective. You need to have a list that includes match schools. For example, this student might not be super happy going to Wake Forest or Tulane instead of Emory, but that might be better than the local state U. Make a good list.</p>
<p>I agree that he should have one or 2 more lesser school that he would be happy to go rather than the state school that accepted him. We don’t know the whole story without ECs list and courses taken, but with 3.8 unweighted GPA and 2200 SAT, there were a number of matched schools in the list. These are mostly selective schools but the list is not too overly ambitious to me. U Texas is a big surprise to me. Maybe he is just very unlucky. Don’t give up, keep in touch (in a nice way) with all your waiting list schools and update them with anything that you think would help. Get your counselor to stay on top of your situation too. Good luck.</p>
<p>The problem with UT, which the OP mentioned, is that Texas students in the top 10% of their high schools automatically get in, by law. I don’t think you could really call schools like Emory a “match” for very many students. Maybe BC, where those scores would have put him in the top 25%. But even BC accepts only 26% of applicants. I think he might have had better luck if he had three or four schools at about the BC level of selectivity (as I mentioned, places like Tulane and Wake Forest).</p>