Rejections everywhere!! No Hope on IVYs

Applying to College
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<p>Stony Brook - accepted
U at Buffalo- accepted
Boston U- rejected
RPI- waitlisted
University of rochester - accepted
Carnegie Mellon- rejected</p>

<p>still waiting for
Cornell
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Cooper Union</p>

<p>but No hope at all. Do i really that suck?!</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 95
Rank: top 3 out of 80....?</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning:
Crit Reading: 670
Math: 790
Writing: 660
Total: 2120</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
physics:610
Math II: 800</p>

<p>APs:
My school doesn't offer AP, I take college credit courses</p>

<p>ECs:
Columbia med internship over 1 summer
Science Club - 3 Years
City councilman volunteer- more than 100 hours
International HS planning Team- 1 year</p>

<p>Honors:
Our school doesn't have any honors
No competitions anywhere</p>

<p>Essays:
I feel I have written a very strong and unique personal statement. Supplemental essays should be decent.</p>

<p>Teacher Rec:
One amazing, one average</p>

<p>Counselor Rec:
decent enough</p>

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<p>You weren’t rejected everywhere. You have some very nice choices. You can choose to feel like a loser or you can decide you’re a winner based on having some college choices.</p>

<p>BU probably was a match school for you, but people do get rejected by matches: That’s why they have safeties. Rochester probably was a match, and it accepted you.</p>

<p>The others that have accepted you or that you haven’t heard from were reaches. It’s wise to expect to get rejected by reaches: That’s why they are reaches…</p>

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<p>Thank u, Northstarmom, I am just hoping miracles will happen!!</p>

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<p>…</p>

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<p>Wow BU reject. That makes it blatant. Good luck.</p>

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<p>That’s what made me sad the most - BU reject</p>

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<p>You got rejected from BU with stats like that??? WOW I’m shocked actually.
Anyway you still have good choices, UB, Stony Brook, UofR, all good.</p>

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<p>I know a girl who got rejected from BU and got into Yale. And even if you don’t get into Ivys, the world will keep turning.</p>

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<p>Hope I’ll be in IVYs!!!</p>

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<p>I don’t think it’s tufts syndrome</p>

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<p>On the bright side, you can go to a “safety” type that accepted you, graduate at the top of your class, and beat everyone’s asses getting into an awesome grad school. :)</p>

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<p>Yeah I’m kind of in the same situation as you. Accepted to UVA and Georgia tech but rejected or waitlisted to basically everywhere else. Next week just means more rejections. Oh well, I’ll live!</p>

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<p>Old adage: “Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.”
:]</p>

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<p>UVA is pretty good, better than any schools that i got accepted</p>

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<p>UVA is a fine school!</p>

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<p>@ OP</p>

<p>You never know what colleges are looking for that year. You don’t even know if the admissions officer was having a bad day when he/she opened your file. It’s not worth the speculation right now… just wait until Thursday… hopefully it’s good news! :)</p>

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<p>Your scores aren’t particularly noteworthy, but speculation at this point is just going to make the anticipation worse.</p>

<p>Embrace your acceptances, and spend the rest of the week chilling with friends and continuing life as usual instead of worrying about decisions to come.</p>

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<p>okay, i will take that advice, the reason i posted this is to seek some comforts</p>