Ridiculous

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<p>I got rejected by Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, and Duke. Waitlisted by Cornell and Johns Hopkins. I understand why I got rejected by Harvard, Princeton and Yale, but I cannot understand how I got rejected by Dartmouth and Brown. I'm aware of the fact that the college adcoms want to build a diverse class, and the fact that I'm Indian is a problem, but I cannot fathom that I got rejected after looking at the stats of the people who got accepted. Here are my stats. Can someone please tell me what put the college adcoms off? I need to know why I got rejected. </p>

<p>My stats: sat 2330 single sitting 2370 superscore
Sat 2s: Math 2 800, chem 800, us 760
gpa uw: 3.9 w: 4.49
ap chem 5 ap calc bc 5 ap us 5 ap stat 5
Xc, track 4years
President of Chess Club
President of Business Club
National Honors Society
Math Honors Society
Founded charity that raised 1500
Speech Problem (I wrote my essay on my speech impediment and how I managed to fix it fully to the point where I have no problems now)</p>

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<p>Oh boo hoo. Quit crying about how “low” your gpa is and how you couldn’t get into the “top” schools in the US. </p>

<p>There are so many other good schools out there that most people are too ignorant to actually look into aka the hidden gems.</p>

<p>You got rejected because there are thousands of kids with your same stats that didn’t get in. I’ve got some news for you buddy. Not everyone can get in due to limited seats available.</p>

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<p>So, where are you going? Did you at least have a safety you like? If so, focus on where you are going and what you’ll be able to do there, not where you didn’t get in. You’re putting too much stress on yourself otherwise - and oodles of colleges are worth going to. Take pride in where you are going and look forward to your future. ;)</p>

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<p>uc berkeley or carnegie mellon. I’m still waiting on stanford, which will probably be a rejection. I hope get accepted off of Cornell’s waitlist.</p>

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<p>Without seeing your entire application, no one here can tell you why you were rejected. There’s a whole lot more than stats that goes into elite college admissions. And even if we had your application, we still probably wouldn’t know. I doubt it was anything personal. There are a LOT of people who have stats as good as yours or better. For every person with stats lower than yours who was accepted, there’s probably someone with higher stats who was rejected. At those schools, it’s a crapshoot. Instead of trying to figure out why you were rejected, embrace the schools that accepted you and move on.</p>

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<p>Ad coms don’t just admit/reject kids. Their main goal is to BUILD A CLASS which means they’re looking for candidates that can play in the school orchestra, sing in choirs, play on the squash team, act and direct plays, build computers, take part in graduate-level astrophysics research and probably weave baskets underwater too. Then there are legacies and URMs. Most of these people have great stats as well.</p>

<p>Which means that it’s basically a crap shoot to get into any of the schools you listed. You didn’t turn anyone off. They simply have so many slots to fill with specific types of students and then they’re done. </p>

<p>Which is why everyone on this forum emphasizes safety, safety, safety. And love that safety - just in case.</p>

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<p>I don’t think the OP even realizes how corrupt Ivy Leagues are. Once you get in, all of your grades are based on curves. If you get a B in a class, that might end up being an F because your grade depends on how everyone else did in class.</p>

<p>I have friends that go to Ivy League schools and they told me how there are people that rip pages out of books and purposely steal homework and such just to get ahead.</p>

<p>It’s cutthroat competition at the Ivy Leagues. No one goes out of their way to help others out and everyone cares about each other’s grades.</p>

<p>I go to a private school that’s as old as the ivy leagues and it was cheaper than my state school because of my financial package.</p>

<p>All my friends who applied to ivy leagues and didn’t get in were crying about how they didn’t get in and ended up going to my state school.</p>

<p>I ended up applying to my private school that no one from my region knew about. Everyone questioned my motives and you know what? I ended up with a better education, more connections, and more opportunities. All the students here help each other out and don’t hide anything from one another. </p>

<p>My friends were ignorant and that’s why they aren’t receiving the same education I am. They thought Ivy leagues and big name schools were the only good schools worth going to.</p>

<p>Some LACs worth mentioning that are just as good as any Ivy League:</p>

<p>Depauw University
Wittenberg University
Denison University
Allegheny College
Earlham College
Colgate University
Kenyon College
Wabash College</p>

<p>With your states, you would get a full ride to one of those colleges and get your ivy league education without sufferring through the emotional struggles and financial debts of ivy leagues.</p>

<p>Edit: Moral of the story is, don’t be ignorant and only apply to schools that are overhyped. There are schools that are hidden gems that provide life changing experiences.</p>

<p>My friends were too ignorant to realize why I went to the LAC i chose. They thought Ivy leagues and other good schools such as Duke, Brown etc were the only good schools. The reason I went to my LAC was mostly because I got a very good financial aid package, but also because I would get a better education and have more opportunities.</p>

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<p>You got rejected for the same reason I’m probably not going to win the powerball tonight.</p>

<p>But, I’m glad you have a good option. </p>

<p>You can only go to one college, anyway. Enjoy the ride. :)</p>

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<p>Wow, rks102, another Ivy basher. Not that we haven’t seen that before. Also, the environment at all eight Ivy schools is EXACTLY the same, I tell you. Because they play sports together.</p>

<p>Also, apparently you’re over 40 years old? How are you and your friends all in college? lol</p>

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<p>Many would kill to be in your shoes. Someone might be waiting to get off the waitlist from the school you don’t choose (pending how accurate their thoughts were on acceptances). Start looking at the positives on why you applied to these two! Hopefully it wasn’t just so you could turn them down. There should have been something you liked about the schools. You have an exciting choice to make now. ;)</p>

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<p>I always make up my birthday on forums lol. Don’t want to reveal too much information. Honestly, I didn’t think my birthday would even show up.</p>

<p>Anyways, I’m sorry if I’m overbashing ivy leagues, but it just gets on my nerves when people think Ivy League education is the only way to get a decent education and they don’t look at all the other good schools that are out there.</p>

<p>The schools I listed have very high percentages of students that get accepted into Ivy League grad programs, grad programs in general, and professional programs.</p>

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<p>Ok so now given my options, what should I choose: decent schools like ucla uc berkeley or carnegie mellon with not that much aid, or full ride schools like rutgers, case western or wpi?</p>

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<p>Just guessing here, but maybe an overdeveloped sense of entitlement? might have come through an essay or 2.</p>

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<p>^there was absolutely no sense of entitlement in any of my essays, I edited them multiple times to make sure.</p>

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<p>well, there’s plenty-O-entitlement in the naming of this post. Just a hunch. Maybe you’re “entitlement blind?”</p>

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<p>What about the Lehigh WL?</p>

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<p>Why not just go with the full ride schools? Case Western is a perfectly good school. You need to stop acting arrogant and acting as if your life is over just because you didn’t get into an Ivy League. You got into plenty of good schools and even got full rides, so none of this is “ridiculous”.</p>

<p>In fact, your attitude is “ridiculous”.</p>

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<p>Well, the first question is: what kind of financial situation is your family in and will your parents pay? Do you have to take on debt for any of these options? If so, how much, and is it worth it?</p>

<p>2/3. What do you want to study? </p>

<p>2/3. Where do you want to be? Geographically, size of school, urban/rural/suburban, etc…</p>

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<li><p>Have you visited? Do you need to visit?</p></li>
<li><p>Do any of these full rides come with really awesome perks like study abroad, internship opportunities, smaller classes, special programs, etc…</p></li>
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<p>Those are some of the questions I would ask myself if I were you.</p>

<p>Good luck. This is a much better path for your mind to be on, now.</p>

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<p>More schools to choose from now? If money’s no barrier, go wherever you like. If it is, choose inexpensive and save the $$ for after you graduate.</p>

<p>And note… a sense of entitlement could have been mentioned in Letters of Recommendation or Guidance… but honestly? It might not have been an issue at all. The schools you missed aren’t called “lottery schools” for nothing.</p>

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<p>^ Exactly! “thanks for playing” time to move on…</p>