<p>Trackstar23, I don't believe that the college admissions are unfair, but I do not believe that Stanford has made a mistake. It is very arrogant to say that adcoms have done a grave injustice to you.</p>
<p>Were you accepted elsewhere? Please put your agony in perspective. There are many, many students out there who are on waitlists, and worse, outright rejected. Remember that while Stanford might not have accepted you, there is a college out there that will/has.</p>
<p>Murkywater, I was accepted to a school ranked about the same as Stanford. I'm sure I will be fine, but YES Stanford has made a mistake and YES they did do a grave injustice to me. It's not like I'm some slacker who decided senior year that I wanted to go there. I think Stanford gave me and lots of other applicants false hope</p>
<p>Here's how my college list went:</p>
<ol>
<li>Stanford</li>
</ol>
<p>Everywhere else </p>
<p>A lifelong goal, alas shattered.</p>
<p>Trackstar23, the problem with you is that you are yet another one of the collegebound students who feels that they are entitled to a specific brand-name college education. I don't know where you got these ideas from, because they are spreading like wildfire amongst thinkers like yourself.</p>
<p>Honestly, you are not entitled to a Stanford education. You may have felt you worked hard for one. I don't believe the adcom has made a mistake. If anything, maybe they rejected you because of your arrogant attitude - your ideas of thinking that you "deserved" to get into Stanford.</p>
<p>And if none of the other schools appealed to you, why did you apply to them? You are going to be attending a college of equal caliber. Please save your breath. There are students out there that have been waitlisted and others who have been rejected at nearly every place they have applied.</p>
<p>You earn no sympathy from me. Lose your 'entitled' attitude. It's sad that so many kids like you feel that something 'wrong' has happened in their college decisions. The only thing wrong with these decisions is your attitude towards them.</p>
<p>Murky, I'm not asking for your sympathy. There is a difference between entitled and deserving, and I genuienly believe that I earned a spot. </p>
<p>You asked "if none of the other schools appealed to you, why did you apply to them?" </p>
<p>Well, since I knew that I might not get into Stanford (arrogant? entitled?)</p>
<p>Then if you knew you might not get into Stanford, why are you complaining about 'deserving' a spot? If you truly deserved a spot, you would think you had a 100% chance of getting in and would not have applied elsewhere.</p>
<p>Honest to God, trackstar23. You are probably a great student, but lose the negative attitude. You are going to end up going to a great college anyway!</p>
<p>trackstar: I feel no sympathy for you ("adding insult to injury"), because you seem to be one of the most disingenuous applicants of all.</p>
<p>"Just because one person got into Stanford "</p>
<p>I never claimed to have gotten into Stanford. =)</p>
<p>"It's really unfortunate that some posters think they know you and why you did/did not get into a given college."</p>
<p>With your attitude, I'm not surprised you got rejected.</p>
<p>"but YES Stanford has made a mistake and YES they did do a grave injustice to me."</p>
<p>I really hope you're not so self-centered to think that you are somehow special enough to be "better" than the other rejected people, that Stanford, after reviewing your case probably multiple times, somehow made a mistake. Instead of pointing the finger, you should look to yourself. Perhaps you did not portray yourself as strongly as those accepted did.</p>
<p>Really, I don't see how you worked for years to please Stanford:</p>
<p>"i decided to apply the weak before the deadline and wrote my essays in under 2 hours"</p>
<p>Why don't you directly address this, hmm?</p>
<p>I knew I might not get into Stanford because the adcom has a history of being a bit quirky. That doesn't mean that I didn't deserve a spot. </p>
<p>I am not usually a negative person, but if you spent 4 years trying to achieve something and then some committee just turned you down, you might be "negative" for awhile also </p>
<p>kyle, the comment writing 'my essay in under 2 hours' wasn't serious, just amusing myself after spending so long on my stanford essays</p>
<p>Trackstar23, just like Kyle pointed out, you are a liar and have a horrible attitude. For some reason, making a comment about applying the week before and doing the essays in two hours does not sound like a joke. Instead, it sounds like what you actually did and now are trying to cover up. Why do you feel the need to lie? </p>
<p>And in that case, if you actually did only spend two hours on your essays -- I'm not surprised you were rejected. The fact that you lied about it -- not surprised that the adcom didn't think you had "personal" qualities that would benefit the school.</p>
<p>And yes, you can be negative for a while about being rejected. But it's not the end of the world, and there's no need to continue lying about what you actually did in the application process.</p>
<p>Wow, I'm really glad trackstar is not going to be my classmate next fall...</p>
<p>I still don't get how "spending years devoted to everything Stanford is looking for" is the same as deciding to apply to Stanford on a whim...</p>
<p>trackstar: to quote you....</p>
<p>
[quote]
I applied to stanford university in palo alto in december and i got a letter few days ago that said that they approve my admission</p>
<p>is it a joke because i thought i had no shot of gettn in i decided to apply the weak before the deadline and wrote my essays in under 2 hours</p>
<p>did anybody else get a letter? my stats aint that good gpa 3.3 and sat 19 something i only do track and field since senior year and was on school gov when i was a freshmen but i think it helped that i'm 1/8 black because i put i was african american and ive also gotten like 20 grand in outside scholarships for doing nothing its really funny because my family is so much richer than the white boys i know</p>
<p>is anyone else gotten in, or was stanford just joking with me?
[/quote]
</p>
<p>which is rather different from your original post on this thread:</p>
<p>
[quote]
Spent My Life Trying To Get In</p>
<p>Not Black</p>
<p>Flawless Stats</p>
<p>Amazing Ec S</p>
<p>Local Without Legacy</p>
<p>Not From The Middle Of No Where</p>
<p>Worked Hard To Go To A Good High School</p>
<p>So Many Honors Classes</p>
<p>How Useless
[/quote]
</p>
<p>You're freaking lying...stop trying to play a stupid joke</p>
<p>Lol trackstar = troll?</p>
<p>never would have thought it</p>
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<p>but seriously...cheer up. You'll probably forget that you ever wanted to go to Stanford come time to go off to college.</p>
<p>I think it's time to chill out and move on with our lives.</p>