I am hoping to experience some independence from family and the opportunity to study things that really interest me. I’ve been stuck in the IBDP with not much choice in my classes, so it’s been a struggle staying afloat in this rigorous program. I can’t wait to study things like film and psychology that weren’t offered to me. I am also excited to get to know my classmates and have a true group at my new school.
I think I would like to meet the actress and activist Jameela Jamil or singer Bishop Briggs. Two of my idols and favorite women in the world!
Brief update:
Got into Fordham University (plus the Rose Hill Honors Program)
Got into American University (plus the American Honors Program)
Still waiting on everything else!
I’m not actually class of 2021, I graduated in 2020 but chose to apply to college this year during my gap year. I’m an American citizen living in the U.K. The schools I applied to in the US are:
Yale University (deferred EA)
Brown University
Cornell University
University of Virginia (accepted)
Vanderbilt University
University of Southern California
Grinnell College (waitlisted)
Colby College (waitlisted)
Oberlin College (accepted + scholarship)
It’s been a really fun process. However, I won’t be attending any of these schools - already committed to my dream university which is the University of Cambridge in the U.K. It’s always been my goal, plus school in the U.S. is totally unaffordable for me, the education style isn’t really for me and I don’t wanna leave my friends on a different continent
Tufts
Duke
Northwestern
Wake Forest
WashU St. Louis
Dartmouth
Accepted:
Emory University
Oxford College (of Emory)
University of Georgia
Providence College
Villanova University
Clark University
Vanderbilt University
University of Colorado (Boulder and Denver)
University of Denver
Cornell University
U of Kentucky
North Carolina State
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of Alabama
University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
Northeastern University
Baylor University
University of South Carolina
Colorado College
No rejections yet!!
Hopefully we will have more normalcy than this school year. I’m just looking forward to the general college experience!
Got into Michigan State, Sacred Heart, Quinnipiac, Temple, Penn State, IU, URI, Seton Hall, Monmouth. Got deferred at Fairfield, Rutgers, and UDel during EA round. Got rejected from the rest.
I applied to the following during regular decision:
Gettysburg
U of South Carolina
Clemson
TCNJ
Holy Cross
Muhlenberg
Boston U
Florida State
Got into Gettysburg; rejected from 5 of them; and waitlisted at Muhlenberg. I haven’t heard back from either TCNJ or BU yet (I’m pretty sure BU comes out Saturday), but I’m pretty sure I’m going to get rejected from them both. When it came to my deferrals during the EA round, I got waitlisted from Fairfield, and I’m still waiting to hear back from UDel and BU.
Overall, I thought I would get into some I got rejected or waitlisted from (like U of South Carolina and Muhlenberg), and I didn’t expect to apply to so many colleges that I did at the beginning of this process at the end of my Junior Year. I already made up my mind of what school I want to go to in the fall, I just hope I get into said school.
Ultimately, I hope to have a typical college experience (go to football games, make great friends, live in a dorm, etc.), but hope to build up my resume, and participate in research and other learning opportunities over the next four years. When this pandemic is over, I hope to meet Dua Lipa lol. Her album, Future Nostalgia got me through quarantine last Spring.
Accepted at:
UCLA
Oxford College at Emory
Vassar College
Northeastern (honors)
University of Rochester (scholarship)
UC Irvine (regents and honors)
UCSD
UC Riverside (regents)
University of San Diego (scholarship)
Clark University (scholarship)
Waitlisted at:
UC Berkeley
Emory University
Boston University
Rejected at:
Duke
Pomona
Brown (ED)
Probably going to go UCLA because cost, closer to home, and I feel like I vibe with the students there
My SAT was below a 1400 and people told me here and on Reddit that I wouldn’t get into top schools. I still submitted it to all my schools (except Yale) because the average SAT in my schools hovers around a 1000.
Accepted:
Stanford
Brown
Tufts
University of Southern California
UCLA
UCI
UCSD
Cal Poly SLO
NAU
University of the Pacific
Ohio State
Kenyon
Canisius
Waitlisted:
Johns Hopkins
GWU
Pomona College
Rejected:
Yale
Claremont McKenna College
I’m most likely committing to Stanford because they gave the best financial AID out of all the schools (even CSUs & UCs). My advice is to not let people on Reddit or CC psych you out, just work hard on your essays and believe
I got into Brown, Georgetown, and Davidson for Poli Sci. Definitely not easy to turn down Georgetown or Davidson for poli sci but I cannot see myself not going to brown
Finally committed to a college and locked everything down so I figure it’s safe to post now. Applied to all colleges for computer science or cognitive science if available.
Acceptances:
Princeton
CMU SCS
Brown
Pomona College
Vanderbilt (full tuition)
Duke (early write)
Georgetown
Occidental College (President’s Scholar)
UC Santa Cruz (honors college, Dean’s Scholarship)
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
Waitlists:
Dartmouth
UC Berkeley
Rejections:
Stanford
Caltech
Yale
Harvard
MIT
I’m floored by my results tbh. I committed to Princeton last Thursday. Still doesn’t feel real.
