<p>I think colleges have the most whacked out system of deciding who gets in or not. I got rejected from:</p>
<p>UCSD
Cal (UCB)
UCLA
Johns Hopkins
USC</p>
<p>but I managed to get waitlisted to Stanford. .-. Seriously? Anyone else share a similar story?</p>
<p>I applied to a lot of schools, but it was pretty consistent. Accepted to top tier-non ivy schools (WashU, NYU, BU, UChic, Rice, etc.), waitlisted at ivies (Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Cornell), rejected Yale, and waitlisted Stanford.</p>
<p>Accepted to UCB, UCLA, +other UCs, Brown
Waitlist Stanford, Georgetown
Rejected by GWU (what the eff?)</p>
<p>Accepted: Rice, UT</p>
<p>Waitlist: Stanford, Duke</p>
<p>Rejected: Princeton.</p>
<p>mine make sense, I think…</p>
<p>Rejected: Berkeley, Yale
Accepted: Dartmouth, Northwestern, UCLA, Tulane with a $49k scholarship
Waitlisted: UChicago, Stanford.</p>
<p>So I think the better question for me is 1. how the hell to get off the waitlist 2. do I want to be in debt 3. Cold weather at Dartmouth with small hometown feel in Hanover or the chance of nice weather and San Fran living at Stanford</p>
<p>Got rejected at Northwestern, Penn, and Brown but waitlisted at Stanford. FREAKED OUT. I saw a trend though –> the higher increase, effort you spend on an app, the likelier your acceptance. I spent, what, 20 minutes writing my Penn essay? Those deans know EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>Anyway, is there any chance whatsoever? I’d rather just say no to the waitlist now and spare myself an agonizing wait that sadly won’t turn into anything.</p>
<p>i said yes to the waitlist, but i really dont think there is a chance. and i kind of wish i didnt because now i have to wait for at least five more weeks. :(</p>
<p>Well, I don’t think it’s hopeless. I think you’ll see a lot more people get in through the waitlist than last year because the economy is down the dump and everyone’s seriously considering the UCs. The bigger problem is that MORE people were waitlisted. The thing we have to worry about now isn’t necessarily whether accepted people will decline their acceptances but how many people will accept the waitlist.</p>
<p>accepted: UC Berkeley, Irvine & Riverside; Claremont-McKenna College; Pitzer College
waitlisted: stanford.</p>
<p>mine makes sense, i guess. i was surprised stanford didnt flat out reject me, because i really don’t think im anything special. there’s veryyy few outstanding things on my application, IMO. </p>
<p>i dont know if the waitlist is hopeless. stanford was my first choice, but i’m just trying to find somewhere else to go where i can be happy or whatever, and if i end up getting into stanford (and i get like, amazing financial aid…) then i’ll go there. but idk.</p>