<p>an0nymous, my last hope is that some of your achievements are exaggerated (which I doubt).
If it isn't exaggerated, the only logical answer is that Stanford wasn't impressed with your essays, or they were admitting legacies on the early round (stanford doesnt admit too many legacies thou...)</p>
<p>I just hope stanford, yale and duke like diversity enough to admit me... college admissions is craaazy</p>
<p>an0nymous must have been asian. that's the only explanation. </p>
<p>Anyone else? I'm really hoping Amherst, Brown, and Dartmouth. Stanford's my dream, but... haha</p>
<p>perhaps one reason why an0nymous was deferred was that the committee just wanted to verify his numbers, which are exceptionally impressive. i have a friend who knows someone who got deferred simply because he got a recommendation from a doctor at the Stanford hospital. Stanford red-flags many applicants if they seem too good to be true. i'm pretty sure that an0nymous can get in to Stanford via Regular Decision once everything checks out.</p>
<p>im more inclined to think that i blundered on my essays or something. i don't know. but definitely - i am asian and that hurts my chances tremendously. i don't know about enigma456's answer; stanford received score reports and transcripts... the only thing left to verify, then, would be my extracurriculars. we'll just see what happens...</p>
<p>anyway, woodchuck, i think you're definitely a qualified student. but like me, your asian status hurts you. i don't think you have to worry about duke, rice, carnegie, or cal. but the ivy's are always a crapshoot, and amherst is equally unpredictable. i'd be surprised if you didnt get into one of them, though. good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks (I knew you had to be asian, I mean, who'd reject you if you weren't?)</p>
<p>this is very wrong:
[quote]
Accepted:
UCLA
Cal
UCSD
Harvard
Stanford
Duke
Georgetown
Princeton</p>
<p>Waitlist:
Rice
Johns Hopkins
(didnt give a damn about these, especially after march, so wth......)</p>
<p>
[/quote]
</p>
<p>-Brown
-Cornell
-Harvard - Rejected
-Stanford - Waitlisted
-Carnegie - Accepted
-UPenn - Waitlisted/Accepted
-Yale - Rejected
-Dartmouth - Rejected
-Amherst - Accepted
-Duke - Waitlisted/Accepted
-Rice - Accepted
-UC Berkley - Accepted/waitlisted</p>
<p>You honestly have a good shot at the Ivy, but the vast majorities of good shots are rejections. Yeah, it sucks I know.</p>
<p>I'll be blunt, I really don't see any exceptionally unique in your resume. You clearly are an accomplished student, as demonstrated by your classically collegiate-appealing e.c and courses, but for your chosen schools (specifically the top ones), there isn't anything truly "amazing".</p>
<p>Look, these schools have enough over achievers. They want kids with genuine hobbies and interests, not a laundry list of academic honors and unrelated e.c.</p>
<p>Didn't read your entire post. <em>Sigh</em> Now I feel like a scumbag.</p>
<p>Good luck though!</p>
<p>Well, Amherst IS one of my top choices, so that's nice, although you are by far the cruelest evaluator yet (not at all a detrimental comment though, I mean, it's good to be honest). But what do you mean you "feel like a scumbag?"</p>
<p>other than your grades, i don't see a reason why a top college would NEED to accept you. i'm sure you're a good person but in terms of ECs i don't see the unique factor. hopefully your essays rock. GL cuz we're all in the same boat as you are...praying for some nice results.</p>
<p>edit:</p>
<p>after reviewing your writing things, your essays WILL kick ass, </p>
<p>and i'm sure yo'll get into a great school</p>
<p>(what a 180 turnaround)</p>
<p>thank you, that sounds very pleasant. I just hope I could get into at least one of the East Coast schools, I don't even really care where...</p>
<p>I believe you will get into some great schools...don't worry.</p>
<p>haha, I hope so too... Well, I just failed in life today because I failed my permit test... how pathetic...</p>