<p>I don't know if this has been done before, but anyway, do you know of anyone who has had a very surprising set of admissions results? For example, someone who got rejected by UCLA but get into an Ivy.</p>
<p>3.2 uw gpa, 1100 SAT international female living in California accepted to both UCLA and UCB last year. Courses weren't most rigorous, the only awards/honors she mentioned was "excellent attendance", and her extracurricular activities were very generic and limited. However, she did commit herself for over 1000 hours in the local church activities.</p>
<p>does this count? I'm not too sure how in-state Cali admission is like.</p>
<p>90-91% UW GPA (this is pretty good in Canada), hardest courseload, decent SATs (low 1400s), good ECs...</p>
<p>Rejected from Ivies (not that surprising) but also rejected at places like Colgate and Colby.</p>
<p>In all, 13 schools, 12 rejections, 1 waitlist.</p>
<p>Mine, 2.6 in HS
3.56 in freshman year of college,
All leadership posistions in ECs (president or vice president)
Rejected from University of Maryland, Accepted to Columbia. I didn't attend though, turns out they didn't have my major as a Ugrad.</p>
<p>oh yeah, last year my friend got rejected from Queen's (in Canada) but accepted to Yale EA.</p>
<p>Me...Got accepted at Imperial College, London, one of the best schools in the world for engineering, and got rejected by Georgia tech and all ivies (maybe not surprising), but definitely GAtech shocked me.</p>
<p>Our high school is a feeder school for Cornell - usually ten kids out of about 350 enroll there, and several others are accepted. Last year, one of my daughter's friends was accepted at MIT and at least one Ivy (I think Penn?) but rejected at Cornell. She was an exceptionally strong student, stronger than several kids from our hs who got in, and she earned several science awards. It was mind-boggling - I wondered if Cornell thought she was using them as some kind of safety. Though, as you'd expect from such a smart kid, she had some true safeties on her list. Strange stuff happens.</p>
<p>My friend's DD was accepted at Carnegie Mellon and a bunch of other top arch/eng schools, rejected only by Syracuse. And Syracuse accepted tons of people from her big public HS with poorer stats. The GC thought it was a mistake b/c whatever the girl's class rank was, Syracuse had accepted 18 people after her in line. The GC called and asked and the admissions office said it wasn't a mistake, they just didn't like her work.</p>