<p>I see all of these people saying they were rejected from a school like Northwestern, but already accepted to Stanford. This is disheartening, for some reason. I was rejected from Northwestern, rejected from Stanford, and waitlisted at UChicago. I was accepted to my safety (UW-Madison), but it just feels like an uphill battle from here on out. </p>
<p>I suppose I felt like I needed to start a thread for all of those still waiting for decisions. I've lost sleep over this and find it hard to leave my room, although I had plans tonight. Crazy, I know.</p>
<p>I just want all of my hard work to come to some sort of fruition.</p>
<p>I feel the same way.
I was accepted into all my safeties , I even got a presidential scholarship from Case, and got into Toronto…but then Chicago rejected me, Chicago that i wrote a heartfelt essay for and interviewed at, but with the 10% ish acceptance rate I understood.</p>
<p>Then, Tulane waitlisted me, GWU that I was sure I’d get into rejected me, and the same with UVA and Barnard.</p>
<p>I dont want my retaking the act 3 times, studying hours upon hours into my extracurriculars to all end in me going to Case.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins & Cornell/Penn/Brown were my dream schools for the past few years, but after this turn of events I just feel depressed. I’ve cancelled at my plans.
All I do is sit at home and watch skins.</p>
<p>Same here, I just got accepted to SUNY Binghamton (safety), waitlisted at Wesleyan and rejected from Swarthmore. I’m waiting for ivies/Rice/Tufts/Williams next week, though it seems like a long shot after getting waitlisted at Wesleyan. Now I’m just wasting time playing old Pokemon games.</p>
<p>My dog died last week too, which kind of puts things into perspective. So don’t worry about college guys, I’m sure we’ll be happy wherever we end up.</p>
<p>i know how everyone feels about putting in hard work, and feeling like crap when you don’t get in especially when some of your best friends are getting into MIT, Stanford, USC, Tulane, and Univ of Chicago…I was rejected by Boston Univ. and feel pretty yuck, now im waiting for Barnard meanwhile i watch skins and zombieland…</p>
<p>^I can’t believe OSU rejected you while Michigan, UCLA and Emory accepted you. I can’t believe OSU rejected someone deferred at Stanford. Wow. Maybe they heard that you were applying to Michigan and got jealous.</p>
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<p>My great aunt died on Tuesday. I didn’t really know her that well, seeing as she was my great aunt and all, but when I last visited her, with my grandmother who is now also dead, she told me, speaking about my dead grandfather, her brother, “I loved your grandfather,” which made me really sad. She had Alzheimer’s.</p>
<p>I’m sorry to all of you that got rejected. But I’m sure that you’ll discover something so fantastic at whatever college you end up attending that you won’t be able to imagine having not attended. Things will work out for the best.</p>
<p>You can try adding that story to your application if one of your top schools waitlist you. Colleges love something that can fascinate them or tell a story to their face.</p>
<p>Allow me to be the first underachiever to present my mediocre stats that I preview myself as a loser against the above average CC:</p>
<p>B average and mediocre SAT score.
Decent ECs- nothing special.</p>
<p>rejected UAlbany, Binghamton, New Paltz, and Queens College. Am expecting one from Oneonta, Baruch, and Hunter.</p>
<p>For those of you who got rejected to UChicago, Northwestern, UVA, Barnard, Stanford, GWU, Swarthmore, and Wesleyan: Don’t the well-rounded ECs + 100 hours of volunteer work, high GPA, 2000+ SAT score, great letters of recommendation, and great essay help you get accepted? Why were you guys denied? I need to know what kind of stats are these top schools looking for as admitted freshmen.</p>
<p>I’ve so far heard that competition this year is a fierce compared to the previous years.</p>
<p>Millancad: Can you share us your stats for the top schools you applied to?</p>
<p>^My sister got into Northwestern (but was waitlisted rejected by another school you listed, Barnard), and she had those things you listed. I think her SAT score was like 2090, maybe slightly above 2100. Right in that area, about 300 hours of volunteering, great recs, heartfelt essays (but she thinks she’s a bad writer).
Those things do help, but a lot of applicants are great. When schools say that they had to reject you because they had too many qualified applicants, it is, in large part, true.</p>
<p>Ugh. I need a thread where I can wallow in my teen-aged angst! :)</p>
<p>If anything, getting waitlisted and rejected has been humbling for me, because I was living with my ego touching the sky. It’s good to be lowered back down to Earth. Even though that fell broke my heart!</p>
<p>So would the reason be because it’s not that you weren’t competitive to get accepted, they had make things a little easier for themselves to narrow the applications down to simpler numbers to do the work?</p>
<p>My rank has gone up one and I think the senior class now has 321 students. The “th and 8th place on Nat’l French Exam” bit is supposed to be 7th and 8th. I think it’s my most correct list of stats.</p>
<p>Omg, lol this is the problem… people with low stats like you get in, when other people with high stats get rejected. I don’t even know where this college admissions lies with accepting students, since it’s unpredictable. :/</p>
More of the latter than the former. Most applicants are competitive, but it is, of course, also about standing out. They don’t just throw out apps or anything to narrow it; everyone who is competitive is very much considered. Without showing denied applicants the pool from which accepted students were pulled, “there were too many qualified applicants” is the most succinct approximation of the truth.</p>