<p>Great news guys!</p>
<p>Make sure to post that in the Wellesley forum for next year’s worriers. ;)</p>
<p>Do keep us posted. I love to hear the results of all of your hard work.</p>
<p>More good news! I got into the 21st Century Scholar’s Program at Mt. Holyoke! It’s a real surprise for someone who applied to the school because I knew an interesting character who went there.</p>
<p>See, you were worried for nothing! Congratulations!</p>
<p>Congrats on the great news! Acceptances and money to boot.</p>
<p>I hate to be a downer in this thread, but sometimes, the worst case scenario you predict ends up being exactly what happens.</p>
<p>I had a 2200 SAT, 31 ACT, great essays, hundreds of hours of extracurriculars (employment, volunteering, clubs, out-of-school art portfolio that spanned nearly a decade). I had a rigorous courseload but only a 3.25 unweighted GPA.</p>
<p>My parents, with their delusional high standards, forbade me from applying to any schools that they didn’t sign off on. Since these application fees were all 60-70 dollars each, I honestly couldn’t afford to go against them on this.</p>
<p>I basically applied to only one safety - CU Boulder - which ended up not being a safety anyway because it turned out my parents were never going to let me go there anyway. I got accepted there. Doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at my #1 choice - the University of Washington, my only in-state school that I was allowed to apply to. The rest would’ve all been great match/safety schools. But my parents don’t believe in safeties. Allowing me to even think about applying to safeties, they said, would prevent me from working as hard as I can to get into all the ridiculously selective schools (with my grades) that they made me apply to. That’s not true. I tried my a** off to make the best possible application to each and every one of these schools.</p>
<p>Eight of the rest of my ten colleges - UCD, UCSD, UCLA, UCBerkeley, U Chicago, George Washington U, and American University - have ALL rejected me. I thought I’d have a very solid chance at UC Davis, American University, and MAYBE UC San Diego, but nope. Flat-out rejected.</p>
<p>The last two schools are Boston University (accepted, thank god) and New York University (holding out a ton of hope but probably going to get rejected).</p>
<p>That last part about Boston would normally be the happy ending to this story, right? Nope. I came downstairs super happy yesterday about getting accepted. My parents didn’t care. Despite me warning them from the beginning that my grades would make it almost impossible to get accepted to any of the above schools, they still expected me to get into all of them. With every rejection, they’ve grown more and more resentful and hateful and downright furious with me for being an utter failure. Later in the day yesterday, American University’s rejection letter arrived. They seriously pretended like they didn’t even care about Boston. All that mattered was that I got yet ANOTHER rejection letter, and that I had let them down for the millionth time here.</p>
<p>Even going back to November/October, I don’t know what I could’ve done differently. They were never going to be okay with the idea of me applying to a safety or a match school, because they were definitely never going to be okay with the idea of paying for me to go to a school that wasn’t the BEST (which automatically made it a complete s***hole, in their eyes). I warned them from the start that I don’t mind making them happy and doing my hardest to try to get into these selective schools, but that there was a very, very slim chance of me succeeding in my endeavors here. But that didn’t seem to make a difference.</p>
<p>They still resent me for failing, when in reality it was their ridiculous guidelines for what schools to apply to that set me up to fail from the start.</p>
<p>Future applicants, never do what I did, even if your parents are like mine. Don’t apply to a dozen reach schools, thinking you’re bound to get into one or two of them. There’s no guarantee of that happening. If it does, and your parents are happy, congratulations. If it does, and your parents are like mine, then it’ll still lead to the worst two weeks of your life.</p>
<p>metalninja,
I am so sorry to hear of your experience, and you have no need to apologize for posting a “downer” since thats what this thread was about (the other posts were off topic and may belong in the Class of 2016 acceptances thread). Parents can be terribly unreasonable and unrealistic. You do not sound like a disappointment at all. Hange in there and good luck with NYU.</p>
<p>I guess talking about my acceptances was kind of off-topic, but some people expressed interest earlier in the thread about seeing what my decisions were. I have a lot of decisions yet to come, so I’m probably not going to post about them until they’re all in.</p>
<p>I’m sorry about your story metalninjacake. I hope too that you have good luck with NYU.</p>
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<p>In reality, you did no such thing. Congrats on your acceptance to BU, and good luck with getting off the wait list at your #1 choice (D1 got into her #1 school by coming off the wait list and is about to graduate after 4 wonderful years, so you never know), as well as the pending NYU decision. You should feel great-don’t let your parents’ unrealistic expectations and unfortunate insistence on applying to so many reaches dampen your enthusiasm. </p>
<p>This, too, shall pass, you will go to college, and all will be well in the end.</p>
<p>^^ I wanted to say that you are NOT a disappointment. I’m betting that your parents are feeling bad inside that they forced you to apply to so many reach schools. Sometimes, we parents take our frustrations out on our kids, when we really know it’s partly us to blame. Also, you have gotten into a couple of schools, so you will be going to college. Yay! And, the best part of this is that you get to start over with a clean slate. Don’t focus too much on your parents feelings. I think they will come around to understand that you are going to be successful no matter which school you attend.</p>
<p>Just wanted to offer a warm cyber hug to you, metalninja. You’re not a failure. Keep us updated on where you decide to attend, and I hope you’re off the WL. Have your GC or someone write a letter for you, send them recent grades, a letter of interest, updated awards/activities, anything. Good luck.</p>
<p>metalninjacake, sorry you’ve had a rough time of it. You sound wise beyond your years. Congrats on your BU acceptance! If you go there, it’s a wonderful school and Boston is a great city. Good luck with the rest, but you have a very nice choice so far.</p>
<p>metaininjacake, the fault is not yours - it’s your parents’. The idea that not applying to a safety school - or even a match - would make you work harder for a reach school is completely twisted, senseless logic. By the time you were doing applications, 90% of what a college is going to consider is already done - your grades for the first 3 years and your test scores. The idea that because they WANT you to go to a “top tier” school is going to get you admitted, or that applying to safeties and matches lowers your chances at a top school is ridiculous. The people who should be getting a swift kick in the butt on this are your parents.</p>
<p>Congratulations on BU! It’s a very well respected school, and Boston is a great college town. Hopefully its a long distance away from your parents.</p>
<p>Well, LAF’s last paragraph says it all! Good luck metalninjacake, keep us posted!!</p>
<p>Big fan of Boston. Very fun town to go to college in. Congratulations. Whatever your parents are feeling is about THEM not you. You are a soon to be high school graduate and a future college student. If they choose to focus on the negative of such a capricious process? That’s NOT your problem, or your responsibility.</p>
<p>Congratulations Choas. Reminds me of the old Mark Twain quote, “I"ve lived through thousands of tragedies, and a couple of them actually happened.”</p>
<p>Good luck to you.</p>
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<p>I think OP stated (s)he is from Washington. I agree that BU would be a great option, especially if OP is looking to distance himself from his overbearing parents.</p>
<p>metalninjacake, your post makes me so sad. I am sorry about your parents. You obviously have what it takes to make it. Go far away, and enjoy your time in college. Hopefully, your parents will loosen up as time goes on.</p>
<p>Accepted - nowhere
Waitlist -uchicago.
Rejected - harvard, yale, princeton, mit, columbia, duke, upenn, the list goes on…</p>
<p>GPA: All "A"s (im an international from Aust.)</p>
<p>Charity project - Taught English in rural Chinese School and installed a computer lab
Captain of Orienteering Club
Grade 8 + Pianist, composer
Future Problem Solving - International and National Champions (alt. division)
Cadet Sgt Medics Platoon
AMC - Distinction 6 times</p>
<p>Essays: Great but not brilliant</p>
<p>Scores:</p>
<p>SAT: 2220
SATII:
Math II 800
Phys 800
Chinese 800</p>
<p>I hope my admissions horror story will help lighten up your day…</p>
<p>Where’s your safety?</p>
<p>My safety were Australian schools - I got into the best undergraduate law school in my country. I’m just shocked and confused atm as I had my entire heart set on going to one of these schools…</p>
<p>It is a shock when you have your heart set on it, but with time you will be able to realize that it wasn’t personal. Congratulations on being accepted to the best law school in Australia!</p>