<p>Duke: Rejected
Brandeis: Rejected
USC: Pending...but probably Rejected
Tufts: Rejected
William and Mary: Rejected
SDSU: Rejected
CSUC: Accepted
CSUSF: Accepted</p>
<p>I am going to attend Santiago Canyon Comunity College and transfer to UCLA thru the IGETC and never have to worry about the SAT's again. </p>
<p>SoCalBum</p>
<p>What is IGETC?</p>
<p>Its a program that sets you up with the appropriate transferable credits from a CC to a UC. You can learn more about it from this link.</p>
<p>SoCalBum</p>
<p>nothing sucks more than having a little tiny itty bitty faith in getting accepted to a school that you know has odds set up against you....</p>
<p>personally, i could have applied to UC RIVERSIDE and MERCED to make myself feel good about getting into a "UC!"...but instead i decided to apply to schools that i'd actually want to attend, which meant schools i had little to no chances at like Berkeley, Davis, and Irvine. I applied, and was rejected to all of the UCs, but at least I applied for myself and not for the pride in getting accepted to X number of schools. i know a few friends who wasted money applying to schools they wouldn't want to attend, but out of fear of not getting in anywhere, they still applied. i just doesn't make sense. if you know you don't want to go to ex merced, then don't freaking apply!..</p>
<p>speaking of rejection letters, i believe my UC berkeley rejection letter should be coming in through the mail one of these days <em>sigh</em> i guess its community college for me...</p>
<p>now i feel better knowing other people have been rejected numerous times. </p>
<p>it just sucks for people who work their butts off to get into. ex. Harvard, but get rejected!...how devestating that must be lol</p>
<p>I don't really care about the whole "you can get just as good an education elsewhere!" </p>
<p>Of course, I know that... but still THAT'S NOT THE POINT! The point is that I want to get into those name brand schools, and I want my parents to be able to brag when they get into a conversation. I guess people are sort of branded in a way by the colleges they attend. Although going to a lesser college does in no way mean that you yourself are lesser than a person in Harvard, If the rest of the world thinks that way, you're kind of stuck with the stereotype.
I guess the whole point of trying to get into a great college is RESPECT! At least that's what I have in mind. Kind of sad yes.</p>
<p>I had a SAT score of 2240 in my first and only attempt.
I had an 800 in Chemistry Literature AND math 2C.
My IB predicted grades were 42/42, I tool the most rigorous course load, I had recos which were totally outstanding. I started my own NGO, all this while I worked to support my family.</p>
<p>And I got rejected by MIT, UPenn (Wharton), Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Besides Bentley, these were the only unis I applied to. No good unis like Boston, USC, NYU. I thought i will get into at least one of the above, so whats the point? </p>
<p>Where did I go wrong?</p>
<p>In hindsight, these:</p>
<p>1) I am an international student and I applied for full finaid.
2) My essays may not have been great. I thought my grades, ECs and recos were good enough.
3) My applications were sent like, a week after the deadline, due to a messup by my courier service provider.
4) I didnt go to a counsellor. WE have these hotshot counsellors in India whocharge a bomb. I couldnt afford them. I hindsight, I should have gone to one. There may have been mistakes in my application which they could have detected.</p>
<p>I got into Bentley; I had thought they would give a student of my calibre a full ride. Turns out maximum they give is full tution, which only 2 internationals get in a year. I got only half tution. This rules out Bentley.</p>
<p>I am very confused about what to do right now.</p>
<p>Should I work hard on my IB grades, make sure that they become a 42/42 in May? The problem is i slacked in the last semester, thinking, well at least i will get into one of these Unis. Should I apply to UK to LSE? Their deadline is June. But that will require getting great grades in the IB Exams in May. And they dont give financial aid or scholarships. Is taking a loan of $12000 from my rich uncle worth it?</p>
<p>Should I take a gap year, give my SATs again, get a 2400, work on my essays, and do something worthwhile like working full time in the stock market? Do more for AIDS patients through my NGO? Work harder on my essays? give in a superb application, ON TIME, next year?</p>
<p>But it feels like such a waste of time. Will I ever be good enough to get a full ride from the ivies? Am I good enough to do ANYTHING??</p>
<p>Maybe I shud just remain in India, do accountancy, and then do my MBA in the US. But I will look like such a fool. Everybody had high expectations from me: school, teachers, family, friends. Everybody thought I was a sure for the ivies, that I would make my school and family proud. I had a full ride in my IB school too: a $42000 scholarship. They will think it was such a waste.</p>
<p>I am really depressed right now. most of my friends are going abroad, and I have to remain here.</p>
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Of course, I know that... but still THAT'S NOT THE POINT! The point is that I want to get into those name brand schools, and I want my parents to be able to brag when they get into a conversation. I guess people are sort of branded in a way by the colleges they attend. Although going to a lesser college does in no way mean that you yourself are lesser than a person in Harvard, If the rest of the world thinks that way, you're kind of stuck with the stereotype.
I guess the whole point of trying to get into a great college is RESPECT! At least that's what I have in mind. Kind of sad yes.
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<p>Totally .</p>
<p>"UT is a good school but i didnt stay up late nights studying for sat and school and spending countless months and weeks on essays and stuff just to get into ut where i wuld just get in automatically"</p>
<p>Exactly! I feel that all that hard work I've done has been wasted on getting an automatic acceptance (to UT). It feels like I shouldn't have even bothered...
It's a great school, but I don't feel that my hard work has paid off :(</p>
<p>well, I'm grateful anyways (rejected from Stanford, Rice, UPenn, Berkeley, Yale, MIT, and Harvard in about a week, but I got into Cornell and Austin, so I'm glad SOMETHING worked out.)</p>
<p>But now my parents are saying I can't go to Cornell due to $$ reasons, so UT Austin it is...</p>
<p>Agree @ beowulf00.</p>
<p>Obviously any person with a shred of intelligence knows that they can be supersuccesful by going to any college in general [within certain limits]...but the fact is that, going to Harvard is simply a much more enjoyable experience, both self-confidence wise and actual-wise, than going to your local CC. </p>
<p>Life is about more than just squeezing out as much as you can with as little work as possible. You don't need to go to Harvard or an ivy or a top school...but by God, it certainly would be a life-changing experience....</p>
<p>Just think of it this way:</p>
<p>It's the school's loss for not having you. If they don't want you, then why should you want to go there?</p>
<p>
well, obviously... Those are two ends of the spectrum</p>
<p>Rejected at HYP. Princeton's letter really sucked. It was like "We had a great applicant pool, you weren't halfway there. Have a good life." It was my dream school...and to get that sort of response when I put in heaps of effort for the app...</p>
<p>Daaayyyymmm....</p>
<p>The class of 2012 for those Ivies must be absolutely phenomenal, considering the stats of all the rejects.</p>
<p>I agree with beowulf90...it would have been great respect, a fantastic experience, and great bragging rights for parents. Meh...</p>
<p>milkmagn- </p>
<p>while i appreciate ur attempt to console, it doesn't discount the fact that harvard would be an AWESOME experience. and not just in itself. if i went there, i honestly believe i'd be able to achieve my full potential. there's only so much motivation that comes because you will yourself to. can you imagine the conversations, ideas that would flow? </p>
<p>sigh. college admissions is ---practical. there are too many people applying, hence the application process is simplified into a piece of paper+an interview maybe. it's too bad there's no aptitude test for college. how well you'd fit in, etc. </p>
<p>oh yeah- i'm not going to go into denial and be all 'H doesn't like me, i don't like H either'- i realize i'm not H's ideal applicant(not that i applied there). </p>
<p>what's SUCKY about it, is i might not be the best for H, but H might be the best for ME.</p>
<p>Got into Boston U, NYU, and the University of Dallas. Rejected at Yale and Stanford. Waitlisted at Columbia. Waiting on USC to make a choice. -_- Most likely a rejection.</p>
<p>Abhimanyuk, you scare me. You have absolutely a spotless record, you should have gotten in somewhere.</p>
<p>Try for a Spring term 2009 at a good college which'll offer you some FA. I know how much it sucks to get rejected... and don't borrow money till it's the last option. Try for a state college in the US, they give good waivers.</p>
<p>Now my turn on this "gripe" vine...</p>
<p>Rejected: Stanford, UChicago, UPenn (:( I loved UChic)
Waitlist: Wellesley, Swarthmore, Haveford, Northwestern
Accepted: Grinnell, NYU</p>
<p>Waiting for: Vassar, Emory (but probably rejected).</p>
<p>It sucks cos I was so sure I'd get in somewhere nice.... but probably it was for the best. I wouldn't have realized what a marvelous place NYU is, perfect for me.</p>
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It just hurts when they all come in a row.
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Got that right.</p>
<p>Yeah, my input:</p>
<p>Rejected - Columbia (knew this was coming, so wasn't disappointed)
Waitlisted - Cornell, Brown (was disappointed with Brown, my first choice)
Accepted - Hopkins (glad I got in here, great pre-med, almost applied ED), WUSTL (too expensive)</p>
<p>Overall, it was okay, got into some good schools.</p>
<p>Rejected - Cal, UCLA, UCI (seriously, ***), Georgetown, NYU (Stern)
Accepted - UIllinois, Babson, Penn State, Boston University, UC Davis, Purdue
Waiting- USC</p>
<p>I really wish I got into one of the schools I was rejected in. Was really hoping to go to California.</p>
<p>I'm rejected from ALL the schools I most wanted to go to; waiting for the wl from Dickinson and preparing to deposit to Drexel. And I thought my 2190 SAT would account for something, since I'm intl.</p>
<p>But I seem to be less dispirited than you guys here... Let's try my method though:
1. We still have transfers, and grad school. And Steven Spielberg went to a not-so-famous school.
2. Go to the accepted schools' websites. I totally love Drexel's, and found that it has an honor program, and I can get extra credits from UPenn. Well that soothes me :)</p>
<p>And let's blame the baby boom in 1990.</p>