<p>It feels nice to finally have all the results in. Now I can move on with my life.</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Pomona
Grinnell
Middlebury
CU Boulder</p>
<p>Waitlisted:</p>
<p>Carleton
Kenyon</p>
<p>Rejected:</p>
<p>Amherst
Rice</p>
<p>I wasn’t expecting this rejection, and it’s a bit of a blow, but I’ve fallen in love with George Washington, which I did get accepted to, so at least there’s that… :)</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>2220 SAT
790 and 760 SAT IIs
12/450
~500 hours community service</p>
<p>I honestly don’t even know what it takes to get into college these days, especially after seeing applicants much more qualified than myself get rejected/waitlisted at schools like Amherst, Wesleyan, Williams, etc. I can’t say I’m too upset at this decision because I saw it coming. I’ll be going to one of my state’s flagships (which just happen to be UVA and W&M), so I’m not too upset over where I’ll end up.</p>
<p>Good luck to all, wherever you go.</p>
<p>AnonAsian,
Whitman is a great school. My D has a valedictorian who chose to go there instead of Williams and Amherst and he is very happy there.</p>
<p>Congrats manarius on Pomona and Middlebury, those are really good schools. ExceptMe: UVA and W&M are, in a word, fantastic. Wanna trade =P ?</p>
<p>like Mattj and others, i’ve found this thread to be very very comforting. I got straight up rejected from 6 colleges (harvard, princeton, dartmouth, penn, williams, amherst). all of my dreams just died right in front of my eyes on the computer screen, and i’ve felt absolutely horrible since. I spent so much time on my applications, and ive got excellent stats, recs, essays, and everything, like everyone else here who is just bewildered and heartbroken by so many rejections. This particular thread literally made me not want to die of an acute sense of failure and shame. This has been a terrible experience. I feel like everything ive done has been a waste, because i could have easily gotten into the 3 safety schools i got into, with much less effort in high school. what a waste of time. </p>
<p>To everyone else out there, like the hundreds of viewers who dont have accounts on CC, who have just been rejected at places where you thought you had a shot; you aren’t alone. This year just really really sucks for applying to the Ivies. </p>
<p>I feel so bad for people on these forums who have no viable options, like genius top applicants who happened to get rejected from all their colleges and now have to think about things like community college. I at least got into University of Florida a few months back, but i never wanted to go. I hate living in florida and wanted to move North. Now i pretty much have to, unless i want to go like 120k into debt to pay for American University, or 80k for James Madison University. I would have happily gone into debt to go to any of the other colleges i applied to, because of the higher earning potential, but whatever. I guess an essentially free education (Florida Bright Futures pays about 4k) is something i can learn to accept, even if i hate the idea of going to UF. There’s still grad school, which i might be able to afford now. </p>
<p>God, this hurts. WHY COULDNT I HAVE JUST GOTTEN INTO 1 OF THE 6. JUST ONE.</p>
<p>Waitlisted, but accepted at Dartmouth. I removed myself off the Amherst waitlist so hopefully it’s a small help to some of you guys.</p>
<p>quietriot: I feel exactly the same, except I got accepted by Dartmouth but there’s absolutely NO way I can afford it since its 58k a year and I didn’t get any financial aid. I have to support myself in college, since my parents can’t, so thats really not possible.</p>
<p>I enjoyed many of my activities so I guess I don’t mind doing them, like tennis or research or writing reviews. However, looking back I could just as easily not have stayed up till 4 am every school night for so many straight weeks to do homework, or pulled all nighters to finish research papers and projects, or have worked/volunteered/researched 13 hours a day for 3 months in the summer in a foreign city, having to do summerwork from when I got home at 8 pm each day to 1 am in the morning while my friends played their 360s and ps3s, and still gotten the same result. The amazing thing is I’m not exaggerating, and I chose to do all those things of my own accord.</p>
<p>Wow, haha I can’t believe I wrote that. Seems like I’m venting on Amherst for the events of the past few days. Now I just feel sad.</p>
<p>Maybe this is just a test. I feel like in 40 years I’ll look back and laugh, but right now its just too d*m hard</p>
<p>Redguard: At this point I don’t think I’d trade my Virginia residence for anything in the world, haha. It just hit me in these past few days how lucky I am to have such amazing (and affordable) college options available to me in VA. Coincidentally, the only schools I got accepted to (Washington and Lee, UVA, and W&M) happen to be in Virginia. I guess me staying here was meant to be…</p>
<p>So I just received “the last rejection.” I have to say that it’s something of a comfort amidst all these top scholars accepted to multiple Ivy league schools to discover that there are many other people in the same boat as I am. Thank god that NYU found it in their hearts to offer me a chance. I hope everyone else in this thread had similar luck and found at least one school willing to take them in, because I know that all of us can and will succeed someday.</p>
<p>the sad thing is, on the harvard waitlist thread there are people saying that if they don’t get accepted they can at least “fall back” on princeton, stanford, mit, yale, etc. Honestly dudes…?</p>
<p>I was pleasantly surprised to receive a waitlist today, which honestly felt like a very nice boost considering I’ve gotten all rejections (baring my waitlist at Wesleyan) during this exhausting week and a half. Time to step back, breath and start choosing from my safeties and getting stuff together for my waitlist schools. Good luck to all my kindred spirits in this thread, it has been one exhausting year.</p>
<p>redguard117, If your parents are not giving you any support, you should be able to get some financial aid! Talk to your parents about what they can provide, and then contact the Dartmouth FA office. You might be surprised what they’re willing to do for you.</p>
<p>thanks juca! thats what I was planning on doing, especially considering the chances of getting into my waitlists (especially amherst) are so low. </p>
<p>I think I really need to take a step back though and see how lucky I really am, considering the recent tragedy in Japan and how fragile life can be. Here I am complaining about getting into college and people are dying, starving and exposed to radiation in Japan without nearly as much complaint. Puts things in perspective I guess</p>
<p>^ That’s the right mindset. I helped at a school for autistic teens the day I heard back from Stanford (my #1 choice), and it made the rejection way more bearable. Fortunately I was accepted into Princeton, but everyone needs to realize that luck plays a huge role. I was rejected from Stanford and Duke, and waitlisted at Brown, Johns Hopkins, and Amherst. Anyone who hasn’t listened to or read the NPR piece on Amherst Admissions really needs to. It’s amazing (and depressing) how they compress 4 years of hard work into a 1 minute short presentation, and make the decision largely based off of gut-feeling.</p>
<p>I just read through this whole thread and couldn’t help but smile at all of the posts. Quite honestly, I first posted to relieve my soul of the pressure, if only in the slightest of ways. I’m so happy to have been able to hear from other people; it helps put things into perspective. This whole process is wildly unpredictable, and I guess one can only truly grasp that through experience. In a way, though, I think that falling in love with a school is necessary. I know that I started this process adamant against all Ivy League schools and against making a strong connection with one school. I wanted a buffer against possible disappointment. That, of course, was futile. I fell in love with a few schools, and despite my efforts to protect myself, it still hurt when I saw that I wasn’t accepted. But, I think this is necessary. You have to fall in love with schools, and be emotionally invested. That way, when you are at college (the right college, for you) it is so much more meaningful. If nothing else, we have all benefited so much from our efforts. We are not academically invested and intellectually insatiable solely for the sake of a prestigious acceptance. We learn because we want to. I think this shows that we will continue working hard even after we know where we are going to attend. This process can help define us and show just how much we can accomplish in pursuit of a goal. Although that might be obscenely corny, it has helped me resist wallowing in scorn and self-pity. </p>
<p>Also, I read this post on CC during ED week and it really stuck out to me. (I forget who posted it- I saved it to my computer on a document.)</p>
<p>"Your worth and your results</p>
<hr>
<p>I know this is a very hard time for seniors as they are waiting for their results. Or receiving them.</p>
<p>You have to know, there is a great deal of serendipity in this whole process. That’s why the results can seem so strange – got in to more competitive school, rejected from less competitive school, or whatever. </p>
<p>Some of you will be rejected from your top schools, and end up lower down on your list. Several things to know: first, this is not a judgment of your skills, your intelligence or you as a person. When you have thousands of people going for hundreds of spots – and 95% of those people are in the same range of skills – the odds are against you everywhere. No matter your skills, no matter your success. Schools are looking for a student body of wide ranging backgrounds and talents. They’re not going to take all tuba players, or everyone from Idaho. So, if you were counting on your sculpting as pushing you over the top – but they already admitted two sculptors in ED – then it doesn’t help. So again – serendipity.</p>
<p>But I have one other thing to tell you: For most of you, your first choices are based on impressions – how you felt walking through the school, what the students you ran into were like, the cache of the school name, the US News ranking (which is really unimportant), reputation of a particular department. You will find, in the end, that NONE of this matters. All of these schools are the tops in the country. You WILL be happy, wherever you go – unless you don’t let yourself be happy because of grumpiness about your results. You WILL make good friends, you WILL get a top-notch education. </p>
<p>So, my bottom line: Feel good about yourself. You are among the smartest, most talented young people in this country. You are on your way to a great adventure. You will get a great education. And – thought it might be hard to accept this week – you will be happy."</p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you. (I still haven’t read my decision for Amherst.)</p>
<p>mattj0009 and quietriot, same case for my ds also. His last and final rejection after a terrible appllication season. Like you guys, he had perfect gpa, sat 2290, very good recs and lots of ecs and leadership. My analysis on his case was that we are internationals and we are asking for tons of aid.
tough season for many.<br>
congratulations to those who made it to the good schools. as for those whose children and the children who made it to lesser schools, be consoled that it is okay…it was meant to be. it doesn’t mean that you won’t (or your children won’t) succeed.</p>
<p>As hard as it is to believe, you really should not take it personally. Years ago, many of these top universities routinely accepted 30, 40, even 50% of their applicants, and I mean the Ivies and others in that group. In 1950, Standard accepted somewhere around 50-60% of its applicants, and as recently as 25 years ago it still accepted about a quarter of them.</p>
<p>Today, the top 25 colleges and universities, which are the ones you seem to have applied to, are getting so many applications that they routinely accept 10% or even single digit numbers. Straight A students with activities, sports, excellent recc letters and top scores who used to be a shoo-in at dozes at colleges, today routinely get rejected or deferred. It’s all a bit sad, really, and has to do with the larger number of applicants and the silly practice of applying to 15 or 20 colleges. </p>
<p>And colleges are partly to blame. Some colleges which could reduce the application frenzy by pre-qualifying students or permitting earlier decisions choose not to do so. They do this to raise the number of applicants which makes them look better. Some colleges will even reject students who they know are completely qualified but who they assume will not accept them. Accepting such students who later choose not to attend because they prefer a more prestigious school will lower their acceptance “yield.” My own daughter was rejected by Connecticut College a few years ago, even though she was accepted or wait listed at Boston College, Middlebury, Vassar, Wesleyan, Colgate and others. Does that rejection make any sense? None whatsoever. When the college counselor inquired about this, the admissions person admitted that she was turned down only because they assumed that with her scores and grades she was probably using Conn College a a “back up” school and would not accept their offer of admission. This sort of manipulation of the numbers hurts young people very badly, but colleges like this continue to play these games to raise their statistics.</p>
<p>If you apply only to top colleges, good luck with that strategy. I know a student who applied ONLY to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford and, predictably, was rejected by all four of them. Not a very good strategy. Fortunately, one benefit of all this silliness, is that other colleges formerly not considered quite as top in the rankings are now getting Harvard, Yale, and Princeton “rejects,” students who are first rate people and excellent students. So, Bucknell, Scripps, BU, Bates, Trinity , and many other schools have become much better.</p>
<p>As hard as it is to believe, there was a time when NYU and USC, now ranked very highly, were considered joke schools that no serious student wanted to go to. Duke was a sleepy little North Carolina tobacco country university years ago. Just go to the college you most like and work hard and enjoy yourself. Someday it may be the new Harvard to another generation of students.</p>
<p>^Solid post. Do carefully read.</p>
<p>Excellent post ColgateDad; couldn’t agree with you more.</p>
<p>My D, as the title of this thread states, was sure Amherst was going to be her last rejection. I am glad to report she was mistaken: she was waitlisted. She did not have nearly the rough admission season as some of the posters in this thread. I believe that the primary reason was that she only applied to one Ivy (Brown) and three of the LACs rated in the top 10 by USNWR (Amherst, Swarthmore & Davidson). Her stats are good, but not as stellar as some of the other posters: Top 7% of her class; IB candidate; 31 ACT (superscore 32); 4.7 GPA (weithted) and 3.8 (unweighted); 4 years of h/s and 3 years travel volleyball (h/s team went to state final four team and travel team to USAV Nationals); 4 years volunteer at our local hospital.</p>
<p>She was accepted at Notre Dame (one of her top 3 schools which she never did rank in order; and where she will almost surely attend), UNC Chapel Hill, Boston College, Holy Cross, Mount Holyoke, William & Mary and University of Florida (my alma mater). She was denied at Brown and Swathrmore (her other top 3 schools); and she was wait-listed at Amherst and Davidson.</p>
<p>The decisions which surprised her were: (1) Admission to ND - she was convinced she would not get in; (2) Denial from Swat - she was a Discover Swarthmore participant, felt she had a great interview essays were great; and (3) wait list at Amherst - after being denied by Swat, she thought she did not have a chance. </p>
<p>I believe that no matter how great your stats and resume are, most students who apply mostly to all of the Ivys and the top LACs are setting themselves up for failure. There are plenty of great schools out there where one can have a great college experience and become a productive member of society.</p>
<p>PS to quietriot - it trully is great to be a Florida Gator. Also, come February, a lot of kids in the Northeast will wish they could trade places with you.</p>