<p>I wanted to throw this topic out there because I, and many other EDers, viewed the decisions come out feeling terrible. I have never seen so many depressing facebook statuses and people calling me up crying before. My school ended up getting 3 kids into an ivy during RD (1 Brown, 1 Penn, and 1 Cornell) from my present knowledge (we’re on spring break), but so many people applied. I feel so blessed to have been accepted to Brown and, after seeing yesterday, I will always appreciate the education and experience I will have. </p>
<p>The ivy admission rate, imo, was so incredibly random this year. I think that’s the only word I can use because I don’t agree with all the choices they made (again, this is my opinion only). idk, i was just in horror yesterday as were some other EDers I was talking to while the massacre was going on…</p>
<p>no no no. i don’t think that they don’t deserve it, but just to a different school, if tha makes sense. I guess I was ivy stereotyping them and where they got in didn’t match that ivy’s stereotype. Anyone who gets into ivy deserves it considering that there’s more deserving applicants than there are spots. I just felt like why they picked X over Y was weird. I trust the admissions offices to pick the students right for their school. It just looked random from an outside perspective.</p>
<p>O I agree that from an outside perspective the choices they make seem very random! The thing is though, they spend 3 months on deciding, so I guess the choices aren’t so random, haha! I was completely surprised by my acceptance to be honest! Are you matriculating?</p>
<p>Got into Harvard but not Brown. Confused and a little surprised, but I guess they know what they’re doing. Maybe I wouldn’t have been happy there.
Congrats to all accepted. This year really was insane.</p>
<p>I remember when Duke decisions came out and their newspaper published an article on how the admissions process they currently use just isn’t adapted to such a huge number of applicants. I assume the same applies to all colleges. With such a surge in applications, everyone’s under so much more stress to finish reading and evaluating everything that there’s more room for error and random, weird choices. I got into HYP and Brown, and I can truly, honestly state that I was expecting a slew of rejections yesterday. Why that didn’t happen, I have no idea.</p>
<p>My school generally has around 10 ~ 15 Ivy acceptances. This year, we only had around 5 (1 Brown, 2 Cornell, 2 UPenn – usually we have at least 1 Harvard/Yale/Princeton and usually 2 ~ 3 Columbia acceptances). Prior to Ivy decisions, my class had excellent (and it is still excellent) results. We are all surprised at some of the people who applied to several Ivies and were rejected by all - these are students who seemed practically Ivy-perfect. Strange. But congrats to all of you who have been admitted - you surely deserve it!</p>