<p>I heard that many competitive applicants were rejected from match colleges and even safety ones.
Also, I applied for five colleges and oddly, I got rejected or wait-listed from all but the second most selective school.
How do you think?</p>
<p>Many colleges had record applications and record low admit rates. No one can know why you got your results. You didn’t even bother to tell the colleges or anything about you. Something must have clicked for your admission. The colleges make their decisions independently based on their own criteria and the applicant pool at hand.</p>
<p>I think a bit of luck is involved. I still find it improbable fro adcoms to read every application or even every application with on par stats.</p>
<p>D applied 12 schools - a lot of work but gave good results in a very competitive year. The top schools are getting record apps form all over the world (especially China and India). D applied to so many because you never know and you want to apply to a range. She was accepted to Amherst, Wellesley, Williamette, Lewis and Clark, Occidental, Scripps, UC Davis, UC Berkeley and Pomona. Rejected: Stanford (of course), and wait listed Swarthmore and Claremont --Mckenna. Good Luck!</p>
<p>gee this isn’t a brag thread. Sorry OP. Are you happy with your option?</p>
<p>In answer to OP’s original question - no one knows. It’ll probably be summer before all the numbers are in and HS GCs can talk among themselves, but if I can track ours down, I’ll try and get a read from him. For our particular HS, I do know it was a record tough year just internally, based on the number of apps going to top schools. Don’t know all the results yet, but the few I know have got to have D’s friends shaking their heads. She feels fortunate to have gotten her ED2 school.</p>