Were your predictions accurate?

Applying to College
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<p>Post your predictions from months ago from a thread like <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/443842-predictions.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/443842-predictions.html&lt;/a> or similar, and then your actual results. Let's see how accurate we were!</p>

<p>School - Prediction - Actual
Tufts - Accepted - Accepted
Columbia - Rejected - Waitlisted
Dartmouth - Rejected - Rejected
UPenn - Rejected - Rejected
Cornell - Accepted/Waitlisted - Accepted
Carnegie Mellon - Accepted - Accepted
Rice - Accepted - Accepted
Northwestern - Accepted - Waitlisted
Duke - Waitlist/Accepted - Accepted
Caltech - Rejected - Waitlisted
WashU - Waitlist/Accepted - Accepted</p>

<p>9 out of 11... not bad</p>

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<p>School - Prediction - Actual
University of Chicago - Accepted - Waitlisted
Northwestern - Rejected - Waitlisted
Boston College - Accepted - Accepted
Reed College - Accepted - Accepted
Macalester College - Accepted - Rejected
American University - Accepted - Accepted
Emory University - Accepted? - ?????</p>

<p>Mac's been my only rejection so far, and it was a little mind-boggling before I remembered how much my supplemental essay for it kinda sucked.</p>

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<p>School-Prediction-Actual
UCSB-Accepted-Accepted
UC Davis-Accepted-Accepted
Cal Poly SLO-Accepted-Accepted
UCSD-Accepted-Rejected
UCLA-50/50-Rejected
UCB-Rejected-Rejected
Lafayette-Accepted-Waitlisted
Carnegie Mellon-Accepted-Waitlisted
USC-Accepted-Accepted
Stanford-Rejected-Rejected
Harvey Mudd-Waitlist-Rejected</p>

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<p>School - Predicted - Actual
Georgetown University - Rejected - Rejected
Northwestern University - Accepted - Waitlisted
Lehigh University - Accepted - Waitlisted
Washington University in St. Louis - Waitlisted - Waitlisted
Boston College - Accepted - Waitlisted
Vanderbilt University - Accepted/Waitlisted - Accepted
The College of New Jersey - Accepted - Accepted
Loyola College in Maryland - Accepted - Accepted
Marist College - Accepted - Accepted</p>

<p>6 out of 9 right. Definitely some surprises though, as this list was made optimistically.</p>

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<p>school-prediction-actual
washu-accepted-rejected
vandy-rejected-rejected
bates-waitlisted-accepted
transylvania-accepted-accepted
university of louisville-accepted-accepted</p>

<p>thats all folks!</p>

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<p>just some</p>

<p>School - Predicted - Actual
UChicago - Rejected (after being deferred EA) - Waitlisted
Northwestern University - Accepted - Accepted
Johns Hopkins - Accepted - Waitlisted
Cornell University - Accepted - Rejected
Yale - Rejected - Rejected</p>

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<p>lol i actually got all my predictions right but I don't feel like typing them out. I have ESP!!</p>

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<p>School - Prediction - Actual
Carnegie Mellon- accepted- accepted
Columbia- waitlisted- waitlisted
Hopkins- waitlisted-accepted
Princeton- waitlisted/rejected-rejected
Rice- accepted (please... it's my 1st choice)-accepted
Tufts- accepted-accepted
Unive of Connecticut- accepted honors program (already happened)
Univ of Penn- waitlisted/accepted- accepted
Univ of Rochester- accepted-accepted
Wash U. St Louis- waitlisted-accepted</p>

<p>8 out of 10</p>

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<p>School---------Predecition---------Actual</p>

<p>U Oregon-------Accepted----------Accepted
^^Honors---------iffy-------------Accepted
American-------Accepted----------Accepted
Northeastern---Accepted----------Accepted
Macalester-----Waitlisted----------Accepted
Northwestern---Rejected----------Rejected
Brown----------Rejected----------Accepted</p>

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<p>School - Prediction - Actual</p>

<p>Notre Dame - Accepted - Accepted
Colby - Accepted - Accepted
Colgate - Accepted - Waitlisted
UPenn - Rejected - Waitlisted
Bowdoin - Rejected - Rejected
Bucknell - Accepted - Accepted
Union - Accepted - Accepted
UDel - Accepted - Accepted
Lehigh - Accepted - Accepted
Villanova - Accepted - Accepted</p>

<p>8/10, surprised at Colgate and UPenn, though I would get in at Colgate and rejected at UPenn for sure, but waitlisted at both.. weird.</p>

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<p>School - Prediction - Actual</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins - Accepted - Rejected
UCLA - Rejected - Accepted
UCB - Rejected - Accepted
UCSD - Accepted - Accepted
UCI - Accepted - Accepted
UCR - Accepted - Accepted</p>

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<p>School - Prediction - Actual
Boston University - Accepted - Rejected
George Washington University - Rejected - Accepted
Northeastern University - Accepted - Rejected
0/3 lol...</p>

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<p>Boston College - Accepted - Waitlisted
Boston University - Accepted - Accepted
Columbia - Rejected - Rejected
Marist - Accepted - Accepted
NYU - Waitlisted - Accepted
UC Berkeley - Rejected - Rejected
UC San Diego - Accepted - Accepted
UConn - Accepted - Accepted
UMiami - Accepted -Accepted</p>

<p>Hmmmm, all I did was mix up BC and NYU, apparently. 7/9, not bad at all.</p>

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<p>School-Prediction-Real
UCSB-accept-accept
UCSD-accept-accept
UCLA-accept-accept
UCB-accept-accept
NYU-accept-accept
Rice-accept-waitlist
Duke-waitlist-accept
Yale-reject-reject
Harvard-reject-reject
Columbia-reject-waitlist
Brown-reject-unknown at moment</p>

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<p>school-prediction-real
George Washington-Accept-accept
Georgetown-Reject-reject
Claremont mckenna-accept-waitlist
Pomona-reject-waitlist</p>

<p>Sorta kinda right!</p>

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<p>I'd like to announce that I have a very low college self-esteem...
anywho</p>

<p>School-Prediction-Real
A&M-Accept-Accept
Rutgers-Accept-Accept
UT Austin-Accept-Summer Freshman
Johns Hopkins-Reject-Accept
Cornell-Accept-Accept</p>

<p>I only knew accept for Cornell b/c they sent me a likely letter. Goobers. If not for that a couple weeks before the decision, I would've put down reject.
Two surprises there.</p>

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<p>School-Prediction-Real
UC Irvine.........Accepted...Accepted
UCSB..............Accepted...Accepted
UCLA..............????..........Accepted
UC Berkeley.....????..........Rejected
Northeastern....Accepted....Accepted
Wesleyan.........????..........Accepted
Vassar.............????..........Accepted
Northwestern.....Rejected...Accepted
Brandeis..........Accepted....Accepted
Brown.............Rejected.....Accepted
Columbia.........Rejected......Accepted
Princeton..........Rejected.....Accepted
Harvard...........Rejected......Rejected</p>

<p>Obviously I went into admissions not sure about my results. I thought I could get into the ????, but that it wouldn't be surprising if i didn't. Thought I had a shot. There were some real surprises.</p>

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<p>School---------Predecition---------Actual</p>

<p>U Michigan--------Accepted----------Accepted
U Southen Cal----Accepted (?)----------Accepted
Carnegie Mellon--Accepted----------Waitlisted
Notre Dame------rejected----------waitlisted
Cornell ----------defer (ED)----------Rejected
Rice-------------Rejected----------rejected</p>

<p>I got 50% right..</p>

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<p>wow, ivanadoeslimbo, wow.</p>

<p>I applied 10 reaches, 4 matches, 4 safe matches
accepted at 4 safe matches and one reach, have yet to hear from 2 matches.</p>

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<p>School.....................Prediction........................Actual</p>

<p>Barnard........................Rejected.........................Wait-listed
Claremont McKenna:.......Wait-listed......................Wait-listed
Hofstra:........................Accepted........................Accepted
Hood:...........................Accepted........................Accepted
Macalester:...................Accepted........................Wait-listed
Mount Holyoke:..............Accepted........................Accepted
Sarah Lawrence:............Accepted........................Unknown
Scripps:.......................Accepted.........................Accepted
Vassar:........................Wait-listed / Rejected........Rejected</p>

<p>So far, 6/8. I'm hoping that it will become 7/9 shortly!!</p>