As a parent you need to chill out, you can always transfer from a major state school, which btw are showing superior incomes to many IVY. I noticed somethings significant, what is your goal? You never stated why you needed to go to an ivy except your scores. Call admissions and ask where u we’re lacking, be courteous and reapply if you want to go there, and if your career goals match. But most of all understand your impressive achievements, and they are, will translate into success. Deep breath, and never give up.
I’d like to say that it is really strange that someone with such incredible statistics and ECs would be outright rejected from so many schools. I offer you my condolences and hope you rebound from this strongly. College decisions do not define who you are.
Anyways, I wish you the best and I am sure you will overwhelmingly succeed at UArk with all your great AP scores and hard work ethic.
There were no USAMO qualifiers from Arkansas in 2014 …
http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/AMC/usamo/2014_USAMO_Qualifiers.pdf
if you look it up, there weren’t any from 2013 either
unless OP wishes to tell us that he qualified in 8th and 11th grade, which raises obvious red flags
OP is obviously hiding something
Expanding upon what @babaabin1234 said above, I would like to note that what OP’s doing isn’t unheard of, albeit sad, on forums like CC. By posting blatantly false stats and results, OP is hoping to either cause chaos, or demoralize CC’ers from applying to certain reach school in the future to better his/her own chances, or those of someone close to him/her. In fact, there are many parents who make such posts on CC in hopes of killing off some of their kids’ competition. Furthermore, I think OP’s post has been slightly suspicious from the start. Anyone with such stats, aiming for such highly-intellectual schools, would have had the brains to do a little research and learn the value of applying to safeties along with their reaches. Lastly, think about this: OP is purporting to be an applicant with these stats from Arkansas. Given Arkansas’ NMSF of 204 this past year, it becomes clear that the state isn’t producing many high-SAT students as compared to other states. For any regional admissions officer reading OP’s file, she would’ve come across as an anomaly, and almost certainly would’ve jumped to the top of his/her list - the fact that this didn’t happen for ONE of the schools she applied to, though possible, is extremely improbable. So, I would conclude by asking OP, and all others on this forum like OP, to stop posting such threads. They’re juvenile, and needlessly panic everyone else.
Now, from a very general point of view, it does seems that OP is hiding something really serious that all schools took into consideration and UArk didn’t. (I bet high for this possibility).
Another possibility: Essays may be too arrogant or stubborn in nature (may or may not). Maybe the recommendations were not so supportive that backfired your achievements that barely look to gain admission into a particular school over establishing a successful passion or work.
I DON’T GET IT. You reside in Arkansas (also a US Citizen) but you call yourself an Asian??!
As @babaabin1234 pointed out, apparently no one from AR qualified for the USA Math Olympiad (USAMO) in 2014, when the OP was in 10th grade. That is EXTREMELY suspicious.
Also, I find it hard to believe that a USAMO qualifier with solid (and from what the OP claims, STELLAR) stats, ECs, essays, and letters of rec would not get into any Ivy Leagues or MIT/Caltech. I am by no means an authority on college admissions, but I think USAMO is quite significant. Only 270 American high schoolers qualify each year, and not all of them are juniors. So qualifying certainly sets you apart, and with solid other stuff, your chances are very good. I for one qualified for USAMO in 9th, 10th, and 11th grade (probably 12th too from the looks of it, the cutoff hasn’t been announced yet) and got into Caltech, Yale, Brown, and UPenn with pretty much no other achievements, just solid but less than stellar other stuff. OP’s app seems better than mine in almost every single way. His rejections are extremely surprising to me.
Adding on to @pleekey and @babaabin1234, no one from Arkansas passed the first round of the national physics olympiad (no semifinalists) this year and last year. Is the OP being truthful?
@pleekey @mattyhan @babaabin1234 As they correctly pointed out, this thread is rather a crap to misguide/mislead prospective applicants and shave away the competition from applying. I would thereby request @fallenchemist to look into this thread before it’s turn out to be massive despair. (OP is new to CC)
I think the main problem is that you asked for Financial aid.
“I DON’T GET IT. You reside in Arkansas (also a US Citizen) but you call yourself an Asian??!”
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@2muchquan I pointed out the same thing earlier.
Hey folks, what does OP have to gain by lying to a bunch of strangers on CC? It might be possible that OP is trying to disguise where he lives to avoid recognition, so maybe he changed his state of residence and the one college he was accepted to. What is the incentive?
Hi again, OP here. I just got off the phone with my GC and he is shocked as well. He will definitely call Yale to advocate on my behalf. I did discuss some of the concerns with him that are raised here and he told me he used GPA and score medians to find match schools. Will post a fuller update after school today.
I must confess that yes I was not being truthful about my state for privacy as there are (local) news articles written about some of the accomplishments I listed which list my full name and details that can be used to find my address. However I live in a geographically similar state (underrepresented with a weak state school). I feel extremely demoralized by posters who are questioning whether I am real - while I know they don’t mean it in a perverse way I suppose they are saying no one with my stats could get rejected which is even worse 
*@Lindagaf is correct. We get more requests to delete posts and threads because people think they revealed too much info than any other report. And generally, per the Terms of Service, we won’t do that although we will sometimes edit out a line or two if that helps make it more private. Some people realize that could be a problem and do indeed disguise certain non-essential elements of their personal info. So who knows if this OP is pulling a prank or not. Personally I would need a bit more to pull the plug. However, if the post is true, the reason for his problem and the advice given has been consistent and plentiful, so I am closing the thread.
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I don’t understand this comment at all, unless I missed something. American citizens designate their ethnicity as Asian, Latino, African, etc. all the time. While it is less common to say African as opposed to African-American, it happens. Saying just Asian as opposed to Asian-American is far more common. I don’t know what the issue is there.
Unfortunately your GC does not read CC. If he had he would not be so spectacularly naive as regards admissions at the top 20 USNWR schools. It was your bad luck that this is who advised you and that you did not accept the offer of private help, although I understand relying on the presumed expertise of your GC. I hope you make it clear to him that in the future he needs to understand the process far better and that he should probably sign up on this site.
Personally I think your best move is one of the following, as has been pointed out numerous times. The person that suggested a community college I think is way off base in your case:
- Attend your state school for a year, planning from the start to transfer to an excellent school more in line with your academic level as far as peers. There are some that offer merit scholarships to transfers, so it is important that you ace you courses at your state school.
- Take the gap year, explore, and do the application process again. The advantage here is that you would be eligible for the big merit scholarships, even a full ride or full tuition at some excellent schools.