<p>ClaySoul is a girl...</p>
<p>However, we don't know anything about her scores or grades, so it is really not possible for us to say what didn't get her in. And overall it could have been a perfect app, but there are just so many people applying that it is impossibly hard to get a spot. Maybe her areas of focus didn't fit the class they were trying to mold this year.</p>
<p>ClaySoul is to Yale as I am to Princeton. I felt that I was really strong... I did very well at the rest of my schools, but my app to Princeton was actually of the least quality. Sometimes it's just the way you present your app.</p>
<p>Same with me! I did ED at Princeton and got deferred and then rejected. I did a shoddy job on the early application but am glad I did it; the experience helped me do better applications later and I got into UVa Echols, Northwestern, Brown, Columbia, and Yale. I've totally accepted not getting into Princeton and have realized/rationalized that it wasn't the school for me. (a bit too conservative, not quite enough of a town, and not enough dedicated film resources)</p>
<p>Legend...with all due respect, you have no idea how I presented my app. </p>
<p>All I was trying to say is that sometimes you can be very weird, unique, and talented, and still not get in. That kidn of thing only goes so far. I thought that I was a shoo-in because how many neuroscience-rugby-player-potters are there out there, you know? I'm just saying to people out there, be careful, and don't overeestimate your chances, no matter how cool and qualified you are.</p>
<p>ClaySoul: I'm not saying your app was presented poorly -- it was a possibility that held true in my particular case; I was showing an example.</p>
<p>And yeah, you can be weird and not get in. Qualified people get rejected all the time. A friend of mine had a Harvard inverview, and was told that something like 9/10 QUALIFIED APPLICANTS get rejected.</p>
<p>And another thing I read elsewhere... Hargadon (sp?) of Princeton once said something like, if you were to just wipe out the admitted class and do a second admissions, drawing from the rejected pool, doing it all over again... the re-admitted class would be no weaker than the admitted class.</p>
<p>You can own face like no other but it doesn't guarantee you <em>anything</em> :)</p>
<p>(claysoul - sorry about the gender mixup)</p>
<p>haha no worries mea</p>
<p>So Claysoul... where are you going?</p>
<p>Legacy, recruited athlete certainly helped me but 1520 and 790,800,780 SAT II's showed that I was not a George Bush type slacker. Blew off Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth and Cornell to be a Bulldawg. Will see everyone at Commons next year.</p>