<p>No need for stats, too late for that now....</p>
<p>I'll start.<br>
I got wait listed from U of Miami. </p>
<p>Offered a place for the spring of 09. It's their "special offer"</p>
<p>I thought I was stronger than many other students who have claimed that they have been admitted. </p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>UCSD and Boston College.</p>
<p>GWU. I mean - I didn't think I was a shoe-in or definitely in, but I thought I had a decent chance.</p>
<p>Wake Forest, I was all ready to buy my WF sweatshirt and tee shirt when I got the bad news--WL, Now I'm hoping for a little luck</p>
<p>Me too. I was wait listed. It feels like I've been kicked in the stomach. =(</p>
<p>UCLA, I know a lot of people with lower SAT scores, GPAs, and less ECs than I do that have got in. Oh wells</p>
<p>WORD to the UCSD and BC. Add UCB in there too.</p>
<p>wash ****ing u!</p>
<p>but im so glad that i didnt get in...</p>
<p>I know quite a few people from my school with way lower GPAs and SATs that have gotten in to both UCLA and Berkeley. Also, one person I know (who got 3 C's last year alone got a full ride (he only has to pay one dollar) to NYU as well as acceptance into BostonCollege. SOoooooooooooo unfair. maybe because he's a minority (egyptian).</p>
<p>I also got wait listed at the University of Miami with the special offer.</p>
<p>Do you know any details on how that works?</p>
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WORD to the UCSD and BC. Add UCB in there too.
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except I got into berkeley, LOL.</p>
<p>UT-Austin. </p>
<p>I was an OOS applicant.</p>
<p>I think their top 10% rule is complete crap. 5 kids applied from our school, the #1 public school in GA...only one was top 2% with decent stats and belowe average SAT and he got in..the others had taken a harder work load (me included) with higher SATs and from what i know, more interesting and unique ECs</p>
<p>and none of us got in simply b/c we were not in the top 10 percentile (all between the 12-15 percentile)</p>
<p>CMU SCS. I thought I was a good fit but I was wait-listed. Got into Stanford anyway, so it doesn't matter too much I suppose.</p>
<p>Stanford.
I still can't believe my son did not get in. Valedictorian, Student Body President, Varsity baseball pitcher all 4 years. (captain) 4.67 GPA, ranked #1 all 4 years. (4 years straight a+'s) Lots of leadership...killer recs & awards. Extremely well rounded. Community role model for 'no drugs/alcohol and still being cool' California resident! What the heck? Are we bitter? No! Stanford is still the best! The applicant pool is just too amazing. Maybe in another lifetime. Haha</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Reed College... I am well above all the average stats they've released for the admitted students.</p>
<p>Yeah... this isn't about me (I got in early to my top choice >.<), but I must agree that UCSD was SOOO arbitrary and bizarre this year!! </p>
<p>Several of my smartest friends didn't get in there.... while several others who had <em>slightly</em> higher GPAs - but only because they took much easier classes - got in! And these admitted students had much lower SAT scores, poorer-quality essays, hardly any EC's, etc....</p>
<p>While those friends of mine were seriously overqualified. And then another of my friends got rejected from UCSD but admitted to UCLA... which is (of course) literally twice as difficult to get into.... so.... UCSD was clearly very random this year!</p>
<p>amherst! amherst broke my heart. i'm not above their average stats, but i thought i wowed them with the essay i wrote/showed i belonged there?</p>
<p>I thought I should have gotten into BC... I was waitlisted! Last time I checked, I was above their average. Ah well, can't win 'em all.</p>
<p>The UCs were whacked out this year...</p>
<p>Same story, several friends got in where they didn't deserve to, and several friends didn't get in to where they deserve to. I was extremely confused.
Everyone at my school was shocked at who got in or who didn't; we were all expecting such-and-such to be a shoe in or so-and-so to go to community college. Eh-- it shows you how unpredictable colleges are.</p>
<p>Amherst- i worked so hard on their essay! i got into carleton and i put in a quarter of work into their app. Not that i am brilliant but i fit their middle 50 % stats. oh well!</p>