<p>I was surprised at Rice and JHU for waitlisting me. Not too surprised by Northwestern rejecting me (I didn't show interest, and they seem to want interest) as well as my Caltech EA rejection.</p>
<p>Tufts after I got into Northwestern and Vandy</p>
<p>the top 10% rule at UT-Austin only applies to in-state applicants..however bcause of this law, a lot of spaces available are filled up with students from Texas high schools who are top 10%..OOS students are completely eveluated regardless of their top 10% status</p>
<p>i got into JHU BME, Duke, MIT, Cornell, Northwestern, CMU, UCSD BME and i didnt get BME at UT-Austin even though im from in-state and top 3%..damn the cutoff mustve been like top 1% or something</p>
<p>Wait listed at Wesleyan but accepted into the honors program at Boston College. Stats are much better than classmates that got into Wesleyan and those that were wait listed at BC. go figure!</p>
<p>I thought I'd get into at least one of the Tier I UC's: UCLA, Berkeley, or UCSD. But I didn't.</p>
<p>^
yeah...I never really understood why people think UT-Austin is such an easy school to get into if your not from Texas.
Even then some, Instate means automatic admission...so if you apply to the Business School (McCombs) and you top 10% instate, it doesn't mean you'll get in the business school, it just means you'll make it into UT...
McCombs is uber competitive, now more then ever since its not on Business Weeks' top 10 business schools for undergrads...displacing UC Berkeley (who was number 3 the year before and doesn't even make the top 10 now), Carnegie Mellon, and a Hand full of (you would think) kick butt colleges.
Lots of kids want to go to CA so the schools there are also uber competitive, now since Austin is the place for young people everyone wants to go there...making UT's Students better then they should be, and thus making the school uber uber competitive.
Also, Texas, unlike California doesn't have too many really good Public Universities.
I think the only ones that make the 1st and 2nd tier lists are UT Austin and Texas A&M
The rest, Rice, Baylor, SMU, and TCU are private...
and Texas being the 2nd biggest state (in both regards of area and population), draws all the brightest kids of Texas, giving them an advantage...Due to the top 10% rule, UT is the safety of many Texans...its a pretty good school for a safety...
but I think a law recently got passed stating schools like UT might have to actually evaluate Texan students...or something like that...good news for you out of staters...</p>
<p>UT Austin (OOS) is probably as selective as Cornell, Cornell has and acceptance rate of about 25% btw....</p>
<p>Are you being sarcastic?? Claremont McKenna and Berkeley are as different as night and day!</p>
<p>I thought I was a shoo-in for Brown, Georgetown, and UChicago. 2340 SAT I, SAT IIs above 700, #5/570. I guess you can't take anything for granted.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at NU, Wellesley, Swarthmore and Haverford. Rejected by UChicago.</p>
<p>I so think that my stats are good enough for NU and UChicago.</p>
<p>Anyway, their loss. Students take admissions too personally, adcoms dont give a damn about us!</p>
<p>UT-Austin.</p>
<p>EXTRA WHACK.
top 11% and now i have to suffer through a year in san antonio of tyler.
i'm not a fan of this garbage rule.
i know there are kids that got in with wayyy lower stats.
what to do?</p>
<p>UCLA,Amherst,Colgate,LSE---they all rejected me!
Virginia-waitlist?!</p>
<p>duke and northwestern</p>
<p>WL at JHU...but yea applied to BME only.</p>
<p>LOL. I started this thread and guess what? I got into Miami afterall! I was deferred, then waitlisted and now IN! <em>whew</em></p>
<p>Fit and match people. Sure, the academics are important and so are the extra-curriculars. But do you value what the community is about and do you showcase those things?
And no decision is made solely by one admission counselor. Most schools still do a committee of some sort. Counselors are very good about being fair to each student in the pool.</p>
<p>Duke. Extremely sad about that.</p>
<p>Duke...lol...</p>
<p>My test scores would put me at the 75%ile of admitted students from NC and SC...and plenty of people I know got in with lower gpa/class rank/test scores from my area in NC...but there's nothing I can do about it now...seeing as I already have a tough enough decision between UNC-Chapel Hill, Emory, and Notre Dame!!</p>
<p>Just waitlisted at NYU - seemed to be the most solid match w/ my stats, so I'm not sure what happened.</p>
<p>don't feel too rejected, U.T. is not all it's cracked up to be. and I"m from Tx,</p>
<p>Virginia is a GREAT school, take the spot on wait list if you can. It really is a fabulous school, my daughter was rejected, my son goes there.Good luck getting in you'll love it if you do. second to none academically</p>