<p>waitlisted at George Washington....i can't figure it out! were they throwing all the applicants into a hat or something?</p>
<p>also waitlisted at george washington :( that one really surprised me..</p>
<p>thanks seafoodlover..
feel better after reading your post..</p>
<p>waitlisted at Hopkins, but got into Duke, WashU, and NU. haha, suck it Hopkins.</p>
<p>Duke>Hopkins</p>
<p>for my D, also surprised not to be accepted at JHU or GW. What the heck was up with them this year.</p>
<p>Keep Clam! As they say, clamchowder. I am glad I could help. Its a tough time right now...I know. We had the same issues last year.....made more bitter by hearing about kids we felt were undeserving for one reason or another who got in somewhere prestigious.....but we dont fret about it anymore.</p>
<p>College is what YOU make of it and what YOU bring to the table. Embrace the schools that obviously loved you enough to accept you and then pick the one with the best fit for you....after a visit in April I hope....and then go for it...by June you will make a deposit, maybe even get an email from your roommate to be....and start posting on Facebook pages from that school.....and chatting it up..and getting all psyched about it....it will all work out.</p>
<p>I send virtual hugs to kids with broken hearts this evening....I know how you feel....but dont wallow in it....pick up your socks and lift your chin high....and be grateful to God you are going to college and be proud (but never arrogant)....</p>
<p>Congratulations on being accepted somewhere. And if you werent accepted anywhere and are out of ideas....well..there are LOTS of schools with late application deadlines so get cracking on some of those.</p>
<p>Peace.</p>
<p>rejected at usc. I kind of expected to be a shoe in into that school, but then, as the weeks passed by, I slowly realized that twenty six (that's right, 26) people had already gotten in, and more than half of them weren't in any sports, clubs, or even honors classes. I mean, come on! I've busted my butt these last four years to get decent SATs, a good GPA and I still can't even get into USC</p>
<p>UGH *** Rutgers....what the ef. but i dont really care got into MUCH better schools</p>
<p>Bowdoin...I didn't really want to go there, I think they could tell.</p>
<p>D got into all 7 schools where she interviewed ... and was waitlisted at the three she didn't. Of the waitlisted schools, the biggest surprise was Grinnell. As others have said, this may be the year that admissions offices were more focused than ever on an applicants interest in attending.</p>
<p>Princeton is tomorrow, which should be interesting.</p>
<p>Last year I got waitlisted at Northeastern, but got into Bard. They wouldn't reply to my email asking about what I could to do to get off the waitlist or as to why my application wasn't strong enough. I was about the middle 50% at a private school, and all the kids who didn't apply EA at my school were rejected RD. Well, I have a 3.6 at Bard, so I'm sure Northeastern made a bad choice.</p>
<p>ilovecapezios, you already got your decision for harvard?? how??</p>
<p>Lehigh waitlisted me.</p>
<p>I was being kind of recruited by the crew coach and she actually told me that I was put on the wait list becuase they didn't think that I would attend (which was probably a good decision on their part, I probably wouldn't have gone)</p>
<p>UC Davis! =[</p>
<p>Thanks alot of seafoodlover. I was really bummed about not getting into ucla, but you have just confirmed for me that God has a plan for everything and everyone, and everything that glitters is not gold. Maybe that certain school isnt what you think it is.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at Elon and Dickinson </p>
<p>Elon was more of the surprise (I got into WUSTL)</p>
<p>It was my safety... I didn't want to go there anyways so their loss!</p>
<p>Ummm. I was waitlisted at Vassar, Middlebury, and Wesleyan- all schools I expected to get into. Though, I did expect the rejection from Amherst. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>I heard a couple of people mention UT Austin. It's so weird to hear out of state people want to get in there and for it to be competitive for them. Most of my friends (and myself) use UT Austin as our safety school, because we're Texas residents in the top 10% of our class and are guaranteed admission (my friend got in who submitted a half completed essay).</p>
<p>NYU Stern and Northwestern:</p>
<p>Stern: a bit of a shocker, but I am mostly un-concerned. it wasn't near the top of my list; they might have (rightly and justifiably) guessed that. whatever, to hell with that.</p>
<p>Northwestern: screw them. i am more than qualified, i even took the effort to write a decent Northwestern essay. this is probably the only college so far, that i can confidently say, they have the biggest a**holes in the admit office.</p>
<p>no prejudices against any of the other colleges, so far.</p>
<p>Duke rejected me, but it was reasonable and justifiable (i didn't write the Duke essay). Northwestern was sheer arrogance. never thought the birthplace of Prohibition could accommodate such an oversized ego. or not. after all, something like Prohibition required just such an inflated such of self-worth.</p>
<p>(and to those wondering why i have such vitriol, consider this: 2400 SAT, albeit balanced by less than stellar rankings (top 25% probs in a competitive private school in Canada), but also national-award professional pianist and also played a few varsity sports).</p>
<p>i realise that my stats are only a part of the picture, and not its dominant component, but clearly, Northwestern has overstepped the bounds of normal rationality.</p>