<p>If you need a lot of aid, it can be hard to get into a US college. Sounds like Rutgers could be a fit.</p>
<p>Time for a good dose of Epictetus. All will be well.Give it some time. </p>
<p>I think it might even be better that you didn’t use a Chinese agency. US colleges are very wary of their practices. You might have been helped by some stateside college advisors however. </p>
<p>You mention Rutgers offered admission as a transfer not a freshman. That and the 88 hours of college credits indicates there may have been an issue as to whether you could even apply as a freshman to the colleges that rejected you. Taking college courses for a “high school completion program” indicates you may have officially completed high school before you completed a lot of your college hours, in which case you would have been required to apply as a transfer not a freshman to those colleges that rejected you and could have been rejected for that reason. You might want to determine if that is the case.</p>
<p>I’m probably going there. I’m probably goign to the business school… maybe supply chain management>?</p>
<p>UCLA does accept a lot of international students, however, there are probably too many Chinese students applying these days.</p>
<p>I concur that I can’t imagine why anybody would think that UCLA was a “safety school”. Even in-state California students can’t consider it a safety. I think I read that it had 108,000 applictions this year!</p>
<p>Rutgers is a great school but you can also try to transfer to other top schools during your freshman year. I hope that helps!</p>
<p>I am not familiar with the acceptance rate for any of these schools for international schools, but considering most of the schools on your list have less than a 15-18% acceptance rate for students overall, I am assuming that their international acceptance rate is probably even lower. Ideally, in the future you want to spread out your choices – have some choices that you have a slim chance of getting in (slim meaning if a school accepts 15%, that would be slim, no matter how qualified you are) , some that are reasonable (meaning you meet their qualifications and they accept let’s say 30% so one in three), and then maybe two safeties (meaning you are overqualified or qualified and they accept 40% or more). But with the safeties, it is important that the school KNOW YOU, meaning you have contacted them and shown them that you are legitimately interested in their school. Colleges are also balancing yield – and if they get a ghost application from an over-qualified student, then you run the risk of being rejected even by your safety because they know you probably won’t attend their school.</p>
<p>You did everything right but you didn’t do the things the colleges you applied to wished you’d done- many admissions to these colleges don’t depend so much on grades and taking lots of classes, but rather (once grades are there) on stellar extracurriculars. For instance, taking so many college classes may have made it impossible for them to classify you as a freshman, even if you were in a “high school completion program”. The schools where you applied admit very very few transfers (if any - Princeton doesn’t, for instance) except for UCLA, and UCLA’s transfers are, for 2/3 of them from CA community colleges and the others from OOS 4 year colleges. </p>
<p>Did you apply to Rutgers Honors? If not, can you ask if you could get in due to your high scores?</p>
<p>Is it still time for you to apply to UWA? Perhaps as a transfer since you have 88 credits? In fact, many universities have April 15 deadlines for transfers, you may want to try your luck and apply there as a transfer. The problem with international transfers is that they don’t get any financial aid, but since you don’t need financial aid, that may be a solution. :)</p>
<p>If you’re full pay, you can try to transfer from Rutgers for a university such as UChicago, Reed, or W&M where I would see a philosophy major thrive… or perhaps Kenyon or Swarthmore or Pomona… Or you might really enjoy Rutgers 
which really has a stellar philosophy department.</p>
<p>UWA Seattle:
The University of Washington Seattle generally dedicates thirty percent of its new undergraduate spaces annually to Washington community college transfer students. (Included are Running Start students expecting to earn 40 or more transfer credits at a Washington community college.) </p>
<p>They indicate they prefer candidats with 90 quarter credits. Since the Fall deadline has passed, you could apply for tje Winter Quarter (application due this summer) and continue taking the required classes for a philosophy major at your current CC. However, at the pace you’re going, you may already have taken all the possible classes… Or you may transfer to a CA community college such as SBCC or SMCC and take philosophy classes there then try to transfer into UCLA from there (since there’s priority for CA CC students).</p>
<p>Reed and William&Mary both had March 1 deadlines for transfers. Same thing for UChicago.</p>
<p>HOWEVER Swarthmore has an APRIL 1 deadline.
<a href=“http://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-and-aid/transfer-students.xml”>http://www.swarthmore.edu/admissions-and-aid/transfer-students.xml</a></p>
<p>NYU ALSO has an APRIL 1 deadline, and you could have a decent shot at GLS, Gallatin, or A&S.
<a href=“Transfer Applicants”>Transfer Applicants;
And NYU is very good for philosophy.</p>
<p>I think the colleges felt that you had way too many community college credits, and so considered you as a transfer, even though you didn’t apply as one. You kind of fell between the cracks, between really being a </p>
<p>Senior and being a resl transfer. Also there are yoo many ec with no giiding principle</p>
<p>2250 is an unimpressive SAT and your “safety” schools are my “reaches.”</p>
<p>UWGPA: 3.7
WGPA: 4.3
UCGPA: 4.0
SAT: Reading (720), Math (800), Writing (780)
SAT subject: Math II (800), Physics (740)
AP scores: Calculus AB (5), Calculus BC (5)
IB scores: Economics SL (5), Physics SL (5)
12th grade: IB Math HL, IB Biology HL, IB English HL, IB TOK, IB French SL
EC: 200+ community service hours
Race: Asian
Gender: male
Rejected by: UCB (computer science) UCLA (computer science), UCSD (computer science), Cal Poly SLO (computer science)
Waitlisted at: UCD (civil engineering), UCI (computer science)</p>
<p>Mangiafuoco, you’ve been hanging out on CC for too long. Getting that score is exceptional (above top 1%) for an American; in a foreign language it is beyond rare.
However I understand this situation is difficult for you. It’s hard to have safeties when your major is so competitive in the UCs, the best strategy would be (would have been) to apply to colleges where your major doesn’t have such a strong effect on likelihood of admission.</p>