<p>...but got accepted to the colleges I wanted to go to//considered not my safety?</p>
<p>Columbia- Denied
Johns Hopkins- Waitlisted
Stevens Institute of Technology- Accepted
NYU- Accepted
NYU-Poly- Automatic Acceptance (due to above)
RPI- Accepted
RIT- Accepted
Stony Brook- Denied
Binghamton-Denied</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Who cares, you got into great schools.</p>
<p>Its just baffling me that I didn’t get into state universities… I’ll be going to Stevens or NYU so (if Johns Hopkins turns to “accepted”, then going there) it really doesn’t matter, but still…</p>
<p>It could be that you’re overqualified and they were protecting their yield rates. You don’t usually see that with state schools, but it seems like the only possibility.</p>
<p>Couldn’t it also be that state schools are so swamped with applications this year (due to the economic climate) that they’re simply more competitive than ever?</p>
<p>Schools often don’t want to accept you if they know that they’re a safety (and yes, they can tell) because as another poster said, they want to protect their yield rates.</p>
<p>SingDance is right… they are trying to gauge whether or not you’ll come to their school… they obviously could tell that they were a safety for you, and didn’t want to waste a spot in admissions… But hey, your into awesome schools, so don’t worry about it!</p>
<p>Usually state schools accept whomever qualifies. They don’t play the Tufts syndrome game because they could have to justify decisions to state officials, who help fund them.</p>
<p>Perhaps you applied relatively late in the cycle of a rolling admission school, and admission standards had increased as spaces decreased. Another possibility is that Stony Brook didn’t get your entire application or confused you with another applicant. If you want to go there, have your GC check. Otherwise, just chalk it up to fate.</p>
<p>Are you a NYS resident? If so, it is mighty odd that the SUNYs rejected your applications. If you aren’t a NYS resident, that could explain the rejections.</p>
<p>I’ve been a NYS resident (Long Island actually; ~30 minutes away from Stony Brook ha!) all my life. Just strange I haven’t gotten into the SUNY schools… Thanks for the replies!</p>
<p>why denied at Stony Brook–?</p>
<p>If you really want to know what happened with the SUNYs, have your guidance counselor call them and ask. There always is the chance that something went wrong with the paperwork that you submitted to the SUNY system. Your guidance counselor should know if there are glitches in the system so that he/she can help next year’s applicants.</p>
<p>The Tufts syndrome</p>
<p>Happymom - traditionally SUNYS have given preference to OOS – Binghamton in particular.</p>
<p>kayf – SUNYs DO NOT give preference to OOS applicants. SUNYs do look primarily at stats. How does the OPs GPA, class rank and SAT/ACT stack up agianst those of accepted students? Tufts syndrome doesn’t come into play with the SUNYs IMO, but it is possible the application was incomplete, the admissions office made a mistake or the OP had stats at the low end of the applicant pool.</p>
<p>Is is possible that since sunys fill their classes through rolling,
that they filled up their whole class before they finished reading apps so they just discarded the remaining apps??</p>
<p>I also know someone who didn’t get into suny binghamton who definitely had the stats to get in</p>
<p>HV</p>
<p>We will have to agree to disagree on this, maybe not every SUNY. but yes as we speak the Chancelor (or whatever) office is compiling data in response to inquries. Its not pretty. Yes they start with there is aa suny for everyone, but the devil is in the details. Who goes to which SUNY? The EOP program, which typically has lower stats, is only for In-state. So why would in-state stats not be actually lower than OOS?</p>
<p>I got into Drexel Honor’s, Tulane, U of Rochester, and Emory U, and yet I didn’t get into my own state schools (LSU) honors program. Lol.</p>
<p>The number of applicants to Stonybrook and Binghamton exploded this year. Much of the class was filled early, and they do place a finger on the scale in favor of out of state students, particularly Binghamton, which is always trying to increase its profile. A male from Long Island would have a hard time since there are so many. It’s not all stats-driven.</p>
<p>Zooser, it is unclear to me exactly what is going on.</p>
<p>First, Binghamton announces its ED applications are up 50%. In response to that, I suspect many kids vastly increased the number of SUNYs they applied to. I dont know if it the same number of kids applying to more sunys, or more kids applying. You are probably right re B and SBU, but the other suny’s, who knows?</p>