<p>hi there, just got rejected by Trincoll today too lol. Again, int student with extremely high need 
And I was so sure that Trinity was my safety school Let me send you guys a thousand telepathic hugs–I totally feel ya. Hope that we will get in somewhere awesome in the end!</p>
<p>Hahaha! A thousand telepathic hugs! That kind of made me feel better already! :’)
Are you two going to be hearing from colleges on the 27th too?</p>
<p>We still have several shots left in our gun.
Me, I have six more to go. Lets keep our hopes up!! This process is insane and we have to mantain our faith</p>
<p>@LolLife yea I’m hearing from Cornell and Columbia next thursday. Lol I know. Probably all Rs. </p>
<p>OP, that’s impossible. And “this year was one of the most competitive year we’ve had…” is actually a generic comments colleges include in their rejection emails, as all colleges are experiencing soaring amounts of applicants every year these days. The first calculation skieurope made seems accurate. If anything comes, we will see the clear data updated on the webs soon. And I wanna say people who got rejected to keep up the hope. My brother’s friend (international Asian student) was WLed/rejected from all of his safety/match schools except for Carnegie Mellon, but he got accepted from MIT in the end. Nobody knows what’s gonna happen. I might as well get rejections from all other schools and end up at Trinity (which was my only safety). </p>
<p>Im most certainly wrong, but I quote what I read in the rejection letter: “With over seven thousand applicants for an incoming class of six hundred, the Committee has been forced to make the MOST difficult decision in the college’s history”. I guess that says something, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>Admissions data history: <a href=“http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/offices/InstitutionalResearchPlanning/Documents/Admissions.pdf”>http://www.trincoll.edu/AboutTrinity/offices/InstitutionalResearchPlanning/Documents/Admissions.pdf</a></p>
<p>Note that the last 2 admissions cycles were well over 7,000. Doubt they got a record number of applications because I am sure they would boast that fact if they did. Colleges love to be able to say that and will definitely mention it specifically. </p>
<p>Trinity can no longer be counted on as a safety - people woke up to the fact that it was top LAC and it’s applications have increased in a big way. My D applied in 2011 - we were told B+ average and 1900 on the SATs - no problem! She beat both those benchmarks but that year the apps more than doubled and we should have done early decision.</p>
<p>1, Because the acceptance rate for ED applicants are much higher, thus in order to maintain ~30% over all, they would accept around 20% for RD?</p>
<p>2, Because I got 800 Math on the SAT1, 800 on both Math IC and IIC, and I’m Asian, but still struggle in some high level Math and Econ classes. I declined Brown to come here, hoping to be the best, but guess what? That is not happening anytime soon. The smartest person I know, who is definitely Harvard-bound for grad school, got a 19xx on the SAT. I’ve seen so many smart yet low scored students here (due to laziness in high school maybe?), and now they are claiming all the top places. So, no matter how smart you think you are, don’t ever consider this school a safety (as I once did) cause you know there will always exist someone who is better than you. </p>
<p>render142: I am afraid that with your scores, it was very unrealistic to apply to the schools you did! Who was advising you? At Trin, you were rejected because of aid issues. Most of the others were just totally out of reach. Be realistic.</p>