Yale Reject Needs Advice

<p>In my opinion, you have no passion in anything. It seems colleges these days want people who have a passion in something and have shown they are interested in it by doing specific extracurriculars for it and stuff like that.</p>

<p>Looking at your previous posts, one of your earliests, you said "To be honest I'm not sure what my major should be. I'm thinking I want to do something business related one day, possibly politics, or writing, maybe even movie making. Whatever the case, I'm fairly sure I want to stay away from Biology/Chemistry and such sciences."</p>

<p>And then right after said, "Anyway from yesterday, I was relaly inspired to just go and save the wrold, really. If I can be a msuciain, a writer, a politician, a businessman, a professional athlete, whatever would be great if I could just get my ideas out there and be able to make a change in the world."</p>

<p>That's a nice optimistic view, but I (in my opinion) do not think that's what colleges want. My personal experience seems to back it up.</p>

<p>I have about average sat scores, they are up there, I got a 2020, 750s on my sat 2s. I wrote my essays about my passion in aerospace engineering and it was also shown in my extracurriculars, I got into cornell. Another guy on college confidential I followed, who said he wrote his essay on being an undecided major and had similar scores to me, got rejected.</p>

<p>He has a really good esssay and his stats are strong, he should get into some top schools.</p>

<p>Poseur: Sorry just a little confused; was that a joke?</p>

<p>Mike: That might be true, but I'm not sure the anecdotal evidence can really be used to generalize. I can definitely show I have an interest for business and economics in my essays, despite the fact that I haven't done any "extracurriculars" that strictly pertain to them. My older posts were before this year, before I took any economic courses and started really getting interested.
I had wanted to do something in business before, but I just wasn't positive and didn't want to limit myself. I guess you could say I never really had a focus in the past, so I'm wondering if that would really keep me out of a school like Wharton</p>