<p>My college process has been a nightmare. I'm a good student with a 2290 SAT and 34 ACT. I have a 96% GPA with 6 APS under my belt. I have plenty of ECs and many leadership positions. Things looked good for me. I applied to 8 schools:</p>
<p>REJECTED:
Penn
Duke
Princeton
Chicago
Wash. U
<em>projected</em> Stanford</p>
<p>ACCEPTED:
Ohio State (8th and last choice)</p>
<p>WHAT's LEFT: Northwestern...</p>
<p>God, why? I feel so bad right now its indescribable.</p>
<p>I was also rejected from Penn, and waitlisted at Duke and WUSTL. I feel you.</p>
<p>I only have state schools to attend too, or Lehigh. Just waiting on Cornell or Tufts now.</p>
<p>Do not <em>project</em> your own rejection, doing that will only depress you and doing so will only set you up for failure. The game isn't over yet, don't place yourself in a circumstance that hasn't occured yet. Overall, stay optimistic and Good Luck!</p>
<p>Take a gap year and reapply. Get some help with applications and new recs. Search this site for the story of Andison, stats like yours and rejected from all his schools. Went to MIT after a gap year.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at my dream school, Cornell. Not a good evening.</p>
<p>you should have applied to more match schools... I'm sure you regret it now</p>
<p>Paul--i got rejected from all my match schools, this year it's just crazy. (waitlisted at once). Seriously, if you have a schoool to go to at this point, your going to be OKAY. Just breathe and believe.</p>
<p>i thought i would have got into chicago... it takes almost 40% of its applicants and i thought i would be among those.. apparently not.</p>
<p>ohio state is not a bad match, but i thought i would have fared better.</p>
<p>Stanford and Northwestern are still phenomenal schools. It's not over until the fat lady sings! With your stats its obvious your work ethic is very strong so even without these colleges it's a given that you will succeed.</p>
<p>to be frank, you belong somewhere alot better than ohio state with those stats...i have no words of wisdom for you because im not faring that well either. all i can say i relax, if you're cut out to succeed in this world, you'll succeed. if not, tough luck - try to beat the system.</p>
<p>haha
i got rejected by yale, berkeley, chicago as an international student.
waitlisted at upenn.
accepted by utoronto, mcgill and ubc (all canada).
not heard from northwestern and stanford</p>
<p>Oh my God coolsushicutter....this is eerie! I posted almost the exact same thing in another thread right now!</p>
<p>Got rejected from all the Ivies I'd applied to, plus Wellesley and waitlisted at Barnard. (And I'm projecting a Stanford rejection too).
The only place I've got into so far, like you, is OSU.</p>
<p>I'm debating the gap year and reapplying too.....</p>
<p>you do realized that you applyied to the most unpredictable schools in the nation with average stats. Its not really suprising that you got so many rejections. The jump between OSU and the next easiest school (probably Duke) is an amazing jump. You have 1 saftey and 7 reaches.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got waitlisted at U Chicago but accepted at Amherst (with an early write at that!), then rejected at Yale, Harvard, and Columbia. Also waitlisted at Carleton and Sarah Lawrence.</p>
<p>Unless you want to go to Ohio State or Northwestern, and you are rejected from Stanford, I do think a gap year could be good for you. You should go back and look at your app and see where you may have gone wrong. Maybe your ECs were a little too scattered. Maybe there was nothing spectacular about your essays. Maybe you came across a little bland. Maybe you stretched yourself thin with so many apps (I applied to 13 schools and THAT was a dumb idea - I hope it didn't cost me the Ivies).</p>
<p>If you know what you want to do as a future career, maybe you could try to find an internship, whether or not it's paid. Maybe you could volunteer somewhere.</p>
<p>DEFINITELY apply to more match schools. Next year will be a hard year because the class of '08 is very big, and you can't count on getting in anywhere. So work hard on your apps, and have a larger range of schools. According to collegeboard, U Chicago accepts 38% and WUSTL accepts 21%. Then you have Stanford and 3 Ivy Leagues. I can understand your counting on Chicago - I mean, I did too - but you didn't have any similar schools. Remember...the rule is LOVE YOUR SAFETY.</p>
<p>I really, really, really feel for you. I can't imagine how I'd be feeling if I didn't have any acceptances that I felt good about. Whatever you decide, I hope it goes well for you.</p>
<p>im thinking about the gap year. please be honest, do i have a shot at northwestern if i didnt get chicago? i have always wanted to go there (sister went there and loved it), but now im in such desperate mode that my desire to go there has quadrupled. </p>
<p>i didnt apply to mroe match schools because i thought that ohio state would have been better than them anyways. cheap in-state tuition + scholarships + pretty decent business school = only safety i need.</p>
<p>thanks guys, im glad that im not the only one stuck in this mess.</p>
<p>still waiting on UCI, Stanford,USC, and NYU...God PLZ</p>
<p>I've noticed a trend with UC's at the moment, you either got into just 1 or 2, or you got into pretty much all of them</p>
<p>You don't have **** on me at the moment.
Rejected:
UC: Davis, SB, SD, LA, B (appealing all due to some mistakes and differences)
Entire Ivy League
Boston U
George Washington U</p>
<p>Accepted:
CSU: LA and LB (both safeties)
UC Riverside (also safety...)</p>
<p>we're talking AT THE VERY LEAST top quarter of HS, 3.9 weighted GPA, 2100 SAT's, Drum Major, 4th Place Nationally Ranked Civics Debate Team, VP of Spanish Club, plays 8 different instruments for many, many years.</p>
<p>Yeah...that blows the big one...</p>
<p>Gohans, you and me are in the same boat, minus USC... maybe the legacy status will help at the Farm.</p>
<p>Valedictorian
Eagle Scout
National AP Scholar
2300 SATI (800 Math, 760 Writing, 740 CR)
800 Math II SATII
760 Chem SATII
Youth elder at my church
National Merit Scholar</p>
<p>Harvard - rejected
MIT - rejected
Princeton - rejected
Stanford - rejected</p>
<h1>18, I'm hoping those aren't all the schools you applied to.</h1>
<p>Yeah sorry to say it but you needed more match schools. Good luck on Northwestern, I think you have a chance.</p>