<p>OSU is not such a bad school that it's time to reapply. Go to OSU for a year, study hard, have a blast at the elite football and b-ball games, and if you still feel it isn't for yo, apply to transfer. OSU isn't the end of the world, you didn't apply to match schools with the exception of Chicago, a tough match, and you got burned. I'm sorry you didn't plan super well. Really. However, OSU is a good school, and a smart person like you will be successful at any decent school.</p>
<p>I really, really feel your you dude. There's no doubt that you have great stats (they are not 'average' in anyway). </p>
<p>If it makes you feel any better, my results were just as disappointing as yours!</p>
<p>Maybe try to get into the OSU, honors program? If you aren't already, and apply for honors housing. And then transfer</p>
<p>If you want to work in Ohio, you can do quite well having had your education from Ohio State. A lot of prominent lawyers and politicians go to the state school for undergrad and they make tremendous connections. The same goes for business people. So there actually are some advantages to the state university, particularly if you get involved in student groups and, via leadership and activism, connect to off-campus leaders and groups.</p>
<p>Here is a list of politicans that are currently in congress that went to Ohio State.</p>
<p>Current United States Senators
Sherrod Brown, United States Senator from Ohio (M.A., 1981)
Thomas R. Carper, United States Senator from Delaware (B.A., 1968)
George Voinovich, United States Senator from Ohio (J.D.) </p>
<p>[edit] Current United States Congressmen
Dave Hobson, 7th Congressional District of Ohio, (J.D. 1963)
James Jordan, 4th Congressional District of Ohio, (B.A.; M.A.)
Ron Klein, 22nd Congressional District of Florida (B.A. 1979)
Deborah Pryce, 15th Congressional District of Ohio, Chair of House Republican Conference (B.A. 1973)
Zack Space, 18th Congressional District of Ohio. (J.D., 1986)
Pat Tiberi, 12th Congressional District of Ohio (B.A., 1985)</p>
<p>lol..... same boat as you guys... WHO THE HELL DID GET INTO IVIES....
rejected - harvard, princeton, cornell, dartmouth, Penn, Uchicago....
Chicago and Cornell really hurt me.... i thought i had a very good chance.... o well... still waiting on.... amherst, gtown, umich, and Northwestern... please GOD....</p>
<p>Go to a school for a year and apply for transfer. WashU is known for its transfer friendly process and UChi isn't so bad either.</p>
<p>Hmm And I thought I felt bad with Columbia and Berkeley rejecting me (my two reaches) =S I couldn't imagine a whole list....I'm thinking of just attending UCLA or NYU then seeing if I think it's ok for me ( I was convinced I was in love with Columbia =P) and if not...work my ass off then transfer.</p>
<p>Don't give up!</p>
<p>Aww, I'm the same with you all too.
I got reject from Harvard, Brown, and JHU. Waiting on Stanford.</p>
<p>What's worse is I was reject from my reaches and safes (UCs), and I only got into Davis!
I have 2330 SAT score (800 CR/780 Math/750 Writing), 750 Bio, 710 Us History and Math 2c, 3.7 GPA, have well rounded EC's, etc, and I thought at LEAST I can get UCLA or something. Guess not...
Something go wrong?
I want to take a gap year or something because I'm not too ecstatic about Davis. I hardly think Stanford is gonna accept me.</p>
<p>Rejected:
Harvard
Yale</p>
<p>Accepted:
Dartmouth
UPenn
University of Chicago
Carnegie Mellon
Syracuse</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Brown (only applied here to get a rec from my principle, and alumnus)</p>
<p>Still haven't heard from:
Northwestern
Georgetown
NYU
Rice</p>
<p>I have fairly average test scores (25 ACT and upper 500's and lower 600's on my SAT's) but I had some great essays, obscenely good recommendations and outstanding extra curricular activities. My GPA is also very high (but my school doesn't offer AP classes.)</p>
<p>Unless you really loathe Ohio, I wouldn't recommend taking a gap year. It will really kill you to see all your friends heading off to college while you are staying at home. I don't have experience here and I'm not trying to criticize anyone who took this option, but, even though it may be easier than transferring, it will really bruise your self-esteem. Go to Ohio, or one of your other two schools- it ain't over till it's over- and have a blast being a college kid. Work hard, get involved and transfer, or, discover you actually love where you are and stay there. Just because you weren't accepted by every school doesn't mean you didn't deserve to get in. You're a smart kid and the admissions committee just didn't have the time to appreciate that. Best of luck at Ohio...or Stanford...or Northwestern!</p>
<p>barfdog17, did you actually apply to all the Ivy League schools? Jeeez. At that point, I've gotta say, if any one of those schools hadn't been included when they created that particular athletic league, it probably wouldn't have ended up on your list.</p>
<p>To the OP, colormehappy is probably right. I don't think I could take sitting around at home next year. If you really are happy with OSU as a safety, go for it! And I think you have a chance at Northwestern.</p>
<p>OP, your stats and mine are scaringly similar. 1580/2290 SAT, 3.79 UW GPA, 6 APs, average ECs</p>
<p>Rejected:
HYP
Penn
Stanford
Hopkins
Rice</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Duke
Wash U</p>
<p>Accepted:
PSU (SHC)</p>
<p>It's the state university for me, too (not that there's anything wrong with that). I'm also waiting on Northwestern.</p>
<p>dude get over it. there is also graduate school. oh yea you can TRANSFER</p>
<p>Should have applied to more safety schools. Too late now. Well, take a year off and pursue your interests, come back, and reapply. Might be better for you second time around.</p>
<p>You'll be easily a top student at Ohio State if you go there, get a wonderful gpa suck up to proffies then transfer =P</p>
<p>I wish I had applied to more matches too...</p>
<p>rejected: harvard and dartmouth
waitlisted: JHU, brown, Upenn, and Cornell
accepted: 2 bad SUNY schools, URochester (which i can't afford), and BC (with a slightly better aid package), which i have come to appreciate greatly in the past 24 hrs.</p>
<p>i'll get my rejection from georgetown tomorrow, i'm sure. i'd apply to way more matches around BC caliber if i could do it all again. and i wouldn't have applied to harvard.</p>
<p>Check out Xiggi's post in the parents forum
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318849%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=318849</a></p>
<p>This year was the most competitive ever, and many qualified students were turned away from their dream schools.</p>
<p>A thought about gap years:
The same kind of echo baby boom population that you encountered this year will still be around 2 years from now. And having heard stories of rejections this year, more students may apply to more schools because of fears about getting in to their matches. So while you may bring more to the table after a gap year, you may find yourself in exactly the same situation you are in right now. You may want to give yourself time to get past the hurt of rejection before you make decisions--and then look at your alternatives.</p>
<p>This whole college thing is so entirely random.</p>
<p>2360 SAT I, 800 math, 800 bio, 780 chem
3.8 UW, 4.3 W
8 APs, 2 honors
Strong EC's (including 2 or 3 that are very in depth), leadership positions
A few awards like National Merit Finalist and AP Scholar with Distinction or whatever
Strong essays (one very creative one that talks about one of my passions)</p>
<p>Rejected: Brown, Duke, JHU, Stanford
Waitlist: Cornell
Accepted: Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD</p>
<p>I thought that Cornell and JHU would have been in between match and reach for me, but I guess not... I'm still waiting on Northwestern too. All you can do now is "expect the worst, hope for the best." IF you don't get into NU, I don't suggest taking a gap year. I'd say... go to OSU, work your ass off to get a 4.0, then transfer. Who knows, maybe you'll love it there anyway! If you're happy with your life there, then maintain a good GPA, and you'll have a really good chance at getting into a good grad school.</p>