<p>You were chanced and said a school was a safety, but was rejected. YOu were chanced at another school, which was deemed to be near impossible, and you were accepted. Why do you think this is?</p>
<p>I personally believe that this weird situation that surprisingly happens to a lot of us to due to our motivation and determination for each school. Many people who dream about their top schools, even ones considered absolute rejects, still work extremley hard and long to perfect their applications, to make them stand out as much as they can. As a result, adcoms notice this and give them a chance by accepting them. On the other hand, knowing that a school is a safety makes many students become lax with the application. As a result, they are rejected.</p>
<p>I'm just posting this and stating the obvious because many peopl frequently post on CC going "I was accepted into Princeton (example) but rejected at Rutgers....what the heck? lol"</p>
<p>It's because of the amount of attitude and longing that you have for each school</p>
<p>if someone is applying to rutgers with a 4.0, 2300 on the sat, tons of ec's and all that good stuff, then they probably will be thinking that the person is applying to schools that are way higher up, especially if the applicant lists where else theyre applying. if youre not careful, then a school can realize that they are your safety school, and reject you, while the top school youre applying to knows you genuinely want to attend, so they accept you.</p>
<p>Yeah - some schools don't like to admit overqualified applicants unless they display very strong interest. If they're obviously your safety, they'll reject you simply to keep their yield as good as possible. That's part of the reason they may ask which other schools you're applying to.</p>
<p>Edit: sorry, didn't see the later responses. The key is displaying a lot of interest. If you have a 4.0, 2300 SAT but write a brilliant "Why Rutgers?" essay that does seem as though you're seriously interested in going there, that changes matters significantly. Adcoms are pretty good at sniffing out whether or not students actually want to attend.</p>
<p>State schools are slightly different because they have a mandate to educate and serve the people of their state. They tend to recognize that a lot of in-state students depend on getting in, and admit accordingly - whether that means someone whose stats are high and seems an unlikely yield, or someone whose stats are low to the point of being iffy. So qualifications of accepted in-state students tend to cover a wider range than qualifications of out-of-state accepted students.</p>
<p>accepting overqualified students increases their student body's statistics, which makes more students want to apply and etc... as the college grow more selective</p>
<p>i mean, that is why they have a waiting list, no?</p>
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<p>because the people who are giving "chances" are high school students who don't know what they're talking about. :/</p>
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<p>Accepting overqualified students raises the average SAT and GPA. But it also raises the acceptance rate and decreases the yield - which are also important measures of selectivity - since the (vast?) majority of those students will choose to go elsewhere. So there's a trade-off.</p>