your stats, please?-Canadians aiming for US schools

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<p>Oberlin is a good school… I actually was going to apply. Congrats!</p>

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<p>Congrats! Oberlin sounds really nice, I wouldn’t mind going there at all. xD</p>

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<p>Neither would I, though my parents are all elitist… IVY IVY IVY!!
BUt then again if i get into an ivy I’m GOING!! :D</p>

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<p>lol, having choices is nice too. =D</p>

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<p>true, though they are expensive compared to McGill…</p>

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<p>welll, choices can be frustrating too. - -|||
but going to the states=change in scenery and location, and that’s always funnn. xD</p>

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<p>hey…I’d rather choose from a couple great uni’s than 1 or none at all! futurephysician, as long as the choices pile up, it’s a good thing lol.</p>

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<p>rejected at northwestern and stanford.
i guess no hope for ivies… ■■■ :(</p>

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<p>CanNOT believe they failed you! No ****ing way!!! Especially NW???!!!
This year is pretty crazy starting from Earlies… This is terrible…</p>

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<p><quote>true…tons of dropouts at UT engineering and Waterloo engineering too (from what i’ve heard).</quote></p>

<p>Not true at all. Gotta find better ways to justify having your parents burn $200k on an undergrad degree! </p>

<p>Eng graduation rates at U of T are 86.2%. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.utoronto.ca/about-uoft/measuring-our-performance/cudo/cudo_2008/other.html[/url]”>http://www.utoronto.ca/about-uoft/measuring-our-performance/cudo/cudo_2008/other.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Eng graduation rates at Waterloo is 88.3% [Common</a> University Data Ontario 2009 | Institutional Analysis & Planning](<a href=“Home | Institutional Analysis & Planning | University of Waterloo”>http://analysis.uwaterloo.ca/docs/cudo_2009/htmlSectionK.php)</p>

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<p>rejected at amherst, meh lol
less than a week till d-day!</p>

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<p>Got into my backups NYU and Boston College today. Options are good.</p>

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<p>But aren’t you pretty settled on Emory? :P</p>

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<p>@dark
did you apply to any LACs or any other schools? or just the 8 ivies?</p>

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<p>THE FINAL VERDICT:</p>

<p>Accepted:
WashU
Oberlin
McGill Physiology</p>

<p>Waitlist:
Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Rejected:
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
Northwestern
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
Brown
McGill PreMed</p>

<p>FAIL :frowning:
(to be honest I’m quite shocked…)</p>

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<p>holy f**k!!! </p>

<p>honestly, what is the world happened? honestly, i am ridiculously stunned beyond belief…and i’m not even you! i’m trying to go over your stats trying to see what’s wrong, and i really don’t see anything. </p>

<p>I would’ve expected Cornell, NW, and maybe a couple lower Ivy accepted FOR SURE. The other ones, as we know, are crapshoots, but AT LEAST 3 more acceptances seems appropriate.</p>

<p>BTW, what’s McGill PreMed? never heard of it before, could someone explain?</p>

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<p>@ futurephysician: when did you hear back from mcgill premed?</p>

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<p>accepted:</p>

<p>columbia
cornell
upenn
u of c berkeley
ucla
waterloo
ut
u of alberta (lol, safety)</p>

<p>waitlist:
yale
hopkins
caltech</p>

<p>reject:
stanford (:()
brown
dartmouth</p>

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<p>You all still got into some great schools… but I thing I’ve been saying to everyone for the longest time is that … don’t expect Ivy acceptances especially if you’re an international… most of the time, its just too hard… look beyond Ivy league… even if you are 2300+ SAT 4.0 GPA you should apply to schools ranked between 10-20 on the USNEWS. Admissions at Top 30 US universities are too random… for example, I got into Northwestern but I don’t think I would have gotten into Wash U (I did not apply) whereas for futurephysician, its the opposite… you just never know… anyways, congrats on the acceptances.</p>

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<p>I had a lowish GPA. I think that was a dealbreaker for some schools who are super-competitive.</p>