Admission Stories

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No SATs? No problem! community-colleges , transfer , cal-poly-slo	1	929	September 20, 2023
College Confidential told me this t20 was a reach. I just finished my first year with a 3.8! admission-results , ucla	17	4711	July 28, 2023
Ivy league schools with 3.7 GPA	13	7632	July 25, 2023
LACs vs R1 for international students undergraduates international-student	71	6185	July 2, 2023
USC Admittees that were convinced you weren’t getting in. Experiences and advice for future Trojan hopefuls transfer , usc	0	1086	June 22, 2023
Only Accepted to 2/19 Colleges.. why? admission-results , college-confidential-cafe	140	19377	May 13, 2023
Will I get rescinded from Rice?	4	1692	April 24, 2023
A word about second thoughts from a parent of a high school junior	2	1201	April 23, 2023
Requesting financial aid document = not rejected?	3	1101	March 1, 2023
Why avoiding highly competitive schools is a winning applications strategy class-2025 , class-2026	73	38795	January 14, 2023
How an Asian Male got into Ivy League with a 1370 SAT [Admission Hindsight] admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned , ucla , cornell-university , dartmouth-college	16	6884	September 25, 2022
What are your top takeaways learned from the most recent admissions cycle for rising seniors about to apply? admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned	192	38349	June 10, 2022
Fell For The Fit Trap \| HYPSM is a real thing I guess admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned	113	10278	June 9, 2022
How do I break the prestige mindset?	51	29477	June 7, 2022
"Taking a mulligan": What are some things you/your student would do over for college admissions? admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned	10	3514	April 16, 2022
Is there any downside to sending AP scores to intended college? admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned	9	2248	April 13, 2022
And that's a wrap for one midwestern kid admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned	9	3670	April 7, 2022
Did Test Optional change anything in your admissions process or results? class-2025	27	11547	April 5, 2022
Playing D3 sport or going to a flagship admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned	14	3019	April 4, 2022
Stats & advice from a first-gen, low income, Stanford matriculate! first-generation	10	4765	March 22, 2022
I lived on CC in 2013 - 8 years later I want to give some perspective	12	11514	March 19, 2022
College application experience and some tips admissions-hindsight-and-lessons-learned , bowdoin-college , wesleyan-university , transfer , duke-university	5	3156	January 21, 2022
Boston University ED 2026	0	1423	September 1, 2021
Where do I start	3	1293	August 20, 2021
College Class of 2025 Transfers transfer	0	689	August 13, 2021
I'm going to Yale! Here are my stats & advice as a first-gen, multiracial/trilingual, middle-class, CA public school girl with chronic imposter syndrome :) class-2025 , covid-19 , first-generation , wellesley-college , barnard-college , yale-university , uc-berkeley	9	16670	August 6, 2021
Dismissed from 4-year university	8	4620	June 30, 2021
A Cautionary Tale about Elitish Admissions (I got kicked off campus) waitlist	72	18339	June 16, 2021
Moved: College Applications 101	0	1232	November 16, 2020
I got rejected from 15 out of the 16 schools I applied to class-2025 , covid-19	155	53732	May 13, 2021