Deferred from Northeastern, discouraged class of 2021

vzee1105
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 01:25:38 +0000

I was deferred too, and everything I’m reading on this site literally makes me feel like my stomach is dropping because everyone who got accepted has stats so much better than mine. I’d be happy if I even got into NUIn

Sat:1390 on new, 1930 on old
Act: 28 but I didn’t send it
UW GPA: 3.8
Extracurricular: 200 hours of volunteering with key club and interact club, 2 years of placing at FBLA regional competition, and in about 2 other small, random clubs at school
Jobs: worked 3 years as a hostess at a restaurant, worked 8 months as sales in retail
Essay: wrote about my experience growing up in a family restaurant with immigrant parents. Submitted additional essays on my app stat check page, and they were about my curiosity for my culture and an additional essay about the surroundings of the family restaurant my parents ran
AP: Chinese 5 (didn’t take class), HGAP 3, WHAP 4, US history 3, Bio 4
Senior year: I’m taking it real chill, which I denfinitely regret, since they did receive a copy of my mid year transcript. Taking 6/7 classes I can take in a day, taking Spanish 3 pass/fail (meaning no numeral grade, only thing recorded in transcript is whether I passed or failed), and honors social studies courses (I usually take AP)
Additional info: first generation college student, bilingual (mandarin. Trilingual if u count the Fuzhou regional dialect)

I got rejected (well, they offered me a place in their CAP program but that’s basically rejection) from UT Austin which is really discouraging esp since NE is so much more competitive… I applied for international business major at NE which is also discouraging bc it’s so competitive, but I applied for it bc I really want nothing less than that. I have no talents or skills so that’s also discouraging. Does anyone happen to know what percentage of applicants were deferred from ED/EA? I’m starting to feel like almost everyone was which is extra discouraging. Basically I’m very discouraged. I’m not religious at all but I might go pay Buddha a visit this Sunday (at a local Vietnamese temple even tho I’m Chinese) bc I really need some spiritual uplifting. Plus there’s nothing more I can do that’s in my power but pray and beg deities and spirits and all things holy and wish-granting.