Denied at almost every school...

suburiboy
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:12:45 +0000

i give your GC the benefit of the doubt, since she is not here to defend herself. If I had a friend who was only applying to 4 schools, i would assume that they liked all of them, otherwise they would have applied to more. So unless you told her that VT was a bare safety and you hated it, then your GC was acting within the range of acceptable behavior. I have a friend who only app’ed to VT and UVA, But he loves VT, so it does not matter.

Here is my list of apps (with US news rankings)[UPenn5, UChicago9, WashU13, Cornell15, UVA25, Wake25, Michigan29, W&M31, GaTech35, VaTech69]
I’m 2190, 3.96, 10-12 APs and generally ok everything else. My GC told me that UVA looked like a reach. After my own independent research, I decided to go with this list, anyway. It seems to have paid-off, because UVa and below has accepted me, WashU and above rejected me.

Moral of the story: GC’s act within certain bounds. One would be foolish to not independently verify what they say. UVa was a low reach. You had no fit/reasonable schools on your list. I know a girl with close to my stats; she was wait-listed by VT(but accepted at UC Berkley…don’t ask.). It’s barely a safety for you.

What to do now: go to VT; it is a great school. If you hate it, apply for a transfer. But don’t go in with a bad attitude; you might make friends and like it there.