<p>Rejected from every “match/reach” college I had applied to-
Claremont Mckenna
UCLA
UCB
Tufts
Brown(well I was expecting this one)</p>
<p>Accepted to-
UC Davis
Santa Clara
BU</p>
<p>I guess CC kinda got my hopes up. All of the matches/reaches I have applied to I have been rejected from so far. I recall reading somewhere that chances thread responses are never 100% accurate, and I was never expecting them to be. But honestly literally all of the colleges people told me were reaches or even matches I applied to I was rejected from. Only the safeties accepted.</p>
<p>I hate to sound bitter and condescending, but for the schools I actually got accepted into, I also know plenty of people literally with less everything (worse GPA, lower scores, no EC’s) and I really feel like I worked for nothing. I mean I might got rejected for someone who literally has little over half of my SAT score (translated from the ACT, and I know that her GPA/EC’s werent that great, seriously just a worse candidate). What is up with this.</p>
<p>I feel a lot of people including me feel the same way aas Kenzen and makes you start to question your essays, recs, ecs, because those are the things that have no statistical value and only personal judgement.</p>
<p>Oh Holly! =[ Did you get rejected by 6 of them?</p>
<p>I think I will be.</p>
<p>I read Andi’s thread about her son being rejected by 6. Correct me if I am wrong. Her son took a gap year and reapply to colleges. He got accepted to the colleges of his choice except for two! That’s really amazing!</p>
<p>I am not going to take a gap year because I do not think it’s good for me in my opinon but maybe for you it might be. It’s your choice.</p>
<p>I am currently applying to two colleges rolling admissions. I got I will get in despite my low SAT score.</p>
<p>Maybe you should check out applying to colleges with rolling admissions?</p>
<p>Both my undergraduate and graduate degrees were obtained by walking into the admissions department of the local big state university one week before school started. (Money issues prevented better planning.) Do not discount the 4-year state schools that often take students up until the last minute. Then transfer from there.</p>
<p>Hey all, first post in the forums. This is an amazing thread</p>
<p>Just like Kenzen and some of the rest of you, I was rejected from all matches and reaches.
Cornell–reeeeeeeeeeeejected
Claremont McKenna–waitlist
WashU@STL–waitlist
Williams–rejected</p>
<p>Hell, even Brandeis, a SAFETY, waitlisted me.</p>
<p>Only got into UofRochester, SUNY Binghamton and SUNY Geneseo.</p>
<p>I still have 5 more colleges to hear from, but I’m not hopeful. I really thought a 2290, 4.9/5.3 GPA, and half-decent extracurriculars would get me places. I was wrong.</p>
<p>As a Canadian applicant, I was rejected by Harvard and wait-listed at Columbia (my American top choice). Yes, it was a definite punch in the gut, but at the same time–</p>
<p>Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles, whom we knew,
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are?
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.</p>
<p>A passage from ‘Ulysses’, by Lord Alfred Tennyson. Also pretty much the best advice I’ve gotten since yesterday.</p>
<p>I hope you are joking, its not the end of the world. Remember many successful people did not even get into their desired school. William Buffett is one.</p>
<p>Cornell-rejected
Brown-rejected
Stanford- rejected
UW- still waiting</p>
<p>What should I do next? If I am not accepted with the last one I am waiting, with the last one.Where should I go? The community college or the less known small religious private university which deadline application is May 1?</p>
<p>Let’s just put it this way: I fought the Ivy League and the Ivy League won.</p>
<p>Yale-rejected
Princeton-rejected
Dartmouth-rejected
Penn-waitlisted
Cornell-waitlisted
Harvard-didn’t even send me an email, so I’m guessing rejected</p>
<p>Thankfully, I did get into Duke. ljolmes, idk what I would do if I were you, but I hope everything works out.</p>
<p>UF: accepted
Baylor University: accepted
Cal: still waiting
UCLA: still waiting
UCSD: still waiting
UCSC: rejected (ouch)</p>
<p>I have a 3.8 GPA. I speak three languages, four if you include sign language. I am a part time work study student in my school and also a part time receptionist in a local physician’s office. I am also a volunteer assistant in my school’s planetarium. I am in the school’s honors program, science club and math club. I also take piano and violin lessons, an hour on Saturdays, do some babysitting in the weekends and play the organ in church. </p>
<p>I’m freaking out right now coz I might be rejected at the other UC campuses too… :(</p>
<p>BruinsJEW–I am a mom of a senior–not a MD-just a mom–I do not know what the right words to say–but I care—please take a moment–call a friend–go to a synagogue/church–PM me-(I should warn you I am not tech savvy-but I am willing to try)—I can see you are hurting</p>
He got accepted to the colleges of his choice except for two! That’s really amazing!</p>