<p>i was rejected from penn hopkins & georgetown</p>
<p>Do you count Penn State as being good? I think they accept apps whenever.</p>
<p>Rejected from U. of Penn’s Huntsman Program. But got into Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Dartmouth > Huntsman</p>
<p>Like whoa.</p>
<p>BruinsJEW: I think Pennhunter meant the University of Pennsylvania. As in the ivy-league. Not Penn State.</p>
<p>Last year at this time, DD was rejected by Georgetown…her dream since grade 4. Fast forward to her second semester at Boston University (with big $$$$)…she is perfectly happy and amazed at the opportunities. Hang in there all…</p>
<p>A couple of years ago, my D, a very good student at an excellent high school with great EC’s, was rejected from all but two of the many schools she applied to…she just plain overestimated her chances at ivies and similar colleges and the competition from her very accomplished classmates was brutal.</p>
<p>More than anything, she wanted to go to a certain ivy-league level university in the UK. They rejected her, too. She cried. She was embarassed. But after about a week, she found a great study abroad program (CEA) for college age students and ended up spending that next year as a fulltime student in Spain. Lived in a homestay first semester, an apartment the next, had the time of her life, got great grades, and came home fluent in Spanish. All her friends from high school were very impressed and even envious, by the way–she was doing something exciting and different and many were pretty burned out from studying and keeping up an ridiculous pace of activities in high school. </p>
<p>Th next year, she reapplied to that same UK ivy, titled her essay “Why should you accept me when you turned me down before?” and got in. She’s now a junior there, loves it, has great friends, and will qualify for a “first” in her major which is a big deal honor.</p>
<p>So…allow yourself a good cry, then hold your head up! Investigate what opportunities await you in a gap year. It can be the best education of your life, and can set the stage for great things in college. Just take the leap. And gather the evidence–because there is plenty–to show your parents how valuable a year like that can be to your future.</p>
<p>Yea, I’m going to be valedictorian this year, captain/president of three things, tons of state/local level awards, good test scores, blahblahblah. Here are my admissions, in order of where I wanted to attend:</p>
<p>Yale-Rejected
Dartmouth-Waitlist
Princeton-Rejected
Duke-Waitlist
Johns Hopkins-Waitlist
Rollins-Accepted
UF-Accepted</p>
<p>I worked my entire high school career to get into a prestigious university, and failed. It was heartbreaking, and I even cried before the decisions day, but I am actually happy now. Maybe not happy with the decisions, but happy with where I am going. Rollins gave me a ton of money, so I’m going there, and every time I visit (just did again today for “Experience Rollins”) I love it more and more. Even if I had been accepted, I probably still would have gone to Rollins, because of the lack of financial burden for my parents (right in their price range) and the small class size and undergrad research opportunities. Now, my biggest problem is making it through the rest of my senior year without senioritis completely taking me over lol. If I had known I wasn’t going OOS, I might not have signed up for seven AP tests rofl.</p>
<p>I feel awful… here are my decisions, in chronological order of when received. coincedentally, also in order of last to first choice (except VU and LU switched):</p>
<p>loyola college MD - accepted in honors program with presidential scholarship
lehigh - accepted
villanova - accepted
duke - rejected (not really expecting to get in, didn’t even visit)
princeton - rejected (i have legacy, but again, not expecting much here either)
georgetown - rejected</p>
<p>the last one was crushing. i managed to completely overlook my previous acceptances, and instead focus all my energy on waiting for my georgetown letter. when it came, i was shocked… not only do i have fitting SAT scores, gpa, and EC’s… i was a recruit for a sports team. how did i manage to get rejected with athletic support??? i feel betrayed, even though i know it’s not the coach’s fault. and to echo pretty much everyone else on this thread, i feel like i worked hard for the last 4 years and now i’m not going to the prestigious school i had always imagined myself at. i really like lehigh, but it’s no georgetown.</p>
<p>to make matters worse, two other girls from my team did get in. i’m pretty sure their sat’s are not as good as mine. i hate my life.</p>
<p>hey lehigh is an EXCELLENT school! No need to fret over that.</p>
<p>I do have a sad thing though. </p>
<p>Here are my colleges (so far)</p>
<p>Case Western :::: accepted
Tulane :::::: Accepted
Univ Pittsburgh ::::: Accept
Brown ::::: Reject
Northwestern (my true dream school):::: Reject
U Miami ::: Accept
JMU:::::::Accept</p>
<p>I am still waiting for McGill…If I don’t get in there my life will seriousy be over. And yes, I did get into miami and tulane, and i wouldn’t mind going there, mcgill is my absolutely ultimate dream school on top of northwestern (aren’t we legally alowed to have 2 haha?)</p>
<p>I kind of knew in the back of my mind that this would happen but I refused to accept it.</p>
<p>Bentley - Accepted
Lehigh - Waitlisted
Boston College - Waitlisted
Emory - Waitlisted
Washington University in St. Louis - Waitlisted
Carnegie Mellon - Rejected
Cornell - Rejected
University of Pennsylvania - Rejected
Harvard - Rejected</p>
<p>I am still waiting on UMich and Notre Dame, but I don’t have any hope left. I guess Bentley is looking better and better everyday. :(</p>
<p>Where in Long Island? </p>
<p>I know Jericho Senior High School kids get into the best schools.</p>
<p>^im way out on the easy end, in a small town. I doubt you’ve heard of it.</p>
<p>Boston U:Accepted
Colby:Accepted
Oberlin:Waitlist
Amherst:Waitlist
Uchicago:Rejection</p>
<p>Left:
Umass
Brandeis
Boston College
Bard
Bates
Bowdoin</p>
<p>I feel pretty reasonable about what’s happened so far. Especially that Amherst put me on their waitlist; I thought I would be rejected outright for sure. Feel like most of the remaining schools are relative locks besides Bates and Bowdoin. Actually, the main thing bothering me isn’t rejections: I kind of feel like I may not be intelligent enough for the student body at a place like Colby or Bates and would just be blown out of the water. Feeling a teensy bit insecure about my mental capabilities and so-forth.</p>
<p>My D was just waitlisted at Fordham, and denied from the Theatre Program. She was devastated. We thought this was a good “match” school, decent SATs a 3.8 GPA, private prep school, 2 visits to NYC (we’re in Atlanta) and now she’s figuring her other choices Carnegie-Mellon, Case-Western are no’s and if she’s lucky an acceptance from Pace in NYC. We’re looking at all the theatre schools with rolling admissions and now the process starts all over again. This year had to be unbelievably tough for a bunch of folks. Prayers for all!</p>
<p>cls, don’t be disheartened… Your D might still get into Fordham. Any student waitlsted should respond promptly to the school and indicate that he/she will attend if admitted. Contacting an alumni might help, too. Once you’re in, you could then reapply to the theater program, I think. If possible, you might also look into spring admission. Good luck!</p>
<p>I have been researching this as well. My daughter did get into the BFA at College of Santa Fe, nice program, it has rolling admissions. I believe Hofstra does (audition in the second year) and maybe UArts in Pennsylvania. Good luck and remember nothing is permanent, they can always transfer! My s got into his number one choice and hated it, transferred and then had the time of his life!</p>
<p>Accepted: St. Lawrence, Skidmore
Rejected: Bowdoin, Cornell, Dartmouth, Yale</p>
<p>I’m depressed. I’ll admit it. The pint of cherry truffle ice cream helped a bit, but still- especially when most of my friends with lower grades and scores, but more money, at least got waitlisted at same/similar places. I was expecting to be rejected at Dartmouth and Yale, but thought I’d get into Cornell and be waitlisted at Bowdoin. Too bad I’m not a minority, a guy, or whatever it was the schools wanted this year. So frustrated!</p>
<p>vtpoetchic–the good news is you still have two great choices and based on your name alone, I’ll bet you’re leaning toward Skidmore…good luck. ANd waitlists aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. Given the #'s applying to the above schools this year…they seem more like soft rejections.</p>
<p>I just got waitlisted at Boston College yesterday…the first seven schools I heard from accepted me, and now I’m getting a string of badness…I am truly terrified to get a letter from Reed now (I seriously had a nightmare about this), which is my top choice. I’m also waiting to hear from Whitman. If I don’t get into either of these schools, I won’t be able to attend a LAC like I wanted. That would really bum me out.</p>
<p>LBP,</p>
<p>My father told me the same thing. I should contact some of the alumni and tell them my story and how UCLA has been my dream school and how I plan to contribute to the city of Los Angeles. I have searched Google and cannot find any way to find alumni’s emails. Do you have any suggesion?</p>