<p>its sad when my school has 120 genius IB kids [30 national merit finalists, largest number in my state] and only 3 are going to Ivy League… tell me the logic?</p>
<p>don’t worry people, undergraduate admissions are cut-throat, graduate school is the real focus</p>
<p>Reject
Penn
Brown(first choice. I am still crying)
Northwestern
Princeton</p>
<p>Waitlist
Emory
Georgetown
Barnard
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Accepted
Cornell
SMU(honors & money)
Tulane
Rice
University of Illinois(honors)</p>
<p>Waiting on NYU and Tufts
All I wanted to do was go to Brown. I know that I probably shouldn’t be upset because I was still accepted to an Ivy, but I don’t want to go to any of the schools I got into. ugh.</p>
<p>Dude,</p>
<p>Cornell is amazing school. My valect got denied.</p>
<p>In one day I got rejected from HYP and waitlisted at Columbia and UChicago.</p>
<p>Expected some rejections and waitlists, but was expecting at least one acceptance from this group. Thankfully I do have other schools that I have heard good news from, but my parents also were obviously bummed out. But I could have gone without their attempt at consolation, which was a disappointed “You deserve it. You deserved every rejection you got.”</p>
<p>^^I felt the same way…it wasn’t any one decision that really hurt, it was just that I didn’t get any acceptances from my top 4 choices. It’s too bad that your parents are lacking a little compassion, but even when family members are nice, it can still be hard to talk about.</p>
<p>Accepted
SUNY Geneseo
Bard</p>
<p>Rejected
Dartmouth
Emory
Haverford
NYU
McGill</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Columbia</p>
<p>Man getting rejected from Emory was the worst one. It would have been nice living near my brother before he goes to Iraq. **** um.</p>
<p>I kind of feel like people think that Cornell is the bad Ivy. Some people say it doesn’t even deserve to be one. Oh well.</p>
<p>I think they’re probably jealous 02191989( is that your bday, LOL). Kids at my school would die to go to Cornell and they got denied with their high ranks and 5.3 Weighted GPAs.</p>
<p>i feel like crap. today, while i was eating with my dad, he said, “kids don’t want to be friends with kids who go to crappy schools. you know, only if your SATs were higher. WHY DID YOU GET SUCH LOW SCORES?!?!” then he asks me about the elementary school kids (one of them is my enemy), like where are THEY gonna go for college. i mean, is that what i wanna KNOW or HEAR right now???</p>
<p>i feel really depressed and i feel like it’s my fault, but it’s not. i hate how my parents don’t know how the college admissions work. and they keep comparing me to other kids. then my mom comes in my room and says, “you understand why dad’s mad, right? you HAVE to understand why.”</p>
<p>so they can show off to their relatives how their child goes to UC Berkeley? is that all they raised me for? just another source to use for pride and showing it off? </p>
<p>i’m really angry.</p>
<p>this is the reason why kids rebell.</p>
<p>I know there is not much that can be said to console anyone right now. These rejections sting, but they do not reflect upon you as individuals. With many more applications than these schools can possibly accept, there is an inherent randomness to the decision making process, no matter how “considered” it is. My D (six years ago) was only accepted by her two safety schools. She had not remotely considered the possibility of having to attend either of them. When all the letters came in, we had to give her a day off and she cried the entire day (and I do mean 24 hours.) It was one of the most painful days of my life as a parent. She chose what was in her mind the lesser of two “evils” (her words). She chose it because the other school attracted a lot of kids from her high school, even though it was out of state–actually both were out of state. So she went to the other one.</p>
<p>Well, what do you know, she gets to her nearly last choice college, LOVES IT–CANNOT IMAGINE HAVING GONE ANYWHERE ELSE, and is as surprised as anybody else at this outcome. Now that will probably not happen for ALL of you all of you, but if I had to wager, I would say it will happen to most of you. Why? Because you are intelligent, hardworking students, who made wise choices in your college selections, and even thought you may be going to a college that is relatively low on your list, it will still be a good fit. You will find stimulating classes, good friends, an interesting environment and you will find that even if a year later, a part of you longs for Ivy “A” or elite LAC “B”, you are happy enough where you are that you would not bother with trying to transfer. You can’t see this now, but that is how it will be for most of you. Pick yourselves up and move on. Your futures are as bright as ever they were. Good luck to you all.</p>
<p>Replying to matilli53’s post from earlier today Re: IB.</p>
<p>My D goes to an amazing IB program, too! Last year, LOTS of Ivy acceptances. This year, it’s just the opposite. Her classmates are truly amazing kids, lots of ECs, high scores, well rounded, diverse, you name it, and they are getting slaughtered by top choices. Most (hopefully all) were wise and had safeties, thank goodness! Everyone has excellent options still available, from what I understand. It’s just that there are too many rejections/waitlists for the caliber of the students they are. </p>
<p>At ED time, we’d hoped it would get better when RD rolled around. Not so! Sad. IB must be out of favor this year. How fickle these schools are! </p>
<p>I think Wash U decided to waitlist the whole lot of them, just to make it easy on themselves!</p>
<p>I got rejected from Hopkins, Brandeis and Hamilton.</p>
<p>Waitlisted from NE and Binghamton.</p>
<p>I’m still waiting for responses from City College, Brooklyn College, Queens College and St. Johns.</p>
<p>I don’t know what to make of it all. I certainly have not worked nearly as hard as many of you kids have; though I’m an AP student, I’m a particularly lazy one, and I know straight out that my lax behavior in high school most definitely prevented me from getting into the above Colleges. </p>
<p>But even so, I also know that to a certain degree, it’s a crap shoot. That, no matter how good your G.P.A is, how perfect your SATs are, and whatever, to a certain degree its all about luck. And you can’t control that…</p>
<p>In the end, I’m taking this rather well. I know that a university does not define who I am, that I can be successful regardless of where I go…but still, not getting into those schools bruised my ego a lot. You just gotta pick yourself up and struggle through it all.</p>
<p>Reply to SoyBrain:</p>
<p>Looks like your Dad is MushBrain! I mean, really, what horrific advice and I am sorry that he is not informing you correctly. </p>
<p>You will not go to a “crappy university” and wherever you are your current friends will still like you. Besides, once at “Crappy U” (Per your dad), you will make friends at “Crappy U”, who won’t reject you because you are at less than UC Berkeley. I don’t know your other options, I just am sure if Berkeley was on your radar screen, at all, you are bright and have equally bright alternatives. </p>
<p>I do know that it’s not where you go to school, it’s what you do with it. As a parent/professional who has been in the world a while, I know that success is based on what you do with your innate talents, certainly not what school you went to. I know adults who went to state schools who manage their Ivy League degreed employees. And, I suspect, your father’s ignorant opinion aside, your alternative school choices are perfectly fine. </p>
<p>Good luck, and remember that most people don’t share your father’s ignorant, insensitive, and frankly uninformed viewpoints.</p>
<p>Accepted:
University of Southern California (architecture)
Tulane (architecture)
UC Davis (civil engineering)
UC Irvine (civil engineering)
UC Santa Barbara (civil engineering)</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Georgetown (arabic)
Macalester (int. relations)
Oberlin (int. relations)
Emory (int. relations)
Colby (int. relations)</p>
<p>Rejected
Northwestern (int. relations)
UC Berkeley (int. relations)
UCLA (int. relations)
UCSD (int. relations)</p>
<p>Haven’t Heard from
U of Mich (architecture)</p>
<p>Overall, I would have traded all my waitlists to just get into one more school. I noticed when I applied that where I got into would choose my future career… so I guess i’m going into architecture at USC/Tulane!</p>
<p>Rejected:
Cornell
Harvard
Yale
UPenn
Brown
Northwestern
UChicago</p>
<p>Waitlist:
WUSTL
Emory</p>
<p>Accepted:
Tufts
Tulane</p>
<p>Man, I guess I was a little too cocky when I was applying. My gpa was pretty low but had a strong upward trend. But with my 2300 on the SAT, I thought I could get into ivy leagues with a little bit of luck. Anyways, here something I figured: I’m brilliant, so what? So is everybody else. If I want something, I have to surpass what people define as excellent. Anyways, there’s my rant. Can anyone give me some tips on how to transfer or if I should take a gap year or something?</p>
<p>haha chopstikks, we have similar lists, i’ve accepted my rejections and am ready for the next step</p>
<p>Rejected
MIT
Duke
Johns Hopkins
UChicago</p>
<p>Waitlisted
WUSTL
Emory</p>
<p>Accepted
Case Western
UIllinois</p>
<p>Acceptances:
Duke
Georgetown
ND
BC
UVA</p>
<p>Waitlists:
Williams</p>
<p>Rejections:
Dartmouth
Cornell (ouch?)</p>
<p>my conclusion: this process is incredibly random…i was lucky enough to get into my top four schools but I had many qualified friends who weren’t as fortunate. Good luck to everyone</p>
<p>Accepted:
Northwestern (Medill)
Chapel Hill (with full ride - hence attending)
U Chicago
Cornell
Indiana
UT - BHP and Plan II (I got into a full-ride interview, but decided to not go as I already had the Chapel Hill full-ride and wanted to go out of state)</p>
<p>Waitlisted
UPenn - Wharton</p>
<p>Rejected
HYP</p>
<p>I personally think Cornell University is a joke. They sent me brochures and pamphlets like once a week beginning my junior year, in addition to a fee waiver, which i never requested. This is the only reason why I applied, thinking my chances were increased. What do you know? I got rejected. Too bad, Cornell’s lost. I laughed when I received the rejection letter. </p>
<p>I’ve always thought that if I went there, I would probably freeze to death or get burried in 15 feet of snow.</p>