<p>Cindi_earl,
I second momstl. Keep on keepin on.</p>
<p>I see you’re from Nashville. Finally! I live near there, and I see we have one more Tennessean.</p>
<p>Cindi_earl
I’m so sorry that your parents aren’t more supportive. I’m with the parent earlier in this thread who said if you aren’t rejected anywhere you didn’t reach high enough.</p>
<p>Anyone who graduates in the top 5% of their class is more than “a tad bit better than average.”</p>
<p>Congratulations on your acceptances and scholarships!</p>
<p>“Aceepted:
some stupid unknow place called brandeis university and carleton college and this stupid place called UBC in canada”</p>
<p>Sheesh, talk about arrogance. UBC is one of the top schools here in Canada. Loads of people would love to be accepted…me being one of them.</p>
<p>Carleton and UBC are greats schools… I got into McGill and Queens in Canada and was really happy, they are all great schools. Now I’m deciding between McGill and Grinnell…any ideas on which school has a better academic quality?</p>
<p>happyjanezhang,</p>
<p>my Canadian friend says that McGill is really really really good academically. it’s his top choice and the only school he applied to. and he’s going there.</p>
<p>I just got four rejections from Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Stanford. It was tough to deal with since I am the valedictorian (4.6), got a 35 ACT and 2300 SAT, and I had lots of extracurricallar activites, as well as two years worth of college credits from numerous AP and PSEO classes at the U of MN. I got into madison, and the U of MN on full scholarship, as well as into Johns Hopkins (yey!! I’m gonna be pre-med). It was difficult to deal with the decisions and now, I’m only focusing on where I got in.</p>
<p>When I applied to 14 schools, I set my expectations low so I wouldn’t be hurt by rejection letters. In the back of my mind, however, I still felt that I had a chance at an acceptance from Cornell or Georgetown or at least one of my other “reach” schools. I wound up with 7 acceptances, 6 rejections and one unexpected waitlist. </p>
<p>I was waitlisted at Lehigh which absolutely shocked me. I had only been accepted by my safeties (UConn, UMaryland, and American) at that point, so my confidence was absolutely shattered. I knew that if Lehigh didn’t want me, Harvard, Yale, UPenn, Cornell, Georgetown, Swarthmore, and Colby certainly wouldn’t either.</p>
<p>That letter was a blessing in disguise. I moved on, and started focusing on my more realistic options. I had seven schools to choose from (UMaryland-CP, UConn, AmericanU, NYU, BU, BC, Colby), and I was really stuck on the credentials of each instead of focusing on which school would make me happiest. I went to my guidance counselor in a bit of a panic, because I couldn’t see any way to sort out these schools in my head. </p>
<p>Long story short, my guidance counselor really helped me keep my chin up and encouraged me to really dig deep into the schools that had accepted me, because every rejection does happen for a reason. If you have a helpful guidance counselor, I would definitely recommend meeting with him or her. Mine was very level-headed even when I was an emotional mess. </p>
<p>I will be attending Boston College as a part of the honors program in the fall, and I am thrilled with my decision.</p>
<p>I wish I had found this site before I put in my college decision. I would have known how the college application process here. I would have applied to more schools and knew what to give to the colleges. You are all lucky to still have school to choose from,even our state school has rejected me. Coming from overseas and just joined the school in my senior year, my high school counselor was unhelpful either. Right now,I am still looking for schools that still accept applications. I have been preparing to go to 4 year university since middle school,the reason I worked so hard to get into Australia most highly selective school , I also involved myself in sport and music. Due to my family situation , I have to move here, after one year the whole world collapses on me, my dream is shattered, I am so ashame of doing this to my family. I thank God my family is a good support, they dont blame me. They advise to keep on trying and dont give up.</p>
<p>I was on an exchange program in France and just got home, so I just opened almost all of my letters today. I had other letters earlier and they were all acceptances, mainly because they all offered me money and honors things. I got rejected from the three Ivies I applied to, and I wasnt too surprised. But my main two schools both rejected me; schools where some other, WAY less academically talented (i hate bragging on myself, but I felt the need to be frank here) kids got in from my school, but applied ED. One of the schools everyone really thought I would get into…the admissions guy ALWAYS remembered me by NAME in front of other students, my interviewer sent me a copy of what he sent to the school and it was awesome, etc. It seemed to not only have everything I wanted in a college, but also my best fit.
Here are my main questions for everyone…</p>
<p>a) Do you think you would have had a better chance going ED?
b) Did you get rejected from schools where you thought you had an in?
c) What do you think of appeals? Or how to go about them? (I sent an e-mail to my one main school to the director who I have come to know so well, requesting just a few minutes to talk).
d) After college, how much do namesakes matter? For grad school? For jobs?</p>
<p>Needless to say, I’m devastated. Especially with this one school. Kids from my school got in and…I cant even comprehend. I don’t cry easily, but I haven’t cried this hard since my dog died in the fourth grade.
I feel completely worthless…all of my life I have been up there…way above the average and now it all feels like I worked so hard for nothing. I know that I’m only one in hundreds of thousands of students and that there’s always someone better than me…but still. I felt I deserved ONE of those spots…but apparently, I’m not good enough.
I want to go die.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your responses.</p>
<p>First of all, please, please don’t feel that you’re not good enough. Colleges try to create a diverse class - and IMO, admissions is a crapshoot. One admissions rep I heard last year from W&M explained that putting together a freshman class is like building a pyramid. Applicants are considered at various levels; i.e., what could they contribute to the student body? It’s not always by the stats. Also, schools are under pressure to bring in all kinds of students to create a heterogenous class. I don’t know if ED would have made a difference; it probably depends on the school. As for appeals, you certainly can do that in a diplomatic manner… Go with the school that really wants you and has offered you $$$. They probably see you as a “fit” for their college. Good luck to you. You’re fortunate, although you may not feel that way right now, that you have been offered $$ and honors programs. Many students out there have not only been rejected from their first choice schools, but have received no financial aid from the schools that have accepted them.</p>
<p>Hi, Chelsea…you sound really hurt and disappointed and I agree that this year it seems to be a crapshoot in many respects. I do think ED makes a difference at many schools, although all of the schools my D applied to for Theatre, you cannot do ED. If you’re still feeling this down after a few days, maybe talking to someone about it would be helpful. I cannot imagine how frustrating it must be for this year’s seniors who were told in 9th grade to do well, be well-rounded, get good GPAs, take Honors and AP classes and you can have your pick of schools. Those rules don’t seem to apply and this year even seems harder than last year. Best of luck on your path and hopefully, the big picture will become clear for you before too long.</p>
<p>ummmm im another one…</p>
<p>reject: cornell, columbia, yale, harvard
its amazing how i got all of these in 10 mins.^^^ lol</p>
<p>I cried and moped around for days…</p>
<p>but since then i have decided to attend SUNY Binghamton and transfer to Cornell Binghamton is an awesome school… and if I love it… then no transfer</p>
<p>IF I GOT OVER IT THEN ALL OF YOU WILL TOOO
`CAUSE GOD KNOWS CORNELL HAD ME!!!
FOR SIX MONTHS I WAS CRAZY EVERYTHING CORNELL CORNELL CORNELL</p>
<p>when i got the rejected letter I was like no where’s the acceptance this isn’t mines i was joking around and I x-ed out the box until about an hour later when I realized that I was rejected…</p>
<p>Good Luck to everyone else… you are all in my prayers… rejection is tough but just think in the fall you will be somewhere else thinking of it as a matter of unimportance.</p>
<p>I got 6 rejections and 1 waitlist. BU was a safe match and they waitlisted me. I felt pretty crappy. RPI accepted me on my 18th birthday in December, and they always liked me. So, I am going to Rensselaer which is still a very good school. I got over it, and I came to realize RPI is really a good fit for me. I am very hurt by the catholic schools I applied to. I had tremendous levels of activities with my church, and these schools did not even appreciate it. One interviewer told me I was a sure bet, and that he would do whatever he could to get me in. Guess what? That school flat out rejected me. I was complaining like all of you were now about 2 weeks ago.</p>
<p>You can always transfer, reapply, gap year, grad school to make the level you wanted next time. Use your hatred, or dissapointment, or self-confidence to drive you.</p>
<p>In my case I was dissapointed with my undergrad outcome - I HATED (extreme I know) my dream school for rejecting me. Felt very down as many less qualified people waltzed off to that school. Worked my ass off at my 2nd choice - didn’t reapply for my dream school at grad (I HATE THEM ;)) and got into a school that I now regard as much better. </p>
<p>Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Even negative emotions can be useful if you harness them to positive behavior - fight on guys and gals :).</p>
<p>If it makes you guys feel any better, I was accepted into a few top private schools with NO finaid and I now have the extremely difficult choice of choosing between a private, prestigious university and a public, not so well known Canadian university with a 100,000 debt accompanying the former. It’s no better, trust me.</p>
<p>cls238 I think you’re exactly right. In fact, in one of my letters it said that this year they had to turn away students who would have easily made it through just last year or the year before. I know that should help, but in my mind it hurts…when I graduate or apply for a job or whatever, my label is my college name–not which year i graduated or applied, not if i received huge amounts of money, etc. It also hurts when I was serious about graduating hs early, but my counselor saaid just to live out my senior year. Well that turned out to be a crap load…the only good things this year have been a 3 day senior trip and this French exchange, where to be honest, I loved France but couldnt stand the students I was with…it only made me more anxious to go to college…especially the two top ones as their study abroad programs are stellar. </p>
<p>why is this such a load of crap? college is supposed to be awesome, and now im hating the thought of going.</p>
<p>Chelsea07</p>
<p>I know what you are going through. My son has gotten 4 rejections, 1 waitlist. He did get in a couple of safety schools that he is only so-so about. We are encouraging him to pursue the waitlist, register at the school that did offer him the best scholarship and the honors program, and keep on moving forward. Some of his rejection letters told him that he had qualifications the same as most of the accepted students but there were record number of applications this year, etc…What is there to do? He is feeling pretty crappy right now.</p>
<p>Also, if you are thinking of any form of graduate school, keep in mind that label will be attached to you more strongly than your undergraduate degree. In other words, keep up the good work. You can apply to transfer to one of your dream schools or apply there for graduate work. Good Luck!</p>
<p>“when I graduate or apply for a job or whatever, my label is my college name–not which year i graduated or applied,”</p>
<p>This isn’t true. A major part of your label is what you accomplished in college: grades, coursework, internships, awards, organizations, leadership, research.</p>
<p>Oh lol everyones getting me wrong… let me clarify what I mean…
I am not saying that Carleton is not a good college… it is, as I have heard, a very good place. The academics there are top noch (one reason I applied there on the first place), the close knit community and bond people there form, I think, are really sweet and I do look foreward to being a part of the Carleton community. However I am concerned about the fact that Carleton is a small college so the employment prospects after Carleton in places OUTSIDE the US are bleak. I am from Asia and I, for one, do not plan to work in the US (I plan to study there because, once again, the teriary education there is really good). </p>
<p>OUTSIDE the US people do not know Carleton and when you tell an employer, say in India or China that you are a Carleton college graduate, they would put you in the same catagory as those who have not attended a college, because in parts of Asia there are unknown private college which take people in regardless of how good your academics, extracurricular etc are (they only care about how much you pay) and where people can bribe your professors to give them a good grade. </p>
<p>(just something i find interesting: Read in the news that there is this college in Bihar where students are like those gangster types. They bring in a pile of books and a knife to their exams and stab the knife into their bench (threatening to kill the examination moderator if he tells on them) in the exam hall and open their books and copy straight out of the text books and noone tells on them cos they are too scared)</p>
<p>Anyway going back to what I’m trying to say… Good employers in Asia do not tend to employ people and pay them good salaries unless they come from brand named universities (so they can be sure the employee really is good)… And you guys have got to remember in Asia we do not have a social security net, we do not have unemployment benifits and if you dont have a job… well you are on your own… steal/beg/starve/die… no one gives a crap. And in my case unless I get a good job my parents are going to arrange married to some random rich guy so that I can have a secure future and don’t steal/beg/starve/die… But I personally don’t want to just marry a guy for financial support… especially someone I hardly know and don’t love.</p>
<p>And as this thread is for sharing our “CONCERNS/WORRIES” about the college admissions… I wasn’t highlighting the positive aspects of the colleges I got into.</p>
<p>C’est Moi,
Thanks for your clarification about Carlton.
I am curious: Why do Asian students want to come to the U.S. for college? Are there no colleges in Asia that Asian employees respect or are those colleges even more difficult to gain admission to than the colleges in the U.S. that Asian employers respect?</p>