<p>There are very good colleges with admission rates less than 1% (like IIT in India). My some of my Indian friends started studying for IIT entrance exam in grade 8. Also brand named US colleges are well respected in Asia and give financial aid. Plus many people in asia don’t really see a future/career opportunities here, or believe that quality of life in the US/UK/Aus are better so they just want to move away from here. There is ofcourse a belief in many parts of asia that if you live in one of the above countries you have more prestige and money (not true in many parts of asia though like Japan). Many asians plan to complete their tertiary education and work/live there.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I got rejected from Dartmouth…and I was really confident that I was going to make it there. However I’m still happy I made it to my dream school-Berkeley with the Chancellor’s Scholarship. :D</p>
<p>“There are very good colleges with admission rates less than 1% (like IIT in India).”</p>
<p>Wow! And many of us think that competition for top college slots is difficult in the U.S. !</p>
<p>@Northstarmom: Well there are many reasons why, for example, some Indians want to study outside India.</p>
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<li><p>Some want to work in multinational companies/work outside India in the future, and while degrees from the top Indian universities are respected, most employers would be more familiar with a degree from a good US college and suchlike.</p></li>
<li><p>Some, I’m a perfect example, aren’t exactly very enamoured with the policy in most Indian universities wherein you’re accepted to a particular course/major and you can’t switch with any great ease.</p></li>
<li><p>Some want to double major in two vastly different fields (in my case, IT and Engineering), and there’s really no opportunity for that in India.</p></li>
<li><p>Some like the idea of a liberal arts education :)</p></li>
<li><p>The IITs for instance use an entrance examination called the JEE that pretty much necessitates you to devote 2 years of your life towards preparation if you want to achieve a good rank and a good major (you get a choice of major depending upon your rank). If you’re not willing to devote that time, and you still want to study in a brilliant university, the US becomes a pretty good bet (particularly if you already nave good stats, ECs and the rest)</p></li>
</ol>
<p>and so on, ad infinitum.</p>
<p>The numbers of students who apply though are really not that large when compared to the numbers in India; the vast majority of students still study in India… (particularly, for instance, in the Medical field, the education that you’d receive at the premier medical colleges in India like AIIMS, JIPMER and CMC can’t really be received anywhere else)</p>
<p>I was rejected from threeo of my reaches- Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore. And Colgate-- which I felt was a match. I am a guy and I cried for the first time in like three years. I got them all on a Friday and it ruined my weekend but then I got an aceptance from Wesleyan on Minday so that made it better. But I am furious at colgate</p>
<p>kman1988</p>
<p>I understand your situation! </p>
<p>Wesleyan is a great school. Our house has had several rejections in the last couple weeks, they are difficult when they are the reaches, but even more difficult when you get rejected from the match schools.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>wow… im scared…im a junior and… WORRIED!!!.. omgosh lol i pray and hope i can pull through the rest of the highschool years…heh…my parents… i hate being asian at some point… now off to finish my english essay XD</p>
<p>Rejected from HYP and Wharton. Was a bit numb and in a state of shock when I got all four in a row. I guess I was expecting to get into one of four.</p>
<p>I did get into ND and NU though…trying to decide. I know I’m really fortunate but I first have to get over the Ivies taking a dump on me, haha.</p>
<p>futuredreamer - don’t be scared. Take a practical approach and you will be fine. Be sure to have a variety of schools on your application list - remember that there are reaches and out of reaches. Make sure you have plenty of matches and safety schools. Enjoy high school!</p>
<p>nutmeg88 - MANY people are rejected by HYP and Wharton! and Boston college, JHU,Swarthmore, etc…You will do great at one of your other options. There is also an advantage to be at the top of the heap!</p>
<p>I got rejected from 5 schools and got waitlisted at one, and I only applied to 8 schools. I cried for a full day when I got all of my rejections.</p>
<p>::There is also an advantage to be at the top of the heap!::</p>
<p>Yes, but I don’t think anyone should assume they will be at the top of the heap at NU or ND just because they thought they were qualified enough for Harvard.</p>
<p>MIT-reject
Duke-Reject
UVA-waitlist
CMU-waitlist</p>
<p>cornell…accepted. :)</p>
<p>seuferk -Congrats on Cornell! Are you going to take your spot on the wait lists for UVA and CMU?</p>
<p>nah other people would rather go.</p>
<p>Yea, all those wanting a spot at Duke, Johns Hopkins, or Dartmouth, I am not accepting my waitlist spot! Good luck to all the waitlistees this year!</p>
<p>I’m not accepting my waitlist spots at Amherst, Middlebury, Swarthmore, or Williams. I’m going to Dartmouth and I couldn’t be happier. :)</p>
<p>cameliasinensis - Congrats on Dartmouth!! What an odd year in admissions that you are in Dartmouth and waitlisted at the other four! Good luck and enjoy!</p>
<p>How I wish–really, really wish–those of us ‘older and much wiser’ parents could somehow impart to these young people–with their sky-high aspirations and multiple college applications–how relatively insignificant one’s choice of college is in the long range of life!</p>
<p>If I could get a dollar (as the old saw goes) for every person I know who attended a highly ranked school and went on to do little or nothing with their degree and a buck for every person I know who attended State U.( or Liberal Arts College That No One Remembers The Name Of) and went on to do interesting and valuable work (and often very valuable in dollars and cents), I’d be a rich woman.</p>
<p>Now, I know that attendance at a very few super-select, old-boys-network Ivies will still open some doors in some areas of some fields (for example, upper escelon legal practice)–and that should an l8 year old be passionately attached to the idea of gaining admittance to these fields (for reasons I personally can’t fathom), then, yes, they will be keenly disappointed when Harvard, etc., rejects them. But reality being what it is, the overwhelming majority of college-educated persons in the US do not attend Harvard and, guess what, it makes absolutely no difference in their life!</p>
<p>How liberating is that!</p>
<p>Some posters on this thread have hit the nail on the head: the right school is one that comes close to meeting a young students needs–academic, social, financial, and in terms of overall ‘atmosphere’. Its a place where a young adult is comfortable, stimulated and pushed, but not stressed, stretched, but not overwhelmed, challenged, but not exhausted. The college game is a game of matching–and for every college bound student out there, there is more than one good match.</p>
<p>I don’t know what is driving so many of our young people today to view their college application process and choice the way they are–10 to 20 applications! Multiple exam prep courses! etc, etc. Many factors must be playing into this…</p>
<p>But I do think that if parents can remain relatively calm and function as realistic sounding boards, our young will not go quite so far overboard with the whole college fracas.</p>
<p>And fracas it is. The cost–both emotional and financial–of obtaining a simple BA/BS degree today is rapidly spiraling out of control and is close to bankrupting many middle and upper middle-class Americans. </p>
<p>Is it worth it? Frankly, I’m no longer sure. </p>
<p>Mother of two college students.</p>
<p>I got rejected by Pitt–my state school. I think I win.</p>
<p>Bump?:)…</p>