<p>Stop whining. You didn’t get rejected for being Muslim.</p>
<p>I got into Cornell, but was rejected by Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown, Northwestern, and waitlisted at WUSTL, and Vandy. I thought it was odd too. I also know kids with higher stats than me who went to “second and third tier schools” because they got rejected from all the top ones they applied to.</p>
<p>College admissions isn’t a formula and it’s often a bit irrational seeming, especially with things like essays and recommendation letters.</p>