Hello!

Applying to College
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<p>I made the great mistake of applying to highly selective schools. </p>

<p>Got rejected from all- so any ideas on what I can do so late in the season?</p>

<p>Only applied to 6 schools and am fairly certain about the reasons I got rejected…though I did get wait-listed at WUSTL. </p>

<p>Messed up on the safety/reach/dream idea :-D</p>

<p>Any ideas? </p>

<p>Schools I applied to (and the stupid ways I did it)</p>

<p>Yale (Essay was too sappy)
WUSTL (Common-app. same as Yale- also convoluted and personal)
Stanford (5 hours before deadline- was still doing my essay (dumb, dumb, dumb!)
U-Chicago (another last-minute…another bad app. Best essay though)
Georgetown (Bad essay:/)
NYU (business- even dumber still :-D)</p>

<p>Ignorance is the destructive motion: hubris, bad essays, and late-in-the season applications the game.</p>

<p>Any ideas? (Rolling Admissions Schools, Travel, internships, job?) </p>

<p>Have 3.8GPA Cum, 2020 SAT (1350 verb/math)- took it again this June…hope for Far better results, 31 ACT (33 math:), 34 reading)</p>

<p>5s on both World and US History AP tests, 4 on English Language- other scores coming in.</p>

<p>7 years of choir, 3 years of musical theatre (with a featured ensemble role this year) 2 years swimming, 2 years forensics (debate) (All-American 800+ points), Dual citizen, know 3 languages, 2 fluently, other half-fluently…son of an immigrant to the U.S. (from Europe) 2 years private voice lessons, letters galore…simply no state/national glorifiers:/…oh, and did I mention I’m a twin and my parents separated in 2003/2004- though not legally- oh no. They would never do that (not until now is the divorce to be finalized) </p>

<p>Made the vital mistakes of a sad/very hard to understand essay and also a lack of transparency. </p>

<p>Help Anyone? WUSTL still has till June 30th to contact me, But I don’t think they will let me in. And community college isn’t an option…perhaps State University winter quarter? Or International is an option- I’m an EU citizen. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>It was more than a bad essay that kept you out of those schools. Other components could have put you out of the running as well. If you were that disorganized with your apps, I’m sure you’re disorganized with other things…</p>

<p>What you need to do is go to your local state U or anywhere that’s still taking apps. Or suck it up and go to community college.</p>

<p>If not, get a job or an internship for a year and reapply to more reasonable schools (nothing equal to or above the schools you applied to as far as selectivity goes). And then transfer after a year or two of solid work.</p>

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<p>Take a year off: <a href=“http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0603/the_gap_year_advantage.shtml[/url]”>http://www.transitionsabroad.com/publications/magazine/0603/the_gap_year_advantage.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You should be talking to your counselor instead of us.</p>

<p>Anyways, here is a list of colleges that are still accepting applications:
<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/forstudents/2007SpaceAvailabilityResults.com[/url]”>http://www.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/forstudents/2007SpaceAvailabilityResults.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You cannot really expect to get a lot of help with universities overseas here. What I can tell you is that application deadlines for British universities have long passed but there is still have plenty of time to apply to German universities for the fall semester (we usually apply July through September, classes start in October) IF you speak German.</p>

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<p>You could apply to places where they have rolling admissions…</p>