Hillsdale College rejected me

MYOS1634
Wed, 09 Dec 2020 12:58:14 +0000

You can’t read too much into the interview. 40mn isn’t that long and you don’t know what the interviewer got from it - usually, they have little impact on the decision, unless the interviewer had a strongly negative reaction (ie., it’d mean it went on longer than most because the interviewer thought you were being terrible and was looking for a redeeming quality for his/her report, and passed that on and not because the interviewer thought you were terrific and loved talking with you. It happens.)
What are your stats?
If you have a scholarship that covers 80% costs in Michigan, I don’t think your financial situation is the reason for your rejection, so you need to look carefully at your entire application: grades, curriculum rigor, essays… looking for things to improve for the next round.

Have you applied to safeties?

If you have high grades in 11-12th, you could apply to Canada, where it’s almost entirely grades+scores. However it’d mean losing your scholarship.

Just be aware that if by “conservative” you mean racist/supremacist/antisemitic, you’ll encounter the issue everywhere as those are usually not seen as politically “conservative” (on the reactionary-conservative- liberal- progressive- revolutionary spectrum).
If you mean a variety of ideologies such as big/little government v. constitutionalist conservative v. Evangelical Christian, I would look into Hope and Calvin, too.