How I Got Rejected Nearly Everywhere

NUJerseyDad
Wed, 07 Aug 2019 01:50:35 +0000

First congrats on a great outcome! I’m going to disagree on your stats being subpar for the elite schools. They were fine. Plenty of 5s, solid SAT and outstanding GPA. Where you fell down, I think, is possibly he execution of your essay. As others pointed out, you applied for STEM but didn’t have much of a STEM narrative and your testing “weaknesses” were in STEM. The elites probably had many stronger STEM-focused apps to choose from. Had you indicated an interest in studying lit or somehow wanting to marry your obvious love of lit with civil discourse, you may have had a couple more offers of admission. But GT is a great school as are UGA and Vandy, so you did well.