Your title is exactly what I have been thinking lately! I also was rejected from CMU (after excelling in their SAMS program the summer before). I have written a ton of essays and am just finished with it all. The expectation that we will be able to answer how we will add to their campuses (when we haven’t even been there) if we have cured cancer… and what the future holds for us when we are 17 is absolutely insane! I know adults who can’t answer most of these questions (and they have experience). I am waiting for the final rejections that will be coming shortly. I really don’t know what they want. I am a good student, played sports throughout all of H.S., attended SAMS received 4.00 from Carnegie Concepts of Mathematics, have completed Calc II and Calc 3 from the University of Idaho and am first generation. My SAT scores were in the 97% and I am from a rural H.S in the middle of Idaho. I am also venting because the whole process is really challenging and receiving the rejections after spending money I don’t have is like pouring salt into the wounds…
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