I am scared

satone
Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:05:23 +0000

Dear fellow internationals,
Before I start, I want to let anyone reading this know that I am not bragging in any way, shape, or form. This is a reflection of how nervous and scared I am. I am an international student, but have lived in the US for 6 years now. When I applied, I asked for an outrageous amount of financial aid from all my schools. I was admitted to the honors program at UNC Chapel Hill, but lately, things have taken a turn for the worse. In a matter of two weeks, I was waitlisted at WashU, and rejected by Rice and Johns Hopkins. Now, I have four schools left, all ivies: Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, and Brown. I am convinced that I was denied/waitlisted because I asked for so much financial aid, and I am really hoping that this will not be the case for the ivies (except Brown, the other three are need blind as you all probably know). I have zero problem with going to UNC honors, it’s a top caliber school. But it’s expensive and I did not get any aid. Please let me know what you guys think.

Class Rank: 3/511 at end junior year, 5 or 6/492 after first semester senior year.

SAT: 730 CR, 790 Math, 800 Writing (80, 12) = 2320 single sitting

SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 US History, 750 Physics, all single sitting, and these are the only subject tests I have ever taken

Extracurriculars: Um, the normal stuff you know. Math team, newspaper, work for the Chicago Tribune, into UFOs and enrolled in Hynek’s Center for UFO Studies. I love ufology and wish ufologists out there would get more respect for their academic endeavors. Econ club president. But really nothing toooooooo special for the ivies

Awards: Intel STS semifinalist, Telluride Scholar, AMC school winner, Metro History Fair school, region, city, and state winner. Science fair school, region, city, and state gold medalist. Coca Cola semifinalist.

Summer: freshman year a two week program at Depaul University
sophomore year participated in the Telluride program six weeks
junior year wanted to continue with the Telluride, but decided to go for U of C’s
four week math program

Work: I work, don’t want to get into details about my work schedule.

You guys have to understand what I am feeling now. Last night, I open my email, and there was that from JHU telling me I was denied. I felt like crap obviously. Feel free to share your thoughts.