I don't understand why I did not get accepted

itsv
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 06:54:58 +0000

@bubbleberry You have to look at it from Georgia Tech’s perspective. Colleges have databases with all kinds of students’ information. One factor that plays in a college’s decision-making is “yield”, how many students will say yes and enroll in the college. Under the “rankings” by U.S News-if too many students do not enroll, a college’s ranking goes down. I have been told that when a student deposits at a college, that information goes into a database. Some students try to deposit at more than one college and colleges have been able to “catch” those kinds of students since doing so affects a college’s yield. I bet somewhere, it is noted that you have deposited at Emory so I am not surprise GT turned you down. Especially when both colleges are located in the same city, the admissions office does not want affect their relationship. Imagine GT accepts you, you then tell Emory “thanks for granting my gap year and holding that spot open for me for the past year, but I have now decided to attend GT across town”, your reneging on your enrollment at Emory affects their yield. Colleges do not like when students do those sorts of things.

The one positive thing in your situation is that Emory is a great college and you will still be in the same city as your friends and boyfriend. You must have been excited about it to put a deposit down so get excited about it again.