I'm Shocked!...Waitlisted from Tepper & SCS

taxguy
Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:07:52 +0000

Yes, I think that you should have been admitted to Tepper. Their median SATs (M and V) were about 1360. Thus, I don’t know why you weren’t accepted. It could be that they didn’t like your essay. It could be that you didn’t have the ECs that they wanted. Maybe if you were a girl or a minority, it would have helped. Who knows? Schools like CMU , IVYs, MIT etc. are a crap shoot for everyone.

Do a search on the parent’s forum for a guy named andison. He applied last year to six top college with a 1550 SAT (old), 3,8 something GPA in all top notch courses. He got rejected everywhere and decided to take a gap year. This year he reapplied and redid his essays. He got admitted to MIT and got a full ride to Brandeis. As I said, you can’t take it personally.

Besides, I was not impressed with the few admission’s people that I met at CMU.