No offers - what next?

AmberW
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:49:23 +0000

I applied to Amherst, Harvard, Brown, UChicago and Dartmouth - I didn’t get waitlisted anywhere, just all straight rejections.

I guess I severely overestimated myself in aiming so high, but the problem is that I need a lot of financial aid, and other colleges and universities I’ve looked at don’t seem to be able to afford me sufficient support as an international. I know I applied to too few universities as well, but I simply couldn’t afford applying to more at the time.

I’m currently considering taking part in a summer school, improve my SAT’s, perhaps try to get some work experience - but I just don’t know if that would help me much. Should I just pick radically different universities?

Thanks a lot for your reply!