<p>statlanta, we just got screwed lets face it.</p>
<p>And thanks toddlyeyes, but i honestly thought I had more than just whats on paper. I mean Im a first generation american citizen, my parents immigrated from Poland escaping communism. Nothing for that, really Stanford? Apparently diversity has to be skin color. The systems messed up.</p>
<p>sorry tigger maybe i just worked harder and cared more than you</p>
<p>@casteroyoid sorry I just butchered your name and Holocene</p>
<p>Good to know we’re in the same boat. Maybe our fin aid packages are hard to figure out lol. Buuut all it matters is that we’re in!! We’re not alone. Back to celebrating we go!</p>
<p>statlanta speaks the truth</p>
<p>lolol close enough XD
and yeah! It is quite a bit reassuring to know that we’re not alone!</p>
<p>Thank you 20tiger17. And to those who are angry about being rejected I really understand. We’re all amazing and it was a crapshoot for most of us including me. But I would try not building my success upon acceptance into a highly selective college. The greatest successes often comes from mistakes though. Take this as a lesson and do even greater things later with what you’ve learned.</p>
<p>you’re telling me you did the things you did during your high school years not to get into a good college?</p>
<p>20tigger17 and stressedasian152, well said! For those that were rejected, you will end up in the best place for you. Stanford receives applications from many outstanding students and admissions does not have an easy time making these decisions but it’s about finding a well balanced class. Many highly selective universities are just like Stanford. There are just not enough places for every student that applies despite their excellent qualifications (on paper). My son is a freshman this year at Stanford but was rejected/waitlisted from other highly selective universities. Did it make sense? On paper, no…but it’s about finding the right fit for the school and a balanced class. Was he surprised to get rejected/waitlisted from these other selective universities after being accepted to Stanford? No, of course not, he didn’t expect to be accepted to every selective university he applied to despite having the ‘qualifications on paper’. @studentcik88 and @statlanta, learn some grace and to be humble. You need both to succeed in life.</p>
<p>No no no everybody needs to stop with the “the admissions office made the right decision” comments … It’s too soon for people to be thinking 100% clearly so forgive them!! They have every right to be upset right now. Don’t make them more so please. (Unless you’re that guy who made the mexican/black comment.)</p>
<p>Ill admit I did the majority of things to get into a good college. Grades, sat. Even ECs a bit but I loved what I did for ECs. And I only did two main ones research and economics stuff (club, competitions). Also I maintained a personality and life out of school. I thank my parents for that because I’d have probably been swallowed up by this idea of getting into a good school. Lastly I have long term goals that I would have strived for whether or not I got into Stanford. In short I didn’t make Stanford the be all, end all.</p>
<p>Any one from India, here who got in ???</p>
<p>First, if the applicants that were accepted got rejected they would either be saying or thinking the same things, so don’t say “admissions office made the right decisions”. In my opinion, being angry about being rejected does not say I am a bad person and therefore should be rejected. If you are TRULY walking away from a Stanford rejection with a smile on your face and saying “this will only make me stronger”, then you didn’t care enough or you didn’t have a good enough shot in the first place. The only reason I am so *<strong><em>ed is because I put my heart and soul into my high school years and to get crushed by my top choice school sucks. In my opinion, if you aren’t *</em></strong>ed about your rejection, then the admissions office made the right decisions. Do you understand what I am trying to say?</p>
<p>My parents are from India lol</p>
<p>@statlanta you can think that if you want, but I know how hard I worked and how much Stanford meant to me, and I’m proud of how much I dedicated myself to Stanford and of how I am handling the rejection. Maturity matters more than AP scores to me, because it tells me that I have grown and learned from this experience, which is what really matters. In addition, I truly believe that something better is out there for me, and I’m looking forward to finding it!</p>
<p>Some things just matter more than Stanford, and accepting this with maturity now serves to prove where priorities lie, in my opinion. I hope you can learn to deal with this setback and put it into context. </p>
<p>I don’t want a back-and-forth argument on this thread, because that’s not what it is for- it was to support each other during the wait and with the decisions. I do hope that you are accepted to a great school, and good luck in your future.</p>
<p>I understand statlanta I very much understand. I don’t expect you to be all high and mighty. But don’t be angry at us or Stanford either. Just use that anger to motivate you to finish/perfect other college apps. Just cause you were rejected here does not mean you will not be accepted elsewhere.</p>
<p>There is no right decision for the admissions office, and there is no wrong one.</p>
<p>There is only the decision that the admissions office made.</p>
<p>None of us are empowered to decide who “deserves” to go, and who doesn’t “deserve” a Stanford education.</p>
<p>Stanford saw something in the accepted that it didn’t see in the rejected. Whether that something was brilliance, sophistication, or a love for steak burritos, that choice is Stanford’s right, whether it be “deserved” or not. Stanford is a privilege, not a right.</p>
<p>^well said.</p>
<p>2 pages ago, someone made a comment about how this thread was very civil, unlike the Harvard SCEA thread, which had turned to bashing on the admission process/AA. Seriously people? Stop. Be happy if you got in. Move on with life if you didn’t.</p>
<p>I appreciate bleach340’s comment. It is such a joke to play the maturity card after a rejection. You cannot possibly tell me that, EVEN ON THE DAY OF REJECTION, you have already become a more mature person. You say you’re proud of how hard you worked for Stanford. Then you go on to say that you have already grown from the experience? In less than 7 hours? Wow. I think you need to be a bit more true to yourself and get a little angry and use that to motivate you, like bleach said. I am not mad at Stanford, I am just frustrated. If you think something is better out there, why did you apply EA (implying it was your top choice)? I just see this, I got rejected, but I’m growing from it so it’s okay - type response that kind of seems like you are a pushover. Whatever I’m done I’ll be over this tomorrow and moving on soon enough. Good luck to people that got in and people that got rejected, be a little mad.</p>
<p>It is unfortunate that so many people had to be rejected from Stanford and you have every right to be upset. You are not a bad person for really wanting to be accepted and finding a rejection instead and being angry. I doubt anyone blames you for that; I know I certainly wouldn’t have been in a good mood if it would’ve happened to me. At the same time, however, I maintain that if you become so angry that you begin to attack the people that were accepted and blame your rejection on the fact that you are not of dark skin, that does make you a bad person. Buuut you just got rejected… and you know, Online Dis-inhibition Effect… you’re relatively anonymous here, so you can insult whomever you want with relatively little repercussions, so you can blow off steam and frustration and only have little angry people on a forum telling you you’re stupid and bitter. So sure, you’re mad and this sense of anonymity allowed you to say something you perhaps wouldn’t otherwise, but that is not to mean that you are a bad person.</p>
<p>Don’t be too bummed if you didn’t make it in… Even Jeremy Lin got rejected…JEREMY LIN</p>