<p>As someone that got denied admissions into their dream undergrad school and then got into it for grad school, I have to say it’s really not all it’s cracked up to be. I’m actually really glad I got denied from Caltech since I really feel I wouldn’t have fit in as an undergrad and I loved my undergrad experience at the “lesser” CMU.</p>
<p>Have you found a list of professors you’d like to work with at Harvard yet? I wanted to go to Cornell like nothing else for grad school since I loved Ithaca, it was within driving distance of the rest of my family, they gave a great stipend offer, and I like the cold. I went up, interviewed with a ton of professors, and found absolutely nobody there I wanted to work with. So I had to turn down my own first choice school.</p>