Rejected almost everywhere. Gap year/transfer?

Paul9
Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:52:28 +0000

If you take even a brief look through blankman’s other posts on this message board, you can see some other great contributions he’s made to the community here. This includes useful threads about ranking Dartmouth, Brown, and Duke in terms of prestige (?) and asking if his friend recieved a likely letter from Cornell (??). It is interesting to note that he seems to have trouble asking his friend if he got a likely letter but has no problem insulting me over the internet. It seems to me that blankman is a little too hung up high prestige colleges. I didn’t just apply to top schools, either. If you look at the SAT and GPA/class rank ranges for schools like BU, NYU and even CMU (which I obviously did before applying there) you’ll see that I can safely consider those schools matches, even if I don’t meet your idea of a “top student”. So yes, some of these rejections weren’t surprises for me, but many of them were also. You help no one on here by stating the obvious, blankman, and I still maintain that my college list was well balanced between safties, matches, and reaches.

That’s enough negativity for one post. Right now it looks like I’ll be sending a deposit into Fordham, since my parents don’t mind the tuiton difference. Thanks for all the help once again.