Rejected Stanford SCEA: Chances at Harvard?

science_fiction
Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:13:25 +0000

don’t read your mind. All they have is what your supplied to them. I was showing you how you look to the outsiders based on what you supplied to them. They don’t have any twisted agenda to “interpret negatively” everything about you, nor do I. I am just reacting to/commenting on how you presented yourself, as adcoms would. The fact that Stanford outright rejected you was no mystery to me based on what I read.

Hope your essays told a more nuanced story and dispelled the impressions your other package was giving to the readers… This discussion would have been much more productive before you submitted applications for RD, but alas, it’s too late.

Anyway, good luck. I have no ill will toward you… Just couldn’t ignore the thread, because everyone says getting admission to HYPS type schools is a crap shoot, which I largely agree, but your case was so obvious…