Hey everyone i’m going to keep this short. In high school I got rejected from a school I wanted to go to and went to another school and applied as a transfer and got rejected again. They said they don’t accept appeals but i’m sure that’s something they say so you don’t try.
Is there anything I can do? Please don’t give me that “you’ll like it anywhere to go” crap because obviously it wasn’t true and no matter how hard I tried I couldn’t get over the first school. I feel like dropping out right now.
Please don’t tell me that i’m going to be successful anywhere I go because i’m tired of hearing that.
Here are my stats:
SAT: 1530/1600 (from high school)
HS GPA: 5.1/6W 3.9/4UW
Good ECs
College - Top 30 USNEWs
GPA: 3.7 Honors College
Good ECs
The school is an ivy but it wasn’t unrealistic like HYP
Oh yeah forgot to mention my essays were good and I took 14/15 AP classes in HS and got A’s in all of them and did well on the AP exams.
SAT IIs:
Math II: 780
US History: 750
Where are you? Where do you want to go? What is your major?
@DadTwoGirls School on east coast. Enrolled in top 10 business school. Penn. Business. I applied to CAS in HS and Wharton as a transfer
I am not super familiar with business as a major. However, my guess is that you are going to need better than a 3.7. I would expect straight A’s to be needed.
Does you current school give A-'s and A+'s, or is it just A or B?
@DadTwoGirls They give A- but no A+. I called Penn and they said that GPA isn’t a major aspect of it and when you think about it lets say their average for transfers is a 3.9. A 3.7 is literally 2 A-s versus 2 As which I personally don’t believe is enough to make a difference.
If they said themselves that they don’t want appeals, I don’t think openly going against that and sending them an appeal will improve their impressions of you very much.
“lets say their average for transfers is a 3.9. A 3.7 is literally 2 A-s versus 2 As which I personally don’t believe is enough to make a difference.”
It appears that neither they nor I agree with this logic.
If they have 10 slots for transfers, and 100 candidates with a 3.9, then I don’t see why a 3.7 is just as good.
@DadTwoGirls Because no two applicants are alike. A .2 difference in GPA doesn’t cover for ECs/Test scores/essays/recommendations. If it did then athletes (an extreme example) would never get in because there is always someone more qualified. Just look at normal admissions, tons of 2400s 4.0 students get rejected every year obviously you don’t have to be perfect. If you think I got rejected because I had a 3.7 instead of a 3.9 when there are more important factors like essays/recs
I am not saying that you would have gotten in with a 3.9. I am only saying that you are not likely to get in with a 3.7.
I’m not significantly more likely with a 3.9 either. Also a 3.7 at a top 30 school is probably perceived as better than a 3.9 from a CC.
What kind of advice are you looking for? Pick yourself up. Dust yourself off. Get on with plan B. That crap lesson that you don’t want to hear about will actually be FAR more valuable than anything you would have learned from the school you were twice shunned by. Resilience is one of the most important qualities you can have, yet for some reason, fading out of style. Good luck. Hang in there.
Rejection always sucks, but I think you lacked context going in.
Transfer admissions are difficult, and Wharton is even more difficult, because not only do they have to deal with outside applications, but also with internal applicants (like Econ majors in CAS).
Unless you had ridiculously stellar ECs or recs or awards, a 3.7 GPA from a lower-ranked college wasn’t going to get you in.
Just because you love a school doesn’t mean they love you.
It’s the same with relationships. Just because you love a boy/girl doesn’t mean they love you.
But why fixate on one school? Schools aren’t even people and don’t have feelings.
What awesomeness would have happened to you if you had gotten in to Penn?
Do you care about education and opportunities or do you care about something else?
I understand why people would have romantic feelings for a person, but why would you have it for a school? Do you have feelings for buildings?
Nope, they are just not that into you. You can fixate on that or go live your life.
Accept it and move on. There’s nothing more you can do, and if they don’t want you, so be it. You have confidence in yourself and should make it a point to prove to them they were wrong. Ultimately the best revenge is for you to succeed despite their rejection.
Nothing more you can do. Not all dreams come true.
Focus on doing well where you are & getting a good job after graduation. You can always try again for the MBA program if you decide you want to go down that road.
Right. Don’t you have goals and dreams bigger than attending a certain school for undergrad?
Most people don’t just drop dead right after matriculating somewhere, even if it is a dream school.
I wouldn’t love another human being who spurns my love, forget a school. I do not care how good it is. I have enough faith in myself to know that my future is 2% dependent on which school I attend.