Looks like there is already a shutout thread:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1756752-waitlisted-or-rejected-from-everywhere.html
Student got 0 admissions and 4 waitlists. Had a 3.5 HS GPA, 1840 SAT, 30 ACT, according to http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/1705968-late-college-search.html .
Cool!
Just to be clear: it looks like the kid who posted that thread chose not to apply to any safeties, because he is looking at the local community college as the safety. That is a certainly an appropriate and logical choice to make, given the high cost of college. But it’s not the case of a student being shocked by results. The student wrote that “most” of the results were in, and “I either got waitlisted or reject by every school i applied to, which is fine,” and then asks for suggestions about getting accepted off the waitlist. I don’t think the student would have written “which is fine” if the results were entirely unexpected.
And it definitely is not a “shut out” if the student is comfortable with the CC route, as that student clearly is.
He might have said “which is fine” to divert people away from attacking him for not applying to safeties.