<p>No problem, woah101. I put a lot of hard work into my application to this school, even having a great teacher recommendation and writing an extensive brag sheet and I was also born in Massachusetts, so I thought that might have been able to help me out. Guess not. I’m pretty sure that would have been enough to make up for any academic shortcomings I might have had (got/had a 3.5 GPA, but I didn’t realize I could have raised it just by taking AP Gov, Macro, and just Environmental Science, so oh well. That could have been 5 AP classes total, but I ended up taking classes that I didn’t realize were going to be 20x harder than I ended them to be so it dropped my GPA to a 3.3, which is still good since I actually challenged myself I think). My first college decision was a rejection, but I didn’t let that slow me down and I got into a ton of other colleges right after that, so that’s all that mattered to me, and they were the important ones I needed to get in that I could afford. Rutgers was also a top choice of mine so I was very happy with what I got in the end. If you don’t get in, don’t get discouraged and think that they rejected you personally. You rejected them and are probably going to a better, more affordable school in the end. UMass is kinda expensive in the long run from what I’ve heard.</p>
<p>Marshalls44, I hope that you will keep being patient. You’ll hear something by the end of next week in the mail.</p>
<p>You should both look at this article I found. It will all make sense when you take the time to read it.</p>
<p>[Rebecca</a> Joseph: Don’t Let College Rejections Stand in Your Way](<a href=“HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost”>Don't Let College Rejections Stand in Your Way | HuffPost College)</p>
<p>By the way, two of the colleges I got rejected from were schools I didn’t even care about nor did I want to attend either of them. Boston University and UMass Amherst were the only important ones I cared about that I got rejected from, so technically for me, I only got two actual rejections. Wish I had tried Penn State University Park and UDel for fun to make up for those two schools I wasted time with (not BU or UMass).</p>