<p>well, if u name sumthing quinnipiac uim not surprised 
kiddin’</p>
<p>maxamillian, same thing happened to me with northwestern. except i didn’t get rejected, i got waitlisted… and they continued to send me stuff throughout my waitlisting period, until i ultimately received the ‘thanks, but no thanks’ letter on june 20. </p>
<p>UChicago did a terrible job trying to sell the school, in my eyes. i found it extremely dry, made it seem like campus life was all about work (which i guess, although not true, isn’t terribly far from the case). Also, in the admissions meeting with the rep, she said that UChicago was known as the place “where fun comes to die.” She then went on trying to dispel that rumor, but i just though it was terrible pr to mention it in the first place. I also got a distinct “We are better than northwestern, even if the rankings don’t show it” vibe at UChicago, whereas it wasn’t even mentioned at Northwestern. I guess that comes from a lot of people asking for directions to Evanston after visiting.</p>
<p>Well, at least one good thing happened for you on June 20, upstater05… I lived another year. LOL - you’re better off anyway</p>
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You know, I got that very same impression at Chicago too when I went to visit it. I remember now that they sent me the most mail of any college, especially highlighting the life “outside of academics.” Yeah, I certainly liked the new Physical Ed. facility they had built, but I wasn’t expecting to have time to use it fully. They really tried to dispel the “fun comes to die” rumor, but it was obvious that it lingered around. That was one of my reasons for not going there at the end. Not only that, but when someone mentioned Northwestern during our meeting with the admissions rep, her smiling cheery face suddenly turned to a cold ash-like stare. She never regained her cheery-self again during the visit.</p>
<p>I was pretty upset with UC Berkeley. I visited and noticed that one of the requirements for application was that the student must complete one year of a performing or visual arts class. Now, I’m in a specialized learning center at my high schoo, so I can’t take elective classes, and none of the classes that are assigned to me are performing or visual arts classes. So, I explained my situation to the admissions officer that was there, and she told me that I couldn’t apply unless I took a course at a community college. BS…but whatever, I wouldn’t have gone there anyway.</p>
<p>flopsy: didn’t know riverside community college exist.</p>
<p>well, looks like UofC is jealous of NW bigtime. Was happy with their responses though. They were prompt and helpful unlike cornell :</p>
<p>i was out of state for U Florida, and they lost my transcripts twice. the rejection letter that followed had smeared ink, no less.</p>
<p>MIT EA this year sent out acceptances first class and rejections not first class. The dean of admissions blamed the minimum wage pukes in the mail room. </p>
<p>Apparently MIT is not that good with computers, there is no on-line notification.</p>
<p>Juniata - a small college in PA with an strong bio program. Since my D has a medical disability we with met with the "disability"person on the college visit. What a B____! She talked with my D alone first and then asked me to join them. I walked in and could see something was wrong by my D face. Now my D, despite any limitations, has finished HS with straight A’s, 51 college credits and National Merit Scholar.
This proceeded to complain about students with disabilities and what they expect- she “couldn’t do everything” My D’s 2 calculus classes thru OSU didn’t count and would have to be retaken. Made rude comments on students who transfer in or have GEDs. Note - I have a GED then 8 years of college with straight A’s and a graduate degree from Case Western. Now when she finlly looked at D’s SATs her attitude started to change - her scores blows their students out of the water. After we left, I found out that she told my D that she didn’t see how someone with her limitations could even consider college. If I had known that, I probably would have rip the woman’s throat out.
Janie</p>
<p>beprepn - MIT did do online notification with regular decision. They just had to figure out a way to make it hack-proof from their hack-worthy applicants.</p>
<p>janie - I really hope you reported this person to either admissions or the office of the president.</p>
<p>really, janie… that person is really ruins all that people work for and stand for…</p>
<p>Janie–so sorry to hear about your daughter’s experience…naturally, I have no knowledge of what comprises her disability, but speaking as someone else who is “disabled,” yet is able to excel in many settings, academic and otherwise, I can empathize with how frustrating such attitudes can be.</p>
<p>“Keeping that in mind, I say Duke. Lax team, enough said”</p>
<p>Um, no one is guilty yet, and all signs point to the players who were accused being innocent. If that influences someone’s college decision, that is seriously strange</p>
<p>Please don’t attack me, but itsn’t it up to the student to be sure their applications are complete? With all the applications colleges receive, they don’t necessarily take the time to tell you what might be missing from your application (unless the school has a system in place, such as your sending a stamped self addressed postcard that they send you when your application is complete). While I feel sorry for someone who didn’t get into a school because of an incomplete appliction or a too-late notification that somethingismissing, I do think it is the students responsibility to be sure heverything has been received. No news is not necessarily good news, as they say.</p>
<p>We did let someone know at Juniata. I kept thinking of how much it affected my D . She really lost a lot of confidence for a while. It was heartbreaking. She has a medical illness that kept her homebound for 8th grade until this past year. She is doing much better with a bucket of drugs - though still has to manage her energy carefully. I wonder want a idiot like that could do to someone who does not have the support my D has (me!!!).
To add to the nightmare, there was a sudden downburst as we were leaving and the main bridge was flooded out (the only bridge I knew of). I thought we would be trapped forever - I just wanted to get out. It taught me the importance of college visits - it had been her 1st choice on paper.
Janie</p>
<p>jym: </p>
<p>My friend listed A&M as a school to send his scores to on both the SAT and ACT. They were also on the back of his official HS transcript. I really have no idea how they <em>couldn’t</em> have had the scores. I know that on the ACT he didn’t take the writing (which is probably why they didn’t accept that score), but the SAT has the writing built in. </p>
<p>BYU didn’t have a problem getting his scores. It really seems like A&M or the mail service managed to lose them.</p>
<p>Riverside Community College:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.rcc.edu/index.cfm[/url]”>http://www.rcc.edu/index.cfm</a> :rolleyes:</p>
<p>MIT EA this year sent out acceptances first class and rejections not first class. The dean of admissions blamed the minimum wage pukes in the mail room.</p>
<p>Apparently MIT is not that good with computers, there is no on-line notification.</p>
<p>That was completely on accident. It was actually the post office’s fault–MIT got all the packages to the post office at the same time, but the tubes, for some reason, were mailed out first.</p>
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<p>Understandably this is your own opinion, but… you do know that’s a requirement for the UC system in general? Also, I’m not sure how that’s a fault of the school.</p>
<p>The most annoying application process I had was Stanford. Sent in my transcript a total of 17 times (I’m not joking). Counselor thankfully waived the fee for a transcript after the first few…</p>