To those denied admission:

jackbauer21
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:15:05 +0000

guys sersiouly don’t stress about this. college is all luck! it’s really such a crap-shoot.
I personally know kids that got into HYP and waitlisted at columbia or penn. At a school nearby, in which the valedictorian was the only one who got into columbia, there were three students that got into harvard, and yet were concomittantly rejected from both yale and columbia. I also know people into princeton and not yale or harvard. Or people into yale and not princeton or harvard.

i used to think getting into college was much more important than it actually was. i know after having gone through the process that but it’s just a game of chance. I’m glad that I learned for the sake of learning as I did. What college you get into is truly NOT A REFLECTION OF YOUR WORTH. Last year, the valedictorian of my high school with the same sat i / ii and rank as me was accepted to yale early. In fact, virtually every single valedictorian of my high school in the past 10 years was admitted to HYP. With respect to the valedictorian last year, I did way more extracurricalrs than him.

Personally, I was recruited either through likely letters or scholar programs to every single ivy-league school (except for brown, in which I was still accepted) which means I was in the top 2% of applicants (for dartmouth top 500/18,000, columbia likely, cornell tanner and iriving dean scholarship, upenn vagelos science scholar). Nevertheless, I was rejected from the trifecta. dude, it’s their loss. I know plenty of people who got into harvard without a single likely. which leads me to my next point…

THE PROCESS IS ENTIRELY POLITICAL. Maybe, they were looking for artists, maybe brazilian lacrosse players, maybe african american hockey players that want to major in finger-painting. ugh, who cares about such a superficial implementation of diversity.

There was an asian immigrant from Hong Kong in my class who was ranked 10th and 110 points lower on sats than me and did barely anything in terms of extra curriculurs. To his credit, he did start the men’s badminton club/team. But that’s it. He was accepted to every school he applied to including HYPSCBU except for MIT. He was the only student in my school accepted to Harvard or Princeton.

In the end, I couldn’t be more content with the school I chose, which is UPenn. The Vagelos Scholar Program is a great fit for me beacuse I would really love to become a reserach scientist and get a masters in four years. It really does work out in the end (mostly ).

Guys, please don’t take these rejections to heart. Grow from them. Show them that they missed out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, that they are fools for not accepting you and that they will regret it. Harvard rejects unite!