<p>Wow it seems like we have a lot of creative ideas around here.
I am happy to learn that this year the acceptance rate for U of R is lower and I get accepted…(which doesn’t mean that I don’t feel sorry for those who don’t)
Although acceptance to U of R is cool, I don’t feel good about the overall outcome of my college application.
I applied to 20 schools, 4 SUNYs, 16 privates. Almost all of the privates I apply to can be considered as competitive. Most of these privates are liberal arts. I attempted to apply to schools where there’s less Asian(I am an Asian female and I believed that I might have more chance to get into such schools), like Trinity and Colgate…
So my questions are:
- Are schools where the Asian percentage is lower than 5% trying to get more Asians? When I visited Trinity I heard the multicultural affair office talk about their efforts in getting more minority students, but I feel like the Asians they accept this year is still in limited amount. I mean is it because there aren’t many Asians apply to this college or the college only choose to accept a tiny amount of the applications? (God they should make acceptance rate for each racial group as well!)
2.I understand that I got rejected by top schools like WashU and Middlebury, but I still don’t get why I got waitinglisted by 8 schools, including schools like Union…If like some of you said above that schools would put people on waitinglist if the stats suggest that the student would go elsewhere, what’s the criteria in this case or how would the stats suggest such things? Would it be like students from the high school in the past turn down the college’s offer or the past student they accept didn’t perform well in college? - If you get waitinglisted for reasons like you fit the school but it seems like you’ll go somewhere else, would you have a bigger chance to be accepted from waitinglist if you choose to remain? Is it some schools’ strategies to get some good students?
- We all have seen that it’s not rare for many schools’ acceptance rates to go down even more than 5 percents, what’s the reasons for that? I know a big one is there are more and more applicants. But why the phenonmenon really stands out this year?</p>
<p>I know I just asked many questions, but I do hope some of you sort of know the answer. Any response is welcomed!</p>