<p>I understand that when it comes to top schools, decisions are mostly arbitrary. But does a student with my credentials ever end up not going someplace like the schools I’ve listed above. Sure, it makes sense to me that a student could want to go to Yale, but instead they get into Princeton, and that’s that. But does a student with all A’s and a 2300+ ever get rejected from ALL of the top schools to which he has applied?</p>