What do I do now? (Not accepted anywhere)

happymomof1
Fri, 23 Mar 2018 16:01:31 +0000

“I have been rejected by every school that I wanted to go to: Virginia Tech, TCU, Syracuse, and Pepperdine.”

Are these the only places that you applied to, or are they the only ones you truly were interested in, and you have been accepted by (or are still waiting on) some other places that you like a whole lot less?

What is your financial situation? Will you need a lot of aid?

If you will need a lot of aid, your better bet is to take a gap year and try to raise your ACT score or get an SAT score that is equivalent to a higher ACT score. In that year off, you need to work up a better application list, including guaranteed admit safeties that you could be happy at, matches that you could be happy at, and some new reaches that you could be happy at. Please note that guaranteed admit safeties are first on the list. They always should be first. Build your list upwards from them.