<p>I was rejected… and it wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t rejected from literally every other school I applied to. 8/9 schools I applied to rejected me, and the last one was my absolute last safety. </p>
<p>I assume that with those kinds of odds, there had to be something WRONG and not just the suggestion that colleges preferred others over me…
But will I ever be able to pinpoint what exactly went wrong? Is there any way to?</p>
<p>And never mind test scores… I have stellar SAT (2340), SAT II (780-800s on Bio, Chem, Math II), GPA (3.85 UW and 4.3 W) extracurriculars, a few national and state awards (perhaps lacking in that department, but shouldn’t be too disqualifying), great teacher and GC recs, and my essays were so good that the dozens of people who read them urged me to just GO TO THE COLLEGE already.
But it’s tiring to receive rejection after rejection after rejection… not even a waitlist… so I have nowhere else to turn to but CC… Please help me.</p>
<p>There’s nothing to be gained hoping Yale or other schools will tell you anything. The fact is they WON’T. They have nothing to gain sharing with you any of the particulars of how your file was discussed – even if they took notes at all. It would only open them up to legal challenges. Thus, they (and every other school) adopt the policy of releasing no information.</p>
<p>You subjected yourself to scrutiny against extreme odds. Now you should be mature enough to accept the results and go onward. WIth your metrics, you’ll be successful. You’ll still be among the top 1-2% of human beings on this planet holding a degree that will earn you an income that many can only dream about. Please move on.</p>
<p>Don’t think it is a personal failing or something wrong with your application. It is just a numbers game. Yale and other highly selective schools have acceptance rates of less than 10% and tens of thousands of applications! Start making plans for the schools you have been accepted to or if that is not a palatable option, look into acceptable schools with rolling admissions.</p>
<p>OP. You probably won’t ever find out why you were denied. Tell us where you were accepted and find good things about that. Set out to do well and perhaps try again for Grad school.</p>
<p>You didn’t tell us what your list was. If it consisted of 8 reaches and 1 safety, this just happens sometimes - it can be random.</p>
<p>First of all: I am sorry for your disappointment. Second: nothing went wrong, it’s just a crap shoot. You did all you could - and CONGRATS on your accomplishments to date. You will do wonderful things based on your past success. My D was in your shoes two years ago. It was brutal (perfect scores, perfect GPA, co-val at huge, amazing high school, state level athlete (but not a recruit), 11 APs with all 5s, great recs, volunteer, etc.) She was devastated! We knew the admit %s, but thought at least one of her four “reach for everyone” schools would have accepted her! Two years later, she is thriving and happy at her #5 school. Her peers are amazing (lots of kids with her resume, so you are not alone)! And, she is in a department that is sort of a niche for this #5 school so it is academically BETTER than schools 1 - 4 in her field. You go to the school that wants you and you literally SHINE at that school. Go in with a positive attitude (which is hard, I know). Don’t be afraid to get help emotional help if you need it (I kept a very close eye on my D for about a month as her self esteem was largely based on her academic work and she was sad and embarrassed by her rejections). You are at the worst time of it now. Hang in there. Focus on your amazing successes and be open minded to your opportunity. Let go of the “what went wrong?” and the “how did S/he get in?” and it will help. Hugs to you.</p>
<p>Nobody knows for sure except for Adcom and they ain’t saying. It could be a curriculum thing? A one time too many SAT thing? A GPA thing. An essay thing? A geographical thing? and on and on. Go to your safety, which I bet is still a pretty good school and prove the elite schools wrong. GL</p>
<p>Not bad company to keep, especially as you are getting a free ride: [Rutgers</a> University - Rutgers Notable Alumni](<a href=“http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/index.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=430]Rutgers”>http://www.alumni.rutgers.edu/s/896/index.aspx?sid=896&gid=1&pgid=430)</p>
<p>On another thread, you wrote that you were interested in film directing, yet none of ivies, including Yale, offer film directing or film making as a major – only film studies, which really isn’t the same thing. If you mentioned your interest in film directing in your essay to any of the ivies, or if your teachers mentioned it in their recommendations, you might have been rejected at the ivies because they don’t offer those subjects as a major. The adcoms might have thought you did not do your due diligence on their school.</p>
<p>Nothing likely went wrong if you applied to HPY type schools and programs with low acceptance rates. The vast majority of kids will get rejected from all of those schools ,never mind the mathematical odds.</p>