<p>Seriously, we’ve all seen so many utterly amazing people get rejected, it really shouldn’t faze anyone if the same were to happen to the OP.</p>
<p>Problem is, when most say ,“utterly amazing people,” again, they are referring only to what they know about them- their stats, classes, hs rigor, list of ECs. (The sort of thing you see on CC chance me posts.) You don’t know how they pulled together their apps, how they wrote their essays, whether their recs were stellar or ho-hum. In a field of thousands of high-achievers, these matter. </p>
<p>When there is so much competition, it’s easy to diss a kid whose writing (thus, thinking) skills, as shown on the app, are somewhere in middle school. There are lots of ways kids trip hemselves up.</p>
<p>OP, by the way- sorry, this will sound picky, but it’s an example- did not found the American Cancer Society. Sure, I can guess it’s an error- but it’s his error. Not my job to 2nd-guess.</p>