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For those top students who are disappointed by rejections and probably experiencing academic "failure" for the first time, just keep a few things in mind:
1. Assuming you applied smartly (ie not just HYPSM) you will likely gain admittance to one of the top universities in the country.
2. Your college doesn't define you, it's what you make out of your opportunities, and believe me they are endless at any top school.
3. Even if you feel like you're "settling" by going to a "lesser" school than whatever your dream school was, chances are that you'll find a ton of people at that school that are more driven, more talented, and more intelligent than you. Don't underestimate the caliber of students at any of the top schools or else you'll suddenly find yourself an average or below average student.
4. Once you decide on a school to attend, forget about the rejections or other schools you turned down. Don't wallow in misery and bitterness that you aren't attending your dream school. If you give your school a fair chance, you'll probably end up loving wherever you attend. |
It's that time of year again, y'all. I know it's a little early, but people who applied EA/ED have already received results and I know that more places are sending them out every day, so here it is. Post where you got in, stats if you want, and see if any other TL'ers are going to be near you! The past year's threads really drove me to do better, so I'm excited to get this year's underway. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!
Anyways, for me:
Accepted: University of South Carolina (Honors College, Nearly full tuition scholarship)
Tulane University (+Honors Program, half-tuition scholarship)
Rice University
NYU
Rejected: University of Chicago (Was deferred from EA)
Harvard
Princeton
Columbia
Cornell
Stanford
Waitlisted: Washington University in St. Louis
For stats: 2320 SAT (800 Math, 760 CR 760 Writing)
SAT2's: 790 physics, 760 US History 750 Literature
3.8 GPA unweighted, 3.9 Weighted
Rank 11/128 (barely top 10%)
Extracurriculars were slightly above average at best, but nothing spectacular.
White male from upstate NY
Plan on majoring in Physics.
Thoughts: Really thought I would get into WashU, but they don't ask for essays, which are one of my strong points. Will probably end up going to Tulane, as I really don't expect to get in anywhere else aside from NYU, but I'm still hopeful for Rice and Cornell. I really only applied to all of the super top-tier places because I had the money, and I've heard that it can be a crapshoot at the top so I thought I may as well take the chance, and I might be pleasantly surprised. So anyways, I'm bracing for a ton of rejection letters but I'm pretty happy with where I'm in already, so I'll be fine, and I could get lucky  .
Edit: Got into Rice. Super psyched about it, going to visit and will definitely go over Tulane. Still going to see where else I get in before I send a deposit or anything, but Rice is one of the schools that I would consider even if I got in everywhere that I wanted. Any TL'ers currently at rice?
Edit: Well, it's over now. Things played out as I expected, I'm insanely lucky to have gotten into Rice and that's almost undoubtedly where I will end up. Advice to next years people would be to apply to as many places as you can afford. As this thread has demonstrated, the top universities are crapshoots if you aint done truly exceptional things in your high school career.
Past Year's threads (maybe find others at your school here!)
'10 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=116308
'11 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=204700
'12 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=324577
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Good luck! I hope you get into Columbia (hint hint)
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On March 17 2013 11:24 ampson wrote:It's that time of year again, y'all. I know it's a little early, but people who applied EA/ED have already received results and I know that more places are sending them out every day, so here it is. Post where you got in, stats if you want, and see if any other TL'ers are going to be near you! The past year's threads really drove me to do better, so I'm excited to get this year's underway. GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! Anyways, for me: Accepted: University of South Carolina (Honors College, Nearly full tuition scholarship) Tulane University (+Honors Program, half-tuition scholarship) Rejected: University of Chicago (Was deferred from EA) Waitlisted: Washington University in St. Louis Waiting: Harvard Stanford Columbia Cornell NYU Princeton Rice For stats: 2320 SAT (800 Math, 760 CR 760 Writing) SAT2's: 790 physics, 760 US History 750 Literature 3.8 GPA unweighted, 3.9 Weighted Rank 11/128 (barely top 10%) Extracurriculars were slightly above average at best, but nothing spectacular. White male from upstate NY Plan on majoring in Physics. Thoughts: Really thought I would get into WashU, but they don't ask for essays, which are one of my strong points. Will probably end up going to Tulane, as I really don't expect to get in anywhere else aside from NYU, but I'm still hopeful for Rice and Cornell. I really only applied to all of the super top-tier places because I had the money, and I've heard that it can be a crapshoot at the top so I thought I may as well take the chance, and I might be pleasantly surprised. So anyways, I'm bracing for a ton of rejection letters but I'm pretty happy with where I'm in already, so I'll be fine, and I could get lucky . Past Year's threads (maybe find others at your school here!) '10 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=116308'11 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=204700'12 http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=324577
Nice, looks like you got a highly competitive application. The only thing it looks like you could use some work on is not being a white male.
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To the above, could be worse. You could be an Asian male. xD
Good luck!
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you have a very impressive application is for damn sure
edit: lol at the first guy who replied
you applied mostly to schools from my general region, where did you go to high school?
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Finished my 2 years of community college, got accepted to Parks School at Ithaca College with a 15k scholarship per year!
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Good luck to everyone who is finding out where they'll be spending the next four years of their lives. The most important thing is to remember while it may be a new beginning, to a large extent it is up to you if that means change. If you made the most of your high school years, I think you will make the most of college as well. Don't expect to be happy all the time (there will be ups and downs, but when we're in one we forget the other), and maybe you will take the first semester to adjust to things.
Now, I'm getting a little ahead of myself.
Don't sweat decisions too much. A lot of kids here I expect are very qualified and very smart with varying levels of ambition. Depending on the last of those, rejection/acceptance will mean different things. A rejection (or acceptance) is not a judgement of you as a person, but a much more complex decision based on what you have to offer, but also what the school needs (or rather, wants). Does that sound like what's on a rejection letter? Yes it does, and it is true. Did I have a better GPA and SAT/ACT and maybe better extra-curriculars than some kid who got the letter I wanted (note: past tense) from Harvard? Yes. But he had something I didn't.
Ultimately at the highest level unless you've done something truly special with your life, you can flip a coin. Heads you get in, tails you don't. Of course its more complex, but you can think of it that way. You did your best, but its still a crapshoot. So, don't take it too personally or too hard. You will probably be happy wherever you end up. Make the most of it. Seriously. College is a big place with lots of things to do. Don't be that girl that got rejected from UT, blamed it on affirmative action and spent the next 4 years at LSU pissed off about it.
My story:
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I did pretty well for myself two years ago-- Hopkins, Brown, Chicago, Rice and Emory. I chose Emory for the money, though its kind of a funny story. I had a very bad AP English Lit teacher, so I would always skip the beginning of class and go to the counselor's office to get candy. One day, my counselor tells me "you can't get candy unless you apply for Emory Scholars". I want candy, so I agree to apply for this school I've barely heard of. The app is due November X, I figure I'll do it November X-1. Unfortunately that day, I have a big Chem lap write up to do, so I do that instead-- guess I'm not applying to Emory.
Well the nest day, Chem teacher is absent and we get the double-block (3 hours off). So in that 3 hours plus part of lunchtime, I do my entire application. I get semi-finalist, then finalist, which I turn down. I was vice-president of MAO (you high schoolers might remember that) and we had State Convention during the interview for Scholars finalists-- I chose that over a potential full scholarship. In retrospect not the brightest decision, but I had 4 years of loyalty to MAO, and I hadn't heard back from most schools yet either.
Well, all the other schools I got into (except Tulane) wanted me to pay like 50K with"loans" (full need met with a loan, my ass). Emory still gave me a decent pile of money, so I went there. It's been quite a ride so far, but hey that's life.
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applied to one place, got in. least exciting story exer
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Its a look at me and how smart I am thread!
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I had originally intended going to University of Michigan, but I received a full tuition (and an additional 2,500/yr) scholarship to the University of Alabama. I have absolutely no money saved for college, so it sure beats over 100k in loans if I were to have went to UMich.
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On March 17 2013 12:19 Grimmyman123 wrote:
Its a look at me and how smart I am thread!
Thats what I thought too. Pretty sure we alrdy have a college acceptance thread anyway.
edit: My bad. Looks like we make a thread each year dedicated to that year's acceptance. Carry on!
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Meh we are currently living in a society where the mediocre are celebrated and encouraged while the people who actually did something and worked hard have to hide their accomplishments in fear of the scorn from people who were too lazy to do anything.
I support this thread, best of luck OP hope you get in.
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On March 17 2013 12:19 Grimmyman123 wrote:
Its a look at me and how smart I am thread!
there's always someone like this every year
kids worked hard for 4 years to gain these acceptances. let them have their 15 minutes of fame.
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On March 17 2013 12:19 Grimmyman123 wrote:
Its a look at me and how smart I am thread!
Nothing wrong with a little pride, man. Let people be excited about the completely new life they'll be starting in less than 6 months from now.
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On March 17 2013 12:19 Grimmyman123 wrote:
Its a look at me and how smart I am thread!
I hate the type of uber-pretentious people that you'll find on collegeconfidential as much as I'm sure you do, but each year on TL this thread happens, and we see where people we chill with online are going to school. Last year's thread really inspired me to work harder to get where I am, and I hope to do the same for others. Also, yes, posting in the thread can make people who worked very hard for 4 years feel good about themselves.
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Good luck. I got wait-listed at UChicago. I'm hoping for UC Berkeley and Reed, and I got accepted to New College of Florida with half-off tuition.
My SATs are 770 reading, 730 math, and 690 writing, and my weighted GPA is a smidgen over 4.0.
I have decent to above average extracurriculars, and I sent in a music supplement to some of the schools I applied to. My big weakness is that during junior year I read books instead of doing math homework, so I wound up with a C+ in precalc.
Edit: Accepted to Reed.
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All the best guys Went through this last year, I threw all my eggs in one basket (thank god I got it).
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does anyone have any insight if submitting an app to a college that does rolling admissions later then earlier affects your chances of getting in?
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On March 17 2013 12:25 LosingID8 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 17 2013 12:19 Grimmyman123 wrote:
Its a look at me and how smart I am thread! there's always someone like this every year kids worked hard for 4 years to gain these acceptances. let them have their 15 minutes of fame.
I went back to school and busted my ass to learn the new curriculum, suffered as old course codes no longer applied, and smashed my grades with above 95% average of my courses taken and you don't see my boasting,bragging and showing off.
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