Disappointment

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This has to be fake. People cannot be this naive.

+100
How utterly ridiculous - she "thought she had it in the bag."

Right? Who thinks like this?

In her position, how would you not think that you had at least VT + UNC CH in the bag? I'm obviously not referring to the Ivies/higher-ranking schools...

She was accepted at VT. Chapel Hill has an 8 percent acceptance rate for OOS. It also sounds like she is at a NoVa public with grade inflation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why you or she are upset. She got into more than one target school. What else does she want from life?!

+1

Especially when ALL of her reaches were single digit acceptance rate schools (or under 12%). That is what happens when your reaches are all highly rejective schools, you are 95% likely to be rejected

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Similar boat here, OP. I’m sorry because I know it stings. Luckily your dd has great options still and it will all be ok.

Thanks, it's definitely a relief to see other people in this situation as well. We're all just hoping for the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has to be fake. People cannot be this naive.

+100
How utterly ridiculous - she "thought she had it in the bag."

Right? Who thinks like this?

In her position, how would you not think that you had at least VT + UNC CH in the bag? I'm obviously not referring to the Ivies/higher-ranking schools...

Carolina OOS is not in the bag for anyone. SMH.

[Anonymous]

RD to UVA from NOVA? That’s really a slap in the face to UVA. Obviously weren’t really interested.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone else facing a lot of disappointment during this cycle? DD got into a couple target schools + most of her safeties... Rejected or WL from the rest. She was (imo and told to us by many others) a great applicant - High stats, great ECs + essays, LORs... Her interviews all went very well, especially JHU. She applied to JHU EA and the rest RD, and we're from NOVA. Intended major is BME (biomed engineering).

Stats:
4.0 UW/4.7 W GPA
1570 SAT (800 M, 770 R&W)
14 APs, all 5s

ECs:
- A few regional awards (STEM)
- 200+ volunteer hours @ local hospital
- Founder of non-profit
- Research w/ prof at T30
- Competitive summer program for BME
- Lots of community service

Results:
JHU EA - Deferred -> Rejected
Princeton - Rejected
Brown - Rejected
Dartmouth - Rejected
Columbia - Rejected
Duke - Rejected
UVA - WL
Cornell - WL
CMU - WL
UNC CH - WL
VT - Accepted
W&M - Accepted
Lehigh - Accepted
UPitt - Accepted

DD is incredibly upset and so are we... JHU was her dream school but she relied on UVA + CMU as well. Anyone here confused and facing a similar situation?We all were convinced that DD had it in the bag - Worst of all is that many of her classmates w/ lower stats and worse ECs have gotten into a few of these schools.

So your DD got rejected or WL at schools that are ALL under 10% acceptance rates (Ok CMU is 11.4%, not much better). UVA is 9.3% if applying RD.

That is how it works. For the life of me, I do not understand how someone with such high stats can continue to not realize this (year after year after year it happens). She was rejected/WL at all REACHES. And accepted at her Targets and safeties. That is literally how it works, when your Reaches are all basically single digit acceptance rates. You are very likely to be rejected/WL at all.

So you get her excited about the acceptances she had. She knew going in these were are highly rejective schools, so she shoudlnt' be surprised

+100
I can't even believe this has to be repeated, every.single.year. No one is entitled to admission at ANY school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has to be fake. People cannot be this naive.

+100
How utterly ridiculous - she "thought she had it in the bag."

Right? Who thinks like this?

In her position, how would you not think that you had at least VT + UNC CH in the bag? I'm obviously not referring to the Ivies/higher-ranking schools...

She was accepted at VT. Chapel Hill has an 8 percent acceptance rate for OOS. It also sounds like she is at a NoVa public with grade inflation.

Yes, she does go to public but she is at the top percentile of her class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has to be fake. People cannot be this naive.

+100
How utterly ridiculous - she "thought she had it in the bag."

Right? Who thinks like this?

In her position, how would you not think that you had at least VT + UNC CH in the bag? I'm obviously not referring to the Ivies/higher-ranking schools...

Carolina OOS is not in the bag for anyone. SMH.

+100. Previous comment is laughable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Similar boat here, OP. I’m sorry because I know it stings. Luckily your dd has great options still and it will all be ok.

Thanks, it's definitely a relief to see other people in this situation as well. We're all just hoping for the best.

The best has already happened. She was admitted into four excellent schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RD to UVA from NOVA? That’s really a slap in the face to UVA. Obviously weren’t really interested.

Yeah, we were very surprised.

[Anonymous]

Entitlement much? How this idea that all high stats automatically gets into to reach 10% schools. Same conversation year after year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:RD to UVA from NOVA? That’s really a slap in the face to UVA. Obviously weren’t really interested.

Yeah, we were very surprised.

This is not surprising at all. you can’t RD to UVA from NoVa. I wouldn’t have admitted you either. You’re clearly not interested if you didn’t EA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has to be fake. People cannot be this naive.

+1

Especially students who are "that smart"

And if they are truly that naive, well then they did this to themselves. It's not a balanced list of schools at all. And if she wants BME, why is W&M? Very few kids do a 3+2 program, because nobody wants to leave their college after 3 years and go somewhere different.

It's unfortunate, because there are many many many excellent engineering schools in the 30-70 range, many that would have given her $$$ as well.
For example:
Case
URochester
WPI
RPI
NEU (tough admit, but might have given her NUIn or Global Scholars with those stats)

Had she shown interest, she would have gotten into all of those except NEU---that is the only Reach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Entitlement much? How this idea that all high stats automatically gets into to reach 10% schools. Same conversation year after year.

How was UVA, VT, or UNC CH a reach for her?

[Anonymous]

Hopkins wants to have between 100-120 bio medical engineering majors entering as freshman. Their yield is about 50 percent.

It was the major.