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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It could have easily happened to me.  I was rejected from my safe school. For whatever reason, though, my reach school accepted me.  I was rejected from VT, ODU (safety), and George Mason.  I was accepted into RPI.  Go figure.  This was in 1982.[/quote]

I thought admissions was much more predictable back then......interesting.[/quote]

PP.  apparently not.  I had a really bad sophomore year -- bad concussion before the realized the severity of concussions, and was in a haze for the second half of the year and finished with really crappy grades.  I also did not retain anything from Feb on.  I ended up with 2 D's 3C's and a B (phys-ed).

As I came out of the fog in the junior year, I started doing better:  3A's, 1B, 1C and a D (Chem teacher was a certified a-hole).  But, SAT's were 1200 (which was good in 1982 -- harder test) with subscores of 800 Math, 400 verbal.  Senior year was much better:  4A's and 1B, but is was too late.

I also did some projects on writing instructional software for the school on teaching physics.

The net result was some numbers looked really bad, (GPA was 2.4 when I applied), SAT's mixed.  The schools that just looked at numbers rejected me (ODU, VT).

RPI wanted an essay and cared more about recommendations.  I wrote about writing the software for physics.  My recommendations came from the physics teacher and CS teachers who both talked about what I did.

(My sister was also a student at RPI).[/quote]

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