Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 08:43     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected from Cornell, went to Brown. Thriving in freshman year. Four months in and all new friends seem like best friends.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 08:41     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:My observation is that kids usually got rejected by schools they think they love but not the best fit, and accepted by the best fit or at least a good fit but not their first choice originally.

Schools see through it they know how to pick.


Maybe. People who love where they land are happier than people who hang onto the idea that another place would have been better. It's healthy to believe it was all for the best.
Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 08:17     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Dartmouth, attending UVA.

First year was an adjustment, second year has been great. Very happy.

Anonymous
Post 01/12/2026 07:45     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Yale, attending Harvard! Boston FTW
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 23:16     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Daughter rejected Davidson and Colorado College, attending CWRU, psych pre-med
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 23:15     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
DD rejected Georgetown, attending CWRU (biology pre-med)
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 23:15     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Rejected Stanford, attending UNC Chapel Hill


DD, biology/pre-med
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 23:14     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Stanford, attending UNC Chapel Hill
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 23:14     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Rejected Brown ED, attending Amherst


DD, Math/Economics major
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 23:14     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Brown ED, attending Amherst
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 22:42     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Wisconsin, attending Tulane. Loves it.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 21:32     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:and how did they like it? Please name school and school they ended up and how it went!


Most important to ask major and gender.....that matters in RD.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 21:04     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
My observation is that kids usually got rejected by schools they think they love but not the best fit, and accepted by the best fit or at least a good fit but not their first choice originally.

Schools see through it they know how to pick.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 20:55     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected by Yale, accepted at Columbia. Loves it, in hindsight better for his major and is super happy being in NYC rather than New Haven.
It really does work out in the end.
Anonymous
Post 01/11/2026 18:27     Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
and how did they like it? Please name school and school they ended up and how it went!