Anonymous
01/12/2026 21:12
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Florida
At Clemson
Wow
Why is this a "wow"?
Anonymous
01/12/2026 21:09
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College
Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin
This is interesting. Most are pretty big steps down.
That’s the nature of the ED system. Especially EDII. A lot of the steps down (including Oberlin) are EDII schools. People burn out and feel defeated after the first rejection and just want to be done.
This was my daughter last cycle....Just wanted it to be over. Took a step down and is happy at college.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:49
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College
Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin
This is interesting. Most are pretty big steps down.
That’s the nature of the ED system. Especially EDII. A lot of the steps down (including Oberlin) are EDII schools. People burn out and feel defeated after the first rejection and just want to be done.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:42
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College
Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin
This is interesting. Most are pretty big steps down.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:41
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Overall impression is that kids thrive at the schools they ended up, and grew the fastest. They may not be if admitted to their first choices.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:41
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College
Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin
How the bloody heck do you know this about your kid's COLLEGE friends?
I am super involved in the lives of my college kids and talk to them almost every day but i would have zero knowledge about where 10 of their college friends were rejected from college. That is just really, really, really weird.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:40
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:UT Austin
NYU was top choice.
Are you out of state for Texas? What major? Thanks.
I’m asking because I would expect NYU to be a fair bit easier than UT Austin oos.
We are in state. He applied to Stern.[/quote
Sounds about right..]
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:25
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College
Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin
DD's friends from HS
Rejected Cornell, attending Pitt
Rejected Columbia, attending CMU
Rejected MIT, attending Northeastern
Rejected Georgetown, attending Case Western
Rejected Barnard, attending Bryn Mawr
Rejected Penn, attending Wesleyan
Rejected Brown, attending Amherst
Rejected Davidson, attending Case Western
Rejected Stanford, attending WashU
Rejected Oxford, attending St John's College
Friends at college
Rejected Amherst, attending Oberlin
Rejected Brown, attending Oberlin
Rejected Harvard, attending Oberlin
Rejected Wellesley, attending Oberlin
Rejected Northwestern, attending Oberlin
Rejected NYU, attending Oberlin
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Oberlin
Rejected Cornell, attending Oberlin
Rejected Williams, attending Oberlin
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:14
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I went to Fairfield University. Basically everyone there was rejected from their first choice. Mostly Boston College, Georgetown or Notre Dame. We had an amazing college experience. Some of the best years of my life.
Did people talk openly about it?
Not the person you're quoting, but I went to Georgetown and it felt like everyone there had been rejected from an Ivy League school. People only talked about it the first week of freshman year.
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:13
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:Florida
At Clemson
Wow
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:13
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Bowdoin, attending Middlebury
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:12
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Dartmouth, attending Colgate (little brother is also now attending too)
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:12
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Anonymous wrote:I went to Fairfield University. Basically everyone there was rejected from their first choice. Mostly Boston College, Georgetown or Notre Dame. We had an amazing college experience. Some of the best years of my life.
Did people talk openly about it?
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:11
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Princeton, attending UVA
Anonymous
01/12/2026 20:11
Subject: If your child was rejected from their top choice, where did they end up
Rejected Northwestern, attending Haverford