Those schools get tons of applicants with your qualifications - far more than they have spots for. Rice and Wash U are great schools - congrats on getting in! Who advised you to only apply to so few schools? I think you went in with the wrong expectations.
Who advised him to only apply to 'so few' schools?' The dude applied to at least 11 schools and had a near perfect CV. What wrong expectations did he have?
OP, if I were you, I"d go to the school that gives you the most money. Education is like running - if you are talented, you can excel at a ton of places.
Stop worrying about brand name. Most of the kids I knew at Princeton were miserable. Once they got in, they felt obligated to go there even if they liked other places better. When I was coaching at Cornell, I once had a recruit tell me, "Coach of all the schools i visited, you were my favorite and your team is clearly the best." I never heard from him again. He went to Princeton.
Rojo, it is a different world now in college admissions compared to when you were in college. He listed literally the best schools out there. They get way more applicants with equivalent or better resumes than they have spots for. Totally believable that you can apply to Ivies + Chicago/Duke/Northwestern and get negged at all of them. Check the stats on the Ivies these days on admission rates.
And let's not forget - we're only hearing one side of the story here - we don't actually know how he presents in the eyes of the admissions offices. Maybe he did poorly in interviews?
In life, is it usually ones own fault or everyone else's?
Should I take a gap year and reapply after the Supreme Court likely bans affirmative action?
- 1580, 36; 4.0 unweighted in the most rigorous classes, top 5%; 3 state level extracurriculars and 1 national level extracurricular, but I'm also biracial - half Asian and half white. My interviews also were good, and I'm sure my rec letters were good as well. I know that if I had been any other race, I'd likely have been accepted everywhere I applied
Should I take a gap year or apply to transfer as a freshman?
maybe your application essay was weak?
Judging from how obvious this troll is, your writing could use some work.
Just pick one (whichever you like more, the academics and 'prestige' are basically identical) and apply to transfer. I'd say that ~40% of my friends from high school had thought about transferring, and about 20% actually did (including myself). I'd say it was a roughly even split between "I don't like this school" and "I want/deserved to go to a better college"
My reasoning was definitely the latter, but I hid that in my applications. I went to a college slightly lower ranked than either of yours (still in the 't20', but barely) and knew I wanted to transfer since April of my HS senior year, so everything I did my freshman year was to accomplish that.
Everyone will be somewhat miserable in college, especially if you're overloaded. So, I don't think there's a reason to not pick the best one you're accepted into.*
* the obvious exception is if you're accepted into one that's ranked slightly higher (think, for example, #2 vs #5 or #3 vs #4, if you take the average of all the rankings) that you wouldn't like.
Should I take a gap year and reapply after the Supreme Court likely bans affirmative action?
- 1580, 36; 4.0 unweighted in the most rigorous classes, top 5%; 3 state level extracurriculars and 1 national level extracurricular, but I'm also biracial - half Asian and half white. My interviews also were good, and I'm sure my rec letters were good as well. I know that if I had been any other race, I'd likely have been accepted everywhere I applied
Should I take a gap year or apply to transfer as a freshman?
If you got rejected everywhere, they all saw the same thing and it wasn’t your race. Something about you as a person, made you less than ideal.
Likely not a troll. It's not politically correct, but the normal response of Asians and whites, including most Democrats, when they're rejected from colleges is to (correctly) blame affirmative action
Should I take a gap year and reapply after the Supreme Court likely bans affirmative action?
- 1580, 36; 4.0 unweighted in the most rigorous classes, top 5%; 3 state level extracurriculars and 1 national level extracurricular, but I'm also biracial - half Asian and half white. My interviews also were good, and I'm sure my rec letters were good as well. I know that if I had been any other race, I'd likely have been accepted everywhere I applied
Should I take a gap year or apply to transfer as a freshman?
As a middle-aged old fart with enough life experience, it's always interesting to read about young people fretting about this stuff. And, now some feel like life is unfair because being white or Asian isn't the advantage it used to be.
If you are this smart -- or more likely driven, as the intelligence in your post isn't evident -- you will do well wherever you go, or whatever you decide to do for a career. I mean, you can't go around shoving your Ivy education in others' faces, but otherwise you'll be fine.
If at least fine isn't enough for you, then you're in for a sad life.
Likely not a troll. It's not politically correct, but the normal response of Asians and whites, including most Democrats, when they're rejected from colleges is to (correctly) blame affirmative action
Nah. This is on him and no one else. Take some responsibility for once, OC boi.
Preach.
This type of assholery will lose in the long run.
I mean discrimination against Asians is bad but when you ALSO act like a dbag to ppl on the other side of it, you will lose. Probably starting with the current supreme court session.
I mean discrimination against Asians is bad but when you ALSO act like a dbag to ppl on the other side of it, you will lose. Probably starting with the current supreme court session.
The OP is a dbag, you responded to the wrong post.
haha - I'd have suggested writing something more 'woke' but believable: say like "when I traveled to Uruguay/Argentina/any very white south American country, I could feel that this place was meant for me. I finally felt at home. I felt a tingling that I never had anywhere else"
Since when has being Asian or white been a privilege?
Every single person I know personally went to an Ivy was Asian or white. The argument could be made that Asians have faced some discrimination, but white people acting like they don't have the upper hand on basically almost everything historically have blinders on for sure.
I will also add that every single person I know who got into an Ivy played a sport -- football, soccer, and field hockey, to be specific.
I don't my boss's son personally, but he is Black, went to Penn ... and played football for them.
Y'all, sports or legacy is the way to go for these schools now.
Should I take a gap year and reapply after the Supreme Court likely bans affirmative action?
- 1580, 36; 4.0 unweighted in the most rigorous classes, top 5%; 3 state level extracurriculars and 1 national level extracurricular, but I'm also biracial - half Asian and half white. My interviews also were good, and I'm sure my rec letters were good as well. I know that if I had been any other race, I'd likely have been accepted everywhere I applied
Should I take a gap year or apply to transfer as a freshman?
If you got rejected everywhere, they all saw the same thing and it wasn’t your race. Something about you as a person, made you less than ideal.
The correct answer!
He says his interviews were good, but he also thought this post was good, so I have serious concerns about his connection to reality. A mere 6.5% of Harvard students are black an of that 6.5%, 4% are athletes on scholarship. If affirmative action was taking up all the spots for the grossly oppressed and victimized white/Asian population, I suspect those numbers would be higher.
You might want to check the mirror when looking for the cause of your failures.
Since when has being Asian or white been a privilege?
Every single person I know personally went to an Ivy was Asian or white. The argument could be made that Asians have faced some discrimination, but white people acting like they don't have the upper hand on basically almost everything historically have blinders on for sure.
I will also add that every single person I know who got into an Ivy played a sport -- football, soccer, and field hockey, to be specific.
I don't my boss's son personally, but he is Black, went to Penn ... and played football for them.
Y'all, sports or legacy is the way to go for these schools now.
Patrick Bamford of Leeds was offered a spot on Harvard’s soccer team before deciding to stay in the UK. You really think that guy is smart or well-rounded enough to get into Harvard otherwise? Lol!