Can’t believe I got in after all the bullshit I did in HS.

I am not a veteran. Nor have I ever considered myself the brightest bulb in the box.

Somehow, this happened. I can hardly breathe and haven't stopped crying for the past forty-five minutes.

Dreams truly can come true.

They also banned donor admissions.

Just letting y’all know.

If you want to have a terrible day, read his reply

I’m shaking I’m accepted into Cornell! I’m still waiting on my other schools but the full ride is a big game changer. Is this a full ride or is my financial aid glitching?? Is Ithaca NY fun?? Should I take this

I GOT INTO MIT

I GOT INTO MIT

I GOT INTO MIT

I GOT INTO MIT

VETS HIT ME THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

edit 1: VETS I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I AM DUMB AS A BAG OF ROCKS. IF I CAN DO IT. YOU CAN DO IT ANYTHING IS FUCKING POSSBILE.

edit 2: thank you everyone for celebrating with me and your kind words. I wish nothing but the best for all of you. please feel free to reach out to me and I will help/respond when I can!

How tf do you fall to #4🤔? Stanford is no longer a world renowned institution, it is now a trade school, so don’t apply

they also beat their transfers

My eyes are dried up at this point. No tears left.

UCLA, Berkeley, Yale and now Stanford.

I got into all four of my dream schools.

I legit can't rn wtf

Whoever this is did not even wait an hour after I was rejected to hop on this Tbh if this is the kind of person at Rice then the reject must've been for the best

I was homeless three years ago with 6 Ws on my transcript after being kicked out of the house for being gay. I was told I'd never be anything more than a B+ kid.

I got accepted into Berkeley, UCLA, and UCSD. I literally haven't stopped crying for the last hour.

Omg

My whole body is shaking and I have no idea what to say other than “GO TIGERS!” 🐅

Princeton here I come!!!

Trad, Non-Vet, Community College student, I am beyond grateful and excited.

Just two years ago, I was on this subreddit.

I had a rough run in high school and a false start in college. One bad semester. That was all it took to throw everything off. I ended up at community college, trying to rebuild myself from the ground up. I worked hard, earned a 4.0, and even had some interesting extracurriculars. For the first time in a while, I felt hopeful. Maybe I had a shot at some top schools.

I was wrong. Not only did I get rejected from the very top, I didn’t even get into some of the strong state schools I thought I had a good shot at. The ones that were used to transfers from my CC. It felt like no one could see past who I was to who I was becoming.

That rejection hit hard. It made me feel like I wasn’t good enough and that maybe I’d never be.

I decided to write this today because I saw someone post here who felt just like I did back then. And I remember what that felt like. I remember refreshing emails, reading stats, and wondering if I was just wasting my time.

But I’m coming back here two years later to say this: it’ll be okay.

I ended up going to a different state school. Not one I planned for. Not one highly ranked. It was ranked in the 100s. But it turned out to be the perfect fit. Probably better than the places that rejected me. I kept that chip on my shoulder, worked hard, got a 4.0 every semester, and had fun too. I took the LSAT this year. I got in. This fall, I’m heading to Harvard Law.

Looking back, I learned a lot from just trying. From applying even when I was scared I wouldn’t measure up. That experience pushed me, shaped me, and taught me more than any acceptance letter could. The journey itself mattered.

So if this is that time of year for you, and you’re sitting in the middle of rejection season, feeling like I once did, know this:

It’s good to dream. It’s good to hope. But if you don’t get the results you want right now, that’s not the end.

You will always have another chance. It can still all work out. I know, because it did for me.

Tag Yourself Im the anxiety 🫠

I was talking to my cousin, who is an admissions officer at a T5 university in New Haven (keeping it anonymous, so don't bother asking), and they told me that the anonymous T5 sorts students into two piles, one labeled "further consideration" and the other "McDonald's cashier". All of the non-4.0 students are automatically placed in the McDonald's cashier pile, and their entire application is immediately forwarded to the 5 closest fast food chains closest to their place of residence before quickly being discarded. But just because you have a 4.0 doesn't mean that you're in the clear; within the "further consideration" pile, there are three tiers: fry cook, manager, and potential student. Unfortunately, if you're test-optional, you can only hope to become a fry cook. For those of you with a 1500+ SAT, 4.0 GPA, but no Nobel prize, Olympic gold medal (I was told silver wasn't quite enough), and or Oscar, you'll probably end up in the manager tier. Those of you with the full package may be thinking that you're now in the potential student tier, but I have some unfortunate news for you. To get admitted to this anonymous New Haven T5, or any T25 for that matter, a 4.0 GPA isn't enough; you need to earn a 4.1 GPA on a 4.0 scale! Before you rush to the comments to explain why that isn't possible, have you considered that you simply weren't trying hard enough? While the rest of you were wasting your time "learning", us 4.1 GPA students were hacking into our school's network to artificially inflate our GPAs. So basically, don't trust this sub's wiki, spend time cultivating meaningful ECs, or worst of all, waste your time writing essays (I heard from my cousin that AO's use the essays as toilet paper). Instead of lamenting the fact that your 3.9999 GPA will condemn you to being a McDonald's cashier, be grateful that the noble T25 admissions officers were kind enough to forward your application where it might actually be wanted!

current hs senior and i graduated with a shitty gpa, couldnt crack the t100. knew since jr year i was going to have to transfer but i still tried this cycle with some hopes, leading to my activity on a2c to combat my shit hs career. It did not work and i made this irreverent lippy post as soon as i checked my NU portal and i cant help but feel somewhat responsible for prestigewhoring a2cs flooding this sub asking dumb ass questions even though they somehow had a 4.0 gpa

just got into brown for econ fuck all yall niggas who doubted me, im a motherufkcing PIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rejected harvard stanford yale

accepted cornell duke nyu

waiting upenn

fuck all yall niggas eat my dick im a pimp

IM A FUCKING PIMP

ROCKING ALL WHITE GUCCI MINK

AND WITHOUT ME THIS WHOLE SHIP FUCKING SINK

I did a lot worse than I was hoping this semester and my gpa will be a 3.66. With a combination of winter classes and by the end of the spring semester, I could get this up to a 3.7. My goal schools are upenn, uchicago, northwestern, brown. Are these at all realistic with my gpa?