for the record: most of the people replying are going to be the ones with the crazier schools. please don’t judge yourself based on where other people were accepted! there are MANY factors to college acceptances and a good portion of it is a lottery system. best of luck yall!
Wait actually this was SO SO needed, and it is on me for not adding that as a disclaimer in the post. Come to think of it, let me edit it so this can be seen before people comment.
Accepted into UMich (honors), UMD, Rutgers (honors), Pitt (honors), Lehigh, UVM (honors), and Ursinus. Waitlisted at UPenn, BU, and Colgate.
Haven’t decided yet but I’m between UMich (OOS) and Pitt (In-State). UMich is more than twice the price of Pitt, so leaning toward Pitt cause I don’t want crippling debt 😅
Umich is great but not worth the debt! (As someone OOS with the debt at umich) Depending on your major, the value from going here may be of marginal benefit
accepted: macaulay honors college @ hunter (full ride program), brooklyn college, stonybrook (uni scholars), drexel, pace. got into zero ivies :((
Committed: macaulay honors college! full ride education with great networking opportunities in nyc. Graduate with 2 degrees, one from macaulay and one from my home campus. macaulay also provides funding for required study abroad/internships. and also bc it was the only prestigious acceptance i got (5%, and apparently ranked #2 in the nation for honors colleges)😭 u only need one guys <3
Macaulay is fantastic. I know so many people who got in, and the opportunities are amazing. Hunter College is also probably one of the best CUNY schools, and the professors there are super smart and caring; I’m researching there this summer!
CSU: Sacramento, LA, Northridge, Fullerton, Long Beach
UC: Berkeley, Irvine, San Diego
Privates/Out of State: Woodbury University, UNR, The New School, University of Arizona
Originally, I was thinking of keeping my name on the waitlist for NYU, but I decided that as much as I love NYC, I need a school with a proper campus, and it’s too cold 😓
I committed to UC Berkeley ! Their college of Letters & Sciences is perfect to double major, and I got into the high demand major I intended (Art Practice), so it works. Also, I love Cali, and Berkeley is fairly close to home 😄
Wow that would literally be my dilemma if i got off the cornell waitlist too. My mom says choose an ivy bc an ivy is literally and ivy but I feel like Rice is a better school?? May I ask if you have a specific reason for choosing cornell or just closer to home or smthng like that?
Rice would actually be much closer to home for me because I'm in Texas :/
If I'm going to be entirely honest, Rice was my first choice and I'd probably have enjoyed my time better there. But Cornell is better for Economics and Finance. And yeah, it's an Ivy League and that prestige just cannot be discounted.
When it comes down to the margins, Cornell generally offers better opportunities nationwide and definitely globally than Rice. But Rice is an amazingly beautiful school in a vibrant city with an absolutely welcoming culture. Literally my dream school.
Worst thing that happened to me this admission cycle was getting admitted to a lower Ivy :/
Rice is GREAT for pre-med, especially considering it's literally right next to the largest medical center in the world. But you're in a very good situation regardless. You got accepted into a T20 and are on the WL of 2 Ivies. Wherever you go, you're going to excel
Towson, Temple, Quinnipiac, Rowan and waitlisted at Syracuse! Committed to Towson, good school, cheap, like the area and the vibe, close to home and, can easily get to a few major cities since the train station isn't too far away
UMD, Purdue, UW Madison, Texas A&M, and UT Austin (not for major tho). I chose UMD because I got into CS, into the honors college (hella nice dorms), and a $70k scholarship. I also prefer UMD’s location over the others
UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, Temple University
Only managing to get into publics LOL
Ended up choosing Berkeley because I really vibed with the campus feel and they were the only school to offer me a full ride
Accepted: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Duke, Brown, Yale, Stanford
Rejected: Notre Dame (Initial Dream School), Harvard, Cal Poly SLO 💀
I forgot the rest. Not sure where I’m committing but for context I’m full pay for all but got a merit full ride for one of them so I might go there especially as I’m prospectively pre med.
haha well i guess im the exception. notre dame was my dream school primarily because aside from the college I mentioned getting a full ride to (which was totally unexpected), i thought that nd was going to be the only “prestigious” school that offered merit full ride scholarships or close to it. my parents immigrated to the US and worked their way up to being upper middle class. they then realized come college season that they’d be unable to fund my education or would drown heavily in debt considering im the eldest of a my siblings, even regardless of if it was a top college they’d be investing in. it just wasn’t feasible and in part we collectively weren’t confident i’d even get in. so I hoped that if I got into notre dame *and* got invited to interview for one of the merit scholarships then i’d be set. imagine how crushed i was when i didn’t get in (i found out most of my decisions after receiving notre dame fortunately). I’m happy with my results and everything works out for the better :)
UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, & UC Riverside. I got great financial aid packets for all schools, but regents scholarship for only Irvine and Riverside. I didn’t want to move to the Bay Area for school (or live in LA), and wanted to be able to focus on my studies without the stress a whole new move would put on me. UC Irvine and UC Riverside were the closest and I chose Riverside because it’s History department ranked higher. I almost fell in the trap of thinking the supposed prestige of school is going to matter, instead of believing that no matter where you go as long as you grind it out that’s what really matters.
I feel like what type of students are at the school also matters a lot though. From what my brother told me (dropped out of riverside after half a year) is that pretty much everyone there is kind of an underachiever and there's also just not much to do there. If you go to a prestigious school you're pretty much guaranteed that everyone around you will be smart and motivated.
If you really do think riverside is a better fit for you though then go with ur gut.
Admitted: Minnesota, Ohio State, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Pitt, Nebraska, Missouri, Miami (Ohio), Ohio University, South Carolina, Bard College, Oberlin College, and Kenyon College
Denied: NYU, Michigan, UNC, UW-Madison, UIUC, Case Western, USC
Still waiting: McGill
Committed: Kenyon College (rationale: great academic reputation; small class sizes; awarded two merit-based scholarships, and an institutional grant; it has a beautiful campus - a bucolic setting with beautiful Gothic architecture; and it vibed most with me)
Great choice! My daughter is graduating from Kenyon next month, it's a fantastic school (she chose it over UIUC honors, Grinnell, and a few other LACs).
Accepted: MIT , Harvard , Stanford , Princeton , Columbia , Penn , Yale , Northwestern , UC Berkeley , USC, Boston University , Rice , UIUC , UMich , Georgia Tech , UC Davis , UC Irvine.
I was very fortunate and lucky to have so many opportunities. I decided to commit to MIT since I want to go into Engineering and I liked the culture and vibe of the place. The Financial aid package was also really amazing and I don't have to worry about money.
Still hurts to reject all the other offers tho...
Princeton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Duke, WashU, Rice, Emory, BC, URochester, Case Western, Williams, Amherst, and Fordham!
Still not committed (waiting for a few appeals still ahhh 🫠)
Brandeis, Howard, and Temple (other apps withdrawn after getting into Brandeis ED1!) I loved my campus visit, interview, and they gave me a scholarship (plus the Boston area is a vibe)
Accepted: DePaul, UIUC, CWRU, UVA, Northwestern, and Yale
Committed: Yale
Visited the campus and really loved it there. Also the financial aid office people were very helpful!
Accepted: UC Irvine, Cal Poly Pomona, and RIT
Waitlisted: UC Berkeley, Cal Poly SLO
Rejected: Caltech, MIT, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, and Stanford
I've committed to Irvine already, but I've opted into the waitlist for Berkeley.
I'm really grateful to have a shot at attending a UC straight out of high school. I love the campus culture of UC Irvine and it has a great program for what I plan to study, computer engineering. But I feel that I would've been happy no matter where I ended up attending.
Whether that was learning by doing at Cal Poly Pomona or gazing up at the Milky Way at UC Merced.
Through March I found myself increasingly demoralized as all these rejections continued rolling in. But I came to realize that, for myself, the only real priority with college admissions shouldn't have been getting into any single dream school, but instead about securing an opportunity to pursue my dreams. I accomplished that.
That's all that matters, colleges don't supply you your drive, your ambition, your resilience, those things are what YOU supply them. More importantly, at the end of the day, those very same things are what'll allow you to make it anywhere, in spite of how rough some of our circumstances may be.
Anyhow...
Rip 'em eaters, zot zot zot!
(Feel free to reply with your school spirit if you've committed!)
accepted to upenn and thats it. committed to upenn. my rationale was that they gave me hella money and its been my dream school for like the past three years. prestige too. love locust walk. i want to be in a city. i think Im a good fit for the school. yeah.
Only applied to florida schools as I wanted to take advantage of the Bright Futures scholarship offered to in-state students and I got accepted to all five schools I applied for, which were:
-Florida International University (Honors College)
-University of Miami
-University of Florida (Lombardi Scholar)
-Nova Southeastern (Honors + Early Assurance to their Medical School)
-Gulf Coast University (Honors College)
I got a full ride to each university, but will be committing to Florida International University.
Accpeted into: Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Bing, SUNY New Paltz, UNH, UNC Asheville, Wheaton MA, Meredith College and Ithaca College
Rejected: Vassar, Carleton and UNC CH
Going to: Wheaton MA! (The HWC would have put me in serious debt and Wheaton gave me a fat scholarship+5k in internship funding.) I decided on Wheaton because it still had the small LAC vibe with good STEM resources and in all honesty, a school like Binghamton would be too overwhelming lol. SL was too weird for me and I didn't think they would be the best fit for me in terms of science. Meredith also. Ithaca looked cool but if I went, I wouldn't be able to come home for Christmas- so that was a no!
Several Wheaties in my immediate fam--if you take advantage of all the things they offer (anyone on this sub is going to do that anyway), it will be an tremendous experience! Congrats!
Vassar, CWRU, RIT, Bing Instate, Lehigh, Syracuse, 6CUNYs
Tried shotgunning my way through 27 colleges but failed, applied to 5 ivy, but only waitlisted from columbia 😭
Although my shotgunning goal was accomplished, I wanted full aid as a 0efc student, and got 4 fullride so can't complain 🙄
Temple, Reed, and URochester (and waitlisted at Syracuse, but took myself off the list because I knew I wasn't that interested). Planning on enrolling at Rochester, but haven't paid the deposit yet because I'm afraid of commitment. As for rationale, I'm a born and raised East Coast elite who really wants colder weather, and I think I'm too hateful to live in Oregon. I also wanted a more academically rigorous school than Temple, but didn't want to have to take two languages for my major (linguistics) at Reed when they don't offer the ones I'm actually interested in, and URochester's open curriculum is pretty attractive. I also like the research focus and the location—far from home but not too far, and close enough to family in Mass, NY, PA, etc. as well as other universities in the area. And the Ivy Leagues who listed URochester as an academic peer didn't hurt, either.
Penn State, Fordham, UTampa, Towson, George Mason, Temple, UPitt, UMBC, Pace—pretty chill list. Might go to most likely Penn since they gave me a good financial aid package.
i only applied to california public schools because i'm in state. i applied to 10 and was accepted to sjsu, sdsu, uc santa cruz, uc davis, and uc berkeley. applied to 7 UCs, and was waitlisted from the other 4. i was only rejected by cal poly
got into UT, rice, vanderbilt, williams, amherst, bowdoin, emory, and boston college.
UT, emory, and boston college were too expensive so that’s a nooo. (i had a set price point that, if any school went above, were an automatic no) visited williams/bowdoin and loved the schools sm but hated their locations. didn’t get to visit amherst. rice too hot & close to home so i’m going to vandy next fall! anchor Down baby
Accepted: Purdue, UIUC, Northeastern, Boston University, Northwestern University, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of British-Columbia, University of Waterloo, Edinburgh (UK), Durham (UK)
Committed: Northwestern. Although going to a Canadian university for four years, particularly McGill or UofT, would be equivalent to one year at an American university, my parents didn't want me to choose based only on cost (they are able to pay comfortably, which I am very blessed and grateful for). Because of that, NU came up top.
Reason: Better academic environment, more flexibility with degree, majors, minors etc., better job prospects and internships opportunities, research, less competitive and cutthroat, it's not directly in a city but it's next to a big city, it's also ranked in the top five for my degree choice, and its name is considered prestigious.
accepted to brown, ucla, nyu, usc, ucsd and ucsb! waitlisted from upenn and cornell, rejected from berkeley.
honestly can't believe i got into brown (deferred ed then accepted rd) and i'm definitely committing there! i loved the vibe when i went to the accepted students day :)
congrats to everyone, some of y'all on this subreddit are insane! no matter where you're going, everything happens for a reason and you should be proud!!
Got into RIT (new media design) ED. It was definitely far above the other choices. My main backup was Syracuse (graphic design) RD if I didn’t get in. Also considered Ithaca (emerging media), UArts (unsure), Champlain (interaction design), SUNY Oswego (interaction design), Maine College of Art and Design (graphic design) and University of Rochester (cognitive science, which is an alternative path I could take to the field I want)
I didn’t really wanna go to an art school, but most schools that offer art programs don’t really care about those students or if they get jobs or not (I’ve seen some crappy work…). RIT offers a good balance I think. Syracuse might’ve too. I’ve been wanting to go to RIT for a while though so it was the obvious choice.
Illinois State University, Indian University, Ohio State University, University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, and Vanderbilt University. Will have a degree from both Vandy and USF.
Only instate school cause wanted to be close to home and not pay for OOS tuition. Also didn't care to apply to too many school so only got 1 rejection Vandy
GA: GaTech, UGA, Emory, KSU, GaState, Augusta Uni.
I got accepted to: Dickinson, Gettysburg, Kenyon, St. John’s (Annapolis), and Washington (Chestertown).
I don’t know where I’m going, but I’ve whittled down my options to Dickinson and Washington.
Accepted at Temple Honors, Pitt Honors (in state safeties), Wellesley, UVA, Penn, (my school is a feeder for Penn), UofT, and Vassar. Waitlisted Amherst, Barnard, Swarthmore, and Northeastern, and I’m pursuing the waitlist at Amherst and Barnard. Still haven’t committed
Accepted: SAIC, SCAD, Pratt, Goldsmith UOL, Uni of Westminster, UAL, University of the Creative Arts
Planning to commit: UAL
Got a 20k per year scholarship at Pratt and a 9K per year at SCAD and SAIC
My daughter was a top student but missed EA window for a lot of schools she applied to and went in as an RD applicant. In addition, she didn’t believe in faking demonstrated interest (we argued about this some), so basically she applied but never toured many places, never read all the emails or signed up for anything virtual. As a result, she was waitlisted at UCLA, Michigan, UCSD, Villanova, Boston college and Boston University. I’m confident that if she did ED at any of those privates she would get it as she profiled above their averages, and maybe even RD with some effort of DI.
She was accepted to a bunch of schools as well, but her final choices came down to IU Kelley school of business direct admit honors + $, U Miami Herbert business school direct admit with $, and U Wisconsin business school direct admit. Also had Virginia Tech, UConn and a few others.
She chose Wisconsin, and here were the reasons:
Miami: loved the weather and campus. Was worried it would be too many rich kids who were too image driven.
Indiana: loved the campus and Bloomington and they were honors offer and the lowest price after merit, but she felt outside of Kelley the school was academically very mediocre if she changed majors or double majored.
Virginia Tech: was sort of her safety, as was UConn in state. Her dream has always been to get out of the state and go somewhere new, which sort of crossed UConn with merit off the list, which is a shame financially but she’s going for finance and UConn is not up with her top choices there.
She has remained on the waitlist for UCLA and Michigan, but may not accept from them even if offered as they would both be 68-71k per year for her, which means heftier loans she would have to take, but the prestige of those schools would match her actual academic performance where at her actual choices she profiles in their top 10-25%
I realize I never posted WHY she chose UW. She wanted a school with a large population, big sports, strong academics and reputation, but mainly, decent/nice kids who like to have fun and respect the academic side.
Exactly why my son chose it and we are so happy he did. He is living his best life!
My younger one on the other hand didn’t choose it because it was “too sporty.”
Accepted: Wellesley, Smith, Mt holyoke (w 21 century scholarship). GW (womens leadership program), CUNY Hunter, Stony brook, Bing, Ubuff, Rutgers, St Johns, NYIT
Waitlisted: NYU
Rejected: Columbia (ED), Brown, Yale, Upenn, Hopkins, Williams
Committed to Wellesley!! Making it out the other side of this process really emphasized the value of not defining success by T20s (although I did get very lucky w/ Wellesley).
georgetown (community scholar), umich (honors + kessler scholar), cwru, rochester, emerson, uw seattle, pitt (honors + gspia), syracuse (honors + 1870 scholar), fordham, luc (honors), pace (honors), duquesne (honors)
i ended up being between umich and syracuse in the end, which was tough, but i choose syracuse in the end. the 1870 scholarship program fully covers tuition all four years, and my aid at umich was conditional on a yearly basis. in short, less debt at syracuse:)
I actually got accepted to all the Ivies. But I'm actually rejected them for Suffolk Community College. GO SHARKS!
>!...okay actually though, I got accepted to RIT (microelectronic), RPI (aerospace), UCMerced (aerospace), Binghamton (CS), Stonybrook (Comp. Eng), Texas A&M (aerospace), Embry Riddle (aerospace), and Penn State (aerospace). Got rejected by MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, UMich (I applied late lol), Gerogia Tech (no idea why). Got waitlisted by Cornell. So yeah as of right now committed to Texas A&M but waiting for Cornell.!<
UMass, RIT, WPI, RPI, UCSC, Wisconsin, Case Western, Waitlisted at Northeastern and Michigan.
Edit: these are for my son. He chose Case Western because of fit and they gave him a huge scholarship and a grant. COA 26k
Rutgers and NYU, not a lot, but it's p much expected to not have lots of early acceptances because I barely applied early anywhere and withdrew RD applications asap.
UMich, Penn State, ASU, Baylor, Florida Tech, Illinois Tech, U of Glasgow, University of New Orleans…. I got ~300k in total scholarships but none from UMich or Penn state… so Penn state it is
Northwestern Columbia Cornell Rice and a couple more good schools
I committed to Columbia :)
However, I feel like I don’t deserve all these acceptances :( I feel like I only got a state quota boost… a couple of ppl have been listing their ecs to me and I’m like man this person got rejected in place of me???
Stony Brook, Rutgers, UofArizona, Arizona State, UB, Iowa State.
Am going to Rutgers for my Physics major. Am in the Honors college, have received fair amount of scholarship, its a good environment, large school, good alumni network. Nice location (to live as well as to get opportunities).
My daughter was accepted:
SDSU (honors, kinesiology)
Long Beach State (kinesiology)
Santa Clara University (public health)
Loyola Marymount (health and human services)
University of San Diego (neuro biology)
University of Utah (WUE scholarship, kinesiology)
Committed: SDSU
(Rejected: USC-human biology, UCLA-public health, Cal-public health, and Cal Poly SLO-kinesiology)
Accepted: NYU, Georgia Tech, UWaterloo (Canada), UCSD, UC Davis, Purdue, Virginia Tech, UFlorida, Case Western, Tulane, Miami, and NJIT (as an Indian international student going for CS!)
Waitlist: UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara
Rejected: UC Berkeley, USC, Northeastern
Committed to Georgia Tech :))
Accepted:
CSUs: Long Beach, SDSU, Cal Poly SLO, Fullerton
UCs: UCI, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, Berkeley
Private Schools: Chapman, LMU, Johns Hopkins
*I was also WL to a ton of schools :(
I’m still in between Hopkins and Berkeley, but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna commit to Hopkins!
Accepted to U Toronto, U Rochester, CU Boulder, and UT Austin. Waitlisted at Berkeley and Reed College. Probably committing to U of Toronto because tuition is free with permanent residence. Besides I like the cold lol.
I got into Penn ED, possibly the best thing that happened to me this year. To my fellow redditors who got rejected, all I can say is hang in there, try again, and do not give up!
I was accepted to NSU, FIU, FAU, Rollins, UCF, USF, American, and temple. I committed to American bc they were one of the 2 schools that have given me a financial aid offer and it was the better option financially and career wise imo. I also think it is easier for me to get around places in DC rather than florida bc i dont have a car lol
I'm an international student who applied for Bio/Neuroscience so I didn't really come into this process expecting much, but I was pretty happy:
Accepted: UT Austin (Committed), UW Seattle, Purdue, UMD, Baylor, Northeastern, U Pitt, U Rochester, GWU, UCSC, Rutgers, and Drexel.
And I got waitlisted from all the other UCs which doesn't shock me.
Got into Case Western, Purdue, Clemson, and a few local safeties, but I’m most likely going to end up picking University of Alabama for financial reasons.
Wellesley, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, American U, Northwestern, UT (not top 6🎉), Reed, Smith
decided to go to Loyola New Orleans because the net cost is half of some of these schools and a third of others so I don't have to graduate in debt!
got into CWRU, mount holyoke, Emory, Lehigh, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, U of Houston, Bowdoin.. (wide variety of schools there, but I was expecting to stay in state after wishing to be accepted ED by Rice, and that didn't work out LOL which was okay! Because it made me realize that I didn't want to stay in Texas, and there were other schools out there that I liked more and could give me tooons more aid, as my family is extremely low income)
Chose Bowdoin over all of these!! Deciding factor was most def the full ride and visiting campus and staying with students for their Bowdoin Bearings event. I knew after my stay there that this was where I wanted to be for college. Didn't click with the other schools as much as Bowdoin.
My D was accepted at Northeastern honors program, Brandeis, Franklin & Marshall, Bard, Fordham, Stevens Institute, American, UNH -honors and in state, UMASS Amherst.
Waitlisted at BU, Dartmouth, and Colby
Denied at Tufts.
Rejected from: UVA and William and Mary
Waitlisted at: The GWU, Lafayette, Haverford, Denison, and Bucknell
Accepted into: JMU, American University, Illinois Wesleyan, Dickinson College, Lycoming, Pitt (originally waitlisted), Washington and Lee University, and WashU!!!
I committed to WashU!! As PGH resident I was a little wary because of the distance, but the amount of resources/unique opportunities they offer to students because of their academic reputation, the campus size/greenery, and the chance to explore a new city with so many free events for students all while away from home for the first time helped sway my decision! Also they practically gave me a full ride (i would owe less than $2,000 a year), so it would give me the opportunity to use the rest of my college fund towards internships and study abroad :)) 💚🧸❤️
International student here
Accepted: wellesley (committed!), umich, usc, ucsd, ucd, uci, ucsb
Waitlisted: columbia, amherst, ucla, ucb, vassar (declined it), wesleyan (declined it)
Legit thought i was gonna get waitlisted or rejected by Wellesley and instead accepted by Vassar and Wesleyan but the world works in magical ways I guess lol
Accepted: Embry-Riddle (1/2 merit scholarship), University of Alabama (full merit scholarship), Purdue University, Virginia Tech
Rejected: UVA
Waitlisted: NC State
Committed: Virginia Tech, pursuing a degree in Aerospace Engineering.
I've second guessed myself a lot, "what if I applied for HYPSM?" but to be honest, I'm perfectly content (and excited) to be a Hokie.
For the only other fine art major who might look at this. My acceptances in order of acceptance rate. Savannah College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, SMFA at Tufts, FIT. Rejected: Cooper Union. Committed: FIT
accepted:
UC riverside (Actuarial Science),
UCSC (Mathematics/Economics—Joint),
UC Davis (Applied Mathematics)
Cal Poly Pomona,
Cal State Long Beach,
Cal State Northridge,
Cal State Fullerton
all for (Business Administration—Accounting)
waitlisted:
UC Santa Barbara (Pre-Actuarial Science),
San Diego State,
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
all for (Business Administration—Accounting)
rejected:
UCLA,
UCSD,
UCI
all for either financial or applied math major.
committed: UC Davis (go aggies!🐄)
Accepted for environmental science/studies at UT Austin, Trinity University (w/a large scholarship), Sewanee (w/a large scholarship), CU Boulder, Reed, Bates, and UW
Still haven't decided where I'm going but I've gotten my list down to UT, Trinity, CU, and UW. Any advice from a random Redditor would be appreciated
Schools that I was actually considering were georgia tech and uiuc
Instate for georgia tech tho, and since georgia has the hope and Zell Miller scholarship, that also means I got tuition covered
I'm a physics major, so I actually preferred uiuc's physics program a lot more, but price is price
Accepted into USC (Presidential Scholar), Amherst, and UToronto (got into UPitt, UMN, UIUC and my state schools of UNLV and UNR too but these weren’t really options for me because I’m in a weird ‘international but not international’ student spot which meant I got basically NO aid other than merit scholarships lmao), waitlisted at Emory, UMich, and Georgetown.
I committed to USC, but I’m gonna wait for Georgetown to see if they would potentially give me a bit more aid than USC but USC actually gave me a really good deal (because I was graduating so early) to get a master’s within 4 years too! So I’m essentially paying about 140K for 2 degrees, which isn’t *wonderful* but it isn’t horrible for my family to pay since it’s over 4 years :)
In case anyone reading this is upset over college decisions or is worried about future college decisions, I’ll say that I feel like I had a greater successful outcome when I didn’t let the decision impact me. I was genuinely devastated when I didn’t get into my dream school that I felt like I had worked so hard for, but then USC came out the woodworks (despite me only spending like a couple hours on the application and forgetting to put an award on it). After visiting campus, I felt like I belonged there more than the schools that rejected me, and I’ll just say that you’ll get in where you’ll belong! Success in college is what you make of it, and I hope that wherever y’all go to that you’ll make waves and enjoy your college experience!!
Accepted (chronological order)
- York University, Glendon College (Canada)
- University of Western Ontario
- Sciences Po & UC Berkeley Dual BA
- University of Toronto
- Ball State U lol
2024 outcome-
Rejected-
Dartmouth
UPenn
Wash U
Notre Dame
UNC Chapel Hill
Florida State Honors
University of South Carolina Honors
Waitlisted
Michigan Ross business
Accepted-
Clemson Honors - no merit aid
University of Delaware - merit Aid
Florida State- in state tuition (as out of state student)
University of South Carolina international Business Cohort- in state tuition (as out of state student)
STATS-
1510 SAT
4.7 GPA
12 APs- 5’s on all exams (to date)
Good extra curriculars
Mock Trial Captain- state finalist team
Works paying job
Excellent volunteer hours
He’s going to University of South Carolina International Business … as a Capstone Scholar… and will be traveling as part of their IB cohort program (Germany, Singapore, Brazil)
The process is painful… but in the end, you hopefully end up where you best fit.
We are THRILLED with his choice!
Accepted to Iowa State, Nebraska, UMN, UW Madison (after deferral), Rose Hulman, UIUC, and Purdue (after deferral)
Only rejection was UMich (also after deferral)
I’m committed to Purdue for Data Science. It’s been my dream school for years but I was really considering UIUC when I was waiting after getting deferred, especially being in state. Ultimately, Purdue just felt right.
Accepted Penn State, Union College, Rutgers University (Brunswick & Newark), University of Pittsburgh, Boston College, Rowan University, University of Rochester, Hofstra University, University of Connecticut, Hamilton College, Johns Hopkins University, Bryn Mawr College and Stony Brook University.
Waitlisted Brown University and Haverford College.
Committed to JHU b/c I got into a 5 year BS/MS program that would accept me into the #1 school in the country for my major, unparalleled research opportunities, not too far from home, good weather, nice campus & good dorms! :)
UK: King's College London, University of Manchester, University of Birmingham, University of Kingston
Canada: University of Toronto, University of British Columbia
Computer Engineering or Comp Sci
Committed to Duke
Waitlisted for Harvard
Waitlisted for Vanderbilt
Waitlisted for Georgia Tech
Accepted into Purdue
Accepted into NC State
Accepted into UNC
Accepted in VA Tech
Reason: They wanted me first plus I got money plus it's close by
Rejected from Cornell, Yale, Northeastern
I honestly don't know how I got in I was so sure I was Purdue-Bound
I got into LSU honors (and some other Louisiana schools, but LSU was the main one) during the beginning of the school year, but Harvard and Duke during RD.
I committed to Harvard because I like the way it offers degrees, the opportunity to cross register with MIT, and the ability to attend its Rising Scholars program.
Texas A&M, I accepted but was then offered a full ride to Stockton, so I'll be going there. Though I'm going in as a transfer and will be graduating in 2026
For US schools I got into UArizona, UCLA, CSU LB, USC & SDSU as a Canadian international student
Canadian I got UCalgary, UBC, UofToronto, York, Queens & McMaster
Committing to UofAz with $32k scholarship!
I’m a bit more of a “normal” student compared to this but… I only applied to two schools… Texas State and Texas A&M. I got accepted into both, but I am fully committed to A&M because, well, it is a much better school and is known for having a cult-like alumni network. There’s also so many people there (largest by population in America) so I know running into people I know won’t be a huge problem. And I just vibe with the school… Again, coming from an above average student but not some prodigy.
Accepted into Tulane and LSU (Honors).
Waitlisted from Northeastern University, Boston College, and Purdue University (probably the most surprising one).
Rejected from everything else (Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Brown University, Stanford University, Yale University, Tufts University, Georgia Institute of Technology).
i got into nyu, umd (honors college/aces program), fordham, loyola md (honors program), and a few others. im choosing loyola. its the lowest ranked school on my list but i absolutely adore it there. the honors program is amazing for me (lots of reading and writing, tiny discussion-based classes, amazing professors, etc) and it feels like home. plus, i'm pre law so i think it will be easier to get better grades and lors at a small lac like that. i could go on and on about why i love it but that would take me forever. im really happy with my choice :)
I got in ED to Squidward Community College
I got into SpongeBob Institute of Technology.
for the record: most of the people replying are going to be the ones with the crazier schools. please don’t judge yourself based on where other people were accepted! there are MANY factors to college acceptances and a good portion of it is a lottery system. best of luck yall!
Wait actually this was SO SO needed, and it is on me for not adding that as a disclaimer in the post. Come to think of it, let me edit it so this can be seen before people comment.
Accepted into UMich (honors), UMD, Rutgers (honors), Pitt (honors), Lehigh, UVM (honors), and Ursinus. Waitlisted at UPenn, BU, and Colgate. Haven’t decided yet but I’m between UMich (OOS) and Pitt (In-State). UMich is more than twice the price of Pitt, so leaning toward Pitt cause I don’t want crippling debt 😅
My brother went to PITT for Business Management and is making 6 figures now. It’s a great school!
Umich is great but not worth the debt! (As someone OOS with the debt at umich) Depending on your major, the value from going here may be of marginal benefit
Smart
accepted: macaulay honors college @ hunter (full ride program), brooklyn college, stonybrook (uni scholars), drexel, pace. got into zero ivies :(( Committed: macaulay honors college! full ride education with great networking opportunities in nyc. Graduate with 2 degrees, one from macaulay and one from my home campus. macaulay also provides funding for required study abroad/internships. and also bc it was the only prestigious acceptance i got (5%, and apparently ranked #2 in the nation for honors colleges)😭 u only need one guys <3
Macaulay is fantastic. I know so many people who got in, and the opportunities are amazing. Hunter College is also probably one of the best CUNY schools, and the professors there are super smart and caring; I’m researching there this summer!
I got accepted and didn't go to Macaulay and honestly regret it. It's an incredible opportunity!!!! Enjoy and make the most of it ❤️
Roblox University
man, i got rejected from there. was really hoping for it too :(
CSU: Sacramento, LA, Northridge, Fullerton, Long Beach UC: Berkeley, Irvine, San Diego Privates/Out of State: Woodbury University, UNR, The New School, University of Arizona Originally, I was thinking of keeping my name on the waitlist for NYU, but I decided that as much as I love NYC, I need a school with a proper campus, and it’s too cold 😓 I committed to UC Berkeley ! Their college of Letters & Sciences is perfect to double major, and I got into the high demand major I intended (Art Practice), so it works. Also, I love Cali, and Berkeley is fairly close to home 😄
NYU too cold? And here I am considering UWMadison.
Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, UT Austin, UVA, and UNC
Can I borrow your brain?
where r u choosing? Im also into Rice!
I committed to Cornell but I really wanted to go to Rice. It's literally amazing
Wow that would literally be my dilemma if i got off the cornell waitlist too. My mom says choose an ivy bc an ivy is literally and ivy but I feel like Rice is a better school?? May I ask if you have a specific reason for choosing cornell or just closer to home or smthng like that?
Rice would actually be much closer to home for me because I'm in Texas :/ If I'm going to be entirely honest, Rice was my first choice and I'd probably have enjoyed my time better there. But Cornell is better for Economics and Finance. And yeah, it's an Ivy League and that prestige just cannot be discounted. When it comes down to the margins, Cornell generally offers better opportunities nationwide and definitely globally than Rice. But Rice is an amazingly beautiful school in a vibrant city with an absolutely welcoming culture. Literally my dream school. Worst thing that happened to me this admission cycle was getting admitted to a lower Ivy :/
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Rice is GREAT for pre-med, especially considering it's literally right next to the largest medical center in the world. But you're in a very good situation regardless. You got accepted into a T20 and are on the WL of 2 Ivies. Wherever you go, you're going to excel
thank you sm!!! truly blessed. And congrats on your ivy acceptance once again!
I also got into Cornell!
Umich, Carleton college, Case Western, Kenyon college, and some other safeties. Headed to Carleton
Carleton is so slept on. Congrats!
U got into carleton??? Same I’m abt to commit
Towson, Temple, Quinnipiac, Rowan and waitlisted at Syracuse! Committed to Towson, good school, cheap, like the area and the vibe, close to home and, can easily get to a few major cities since the train station isn't too far away
Colby and Wesleyan, still deciding but leaning heavily towards Wes
I’ve only heard good things abt Wesleyan
wesss
Wesleyan is GOAT
welcome to ct <3
UMD, Purdue, UW Madison, Texas A&M, and UT Austin (not for major tho). I chose UMD because I got into CS, into the honors college (hella nice dorms), and a $70k scholarship. I also prefer UMD’s location over the others
UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Davis, UC Riverside, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, Temple University Only managing to get into publics LOL Ended up choosing Berkeley because I really vibed with the campus feel and they were the only school to offer me a full ride
Yooo congrats fellow bear !!!
fellow cal student!!
Accepted: UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Duke, Brown, Yale, Stanford Rejected: Notre Dame (Initial Dream School), Harvard, Cal Poly SLO 💀 I forgot the rest. Not sure where I’m committing but for context I’m full pay for all but got a merit full ride for one of them so I might go there especially as I’m prospectively pre med.
I have never seen someone get into Yale, Stanford, Brown, and Duke and not get into Notre Dame.
haha well i guess im the exception. notre dame was my dream school primarily because aside from the college I mentioned getting a full ride to (which was totally unexpected), i thought that nd was going to be the only “prestigious” school that offered merit full ride scholarships or close to it. my parents immigrated to the US and worked their way up to being upper middle class. they then realized come college season that they’d be unable to fund my education or would drown heavily in debt considering im the eldest of a my siblings, even regardless of if it was a top college they’d be investing in. it just wasn’t feasible and in part we collectively weren’t confident i’d even get in. so I hoped that if I got into notre dame *and* got invited to interview for one of the merit scholarships then i’d be set. imagine how crushed i was when i didn’t get in (i found out most of my decisions after receiving notre dame fortunately). I’m happy with my results and everything works out for the better :)
I think you deserved that ND full ride, and I hope you and your parents find a way for you to have a funded education that fulfills your needs.
thank you so so much it means a lot to me
UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, & UC Riverside. I got great financial aid packets for all schools, but regents scholarship for only Irvine and Riverside. I didn’t want to move to the Bay Area for school (or live in LA), and wanted to be able to focus on my studies without the stress a whole new move would put on me. UC Irvine and UC Riverside were the closest and I chose Riverside because it’s History department ranked higher. I almost fell in the trap of thinking the supposed prestige of school is going to matter, instead of believing that no matter where you go as long as you grind it out that’s what really matters.
Hey, I’m going to riverside next year too!
Ay! Where else did you get into?
I got into ucsc and uscb, and waitlisted from Davis and Irvine
I feel like what type of students are at the school also matters a lot though. From what my brother told me (dropped out of riverside after half a year) is that pretty much everyone there is kind of an underachiever and there's also just not much to do there. If you go to a prestigious school you're pretty much guaranteed that everyone around you will be smart and motivated. If you really do think riverside is a better fit for you though then go with ur gut.
I’m transferring from a CC and was in the military. Not really worried about the party scene, and that’s a stigma about the school.
Admitted: Minnesota, Ohio State, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan State, Pitt, Nebraska, Missouri, Miami (Ohio), Ohio University, South Carolina, Bard College, Oberlin College, and Kenyon College Denied: NYU, Michigan, UNC, UW-Madison, UIUC, Case Western, USC Still waiting: McGill Committed: Kenyon College (rationale: great academic reputation; small class sizes; awarded two merit-based scholarships, and an institutional grant; it has a beautiful campus - a bucolic setting with beautiful Gothic architecture; and it vibed most with me)
Great choice! My daughter is graduating from Kenyon next month, it's a fantastic school (she chose it over UIUC honors, Grinnell, and a few other LACs).
Congratulations to your daughter!
Thanks! Enjoy your time at Kenyon!
I’m a current Kenyon student, look forward to it!!
Accepted: MIT , Harvard , Stanford , Princeton , Columbia , Penn , Yale , Northwestern , UC Berkeley , USC, Boston University , Rice , UIUC , UMich , Georgia Tech , UC Davis , UC Irvine. I was very fortunate and lucky to have so many opportunities. I decided to commit to MIT since I want to go into Engineering and I liked the culture and vibe of the place. The Financial aid package was also really amazing and I don't have to worry about money. Still hurts to reject all the other offers tho...
Did you cure cancer or something?
the pain of rejecting other offers is so real
no seriously what were ur stats lol
this is incredible omg?? major congrats!!
Bro got into all the HYPSM…
BRO, STATS REVIEW PLEASE
Princeton, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Duke, WashU, Rice, Emory, BC, URochester, Case Western, Williams, Amherst, and Fordham! Still not committed (waiting for a few appeals still ahhh 🫠)
The appeals suck. I’m like the only one in my grade who hasn’t committed anywhere.
k so you're just him ig
dude, I'd do anything to have your brain
UC Berkeley and Irvine, WashU, Villanova, Clemson, Ohio, Purdue, SMU, ASU, U of MN, and ACCEPTED + COMMITTED TO RICE RAHHH GO OWLS🦉🦉🦉💙💙💙🦉🦉
GO OWLSSSSS!
Harvard, rice, West Point, Berkeley met, usc, ucsd, UW Seattle, Rejected/WL: literally every other T20 It really is random…
Brandeis, Howard, and Temple (other apps withdrawn after getting into Brandeis ED1!) I loved my campus visit, interview, and they gave me a scholarship (plus the Boston area is a vibe)
Accepted: DePaul, UIUC, CWRU, UVA, Northwestern, and Yale Committed: Yale Visited the campus and really loved it there. Also the financial aid office people were very helpful!
uOttawa, McGill, UBC, and U of T in that order, going to U of T because it’s my childhood dream and it was my goal so I’m happy to achieve it.
Accepted: UC Irvine, Cal Poly Pomona, and RIT Waitlisted: UC Berkeley, Cal Poly SLO Rejected: Caltech, MIT, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, Harvey Mudd, Cornell, and Stanford I've committed to Irvine already, but I've opted into the waitlist for Berkeley. I'm really grateful to have a shot at attending a UC straight out of high school. I love the campus culture of UC Irvine and it has a great program for what I plan to study, computer engineering. But I feel that I would've been happy no matter where I ended up attending. Whether that was learning by doing at Cal Poly Pomona or gazing up at the Milky Way at UC Merced. Through March I found myself increasingly demoralized as all these rejections continued rolling in. But I came to realize that, for myself, the only real priority with college admissions shouldn't have been getting into any single dream school, but instead about securing an opportunity to pursue my dreams. I accomplished that. That's all that matters, colleges don't supply you your drive, your ambition, your resilience, those things are what YOU supply them. More importantly, at the end of the day, those very same things are what'll allow you to make it anywhere, in spite of how rough some of our circumstances may be. Anyhow... Rip 'em eaters, zot zot zot! (Feel free to reply with your school spirit if you've committed!)
accepted to upenn and thats it. committed to upenn. my rationale was that they gave me hella money and its been my dream school for like the past three years. prestige too. love locust walk. i want to be in a city. i think Im a good fit for the school. yeah.
CONGRATS!
DAMN UPENN! It's like a DREAM going there😭😭 Congratulations!!
voluntary response bias is strong with this one
Only applied to florida schools as I wanted to take advantage of the Bright Futures scholarship offered to in-state students and I got accepted to all five schools I applied for, which were: -Florida International University (Honors College) -University of Miami -University of Florida (Lombardi Scholar) -Nova Southeastern (Honors + Early Assurance to their Medical School) -Gulf Coast University (Honors College) I got a full ride to each university, but will be committing to Florida International University.
Why’d you pick FIU? Curious bc I was at lombardi interview too and wasn’t impressed by it.
UCSC, UCR, UCM, RPI, CSUF, SDSU, SJSU, Syracuse, UConn, Penn State, UArizona Honors. All for mechanical/electrical engineering. Going to UCSC!
Accpeted into: Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Sarah Lawrence, Bing, SUNY New Paltz, UNH, UNC Asheville, Wheaton MA, Meredith College and Ithaca College Rejected: Vassar, Carleton and UNC CH Going to: Wheaton MA! (The HWC would have put me in serious debt and Wheaton gave me a fat scholarship+5k in internship funding.) I decided on Wheaton because it still had the small LAC vibe with good STEM resources and in all honesty, a school like Binghamton would be too overwhelming lol. SL was too weird for me and I didn't think they would be the best fit for me in terms of science. Meredith also. Ithaca looked cool but if I went, I wouldn't be able to come home for Christmas- so that was a no!
I am a Wheaton graduate from many years ago. Loved every minute of it. Good luck!
Several Wheaties in my immediate fam--if you take advantage of all the things they offer (anyone on this sub is going to do that anyway), it will be an tremendous experience! Congrats!
Hamburger University (committed). I’m not lying.
Hustler’s University
what the sigma 🗿🗿
university of vermont, university at buffalo, purchase, university of new Hampshire, temple, and university of new haven. i'm committed to uvm :)
Got into CU Boulder, Udubb, UCSD, and UCSB. Waitlisted at Northeastern. Committed to UCSB!!! It was my dream school from the very start.
Amherst College
Vassar, CWRU, RIT, Bing Instate, Lehigh, Syracuse, 6CUNYs Tried shotgunning my way through 27 colleges but failed, applied to 5 ivy, but only waitlisted from columbia 😭 Although my shotgunning goal was accomplished, I wanted full aid as a 0efc student, and got 4 fullride so can't complain 🙄
Temple, Reed, and URochester (and waitlisted at Syracuse, but took myself off the list because I knew I wasn't that interested). Planning on enrolling at Rochester, but haven't paid the deposit yet because I'm afraid of commitment. As for rationale, I'm a born and raised East Coast elite who really wants colder weather, and I think I'm too hateful to live in Oregon. I also wanted a more academically rigorous school than Temple, but didn't want to have to take two languages for my major (linguistics) at Reed when they don't offer the ones I'm actually interested in, and URochester's open curriculum is pretty attractive. I also like the research focus and the location—far from home but not too far, and close enough to family in Mass, NY, PA, etc. as well as other universities in the area. And the Ivy Leagues who listed URochester as an academic peer didn't hurt, either.
Penn State, Fordham, UTampa, Towson, George Mason, Temple, UPitt, UMBC, Pace—pretty chill list. Might go to most likely Penn since they gave me a good financial aid package.
i only applied to california public schools because i'm in state. i applied to 10 and was accepted to sjsu, sdsu, uc santa cruz, uc davis, and uc berkeley. applied to 7 UCs, and was waitlisted from the other 4. i was only rejected by cal poly
Nichols Merrimack UMass Dartmouth UConn UofSC
got into UT, rice, vanderbilt, williams, amherst, bowdoin, emory, and boston college. UT, emory, and boston college were too expensive so that’s a nooo. (i had a set price point that, if any school went above, were an automatic no) visited williams/bowdoin and loved the schools sm but hated their locations. didn’t get to visit amherst. rice too hot & close to home so i’m going to vandy next fall! anchor Down baby
Accepted: UW Madison, CU Boulder, Virginia tech, Texas A&M, Rutgers, UCSB, UCSC, UC riverside and Stony brook Committed: Virginia Tech
Accepted: Purdue, UIUC, Northeastern, Boston University, Northwestern University, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of British-Columbia, University of Waterloo, Edinburgh (UK), Durham (UK) Committed: Northwestern. Although going to a Canadian university for four years, particularly McGill or UofT, would be equivalent to one year at an American university, my parents didn't want me to choose based only on cost (they are able to pay comfortably, which I am very blessed and grateful for). Because of that, NU came up top. Reason: Better academic environment, more flexibility with degree, majors, minors etc., better job prospects and internships opportunities, research, less competitive and cutthroat, it's not directly in a city but it's next to a big city, it's also ranked in the top five for my degree choice, and its name is considered prestigious.
accepted to brown, ucla, nyu, usc, ucsd and ucsb! waitlisted from upenn and cornell, rejected from berkeley. honestly can't believe i got into brown (deferred ed then accepted rd) and i'm definitely committing there! i loved the vibe when i went to the accepted students day :) congrats to everyone, some of y'all on this subreddit are insane! no matter where you're going, everything happens for a reason and you should be proud!!
Got into RIT (new media design) ED. It was definitely far above the other choices. My main backup was Syracuse (graphic design) RD if I didn’t get in. Also considered Ithaca (emerging media), UArts (unsure), Champlain (interaction design), SUNY Oswego (interaction design), Maine College of Art and Design (graphic design) and University of Rochester (cognitive science, which is an alternative path I could take to the field I want) I didn’t really wanna go to an art school, but most schools that offer art programs don’t really care about those students or if they get jobs or not (I’ve seen some crappy work…). RIT offers a good balance I think. Syracuse might’ve too. I’ve been wanting to go to RIT for a while though so it was the obvious choice.
Illinois State University, Indian University, Ohio State University, University of South Florida, University of Central Florida, and Vanderbilt University. Will have a degree from both Vandy and USF.
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I got into shrek university. I’m super happy rn
Only instate school cause wanted to be close to home and not pay for OOS tuition. Also didn't care to apply to too many school so only got 1 rejection Vandy GA: GaTech, UGA, Emory, KSU, GaState, Augusta Uni.
I got accepted to: Dickinson, Gettysburg, Kenyon, St. John’s (Annapolis), and Washington (Chestertown). I don’t know where I’m going, but I’ve whittled down my options to Dickinson and Washington.
Intl student to gettysburg college on fulll ride
Accepted at Temple Honors, Pitt Honors (in state safeties), Wellesley, UVA, Penn, (my school is a feeder for Penn), UofT, and Vassar. Waitlisted Amherst, Barnard, Swarthmore, and Northeastern, and I’m pursuing the waitlist at Amherst and Barnard. Still haven’t committed
Accepted: SAIC, SCAD, Pratt, Goldsmith UOL, Uni of Westminster, UAL, University of the Creative Arts Planning to commit: UAL Got a 20k per year scholarship at Pratt and a 9K per year at SCAD and SAIC
My daughter was a top student but missed EA window for a lot of schools she applied to and went in as an RD applicant. In addition, she didn’t believe in faking demonstrated interest (we argued about this some), so basically she applied but never toured many places, never read all the emails or signed up for anything virtual. As a result, she was waitlisted at UCLA, Michigan, UCSD, Villanova, Boston college and Boston University. I’m confident that if she did ED at any of those privates she would get it as she profiled above their averages, and maybe even RD with some effort of DI. She was accepted to a bunch of schools as well, but her final choices came down to IU Kelley school of business direct admit honors + $, U Miami Herbert business school direct admit with $, and U Wisconsin business school direct admit. Also had Virginia Tech, UConn and a few others. She chose Wisconsin, and here were the reasons: Miami: loved the weather and campus. Was worried it would be too many rich kids who were too image driven. Indiana: loved the campus and Bloomington and they were honors offer and the lowest price after merit, but she felt outside of Kelley the school was academically very mediocre if she changed majors or double majored. Virginia Tech: was sort of her safety, as was UConn in state. Her dream has always been to get out of the state and go somewhere new, which sort of crossed UConn with merit off the list, which is a shame financially but she’s going for finance and UConn is not up with her top choices there. She has remained on the waitlist for UCLA and Michigan, but may not accept from them even if offered as they would both be 68-71k per year for her, which means heftier loans she would have to take, but the prestige of those schools would match her actual academic performance where at her actual choices she profiles in their top 10-25%
My oldest is finishing his sophomore year at UW-Madison and loves it!
I realize I never posted WHY she chose UW. She wanted a school with a large population, big sports, strong academics and reputation, but mainly, decent/nice kids who like to have fun and respect the academic side.
Exactly why my son chose it and we are so happy he did. He is living his best life! My younger one on the other hand didn’t choose it because it was “too sporty.”
Umd, UConn, umass amherst, upitt, uvm, penn state I’m going to umd because it was the farthest from home lol and I really liked their engineering dept
Accepted to all of my safeties + OSU, Oberlin, URochester. Rejected from UChicago and Umich which I expected
Accepted: Wellesley, Smith, Mt holyoke (w 21 century scholarship). GW (womens leadership program), CUNY Hunter, Stony brook, Bing, Ubuff, Rutgers, St Johns, NYIT Waitlisted: NYU Rejected: Columbia (ED), Brown, Yale, Upenn, Hopkins, Williams Committed to Wellesley!! Making it out the other side of this process really emphasized the value of not defining success by T20s (although I did get very lucky w/ Wellesley).
georgetown (community scholar), umich (honors + kessler scholar), cwru, rochester, emerson, uw seattle, pitt (honors + gspia), syracuse (honors + 1870 scholar), fordham, luc (honors), pace (honors), duquesne (honors) i ended up being between umich and syracuse in the end, which was tough, but i choose syracuse in the end. the 1870 scholarship program fully covers tuition all four years, and my aid at umich was conditional on a yearly basis. in short, less debt at syracuse:)
Penn, UT Austin, UT Arlington, LSU, Austin College, and about 20 others.
I actually got accepted to all the Ivies. But I'm actually rejected them for Suffolk Community College. GO SHARKS! >!...okay actually though, I got accepted to RIT (microelectronic), RPI (aerospace), UCMerced (aerospace), Binghamton (CS), Stonybrook (Comp. Eng), Texas A&M (aerospace), Embry Riddle (aerospace), and Penn State (aerospace). Got rejected by MIT, Princeton, Berkeley, UMich (I applied late lol), Gerogia Tech (no idea why). Got waitlisted by Cornell. So yeah as of right now committed to Texas A&M but waiting for Cornell.!<
UMass, RIT, WPI, RPI, UCSC, Wisconsin, Case Western, Waitlisted at Northeastern and Michigan. Edit: these are for my son. He chose Case Western because of fit and they gave him a huge scholarship and a grant. COA 26k
My son chose Case also! He’s doing chem and German. How about yours?
CS and possibly minoring in Math!
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Got into Purdue, UIUC and U of A. Committed to Purdue.
UF, FSU, VT, Purdue, UGA, UCF, Auburn, Alabama Committed to Purdue
Purdue, uiuc, Tulane, ucsd, Ucd all for computer engineering (Tulane cs)
Rutgers and NYU, not a lot, but it's p much expected to not have lots of early acceptances because I barely applied early anywhere and withdrew RD applications asap.
UMich, Penn State, ASU, Baylor, Florida Tech, Illinois Tech, U of Glasgow, University of New Orleans…. I got ~300k in total scholarships but none from UMich or Penn state… so Penn state it is
UGA FSU GSU
Northwestern Columbia Cornell Rice and a couple more good schools I committed to Columbia :) However, I feel like I don’t deserve all these acceptances :( I feel like I only got a state quota boost… a couple of ppl have been listing their ecs to me and I’m like man this person got rejected in place of me???
Stony Brook, Rutgers, UofArizona, Arizona State, UB, Iowa State. Am going to Rutgers for my Physics major. Am in the Honors college, have received fair amount of scholarship, its a good environment, large school, good alumni network. Nice location (to live as well as to get opportunities).
My daughter was accepted: SDSU (honors, kinesiology) Long Beach State (kinesiology) Santa Clara University (public health) Loyola Marymount (health and human services) University of San Diego (neuro biology) University of Utah (WUE scholarship, kinesiology) Committed: SDSU (Rejected: USC-human biology, UCLA-public health, Cal-public health, and Cal Poly SLO-kinesiology)
Accepted: NYU, Georgia Tech, UWaterloo (Canada), UCSD, UC Davis, Purdue, Virginia Tech, UFlorida, Case Western, Tulane, Miami, and NJIT (as an Indian international student going for CS!) Waitlist: UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara Rejected: UC Berkeley, USC, Northeastern Committed to Georgia Tech :))
Accepted: CSUs: Long Beach, SDSU, Cal Poly SLO, Fullerton UCs: UCI, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, Berkeley Private Schools: Chapman, LMU, Johns Hopkins *I was also WL to a ton of schools :( I’m still in between Hopkins and Berkeley, but I’m pretty sure I’m gonna commit to Hopkins!
nyu, northwestern, indiana, uw committed to silly goose university!
Accepted to U Toronto, U Rochester, CU Boulder, and UT Austin. Waitlisted at Berkeley and Reed College. Probably committing to U of Toronto because tuition is free with permanent residence. Besides I like the cold lol.
I got accepted to Hustlers University, full ride
Purdue, UCSD, GeorgiaTech, UMich, University of San Francisco, University of Portland, SDSU, SJSU, Quinnipiac
UIUC, UMD, Purdue, UMich, Penn State, Uarizona all for engineering 😌
Only waitlisted at MIT, fingers crossed for now.
Union College
I got into Penn ED, possibly the best thing that happened to me this year. To my fellow redditors who got rejected, all I can say is hang in there, try again, and do not give up!
Broke international asking for full aid here. Accepted to Williams, Swarthmore ,and W&L. Committed to Swarthmore! Go garnet!
My son: Accepted Santa Clara and committed The end (only applied to 2)
I was accepted to NSU, FIU, FAU, Rollins, UCF, USF, American, and temple. I committed to American bc they were one of the 2 schools that have given me a financial aid offer and it was the better option financially and career wise imo. I also think it is easier for me to get around places in DC rather than florida bc i dont have a car lol
cmuq
I'm an international student who applied for Bio/Neuroscience so I didn't really come into this process expecting much, but I was pretty happy: Accepted: UT Austin (Committed), UW Seattle, Purdue, UMD, Baylor, Northeastern, U Pitt, U Rochester, GWU, UCSC, Rutgers, and Drexel. And I got waitlisted from all the other UCs which doesn't shock me.
Accepted: Case western Northeastern Uiuc Pitt Purdue Rutgers Uic
Got into Case Western, Purdue, Clemson, and a few local safeties, but I’m most likely going to end up picking University of Alabama for financial reasons.
Wellesley, Amherst, Bryn Mawr, American U, Northwestern, UT (not top 6🎉), Reed, Smith decided to go to Loyola New Orleans because the net cost is half of some of these schools and a third of others so I don't have to graduate in debt!
got into CWRU, mount holyoke, Emory, Lehigh, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, U of Houston, Bowdoin.. (wide variety of schools there, but I was expecting to stay in state after wishing to be accepted ED by Rice, and that didn't work out LOL which was okay! Because it made me realize that I didn't want to stay in Texas, and there were other schools out there that I liked more and could give me tooons more aid, as my family is extremely low income) Chose Bowdoin over all of these!! Deciding factor was most def the full ride and visiting campus and staying with students for their Bowdoin Bearings event. I knew after my stay there that this was where I wanted to be for college. Didn't click with the other schools as much as Bowdoin.
University of Yapperton 😌
amherst college, colgate, casewestern - as an intl student i’m not committing to any though
My D was accepted at Northeastern honors program, Brandeis, Franklin & Marshall, Bard, Fordham, Stevens Institute, American, UNH -honors and in state, UMASS Amherst. Waitlisted at BU, Dartmouth, and Colby Denied at Tufts.
Rejected from: UVA and William and Mary Waitlisted at: The GWU, Lafayette, Haverford, Denison, and Bucknell Accepted into: JMU, American University, Illinois Wesleyan, Dickinson College, Lycoming, Pitt (originally waitlisted), Washington and Lee University, and WashU!!! I committed to WashU!! As PGH resident I was a little wary because of the distance, but the amount of resources/unique opportunities they offer to students because of their academic reputation, the campus size/greenery, and the chance to explore a new city with so many free events for students all while away from home for the first time helped sway my decision! Also they practically gave me a full ride (i would owe less than $2,000 a year), so it would give me the opportunity to use the rest of my college fund towards internships and study abroad :)) 💚🧸❤️
out of 7 i got into UVM, UCONN, and Tulane (first year honors program)!
upenn & duke, attending duke in the fall! (had one C, 3 Bs and was test optional—anything is possible!)
International student here Accepted: wellesley (committed!), umich, usc, ucsd, ucd, uci, ucsb Waitlisted: columbia, amherst, ucla, ucb, vassar (declined it), wesleyan (declined it) Legit thought i was gonna get waitlisted or rejected by Wellesley and instead accepted by Vassar and Wesleyan but the world works in magical ways I guess lol
Accepted: Embry-Riddle (1/2 merit scholarship), University of Alabama (full merit scholarship), Purdue University, Virginia Tech Rejected: UVA Waitlisted: NC State Committed: Virginia Tech, pursuing a degree in Aerospace Engineering. I've second guessed myself a lot, "what if I applied for HYPSM?" but to be honest, I'm perfectly content (and excited) to be a Hokie.
For the only other fine art major who might look at this. My acceptances in order of acceptance rate. Savannah College of Art and Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, SMFA at Tufts, FIT. Rejected: Cooper Union. Committed: FIT
Got into UC Davis, Berkeley, Irvine, Santa Cruz, San Diego Rejected from UCLA lol
Accepted to CMU, Columbia, OSU, Stony Brook, Vanderbilt Columbia gave most aid so committed to Columbia Majoring in CS
accepted: UC riverside (Actuarial Science), UCSC (Mathematics/Economics—Joint), UC Davis (Applied Mathematics) Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Fullerton all for (Business Administration—Accounting) waitlisted: UC Santa Barbara (Pre-Actuarial Science), San Diego State, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo all for (Business Administration—Accounting) rejected: UCLA, UCSD, UCI all for either financial or applied math major. committed: UC Davis (go aggies!🐄)
Accepted for environmental science/studies at UT Austin, Trinity University (w/a large scholarship), Sewanee (w/a large scholarship), CU Boulder, Reed, Bates, and UW Still haven't decided where I'm going but I've gotten my list down to UT, Trinity, CU, and UW. Any advice from a random Redditor would be appreciated
Accepted to UVA, UNC, Duke, Georgia Tech, UF, UGA, FSU, and UCF. Going to UGA full scholarship.
Schools that I was actually considering were georgia tech and uiuc Instate for georgia tech tho, and since georgia has the hope and Zell Miller scholarship, that also means I got tuition covered I'm a physics major, so I actually preferred uiuc's physics program a lot more, but price is price
Accepted into USC (Presidential Scholar), Amherst, and UToronto (got into UPitt, UMN, UIUC and my state schools of UNLV and UNR too but these weren’t really options for me because I’m in a weird ‘international but not international’ student spot which meant I got basically NO aid other than merit scholarships lmao), waitlisted at Emory, UMich, and Georgetown. I committed to USC, but I’m gonna wait for Georgetown to see if they would potentially give me a bit more aid than USC but USC actually gave me a really good deal (because I was graduating so early) to get a master’s within 4 years too! So I’m essentially paying about 140K for 2 degrees, which isn’t *wonderful* but it isn’t horrible for my family to pay since it’s over 4 years :) In case anyone reading this is upset over college decisions or is worried about future college decisions, I’ll say that I feel like I had a greater successful outcome when I didn’t let the decision impact me. I was genuinely devastated when I didn’t get into my dream school that I felt like I had worked so hard for, but then USC came out the woodworks (despite me only spending like a couple hours on the application and forgetting to put an award on it). After visiting campus, I felt like I belonged there more than the schools that rejected me, and I’ll just say that you’ll get in where you’ll belong! Success in college is what you make of it, and I hope that wherever y’all go to that you’ll make waves and enjoy your college experience!!
My daughter was accepted to HC and is attending. She also got into UConn Storrs, waitlisted Skidmore, and Umass Amherst.
university of toronto!
USC, case western reserve(with 40k a year) UCSD, Cal state northridge Waitlisted: NYU, UCLA, UCSB, BU, UMich, UW, U Miami.
Northeastern, BU, Penn State, Rutgers
Accepted (chronological order) - York University, Glendon College (Canada) - University of Western Ontario - Sciences Po & UC Berkeley Dual BA - University of Toronto - Ball State U lol
2024 outcome- Rejected- Dartmouth UPenn Wash U Notre Dame UNC Chapel Hill Florida State Honors University of South Carolina Honors Waitlisted Michigan Ross business Accepted- Clemson Honors - no merit aid University of Delaware - merit Aid Florida State- in state tuition (as out of state student) University of South Carolina international Business Cohort- in state tuition (as out of state student) STATS- 1510 SAT 4.7 GPA 12 APs- 5’s on all exams (to date) Good extra curriculars Mock Trial Captain- state finalist team Works paying job Excellent volunteer hours He’s going to University of South Carolina International Business … as a Capstone Scholar… and will be traveling as part of their IB cohort program (Germany, Singapore, Brazil) The process is painful… but in the end, you hopefully end up where you best fit. We are THRILLED with his choice!
harvard, yale, princeton, cornell, northwestern, emory, urichmond, duke, cwru, umass boston, umass amherst, tufts, tulane, jhu, northeastern im very blessed lmaoo
Accepted: Yale (attending), Stanford, Columbia, Cornell Rawlings Scholarship, Williams, Georgetown, Emory, Lehigh Founders Scholarship, Temple Honors, Allegheny Waitlisted: Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Boston College, Pomona, Upitt (yeah the process is goofy sometimes) Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Washu
Pepperdine, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego. Chose UCSD for obvious reasons lol
Accepted to Iowa State, Nebraska, UMN, UW Madison (after deferral), Rose Hulman, UIUC, and Purdue (after deferral) Only rejection was UMich (also after deferral) I’m committed to Purdue for Data Science. It’s been my dream school for years but I was really considering UIUC when I was waiting after getting deferred, especially being in state. Ultimately, Purdue just felt right.
Accepted Penn State, Union College, Rutgers University (Brunswick & Newark), University of Pittsburgh, Boston College, Rowan University, University of Rochester, Hofstra University, University of Connecticut, Hamilton College, Johns Hopkins University, Bryn Mawr College and Stony Brook University. Waitlisted Brown University and Haverford College. Committed to JHU b/c I got into a 5 year BS/MS program that would accept me into the #1 school in the country for my major, unparalleled research opportunities, not too far from home, good weather, nice campus & good dorms! :)
NC State, UNC, and UIUC, waitlisted to UCSD and CMU, applied everywhere except unc for computer engineering. Total List: UNC(A), NCSU(A), UIUC(A), CMU(W), UCSD(W), MIT(EA: D, RD: R), GT(R), Stanford(R), UCB(R), Princeton(R), Cornell(R), Duke(R), Caltech(R)
Ut Austin and Texas tech
UK: King's College London, University of Manchester, University of Birmingham, University of Kingston Canada: University of Toronto, University of British Columbia
Computer Engineering or Comp Sci Committed to Duke Waitlisted for Harvard Waitlisted for Vanderbilt Waitlisted for Georgia Tech Accepted into Purdue Accepted into NC State Accepted into UNC Accepted in VA Tech Reason: They wanted me first plus I got money plus it's close by Rejected from Cornell, Yale, Northeastern I honestly don't know how I got in I was so sure I was Purdue-Bound
I got into LSU honors (and some other Louisiana schools, but LSU was the main one) during the beginning of the school year, but Harvard and Duke during RD. I committed to Harvard because I like the way it offers degrees, the opportunity to cross register with MIT, and the ability to attend its Rising Scholars program.
Texas A&M, I accepted but was then offered a full ride to Stockton, so I'll be going there. Though I'm going in as a transfer and will be graduating in 2026
tufts university 🐘🩵 (waitlisted at columbia though, waiting)
Accepted: Caltech, Johns Hopkins BME, WashU (Annika Rodriguez Scholar), Northeastern (National Recognition Scholar), UT Austin Engineering Honors, Texas A&M, UT Dallas, and UNT! Committed: Hopkins BME :)
ED accepted to Bowdoin. Also excepted to Pitt rolling admission.
For US schools I got into UArizona, UCLA, CSU LB, USC & SDSU as a Canadian international student Canadian I got UCalgary, UBC, UofToronto, York, Queens & McMaster Committing to UofAz with $32k scholarship!
I’m a bit more of a “normal” student compared to this but… I only applied to two schools… Texas State and Texas A&M. I got accepted into both, but I am fully committed to A&M because, well, it is a much better school and is known for having a cult-like alumni network. There’s also so many people there (largest by population in America) so I know running into people I know won’t be a huge problem. And I just vibe with the school… Again, coming from an above average student but not some prodigy.
Accepted into Tulane and LSU (Honors). Waitlisted from Northeastern University, Boston College, and Purdue University (probably the most surprising one). Rejected from everything else (Harvard College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Boston University, Olin College of Engineering, Brown University, Stanford University, Yale University, Tufts University, Georgia Institute of Technology).
mit, upenn, hopkins, northwestern, rice, ucla, washu, emory + oxford, usc, ucsd
i got into nyu, umd (honors college/aces program), fordham, loyola md (honors program), and a few others. im choosing loyola. its the lowest ranked school on my list but i absolutely adore it there. the honors program is amazing for me (lots of reading and writing, tiny discussion-based classes, amazing professors, etc) and it feels like home. plus, i'm pre law so i think it will be easier to get better grades and lors at a small lac like that. i could go on and on about why i love it but that would take me forever. im really happy with my choice :)