No one wants to be rejected, but if you are reading this blog, it happened. First off, sorry! Whether you applied ED or EA, the University of Chicago was important enough for you to apply early. Especially if you applied ED, this might feel like a major setback, but application season is far from over, and it's time to pivot! We want to help by telling you how.
Rejected Early Action from Princeton 2024-2025
Being rejected by a dream school is a serious punch to the gut. We know you’re smart, capable, and would thrive at Princeton. You got your application together to apply Early to and Ivy, after all. You were ahead of the pack, certain of your strongest path, and ready to move on to college and beyond. Princeton has kept their acceptance rate private in recent years, but it’s estimated to be between 4% and 6%. The Early acceptance rate is significantly higher, but not so high that Princeton can be treated as a target by, really, anyone. It’s a reach no matter how impressive you are. Unless you’re a recruited athlete (and really even then), there is no certainty with Princeton — as you’ve now experienced.
Deferred Early Decision by Wesleyan University 2024-2025
Getting deferred is a bummer. Applying to Wesleyan early took time and effort, and this can feel like a major setback. However, try to see the silver lining here: you weren’t rejected. Make no mistake, Wesleyan’s admissions office is still seriously considering your application. And you still have time to get in. It might just take a little work.
9th Grade College Strategy for Biology
Rejected Early Decision from Barnard College 2024-2025
Rejection is never easy, and getting turned down by your ED school can really sting. While it may not help much at the moment, keep in mind that Barnard has an 8% acceptance rate. Single digits!! That’s crazy competitive, so you shouldn’t take this rejection personally. Not getting into Barnard ED doesn’t mean you won’t get into other great schools. In fact, we can confidently say that you will end up at a college, even if you don’t know where just yet.
Summer Strategy for USC
USC. Amazing school. Excellent academics. Fun, big-school spots vibe. Sunshine for days! What’s not to love? For the 20,700 some undergraduates who go there, there’s lots! But you’re going to have to work hard if you want to join the ranks of Trojans who work hard so they can lounge on the beach on the weekends. USC has just a 12% acceptance rate. The SAT acceptance range is 1450-1550 and the ACT range is 32-35, per U.S. News & World Report.
Rejected Early Decision from Bowdoin 2024-2025
If you’re here, we’re guessing you got rejected from Bowdoin. First of all, we want to say we’re sorry, we know rejection sucks, and it’s probably suckier when it’s from a school you were so excited about. We hope you don’t get too down on yourself because this rejection is not a reflection of who you are as a person, and you will go to a great school and go on to do great things!
Deferred by Vassar Early Decision 2024-2025
If you applied to Vassar Early Decision, you were probably expecting to get in. That is sort of the point of applying ED to a competitive, but not supremely so, school. The acceptance rate is high enough that strong students approach it with confidence, and since it’s Early Decision the admissions office at the college knows that you are a serious applicant. Every year, though, most students who apply ED don’t get in. That is sort of obvious, we know, but it may not feel that way when you are deciding to ED, or even more so when you are on the receiving end of a deferral.
10th Grade College Strategy for Business
Maybe you want to run a hedge fund or the next unicorn startup. Maybe you want to start companies, or maybe, you want to rise in the ranks. MAYBE you want to be a finance whiz or a marketing maven. Or maybe, you don’t even know exactly what you want to do, but you know you’re interested in studying business in college. If you’re stuck on where to start, don’t worry, we’re here.
Rejected Early Decision from Carnegie Mellon 2024-2025
We know getting rejected is the worst, and getting rejected from your early decision school can be especially rough. Carnegie Mellon is a very hard school to get into, the early decision acceptance rate is 14%, compared to an 11% overall acceptance rate. We tell you this so you know that you’re not alone in this — there are a lot of other students in the same boat as you, and we know for a fact that even if you’re not going to Carnegie Mellon, you are going to go to an awesome school and find success in your life.
Rejected Early Decision from Amherst 2024-2025
Getting rejected hurts. It kinda hurts more when you get rejected from your ED school, especially if it was your dream school. We know nerd stuff like facts and figures might not make you feel way better, but Amherst is a very competitive school. They boast a 10% acceptance rate, and just because you didn’t get into Amherst ED doesn’t mean you’re not going to get in anywhere else. We can say with 100% certainty that you will go to college, you just might not know exactly where right now. If you’ve been rejected ED from Amherst, don’t give up hope! We have some advice on what you can do next.
The Best Majors at Cornell
Cornell is an Ivy League university in the city of Ithaca in upstate New York that is both exceptional and unique in its exceptionalism. That may sound redundant, but Cornell is a top-tier university that is distinctly different. They offer all the majors and programs you expect to see at a top university, but then there’s the stuff that Cornell does better than anyone else. For some of the majors we’ll focus on in this post, Cornell is the only university of its caliber that offers that major.
Rejected from Brown Early Decision 2024-2025
Receiving a rejection from Brown can be a gut punch. Students who apply Early Decision to Brown tend to pick the university for very specific reasons, and there may not be another school of Brown’s caliber that fully fits the bill. But Brown isn’t the only strong school with a completely open curriculum, so there are options and we’re going to help you see them, pursue them, and receive an acceptance letter. First, let’s do a bit of an autopsy of your Brown rejection.
Deferred by Wellesley Early Decision 2024-2025
You applied to Wellesley Early Decision, and this wasn’t the plan. You were going to get in, or you weren’t. Getting in was definitely the plan, but if you didn’t at least you’d know where you stand. A rejection can feel like an ok thing compared to a deferral, at least in the immediate moment of receiving it. Let’s get real, though. A deferral is disappointing, but it’s also much better than a rejection. In this post, we’ll break down what you need to do to increase your chances of turning a deferral into an offer of admission. At the same time, we’ll outline other other important steps you need to be taking to ensure that your entire college experience is a success.
The Best Majors at Yale University
Applying to the University of Southern California as a Student Athlete
The University of Southern California, or USC, is a top-tier private research university in Los Angeles, California. Notably, it is not part of the University of California system so there is no in-state tuition benefit. However, it does have the scale and breadth of a public university. Students have access to a globally-leading array of resources, faculty, and peers — there are 21,000 undergraduates, and nearly 50,000 students total.
The Best Majors at the University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is one of the most well-respected and well-resourced research universities in the world. They have produced more than 90 Nobel Prize winners, and are famous for pushing fields forward in both the sciences and the humanities. The university, which we (and many, many others) call UChicago, is ranked #12 by U.S. News & World Report Best College ranking, and it is rarely cited alongside the Ivy League.
Deferred Early Decision by Rice 2024-2025
We aren’t going to lie; getting deferred by Rice isn’t ideal. You took all the time and effort to apply to Rice during early decision, and a deferral certainly feels like a massive setback. While no one wants to get deferred, there is a silver lining here. You weren’t rejected, and let us say in no uncertain terms, if you weren’t a Rice-level candidate, you would have been. They are still seriously considering your application and may even accept you in the regular decision round. However, there are a couple of steps you have to take if you want to maximize your chances of that happening.
The Best Undergraduate Film Schools in LA
If you have dreams of being the next great American auteur, the odds are you’ll be headed to La La Land at one point or another. Yes, there are great college-level film programs across the country (NYU and Emerson, we’re looking at you!), but getting your bachelor’s degree in Los Angeles has some obvious advantages.
Deferred Early Decision by Bowdoin 2024-2025
Over the past decade, Bowdoin has transformed in the American imagination from an exceptional, unique, but very out of the way small liberal arts school to one of the most popular colleges in the country. What Bowdoin is, in truth, hasn’t change at all. It’s the same school is has been for a long time because the college is true to its mission. Public perception, though, has skyrocketed. As a result, the acceptance rate has plummeted, dropping nearly 20% over the past 20 years. The acceptance rate for the Class of 2028 was only 7%, a record low.