What schools did you reject, or who rejected you?

[micropolitan guy]

Remembering my incomplete application to Wake makes me think back to when I was applying to college. I got accepted by, and attended, my first choice but it was so easy and cheap to apply back then (1971-72) I sent off about six or seven applications and only got rejected by one.

Accepted: Baldwin-Wallace, Muskingum, Marietta, Heidelberg, and my eventual alma mater, which I prefer not to disclose so I don't out myself (I am that school's most famous and successful graduate ;D). Chose lots of safety schools.

Rejected: SUNY-Potsdam, of all places.

 

[User 11148]

For undergrad I applied to three -- Clemson, South Carolina and Georgia Tech. One turned me down. I'll let you guess which one! ;)

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Accepted at Wesleyan, Williams and Michigan.
No rejections, two wait lists (Penn and Harvard).
Went to Wesleyan. Next to Alice, best decision of my life.

 

[Vombatus]

VaTech, and a small private school. Went for the small school experience.

Rejected MIT, but no surprise, I applied after the deadline. I didn't really want to freeze my ass off in ****ing Cambridge/Boston anyway.

 

[lisa_simpson]

Applied to Missouri, Northwestern and Vanderbilt. Accepted at all three.

 

[sostartled]

I applied to five schools, was accepted at four, and wait-listed at one. These were all very small schools, and I ended up going to one in up-state New York. I have a thing about big schools where whenever I visit, I get very uncomfortable, as if everyone knows I don't belong there. But I really miss not having a nationally-known team to root for.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Applied to seven schools, accepted by two. My grades weren't that great because I've never been that good at doing busywork. I learn more when the work is concentrated, which is why my Regents scores were good and my SATs were very good. My grades in college were also better because the work was more focused, rather than just filling out worksheets designed to keep us busy.

Give me 10 math problems to do, and I'll either get them right, or learn from the ones I got wrong. Give me 50 math problems to do, and all I'm trying to do is get the work done because I'm feeling overwhelmed.

 

[Wenders]

The three schools I applied to for undergrad were all in-state schools that could not reject me because of my ACT score (if you had at least a 21, they were required to accept you) and I couldn't go out-of-state because of money reasons.

For grad school, I applied to Texas, Indiana and Columbia. Got the rudest rejection letter ever from Texas (think two sentences of "you didn't get in" and three paragraphs of "We are the **** and you are a loser and we know you will fail at life") so now I hate them even more than before. Got a two sentence rejection from Columbia, inviting me to reapply in the future. Was accepted to Indiana and probably deafened my mother with my screaming when I opened the letter and found out I got in. (This was two days after I was rejected from Texas.)

 

[Big Circus]

Applied early decision to UVA and got in, so that was it.

 

[Guy_Incognito]

Only applied to one college.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Applied to Oregon, Berkeley and Cal State Fullerton. Got into all three, but Berkeley gave me a two year redirect to the hippie commune that is UC Santa Cruz. Went to Oregon.

 

[DanOregon]

UC Davis, Cal Poly SLO, San Jose State - Went to Cal.

 

[Donny in his element]

Went 3-for-3 in the early 2000s:

Florida State
Florida
Ohio State

Wanted to apply to Princeton and Cornell, but lacked the prerequisite number of foreign language credits.

 

[Screwball]

Applied to Missouri, Northwestern and Vanderbilt. Accepted at all three.

Hmm, I wonder what you wanted to study :)

 

[jr/shotglass]

Applied to Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Syracuse and a fifth. ;) 5-for-5. SATs were far too large a factor back then, and I had a good day.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Got into SJSU, San Diego State, Chico, ASU and CU-Boulder. Rejected by Cal and SLO.

Had a very tough decision between SJSU and CU, stayed in state with San Jo for a myriad of reasons.

I had a very awkward phone call with a student working the freshman orientation at Arizona State when she called to get me set up with a tour and other transition stuff. I thought my not turning in my final paperwork to the university was a hint l wasn't attending, but apparently not.

 

[Meatie Pie]

Only sent one application. Accepted, attended, graduated.

Had a very tough decision between SJSU and CU, stayed in state with San Jo for a myriad of reasons.

Not including the opportunity to learn the proper use of "myriad"?

 

[HejiraHenry]

I was barely 17 when I started college, so I stayed home and went to Middle Tennessee State.

I did have a aid package of some sort on the table from Point Park, in Pittsburgh. I'm damned if I recall how they got on my radar exactly, but it ultimately seemed too far away for me at that age.

 

[Tarheel316]

After spending two years at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, NC, I applied to UNC, East Carolina, UNC-Wilmington and Alabama. Got accepted by all four, went to UNC.

 

[Vombatus]

Oh, I forgot one. I was working on the UVa application, and Cville is about 25 miles from the homestead. Mom says, oh that would be great if you go to UVa, that way we could come up each weekend and go to church with you.

My immediate silent thought: **** THAT.

I never finished the application and let the deadline silently pass.