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Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait
Alex Carrillo of 694 is a Dean's List finalist from 2011, from NY and is currently attending Yale University. Is that the only reason he got into his school of choice? Probably not, but it certainly didn't hurt.
I totally understand that you're feeling burned about rejections; I'm the only team captain from our team to not get into MIT, and I'm still a little bitter, too. The truth is that not everyone can go to an Ivy League school, but anyone can find success in life even if they don't.
Make the most of whatever college education you get - at the Cooper Union I get the opportunity to mentor my old team and be a part of a smaller, closer-knit community while still getting a great engineering education.
Best of luck!
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They say write what you know, so here goes:
I went to The Cooper Union as the class of 2009, well before the Dean's List. That year Cooper Union was considered one of the most selective university in the country. Yet I was rejected from another college that was
less selective, by about a factor 2. Even now Cooper is still more selective than Yale or MIT.
Why would less-selective colleges reject someone that is accepted at a more-selective college? Maybe they're trying to balance demographics, backgrounds, majors, genders, or mystery quality 63b.
An odd trend that I noticed that HS valedictorians frequently drop out of Cooper, usually after a pretty bad melt down. On the other hand, students without straight-A HS GPAs (or not even close, like me) tend to thrive. Why do you think that happens?
My point is that some (maybe many) colleges value non-quantifiable traits in their applicants. Just because an applicant has a certain GPA, extra-curricular activities, or awards, does not mean that they will fit well within a particular institution. Admissions officers have to understand what type of students will do well and contribute to their university or college and select those that have the best chance at doing so. This is why the 'black magic' of admissions happens. There's no saying that one student is better than another by looking at the colleges they got into, they're just different.
Reference:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandre...ce-rate/spp+50