这娃这么优秀都没进好学校

来源: 一年好时节于 2023-03-25 05:00:15 [档案] [旧帖] [给我悄悄话] 本文已被阅读：次 (3829 bytes)

this admissions process has made me feel like absolute trash, has caused me to absolutely break down, and I seriously contemplate about life. I had straight As, took 22 advanced/AP classes throughout high school, had won state/national awards, interned at UT Austin for two years to do research, leadership positions in all clubs, had a 1560 SAT (with 800 in math), had great recommendations from my teachers (they showed me and they said I was one of the best students in their careers) and a UT Austin biology researcher (who used words like “exceptional” to describe me), and great essays talking about my passion for scientific research (I reviewed all my essays with my English teachers, parents, and they said they were exemplary). Although I had some health issues junior year that caused my GPA to slip a bit to A- average, I explained that in my app and in my first semester of senior year, my grades increased back to normal with a 96 average and I explained that it is not an issue anymore (I am in top 7% of class in a school that’s top 3% in the whole USA). I sacrificed so much social time and free time for school throughout the years. And yet I was STILL capped (basically rejected) by UT Austin, rejected from JHU/UCLA, waitlisted from UC Santa Barbara, and just now rejected from USC (my dream school). I didn't think that having worked so hard for 4 years, I would get nothing in return (these colleges aren't like Harvard-level). Ever since I was in elementary school, I had dreamed of being at a prestigious university. They say it gets better. They said it after the UT rejection. They said it after the JHU rejection. I was hopeful, and I wanted to believe them. I remained optimistic. But clearly it has never gotten better, it has in fact gotten worse every time. Several people with less extracurriculars and lower grades than me got into UT Austin (I am not saying they don’t deserve it, they are smart and absolutely do, I just wanted to show more context behind this). I was so hopeful that I would get several acceptances, considering the profile of students who have gotten into those schools, but to my horror, it has not happened. I do have Rice University, Ivy League schools, and Stanford yet to hear back from but obviously given this context I feel absolutely hopeless from how colleges have been responding. I feel treated like crap and the effort that I have put into all of this is all worthless in the end. I am just going to get rejection after rejection in life and nothing good in response to my hard work thru years. The only colleges I have gotten accepted to are my safety school and University of Washington. I really really want to go to the University of Washington (they gave me some scholarships), but it is still expensive as an out of state student from Texas, and I am doing my best to try to find scholarships, but I will never give up. UW is one of my dream schools. It is such a great school for my field and I would do anything to go there, but if I don't find enough money I may have to wind up going to the safety school, which I don’t like honestly. Never in a million years have I thought this would be the result after so much hard work (same result I could have gotten if I would have just done no extracurriculars and only had just average grades). I feel absolutely betrayed, ashamed, and cheated by life and colleges, and I feel hopeless that any good things will come in my life in college. I feel like everything is just for nothing. I hate this.