College admissions rant..

[TheVrolok]

<rant>Ok... this blows my mind.. I didn't get into Penn State's honors college (Schreyer's) with a 4.4 GPA, 1520 SAT score, multiple clubs, varsity football(as as starter), and many other things... When I know kids who are quite a bit less qualified that gained admittance.. sigh.. I just don't understand these selective proceses.. Guess there goes my shot at Brown.. not that I really had one. Heh. </rant>

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
<rant>Ok... this blows my mind.. I didn't get into Penn State's honors college (Schreyer's) with a 4.4 GPA, 1520 SAT score, multiple clubs, varsity football(as as starter), and many other things... When I know kids who are quite a bit less qualified that gained admittance.. sigh.. I just don't understand these selective proceses.. Guess there goes my shot at Brown.. not that I really had one. Heh. </rant>

4.4?

 

[gopunk]

just because you get rejected from one school doesn't mean you will get rejected from another... i know a girl who got rejected from harvard but accepted to MIT

 

[PsychoAndy]

Maybe your essays sucked or something?

Anyways, with a 1520 and a 4.4, I wouldn't be applying to Penn State.

 

[Zugzwang152]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
<rant>Ok... this blows my mind.. I didn't get into Penn State's honors college (Schreyer's) with a 4.4 GPA, 1520 SAT score, multiple clubs, varsity football(as as starter), and many other things... When I know kids who are quite a bit less qualified that gained admittance.. sigh.. I just don't understand these selective proceses.. Guess there goes my shot at Brown.. not that I really had one. Heh. </rant>

4.4?

most high schools give an extra grade point for AP classes, and some give an extra .5 for honors classes. Hence an A in an AP class would be 5 grade points, not 4.

 

sometimes the honors colleges are overrated. Dont worry about it.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: Deeko
4.4?

Weighted GPA. (e.g. Honors/AP classes are on a 5 point scale instead of a 4 point scale.) My Senior year of HS would have been a 5.0 if they had allowed two study halls (8 periods, only 6 honors classes available).

ZV

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
<rant>Ok... this blows my mind.. I didn't get into Penn State's honors college (Schreyer's) with a 4.4 GPA, 1520 SAT score, multiple clubs, varsity football(as as starter), and many other things... When I know kids who are quite a bit less qualified that gained admittance.. sigh.. I just don't understand these selective proceses.. Guess there goes my shot at Brown.. not that I really had one. Heh. </rant>

4.4?

Yeah, our school is based on a 4.0 GPA BUT our honors/AP courses are weighted, thus an A is 5, B is 4, C is 3, then D and F are 1 and 0 respectively, unweighted.

Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
Maybe your essays sucked or something?

Anyways, with a 1520 and a 4.4, I wouldn't be applying to Penn State.

I dunno, schools seem rather random to me all of a sudden. My gf's sister didn't get into Brown with a 4.6, ranked 7th in her class, and a 1530 SAT score. shrug.

 

[ViRGE]

What is the unweighted score? Colleges by and large unweight your GPA, so that might give you an indication of why you weren't admitted.

 

[ptyes]

I think I'll blame this on Affirmative Action, odds are that some minority, whose great-great-great-grandfather was oppressed by someone from Europe got your slot even though they left High School with a D+ and didn't have enough money to take the SAT.














If you're a minority, I'll blame it on the racist officials at the college who only accept people of European decent.




Everybody happy now 😀

 

[Imdmn04]

why dont u pull a michael jackson, change your skin color. when you are black, you get accepted just for the purpose of filling up the quotas.

 

[fizmeister]

Originally posted by: TheVrolok
<rant>Ok... this blows my mind.. I didn't get into Penn State's honors college (Schreyer's) with a 4.4 GPA, 1520 SAT score, multiple clubs, varsity football(as as starter), and many other things... When I know kids who are quite a bit less qualified that gained admittance.. sigh.. I just don't understand these selective proceses.. Guess there goes my shot at Brown.. not that I really had one. Heh. </rant>

They may have thought you were overqualified. It's known as "Tufts Syndrome" (Tufts has been the traditional backup for the Ivies), and they may have an idea that you'll get into other top schools and probably turn Penn State down. If you tell them you really want to go there, they will let you in. Just appeal it. I had a friend do that for UT-Austin.

Brown is so random that you may get in.

But, yeah, it's a bitch. Especially with affirmative action and the wierd processes they've got. I applied to a bunch of top schools last year, but only got into Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Rice, and the latter two gave me some very nice perks (master's program guarunteed accelerated acceptance, merit scholarship money, etc.), which would make me believe I may have gotten into better schools.

But it's all a crashoot. Don't give up hope. I had a friend get into Stanford and MIT but not into UT-Austin Engineering Honors (he got into engineering, just not honors).

No offense, but you must be ill-informed if you didn't already know admissions were random. I have a couple of friends with 1600 SAT scores that didn't get into Harvard or Princeton, and a friend that's accross the hall from me had a 1570, ranked 4th in his class, had triple 800s on his SAT IIs, and still didn't get into MIT (his dad went there, too!). Again, it's a crapshoot.

Don't worry. Good luck!