[Dark RevenantX]

College and university denial (and acceptance) letters are coming in right about now (at least in the U. States).  To keep in with the spirit of the times, post every college/university that you received a rejection/denial letter from, along with the number of places you applied to (or have heard back from so far, if you're going through this right now).

Starting off:

Denied from University of California at Los Angeles
Denied from University of California at San Diego
Denied from Harvey Mudd College

Well, ****.

[TESLA]

That kind of sucks.


In Ireland the government pays for third level institutions.

Once you have the necessary points from final school exams (leaving certificate)

[Black Wolf]

Yeah, the american system is wacky. Here it's purely about academic performance when getting in from high school. They have 10 places, the ten highest TEE scores get them. Simple.

[iamzack]

I only applied to one school and I got in.

[Blue Lion]

I was rejected from Towson University because I was accepted somewhere else but I still gots the letter! I save all my stuff.

[Scotty]

Applied only to Kansas State University.  Accepted less than three days later.  Wondering how the post got there and back so quickly.

[Polpolion]

I only applied to the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, to both of which I got accepted within the first week of them sending out letters. 

In all fairness, I would've applied to and gotten rejected from MIT if I had the time to go through their crazy application process.

[Nuke]

we dont need no stinkin' universitys

[Thaeris]

I've not been denied to any school I've applied to, though I did once send a request for application to the University of Michigan. I never got that application... 

[Colonol Dekker]

we dont need no stinkin' universitys

Ies.............

[CP5670]

I was accepted by Maryland and rejected by Princeton for undergrad. I think I applied to one or two others but don't remember what happened now. I wasn't considering any other place seriously.

For grad school (applied math), I was accepted by Princeton, NYU, Harvard and Maryland, and rejected by Caltech and MIT. The graduate applications are easier to do since they all ask for the same things, and you can submit the same essays to everyone.

[Mongoose]

For my undergraduate, I was rejected from MIT (which I honestly expected) and Johns Hopkins (which royally pissed me off at the time), and accepted by Rochester, Carnegie Mellon, and Delaware.  The latter was definitely the best fit for me.

[TESLA]

we dont need no stinkin' universitys

Ies.............

sigh <3 <3 <3

[Ford Prefect]

The graduate applications are easier to do since they all ask for the same things, and you can submit the same essays to everyone.

Yeah, but that was more than balanced out by the crippling anxiety of wondering what I would do with my life if I didn't get into grad school.

[Qent]

I only applied to one school and I got in.

[Klaustrophobia]

Applied to Clemson, UNC Charlotte and NC State, accepted at all.  Clemson and UNCC came back quickly with lots of scholarship money.  I was the last at my high school to hear back from NC State, and they didn't give me any money.   I was never really seriously considering the other two.  Their engineering flat out doesn't compare.  UNCC was fallback, Clemson was to appease my mom, who went there.

[Kie99]

Lancaster University, applied for 3 courses, received 3 Unconditional Offers with £1,000 Scholarship and £1,000 Bursary
University of Central Lancashire, applied for 2 courses, received 2 Unconditional Offers

Planning on accepting one of the former.

[perihelion]

I applied to the University of Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma University, and the University of Houston.  I got accepted at all 4, with money at OU and UH.  I think I also applied to Rice and Cal Tech, both of which turned me down.  I expected Cat Tech to, but I was (and honestly I still am) royally pissed that Rice turned me down.  I think it ultimately was a good thing, but still...

So, I followed the money and went to OU... for a year and a half.  Then I couldn't stand it anymore and moved to College Station to finish my undergrad at Texas A&M.

For grad school, we applied at A&M and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Both offered Research Assistanceships that took care of tuition and fees and left a little bit over to live off.  She got an NSF fellowship, so she could go where ever she jolly well felt like.  I've had a decade to get over it, but I still kick myself every time I think about our decision to go to UIUC.  "Publish or perish" has turned that entire college into a black pit of misery, despair, and self-loathing.  Stay away.  Not all graduate programs are like this.

[Hippo]

I got accepted everywhere i applied

then again I ran out of money after a year and had to drop out, so that clearly went well

[IronBeer]

Applied at A&M and Texas Tech, got accepted at both, and am studying at A&M at the moment.