5 RANDOM Reasons Colleges REJECT You

Are you working on your college applications? Worried about getting rejected? Check out this video where Brooke shares five random reasons your college application could get rejected.

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[noproblem]

It sucks knowing that I could be spending over 75 dollars to apply to a college and it’s rejected by someone in a bad mood.

[jessie]

I wish colleges told us exactly why they rejected us

[pensfan]

No matter what happens I'm telling all my friends I got denied because I was *too good*

[glitterland]

The pressure on high school students today is crazy. Just to get into college you have to take AP classes, a bunch of activities to stand out, internships, good SAT score, good grades, etc. I feel for them.

[caroline]

Oh that makes sense! Princeton rejected me because I was too good😎

[hello-bplf]

This woman reminds me of john green from crash course 😫

[iheartoreos]

my mom always says that if a college rejects you, it’s THEIR loss. never put yourself down or think you are any less just because a college doesn’t accept you! i guess you’re just too good for them :)

[elenajohnston]

Yay it's my daily dose of anxiety lmao

[abbybrooke]

“oh i’m not feeling too good today, i’m going to ruin this 18 year old’s chance of going to college by rejecting their applications”

[johnmayer]

1. you dont fit into what the college sees as "fit"
2. very opinionated form of getting into these colleges
3. college isnt need blind (they will still accept international students and things such as ability to finance education will affect your application)
4. your application is too good

[itsbriona_]

Class of 2020 wya??🥳























I hope we all get into our dream schools! No rejections or waitlisting‼️

[RafiKhan-zcub]

When you get rejected from all the colleges because your application is just “too good” 🤔

[cg]

I had a friend that had the following essay question: What is the bravest thing you have ever done in your life? They drew a big X through the essay question. They were accepted.

[deshaunwilliams]

Got denied from Harvard and Stanford! Must have been too good!

[shirlenecambridge]

coming from a student whose family is unable to pay for any kind of college/sat tutoring and has to use all the free aid she can get her hands on, i am endlessly grateful for your videos :) you have because a wonderful guide to me on my college admissions journey. thank you miss brooke ❤️

[Ali-mbns]

This whole college process is lame as hell, we have to fake all this stuff to get in?

[heleng]

I nearly choked when she said that U Michigan is considered a backup school :0

[katkristar]

As a parent, I have often thought about writing rejection letters back to the college admission offices that have rejected my children, just for the fun of it! Maybe a good movement to start!

[snowangel]

My GPA was a 4.613, and I got two B’s so whatever that is unweighted.I think it’s like 3.95 or something. My class ranking was 12 out of 479. I got a 2220 on the old SAT which converts to like a 1520 on the new one. I never took the ACT, but I took some subject tests and did about as well on them subject wise as the subjects in the SAT. I played varsity soccer. We were ranked fifth in the nation and won state. I was the captain of my club soccer team and we were in the top 3 in the state. I was captain of my team for model UN and we won state for that as well. I was in senate so even though I didn’t have a leadership position in it, I did a lot of volunteer work. I was a semi finalist for a national writing competition, meaning I had won it at the state level. I took so many AP courses I don’t even remember them all. I think I took everything my school offered except like, art, calc BC and chem, and that was only because I didn’t have schedule space for the latter two.(our school made us take chem before AP chem and my middle school wouldn’t let me skip 7th grade math even at the advice of my teacher so I had to wait through the lower tier math courses.) I was in the school’s show choir which was audition only (idk if it’s like that at other schools?). Even though I never took lessons, I played piano and violin reasonably well and because I made it all the way through AP Spanish, I was pretty good at the language. When I applied, I had the ideal application. My teachers thought I was going to end up at Stanford or somewhere in the Northeast, and they wrote me very generous letters of recommendation. When I interviewed with a man from Georgetown, he said he would love to have me as a future alum and would express that to admissions. And then the responses for application after application came in the mail in small white envelopes with two paragraph letters that said invariably the same thing. I had not been admitted. There were many qualified applicants. We regret to inform you of this, but we wish you success in your future endeavors. I got one admission into UCSD’s bioengineering program, and another to University of Arizona, and then to my two state schools in New Mexico. The maximum academic award for UCSD was $2, 500 a semester and they informed me I’d received it, but being out of state and wholly unspecial in my genetic identity or upbringing, that would be all they could offer me. $60k instead of $65k a year was very generous. By the time admissions were over I didn’t even bother to take the rest of my AP exams (8 my senior year of high school) because it wouldn’t help. I dropped all of the hard classes my last semester, and just took it easy and waited for college while I watched my friends accept admits to Yale, Stanford, Princeton, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, Georgia Tech, UPenn, Columbia, Harvard, MIT... I still don’t know what I did wrong. But, I went to a state school, graduated with Honors with my bachelors in mechanical engineering. Now I’m in grad school at the same place, working on marine drones. I have a satellite that’s manifested on a Virgin launch. The same launch as one from MIT. I have posters of it hanging in labs at NASA Goddard. I’m working on a new satellite and we’re filling out paperwork to get it launched as a science mission with the ISS. I got an internship at one of the largest aerospace and defense companies in the world, along with students from Georgia Tech and Stanford and CalTech and UT Austin. I have a full time offer from them pending graduation. I have no debt. I got to go to a conference for my work where I shared a room with Mike Pence and Buzz Aldrin and Jeff Bezos and the heads of space agencies. I didn’t go to a particularly great school. I don’t even know if it’s regularly on the Top 200. But it was home and cheap and accredited and now I’m in the same place I would have been if I’d spent $200k for a piece of paper that said the name of an Ivy League instead of the one I have. Maybe I would’ve had some better opportunities. My network could be more developed. My projects and capstones and research could have better resources. But long term, I lost very little.

[MichaelNaness]

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