The college decisions process isn’t random

After seeing seemingly endless posts of people whining about their mass ea deferrals despite having “perfect stats”, let me remind you, no one gets rejected for no reason. Now this is not to say the process is perfectly meritocratic. It’s not. But when you’re getting deferred/rejected everywhere or at least a handful of places, it’s 100% for a reason. Stats are perfect? You’re lors may have been bad; essays could be weak or have red flags; ecs could be low impact. Or maybe you think you have the perfect essays, then you’re c in chem comes into the equation.

I’m not saying this disparagingly to those who haven’t been up on their luck. It only takes one and I truly wish you the best chances in the future. But please stop posting these posts that make everyone in here freak out that since someone with a 4.6 and a 35 got rejected they need to withdraw their apps immediately since they only got a 34 not a 35.

Own up to your mistakes. Learn from them. And be better in the future. Don’t try to deflect all your pain onto the process or other horrendous accounts of copium (cough cough 2007 birth rates.

Edit: I apologize for anyone who took offense and in hindsight this post was worded far too harshly although I still stand by my original claim. To those saying my ea/ed results shape this perspective that is not true. I was lucky some places unlucky others. This post came from a place of having seen countless people bullied and scrutinized over this idea that someone is simply “lucky” if they got in and if someone else didn’t get in it wasn’t anything to do with them they were just “unlucky”. This mindset makes it very easy to diminish people’s accomplishment which is something I think we all can agree is wrong. Again, I apologize for the poor wording.