I have refused from Ivy League colleges; This is what I did wrong

• All Ivy League schools that applied to refuse me.
• My biggest mistake was to completely understand the IVY League acceptance.
• Now, as a university student at a different school, I understand that IVY League is not everything.

I was so tense that I couldn’t talk. All I can do is stare in words on my screen: Brown University. View case update.

I closed my eyes, tried to calm myself, and I told myself that he would be fine. I opened my eyes and clicked the button.

Immediately, I knew there was something wrong. There were no sweets, no congratulations, no, “We are pleased to inform you …”

I collected it together quickly: Ivy League School My request refused. Tears tank in the corners of my eyes and began to fall.

It was in December 2023. After two months, in March 2024, I will be rejected by Ochko, Harvard and Stanford. Darmouth was listed in waiting, and I grabbed hope for acceptance until June. I finally refused there too.

Acceptance of these IVY-Plus Schools My final goal was, and the refusal left me wondering about the mistake I made. How can I fail when I worked hard?

Was my country? Sat the result? Should I study more than 1500 instead of 1490? Should I write different articles? Was my topics very specialized? Did I put my country outside the curricula in a wrong arrangement?

With personal thinking and research, I realized that my biggest mistake was not taking the full picture of Acceptance of the college Consider.

The chances of entering my dreams were always minimal

After his refusal, I started doing a lot of Research in admission to the college In Ivy League schools. What you learned was surprising.

Certainly, we all know that the applicants in Legacy and Ratiate have a leg. What I did not imagine is the amount of the leg. I learned that 11 % of Yale 2027 category They were legacy students. This is about 1 in 10 students. In Brown, 8 % of 2027 category is a legacy.

This may not seem much, but defects for me did not end there.

Analysis Opinions of opportunitiesHarvard University’s research group, shows that students are from 80 to 90^Y The percentage of income has the lowest rate of the IVY-Plus college with more than 10 %. These are the wealthy families enough to provide SAT teachers, private college advisers, and perhaps even full tuition fees. But for universities, these families do not make enough to consider potential donors.

These statistics put the whole process in their perspective for me; It is no longer about me not to work hard enough, but for universities that are looking for factors that I could not control.

Of course, I always knew that entering the Ivy League school was difficult, but I didn’t know in advance how much the possibility of accumulation was against me. If you knew, you may have taken different options during the admission process.

I am slowly adapting to my college

Bring now McGill University in MontrealSometimes it is referred to as Harvard Canada. Although it is not from the place where I thought I would end, and sometimes I wonder if I should stay, I realized that regardless of what, I have a duty to achieve the maximum benefit from the place where I am.

When I first arrived at the University of Legue Isivy, I felt intense loneliness, confusion and sadness. I missed the house and a feeling of knowing what it will attend every day. I wanted this to his absence at the University of my dreams.

In the end, I realized that these feelings were not specific to the place; I would have become the same in Dartmouth because I am in my current university. I would feel the same confusion in Cambridge, MassachusettsProvidence, Rod Island, as it did in Montreal.

So, today, look at the brighter side of things. It will be a lie to say that the place you go to the college does not matter. But it will also be a lie to say it is only The thing that matters. In fact, it’s a little bit of both.

What matters is the part you go, however, decisively, what you do when you are there.

Sophie Landes is a student at the first year at McGill University in Montreal, writer and emotional reader. Contact her on LinkedIn here.