post college acceptances

[SeventhSandwich]

but any good school is

Doesn't even have to be MIT or Harvard anymore. The competition is so stiff that you're still liable to be rejected even if you've got near-perfect test scores.

[Ad Bot]

[extremely extreme]

Doesn't even have to be MIT or Harvard anymore. The competition is so stiff that you're still liable to be rejected even if you've got near-perfect test scores.

no way this is true. nobody i know has ever been rejected from a university

[Magus]

Not exactly an acceptance, or even close, but the Pratt Institute sent me a letter because of my SAT/PSAT/ACT/whatever scores.

[phflack]

Doesn't even have to be MIT or Harvard anymore. The competition is so stiff that you're still liable to be rejected even if you've got near-perfect test scores.

MIT and Harvard are technically ivy league, which he was excluding

I was thinking more of UMass and Tufts and WPI

[SeventhSandwich]

MIT and Harvard are technically ivy league, which he was excluding

Harvard is, but MIT isn't.

Contrary to popular belief, Ivy League doesn't actually mean 'one of the best schools'. It's just an athletic conference that happens to cover a lot of good schools at once.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League

[SlayerZ99]

no way this is true. nobody i know has ever been rejected from a university

you're in college and using anecdotal evidence????????????

[16-Bit]

We are all accepted on this blessed day

[phflack]

Harvard is, but MIT isn't.

ah, for some reason I thought MIT was the only technical ivy league school

[Nonnel]

accepted to university of minnesota - duluth for graphic design