What schools did you reject, or who rejected you?

Went 3-for-3 in the early 2000s:

Florida State
Florida
Ohio State

Wanted to apply to Princeton and Cornell, but lacked the prerequisite number of foreign language credits.

 

Hmm, I wonder what you wanted to study

 

Applied to Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Syracuse and a fifth. 5-for-5. SATs were far too large a factor back then, and I had a good day.

 

Got into SJSU, San Diego State, Chico, ASU and CU-Boulder. Rejected by Cal and SLO.

Had a very tough decision between SJSU and CU, stayed in state with San Jo for a myriad of reasons.

I had a very awkward phone call with a student working the freshman orientation at Arizona State when she called to get me set up with a tour and other transition stuff. I thought my not turning in my final paperwork to the university was a hint l wasn't attending, but apparently not.

 

Only sent one application. Accepted, attended, graduated.

Not including the opportunity to learn the proper use of "myriad"?

 

I was barely 17 when I started college, so I stayed home and went to Middle Tennessee State.

I did have a aid package of some sort on the table from Point Park, in Pittsburgh. I'm damned if I recall how they got on my radar exactly, but it ultimately seemed too far away for me at that age.

 

After spending two years at Coastal Carolina Community College in Jacksonville, NC, I applied to UNC, East Carolina, UNC-Wilmington and Alabama. Got accepted by all four, went to UNC.

 

Oh, I forgot one. I was working on the UVa application, and Cville is about 25 miles from the homestead. Mom says, oh that would be great if you go to UVa, that way we could come up each weekend and go to church with you.

My immediate silent thought: FUCK THAT.

I never finished the application and let the deadline silently pass.

 

Applied to three, accepted by all three.

Chose Georgia Tech over Penn and Columbia, mostly for financial reasons. Got nice financial aid packages from the Ivies -- and it was still tons cheaper to go to Tech as an in-state student.

I thought about applying to Harvard -- then I saw the application and they wanted three essays. I thought, screw that, I'm a science guy. One essay I could fake my way through. Three just wasn't worth the trouble.

Tech, of course, required none.

 

I got rejection AND acceptance letters from Penn State within a span of seven days. (I'm glad I got the rejection letter first. I already had an acceptance letter from my eventual alma mater and I can't complain at all the way things worked out.)

 

Applied to two, accepted at two. None of them in the same league as the schools being tossed around on this thread. You guys are smart.

 

I got into Cornell. Not going there is one of the biggest regrets of my life.