
Originally Posted by
BCR
A close friends daughter got rejected by USC last year. She applied to maybe 6 schools and was accepted by all the rest, including higher profile schools. She was pretty sure she was goikg elsewhere anyway, but her rejection letter was super strange. It rejected her, and then listed an explanation of what a typically accepted freshman application looked like. It had like 5 bullet points saying the average accepted freshman had a 32 on ACT, she had a 35. It gave the average SAT, and hers was much higher. GPA and advanced courses were all much higher. All five bullet points she was well above and I happened to be visiting the weekend after she got the rejection letter and wasn’t really upset, but was like “wtf, why even include this benchmark average when I’m well above all of them if they’re going to reject me?” I laughed when I saw this story.