Shocking rejections Forum

[Iuvo]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

[rookhawk]

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[pleasetryagain]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

I ddint know his either.. seems pretty useless. I am happy that mine is in the top 40 though, shame I didnt spend much time in class during high school.

[Grond]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

Yeah, it's Newsweek.

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[Rand M.]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

Yeah, it's Newsweek.

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This is a lame, but reliable ploy to move magazines off the stand (a la the venerable U.S. News & World Report).

[englawyer]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

Yeah, it's Newsweek.

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This is a lame, but reliable ploy to move magazines off the stand (a la the venerable U.S. News & World Report).

+1 wow

[newyorker88]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

I ddint know his either.. seems pretty useless. I am happy that mine is in the top 40 though, shame I didnt spend much time in class during high school.

Interesting none of my city's 6 high schools are on it.

[chadwick218]

Last cycle, I was rejected by UNC and Fordham PT with a 168/4.0.

[ShiftyOne]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

I ddint know his either.. seems pretty useless. I am happy that mine is in the top 40 though, shame I didnt spend much time in class during high school.

Interesting none of my city's 6 high school are on it.

If nothing has changed in the last 5 years they do their rankings based solely on the number of ap tests taken per person in the graduating class.

[newyorker88]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

I ddint know his either.. seems pretty useless. I am happy that mine is in the top 40 though, shame I didnt spend much time in class during high school.

Interesting none of my city's 6 high school are on it.

If nothing has changed in the last 5 years they do their rankings based solely on the number of ap tests taken per person in the graduating class.

Some schools they just chose not to evaluate?

[rookhawk]

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[Iuvo]

High schools are ranked nowadays?

I ddint know his either.. seems pretty useless. I am happy that mine is in the top 40 though, shame I didnt spend much time in class during high school.

Interesting none of my city's 6 high school are on it.

If nothing has changed in the last 5 years they do their rankings based solely on the number of ap tests taken per person in the graduating class.

ROFL

[09042014]

If nothing has changed in the last 5 years they do their rankings based solely on the number of ap tests taken per person in the graduating class.

ROFL

He's not joking, that is literally how they do it.

[vanwinkle]

If nothing has changed in the last 5 years they do their rankings based solely on the number of ap tests taken per person in the graduating class.

ROFL

He's not joking, that is literally how they do it.

So mine would have a 0 ranking then?

Holy shit, I went to Cooley High!

[bostonian]

If nothing has changed in the last 5 years they do their rankings based solely on the number of ap tests taken per person in the graduating class.

ROFL

He's not joking, that is literally how they do it.

So mine would have a 0 ranking then?

Holy shit, I went to Cooley High!

Yeah that system is seriously flawed. I looked at some of the schools they considered top-ranked here in Massachusetts and had to laugh.

[Chicklets]

my large public school (low T1 law school) has a chart of LSAT/GPA acceptance/rejections in their viewbook. In the "180/3.75+" column, there was one rejection . . . when I asked about it, apparently the applicant was just brilliant but a sociopath and his LOR writers had actually advised against letting him in.

Edit: I guess that isn't really what you meant because it wasn't really inexplicable given the circumstances, but you have to wonder what kind of person you have to be to get rejected from an alright law school with perfect numbers

Well, if the date on there was around 1973 it could have been Ted Bundy (serial killer) who did gain entrance at University of Puget Sound Law School (since the early 90's is now Seattle University).

Just sayin'.

[BigA]

my large public school (low T1 law school) has a chart of LSAT/GPA acceptance/rejections in their viewbook. In the "180/3.75+" column, there was one rejection . . . when I asked about it, apparently the applicant was just brilliant but a sociopath and his LOR writers had actually advised against letting him in.

Edit: I guess that isn't really what you meant because it wasn't really inexplicable given the circumstances, but you have to wonder what kind of person you have to be to get rejected from an alright law school with perfect numbers

Well, if the date on there was around 1973 it could have been Ted Bundy (serial killer) who did gain entrance at University of Puget Sound Law School (since the early 90's is now Seattle University).

Just sayin'.

but he gained entrance...

[scionb4]

It wasn't a rejection, but I got waitlisted at Marquette. This is odd considering IU Bloomington invited me to do an interview, and I've been accepted to Denver, Loyola Chicago, and St. Louis. Whatev.

[knickfan]

Here, in a chilling tale, I got more than rejected by a tier-14. I had my application discarded so it would not be considered. (no, no character and fitness issue or scandalous reasoning)

I'd be less vague if I wasn't under review at other schools right now and don't wish to provide so much detail I identify myself.

The things about me that may get me into a tier-1 at some schools are the very things that could get my application canned at others. How's that for "soft factors"?

In 2005 I was denied entry to a grad program at a regional nobody-ever-heard-of-em business school and accepted at a top-25. Thus is life. Ironically, I later became an adjunct for a term at the very place that denied me only 18 months earlier.

I guess its because I get up every morning and piss excellence. Some schools don't like that so much.

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[PDaddy]

It wasn't a rejection, but I got waitlisted at Marquette. This is odd considering IU Bloomington invited me to do an interview, and I've been accepted to Denver, Loyola Chicago, and St. Louis. Whatev.

Looking at your list, that isn't shocking at all, even with IUB giving you a serious look. Marquette is a pretty good school.

[Lonagan]

I guess the fact that my state does not have a single one of the top 1,300 high schools will add to my up-by-my-bootstraps story.

We didn't even have blackboards, and did math problems on birch bark!

[Panther7]

Yeah that system is seriously flawed. I looked at some of the schools they considered top-ranked here in Massachusetts and had to laugh.

Same here for Wisconsin. Some of the best public schools in the state are in the Green Bay area, and yet none of them make the list, and the top in Wisconsin is Rufus King in Milwaukee (easily considered the worst school system in the state)? Really?

[los blancos]

Here, in a chilling tale, I got more than rejected by a tier-14. I had my application discarded so it would not be considered. (no, no character and fitness issue or scandalous reasoning)

I'd be less vague if I wasn't under review at other schools right now and don't wish to provide so much detail I identify myself.

The things about me that may get me into a tier-1 at some schools are the very things that could get my application canned at others. How's that for "soft factors"?

In 2005 I was denied entry to a grad program at a regional nobody-ever-heard-of-em business school and accepted at a top-25. Thus is life. Ironically, I later became an adjunct for a term at the very place that denied me only 18 months earlier.

I guess its because I get up every morning and piss excellence. Some schools don't like that so much.

ITT we learn what happens to people who write their PSs on their founding of the Benito Mussolini appreciation society.

[freeflowfox]

Rejected by Harvard, I couldn't believe it.

[Cupidity]

my highschool was ranked 123!!! Hells yeah.