Help me to understand... and please remember that I am just looking for help without hurtful comments... I've just been rejected for like the 10th time in the last two weeks...
I'm not trying to be hurtful. I do find it frustrating when posters do this where you let people go on for 50 posts and you keep saying you have no other red flags you can think of, then you bust out a "oh I'm a reapplicant with a 28". It makes me wonder what else you aren't telling us.
But let's move on from that. Here are the things I think need to be addressed:
-School list: insane. That was simply an insane list of schools to apply to, where the closest thing you have to "Safety" schools are top-caliber schools. You can maybe argue that Georgetown is, but they notoriously get a ton of applications due to the undergrad prestige spilling over. You need to apply to a LOT more schools and a much broader range.
-LORS: Definitely a concern there is something in these LORs that is turning schools off.
-Writing style: again, very very few people get rejected on the basis of a personal statement, it has to be truly awful/scary for that to happen. But your posts here raise concern for your writing style. I know it's not entirely fair to judge internet posts for writing skill, but it's still a concern.
-Maturity: IMHO even if you are a couple of years out of school, your posts here reek of immaturity. I don't mean this to be offensive, but it does raise concerns for issues of immaturity to be coming out in your application somehow either through LORs or your writing, and raises concern for interviews as well.
Again - none of this seems to fully explain the wide swath of pre-secondary rejections. But those are the big concerns off the top of my head. I agree with the advice to wait until May or so and then try to contact as many of these schools admissions offices and request a phone meeting with a dean for feedback and advice. It may not work at many/most of them but if even one will give you the time of day it might clarify things.
