why students get rejected so fast?

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i was looking at predents and i saw numerious students who had high gpas and good dat scores, yet they were rejected right away. why is that?

btw, im talking about the 07 entering class.
 
I think I got rejected because doing hundreds of hours of community service left a bad taste in the mouths of the ADCOMS at Temple and Arizona.

But seriously, I have no idea why. I suppose schools are inundated with applicants, but it does seem odd to start shelling out rejections to the decently qualified students you haven't interviewed before you've even found out if the students you want to accept will respond back that they want to come.
 
I understand why Penn reject me, but really dont understand why Nova reject me. Maybe someone else got interview from my school with higher stats, and they only take certain # of people from one school?!🙁
 
dude, i hear ya! I got rejected from Nova too...kinda hurt my feelings but otherwise it was probably my least favorite choice too. I hear they fill their roster or whatever by November or December (fairly early). Maybe that's it.
 
I don't understand thw whole process either. However, when a school such as NOVA (or any other school this year) gets 3,500 applicants during a matter of weeks, you don't have the time to look very closely at every application. My guess is that there is some sort of random criteria (such as 20 or above on rc, or something like that). Regardless of how high a student's GPA or overall DAT score was, if that student doesn't match their specific "weeding out" criteria, they are rejected. Doing it that way, there will be many students with great stats rejected, but there are plenty others with great stats to choose from. I'm probably way off, but it makes sense to my brain.
 
Why did I get rejected from Penn? I think that I had fairly good stats, except for QR (17). I really think that it was because I hand jammed the secondary. Also, I was a little late (August) finishing my app. Maybe that had something to do with it. I dunno really.
 
I want to say that everybody that gets rejected is stupid, but that isn't the case. Many smart people won't get in. In contrast, in the past few years every smart person at my school got in. Even some that aren't smart got in.

I think if you are late it hurts, that is the only thing I can think of. Stats don't lie though. A low GPA is a low GPA. A low DAT score is a low DAT score. You gotta have the basics to get a legitimate shot. And even then you need to be lucky!


(Louisville, VCU come to mind)
 
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