Comments on: Teaser returns

By: Deepak

Deepak — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:11:39 +0000

Got through Stanford for an MS, but couldnt go. Visa denied (twice), so didnt ‘get into’ the school i tried for. Do i qualify, hag. Have a laugh and hand me the book, no-one else faced interrogation at a US-consulate to get into a school or the threat to be ‘packed off to Gitmo’.

On second thoughts, spare the book and send some vodka.
(Full disclosure : I used to live in Kashmir (India) at the time.)

Kudos to H Habilis!

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:42:30 +0000

UVA. I was wait listed and so insulted (read: devastated) I pulled my application.

By: ali

ali — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:22:11 +0000

Grinnell: a tiny school in Iowa. I’m from New York. And I still have sad feelings about it.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:16:56 +0000

Wow. Old Hag readers have lofty ambitions. I applied (and was admitted) to Longwood University. Go mediocre, public liberal arts school! As for Special Topics in Calamity Physics… well, did you see the author’s head shot? She’s gorgeous! One of the lessons I learned at Longwood is that gorgeous people have nothing interesting to say.

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:29:20 +0000

Forget Yale and Harvard. I was rejected from Sarah Lawrence. SARAH LAWRENCE! Looking back, I feel pretty darn lucky that I was rejected. Cause what can you do with a degree in Women’s History? Serious.

By: DJ Cayenne

DJ Cayenne — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:43:30 +0000

I wanted to go West Coast – Stanford. It didn’t pan out.

Am I automatically disqualified if I enjoyed the Pessl?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:28:34 +0000

I didn’t get into Bowdoin. Yes, it was my first choice: a small liberal arts college in Maine. Oh dear God! Their home page features a picture of a prof holding a tiny bear. I love bears! Damn you, Old Hag! My wound bleeds anew!

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:46:48 +0000

I wanted to go to Princeton. They rejected me.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:46:08 +0000

I’m out b/c growing up I was obsessed with going to McGill and that’s where I went, paying about as much as Sklar did for Western. Yay Canadian education! Too bad it’s going to hell, price-wise, now…

By: Khalil A.

Khalil A. — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:51:26 +0000

AHA! Three cheers to H Habilis!

By: H Habilis

H Habilis — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:26:18 +0000

I never went to a school.

You insensitive colds.

By: sklarra

sklarra — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:04:17 +0000

I was waitlisted at Harvard, which I attribute either to completely fudging my list of books I’d read in the past year – probably pretty impressive on its own, but which I took into the realm of extreme improbability by adding, inter alia, “The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich,” which is only THOUSANDS OF PAGES LONG, and tiny print to boot. I had thought about reading it, which I suppose counted for something. But not for getting into Harvard!

I did get in other places, Smart Americans Whose Resumes And SAT Scores Intimidate Me, but ended up going to the University of Western Ontario two hours away from home, like most of my friends. Tuition was $1750, and I got a scholarship, so my first year cost me $250. Canadian.

By: Khalil A.

Khalil A. — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:53:10 +0000

Actually, I’m not in the US and as I didn’t really have any plans to attend a US university (at least for my first degree), I didn’t have to take SATs. Here, in Mauritius (use Google!!), we go with the British board: Cambridge A Levels.

Got three A’s.

By: CAAF

CAAF — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:11:26 +0000

Cornell. Was nixed for early admission, and then nixed for regular admission too. Despite having a (hyperbolic) recommendation from a prof. in their English dept.

Was dead sad at the time. Esp. as what to do with the Cornell sweats?

p.s. Told you on the Pessl.

By: altehaggen

altehaggen — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:21:43 +0000

Yes, Khalil, it is cruel….

HOW YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED IN LIFE.

What did you get on your SATs?

By: Khalil A.

Khalil A. — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:48:27 +0000

Damn, this one doesn’t apply to me. Got the school I wanted to get in to!

Cruel Old Hag.

By: Imani

Imani — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:44:37 +0000

I did apply to MIT. At the time I had no idea what I wanted to major in, the likeliest option being English (because that’s the default major for people who don’t know what they want to do in life). So I’d have the cred of going to MIT with a degree that probably had zero status on campus and probably leave engaged to the kind of man my mother would love (a “provider”).

Surprisingly, it didn’t work out.

By: cinetrix

cinetrix — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:41:18 +0000

Yale, obvs. Do I win?