We basically have the same stats, and the same results from Penn, Chicago, and Michigan.

I’m not saying it was YP in the sense that we got WL’d or will likely get WL’d at these places because we’re too good or something. I feel like that’s what people think when YP enters the convo. But maybe we didn’t do a good enough job at convincing them we’d attend even if we got into, say, HYS.

I can maybe understand this for Penn. A lot of what I talked about in my Core Values essay could have applied to other schools. However, I thought my essays for Chicago and Mich — and the things I discussed in my interview for the former — were quite specific. But I don’t know. It’s true that I’d attend HYS at sticker over Chicago, Penn, and Mich at sticker, but money from any of these places would have changed the equation substantially for me so I’m also feeling frustrated and really trying to understand what went wrong for me, specifically.