This may be a long-winded rant

Background:

I'm 23 now. Not particularly good looking, but not ugly. I'm 6'2, which helps. When I was 19 I'd kissed 1 girl ever. It never really bothered me much, but I pretty much decided that meeting/hooking up with/dating girls was an important aspect of my life that I wanted to work on. Almost immediately after applying some of the basic tenets of PUA philosophy, I started getting girls numbers and makeouts. After several months, I was able to bring a few girls back to my apartment. Landed some bj's, etc. When I was 20, I lost my virginity. Over the next year I got laid by maybe 3 or 4 girls. I would always go through slumps where I would get rejected constantly for months at a time. Usually this would last about 2 months, then I would go on a heater and no matter what I said worked for a few months.

I was making nice, steady progress. Wasn't going on many dates with girls at all, but I was developing some pretty solid game at the bars. Then I turned 22. On new years I made out with 4 girls in one night, including a girl I had a crush on in high school but never made a move on. I went on a few dates with different girls. I had sex with like 4 or 5 girls in the first 2 months of the year. Then I met a crazy girl who I dated for about a month before my senses came to me. The only reason this is significant is because it is the first girl I actually "dated" for a little.

About a month later, I met an awesome girl who is probably the first girl i've really liked and genuinely enjoyed being with. We dated for about 3 months and then she graduated and moved to NYC (I was a senior in college in the southeast US at the time), so the relationship naturally ended. This was a little over a year ago and it was definitely very sad for me, but I kept hitting on girls. I didn't let the breakup make me an unhappy or pessimistic person, but I went through a slump for the next month or so. Lots of rejections.

In the past year since this happened, I've brought one girl back to my place (no sex). I've had a decent number of meaningless makeouts with girls who I don't even remember, but I haven't made a connection with anyone. I've gone through a few slumps... but There have been several girls who i've been interested in and they ALWAYS flake. Like, literally every single girl who i've asked out on a date for the past year has straight up ignored my text or flaked on me. Most of these girls I have seen on multiple occasions out at bars and had a great time with every time. Every time, they express interest to hang out with me the next day (or soon). And every single time, I get ignored. It's like... how is this even statistically possible? I can't really get into each individual scenario, but there are A LOT of them... it's mind blowing.. and every time it seems like things are going well for me and then just inexplicably I get no response.

This past weekend was the last straw for me and now I'm just officially pissed off. I met a cool, very smart girl at the bars. We hit it off very well. We made out once or twice over the course of 1-2 hours, but mostly just talked for a while and got to know each other. She kept asking what I was doing the next day. She kept saying that she wanted me to get brunch with her and go to the park the next day. She asked if I wanted her number. I gave her my number. She texted me that night (before I texted anything to her): "Hey, how about brunch? We should do brunch tomorrow?" I text her the next day: "Plans today?" No response. I text her once more (giving her the benefit of the doubt on the no response) today saying that we should hang out after work later this week. No response.

At this point I'm just throwing my hands up in the air because I don't even know what to do anymore. I'm sick of getting meaningless makeouts. I am literally incapable of getting any girl to give me the time of day to go out on a date with me. And it isn't like I'm not trying. I'm just getting rejected time after time after time. Not a damn clue what the problem is. All of my friends are constantly hooking up with new girls and going out on dates with new girls and meeting up with girls thru tinder. Nothing fucking works for me. I'm legitimately starting to wonder if I'm just ugly or something. I haven't dated many girls, but every date i've ever gone on has turned out very well. But nobody even gives me a chance and it's really, really frustrating to me.

I'm not sure what the purpose of this post is. I guess I would like some advice? I'm hoping maybe someone can strongly relate to my situation and provide some sort of solution. Cause right now I'm all out of answers.

tl;dr - improved my game from nothing to pretty competent. I'm still utterly incapable of getting a girl to go on a date with me.