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Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 740 math 670 reading 650 writing 7 essay
• SAT IIs: 800 math 2 770 physics 670 spanish/listening
• ACT: 36 math 35 writing 33 science 31 reading 7 essay
• APs: none
• IBs: SL visual arts (3), HL history/english/physics, SL math/spanish
• GPA: 3.93
• Rank: top 3%
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: 1 varsity sport 1 club sport every year
• Job/Work Experience: summer internship at architecture firm 2 years ago
• Essays (subject and responses): wrote about my passion in an art class and track&field
• Teacher Recs: didn't read
• Counselor Rec: didn't read
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): none

Location/Person:

• State or Country: washington
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): large public school
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: this is my final decision, and I can now say that my decisions matched up exactly with their previous years' acceptance rates: rejected by the three most selective, accepted by the two least selective, waitlisted by the middle three

Lbr218

Decision: DEFERRED ED, THEN REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): N/A
• SAT IIs: 720 US History, 640 Literature
• ACT: 31 (31 M, 31 W, 34 R, 27 S)
• APs: 2, but then took 10 college classes
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 3.85
• Rank: not reported (top 12%)
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: GA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public, sends many students to top colleges
• Ethnicity: White/Eastern European/ Jewish
• Gender: Female
  

Subjective

• ECs listed on app: lots of community service, National Honor Society, etc...
• Job/Work Experience: Worked at a preschool all junior year
• Essays (subject and responses): Common app about my love of learning
• Teacher Recs: very good
• Counselor Rec: very good
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): Joint-enrollment, living at a college for a year (www.advancedacademy.edu)
  

Subjective

• Strengths: Essays, college classes/life, teacher recs
• Weaknesses: Grades, test scores, Ethnicity, oh yeah, and I'm NOT A GENIUS!
• Why you think you were rejected: See weaknesses. I'm smart, but nothing special.
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Georgia Tech, College of Charleston (president's scholarship), Ithaca College (president's scholarship), Brandeis University, American University (dean's scholarship), Macalester College, Franklin & Marshall College (president's scholarship), Oberlin College (John F. Oberlin scholarship) Waitlisted: Elon University (called and asked, they said I didn't show enough interest. Took my name off the wait list.) Rejected: Brown University
  
  

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
I totally expected it. I will be attending the Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall. Looking forward to it!

Razalman

Decision: DEFERRED AND THEN REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 730M 650CR 690W 8 Essay
• SAT IIs: 770USH 720MII 710Lit
• ACT: 33
• APs: 5's on: USH, Euro, Calc AB, English Lang
• IBs: none
• GPA: 4.0 UW
• Rank: 1 of 308
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): n/a

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• ECs listed on app: don't really feel like listing them...not oodles but not too shabby, i thought
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): i really didn't like them after i submitted them...I think they lack personality
• Teacher Recs: i believe really good, but I only read one of them
• Counselor Rec: not sure....he's kind of inept, so probably not that grand
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): none

Location/Person:

• State or Country: CA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public (sends most kids to CC)
• Ethnicity:Caucasian
• Gender: M

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: totally expected, but i'm still disappointed. This was my first outright rejections (WL at WUSTL). Looks like i'm off to Wesleyan, Macalester, or Berkeley! Yay options! Congrats to all those who got in.

Calixus

Decision: ACCEPTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 800 CR / 800 M / 800 W / 2400 (second attempt, one sitting)
• SAT IIs: 800 Math Level 2, 710 Physics
• ACT: N/A
• APs: Psychology (5), US History (5), English Lang (5), Chemistry (3), Calc BC (5), Biology (2), Physics C Mech (5)
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 3.87 UW
• Rank: about top 5%.
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Piano, YMCA Youth and Government (Senator -- won statewide award), Chess Club, Physics Club
• Essays (subject and responses): main Common App essay -- how I came up with an idea for a play that I wrote, Brown Academic Experience essay -- Youth and Gov, Why Brown essay -- how I want to be an applied math major
• Teacher Recs: didn't read
• Counselor Rec: excellent
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): None

Location/Person:

• State or Country: AZ
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): large public (2500+ students)
• Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
• Gender: M

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: This was a happy end to the last day of waiting. I read my Stanford rejection email about 10 minutes before checking the Brown decision, but Brown has always been my first choice.

sherlock1016

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2240 = 730 Reading, 720 Math, 790 Writing
• ACT: 35
• SAT II: 750 US History, 740 Literature, 720 Biology
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Don't know, 96%
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Don't know, bottom of top decile
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 Euro, 5 APUSH, 5 EngLang, 5 HumanGeo
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: 6 APs
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):4 years of theater w/ 8 leads, All-State level singer, Select Choir (President), Music Honors Society (President), Male a cappella group (President), Literary Magazine (Editor), 2 years varsity tennis
• Job/Work Experience:
• Volunteer/Community service:Various singing and performing groups in the community for the sick and elderly.
• Summer Activities:Study abroad and local theater productions
• Essays: My counselor said my essays were the best he ever read
• Teacher Recommendation: I don't know, but guessing good
• Counselor Rec:he liked me a lot, I'm guessing superb
• Additional Rec: A music teacher, very good
• Interview: She seemed very positive, said she was hoping to hear good things about ,e

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: nope
• Intended Major: History
• State (if domestic applicant): NY
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: $200,000 +
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

• Strengths: ACT, extracurricular activities, essays
• Weaknesses: Grades, rank, location, no hook
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because I guess I just don't jump out
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted U Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Kenyon, U Mich. Waitlisted Amherst, Carleton. Rejected Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Oxford

General Comments: Kind of hurt. I thought my essays were okay for Brown, but I sent a good deal of supplements. Wasn't too in love with the school, so congrats to all who were accepted

Emp

Decision: REJECTED
I was not surprised.
Stats:

• SAT I (by section):didn't send
• SAT IIs:n/a
• ACT:27
• APs:11 APs total. All 3's and some 4's.
• IBs:n/a
• GPA:3.37
• Rank:40/500
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app:President/Founder of History Club; VP of National English Honors Society; Oratory Squad Leader/Treasurer of Debate; VP of Relay for Life; Treasurer of Young Democrats.
• Job/Work Experience:Summer camp.
• Essays (subject and responses):Summer@Brown ropes course for CA and how my current statistics class changed a math disoriented me.
• Teacher Recs:never read but i'm sure they were pretty great
• Counselor Rec:see above
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM):none

Location/Person:

• State or Country:Florida
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):Competitive public
• Ethnicity:white
• Gender:female

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Congrats to those who were accepted! I'm sure we will all end up where we ought to be next year; Brown just wasn't it for me!

pvtejasvi

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): CR 640,590 (2nd time) , 630 (1st time), Math: 750, 670 (2nd time), 590 (1st time), Writing: 770,670(2nd Time), 600 (1st Time)
• 2160 (JAN SAT), 1970 Superscored before, 1910 (2nd time), 1820 (1st time)
• ACT:
• SAT II: US HIST: 770, MII: 680, CHEM:720, BIO-E: 700
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96/4.0
• Weighted GPA: 5.35/6.00
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/906 (SECONDARY SC REP), 1/816 (MID YEAR)
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 US History, 4 Chemistry, 3 World History (IB STUDENT)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): 4 SL Chemistry (TEACHER DIDNT TELL US ABOUT LABS) , 5 SL French
• Senior Year Course Load: 8 IB & AP Classes + Decathalon
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):AP SCholar, Valedictorian, Optimist Award - Chemistry, and more

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis (1 year), Newspaper (2 yrs), Decathalon (1 year)
• Job/Work Experience: Research Volunteer w/ paper being published
• Volunteer/Community service: Nursing Homes, Hospitals, local Research Foundation
• Summer Activities: Swimming, Tabla (INDIAN DRUM), Tennis, Research
• Essays: Excellent
• Teacher Recommendation: EXCELLENT but GENERIC
• Counselor Rec: EXCELLENT but GENERIC
• Additional Rec: Research Foundation Coordinator, Piano Teacher
• Interview: EXCELLENT!!!

Other

• State (if domestic applicant): TX
• Country (if international applicant): USA
• School Type: PUBLIC
• Ethnicity: INDIAN AMERICAN
• Gender: MALE
• Income Bracket: above 250k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):NONE maybe research + ecs?

Reflection

• Strengths: ECs + research
• Weaknesses:SAT!!!! (3rd time - JANUARY SAT), ORM
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: SAT WAS A problem - couldn't compete well enough in that area
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected
  Rejected: Dartmouth, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern
  Waitlisted: Rice, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Upenn
  Accepted: UT Austin, Boston University
  

General Comments: Congratulations everyone that got accepted!!! If u were rejected like me - u are still a great candidate - even by applying u have proven that you are up in the best. As for me I will be off to UT Austin, I will wait on my 4 waitlists. sigh - more waiting - hopefully i will get in.....

HARRYKRISHNA

[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: ACCEPTED [ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ ~] SAT Reasoning: CR - 670;M-670;Writing-700. Total: 2040/2400
[ ~] SAT Subject Tests: Math IIC - 690; Chemistry - 680; Physics - 760. 2130/2400
[ *] ACT: N/A
[ *] APs: N/A
[ *] IBs: High School doesn't offer AP/IB Courses.
[ *] GPA: 4.02/5.00
[ *] Rank: to 20% of 949 senior year. (Tentative - school doesn't rank)
[ *] Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): TOEFL: 115/120
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app: Model UN - 3 international conferences - UAE, Singapore and USA. Secretary general of the largest in India. Director at another one. GYLC 2008. A LOT of community service. Formed my own Non Governmental Organization to work with slum children. Played squash at the national level. Write a lot. President of the Students' Council. Director of the Interact Club. President of the Interact Club. This is in short, there's more here and there - but this is the main stuff.
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
SUMMER INTERNSHIP
<Name> Golf (Sole Distributors of PING and other golf related products in India): Summer 2007: Helped in designing brochures and catalogs, maintained inventory and managed account
relationships with clients and golf clubs in India.

[ *] Essays (subject and responses): Wrote about why engineering and why brown. Very personal.
[ *] Teacher Recs: Senior Year English and Math. Both really liked me, so I'm guessing they sent nice stuff. School Principal sent my recommendation.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Principal sent her rec. Said, it was a good one.
[ *] Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): No hook. Live in India. No siblings/relatives at Brown. First in the family to go to an Ivy League!
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: India
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private School. Senior Class has 949 graduating students (HUGE!).
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: To all those who were accepted, my heartiest congratulations! I look forward to seeing you on campus this fall! To those who weren't accepted, don't worry! There's definitely something in store for you! This decision doesn't judge your character or capabilities. I'm 101% sure, you'll do awesomely wherever you go! Best of luck everyone! =)[ /b]

HARRYKRISHNA

[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: ACCEPTED [ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ ~] SAT Reasoning: CR - 670;M-670;Writing-700. Total: 2040/2400
[ ~] SAT Subject Tests: Math IIC - 690; Chemistry - 680; Physics - 760. 2130/2400
[ *] ACT: N/A
[ *] APs: N/A
[ *] IBs: High School doesn't offer AP/IB Courses.
[ *] GPA: 4.02/5.00
[ *] Rank: to 20% of 949 senior year. (Tentative - school doesn't rank)
[ *] Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): TOEFL: 115/120
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app: Model UN - 3 international conferences - UAE, Singapore and USA. Secretary general of the largest in India. Director at another one. GYLC 2008. A LOT of community service. Formed my own Non Governmental Organization to work with slum children. Played squash at the national level. Write a lot. President of the Students' Council. Director of the Interact Club. President of the Interact Club. This is in short, there's more here and there - but this is the main stuff.
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
SUMMER INTERNSHIP
<Name> Golf (Sole Distributors of PING and other golf related products in India): Summer 2007: Helped in designing brochures and catalogs, maintained inventory and managed account
relationships with clients and golf clubs in India.

[ *] Essays (subject and responses): Wrote about why engineering and why brown. Very personal.
[ *] Teacher Recs: Senior Year English and Math. Both really liked me, so I'm guessing they sent nice stuff. School Principal sent my recommendation.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Principal sent her rec. Said, it was a good one.
[ *] Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): No hook. Live in India. No siblings/relatives at Brown. First in the family to go to an Ivy League!
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: India
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private School. Senior Class has 949 graduating students (HUGE!).
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: To all those who were accepted, my heartiest congratulations! I look forward to seeing you on campus this fall! To those who weren't accepted, don't worry! There's definitely something in store for you! This decision doesn't judge your character or capabilities. I'm 101% sure, you'll do awesomely wherever you go! Best of luck everyone! =)[ /b]

La_Vie_Boheme

Decision: WAITLISTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2070 (720 math, 730 critical reading, 620 writing)
• SAT IIs: 740 US History, 700 Math 2, 650 Literature
• ACT: 32 (35 math, 31 English, 33 reading, 30 science)
• APs: environmental science (5), US History (4), English lit (3), art history (in May), English language (in May), calculus ab (in May), US government (in May)
• IBs: n/a
• GPA: 4.76 weighted, 3.9 weighted
• Rank: 3/454
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):
  

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Varsity field hockey (captain, many awards), Roots and Shoots environmental club (president), journalism (opinion editor), Finer Things Clubs (co-founder, vice president), SMARTteam (students modeling a research topic, worked with scientists at UCSD modeling a protein and presenting at science fairs)
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): main one-philosophy and who I am (I think it was pretty good)
• Teacher Recs: I read one after it was sent in because I needed it for something else and it seemed pretty good; I'm sure the other one was good too.
• Counselor Rec: I'm not very close to my counselor but she knows I'm a good student
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM):
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: California
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public school, not very good-I'm the only one to apply to any upper level private schools
• Ethnicity: Filipino
• Gender: Female

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I'm just a little confused. After getting waitlisted from Wesleyan and rejected from Pomona, I totally expected rejection from Brown. I don't really understand not getting into Wesleyan when people who got rejected from Brown got into Wesleyan. I guess I'll probably deposit at Carleton or Oberlin and hope that Wesleyan or Brown come through.

mathgirl62591

Decision: ACCEPTED!!!!


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 770 M, 730 CR, 740 W
• SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 790 Chem, 790 US History
• ACT:
• APs: Chemistry (5), US History (5)
• IBs:
• GPA: 5.171 (my school's scale), 4.0 (normal scale)
• Rank: 1/415
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): Chemistry Olympiad

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Student Council (President), Yearbook (Editor) Select Choir, Jazz Ensemble, World Language Club, National/State Student Council exec boards, All-State Chorus, Math League, Science Club, and a few more.
• Job/Work Experience: Employed by school's athletic department to work at all sporting events.
• Essays (subject and responses): I liked it, wrote about my indecisiveness
• Teacher Recs: Awesome, lots of connections to my EC's
• Counselor Rec: My counselor and I don't see eye to eye, so I had the principal write me a letter. He wrote me the most wonderful and flattering letter.
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM):

Location/Person:

• State or Country: RI
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, haven't sent a kid to an Ivy in over four years
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: female

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I was totally shocked because I actually got my letter today, since I live in RI. I was so happy though I can't wait to celebrate with the rest of my family! Congrats to everyone else who was accepted!

toastmaster

Decision: ACCEPTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 750 CR 780 M 710 W
• SAT IIs: 780 Phys 800 Math II 740 Chem
• ACT:
• APs: Chem 5, Lit + Calc + Physics Senior Year
• IBs:
• GPA: 3.9/4
• Rank: 2/285
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Varsity Math Team (Tri-Captain, #2 High Scoring Junior), Destination Imagination (School's Chapter Founder, Global Finalist Team), National Honor Society, Community Service
• Job/Work Experience: Camp Counselor
• Essays (subject and responses): One about Thanksgiving, another about my Volvo...
• Teacher Recs: Awesome!
• Counselor Rec: No idea!
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM):

Location/Person:

• State or Country: NH
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:

Gloomy_Glue

Hey Lbr218, I remember your username from the ED thread. Just wanted to wish you the best of luck wherever you go. By the looks of your stats and scholarship offers, any college would be extremely privileged to have you.

invisiblecity

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): CR-730, M-720, W-670
• ACT:
• SAT II: Math 1-690, Lit-670, Bio E-680
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (4), Eng. Lang. (5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Eng. Lit., AP Calc AB, AP World History, AP Gov, Physics Honors, AP Chem, Executive Internship
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended or whatever it’s called, National Hispanic Scholar

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club (president), Students Working Against Tobacco (president, in charge of entire county), National English Honor Society, can’t remember what else
• Job/Work Experience: Worked for my parents my whole life
• Volunteer/Community service: Hospice, NHS, Key Club stuff, others
• Summer Activities: Went to Europe before Sophomore year, working for parents, Hospice work
• Essays: One good, one OK
• Teacher Recommendation: All great, I think
• Counselor Rec: Great
• Additional Rec:
• Interview:

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
• Intended Major: Archaeology
• State (if domestic applicant): FL
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public, small
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Gender: Female
• Income Bracket: 100,000-120,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first generation college

Reflection

• Strengths: Minority (can that be a strength?), TONS of community service
• Weaknesses: Scores. Scores. Scores. Oh, and awards.
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Stanford, Duke, Cornell, Vanderbilt, and UF; Waitlisted at Harvard: Rejected at Yale (deferred in December)
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Scores not high enough?

General Comments: Hmm… It's fine, really. Congrats to everybody, regardless of this decison--look how far we've all come!

jezz09

randomnerdz, i think i have met you before???
weren't you the one that won that HUGE national poetry award?
damn, you really, really deserved it! you seem so fantastic, and really interesting. (i'd actually like to get to know you)

well, much love from an ED-er.
i know you will succeed anywhere you go.

AS WITH ALL OF THE REST OF YOU AMAZING PEOPLE!