supportivemom1

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

Stats:

* SAT I (by section): 690 CR, 670 M, 740 W (2100)
* SAT IIs: 740 US History, 700 World History, 710 Physics
* ACT: 32
* APs: World History (4); Biology (5); Physics B (4); Spanish (5); US History (4)
* IBs: IB Diploma Candidate
* GPA: 4.0 UW / 4.83 W
* Rank: School does not rank but approx. 3rd of 260
* Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): N/A

Subjective:

* ECs listed on app: Volunteer music teacher to homeless kids; Suzuki violin since age 6; Rotary Youth summer exchange to Belgium; varsity sailing team all 4 years; Rotary Youth Leadership Award; National Honors Society.
* Job/Work Experience: 3 years part-time dishwasher in cafe; summer as grocery store cashier; self-employed guitar teacher and Spanish tutor.
* Essays (subject and responses): CommonApp was about music in my life; supplement was about the pleasure I get from my IB Theory of Knowledge class.
* Teacher Recs: I read one and it was great. Didn't see the other two but they really like me so I bet they were good.
* Counselor Rec: Didn't see it , but I think it was good.
* Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): URM (Hispanic) and multi-talented at music?

Location/Person

* State or Country: CA
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Very good public
* Ethnicity: Hispanic
* Gender: Male
* General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: This is mom posting for son, but he is in shock and in heaven (and out celebrating with friends)! He never thought he had a real chance, so this is amazing! Congrats to one and all -- you are an incredible group of young people -- best of luck wherever you go!

superswankypants

Decision: Accepted


Objective:

* SAT I (breakdown):800CR 800W 710M
* ACT: 35
* SAT II:790 Lit 760 Math II 750 BioM
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):5/289
* AP (place score in parenthesis):
* IB (place score in parenthesis):7 SL Math
* Senior Year Course Load: IB diploma candidate
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): HOBY Leadership Award in 10th grade, other local community awards for photography, creative writing and academics but nothing on a national level

Subjective:

* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):XCountry & Track, Newspaper (Editor), NHS (President), Student Government (President)
* Job/Work Experience: Self employed (lawn service, youth mentor)
* Volunteer/Community service: Hospice (20 hours/month) and Community Restorative Justice Program (3 hours/month)
* Summer Activities: Nothing special
* Essays: Considering how marginal my ECs are, they must have helped
* Teacher Recommendation: Awesome
* Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good, I never saw it
* Additional Rec:
* Interview: not very exciting

Other

* State (if domestic applicant):Colorado
* Country (if international applicant):
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Male
* Income Bracket: ~$130,000
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

* Strengths: not sure... essays? teacher recs?
* Weaknesses: ECs
* Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good question. Who knows these things?
* Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Harvard, Cornell, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colgate Waitlisted: Princeton, Swarthmore

General Comments: It's a happy day. Congratulations and good luck to everyone.

poubelle

I want to be a creep and ask what high school you went to, because there aren't that many IB diploma schools in Colorado. But I won't.

(Do you see what I did there?)

arcadefire1027

Just judging by this thread alone, it looks like people with lower SAT's and lower GPA's actually have a higher chance of getting in than those with high scores. Seriously, I mean, look through all the acceptees haha

Lbr218

Thanks gloomy!! I am going to Georgia Tech. Still a great school, most economically feasible. I also loved Oberlin and Macalester.

Julia2013

ACCEPTEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!! I was deferred ED so I am pumped!

4th house

for S:

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 800cr, 740m, 760w = 2300 total
• SAT II: Math 2: 800
  World: 800
  Physics: 800
  Chem: 790
  US History: 790
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 98.32
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank; anecdotally #1 out of 63
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC: 5
  Chem: 5
  Eng Lang.: 5 (self-studied)
  World: 5 (self-studied)
  USH: 5 (self-studied)
• Senior Year Course Load: Hardest available: Multivariable Calc, AP Physics C, etc ...
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel Semi-Finalist, Stockholm Junior Water Prize – State Champ, #7 in nation, Moody’s Mega Math Challenge winner, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (Secretary General), Investment Club (co-founder), Academic Team (Captain), NHS (President)
• Job/Work Experience: Congressional internship, quantum computing mentorship
• Volunteer/Community service: USY (co-president)
• Summer Activities: CTY 4 years, Harvard SSP (Edward Fein Fellowship)
• Essays: Doesn’t everyone think their essays are great?
• Teacher Recommendation: Alleged to be very good
• Counselor Rec: see above
• Additional Rec: Harvard TA
• Interview: Very good

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
• Intended Major: International Relations
• State (if domestic applicant): NJ
• School Type: public magnet (top 10 in the country)
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: M
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Published in two peer-reviewed academic journals

Reflection

Strengths: Typical hard-working, well-rounded kid

What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Challenge of coming from a pre-engineering academy strong in math and science, yet personally having great interest in the social sciences

Weaknesses: Not an athlete, not a musician, would not be recruited for any such niches

Why you think you were waitlisted: No clue. Congrats to all!

Amadeuic

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 760 CR, 780 M, 770 W (1540/2310)
• SAT II: 750 Latin, 730 Math II, 730 World History, 720 Math I, average to bad on a few others
• Weighted GPA: 97/100
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
• AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), US History (4), Calculus AB (5), Calculus BC, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, English Literature and Composition, Latin Virgil, Physics B.
• Senior Year Course Load: Basically the unscored AP exams above.
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, NMSQT Commended Scholar, National Latin Exam Gold Medals (3), some statewide Latin competition prizes, etc.

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): High School Classical Culture Society (Treasurer x2, President), New Jersey Junior Classical League (Central Registrar), National Honor Society (Treasurer), Literary Magazine (Assistant Editor in Chief, Editor in Chief), Mock Trial (Witness x2), Students Against Destructive Decisions
• Job/Work Experience: None
• Volunteer/Community service: Local hospital, making lunches for poor, pancake breakfast for blind, setting up for local art shows and carnivals, etc.
• Summer Activities: Film Camp, Summer Rowing Program, NYLF on Medicine, Honors Pre-Calculus Class
• Essays: CommonApp showed source of intellectual interest, Brown Supplement was about Mountains Beyond Mountains
• Teacher Recommendation: Should have been great.
• Counselor Rec: Probably bad, actually. I don't think she knew me very well and probably wrote the wrong information.
• Additional Rec: Yes, Professor in Classics Department, after being asked to visit and sit in on classes
• Interview: Yes, I think it went well, although there were a few points where I narrowly avoided steering it into catastrophe.
  

Other[list][*] Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope.[*] Intended Major: Classics[*] State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey[*] School Type: Private, ~215 in graduating class, gets about a dozen kids to top twenty universities each year[*] Ethnicity: White[*] Gender: Male[*] Income Bracket: Not sure, specifically. But no FA.[*] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Classics? Maybe?

Reflection
Strengths: SAT's, EC's, Essays

What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Center it around passion for many things, brought it all back to Classics, etc.

Weaknesses: SAT II's

Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not for me to decide, but I'm sure glad I was.

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted- Brown University (attending), University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, Colby College, Vanderbilt University, University of Notre Dame (Honors Program), University of Michigan; Waitlisted- Duke University, Cornell University, Williams College; Rejected- Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania.

pineapplelollie

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 700 M, 600 CR, 660 W
• SAT IIs: 650 Math 2, 790 Chinese & Listening
• ACT: 31
• APs: I took 3 junior yr, taking 3 now. Scores aren't too great...
• IBs:
• GPA: 3.51 UW (3.49 before 1st semester senior yr.)
• Rank: 181/750
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Girl Scouts (Gold Award too), yearbook, hospital stuff, orchestra, a bunch of clubs
• Job/Work Experience: part-time job
• Essays (subject and responses): I thought they were pretty darn good, so I don't know...
• Teacher Recs: should be good (I didn't get to read them)
• Counselor Rec: okay
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): first-gen, low-income

[ b]Location/Person:[/b]

• State or Country: CA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): competitive public
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: F

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to those who got in-you deserved it b/c Brown must have saw something in you! But yeah, I'm just sort of disappointed. I made it clear that Brown was my first choice and I don't know, I was really hoping for a miracle even though I was expecting this rejection. Everytime I do get rejected, I really really just want to know WHY.

goodnessgracious

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): Math 690, Crit. Reading 650, Writing 690
• SAT IIs: Math 800, Chem 730, Bio 670
• ACT: 34
• APs: 5 Bio, 5 Chem, 4 English Lang, 5 Calc AB. Currently taking Calc BC, Gov, Lit, and German
• IBs:
• GPA: 4.23
• Rank: 12/657 - they didn't get that til the midyear though
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): no

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad co-founder, 3 years of Tennis, Art classes at UCSD extension
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): i can't recall really, the common app was definitely pretty good, not amazing but yeah.. and the engaging experience was about an essay i wrote for my final last year and how it got me to think. looking back, i don't think it was exactly what they wanted.
• Teacher Recs: both should have been good
• Counselor Rec: decent, don't know her that well
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): not much - maybe that I'm Dutch and my parents immigrated here 20 years ago

[ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list][*] State or Country: CA[*] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): a pretty well ranked public school - around 3000 students[*] Ethnicity: white/caucasian[*] Gender: female[/list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[/b] whatevvv i'll just go to Northwestern

goodnessgracious

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): Math 690, Crit. Reading 650, Writing 690
• SAT IIs: Math 800, Chem 730, Bio 670
• ACT: 34
• APs: 5 Bio, 5 Chem, 4 English Lang, 5 Calc AB. Currently taking Calc BC, Gov, Lit, and German
• IBs:
• GPA: 4.23
• Rank: 12/657 - they didn't get that til the midyear though
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): no

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad co-founder, 3 years of Tennis, Art classes at UCSD extension
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): i can't recall really, the common app was definitely pretty good, not amazing but yeah.. and the engaging experience was about an essay i wrote for my final last year and how it got me to think. looking back, i don't think it was exactly what they wanted.
• Teacher Recs: both should have been good
• Counselor Rec: decent, don't know her that well
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): not much - maybe that I'm Dutch and my parents immigrated here 20 years ago

Location/Person:[ list][*] State or Country: CA[*] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): a pretty well ranked public school - around 3000 students[*] Ethnicity: white/caucasian[*] Gender: female[/list]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: whatevvv i'll just go to Northwestern

goodnessgracious

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): Math 690, Crit. Reading 650, Writing 690
• SAT IIs: Math 800, Chem 730, Bio 670
• ACT: 34
• APs: 5 Bio, 5 Chem, 4 English Lang, 5 Calc AB. Currently taking Calc BC, Gov, Lit, and German
• IBs:
• GPA: 4.23
• Rank: 12/657 - they didn't get that til the midyear though
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): no

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad co-founder, 3 years of Tennis, Art classes at UCSD extension
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): i can't recall really, the common app was definitely pretty good, not amazing but yeah.. and the engaging experience was about an essay i wrote for my final last year and how it got me to think. looking back, i don't think it was exactly what they wanted.
• Teacher Recs: both should have been good
• Counselor Rec: decent, don't know her that well
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): not much - maybe that I'm Dutch and my parents immigrated here 20 years ago

Location/Person:

• State or Country: CA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): a pretty well ranked public school - around 3000 students
• Ethnicity: white/caucasian
• Gender: female

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: whatevvv i'll just go to Northwestern

goodnessgracious

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): Math 690, Crit. Reading 650, Writing 690
• SAT IIs: Math 800, Chem 730, Bio 670
• ACT: 34
• APs: 5 Bio, 5 Chem, 4 English Lang, 5 Calc AB. Currently taking Calc BC, Gov, Lit, and German
• IBs:
• GPA: 4.23
• Rank: 12/657 - they didn't get that til the midyear though
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): no

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad co-founder, 3 years of Tennis, Art classes at UCSD extension
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): i can't recall really, the common app was definitely pretty good, not amazing but yeah.. and the engaging experience was about an essay i wrote for my final last year and how it got me to think. looking back, i don't think it was exactly what they wanted.
• Teacher Recs: both should have been good
• Counselor Rec: decent, don't know her that well
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): not much - maybe that I'm Dutch and my parents immigrated here 20 years ago

Location/Person:

• State or Country: CA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): a pretty well ranked public school - around 3000 students
• Ethnicity: white/caucasian
• Gender: female

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: whatevvv i'll just go to Northwestern

Cartelle

<font size="5"><font color="green">Accepted!!! </font color></font size>

<b>Objective:</b>
SAT I (breakdown): 780cr, 750m, 800w = 2330 total
SAT II: Math 2 - 800; Chem - 790; French - 690
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98 - only 1 B in multivariable calc (took at community college b/c they don't teach it at school...)
Weighted GPA: 4.5/5.0 (But should be about 4.75...see below)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), Chem (5), Phys C: Mech (5), Phys C: E&M (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Hardest Available - Multivariable Calc, AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Lit, AP Gov/Econ, Photo (I had no arts credit before this...)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Hnr, Laureat National in Grand Concours Nat'l French Competition, a few math awards, class prize 2006

<b>Subjective:</b>
Extracurriculars: Tae Kwon Do (Black Belt, Paid Instructor, Best Student Award 2008), Amnesty Int'l (Co-President, previously Publicities Officer), Photography (I submitted some of my work, won 1st in my district in a PTSA contest), Publicities Officer & Student Teacher for Oxybridges Science Institute, a ****load of sports freshman and sophmore year (soccer, track, xc, field hockey)
Job/Work Experience: Internship at USC synthesizing nanowires w/ high-powered lasers; Internship at Caltech building a program to compare nucleotide and protein strings to find motors on viruses; currently an instructor at my tkd studio; tutoring math, french & chem since 2006
Volunteer/Community service: N/A
Summer Activities: 2005-6 my family and I lived abroad on the French/Swiss border...we spent those summers moving back and forth...I taught myself Alg 2 when we moved back --> Honours PreCalculus as a sophmore (class for juniors at our school); Internship at USC 2007; Internship at Caltech 2008
Essays: I wrote about living in Europe and how on the school ski trip, a depressed girl woke me up in the middle of the night and asked for my swiss army knife...I gave it to her only to sprint after her later...fortunately she didn't hurt herself; I submitted a summary of my research and explained how there were no honors classes at my school in Switzerland (otherwise my GPA --> 4.75ish)
Teacher Recommendation: one said I was one of the best students ever and the other said i was <i>the</i> best. :]
Counselor Rec: "a most remarkable young woman"
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A

<b>Other</b>
Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
Intended Major: Physics
State: CA
School Type: Public, but top 100 schools in country
Ethnicity: white
Gender: F
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): um, living abroad

<b>Reflection</b>
Strengths: math & science; sophistication; well-roundedness :]
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Cultural stuff, well-roundedness
Weaknesses: NO community service, stupid 750 on the SAT (I only took it once and the curve was INSANE.)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Living abroad on top of having the grades etc.; and having 2 x-chromosomes and applying for physics

goodnessgracious

gah! sorry!