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Accepted!
That's all

Knownasnoni

Decision: ACCEPTED

Stats:
-SAT I (by section):n/a
-SAT IIs: n/a
-ACT: 26
-APs: 1
-IBs:
-GPA: 3.98
-Rank: 5/108
-Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:
-ECs listed on app: Founded independent newspaper, State Art, 4-year winner of Stars of Tomorrow, Foreign Language Festival, NHS, Academic Challenge, Young Authors, Varsity band, All-state band, editor for school newspaper, track manager etc
-Job/Work Experience: Employed at the public library for four years
-Essays (subject and responses): For the essay, I wrote about a transition from early fame and glory to the desire for peace and privacy that incorporated "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed." Short responses: I explained why English, history, and music are my favorite topics and how they relate to each other. On the second response, I wrote about the open curriculum.
-Teacher Recs: Submitted 2, they were closed recommendation letters.
-Counselor Rec: submitted 1, he compared me to a train, always going no matter how high the hill.
-Interview: Yes, that went VERY well, I bet it played a factor.

-State or Country: Wyoming
-School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): about 398
-Ethnicity: Asian
-Gender: F

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes.
Intended Major: Psychology
School Type: Public


Reflection
Strengths: Essays, personality/individualism, interview, recommendation letters

What you tried to focus on in your application: I concentrated on the question: "What makes me different than other applicants." That question helped me to write innovative and creative responses.

Weaknesses: ACT score

Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Who knows? But I'm beyond happy at this point.
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b]

FaitAccompli

Rejected, expected it but it still stings.

ILurveBrown

OH MY GOSH!!!!!! I GOT INNNN!!!!
Defered ed then in rd

Decision: Waitlisted... then ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


* US DUAL CITIZEN (European and American passport), living in the Middle East
* School Type: Competitive Private American International school (over 80 nationalities)
* Ethnicity: African American
* Gender: Female
* Bilingual- German/English
* Graduate HS at 16
* Major: Premedicine
* SAT I: 1910 (600 M, 650 CR, 660 W)
* SAT II: Biology-E (620), Math I (640)
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.4): 3.75
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rank at my school
* Full IB Diploma, predicted score of 39/45
* Junior and Senior Course Load:
IB Higher Level Biology, English and Psychology
IB Standard Level Math, Arabic, Physics
+Theory of Knowledge

*High honor roll grades 9-12

*Extracurriculars: Varsity Track and Field (3 years, won medals, attended international meets in Egypt), Model United Nations (2 years, attended international conferences in Egypt)

*Volunteer/Community service: Cofounder and Vice President of Conservation Club (Raise money and awareness, give talks etc. about animal conservation), President of Operation Smile Club (2/3 years), Volunteered at a hospital in Oman

*Summer Activities and Job/Work Experience: Volunteered at a hospital/charity in India for one month, Assistant at a daycare

*Essays: I think they're pretty good- show my passion for Premed and the environment

*Teacher Recommendations: One from my IB Higher Level English teacher (REALLY nice, She let me read it) and one from my IB Higher Level Biology teacher
*Counselor Rec: Really nice, he let me read it...

brendanww

I am too lazy to c&p the results format thing, but I was accepted! I received a 2190 on the SAT and six 5's on APs. Getting accepted was pretty awesome :-P

motherofmine

S was Wait Listed. Only student from his school to apply to an Ivy League. 32 act, 4.0GPA, #2/133, small rural public school down south. Wrote about saving a baby goat.

As a mom who couldn't afford to send him to Brown (transportation costs alone would be prohibitive), I am so relieved. He wasn't rejected from his favorite school of all time and I don't have to say "no". He can now accept his 2nd favorite school and be satisfied. His response to the wait list was.... "I'll Wait til graduate school, then I'll be there!"

Congrats to all accepted, it is an awesome school. I would like to go there myself.

lunar_years

Decision: ACCEPTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2350 (800 V, 750 M, 800 W 12 essay)
• SAT IIs: 800 Bio E, 770 Math IIC, 800 US History
• APs:5's Biology, Calculus AB, English Language, Environmental Science, Spanish Language, US History, World History
• Rank: 1/520

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app:
• Job/Work Experience: Yearbook (copy editor), academic bowl (MVP), service club (secretary), math club (secretary), lit mag (editor), creative writing
• Essays (subject and responses): Common App essay on calling my relatives in Beijing on Christmas morning. Sort of stream-of-consciousness with embedded song lyrics. Brown supplement essay on studying AP World History in small student-led groups. I think both were a lot better in style than in substance.
• Teacher Recs: Good? One was from the WHAP teacher whose class I wrote about.
• Counselor Rec: Good but generic? She doesn't really know me, except as the valedictorian and the token minority among the NMFs.
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): TASP? Maybe geography.

Location/Person:

• State or Country: TX
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Large suburban public with mediocre academics, although my class is rockin' college admissions this year.
• Ethnicity: East Asian
• Gender: F

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
This is actually bittersweet for me. Brown has been my top choice for forever, but my financial aid package makes it impossible for me to actually go.

killerluck

Getting accepted was awesome. Seeing the financial aid package was even better =)


Decision: ACCEPTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): don't remeber by section, but 1990 total (didnt submit)
• SAT IIs: 660, 530, 540 (didnt submit)
• ACT: 29 (submitted)
• APs:
• IBs: 4(SL), 5(SL)
• GPA: 4.0 UW
• Rank: 1/292
• Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: swim, volunteer (vera project, real change newspaper), VN help humanitarian trip, VINYL RECORD COLLECTING (my main one lol), turntablism (glad this one worked out)
• Job/Work Experience: parents' barbershop for many years
• Essays (subject and responses): I related a death-defying experience longboarding with the balance between family and academics
• Teacher Recs: -Teacher Recs: Submitted 2, one was pretty great, the other, i dont know
• Counselor Rec: dont know
• Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): nope

Location/Person:

• State or Country: washington
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): about 300 in class
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: M
  Reflection
  Strengths: Essays, personality/individualism, definitely not test scores, rigorous classes
  What you tried to focus on in your application: I focused on my expansive range of interests, my potential, and and my desires to explore new things in college.
  
  Weaknesses: test scores

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Congrats to all. Things always work themselves out in the end.

smeagz

Decision: Deferred/Rejected (Brown and PLME)

Stats:

• SAT: 800m, 780w, 740cr, 2320
• SAT IIs: 800math2, 770chem, 730bio-e
• WGPA: 98.139 (+5/honors, +8/AP)
• Rank: 9/315 (not disclosed)
• AP's: 2 US History, 4 Physics C E&M, 5 Physics C M, 5 Chem, 5 Calc BC, US Gov, Psych (self-study), Bio, English Lit, Stats
• Other stats: math class at Princeton, 350+ hours volunteering at hospital, astrophysics research, varsity tennis, NHS president, etc.

Subjective:

• Essays: Decent
• Teacher Recs: Good
• Counselor Rec: Good

Location/Person:[list][*] State or Country: NJ[*] School Type: Public, some grads to top schools[*] Ethnicity: Indian[*] Gender: M

heygirlhey!

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT Reading: 700
• SAT Math: 780
• SAT Writing: 730
• SAT Total: 2210
• SAT II: Math II 710, Lit 680, Physics 660
• TOEFL (if applicable):
• ACT (if applicable): 32
• AP/IB taken/scores: 5's on BC Calc, English Lang, US Gov
• GPA weighted (if applicable): 3.9ish
• GPA unweighted: 3.6ish
• Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 10th percentile-ish out of 400
• Academic Awards: Nope
  

Subjective:

• Essays: Good, had plenty of people read and like
• Teacher Rec #1: Good
• Teacher Rec #2: Also good
• Additional Rec: Employer rec -- quite good
• Counselor Rec: Good, I assume? It's public school...
• Hook (if any): General artsiness with a bit of part-time jobiness
  

Location:

• State or Country: CT
• School Type: Competitive public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Legacy Yes/No: Nope
• Recruited Yes/No: Nope
• Important ECs: Creative writing, theater, chorus, part time job making smoothies!!

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Vanilla-ness

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Brown was a bit of a shot in the dark for me, like the rest of the Ivies. I was a big fan, but hey, it's nothing personal. CONGRATS ACCEPTEES, best of luck waitlistees, and fellow rejectees, we'll deal.

ABigSmall

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

• SAT I: 2400 (M: 800 CR: 800 W: 800 Essay: 10)
• ACT: N/A
• SAT II:
  • Math Level 2 800 (1st time 790)
    
  • Chemistry 780 (1st time 720)
    
  • U.S. History 770
    
  • Biology M 760
    
  • World History 740
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
• Rank: 7/550?
• AP:
  • World History (4)
    
  • Chemistry (5)
    
  • Calculus AB (5)
    
  • Biology (5)
    
  • U.S. History (4)
• IB: N/A
• Senior Year Course Load:
  • Forensics Workshop (Debate)
    
  • AP (U.S.)Government-Macroeconomics
    
  • AP Calculus BC
    
  • AP English Literature
    
  • Leadership A/B (ASB)
    
  • AP Physics
    
  • AP Music Theory
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, ABigSmall's Seal of Destruction

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place weird comments in parenthesis): Violoncello (Grade 3 to present), Debate (does that count?), Orchestra (1st, 2nd, 3rd chairs at different times of course), KIWIN'S (used to be Website/Tech Chair, now I'm Projects Coordinator), other stuff that are more weak (like I did Newspaper Production for 1 year and took self-studied courses on Applied Wikipedia & Blog Reading, Introduction to Counting Ceiling Dots, Advanced Rice Eating)
• Job/Work Experience: I put down orchestra, as we recently became free from the school and are our own entity, but I'm not seeing any direct money. It goes to our summer trip. I also tutor a local youngster in the ways of edumahcation!
• Volunteer/Community service: KIWIN'S, tutoring for NHS, church things
• Summer Activities: Just this past summer I did student research at a research lab for over 200 hours and went to Arizona with my church for short-term summer missions. The summer before I went with my orchestra to play in Ireland and toured the UK. The summer before that I.. Boy Scouts camp?
• Essays: Best writing I've done (but that's not saying that much)
• Teacher Recommendation: Good
• Counselor Rec: Good
• Additional Rec: Research mentor, but I was not allowed to read it
• Interview: I replied to the email more than a month later and then there was no reply. So I didn't have one.

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid: Fo shizzle my nizzle (yes)
• Intended Major: Physics
• State: California
• Country (if international applicant): ---
• School Type: Earthquake-resistant (around 2,300 students, public)
• Ethnicity: Korean
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: <$40k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I'm an Asian American from sunny California with good grades and scores!-oh wait... (none )

Reflection

• Strengths: Scores and grades. Maybe the essays, maybe my recs. I did some student research at this lab an hour from home.
• Weaknesses: Leadership, extracurriculars, nothing really outstanding.
• Why you think you were accepted: I wrote about my student research experiences in my application, and that was mentioned in my acceptance letter!

General Comments: Pretty freak'n sweet.

pachu161

Decision: ACCEPTED

stats are kinda creepy haha

ZFanatic

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2070, 700 Math, 670 CR, 640 W
• ACT: 32 Comp, 36 Math, 34 Sci, 29 Rdg, 29 Eng
• SAT II: 740 Math II, 700 Chem, 620 Lit (gross)
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.61........
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 47/498
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 10 APs by end of senior year
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Eng Lit, AP Calculus AB, Student Council Officer
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Physician Shadowing, Research, StuCo (secretary), NHS, 3 years school baseball, Boy Scouts (senior patrol leader and Eagle Scout)
• Job/Work Experience: 5 years working as youth baseball umpire, and other employment always/year round
• Volunteer/Community service: lots. Shoulda kept better track of my hours.
• Summer Activities: Work, and Native American Youth Initiative program
• Essays: Really good, but not super original or exciting. About my shadowing.
• Teacher Recommendation: IDK
• Counselor Rec: Most likely fantastic
• Additional Rec: really really good, for PLME, from the Surgeon I shadowed
• Interview: Not that great

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
• Intended Major: Cognitive Neuroscience/French Studies
• State (if domestic applicant): TX
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public Magnet
• Ethnicity: Native American (obviously not that much help...)
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: ~130k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Native American, but once again, didn't help that much obviously.

Reflection

• Strengths: Courseload (hardest of anyone at my school, I'm certain.
• What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: My passion for science and medicine, as well as that I actually am somewhat related to my tribal heritage. Obviously not good enough.
• Weaknesses: GPA GPA GPA GPA.
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: SubPar GPA is the only thing I can really think of.
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: It seems to me like they really care a lot more about grades than they let on. obviously, because it is the Ivy League, but I guess mine just weren't good enough. It seems like they'd rather you took 5 AP's and have all A's than take 10 AP's and make 4 A's and 6 B's

drmrbrian

Decision: Rejected, baaaww

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 670CR, 740M, 780WR (11 essay)
• ACT:
• SAT II: 690 Chem, 740 MathI, 700 Spanish
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB(5), Spanish Lang(3, due to a glitch :/)
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Physics C, AP Chem, AP Photo, H English, Health, Independent Study Chem
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Student

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Boy Scouts of America [Eagle Scout]), (Tri-M), (Spanish NHS), NHS, (Orchestra), (Dissection Club), It's Academic!, Tutoring Chemistry
• Job/Work Experience: Manager at local bakery for 2+ years
• Volunteer/Community service: Over 100+ hours community service through BSA and honor societies.
• Summer Activities: Summer Camp at Horseshoe Scout Reservation
• Essays: Decent. I'm more science-oriented than writing, though.
• Teacher Recommendation: Standard, except for maybe 2 extra detailed paragraphs about me vs the rest of my school
• Counselor Rec: standard
• Additional Rec:
• Interview: Overall good. We talked a lot about what set Brown apart.

Other

• State (if domestic applicant): MD
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Suburban Public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: ~80K
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

• Strengths: Extracurriculars
• Weaknesses: Not enough diversity in schedule. Mostly B's until soph. year
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea, honestly. I was expecting to be waitlisted.
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Waitlisted at Hopkins, Rejected at Harvard, waiting for Cornell. Accepted into Honors at both UMBC and UMCP.

General Comments: I've already committed to UMBC. No sweat off my back.

Verbal

I was rejected after being deferred ED. My stats are easily found around, don't have the patience to post them again. On the whole, a bit disappointed, but I have great options in front of me and am not going to obsess over it too much.