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03-31-2008, 04:55 PM
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#121 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: USA
Posts: 9
| D was waitlisted but will not be taking a spot - she's going to Yale. We found it very interesting that all of her friends were accepted to only their top choice ivy and rejected/waitlisted by all others. | 
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03-31-2008, 04:57 PM
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#122 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 322
| For red remote: You have a great profile, and will be successful in life with your business skills--sometimes academia does not value financial acumen. You'll find a great school!!
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03-31-2008, 04:57 PM
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#123 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 72
| And....rejected. Totally expecting it. Those Harvard guys can sure spot someone just 'wondering' if they can get in really easily.
Whatever, I got into USC Film which is 10x more competitive than Harvard so I wasn't planning on going anyway.  | |
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03-31-2008, 04:58 PM
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#124 | | Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 413
| rejected, not surprised, not too upset. | |
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03-31-2008, 04:58 PM
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#125 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 297
| Decision: Accepted
[*] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (800M,750CR,730W)
[*] ACT:
[*] SAT II: MII 800, USHIST 740, CHEM 740
[*] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 95%/ 100%
[*] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5/142
[*] AP (place score in parenthesis): Can't recall, but all 4s and 5s
[*] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[*] Senior Year Course Load: All APs, incl. Multivariable Calc/Diff'l Equations, Spansh Lit, Physics, ???
[*] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Only the usual (NMSF, AP Scholar...)
[*] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Volunteer teaching URMs in science, Senior Class Pres, Junior Activities Dir., Sophomore Class Pres, Dorm Proctor, Officer on Schooner, etc...
[*] Job/Work Experience: summers teaching science to URMs
[*] Volunteer/Community service: above
[*] Summer Activities: above
[*] Essays: Creative, excellent
[*] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent (i.e., you'd be crazy not to accept her...)
[*] Counselor Rec: same...
[*] Additional Rec: Director of program teaching science.....
[*] Interview: ??
[*] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[*] Country (if international applicant):
[*] School Type: Private
[*] Ethnicity: Cauc.
[*] Gender: F
[*] Income Bracket: No finan aid requested
[*] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[*] Strengths: Pres of Senior Class after one year at school
[*] Weaknesses: No national awards, no major sport
[*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Hard to tell- love to learn????
[/list]General Comments: Good Luck!!
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03-31-2008, 04:59 PM
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#126 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Melbourne, FL
Posts: 8
| Rrrrrrejected. I'd post my stats, but I can hardly see through the tears...just kidding.
I'm not surprised in the least.
4.0 UW GPA, Ranked 1/530, 2320 SAT, 8 APs, National Merit Scholar, Drum Captain of a competitive marching band, helping all the little children, blah blah blah wasted youth blah blah.
This admissions stuff is just ridiculous. So my advice: be amazing, work impossibly hard for four years, and then make a deal with the Devil or something. | |
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03-31-2008, 04:59 PM
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#127 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Cambridge c/o 2012!
Posts: 259
| Decision: Accepted!!! Objective:- SAT I (breakdown): 2180 CR 730 M 730 W 720
- ACT: n/a
- SAT II: Lit 800 Spanish w/ Listening 770 USH 730
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 uw, 4.32 w, grade 12 all 7's
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): #1 for 3 years, 12th grade not ranked
- AP (place score in parenthesis): USH (4) Spanish language (4) AB Calc (4)
- IB (place score in parenthesis): only hs diploma, not real ib, but all 7's.
- Senior Year Course Load: HL: Math, English, Economics SL: Geography, History, German ab initio
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended
Subjective:- Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): many and varied... see essays
- Job/Work Experience: none listed on app
- Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours at English immersion camp for Spanish teens; 360+ completed for school (too meet 150 hr grad requirement)
- Summer Activities: mostly moving. Also mentioned houseboating with church, volunteering at camp (^) and cross-country camping with family.
- Essays: about moving and how it has affected ecs, and me on a broader scale, other one about my musical interests and how they reflect my experiences
- Teacher Recommendation: 5, all VERY strong... one teacher calls me her "soul sister", one offered to adopt me so I didn't need to move.
- Counselor Rec: Not quite as personal, but very supportive.
- Additional Rec: my school's director wrote me a letter after his visit to Harvard and meeting with admissions folks
- Interview: 4 hours long, very intense, with head of Munich's Harvard club. He was very impressed and wrote a letter in addition to the standard interview report form.
Other- Country (if international applicant): American citizen in Germany
- School Type: small, private international school
- Ethnicity: white
- Gender: female
- Income Bracket: ~100k
- Hooks : 3 high schools in 3 countries in 4 years
Reflection- Strengths: unique situation, good essays, lots of people gunning for me
- Weaknesses: scores, ec's not "deep" enough
- Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My director inquired a few weeks ago, got a personalized email back from my admissions officer who said that I have "made the best of everything", so I'm going to guess it's the moving and still carrying a 4.0, etc.
General Comments: Good luck to everyone else! | |
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03-31-2008, 05:01 PM
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#128 | | New Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 18
| Accepted! But I'm pretty sure I'll be going to Yale (or MIT? but probably Yale). | |
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03-31-2008, 05:04 PM
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#129 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 56
| ACCEPTED! So excited, stats later. | |
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03-31-2008, 05:06 PM
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#130 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New Jersey -> MIT '12!
Posts: 876
| Waitlisted Stats:- SAT: 2350 (800W, 780M, 770CR)
- SAT II: 780 Math 2, 800 Chem, 770 French
- ACT: 36
- GPA: 4.72W, 4.0UW
- Rank: 3/316
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AIME 2 years, 5s on 5 AP tests, 4 on 1.
Subjective- Essays: Decent.
- Teacher Recs: Glowing
- Counselor Rec: Great
- Supplementary Material: None
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
Personal- Location: NJ
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: F
- Applied for Financial Aid: N
Other- Extracurriculars: A bunch. Leadership, community service.
- Awards: Lots, some fairly prestigious
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
=] I’m not staying on it. MIT HERE I COME! | |
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03-31-2008, 05:15 PM
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#131 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 75
| "We found it very interesting that all of her friends were accepted to only their top choice ivy and rejected/waitlisted by all others."
i found that too! strange.
maybe they all had a meeting todgether | |
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03-31-2008, 05:15 PM
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#132 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 198
| Accepted. Not sure if I'm going or not. (My parents want me to.) | |
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03-31-2008, 05:17 PM
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#133 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: It'll be one coast or the other........
Posts: 187
| @la montagne: me too!!  | |
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03-31-2008, 05:21 PM
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#134 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 57
| Decision: Rejected Objective:- SAT I (breakdown): 2280 TOTAL 760 M, 730, CR, 790 W
- ACT: n/a
- SAT II: 760 Bio E, 690 Lang, 690 Math I
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): n/a, 4.4 w
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
- AP (place score in parenthesis): (4) Physics
- IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
- Senior Year Course Load: AP= English, Calc AB, Art History, Chemistry. Honors= US History II, Christian Morality
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): -skip-
Subjective:- Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Art Editor of Literary Magazine), (Girl Scout Gold Award in progress), (Sec/Tres of Polish Club), NHS, Latin Honor Society, Tri-M Honor Society, 12+ year of piano, Guild Piano Award, etc
- Job/Work Experience: Denist's Office assistant since 06/2007
- Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours in various areas through school, Math Peer Tutor
- Summer Activities: Bible camp helper and library volunteer. Probably not enough. :/
- Essays: Pretty darn good. English is my greatest strength. But I didn't write an optional essay. ):
- Teacher Recommendation: ++
- Counselor Rec: Eh, she only met me this year because my old counselor retired.
- Additional Rec: None.
- Interview: Bombed it. I was totally honest, but I'm an extremely shy and sensitive individual, so there wasn't a whole lotta eye contact, even though my interviewer seemed very nice.
Other- State (if domestic applicant): NJ
- Country (if international applicant): USA
- School Type: Catholic Private College Preperatory High School
- Ethnicity: White (Born in Poland? xDD I used to put other on all my stuff when I was little. xD)
- Gender: F
- Income Bracket: Lower middle class
- Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): n/a
Reflection- Strengths: Creative, bright, openminded, foreign born? Maybe not, haha.
- Weaknesses: Modest, shy, could probably have tried harder, but who doesn't think that?
- Why you think you were rejected: I think it just wasn't meant for me. I'm sick of crying over this stuff so I'm trying to feed myself with the idea that God wanted me on a different path.
General Comments: I really hope none of you get too down about this stuff and I'm sorry both for myself and you guys. ): -hugs!!!- Hang in there all!! And GOOD LUCK wherever you end up going!! (: | |
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03-31-2008, 05:23 PM
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#135 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Northwestern
Posts: 141
| Decision: Rejected
Stats:
SAT I: Composite: 2160, CR: 740, M: 700, W: 720
SAT IIs: 700 (Math I), 710 (Literature), 750 (US History)
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.93 UW, 4.5 W
Rank: 7/514
Other stats: 5 on English Lang/Comp, US History AP Tests, National Merit Finalist
Subjective:
Essays: Kickass, seriously, it was awesome.
Teacher Recs: Awesome- both are also really good friends of mine
Counselor Rec: Awesome- also a really good friend of mine
Hook (if any): I'm not sure, perhaps my essays?
Location/Person:
State or Country: IL
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Gender: F
Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: ACT score, and I think I definitely showed my passion through it, my leadership positions in Scholastic Bowl, Speech Team, NHS, and Lit Magazine- also, I've been committed to three of those activities for over four years, and I've also qualified in several regional/national writing competitions. Weakneses? Indian maybe, rank, scores?
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: N/A
Other Factors: not too sure
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: It's okay! I'm going to NU!! Congratulations to all those who were accepted, that is awesome. <3 | |
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