The Official Decisions Thread!

[PeacenikPie]

Accepted

Stats:

• SAT: 2270 (M: 760 CR: 750 W: 760)
• SAT II: Haha, my SAT II scores make me blush (in embarrassment.)
• ACT: No way, I wasn't going to take more tests than necessary.
• GPA: 4.0 UW 4.3 W
• Rank: 10/300 (not a valedictorian here!)
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): I have 5s in English Language, World History, and European History; a 4 in U.S. History; and a 3 in Chemistry. How was I accepted again?

Subjective

• Essays: Personally, I'm one of those angst-ridden writers so I thought my essays were crap. Everyone else for some odd reason thought they were ingenious. I must confess though, I reused one of my Caltech essays.
• Teacher Recs: Harvey Mudd sent me a letter saying that my recommendation from a science teacher was missing; I never asked my teacher about it. So Mudd either found it, or overlooked it.
• Counselor Rec: My counselor loves me so I assume she glorified me in her own little way.
• Supplementary Material: I told Mudd I would send them my research publications...I neglected to do so.
• Interview: None.
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I will lead a massive People's Revolution ten years from now.

Personal

• Location: Long Island, New York, U.S.A., N. America, Earth, the Universe
• High School Type: Public, generic, nothing special.
• Ethnicity: South Asian (Bangladeshi)
• Gender: I am 100% woman

Other

• Extracurriculars: science research, Model United Nations, school newspaper, tutoring, mentoring, politicking, spudgun firing.
• Awards: some feminist awards, journalism things, science things, etc. Nothing big like STS finalist, though.
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I don't know if Mudd realizes how appreciative I am of its acceptance offer. I was deferred by the "tech powerhouses" so my RD applications were... half-assed, basically. I submitted my application on January 28th; the deadline was the 15th. I don't even know if my recommendations got there in one piece - I was a total mess. And now I'm in. Anything's possible ;D

[CountingDown]

Spudguns: what a great hook! Someone send this woman to East!!!

[sangeetamondal93]

Cool. You're bangladeshi? I'm bengali, but the indian kind.

[Seiken]

Who is Spudguns and why are we sending her to my dorm?

[Daniel12]

I submitted my application on January 28th; the deadline was the 15th.

Heh, consider yourself on top of things. I sent in all my apps within 60 minutes of the deadline.

[Seiken]

heh nvm about the spudgun thing. thought it was a person you were talking about, not the activity. But why is that East-like?

[jj_heylookatme]

Accepted


Stats:

• SAT: 2230 (780 V 750 M 700 W)
• SAT II: 740 Math IIc, 700 Physics, 800 Spanish
• ACT: 33
• GPA: 3.75, a bit misleading because I had a bad frosh year when I moved here from another country, and basically a 4.0 from end of soph year on.
• Rank: School Doesn't
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
  AP Music Theory 3
  AP Physics B 5 (self-studied)
  AP Gov 5
  AP Spanish Lit 5
  AP BC Calc
  AP Physics C
  AP Lit
  AP Chem (self-study)
  (my school has a limit of 3 APs per year, and you can't take any before junior year, so that's why I don't have too many)

Subjective

• Essays: I thought they were good, they were about random things like riding my bike and rubik's cubes and how physicists are like kids making snowballs :P
• Teacher Recs: Great I think, I didn't actually see them but when I got deferred from another school one of my teachers offered to call them up and brag about me and the other one told me they were wrong.
• Counselor Rec: Good, I seem to amuse him for some reason.
• Supplementary Material: Physics teacher rec, didn't see it but I'll bet it was great & very enthusiastic, I knew him well. Newspaper clipping of microcontroller company I helped found. Summary of the 11 tutorials I've taken (self-studies) in programming, Quantum Phys & Relativity and Spanish.
• Interview: None
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM, have done research at HSHSP in a genetics lab, sent them my abstract.

Personal

• Location: TX
• High School Type: Private
• Ethnicity:Hispanic
• Gender: Female

Other

• Extracurriculars:
  Sci Oly (Captain)
  Amnesty (Treasurer)
  Web Page design both in and out of school, for non-profits and independent contracts
  Started microcontroller company, do tech & web page design
  Founding member of Shakespeare club, treasurer
  Research at HSHSP over the summer (best program ever)
  Debate--qualified for state tournament
• Awards:
  Tech Student of the Year
  Lots of Sci Oly medals at regional & state level
  Language awards, multiple-time medalist for national french exam
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:

Hmm...I think I got in because I've taken a lot of initiative on my own, and did a lot of things because I like to do them and think they're fun, not necessarily because they 'looked good'. Anyways, my advice is just have fun, and you'll get in places where you'll be happy :P

[LoveMudd]

So, are you enrolling at MIT?

[jj_heylookatme]

I believe so, 99% sure since it looks like it's all going to work out financially. Kind of sad to say no to Harvey Mudd though, because it looks like a pretty cool place! :P

[tiyusufaly]

Just a question, jj_heylookatme, I would like to know what it is that is inspiring you to choose MIT over HMC. I am not upset or accusing you of anything, I just want this for my own informative purposes so that I can understand what HMC may be lacking that we could potentially improve to enhance our yield further?

[LoveMudd]

On the yield though, HMC sends out about 600 acceptance letters out of 2,500 applicants, and about 180 freshman enroll.

[chenqu]

I got in also!
international asking for aid...but how come I haven't received my accptance package?
Any internatioanl has gotten his mail?

[techninja]

Yup; just got it today!

(Singapore is my land.)

[chenqu]

lol
I'm from S'pore as well

[Seiken]

Your overall Statistics:

Looking at the 787 admitted students
from both early and regular decision, here are the highlights:
Female: 312 (39.6%)

Male: 475 (60.4%)



African or African-American Students: 3%

Latino/Hispanic Students: 8%



Top States Represented

California

Washington

New York

Texas



31 Non-US Citizens

India, Korea, China, Thailand, Nepal, Germany, Poland, Greece, Sweden,
Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Ghana, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, United
Arab Emirates, Kenya

14 US Citizens Living Abroad

France, England, Turkey, Canada, British Virgin Islands, Saudi Arabia,
Germany, Egypt, India, Singapore, Taiwan, China


Admit rate: 31%
Top 10% of class: 65.5% of admitted students

Of those from schools that give specific class rank:

Valedictorian: 35%
Either Valedictorian or Salutatorian: 43.4%

Test scores: These scores are as high or higher than last year's scores
which is encouraging with the larger number of admitted students.

Critical Reading
Median: 730
Middle 50%: 690-770

Writing
Median: 720
Middle 50%: 690-770

Math
Median: 780
Middle 50%: 750-800

Math 2 Subject Test
Median: 790
Middle 50%: 760-800



If our yield on these students is the same as last year at 23%, we would
expect to begin the summer with 206 students including our 33 early
decision students. This would be an optimal number if we anticipate a
summer melt similar to last year's. If our yield on this group is lower
than last year's, we will be able to fill in the class with our waitlist
which is also larger this year. As you can imagine from the above
statistics, there are some amazing students on our waitlist, so we would
be happy to be able to include some of them in the class of 2012.


So about that expected 206, who thinks there will be overenrollment and a class of ~220?