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03-28-2008, 01:41 PM
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#1 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Johns Hopkins
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| Official Class of 2012 RD Thread
Here we go. The formatting is
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Accepted
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Rejected
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Deferred
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[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT:
[ *]SAT II:
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA:
[ *]Rank:
[ *]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB)
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
[ *]Teacher Recs:
[ *]Counselor Rec:
[ *]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
[ *]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location:
[ *]High School Type:
[ *]Ethnicity:
[ *]Gender
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no)[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:
[ *]Awards:
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]
Remember to get rid of the spaces when you enter your stats. A sample:
Accepted
Stats:- SAT: 2400 (800/800/800)
- SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry, 800 Bio-M, 800 US History, 800 Spanish
- ACT: 36
- GPA: 100.00
- Rank:1/2,000
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) See Below
Subjective- Essays: Perfect
- Teacher Recs: Best of Career
- Counselor Rec: Best of Career
- Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) Winner of Intel STS, 1st place in Siemens Competition, ISEF Grand Prize Winner, Artwork hanging in MoMA, NY Times Bestselling Author
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please): Cured Cancer, Proved Riemann Hypothesis, Captain of 3 Varsity Teams, CEO of Fortune 500 Company
Personal- Location: 11-space
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Gender: M
- Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no): N
Other- Extracurriculars: See Above
- Awards: 4 Gold Medals at IMO, IPho, IBO, and IChO, Nobel Prize, Fields Medal
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
This is the best day of my life!!! | 
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03-28-2008, 01:43 PM
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#2 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Johns Hopkins
Threads: 13
Posts: 375
| I forgot to include a place for intended major but if possible, please post what you would like to study. Good luck everyone. I look forward to meeting my new classmates!!! | |
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03-28-2008, 02:08 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Threads: 25
Posts: 210
| well about 3 more hours... | |
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03-28-2008, 05:33 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Threads: 9
Posts: 126
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Wait Listed
Stats:- SAT: M-780 CR-790 W-760
- SAT II: Math2-800, Grm+Lst.-800, Chem-790, USH-740
- ACT:n/a
- GPA:4.164
- Rank:top 10 students
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chem-5, APUSH-5, AMC-100.5, AIME-4, semifinalist USABO
Subjective- Essays: they were decent, they were all about things I really care about
- Teacher Recs: spoke highly of me, one extremely well writte, one was ok
- Counselor Rec: love her. she did a great job.
- Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)-nope
- Hook: not really
Personal- Location: MA
- High School Type: solid public
- Ethnicity: white
- Gender: male
- Applied for Financial Aid: yes
Other- Extracurriculars: 4 yr varsity swim, science team, theater, peer counseling, work
- Awards: a bunch of things around the school for academics/athletics, science olympiad state champ in 3 events
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:dang, i guess i can kiss my chance at BME goodbye...
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03-28-2008, 05:38 PM
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#5 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA Gender: Male
Threads: 12
Posts: 346
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Wait-Listed
Stats:- SAT: CR 770/M 740/W 780
- SAT II: 760 MII, 720 Lit, 740 USH
- ACT:
- GPA: 3.99
- Rank: Top 5
Subjective- Essays: Pretty good, honestly. They were my best this year.
- Teacher Recs: Good
- Counselor Rec: Good
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) I wish
Personal- Location:Philly
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: M
- Applied for Financial Aid: (yes)
Other- Extracurriculars: Decent/Medium
- Awards: NMF, Lots of school awards
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Just start your essays earlier, etc.
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03-28-2008, 05:39 PM
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#6 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Threads: 4
Posts: 78
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Waitlisted
Stats:- SAT: 600 writing, 730 reading, 670 maths
- SAT II: 740 WH, 710 Bio E, 660 Latin
- ACT: -
- GPA: -
- Rank: school does not rank
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB)
Subjective- Essays: very bad, I am an international not used to essay writing
- Teacher Recs: very down to earth, very Dutch, not as enthusiastic as Americans normally write
- Counselor Rec: ok
- Supplementary Material: thesis
- Hook: can't think of one
- Location: The Netherlands
- High School Type: Gymnasium (Dutch High School)
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Male
- Applied for Financial Aid: yes
Other- Extracurriculars: teamleader of study trip to Uganda and awareness-raising project on African development, tennis coach, student newspaper, percussionist
- Awards:-
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: How can I get of the waitlist?
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03-28-2008, 05:42 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Threads: 537
Posts: 1,070
| you guys already found out? I still haven't gotten that damn email yet! | |
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03-28-2008, 05:42 PM
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#8 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Threads: 35
Posts: 454
| So did you guys get the e-mail or did you do the financial aid trick? | |
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03-28-2008, 05:42 PM
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#9 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Threads: 12
Posts: 259
| i was waiting for the stanford one and this one popped up lol
accepted 
anyone know how the BME works? | |
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03-28-2008, 05:45 PM
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#10 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Georgia Gender: Female
Threads: 6
Posts: 22
| Waitlisted.
Now I regret not applying ED even more than I did before. | |
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03-28-2008, 05:46 PM
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#11 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Threads: 1
Posts: 25
| Accepted... which I wasn't looking for cuz I'm going BME and I planned on going Duke. This makes it harder | |
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03-28-2008, 05:47 PM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA ----> Berkeley :)
Threads: 39
Posts: 707
| Waitlisted - I, too, found out while waiting for Stanford  | |
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03-28-2008, 05:47 PM
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#13 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Threads: 4
Posts: 57
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Waitlist
Stats:- SAT: 2380
- SAT II: mid 700s
- ACT: 36
- GPA: 3.8 uw
- Rank: top 5%
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) five 5s and one 3, AIME 4
Subjective- Essays: recycled Chicago essay...decent, but they could probably tell it wasn't written for the "community" prompt
- Teacher Recs: dunno.
- Counselor Rec: dunno.
- Supplementary Material: nope
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please)
Personal- Location: midwestern 'burb
- High School Type: public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: female
- Applied for Financial Aid: yep
Other- Extracurriculars: Council, NHS, Science Olympiad, Mock Trial, some leadership in NHS and SO
- Awards: NM, local stuff.
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: eh. I thought I could make it through the admissions process with no WLs, just rejections and acceptances. I can deal with a rejection, but the uncertainty of a waitlist? meh.
Last edited by SomethingSilly : 03-28-2008 at 05:50 PM.
Reason: no wonder they WL-ed me...can't even figure out how to do this properly.
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03-28-2008, 05:49 PM
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#14 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Threads: 2
Posts: 58
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Accepted: Math
Stats:- SAT: 800 M 660 Cr 670 Wr
- SAT II: 800 M2 680 Chem 780 M1
- ACT:
- GPA:97.3
- Rank:3
- Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB):AMC 12 91.5 AP Calc AB (no BC at my school) 5
Subjective- Essays: Good, Supplement essay really mathy
- Teacher Recs:Good, I guess
- Counselor Rec:Good, I guess
- Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
- Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please)
Personal- Location: Maine
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity:Caucasian
- Gender: Male
- Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) Yes
Other- Extracurriculars:Math Team (good number of awards) 3 Season athlete 7 as varsity
- Awards:Calc, Chem, Bio Awards (Highest GPA) USAMTS Honorable mention
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
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03-28-2008, 05:50 PM
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#15 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Threads: 77
Posts: 303
| Accepted!!! Yay! | |
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