Consolidated EA/RD 2013 results thread

[strikemaster6]

Decision: REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2180 (CR 670, M 780, W 730)
• SAT IIs: Math II 800, Chemistry 740, US History 620
• ACT: 33
• APs: Chemistry 5, Statistics 5, English Language 4, US History 3, European History 3, Physics C, Calculus BC, US Government and Politics, English Literature, French Language
• GPA: 4.28
• Rank: 1/360

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Varsity Tennis, Soccer, VP of CSF, Co-Founder and VP of Math Club, library homework helper, Interact Club, piano, play guitar and vocals in metal band
• Job/Work Experience: DJ at skating rink, videographer, representative in district planning board
• Essays: Good
• Teacher Recs: Good
• Counselor Rec: Didn't See
• Applied on: January 1
• Hook (if any): European immigrant, first-generation US

Location/Person:

• State or Country: CA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I was expecting it so no worries.

[v3rt]

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2400
• SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 800 Physics
• APs: 5 Calc BC, 5 APCS AB
• GPA: 3.93/4.5, steadily increasing from 3.4 to 4.4 over the years
• Rank: ~10th/270, but only that it's top 10% is reported
• Other stats: AIME every year since 8th grade (got a 6 that year, then stopped focusing on math and semi-plateaued), missed USAMO by 1.0 out of 172.5 index points in 10th grade

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Captain of math team, president/teacher of free school SAT clinic, MMA (including school club), tennis, extreme skiing, violin, guitar, math, programming and other computer/electronic stuff
• Job/Work Experience: Freelance programmer, soccer ref
• Essays (subject and responses): Not too great/rushed
• Teacher Recs: Good, I hope
• Counselor Rec: No idea
• Applied on: Late December

Location/Person:

• State or Country: MA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Very good suburban public (~1000 people), sends lots to Harvard but very few to MIT
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male

My interviewer, upon hearing me speak, pretty much told me I'd be better off at Harvard, though, and my Harvard and Yale interviewers said I was pretty much perfect for those schools (in about those words), so I'm hoping the rejection is a judgment on my MIT-ness and not my overall applicant quality

[wolfhere99]

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 800 CR, 770 Math, 790 Writing
• SAT IIs: 790 Physics, 800 Math II, 740 Chem, 720 US History
• ACT: 35
• APs: 5's on Physics B, US History, macroeconomics, micro, calc AB, calc BC, US gov, comparative gov, chem. 4 on lang. Currently taking 6 AP classes
• IBs:
• GPA: 3.97 unweighted
• Rank: 15/450ish
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad, Red Cross, Science Bowl, Knowledge Bowl, Mu Alpha Theta, Varsity Swimming. Had leadership positions in most of these, am deeply involved with Red Cross on a regional level
• Job/Work Experience: Live TV tutor - I go on this TV show where students call in with homework questions and I answer them live
• Essays (subject and responses): average, wrote about moving to and livign in China my soph. year, and a building event in Science Olympiad
• Teacher Recs: okay
• Counselor Rec: good
• Applied on: Jan. 1
• Hook (if any): international experience? dunno

Location/Person:

• State or Country: WA, USA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: Tranny

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I generally never post here, only lurk (i should post more though), but did this because i wanted to give a little back to college confidential, you guys helped me so much in my college apps. Anyway good luck to all of you for future college decisions, congrats on those that got accpeted!!!! I think one of the reason why i got rejected may have been my interview, I had to do it over the phone and it was awkward, totally sucked donkey balls

P.S. dunno if the format thingy will turn out right lol

[kitkat'10]

Decision: ACCEPTED!! OMG!!

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2210: 800 Math; 750 Writing; 660 Critical Reading (ugh!)
• SAT IIs: 800 Math II; 770 Physics; 700 Chemistry
• APs: AP Physics C E&M:5; Physics C Mech:4; MacroEcon:4; MicroEcon:5
• GPA: 4.44/4.5
• Rank:1/380
• Other stats: AMC 12: 91.5

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Quasics FIRST Robotics Team 2656 Captain; Mock Trial; Science Club/Bowl/Olympiad; Environmental Club President; Varsity Tennis; PALS (Project Area Leadership Service); Community Service; Community Service (MultiCultural Festival Coordinator); WSHI- Westinghouse Science Honors Institute
• Job/Work Experience: Camp Invention Counselor
• Essays (subject and responses): Something for fun: Relaxing running
  Program: Nuclear Engineering because of my parents/interests
  Explain background: captain/one of founders of my school's FIRST team; best and most sincere essay I wrote- gave a lot of facts about how we have improved form our rookie year last year to this year
  Something you have created: Created the MultiCultural Festival (diversity show) Pre-show for 4th graders stemming off of the MultiCultural Festival
• Teacher Recs: Two pretty good ones from experienced AP teachers (Chem and History) that I have known for a couple of years now
• Counselor Rec: The plug-and-chug template type
• Supplemental Info: Recommendation from mentor of school's FIRST team; really nice interview
• Applied on: ummmm 11.43PM on Jan 3, deadline day- close call!
• Hook (if any): applying as JUNIOR; Russian female and first generation in America; captain/one of initiators of school's FIRST Robotics Team; no big-time research projects though...

Location/Person:

• State or Country: PA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
• Ethnicity: Russian
• Gender: F

[b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: All I have to say it WOW and YAY!!! I was not expecting this. At all. This is tied for the top college (with Caltech!) that I applied for and got accepted to. I thought that I would never be offered a spot at MIT in general since it is so competitive and, as it seemed, out of reach. But another discouraging things was that I applied as a junior so I thought that there would be many more other more experienced and better-stats senior that would be applying. But WOW! Here it is. I had my Pittsburgh Regional FIRST Robotics Competition today until 5PM, so I rushed to look up MIT's decision on my dad's blackberry and when I saw I was soooo excited!

I was not thinking that I would get accepted to both Caltech and MIT, but now I am psyched!!! Sunny California and smaller school vs. Nuclear Engineering bachelors and world-known professors. Hmmmm.... it's going to be a hard decision but I think I'm going to try to go to PREFROSH and CPW. Now the major deciding factor is going to be financial aid.

My biggest obstacle was finding out how to write the essays/figuring out the topic. But my suggestion is to write about yourself from various perspectives so that the admissions committee will get to know you well. And I found, at least for me, that it is not necessary to spend a couple of months over an essay- you just have to get that writing spark and it will turn out to be a passionate, sincere essay. Go class of 2013!!!

[theforgotten]

Decision: ACCEPTED!
Stats:

* SAT I (by section): 800 Math; 710 Writing; 720 Critical Reading
* SAT IIs: 800 Math II; 730 Physics; 760 World History
* APs: total 8 APs, mostly 4s
* GPA 4.5 W ~ 3.9 UW

Subjective:

* ECs listed on app: President of Model UN, Science Bowl, and Leo club.
* Job/Work Experience: research
* Essays (subject and responses): one great,one good
* Teacher Recs: good never saw it
* Counselor Rec: good never saw it
* Hook (if any): idk, got realllllly, reallly lucky

Location/Person:

* State or Country: CO
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): really good public
* Ethnicity: white
* Gender: F

[Zorgoski]

Decision: ACCEPTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): Math: 720, CR: 660, Wr: 660
• SAT IIs: Math2: 790, Physics: 760, French: 680
• IBs: Full IB Diploma + Further Maths SL (42/42, 7/7 in FL): English A1 and French B SL, Physic, Maths, Econ and Philosophy HL...
• Rank: 1/100
• Other stats: some prizes and the like...

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Scuba Diving Team (Divemaster), First Aid Team (CPR and rescue) , Rugby Team (National Champions), Gumboot Dancing leader as well as some other dances, can't remember the last one either Social Service or Soccer Team
• Job/Work Experience: Art Gallery Host, Mac store, some other jobs I've had
• Essays (subject and responses): Scuba Diving for the "just for fun" question, the story of my upbringing for the personal essay, the installation of solar panels to heat my school's pool as the optional one
• Teacher Recs: Physics and French, both amazing and really supportive
• Counselor Rec: beautiful, I loved it as it touched upon all the different areas of my life
• Applied on: Regular Decision, I guess by early Dec.
• Hook (if any): UWC, my essays, speak a couple of languages

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Chile
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): United World College
• Ethnicity: Caucassian/Latino/Hispanic
• Gender: Male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I'm so happy and honoured for being accepted. Never though SAT's were important and thus never prepared them. Congratulations to all those accepted!

[crayola27]

Waitlisted
Stats:
SAT I (by section): 2260, 700-CR, 760-Math, 800-W
SAT IIs: 800-Math II, 800- US History, 670- Physics
APs: 5's on Eng Language, French Language, APUSH, and CompSci AB
GPA: 4.7170/5.0
Rank: 4/610

Subjective:
ECs listed on app: Don't really feel like listing them here, nothing science or math related but I'm state ranked in some humanities stuff and participate in two varsity sports and have studied abroad
Essays (subject and responses): Easily the strongest part of my app. I made an encyclopedia entry depicting myself as a creature and explained the effects of my grandmothers on me. I also wrote a poem about trig.
Teacher Recs: Should've been good - from my calc and APUSH teachers
Counselor Rec: ?? Don't really see my counselor so who knows
applied on: end of November
Hook (if any): girl in engineering

Location/Person:
State or Country: Tx
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): pretty decent suburb school
Ethnicity: caucasain
Gender: Female
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: *
I feel pretty honored to have made the waitlist and not have been outright rejected. However, I will probably not stay on the waitlist because it's too iffy and will hopefully make it in elsewhere. Congrats to everyone!

[alexsmart1]

WAITLISTED
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 770 M, 800 CR, 730 W (2300)
SAT II: Math 2 800, physics 790,, Chemistry (710) add up to 2300
Unweighted GPA 3.77 weight 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Unranked large urban high school 3000
AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 5's USH, physics B , Calc BC, Chem. 1 4 lang and comp
1 2
Senior Year Course Load: linear alg/ diff eq, ap bio, ap lit, ap gov, ap econ, drwaing, ap stat
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
national merit commended, ap scholar with dist, csf, no real awards from my e.c's
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Econ club (founder vp) research assistant at lab (10 hrs per week) doing pretty cool stuff
Volunteer/Community service: 6 hours a week
Summer Activities: Summer arch program at wash u, worked on farm in greece
Essays: Pretty good, wrote an essay relating the summer program at wash u and expeirence working at a greek farm, Discussed sustianability, Both essays short and long were well recieved
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good both teachers volunteered- one called me blessed by the muses.
the other teacher was also really excited who was a well respected phys teahcer from cal tech. Was really impressed by my final project
Counselor Rec:should be good prob generic since had to write 300 of them, however i submitted a detailed description of myself
Additional Rec: none
Interview: Went well was able to discuss my interest in sustainable engineering and architecture and its roots.
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): ca
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: M
Income Bracket: upper middle applied for fin aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Greek immigrant background, though not poor at all father is an academic, however still has novelty factor and gave me a perspective on life i communicated fairly well. Sorry for all the typos, i'm in a hurry

[fiona_]

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 800CR 800M 760W
• SAT IIs: 800 Math, 800 Chem
• ACT: N/A
• APs: Biology 5, Chem 5, Calc AB 5, Calc C 5, Stats 5, Physics B 5, Physics C E&M 5, Physics C Mech 5
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 4.42/5.0
• Rank: top quarter (school only submits ranks in quartiles)
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Model UN, Cheerleading, Guiding at the Zoo, Molecular Bio Research, Chem Olympiad
• Job/Work Experience: N/A
• Essays (subject and responses): Main Essay-living with divorced mother,Short Writeups-Reading (fun) and Chemistry (major), Supp Essay-being a pioneer in my Hs. Good essays? PM if you want to read.
• Teacher Recs: Good?
• Counselor Rec: Very good, really I mean it
• Applied on: Jan 3
• Hook (if any): National Champion Physics Olympiad, Bronze medal Int Chem Olympiad

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Singapore
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Incredibly competitive public magnet
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: Female

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I'm not gonna lie and say I'm ok, because I /am/ sad. But I'll live.

[ricecooker]

Decision: REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2260 (CR 760, M 780, W 720)
• SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 800 Chem
• ACT: nah man nah
• APs: 5 on chem
• IBs: nah man nah
• GPA: 4.6/5 W
• Rank: 10/260
• Other stats: qualified AMC 12
  

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: secretary of math league, science leaguer, theatre crewhead and trustee, key club, volunteering (beach clean up, tutoring), track and field, newspaper
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Essays (subject and responses): talked about my love for civil engineering, my physics project which got an A+, and a free response about a squirrel?
• Teacher Recs: one amazing, the other probably just OK
• Counselor Rec: meh
• Applied on: time lol
• Hook (if any): uhhh, gov school?
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: NJ
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public
• Ethnicity: asian (KILLER!!!!) damn if only i were native american!
• Gender: female

[b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: well there go my hopes for Yale and Columbia and UPenn!

[alwaysrej]

Decision: REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section):M700 cr+wr(low)
• SAT IIs:mII 780 chem 720 phys 690
• ACT:no
• GPA:7.8/10( if converted to ABCDF scale, it 's B)
• Rank:1/54
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app:chief artist for class magazine in grade 10, class representative in some school games
• Job/Work Experience: free English n physics tutor
• Essays (subject and responses):how i failed the entrance exam b4 grade 10( unfairly) n then change my point of view on failure.(No body read it 4 me).
• Teacher Recs:
  - phys teacher: a lot of excellent praises.telling i reached college level in physics on my own. Yet, he also noted that i am a bit haughty(?) n careless
  - eng teacher: she said i didn't work hard 4 her subject n i "sometimes" made my teachers angry because of my extraloud debates with 'em. many brilliant praises though.
• Counselor Rec: (my counselor is in fact my head teacher) really good, there was no criticism. she even mentioned the bad relationship i had with my math teacher caused by my straightness.
• Applied on:1/1/2009

Location/Person:

• State or Country:Vietnam
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):semi-public, deemed bad by many ppl(n even me sometimes)
• Ethnicity:asian
• Gender:f
• Supplementary: abilities 4 art, chess + chinese chess, crafting.. i even stated dat i can ride bikes without needin' to hold handle bars. i also told them 'bout the photo album i handmade 4 my friend.(electromagnetic induction was used in it)

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:

u most probably say my stats is terrible afta u read the above , right?
well, in my school, grade deflation is much greater than how it can b elite schools in the same province.I had some problems with my family since the second semester in grade 10. besides, most teachers never really give students fair grades(4 example, even my phys teacher,who is hired from the most elite school in my province, assumed i fabricated the numbers n data i wrote in my lab reports just because he knew most of my classmates did that.as a result, he gave me shabby marks.damn, i'm a wannabe-physicist so how could i need to do such a thing!n my maths: 7.2/10! how low. my math teacher,who is also hired, very rarely let us see the test papers. n i could only be speechless). But i just couldn't freely tell MIT adcom that such things do happen in my school 'coz my school couldn't b more low-reputationed. Perhaps, MIT adcom could never understand that!
SAT: no book reviewed, no course taken,i only read old-fashioned books 'coz my family is really poor even compared to applicants in my country.To tell the truth, i earned money 4 the tests n application since grade7(unknowingly though). I took both types only once(n late, too- sat1 in jan).Bah, i was sick continuously 3 days b4 n on the Jan test date,really hungry on SAt 2 phys. i had to choose SAT 1 instead of toefl 'coz toefl ibt is much more expensive.

Awards: many in grade 9. 1 school-leveled in grade 11. none in grade 12 'coz in grade 11, i learned that the manager of dept of edu n trainin' in my province doesn't really approve of students in non-elite schools taking high-leveled competitions as i asked 4 such a privilege once.I also could hardly tell adcom this.

I knew I had to prove to MIT adcom dat i could use english fluently. I told my EC dat I watched MIT ocw vid easily. but once again, dat might not reach adcom. my interview was real good though i couldn't say all i needed to say.
At 1st, i thought MIT at least would put me in waitlist. But da fact is...well, i guess either MIT did not read my app carefully 4 some reasons like my teachers's writing were bad etc or they did but they dared not take risk by admittin' an extremely distant student who had such normal/bad records.if it's truly da 2nd case, MIT kinda fears risks---> lose some respect!
I assume i will b rejected by the rest of those school i applied to 'coz i 've always deemed MIT the school whose applicants' contexts r considered most carefully. Hence, this may b my 1st n also last comments on this site.
In general, congrats to those who got in. wish u shared with me some 4tune tho'.(ah, i really dont mean u got in merely by luck). n get over this with me, mates who r in da same situation.
Still, love MIT. hope i'll b there afta my transfer application next yr.

[fakh90]

Decision: WAITLISTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 1480/2150 (780 M, 700 CR, 670 W)
• SAT IIs: 800 Physics, 800 Math lv.2, 780 World History
• ACT: N/A
• APs: N/A
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 87 out of 100 ( grade deflation at school)
• Rank: 1 out of 180
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: National Physics Team(traveling team), National Astronomy Team (traveling team), School Choir (President and Tenor), Independent Astronomy Research, Amateur Astronomical Society, and delegate of some international conferences
• Job/Work Experience: N/A
• Essays (subject and responses): good and decent, i guess. Main talks about my background growing up in Indonesia. The supplemental one is a bit better, about my love of Astronomy
• Teacher Recs: very very good
• Counselor Rec: very very good
• Supplemental Rec: one from a physics professor who is the leader of the National Physics Team
• Applied on: 12/26
• Hook (if any): Bronze Medal International Astronomy Olympiad, National Champion on National Science Olympiad (Astronomy), and several others international/national awards

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Indonesia
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private, very competitive
• Ethnicity: South East Asian
• Gender: Male, middle-class
  

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Whatever...Congratulations to those accepted. To those of you who were rejected, I'm sure you will all end up at other great schools

[Poseur]

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 800 CR, 800 M, 790 W
• SAT IIs: 720->750 Math IIC, 780 Literature, 590->720 French, 720 Physics, 690 Chem. Lolz.
• ACT: N/A
• APs: 5 Comp Sci A, 4 Govt, 4 Comp Sci B, 5 Calc AB, 5 English Lang, 5 World Hist. Taking English Lit, Chem, Psych, Bio, French, and Calc BC this year.
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.81 W
• Rank: 2/334
• Other stats: N/A

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Internship with cognitive science professor at JHU, Information Technology Academy secretary/treasurer (programming competitions and stuff), Art Club co-president, Math Team, various NHSs... I don't remember exactly what I listed but it wasn't anything exciting.
• Job/Work Experience: N/A
• Essays (subject and responses): I did the community one; it was pretty mediocre. I thought it had decent ideas but was fairly typical. "Oh hai I live in suburbia so I'm overprivileged and I'm thankful but I wanna GET OUT INTO THE REAL WORLD YEAAAH!"
• Teacher Recs: I liked them!
• Counselor Rec: Didn't see.
• Applied on: Jan 1st. Waited 'til the system was back up. After I submitted, I went to the homepage, which told me that the deadline had been extended.
• Hook (if any): Nawww boy.

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Maryland
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public school but fairly competitive I guess
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: F

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to everyone who made it! The applicant pool was INSANE, and you guys should be really proud of yourselves! (:

[yankpunk]

Decision: WAITLISTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section):2200 - M:770 CR:770 W:660
• SAT IIs: Math II:800, Physics: 750
• ACT:Nope
• APs: World History-5, English Language 4, Taking English Lit and self teach Calc AB this year
• GPA: 3.93 UW
• Rank: 1/76

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Varsity Baseball for 3 years, Varsity Golf for 2; captain and League MVP senior year, President of Student Council, Masterminds, Leo Club
• Job/Work Experience:None lol
• Essays (subject and responses): Essay about being in the Sectional Finals for baseball against the #1 team in NYS
• Teacher Recs: One said among best in 35 years, one said best in 34 years and one was from a teacher I went to Europe with
• Counselor Rec: Awsome - Said I was a leader in our school
• Applied on: 12/24
• Hook (if any): Went to a tiny school?

Location/Person:

• State or Country:New York
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):Tiny public, Average SAT = 980
• Ethnicity:White
• Gender:Male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to everyone for even having the nerve to try to get into MIT

[iwaswalking]

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 800 CR, 790 M, 750 W
• SAT IIs: 790 Lit, 790 Phys, 750 Math II(No C)
• ACT: N/A
• APs: 5s: Euro, Phys B, USH, Chem. TAKING Phys C M/E&M, Govt, Calc BC, English Lit, Stats, Bio, Psych, Comp Sci AB, Art Hist.
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: ~3.82 UW, 4.011 W
• Rank: 12/192
• Other stats: N/A

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Sports: Wrestled varsity Freshman year, received letter. Theatre: Plays/musicals in 10th and 12th. Academic Team: 11th and 12th Co-Captain. Yearbook: Assistant Editor, 9th and 10th. Science Club: 11th, 12th. Won Rube Goldberg competition.
• Job/Work Experience: i watere eplants
• Essays (subject and responses): Metaphorical essay about peeing.
• Teacher Recs: I know my recommendations were excellent
• Counselor Rec: was ****
• Applied on: Jan 1st
• Hook (if any): Noo

Location/Person:

• State or Country: OHIO
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, good
• Ethnicity: whuu
• Gender: male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: no