Consolidated EA/RD 2013 results thread

[ngolsh314]

Decision: Not Admitted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): R-750 M-760 W-750
• ACT: 35
• SAT II: Chem-780 Lit-740 Math-760
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7-8 ish
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15/127
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem(5) Calc(5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
• Senior Year Course Load: [Ind.] AP Phys C both parts, [Ind.] AP Comp Sci AB, AP US Hist, AP Lit, Deutsch IV, College-level Organic Chemistry
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): n/a

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Bot Scouts of America Eagle Scout, Marching Band(treasurer), Concert Band, Top Jazz Band, Piano, Guitar, Violin, Persussion, Mandolin, Interact, Yearbook(business manager), Varsity Soccer, Varsity Tennis, Head A/V Technician, HS Musical, Jr/Sr Class Play
• Random: Made a hologram for fun. Built a 7 foot tall medieval siege engine for fun. Made a high end headphone amplifier for fun. All were done starting with little or no knowledge of the subject beforehand.
• Job/Work Experience: YMCA/Community Pool Lifeguard
• Volunteer/Community service: Relay for Life, Eagle Project, 'bout 150 hours with Scouts
• Summer Activities: Calculus II, PSU, Grade- A; Comp Sci 101, PSU, Grade-A,
• Essays: Ridiculous good. Best essay I've ever written. Ambitious rhetoric and tasteful humor in one neat package.
• Teacher Recommendation: Wrote about how while grades weren't that important to me, my motivation and personal ambition were the best he's ever seen in his career.
• Counselor Rec: Good, just wants to be able to say "heh heh i got a kid in *fill in good school*"
• Additional Rec: nope.
• Interview: n/a

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep
• Intended Major: Computer Engineering, Robotics focus
• State (if domestic applicant): PA
• Country (if international applicant): Lycoming
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Iranian and Western European, put down Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: Rather not say. Not anything ridiculous, just not sharing that info.
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Made all my own opportunities.

Reflection

• Strengths: Motivation, optimism, worldview, and drive to affect humanity in a meaningful way, coming from a unique kid in a backwoods redneck right-wing-nutjob ultraconservative small Pennsylvania town.
• Weaknesses: Class rank, grades.
• Why you think you were rejected: I'm not quite "intense" or "quirky" enough. I'm too laid back and relaxed in my way of doing things.

General Comments: I'm going to STANFORD!!!!

[omgitsover9000]

Decision: ACCEPTED

Stats:

* SAT: 2360 (770V 800CR 790W)
* SAT II: 800 Math II 800 Bio-M 790 Chem
* ACT: 35
* GPA: 4.74 W, 4.00 UW
* Rank: top 1%
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10: 126.5, AMC 12: 108; Aime: 4,5, respectively. APs: Bio, chem, gov, comp pol, 5's
* Essays: Pretty good, could have been better.
* Teacher Recs: Excellent
* Counselor Rec: Should be ok
* Supplementary Material: Published paper + another one that i submitted to contests (also in process of publication tho)
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
* Location: Midwest
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* Applied for Financial Aid: Y
* Extracurriculars: Chess (top 40 in nation), research (several papers submitted/published in peer-reviewed journals)-worked for 3 summers in same lab, 20 hrs a week part time during school year, some other stuff... Journals that I have submitted to/published: Organic Letters, Cancer Science, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Science
* Awards: Siemens semifinalist, intel science search semifinalist, National merit finalist, AP scholar with honor, some other awards that i don't recall.
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: was deferred but got in, guess sending in the supplementary material helped me.

[Teh0therside]

Decision: ACCEPTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section):2400 superscore
• SAT IIs: 800 mathII, 800 physics
• ACT: 36
• APs: 5's on 8, one 4
• IBs:
• GPA: 4.73w, 4.0uw
• Rank: does not rank
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: classical guitar, engineering stuff, sports, charity
• Job/Work Experience: engineering stuff
• Essays (subject and responses): good
• Teacher Recs: good
• Counselor Rec: probably ok
• Applied on:
• Hook (if any):

Location/Person:

• State or Country: CA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): highly competitive public
• Ethnicity:white
• Gender:male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I feel bad because I'm not going to go, but I'd already applied when I got into Stanford SCEA. My good friends were rejected/waitlisted and I kinda feel like I took one of their spots even though they assure me that my applying didn't make any difference...

[BigRig]

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT: 2390 (800 math, 800 reading, 790 writing)
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 US History
• ACT: N/A
• GPA: 4.00 unw (don't know/don't care about weighted)
• Rank: DNR
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Physics B, European History, US History, Computer Science A (all 5). Some lousy AMC scores, but I did manage a 102.5 on the AMC12 and subsequently failed to figure out when the AIME was. Dx

Subjective

• Essays: okay, I hope.
• Teacher Recs: good
• Counselor Rec: good
• Supplementary Material: letter of rec from research mentor (no paper, unfortunately)
• Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): letter mentioned above

Personal

• Location: SF Bay Area
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Applied for Financial Aid: Y

Other

• Extracurriculars: Academic Decathlon, various music stuff, math and robotics clubs
• Awards: NM Semifinalist (at time of application), passed the AMC 12, 1st in county Academic Decathlon, various school awards
• Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I join a seemingly large pool of people accepted to Caltech and rejected from MIT. Seeing everything, I think I just don't get what criteria MIT uses to accept people. At least I have somewhere to go =)

[dalitso09]

Decision: ACCEPTED



Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 1880 Math 700 R 610 W 570
• SAT IIs: M II 670 BM and Chem (low..)
• ACT: 31
• APs: quite a few
• IBs:
• GPA: 3.87 / 4.09
• Rank: 14/360
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Band, Jazz Band, NHS, UilL math team (number sense, math, calculator)
• Job/Work Experience: n/a
• Essays (subject and responses): I'm not much of a writer
• Teacher Recs: pretty good
• Counselor Rec:good
• Applied on: i know that it was really cutting it close
• Hook (if any): not really

[ b]Location/Person:[/b][list][*] State or Country:Texas[*] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, not very good stats either[*] Ethnicity: Malawian-American family from Malawi...originally Tanzania and Zambia[*] Gender:Female

I dont know how....but my stats are not even close to amazing

[danmam]

Decision: REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): n/a
• SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 710 Physics
• ACT: 36
• APs: Computer Science, Calculus AB, Physics C Mechanics all 5's, taking English Literature & Composition, Government & Politics, and Calculus BC this year
• IBs: n/a
• GPA: 3.9-ish UW, 4.2-ish weighted
• Rank: 1/~55
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: 4 years of varsity baseball & football, 2 years JV/1 year varsity basketball, summer baseball & basketball
• Job/Work Experience: working part time since before freshman year at fast food joint, ~10-15 hr/wk
• Essays (subject and responses): I did the "tell us about your background" one and it was admittedly a pretty poor essay
• Teacher Recs: not sure, must've been pretty solid though
• Counselor Rec: probably good, didn't see it
• Applied on: November?
• Hook (if any): none

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Wisconsin
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): private Christian
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: M

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[/list]
I'm not surprised I got rejected. I didn't pursue really hard because part of me didn't want to go (want a more "common" college experience). If I had been accepted a more deserving person probably would've been rejected. Good luck to those who got in, I'm guessing it'll be a load of work!

[K4RL]

Decision: ACCEPTED



Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2170 (760 M, 680 CR, 730 W)
• SAT IIs: 780 Math II, 770 Biology-M, 710 Chemistry
• ACT: 30
• APs: 5's on all of them so far
• IBs: none
• GPA: 4.0 Unweighted (5.1 weighted)
• Rank: 1 /~700ish
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Lots of random stuff like Nat'l Honor Society, Science Honor Society, Quiz Bowl, Music, I think I even put web-surfing as an ec but i don't remember.
• Job/Work Experience: None
• Essays (subject and responses): Amazing... my English teacher said it was one of the best she had ever read.
• Teacher Recs: Math Teacher - Stellar, English Teacher - IDK but I assume also great.
• Counselor Rec: eh... my counselor doesn't know me too well... but it must have been a good recommendation
• Applied on: idr... i think november, december???
• Hook (if any): i speak three languages fluently, i was born in a foreign country

Location/Person:

• State or Country: FL
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, good school
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Gender: M

[b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: YAY! I just hope I can afford to go to MIT.

[heygirlhey!]

Decision: REJECTED

Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2210 -- 700 CR 780 M 730 W
• SAT IIs: 710 MathII 660 Phys 680 Lit
• ACT: 32 (superscored higher)
• APs: 5's on BC Calc, Gov, English Lang
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 3.9 W 3.6 UW
• Rank: N/A but probs around top 10%?
• Other stats: N/A

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Theater, writing, etc.
• Job/Work Experience: Smoothie boy! (w/letter of rec)
• Essays (subject and responses):
• Teacher Recs: Good
• Counselor Rec: Good?
• Applied on: 12/29 or 12/30? Oops...
• Hook (if any): Good math skills with a touch of personality.

Location/Person:

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

[b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: MIT wasn't my first choice anyway; it was kind of a shot in the dark. I got into WashU though so I'm pumped!! Congrats to all who got in, best of luck to all WLed, and don't worry (fellow) rejectees! :-D

[linhvuong]

Decision: Accepted

Stats:

*SAT I (breakdown): 660 CR/ 800 M/ 750 W - 2210 single sitting
*SAT II: 800M2 / 800 Chemistry / 780 Bio (M)
*Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn't cal.
*Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn't rank
*AP (place score in parenthesis): NA. GCE A - Level
*IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
*Courses taken for A Level: Bio, chem, maths, econs, general paper, project work, bio honors. Results all distinctions or A, except GP
*Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10 & 12:both distinctions but I can't remember the score. same for AIME

Subjective:

*ECs: Student Council (in charge of Student Lounge and led in many other school activities), Malay Dance, Maths Society( EXCO, Head of External Activity, organizing competitions for secondary schools in Singapore as well as comm service), Aesthetics Club (Creative Director), Hwa Chong inst Boarding school Boarders' Council exec com (3 years: Head of Publicity/ international understanding officer/ Vice president), ASEAN scholars committee, Gavel Club, English Drama Club
*Job/Work Experience: teaching at Hwa Chong Junior College, working as administrative officer at Hwa Chong Boarding School, research at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (2005-not really working mainly learning), Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (2006- I left the institute with my project partner at 10.30pm once, in the morning I arrived at 7.30am: that's how hard I worked), Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (2007), translator for VINAFCO logistics LTD. (several assignments)
*Essays: not a common topic i would say,' Reflections of a Hanoian'
*Teacher Recs: good
*Counselor Rec: good
*Awards: International Students' Science Fair (2nd prize for oral defense, 2nd prize for poster presentation), Singapore Science and Engineering Fair (Gold Award), Singapore's Mathematics Olympiad ( 2007: Silver-open section, 2005: Silver senior Section, Bronze: open section, 2004: silver-senior section), Youth Festival Malay Dance competition (Bronze), School Award for Most Outstanding student (2007), Young Researcher Attachment Programme (Agency for Science and Technology and research A-star)(2005-2008), Australian Mathematics Olympiad (distinction, top 4% regional), National University of Singapore Geography challenge (3rd placing) and some intra-college competitions awards, Bronze (Mix double)–Inter-Boarding School Table-tennis tournament (my partner is a really good table-tennis player
*Volunteer/ Community Service: teaching kids in abusive households at Beyond Community Service center, volunteer at hospitals (cooking meals for needy patients), teaching orphans, organizing maths trail for primary school students, and many other short-term activities

Location/Person:

*State or Country: Singapore but a Vietnamese
*School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public, top 5 junior colleges
*Ethnicity: Asian
*Gender: female
*General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Sorry the post is a bit long. kinda cut-and-paste so...

[shawn9061]

Accepted

Stats:

* SAT: CR:650 Math:780 Read:620
* SAT II:Math 1:760 Chem :730
* ACT:
* GPA:4.00
* Rank:6 out of 450
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):Chem 3

Subjective

* Essays:I wrote about the death of my mother
* Teacher Recs:Really good
* Counselor Rec:she likes me I think
* Supplementary Material:None
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):None,average guy.

Personal

* Location: PA
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity:Asian
* Gender:Male

Other

* Extracurriculars:Advanced Orchestra, Scholastic Team, Community Service Club
* Awards:None
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:I thought I was gonna get rejected ..apparently not lol My SAT scores are so low compared to the guys on the first page that got rejected..dunno why they picked me...not complaining tho :P

[dzxx101]

Decision: REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 800 Math, 700 CR, 730 Writing
• SAT IIs: 800 Math I, 800 Math II, 730 World History, 660 Physics
• ACT: N/A
• APs: 5 World History, 4 Stats, 4 Psych, 4 APUSH, 4 English Lang, 3 Physics; taking 2-3 more
• IBs: 5 Psych (Diploma candidate)
• GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.87 Weighted
• Rank: 1-2 out of 200ish
• Other stats: I've won national, state, local competitions. NMF.

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: Math Team (captain), Academic Bowl (captain), FBLA, Mock Trial, NHS, National Beta Club, Key Club, Philosophy Club, Chess Club, Student Council
• Job/Work Experience: None
• Essays (subject and responses): Leonidas. OK Essay
• Teacher Recs: Good.
• Counselor Rec: No clue.
• Applied on: Decemberish?
• Hook (if any): I'm 16 if that counts :/

Location/Person:

• State or Country: GA
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public. Decent to good, not stellar
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: Male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I'm not surprised, sad, disappointed, etc.

[prime235]

Decision: ACCEPTED

I'm not going to post my stats but, I'll say this much, they were not as high as some of these people. but i did show them one thing--my passions, my humanity--something that lives not only in an artist but also in a mathematician, a scientist, or an engineer. I showed them not the kind of passion that is insincere or desperate. not the kind that wants the benefits of end results, but one that revels in the pleasures of doing, one that tires only when resting.

so guys, do what you love, show them that, and your life will be good no matter what happens.

[whizkid12]

Decision: REJECTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section):M 720 cr 620 w 620
• SAT IIs: physics 680 math I 650
• ACT:
• APs:
• IBs: c.S HL 7 Math Hl 6 Econs sl 7 english sl physics hl spanis ab sl
• GPA: dont do
• Rank:top 10%
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app:
• Job/Work Experience:
• Essays (subject and responses):
• Teacher Recs:stellar
• Counselor Rec:stellar
• Applied on:1st january 2009
• Hook (if any): urm, first generation

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Africa
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private
• Ethnicity:Black
• Gender:Male

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: ha..i cant really be bothered waiting on yale or stanford!

[hellouniverse]

Decision: ACCEPTED


Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 1980 (800 M, 620 CR, 560 W)
• SAT IIs: 800 Physics, 800 Math lv.2, 590 World History
• ACT: N/A
• APs: N/A
• IBs: N/A
• GPA: 89/100
• Rank: 18/498
• Other stats: N/A

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: National Physics Team, Physics study club at school, Programming club, and other irrelevant stuffs
• Job/Work Experience: N/A
• Essays (subject and responses): pretty standard, I guess. I also risked myself by providing supplemental essay about my exploration in science, especially in physics
• Teacher Recs: great..also, i got additional rec from a physics professor who is the leader of the National Physics Team
• Counselor Rec: great
• Applied on: 01/01(lol..)
• Hook (if any): Gold Medal in International Physics Olympiad..(damn lucky)

Location/Person:

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

General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I can't believe it..I thought I was going to be rejected..Anyway, congratulations to all of us. Whatever the result is, we have been through an epic application process, and (of course) we will continue to live on..

[mitpwns]

Decision: ACCEPTED



Stats:

• SAT I (by section): 2360 - CR: 760, Math: 800, Writing 800 (80, 12)
  
• SAT IIs: 740 US Hist., 770 Phy, 800 Math
• ACT: 35 - 36 Math, 36 Writing, 36 Science, 32 Reading
• APs: All 5's : Human Geo, Eng Lang, Phy B, Calc BC, Comp Sci AB, Env Sci, US Hist.
• GPA: 4.5 ish
• Rank: 3 / 1402
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app:
  1. Science Fair - Research on Sun's Differential Rotation, the Riemann Hypothesis, and Protein Tyrosine Kinase. 2-time state winner, 3-time regional winner (grand prize once), district and school awards each year. TJSHS competition too. LASER club (didn't put the club on app though). Discovery Young Scientist Challenge Semi-Finalist.
  
  2. Tennis - Junior Varisty - Earned letter of honors, ranked 2nd singles. Consistenly play in USTA DPTA and ZAT Tournaments:
  High Point Fall ZAT, Plano, TX – Consolation 2nd Round
  DPTA Junior Circuit Huffhines, Dallas, TX – Runner-Up
  Las Colinas Spring Mid-Cities, Irving, TX – Semifinalist
  DPTA Junior Circuit, Dallas, TX – Consolation Semifinalist
  DPTA Junior Circuit, Dallas, TX – 2nd Round
  DPTA Junior Circuit, Dallas, TX – Quarterfinalist
  Las Colinas Tournament, Las Colinas, TX – Consolation Semifinalist
  Consistenly taking lessons at High Point Tennis Center and Lifetime Fitness since 2001
  
  3. Computer Science UIL Team - President. 2nd Place at Lake Carroll Computer Science Tournament Advanced Division. Winner of 2009 Hewlett-Programming Contest at their headquarters (out of 350 ish teams). (Applied to MIT's comp sci/ elec engineering department)
  
  4. North Texas Youth Honor Society
  Leadership: 11th - Vice-President of school, 12th - Secretary of all chapters in North Texas, April 2008 - Captain of Speech Tournament Organization Committe, September 2009 - Captain of Spelling Bee Tournament Organization Committee. Club arranges tournaments for kids throughout North Texas.
  
  5. Math Club and Math Research:
  AMC Scores: 10th grade - 120, 11th grade - 108.
  2-time AIME Qualifier: 5 on AIME, USAMO qualifying score of 170 (cutoff was 197)
  McNabb tournaments - competed since 9th grade, regularly top in school
  Math League - 12th grade, regularly receive perfect scores
  Cistercian Math Tournament, Rice University Mathematics Competition, Ryan High School Math Contest, etc.
  Have been doing independent research on the distribution of prime number since 2nd semester 11th grade - Riemann Hypothesis. Learned a lot about mathematical history.
  
  Leaderships/Activites on resume not on activities page:
  
  Volunteer at Richardson Regional Medical Center – 9 weeks (most lame thing ever)
  Week Internship at Texas Back Institute – 84 Hours (pretty cool, told me I don't wanna be a doctor)
  Director of French Play for Texas French Symposium
  Co-Founder and Vice-President of The Skeptical Society
  PSHS Student Congress – Committee: Community Service (not interested, left it in 12th and didn't put on activities page as a result)
  Fete Francaise – 3rd Place in Speaker
  Most Accomplished Student in Years 1-3 – Vines High School
  National French Examination – State Qualifier
  National Merit Finalist (prly all of yall)
  NHS - didn't put on application.
  
• Job/Work Experience: Internship at University of Texas at Dallas in the Molecular Biology Department - 20 hours per week, 8 weeks.
  
• Essays (subject and responses): I only wrote one 490 word essay - about my 1 year spent in paralysis from Gullian-Barre Syndrome, and my eventual recovery and changing view of life. Chose not to write the optional essay.
  
• Teacher Recs: One from APUSH teacher who's currently at Stanford, very fluent in writing and I believe wrote me an extraordinary rec - loved my essays in class. One from Env Sci teacher - felt I was the most successful student she ever had, I think it was really good, but can't be sure. One from Comp Sci coach - definitely went well, she told me exactly what she was gonna write, and that may have turned the tables for me.
  
• Counselor Rec: Excellent. Counselor liked me.
  
• Applied on: October 31 (bday)
  
• Hook (if any): My research paper. It was about the sun's differential rotation, 20 pages in-depth in length. May not be called a "hook," but another college I was accepted into wrote a note on my acc. letter referring to it.
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: TX
  
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Large ~ 1400 students
  
• Ethnicity: Asian
  
• Gender: Male
  

[b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: MIT Pwns. We say bye to men who try too - MIT (actually that's by me). Good luck to all.