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12-15-2008, 09:08 PM
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#16 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 84
| Deferred Stats:- SAT: 2280 (800 CR, 770 M, 710 W)
- SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry, 750 US History, 540 Japanese (shouldn't have attempted this . . .)
- GPA: I'm homeschooled. For my independent study classes, my parents basically grade me (they gave me all A's). I've also taken a LOT of college classes and gotten all A's in those.
- Rank: 1 out of 1 . . .
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): A lot of math competitions. Best AMC series: AMC 12 130.5, AIME 9, USAMO 11
Subjective- Essays: Pretty good, I thought.
- Teacher Recs: Math club coach - excellent. College professor (philosophy) - should be good. Mathcamp instructor - should be excellent
- Counselor Rec: My parents - typical parent stuff, I doubt they took this too seriously.
- Supplementary Material: I sent my term paper from philosophy for some reason. I'm not sure why I included it, but it was pretty good.
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Homeschooled? I don't know what effect that has.
Personal- Location: Maryland
- High School Type: Homeschooled
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Male
Other- Extracurriculars: Few. Mainly a ton of involvement with my homeschoolers' math club and math team, general extracurricular math, and then I listed a few interests, like politics and reading.
- Awards: Math competition stuff - USAMO Qualifier, Tiebreakers at ARML, first tier Mandelbrot . . .
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Agh. I was accepted at Caltech and UChicago, so I was getting sort of cocky. Should have known that MIT was going to be tougher.
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12-15-2008, 09:08 PM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: NH -> New York, NY
Posts: 419
| Deferred Stats:- SAT: 2240
- SAT II: 800 Math II, 660 Chem (ah!)
- ACT: NA
- GPA: 4.1ish
- Rank: top 5% (school doesn't rank)
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB, Stats (5 both)
Subjective- Essays: Good, but coulda been better.
- Teacher Recs: One great, one good (didn't read though)
- Counselor Rec: Shoulda been excellent (didn't read)
- Supplementary Material: Extra essay.
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nada.
[ b]Personal[/b] - Location: New Hampshire.
- High School Type: Public, ~1000 kids, sends ~3 to top schools every year.
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: Female
Other- Extracurriculars: Community Council, Math Team, Hockey Team, Ocean Bowl Team, NHS
- Awards: School ones (star student, etc.) Williams College, National Merit Semi Finalist
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Gah! I can't wait another three months!
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12-15-2008, 09:10 PM
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#18 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Columbia SEAS '13
Posts: 135
| Deferred Stats:- SAT:2210
- SAT II:790, 740, 730 (math 2, 1, physics)
- ACT:32
- GPA:3.9 uw, 4.86 w
- Rank:13
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):4 world history, 5 eng lang, 5 us history
Subjective- Essays:not good enough apparently
- Teacher Recs:good to amazing
- Counselor Rec:good
- Supplementary Material:research paper
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):none
Personal- Location:NY
- High School Type: public
- Ethnicity:asian
 - Gender: male
Other- Extracurriculars:too sad to post all
- Awards:decent-ish, nothing big
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:sigh.......
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12-15-2008, 09:10 PM
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#19 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 148
| Deferred Stats:- SAT: n/a
- SAT II: 800 Math 2, 710 Physics
- ACT: 36
- GPA: 4.2 W/3.9 UW
- Rank: 2 of 53
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB 5, AP Physics C Mechanics 5, AP Computer Science AB 5
Subjective- Essays: poor
- Teacher Recs: Not sure, good I guess
- Counselor Rec: Same here
- Supplementary Material:
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
Personal- Location: Brookfield, WI
- High School Type: private Christian
- Ethnicity: caucasian
- Gender: Male
Other- Extracurriculars: 4-year varsity football, 4-year varsity baseball, 1-year varsity basketball, 2-year JV basketball
- Awards: 2x 2nd team all conference baseball, honorable mention all conference football
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12-15-2008, 09:11 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 41
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Decision: Deferred
Stats:
* SAT Verbal:740
* SAT Math: 800
* SAT Writing:710
* SAT Total:2250
* SAT II: Chem:740 Math II:800
* AP/IB taken/scores: US (5), Eng Lang(3), Bio (5), Euro (3)
* GPA weighted: 4.1
* GPA unweighted:...
* Rank or % estimate:no rank
Subjective:
* Essays: yeah...something about teaching.
* Teacher Recs: Turned in two good ones
* Counselor Rec:
* Supplemental Rec(s)?:nope
* Hook (if any): No sir, I wish.
* Interview?: Yes, pretty interesting one
Location/Person:
* State or Country: LA (represent!)
* School Type:Small Private
* Ethnicity:Asian
* Gender: Male
* Financial Aid?(Y/N): Y
* Legacy Yes/No: Nope, First Born.
* Recruited Yes/No: No
* Important ECs: Varsity Swimming, Varsity Track...Martial Arts?
Other Factors (weaknesses, strengths, etc.): idk....
General Comments/Congratulations/etc: PENN 2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH BABY
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12-15-2008, 09:12 PM
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#21 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 43
| Deferred 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):Err...nope
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 outright..apparently not lol
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12-15-2008, 09:13 PM
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#22 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 5
| Deferred Stats:- SAT: 2260
- SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math IIC 800 Korean 740 US 710 Chem
- ACT: N/A
- GPA: 4.37
- Rank: N/A
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 12 106.5 AIME 4 Cal AB(self-studied soph), Cal BC, Chem, Physics B, Physics C: Mech, Physics C: E&M(self-studied junior), US, Euro all 5
Subjective- Essays: Should be good, talked about how my physical ailment set my future
- Teacher Recs: One from history teacher who said to be good and another from physics teacher who said to be excellent
- Counselor Rec: Should be good
- Supplementary Material: N/A
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A
Personal- Location: CA
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: M
Other- Extracurriculars: Math Club (3yrs) ARML, Junior Volunteer UCI Med Center(3yrs), Library Volunteer (1yr), Physics Club(creator, organized school's participation of USPhO)
- Awards: National AP Scholar, USAMTS, Physics Bowl Top Scorer, Korean National Math Competition 2nd Place nation (soph), Korean National Math Comp 1st&2nd Regional (10th,11th), etc.
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12-15-2008, 09:14 PM
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#23 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 4
| Deferred Stats:- SAT:2050
- SAT II:Math II: 800, Bio-M: 730
- ACT:34
- GPA:3.619
- Rank:n/a
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):IB Math Studies: 6, IB French SL: 5
Subjective- Essays:I thought they were good...
- Teacher Recs: One was good, didn't read the other
- Counselor Rec: I'm sure it wasn't bad...
- Supplementary Material: idk
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): not much
Personal- Location: St. Louis, MO
- High School Type: College Prep/IB
- Ethnicity: White
- Gender: M
Other- Extracurriculars: Band, Culture Club (community service)
- Awards: Nothing outstanding
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
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12-15-2008, 09:15 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: FL --> MIT '13
Posts: 45
| Accepted. OhmyGod. Stats:- SAT: 770M 760CR 750W (9 essay) 1530 / 2280 superscored
- SAT II: 780 Math II, 760 Physics, 740 Chemistry
- ACT: 33English 35Math 32Reading 35 science 33Composite
- GPA: 3.71 / 4.0 Unweighted, school doesn't weight
- Rank: School doesn't rank
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Ap's: 4 Chemistry, 5 Calc AB, taking as a senior: Calc BC, Physics, Statistics
Subjective- Essays: Long one about my community service, voluinteering at a camp for disabled children, and the optional one about my research. Fun one about playing guitar and the MIT program/department one about thier alternate energy research program. I did a million and one drafts for each, and I was pretty happy with them.
- Teacher Recs: Science teacher: best in career, english teacher pretty good.
- Counselor Rec: Really good, I know her really well, and she likes me. She even flew up to Boston from FL to plead my case to the admissions officers.
- Interview: I thought it went pretty well. We talked for almost two hours.
- Supplementary Material: Research paper & abstract, picture of a prototype of my patented solar iPod charger.
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Research, Community service (1100+ hours)
Personal- Location: Northeast Florida
- High School Type: Reasonably selective independent / religious school. Sends about 3-5 out of 150 to ivys, but none to MIT for ~20 years.
- Ethnicity: vanilla
- Gender: quite manly, I daresay
Other- Extracurriculars:
On app:
Varsity Cross Country (team captain in 12th grade)
Play Guitar
Sound board manager for school plays
Science olympiad
8th grade trip counselor
Not on app (but in resume):
Community Builders Leader
School Ambassador
Track (one year only)
- Awards:
On app:
ISEF 2nd place, energy & transportation
AFCEA National Science Fair winner
Florida Junior Academy of Science state competition winner
Rotary club of NE Florida Student / Volunteer of the Year
President's volunteer service award (national)
Bausch & Lomb award
Drexel University ISEF award / $120,000 scholarship
Siemens Semifinalist (sent in email to admissions)
Patent Pending (in email to admissions)
Not on app (but in resume):
ISWEEP International Science fair gold medalist
State Science fair 4th place X2, 2nd place X1
Winner of school science fair X3
Cornell University Book Award
NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Joe Berg Honors Society
Foreign Language Honor Society
JETS competition bronze medalist
Science Olympiad state Silver, Bronze medalist
30+ special awards at regional, state and international science fairs
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
I think the research and awards helped, and the community service put me over the edge. Plus, I talked to two of the admissions officers (Matt and Mcgreggor) when I visited MIT, and they really liked my research. To the deferred: At least you still have a ~10% chance in RD. Keep your spirits up, I'll be pulling for you! To the rejected, I'm sorry. From the looks of things, there were many well qualified and deserving students. I know I hate being told this, but it really is the person that makes the college, not the college that makes the person. I'm sure you will succeed wherever you go.
MIT '13!!!!!!!!!!
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12-15-2008, 09:16 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: SB, NJ -> Princeton, NJ
Posts: 170
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Deferred Stats:- SAT: 2270 (750 M, 720 CR, 800 W)
- SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 650 French
- ACT: N/A
- GPA: 3.86/4.00, 4.28 Weighted
- Rank: Probably about top 1-2%
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Physics B, C, Calc AB, BC, French, Stat, CS AB, all fives except for French (3)
Subjective- Essays: Was pretty happy with it.
- Teacher Recs: Probably decent to pretty good.
- Counselor Rec: Probably average.
- Supplementary Material: N/A
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): US Physics Semi-Finalist, not much else.
Personal- Location: NJ
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
- Gender: M
Other- Extracurriculars: Founded a math/Science Olympiad club, TSA, new jersey science league, math team, mu alpha theta, french honors society, national honors society, red cross, physics/chem club, couple other stuff.
- Awards: PSAT Commended, US Physics, sci league top 10%
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Hm, much to recollect upon.
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12-15-2008, 09:16 PM
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#26 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 56
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Deferred Stats:- SAT: (750 CR, 760 M)
- SAT II: 720 Chem, 770 Math2
- GPA: 3.5 UW, 4.2 W
- Rank: not ranked
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5's on two so far
Subjective- Essays: Apparently not great enough
- Teacher Recs: One decent, one great
- Counselor Rec: Not as good as I would have liked
- Supplementary Material:
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Legacy, very unique extracurriculars
Personal- Location: MA
- High School Type:
- Ethnicity:
- Gender:
Other- Extracurriculars: Pass for privacy
- Awards: None notable
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
RAGE.
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12-15-2008, 09:17 PM
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#27 | | New Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 8
| Accepted Stats:- SAT: 2380: 800 CR, 800 M, 780 WR
- SATII: 800 Math II, 790 Chem
- ACT: n/a
- GPA: 100.5 (school doesn't do 4.0 scale)
- Rank: 1 or 2 out of 160
- OtherTests(AMC,AP,IB): AP: Calc AB 5, Chem 5, English Lit 4, US Gov 5, Calc BC 5
Subjective- Essays: Wrote about hiking, robotics, and the main essay about a story about robotics
- TeacherRecs: I hoped they were good...
- CounselorRec: No idea
- SupplementaryMaterial: none, considered piano
- Hook(recruitedathlete,legacy,NobelPrize): n/a
Personal- Location: Falmouth Maine
- HighSchoolType: Public
- Ethnicity: Mexican (1/4)
- Gender: M
Other- Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics, Math Team, Piano Lessons, Elementary School Robotics Tutoring, JV Baseball
- Awards: None extra significant
- Advice?Commiserations?Feellikebragging?: I'm so happy right now. Good luck to all those deferred.
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12-15-2008, 09:19 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 53
| Deferred Stats:- SAT: 2380 (M: 800, CR: 780, W: 800)
- SAT II: 800 MIIC, 790 Bio-M, 770 World
- ACT: N/A
- GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.25? W
- Rank: 4/573
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): World History (5), Statistics (5), Biology (5), Eng Lang (4), US History (4), AMC 12 (88.5)
Subjective- Essays: I really liked them.
- Teacher Recs: Haven't seen, but most likely good/excellent
- Counselor Rec: Haven't seen, but most likely amazing
- Supplementary Material: Science Research Paper from summer program
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): um...Summer Science Program?
Personal- Location: Northern California
- High School Type: Public
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: Female
- Applied for Financial Aid: N
Other- Extracurriculars: Marching Band, Flute Section Leader; Interact Club, Vice-President; MATH Club, Secretary, Co-President; Competitive Civics; Volunteering at hospital, Projects Leader, Associate Shift Leader; Peer Tutor; CSF; Summer Science Program; Music Ambassador to Europe
- Awards: NMSF, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, RYLA, math awards
I guess I didn't have anything super outstanding, like those who got accepted...I'll just work harder!
Congrats to everyone already in!
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12-15-2008, 09:24 PM
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#29 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: SoCal-->NoVa-->Cambridge, MA (MIT '13)
Posts: 248
| Accepted Stats:- SAT: 2360 (780 CR 780 M 800 W)
- SAT II: 730 IIC, 720 Chem, 690 USH
- ACT: n/a
- GPA: 3.95 uw
- Rank: 1 (tied w/ many others)
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 AP Chem, 4 USH, 3 Euro
Subjective- Essays: i didn't really like them, but others did so they must've been ok
- Teacher Recs: excellent
- Counselor Rec
 kay - Supplementary Material: none
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM
Personal- Location: Northern VA
- High School Type: top 100 public
- Ethnicity: African American
- Gender: F
Other- Extracurriculars: nothing special - singing stuff, sports (non-varsity) consistently
- Awards: National Merit Commended, National Achievement Semi Finalist, music stuff
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
I'm still in shock...seriously?
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12-15-2008, 09:25 PM
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#30 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 13
| Deferred Stats:- SAT:2130 (780M, 680CR, 670W)
- SAT II:680 MII, 640 Chem
- ACT:33
- GPA:4.0uw 4.167w
- Rank:17/435
- Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):Stat 3, Lang 4, Chem 3
Subjective- Essays:decent
- Teacher Recs: one awesome, one pretty good
- Counselor Rec:no clue
- Supplementary Material:N/A
- Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):N/A
Personal- Location:Fayetteville, GA
- High School Type:Public
- Ethnicity:Caucasian
- Gender:M
Other- Extracurriculars:InvenTeam: Student Design Lead, FBLA: Vice-President (11), Executive Board for Class of 2009, played competitive (club) soccer for years, National Honor Society, French Honor Society, Beta Club
- Awards:AP Scholar, Georgia Certificate of Merit, other small stuff
- Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
congratulations to those accepted
good luck to everyone who was deferred in the RA pool
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