dteamer

Stats:
SAT Verbal: 710
SAT Math: 680
SAT Writing: 710
SAT Total:
ACT: 32, writing: 10
AP/IB taken/scores: Calc 5, Bio 5
GPA unweighted: 3.99
Rank or % estimate: 10/310

Subjective:
Essays: Good
Teacher Recs: Didn't read
Counselor Rec:Probably lousy


Location/Person:
State or Country: Iowa
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Legacy Yes/No: No
Recruited Yes/No: No
Important ECs: Plays/Musicals, Speech Team, All-State Band, Competition Dance Team, Student Gov, Model U.N., International Club treasurer

Other Factors: Endeavor Award Winner

General Comments/Congratulations/etc:

shufan

Wow, based on stats and CMU or UPENN SEAS considerations, we are pretty similar. Not to mention our feelings on getting into UPENN (but SEAS). Haha.

me722

Decision: Accepted!


Date applied: Decemberish, Regular Decision
Date decision postmarked/received: 3/31 online, 4/2 mail
Accepted at which school/major: Wharton, Business Admin.

Stats:
SAT Total: 1940 M: 650, CR: 660, WR: 630,
ACT: 29
SAT Subject Tests: Literature- 610, U.S.History- 630
GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.26
Rank: 1/86
AP/IB classes: Calculus and Spanish Language. Last year we didn't have AP classes, but I took the U.S. History and English Language tests (and passed.)

Subjective:
Essays: pretty good
Teacher Recs: really good
Counselor Rec: good
EC highlights: Volleyball- 4 years, Golf- 4 years, ASB (Student Gov't)- 4 years, Drama (Plays)- 4 years, Cast and Crew, Choir- 4 years, Academic Decathlon- 2 years, National Honor Society- 3 years, Some volunteer work-tutoring, teen council, half marathon for AIDS

Location/Person:
State or Country: California
School Type: Parochial, small. 450 kids.
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female
Other Factors, hook?: I answered the optional question. Lol. I don't know if that's a hook.
Interview: No
Recruited: No

General Comments, scholarship chances, status info: Congrats to all who were accepted!

ariadne15

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[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT Verbal: 800
[ *] SAT Math: 740
[ *] SAT Writing: 790
[ *] SAT Total: 2330
[ *] SAT II: US History (770), Math Lvl 2 (710), Spanish w/ Listening (750), English (710)
[ *] ACT: Did not take
[ *] AP/IB taken/scores: US History (5), Calculus AB (5), English Language (5), Spanish Language (5)
[ *] GPA weighted: 5.228
[ *] GPA unweighted: 4.0
[ *] Rank or % estimate: 1/485

[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: I thought they were excellent but the common app essay topic was a little risky. It dealt with atheism.
[ *] Teacher Recs: I did not read either, but I am confident they were good. I am close to both teachers.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Awful. Unfortunately, I did not get to read it until she had already sent it off. There were typos. It was impersonal and short.
[ *] Hook (if any): None, really.

[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: California
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian & Asian (Filipina)
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Legacy Yes/No: No
[ *] Recruited Yes/No: No
[ *] Important ECs: CSF, NHS, Key Club, Link Crew, school site council, youth advisory council, some other independent community service at various organizations. Had over 200 hours.

[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] National Merit Finalist, 3 years of Summa Cum Laude on National Latin Exam, plus some other awards at the county/school level.

[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/etc:[ /b] Congrats to everyone who was accepted. I have to say I was initially pretty bitter because a friend of mine was accepted with a significantly less impressive record. Oh well. I got over it as soon as I received my Stanford acceptance e-mail.

Arch3r25

Stats:

• SAT Reading: 760
• SAT Math: 770
• SAT Writing: 800
• SAT Total: 2330
• SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math 2 760 US History 750 Chemistry
• TOEFL (if applicable): Nay
• ACT (if applicable): Nay
• AP/IB taken/scores: This year: AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP Euro Hist, AP English Lang, AP English Lit. Last year: AP French Lang (5), AP US History (5), AP Macroeconomics (4), AP Microeconomics (4)
• GPA weighted (if applicable): 103.3 -- 4.0
• GPA unweighted: 96.2 -- 3.91
• Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1 out of 770
• Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist, Presidential Scholars Candidate, AP Scholar with Distinction, Xerox Award, Junior Achievement Titan Business Competition State Champ, Tri-State Math League Top 3 Award
  

Subjective:

• Essays: I like my essays a lot. Main commonapp one about professional wrestling, another about family heritage, and a third about my research interests and where I want to take them.
• Teacher Rec #1: I didn't read it. I assume it was good.
• Teacher Rec #2: I didn't read it. I assume it was good.
• Additional Rec: Two research mentor recommendation letters from MIT Nuclear Engineering and Harvard SEAS professors. The MIT one was phenomenal. I didn't read the Harvard one.
• Counselor Rec: I didn't read it. I assume it was crappy. I go to a massive school, and I barely know her, although we are on really friendly terms and I provided her with ample material for any sort of rec letter.
• Hook (if any): Research is most definitely my hook.
  

Location:

• State or Country: New Hampshire
• School Type: Private (Realistically, it's public though)
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Legacy: Wustl, Harvard Legacy
• Recruited Yes/No: Nay....I wish. Anyone wanna hook me up with a ping pong coach? :P
• Important ECs: Microfluidics summer research internship @ Harvard SEAS, Nuclear Engineering summer research internship @ MIT, Hospital Volunteer, Varsity Math Team Captain, Solo & Orchestral Violin, Granite State Challenge/Quiz Bowl Team, and Greater Manchester Red Cross. On resume: Obama for America volunteer, Community Alliance for Teen Safety Youth Board, and local State rep candidate's campaign manager.
• Work experience: Freelance PHP Programmer/Website developer
  

Other Factors: A sweltering degree of awesomeness? I sent in my research abstracts, two mentor recs, a resume, presidential scholars candidate update, etc. Loads of supplementary material for them to judge. I have also self-taught myself around 7 programming languages and am fluent in French, proficient in German.

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: Waitlisted by Harvard & Accepted by Yale, Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Dartmouth, UChicago, Brown, Cornell, Tufts, BU, and WPI.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Good luck to everybody in college! Any future applicants reading this, feel free to PM me or email me with any questions or for advice.

asian at lab

Jesus Christ. Upenn wants a Counselor rec?!!!!!

What if you have two counselors? I got a guidance Counselor and A College counselor.

nychica

lol yeah you have to get a counselor rec.

asian at lab

What about the Upenn app form, not the universal or Common app

sophiar

there doesn't seem to be a big difference between those that were accepted and rejected in terms of stats and ecs. so what is really a thing that gives a person an edge in the application process.

nychica

it's random. depends who's reading yr app. idk why i got into some schools and waitlisted 2 others. it's a crapshoot. u have 2 learn 2 deal w/ it i guess