with_one_voice

Decision && School: Deferred > ACCEPTED! College of Arts & Sciences

Stats:

• SAT Verbal: 740
• SAT Math: 790
• SAT Writing: 800
• SAT Total: 2330
• SAT II: 690, 740
• ACT:
• AP/IB taken/scores:
• GPA weighted:
• GPA unweighted: 96.5%
• Rank or % estimate: 13/372
  

Subjective:

• Essays: Good, worked hard on them... Counselor said they'd like my writing
• Teacher Recs: Good I presume
• Counselor Rec: Good I presume
• Hook (if any):
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: New York
• School Type: Private (Catholic)
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Legacy Yes/No: No
• Recruited Yes/No: No
• Important ECs: President, Captain, Editor, etc
  

Other Factors:

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: THIS IS SO SURREAL... DEFERRED AND THEN ACCEPTED! PENN 2011, I LOVE YOU GUYS! I'LL SEE YOU ALL SOON.

*FOR DEFEREES* IF accepted, reasons why you think so, actions you took after being deferred, etc..: No idea! I didn't even send a letter expressing continued interest! Yeah baby!

tctennis

ACCEPTED TO WHARTON

Stats:
? SAT Verbal: 710
? SAT Math: 800
? SAT Writing:690
? SAT Total: 2200
? SAT II: Math II 780, Bio M 700, US Hist 610
? ACT:
? AP/IB taken/scores: 5 Ap?s... all 5?s except for 1 4
? GPA weighted: 4.108
? GPA unweighted:
? Rank or % estimate: 1/250
Subjective:
? Essays: excellent
? Teacher Recs: EXCELLENT
? Counselor Rec: EXCELLENT
? Hook (if any): unrepresented public high school....no ivy kids in last 13 years
Location/Person:
? State or Country: OH
? School Type: public
? Ethnicity: Indian
? Gender: M
? Legacy Yes/No: no
? Recruited Yes/No: no
? Important ECs: lots of stuff...too lzy to right
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General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
WOOOOOO I CANT BELIEVE IT!! MY DREAM SCHOOL ACCEPTED ME!!! I WAS DEFERRED ED TOO!! OMG!!

theoneo

Decision: Accepted! (Vagelos LSM Program)

Stats:

• SAT I or ACT: 2240 (800 M, 720 CR, 720 W)
• ACT: 35 (36 E, 36 SR, 34 M, 33 R)
• SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 800 Bio, 780 Chem
• GPA: 3.95
• WGPA: 4.70
• Rank: None
• APs: 5's on Bio, Calc AB, Chem, Comp Sci A, HumGeo, and Lang; 4's on Enviro and Stats

Subjective:

• ECs: Several, with leadership positions
• Essays: Solid
• Teacher Recs: One was decent, I didn't read the other, but I sent a very personal supplemental rec
• Counselor Rec: Very strong
• Interview: He seemed impressed

Location/Person:

• State: NJ
• School Type: Competitive public
• Ethnicity: Indian
• Gender: Male
• Other thoughts: Penn's probably my top choice now with Vagelos.

blaine236

Accepted (but SEAS)

Stats:

• SAT Verbal: 740
• SAT Math: 800
• SAT Writing: 740
• SAT Total: 2280
• SAT II: Math 2: 780 Physics: 800 USH: 760
• ACT: 34 essay 9
• AP taken/scores: Phys B (5), Calc AB (3), Calc BC (5), USH (5), Eng Lang (4), Comp Sci (5), Human Geo (5), Chem (5), Macro Econ (5)
• GPA weighted: 4.66
• GPA unweighted: 4.0
• Rank or % estimate: 1/7** UW, 3/7** W
  

Subjective:

• Essays: Canned (9/12 on all my essays; ACT once and SAT twice)
• Teacher Recs: Excellent & Idiosyncratic
• Counselor Rec: Excellent & Idiosyncratic
• Hook (if any): no
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Colorado
• School Type: massive public
• Ethnicity: whit
• Gender: male
• Legacy Yes/No: No
• Recruited Yes/No: No
• Important ECs: Harvard SSP, Eagle Scout
  

Other Factors:

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I want to do Comp Sci and I got into Carnegie Mellon too. so we'll see

jal10

Decision & School: ACCEPTED TO WHARTON!!!

Stats:

* SAT Verbal: 700
* SAT Math: 800
* SAT Writing: 750
* SAT Total: 2250
* SAT II: Math IIC 800 Chemistry 800 Chinese w/LIstening 800
* ACT:
* AP/IB taken/scores: AP US History 5, IB Full Diploma
* GPA weighted:
* GPA unweighted: 3.92
* Rank or % estimate: 2/175

Subjective:

* Essays: Good
* Teacher Recs: Good
* Counselor Rec: Good I hope
* Hook (if any):

shahwaiz69

Decision && School: Engineering Accepted

Stats:

• SAT Verbal: 760
• SAT Math: 760
• SAT Writing: 740
• SAT Total: 2260
• SAT II: Chemistry 760, Math2 740
• ACT:
• AP/IB taken/scores: 4/4
• GPA weighted: 3.91
• GPA unweighted:
• Rank or % estimate: Top 5%
  

Subjective:

• Essays: Good
• Teacher Recs: Good
• Counselor Rec: Good
• Hook (if any):cant think too depressed
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: Pakistan
• School Type:Private
• Ethnicity:Asian
• Gender:Male
• Legacy Yes/No: No
• Recruited Yes/No:No
• Important ECs: President of different clubs, debator
  

Other Factors:
dont know...i guess i didnt apply FA but alot of people got rejected from penn i dont know how i got in..
General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Congrats to everyone...weird day...yesterday i got into Duke...today into Penn..waitlisted at Brown...rejected from HYP...Stanford a rejection tomorrow...but now the decision is whether to chose DUKE or PENN???

slickhitter

Decision: rejected

Stats:

• Fee Waiver Used?:
• SAT Reasoning (by section): 800 CR 760 M 740 W 2300 Total
• SAT Subject tests: 800 Bio, 780 USH, 740 IIC
• ACT:
• APs: 2 5s
• IBs:
• GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:around 3.85 UW, 4.35 W
• Rank: top 5%, small school
• Senior Yr. Courseload: hardest
• Number of Apps from Your School: 2
• Common or Princeton App?: common
• Other stats:

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: hm varsity soccer captain, and like 50 soccer awards, some piano stuff, other sports
• Job/Work Experience:
• Essays (subject and responses): eh they were okay, pretty typical stuff, my little brother, and piano
• Teacher Recs: never saw 'em
• Counselor Rec: didn't see it
• Interview (feel and general location): eh it was okay, at the guy's house
• Hook (if any):

Location/Person: NJ

• State or Country:
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
• Ethnicity: white
• Income Bracket: 100k +
• Gender: male
• Hooks: none!
• Strengths/Weaknesses:
• Why you think you were accepted or rejected:

Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:AFter being deferred. Damn penn, I have grown a slight dislike towards you!

kmys007

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• Deferred EA? No
• SAT I (breakdown): 600 CR, 750 Math, 690 Writing
• ACT: 33
• SAT II: 750 Math II, 680 Chem, 720 Bio
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.289 W
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): #1/300
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc (5), U.S. History (5), Bio (5), Chem (5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: Dual Enrollment, AP Govt, AP English Lit
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Awards - Music, Dance 6 consecutive years

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lots, passion: Indian Classical Music/Dance (practice - 3 hours a day, numerous performances, competitions, awards)
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Volunteer/Community service: hospital
• Summer Activities:
• Essays: good
• Teacher Recommendation: amazing
• Counselor Rec: amazing
• Additional Rec: amazing
• Interview: amazing

Other

• State (if domestic applicant): MI
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public (barely anyone goes to big schools)
• Ethnicity: Asian-Indian
• Gender: Female
• Income Bracket: $100,000 +
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none.
• Strengths: extremely motivated, work ethic, discipline, ambition, competitive
• Weaknesses: not too much leadership.
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

General Comments: i'm screwed. depressed. disappointed. angry.

ultimateslacker

ACCEPTED AT ARTS & SCIENCES

Stats:

• SAT Verbal: 780
• SAT Math: 770
• SAT Writing: 770
• SAT Total: 2320
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chinese, 740 Eng Lit
• ACT: 34
• AP/IB taken/scores: too many to list
• GPA weighted: n/a
• GPA unweighted: 3.9
• Rank or % estimate: 2
  

Subjective:

• Essays: honestly... i don't think they were very good
• Teacher Recs: average
• Counselor Rec: average
• Hook (if any):
  

Location/Person:

• State or Country: UT
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Chinese
• Gender: Female
• Legacy Yes/No: No
• Recruited Yes/No: No
• Important ECs: piano, debate, math & science, varsity tennis, mock trials, peer mentoring
  

Other Factors: research for 4 years, lots of leadership and state awards for ecs, some national awards

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: YAY!!!! Congrats to all who were accepted and good luck to all who are still waiting.

ucplaya05

rejected.....

sucks

o well

congrats to yall who got in

haithman

Congrats to all those accepted! Im sure you all will love it here at Penn and maybe ill see some of you around campus and in huntsman in the fall
Welcome to the family

pyroman

accepted to m&t program

Enteril

Decision: Rejected

Stats:

• Fee Waiver Used?: No
• SAT I (by section): 800W, 780M, 720R (2300)
• SAT IIs: 780 Biology-M, 750 Math IIC, 740 US History
• GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.5W, 3.9UW
• Rank: N/A
  
• APs (including this year's): Biology (5), European History (5), Environmental Science (5), English Language (5), US History (5); taking Calculus BC, Physics C: Mechanics, English Literature, and Comp. Govt. & Politics now.
• Senior Yr Courseload: The 4 APs above and band.
• Number of Apps from Your School: Not that many...maybe 5 at the most.
• Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar w/ Honors

Subjective:

• ECs listed on app: 15 years of violin, 14 years of piano, UCLA community service, music instruction/counseling volunteer, self-taught guitar/mandolin/flute
• Job/Work Experience: Hollywood Bowl Theater Attendant 2006 season
• Essays (subject and responses): One was about working at the Hollywood Bowl and the other was about how I can't use chopsticks as an Asian. Wrote an optional one on music.
• Teacher Recs: The one I read was great, the other one was written by a teacher that really likes me.
• Counselor Rec: Didn't read it but she liked me.
• Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Didn't have an interview.
• Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Sent in tapes of my violin/piano playing.

Location/Person:

• State or Country: California
• School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
• Ethnicity: Chinese
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: Um...whatever the one around $85,000/year is.
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
• Strengths: Passion for music extracurriculars
• Weaknesses: Little community service compared to others
• Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Eh...I don't want to try to pass judgment on that.

Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to everyone that got in! Best of luck to those that didn't, like me, we'll all find homes we love I'm sure. Oddly enough I'm not too bummed or anything, probably because I never got too attached to the school in the first place (on purpose).

Vicuna

Wait-listed

Stats:
SAT Verbal: 730
SAT Math: 660
SAT Writing: 760
SAT Total: 2150
SAT II: US History: 680, Literature: 700
ACT: 31 essay 10
AP taken/scores: US History (4), three more this year
GPA weighted: 3.92
GPA unweighted: 3.75
Rank or % estimate: N/A

Subjective:
Essays: excellent
Teacher Recs: excellent
Counselor Rec: excellent
Hook (if any): from Alabama; submitted a DVD featured interviews with civil rights heroes

Location/Person:
State or Country: Alabama
School Type: small private
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
Legacy Yes/No: No
Recruited Yes/No: No
Important ECs: debate, tennis, youth legislature, SGA all four years, newspaper staff, etc.

Other Factors: Lots of summer academic camp experience

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Um, the wait-list is alright, I guess. Virtually no chance, though.

sdong

Decision: Accepted (Arts and Sciences) - biochem

Stats:

* SAT I or ACT: 2250 (800 M, 760 CR, 690 W) (stupid 8 on essay? weird as English/Lit is one of my best subjects)
* SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 760 Bio E and M (yea took both... same result), 760 Lit, 710 Physics
* GPA: Don't do GPA around here... say around 95+%
* Rank: Top 3% - only ranking school gives, but received award as top male academic student last year (note that top 5 included one girl...)
* APs: None final (not available at my school until senior year)
Projected 5s on Calc BC, Bio, Lit
Projected 4s on Chem/Physics B (mad about these two, should be able to get a 5), French

Subjective:

* ECs: Piano, violin (both with awards) guitar, varsity rower (bow), student council, prefect, fairly prestigious summer internship at local cancer research centre, presentations at many local high schools about internship, volunteered as teaching assistant at local learning centre, school outdoor leadership program, debate
* Essays: Solid
* Teacher Recs: Both quite strong I believe
* Counselor Rec: Good... but not brilliant I believe
* Interview: N/A

Location/Person:

* State: BC, Canada!!!
* School Type: University Prep Private, one of top in province
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* Other thoughts: Am an American citizen... hoping for the Vagelos program, wrote about that in my essay. Was sweating because I didn't do the optional essay... still worked out thankfully

Hooks: Believe the internship and accompanying presentations was huge, outdoor leadership (and corresponding Leadership Award) in my favour, and I believe my recommendations were quite strong

NOTE:
@ theoneo how were you notified about the Vagelos program. Might have to bug you with a PM... send me one if you see this heh!

ONE FINAL NOTE:

Congrats to all of those accepted, and the very best of luck to all those waitlisted/rejected!