can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[Abdu07]

Jeeze these posts are making me more nervous ... Btw chance me please What are my chances for GMU, JMu, and VTech

[darkmagician220]

Applied: UCB, UCLA, UCD, UCSD, Cornell, Duke Pratt, UChicago, UPenn Wharton, Northwestern, NYU Stern, Yale, University of Washington - Seattle
Accepted: UCLA, UCD, UCSD, UW
Waitlisted: Cornell

Attending: UCLA School of Engineering, major: computer science and engineering

Race: Chinese
Permanent Resident of US, Citizenship: Canada

High School:

GPA: 4.0
Rank: ~50/260
From Washington

SAT: 1980 (never used this score)
ACT: 33 (highest over 3 takes: R: 34, M: 35, S: 32, W: 32-33)

Extracurricular: Student conductor of high school orchestra, Swim team (7th in city championships), Model UN (secretary 1 year, participated for 3 years), Chess team (JV, 3 years, treasurer for 1 year), Knowledge Bowl (secretary 1 year, champion team 1 year) volunteered at computer lab, volunteered at local library

APs: US History, US Government, French, Chemistry, Physics B, Calc BC, Eng lang, Eng literature

Advice: Don't think that you MUST be a leader in order to be accepted into a university. Universities need both leaders and followers! If all the university were leaders, who would follow?
Also, make your essay stand out. This advice has been said so many times but it's so important!! Even what you want to write about is this dream/aspiration you have, write about it! Don't be afraid! (Just make sure you say how you're going to achieve it) That's what I wrote about in my essay and got into an excellent public university!
And finally, don't be afraid to apply to top tier schools! Even if you don't get in, you will reflect back on it and say that it was worth it. (Hey, if you become a famous person after going to some university but you applied to Harvard but they rejected you, you'll just point at Harvard and laugh.)

[Moiz1295]

anyone here actually...normal? Not prodigies??

[stewfoo412]

ummm no...

[dashqu]

I already posted my stuff from a few years back, but I thought I'd do it again because I'm different from a lot of people on here. As in:

- 3.3 GPA / 3.7 Weighted
- 2170 SAT / 34 ACT
- SAT IIs were in the 600 range for Math II and English II or something. Painfully low.
- Nationally ranked public high school, they didn't do class rankings but it's a big school and I imagine I was probably in the bottom 50%
- Took 7 APs (AP Eng 1 & 2, AP Psych, AP Econ Micro and Macro, AP European History, AP Statistics)
- Okay recommendations
- Virtually no extracurriculars (3 years of varsity soccer team, "Chicken and Waffles Club", no leadership positions ever, no jobs, no awards, a few summers of volunteer work at the library..)

Didn't get into most of the schools I applied to (most of the UCs, USC, NYU, Gtown, Columbia for ****s and gigs). Best UC I got into was UC Santa Barbara, hardest private school I got into was GWU.

Good luck!

[jessicalpage]

I agree, I definitely agree

[jessicalpage]

I agree, I agree

[jessicalpage]

whoops, I am so sorry! I commented this on the wrong thread I think...

[jessicalpage]

please don't hate me... I'm new to this site and I am getting confused with the formatting

[jessicalpage]

but in response to moiz1295... I am normal, so maybe I can relate with that

[BuBBLES FoR SALE]

I feel incredibly lucky. To have applied before it became so competitive.

This was 2004.

Applied: UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCD, USC, Cornell, Stanford
Accepted: All except Stanford
Attended: UCB
Recs: These must have been good.

GPA: 3.4 UW. 4.1 W
SAT: 2150 (750M 730V 680W)
EC: Pres. of Class. Founder/pres of 2 clubs. Low community service, work.
Not much else spectacular I can think of.

Wrote essays over a few weeks, didn't feel they were the greatest.

All I can say is, enjoy your journey. Live on campus. In 8 years, you won't care that much where you went to school. I visit CC on holidays/vacasion for nostalgia, envious of people who are just about to take the plunge.

[cscaman]

Hey, I'm applying this year to schools but I have an older brother so I'm giving his info

Accepted: U Chicago (attending), Northwestern, Brown, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Boston University, Stanford
Waitlisted: Carlton College
Rejected: MIT

School Type: Public
Location: Chicago
Race/Gender: Caucasian, Male
Prospective Major: Mechanical Engineering
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.25
Class rank: school does not rank

ACT Scores (I hate him for this because he didn't study and he only took it once)
Composite: 35
English: 31
Math: 36
Reading: 32
Science: 36
Writing: 10

SAT II Scores
SAT II Biology: 770
SAT II Physics: 780
SAT II German: 800 (we were both raised speaking, it's our first language)

AP Scores:
US History: 5
English Lang/Comp: 5
Biology: 5
German:5


SUMMER PROGRAMS
*1 week long leadership camp at Augustana College for 4 years


ACTIVITIES
*National Forensic League (NFL): 20 Hrs/wk, 42 Wks/yr, 9th-12th
Co-Captain
* Piano: Taught piano to underprivileged kids for free, by the time he was a senior he had about 10 students
* Stage Crew: student foreman (huge honor, only two are selected every year), 20 hrs/wk, 42 wks/yr
*Robotics Club: President, 10 Hrs/wk, 10th-12th
*Robotics Mentor for Middle Schoolers
*Senior Instructional Leadership Corps(SILC): acted as a teachers aid for a physics teacher his senior year in high school
*Environmental Club: co-founder, 10 Hrs/Wk, 42 Wks/yr
*Math Tutoring: 6 Hrs/wk, 20 Wks/yr, 12th


Essays
*Won an honors award from his high school for his essay, including scholarship money

[crazyfrog821]

^In the spirit of that post, i guess ill post my sisters:
Applied: Yale, U Michigan
Accepted: Yale, U Michigan
Attending: Yale

School Type: Public Magnet
City: Chicago
Race Gender: Female, Caucasian
Prospective Major: Sociology
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.25
Class rank: 2%

ACT:
Composite: 33

No subject tests

Summer Programs:
Service Trip to India
International Conflict Resolution Camp
Summer Job

Activities:
President of MUN (many awards, 4 years)
Captain of Varsity Soccer Team (Very successful team, won states, 4 years)
President of NHS (4 years)
English Tutoring (4 years)

Essays:
Wrote about her job, very good

[drjafieldsphd]

UC has heavy bias towards top 10% of local schools

[iamchloe]

u got into upenn with 1820?