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07-23-2006, 02:38 PM
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#151 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 218
| Applied to: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Davis
Accepted: All but UC Berkeley (will attend UCLA)
SATI:
2160 composite
740 Verbal
740 Math
680 Writing
SATII:
Biology (M): 760
Math 2C: 740
AP:
Biology (5)
Statistics (5)
Sr. Year AP:
Physics B (5)
English Lit (4)
GPA: 3.66 UW, 4.07 W
took up to multivariable calculus during high school
took some random community college classes (art, general psych, etc)
200+ volunteer hours
national merit semifinalist
national piano competition winner
member of national piano players guild
county fair digital art contest winner (1st place, judge's favorite)
helped coordinate local charity concert
tutored elementary school students at local tutoring center | 
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07-23-2006, 03:49 PM
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#152 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: San Diego, CA; University of California Berkeley
Posts: 1,512
| At the time of applying:
UW GPA: ~3.8
UC GPA: 4.03
SAT I: 1960
SAT II: 740 US History, 750 Biology/E
AP:
Biology 4
English Composition 4
US History 4
World History 4
ECs projected: 4 years of varsity swimming, 2 years of varsity water polo, 220+ hours community service
Mexican male
Applied to: UC Berkeley, UCSD
Accepted to: both, attending Berkeley in fall | |
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07-23-2006, 04:10 PM
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#153 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 258
| wow gj strykur
do you think your chances might have been increased because you are mexican (even though UC's dont follow any affirmative action stuff)
btw: how many B'c/C's did you have? | |
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07-23-2006, 06:03 PM
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#154 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 60
| Applied to: Cornell (ED), Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, Penn State, UMD
Accepted: all, but Carnegie Mellon and UMD (I applied ED to Cornell so I withdrew my apps in these two places before results were released)
SATI:
1960 composite
610 Verbal
710 Math
640 Writing
ACT: 26 (comp), 35 (math), 26 (english), 27 (science), 22 (reading)
SATII:
Chem: 660
Math 2C: 800
AP:
Psychology: 4 (junior year)
BC Calc, Physics B, Chem, Lit (senior year)...don't know scores yet
GPA: 3.78 UW
nothing really special. played piano for 12 years and viola for 5. worked as a summer research intern at Rutgers. that's basically it. ECs weren't very special either. | |
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07-23-2006, 06:11 PM
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#155 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Boston -> Cambridge, MA
Posts: 430
| Accepted: Harvard College (SCEA), United States Naval Academy (LOA)
--didn't apply anywhere else
white female, public exam school
SAT I: 730V, 720M, 690W
SAT II: 740 Literature, 730 US History, 640 Math I
GPA: 3.66
Rank: school doesn't rank, around top 25% though
National Merit Commended Student
APs: 5/5/4/2
ECs: Senior Classes President; Student Council President and Vice President; Varsity Indoor Track, Captain; Varsity Outdoor Track, Captain, League All-Star; Varsity Boys Golf Team; Varsity Cross Country; JV Soccer; Senior Concert Band; student government activities at the State and Regional levels, dealing with the Department of Ed. and Board of Ed.; many other EC's within my school, but they were very specific.
Outside of School: Dance (ballet, tap, jazz, point, hip hop, and formerly Irish Step Dancing), about 5 hours a week, and travel for performances.
Jobs: Only worked during the summer, but worked in offices and was also a reporter/photographer for my local newspaper for a while.
After much deliberation, I decided to attend Harvard College on an NROTC-Marine Corps Option Scholarship. (Full tuition, stipend, cool uniform, and of course I get to be a Marine and lead our nation's finest!) | |
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07-23-2006, 08:57 PM
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#156 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: California
Posts: 349
| UC's
Accepted: UCSD (where I will be going), UCSB, UCI, UCD, UCSC, Cal Poly SLO
Rejected: UCB, UCLA
SAT I: 1910
SAT II: Lit-650 and Math-620
UC GPA: 3.86
White female
Activities: 500 hrs comm. service, leadership positons in some clubs
Awards: Nat'l Merit commended scholar, finalist in a teen of the year comp. for my city. | |
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07-24-2006, 02:39 AM
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#157 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Atherton, CA
Posts: 156
| this thread is great | |
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07-24-2006, 04:32 AM
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#158 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 119
| Accepted: UCLA (attending), Berkeley, UCSD, UCI, UCSB, UCD, NYU, USC
Rejected: None
SAT I: 1940
SAT II: Chinese-800, Math-720
GPA: 3.76 UW (3.96 W)
Rank: top 10%
APs: Calc AB-3, English Lit-3, US history-2, Spanish-2
I did 4 years varsity cross country, 3 years varsity track, club swim team, student body treasurer, spanish club president, csf vice president, interact vice president, blah blah blah... the list goes on. Though I did a lot of EC and it probably helped me with college admission, I think my essay really kicked it up a notch. So the moral here? WORK ON THOSE ESSAYS! good luck kids!  | |
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07-24-2006, 06:13 AM
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#159 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas/Louisiana
Posts: 1,026
| I didn't care to apply to Ivy/ish schools or anything like that, but this may help as far as scholarships go.
Applied and Accepted: Louisiana Tech University (full ride), Illinois Institute of Technology ($78k), and Texas A&M (not a penny)
I got a few other scholarship offers from schools I didn't apply to...and tons of the usual "apply because you're eligible for" letters.
SAT: 740M, 650V, 650W
SAT IIs: didn't take
ACT: 32 (best composite), 35E, 29M, 34R, 33S (best individual section scores)
GPA: 4.0 UW (on A=4.0, B=3.0, etc scale)/3.67 UW (on my school's 100=4.0, 99=3.9, 98=3.8, etc scale)
Rank: 2/137
Schedule: took every Pre-AP and AP course my school offers (minus AP Biology)...no AP tests, though, because they would have been a total waste of time and money to take.
State: East Texas
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
ECs/Honors:
National Merit Commended (missed SF and most likely Finalist by one effin point)
Band four years (Clarinet...All-State two, Area and All-Region four, State Solo & Ensemble two, Treasurer three, Section Leader three, Sweepstakes Band four, Woodwind Instructor one)
Debate four years (NFL Nationals one, NFL District two, UIL District four, first place UIL District LD and Info Speaking two, Regional LD and Info Speaking two, Northeast Texas Debate Association State in LD and Info speaking two, tons of placing at various tournaments in LD, PFD, and Info Speaking)
National Honor Society two years (Treasurer one)
Student Council three years (Treasurer three)
UIL Academics four years (2nd place UIL District Social Studies one)
Key Club two years (Treasurer two)
Model UN two years
GT four years
Volunteer Stuff:
Junior High All-Region try-outs two years (monitoring audition rooms, running errands for judges and directors, calculating results, etc...probably about seven hours each year)
Band Booster's Concession Stand (really no telling how many hours I put into this)
Hurricane Katrina student organizer (basically found a teacher to help me, got announcements made, collected donations from local businesses and students, put together baskets, and delivered them to people in area shelters...didn't keep track of hours)
Christmas Toy Drive two years (collected donations from local businesses, students, and random people in town...and then delivered the toys and money to Toys for Tots to distribute...again, didn't keep up with hours)
Pretty much, I volunteered for things I found to be important and didn't really keep tallies.
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07-24-2006, 08:48 AM
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#160 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 739
| wow, this thread is really useful, and congrats to every one | |
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07-24-2006, 01:35 PM
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#161 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 688
| This is a great thread. Most useful is the info from white students because they are more or less based on stats (not on affirmative action programs), and therefore, convenient for calibrating the chances of juniors. It will be nice if the seniors also list their intended major.
Thanks. | |
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07-24-2006, 02:15 PM
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#162 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Texas/Louisiana
Posts: 1,026
| I'm doing Biomedical Engineering at LA Tech. | |
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07-24-2006, 05:30 PM
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#163 | | New Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 1
| Hi Future Peer
Hi,
I will be attending the awesome University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. What are you going to major in? My name is Michael Kimani.
Thanx | |
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07-24-2006, 07:02 PM
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#164 | | New Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 21
| Graduation year: 2005
Accepted: JHU, Northwestern, U Chicago, NYU (w/ a scholarship), Fordham, Wellesley, Trinity
Rejected: Columbia (deferred ED) and UPenn
W/listed: Yale (legacy) and Emory
SATs: 1480
SAT IIs: Writing-760, US History-760, Math IC-700
Rank: n/a
AP: 5 European History, 5 American; 4 more APs senior year
GPA: about a 4.5/5.0 scale
Recommendations: Pretty good, an excellent one from my English teacher; and one from an English Yale professor at a summer course i took saying i was the best in her class that included Yale undergrads
EC's: Captain of the V Tennis team, BBball for four years, Captain of my traveling bball team, altar server, SAT tutor, some work with the drama club...
Comments: thats about it...nothing too extraordinary | |
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07-24-2006, 07:21 PM
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#165 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: florida
Posts: 898
| Is it me or is everyone who's listing there stats caucasian, I read about 40 listings most of which were from white males. | |
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