can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[curmudgeon]

I'm officially retired from the wars but found this thread interesting and potentially helpful to juniors so......


Rank:1/143 at rural Texas public with zero name recognition
ACT: 35 composite, 36 Math, 34 English, 35 Science, 34 Writing
SAT Subject Tests: None
Major: Bio/Neuroscience/Spanish
White/Female

High Spots: Regional Math Medalist, State Tuba, 2 yr Basketball Captain on State Ranked Team (lightly recruited D3), 2 yr Marching and Symphonic Band Section Leader in State Ranked Band, Honor Society President, Girl's State, Hospital Volunteer (started campaign for bi-lingual training for volunteers), many hours as a Tutor (at risk, deaf).


Rec's: "Top ten in twenty years of Calculus." "One of the finest students I have had in 25 years of teaching Science."

Essays: Essays concentrating on ranch life and how her perspective may be different than other kids (and what that could bring to class). Major essay on her un-prepared foray into bi-lingual healthcare.


Applied and accepted (with substantial merit*, with substantial preferentially packaged need-based aid#):

Yale RD
Amherst RD
Colgate RD (Alumni Scholars)#
Hamilton RD (Schambach)*#
Scripps RD (JES)*#
Rhodes RD (Bellingrath)*
Case EA (Trustee's)*
UMiami EA (Singer)*
Centre EA*
Hendrix EA*
Millsaps EA*
Hanover EA*

Waitlisted, didn't accept place:
Duke


IMO, top students -HYP prospects and the like - should really consider Colgate, Scripps, Hamilton, Rhodes, Centre, Case and UMiami. The financial packages they cobble together for students they want can be very "inspiring". If professional school or unpaid grad school is in your future, these schools can be very attractive alternatives. Just my two cents.


This should give those of you with great stats but who are from no-name schools some hope. And you BWRK's? It can happen. Put yourself all the way out there in your apps. If they don't like you - why would you like them? Good Luck.


Oh, D will be attending Rhodes College. Her choice. Yale FA and Amherst FA don't seem to care much for middle class kids of self-employed parents (FA was unacceptable to her). Colgate , Scripps, and Hamilton were VERY generous with need-based aid for this particular W female from the sticks. YMMV. Hope this helps someone.

[wraider2006]

Accepted: Wesleyan(ED)

asian male
GPA: ~4.7/5
SAT: 2240(800CR, 730M, 710W)
SAT II: 800 US History, 790 World History,760 Biology E

AP scores:
Bio- 5
US History- 5
Spanish-4
Psychology-4
Physics B-5
Chem-4

ECs:
football, wrestling, honor society

[jessiehl]

This thread seems more useful than most of what pops up in this forum. I'll bite. It's been a while, but I'll see what I remember.

High School: Public math/science/tech magnet, c/o 2003 with Commonwealth diploma (KY-only honors diploma)

Personal: White upper-middle class female

Accepted: MIT (attending), Vanderbilt (with $25K/year merit scholarship), JHU biomed, U of Chicago, Duke, Rice, NYU

Rejected: HYP

Major: Neuroscience

GPA: 3.84 unweighted
SAT M: 800
SAT V: 770
SAT II Math IIC: 800
SAT II Writing: 760
SAT II Bio-M: 700
Class Rank: Top 10%, but HS didn't rank

APs: seven 5s, five 4s, a 3 and a 2
Other college courses: Intro Creative Writing (at Bellarmine University), Medieval French Lit (at U of Louisville)

Extracurriculars:
4 years varsity cross-country, co-captain senior year
4 years on powerhouse academic team
3 years science bowl, captain senior year
2 years science olympiad
Volunteer work w/state ACLU education committee
12 summers on summer league swim team
7 summers on summer league dive team
Volunteer work as certified diving judge for summer league

Awards:
State Governor's Cup: 2nd in general knowledge, 9th in English
National AP Award
AP State Award x2
ISEF Regional 3rd in Medicine/Health
ISEF Regional 3rd in Computer Science
National Merit Finalist
National Science Olympiad top 30 individuals in two events

Essays: Were good, but I don't remember them that well. I know that I talked about:
- Being inspired to neuroscience by having an autistic twin brother.
- For a "Who's your hero?" type question: Watching my mom fight to disprove the fad of facilitated communication as a treatment for autism, even though it caused her to be ostricized by other parents of autistic kids who wanted to believe that it was helping their kids...and eventually, her views being recognized as correct.
- The sense of "dual identity" that comes from going between parents' houses that are in different states and very different types of neighborhoods...this was probably my best-written essay
- The pride I felt that I had done my ISEF projects entirely on my own rather than mooching off some professor's work, and how it helped offset the disappointment of being passed over to go to Internationals in favor of moochers.
- How growing up in the South contributed to my sense of identity.

Hope this was useful.

[CollegeBound2007]

jessiehl :..Hope this was useful.

YES, VERY USEFUL.

I am awed by the qualifications (stas and ECs) of some of you. You didn't get in HYPs with your abilities! That is unbelievable.
I think curmudgeon is right. Top students should seriously consider places (Colgate, Scripps, Hamilton, Rhodes, Centre, Case and UMiami) since Ivies seem to be just like playing lottery for the whites and the ORMs.

[BearsandBruins]

MIT is better than HYP, so it doesnt really matter.

[robertsont06]

Horrible school district
Black male

ACT: 25
GPA. 3.92
One AP course during high school, only one offered at HS.

EC's:
Nationally ranked in track, and chess
Numerous leadership positions, including battalion commander of JROTC unit.
4000+ hours communtiy service
Initiated 3 programs in my school.
Math comps
Wrote 2 grants for my school totaling $10,600.

Hooks:
I wrote a novel.
Submitted a State-wide award winning essay.
Definite Leadership capabilities


Accepted:
Case
U of Chicago (will be attending)
Baldwin Wallace
John Carroll

Waitlisted:
Upenn

No rejections- suprised the hell out of me.

[fhimas88888888]

Could you please open your pm inbox so I can PM you - I have a number of questions.

[ragingbull1]

accepted: Princeton (matriculating), Cornell, Brandeis, Mcgill, U of T, Queens, Western, McMaster
rejected: Yale, Princeton

Stats: Sat I- 790M, 730V, 710W

Sat IIs: Chem- 800
World His- 800
Math IIc- 800

GPA- 4.0 UW
ranked first out of 130 at a prestigous Toronto parochial school

no aps or ibs but all honors courses

ECS- Model UN with awards- 3 years, Reach for the top (quizbowl) (cpt. 4 years- came fourth in province this year), head of peer tutoring program at school- 2 years, involved in peers against drugs- outreach program in the community, 2 years actor in school play, varsity ski team and varsity soccer team, head of holocuast community commemoration, head of middle eastern affairs committee, head of grade 12 committee (planned grad trip etc.), yearbook editor- 2 yrs, involved in reading buddies program at loccal impoverished community library, worked as a special needs sumemr counselor for past 3 summers, attended many interfaith dialogues and discussions, ran many minor school programs, attended a month long sacience program at the Technion University in Haifa, Israel, and published a report on water wave dynamics- original research, etc.

essays- funny thing- i really wanted to go to harvard and yale, however i spent most of my effort on the Princeton and Cornell essays, and that paid off. For Yale I just used my Cornell essays, which was a mistake, and Harvard didn't give me enough structure to work with. However, as it tirusn out, I fell in lvoe with Princeto nanyway after visiting it.

Interviews- Yale refused to conduct interviews at my school, so i knew that was a bust, and the Harvard interview did not go well as he acted like he had seen everything before and i was nervous since it was my first. However, for Princeton, the interview went great, and I came out with a good feeling.

Recs- both amazing.

[Ecliptica]

Wow, rejected by Princeton and still attending.

You are a god among men.

[ragingbull1]

haha rejected by harvard woops
guess i should have previewed

[jimbob1225]

yeah i was gonna say...Rejected and accepted? Nice!

[Duffman28]

White male from South Florida, public school, my mom's a single parent with no child support.
Grades: I took the hardest curriculum offered at my school

9th
Geometry B B
Business Systems and Tech. A A
English I(H) B A
Earth/Space Science(H) B B
Computer Programming I B B
Spanish I B B
Debate I A A

10th
Algebra II(H) B B
World History(H) A A
English II(H) B A
AP Computer Science(A) B B
Biology(H) B B
Spanish II B B
Debate V(H) A A

11th
AP Psychology A A
Health A
U.S. Gov(H) A
Pre-Calc(H) C B
Physics(H) B A
AP English Language A A
AP U.S. History A A
Debate VI(H) A A

12th
AP Euro History A A
AP Statistics A A
AP World History A A
Debate VIII(H) A A
AP English Lit. A A
AP U.S. Gov A
AP Microecon. B

Final GPA
UW:3.5862
W:~ 4.4

Rank (at time of ED/EA) ~66/575 (~12%)

*(In time for EA/ED) Also sent in my 1st quarter senior grades of straight A's in my 5 AP classes, signed by my GC to make it an official document.

Rec's: 1 excellent (AP Lit teacher), 1 very good (Debate coach), and 1 good (Physics teacher)
Guidance counselor: Must have been fairly good, she really liked me it seemed.

Tests:
SAT I at time of ED/EA applications: 1910 (710CR, 600M, 600W)
SAT II's: None
ACT: 30

ECs and Awards:
President of Debate (previously Treasurer)
VP of Law Club
Co-Captain of Mock Trial Team
Treasurer of JETS
Social Studies Honor Society

Awards at the time of EA/ED:
3rd Place Overall - Wake Forest Earlybird (Public Forum Debate)
1st Speaker Overall - " "
Undefeated on local CFL level in Public Forum (1st at three locals in a row)
May have seen 5th at Princeton Classic & 1st Speaker at same tournament in PFD
Too bad I didn't apply to some crazy school for RD because my partner and I later went on to WIN Varsity States (State champs, woohoo!), as well as place at a number of other prestigious tournaments (Emory, Crestian, etc.) and I went to CFL Nat's this year for OI finally, heh, oh well.

Junior Year:
Alternate for FFL Varsity States (Congress)
Alternate for CFL Nat's (OI)
Multiple 1st's in Congress on local CFL level
2nd at regional Mock Trial Competition

Volunteer:
~90+ Hrs. at Town of Jupiter Parks and Rec. Summer Camp as volunteer camp counselor
~15 Hrs. as Mentor/Coach for Junior Forensics League (Middle School)

Work:
20hrs/wk at Jupiter Branch Library (from end of Junior year until end of senior year)
45hrs/wk as Lead Graphic Designer at Logo Pillow Co. (Summer before Junior year)
15hrs/wk as Manager of self-run PC Repair company (Freshman year through Sophomore)


DECISIONS:
Tufts ED I - Accepted
Tulane EA - Accepted
Boston College EA - Deferred

Applied to:
Wake
BU
Catholic
GW
Brandeis
American
Richmond

But, since Tufts was my first choice due to Boston and its' stellar IR program, I obviously never saw the others.

[tchaikovsky]

Okay, I emptied my PM box!

[exigent]

this thread is very helpful

[liangshengtm]

yea, this is one of the most helpful thread in CC for me^^