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07-31-2006, 02:14 PM
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#256 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: miami
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indeed. IB inflated our GPAs something terrible.
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07-31-2006, 02:52 PM
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#257 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 461
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Generally they only give up to 5s for weighted credit...
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07-31-2006, 04:19 PM
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#258 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,411
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nice art, ontolome
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07-31-2006, 04:53 PM
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#259 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 333
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Accepted: Princeton ED
Race: White
School: Public urban magnet
Rank: unranked, probably around 80/750 (but in a markedly harder courseload than almost all my peers)
GPA: 94.something/100
SAT I:
Math: 800
Verbal: 800
Writing: 800
SATII: Chem, Physics, Math II, US History, World History all 800, Lit 790, Bio 760
APs: BC Calc, AB CS, US and Euro history, both Gov, both Econ, Physics B and both C, English language - all 5s. Latin Vergil - 3 (arrgh)
Intended Major: Physics, or philosophy, or history, or...
Essays: Well-written and clever but maybe a bit bland.
Recommendations: Presumably good. A successful and rather well-off Princeton alum with some connections also wrote me an extra rec.
ECs:
Speech/Debate (no major awards when I applied, subsequently I became a state champion)
Theater
Newspaper
Research (a little)
Awards/stuff:
AIME - Qualified 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades
SET member as part of CTY
NM finalist
AP Nat'l Scholar junior year
Probably some other bogus things
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07-31-2006, 05:13 PM
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#260 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Yale
Posts: 191
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Here's how my college application process went, although I applied awhile back. Congrats to everyone starting school in the fall, and good luck to those of you who are getting started with your college apps!
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07-31-2006, 06:21 PM
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#261 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 740
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nashtynash, did you got in princetion, penn, stanford? cuz you didnt say on the website
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07-31-2006, 08:17 PM
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#262 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 43
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Accepted: Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly SLO, University of Redlands (12,000 aid), ucsc, davis, irvine, lewis and clark, willamette(9,000 aid), loyola marymount, san diego state, university of san diego
Rejected: ucsb, occidental, university of richmond, elon, villanova
School Type: Public
Location: California
Race/Gender: white, f
Prospective Major: science
Unweighted GPA: 3.5 or .6
Weighted GPA: 3.7
Class rank: n/a
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 690
SAT I Critical Reading: 600
SAT I Writing: 600
ACT- n/a
SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 630
SAT II Math IIC: 600
Long-form Info
Extracurricular Info
csf, nhs, link crew, swimming (uss, high school, helped work at summer rec), water polo, lifeguarded and taught swim lessons
Awards:
*California Scholarship Federation life member
*1st place, judged favorite for photography in county fair
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08-01-2006, 11:12 AM
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#263 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Yale
Posts: 191
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Liangshengtm,
No, I didn't end up getting in at Princeton or UPenn. I did get in at UCLA and UC Berkeley. I've updated my profile to reflect all of this. Thanks!
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08-01-2006, 04:23 PM
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#264 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 740
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wow, congrats nash, can you send me your essays and recs
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08-01-2006, 05:25 PM
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#265 | | New Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 10
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Posting for My son- applied MITRD - rejected 2. Stanford RD- rejected Wisconsin - accepted and attending Profile- School -public 2. Race- Indian/American 3. Major- Physics- Math 4. GPA-3.7(UW) 5. SATI- 2270( JR year ) SAT- 2400 (SR. year) 6. ACT- 35 ( JR.year ) SATII MATH 2 -720 PHYSICS_ 800 3. english lang. & lit. 800 8. APs- total 9 3-4s rest -5s Acitivities - CC runner varsity National Merit finalist - various math awards
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08-01-2006, 06:14 PM
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#266 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 22
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Accepted: University of Notre Dame (attending), Boston College (deferred EA), George Washington University, American University, Rutgers University, The College of New Jersey, University of Vermont, Fordham University
Waitlisted: NYU (rejected, even though I asked to not be placed on the waitlist... go figure)
Rejected: Columbia University, Cornell University, Georgetown University ((deferred ea)i applied to sfs, so that was a given...)
School Type: Public
Location: NJ
Race/Gender: Asian, Male
Prospective Major: Business/International Affairs
Weighted GPA: 4.8/4.5
Class rank: I dont remember.. top 10 percent though.
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 760
SAT I Critical Reading: 670
SAT I Writing: 650
ACT- n/a
SAT II Scores
SAT II Chinese: 770
SAT II Math IIC: 650
SAT II Biology M: 710
Extracurricular Info
newspaper (editor in chief), nhs (vp), marching band (drum major), spanish hs (webmaster), varsity swim team (captain), jazz band, concert band, theatre, drug & alcohol awareness pgm, tons of service, started own volunteer program. Teach swimming & lifeguard for job
Awards:
Random national newspaper awards for random stuff.. haha.
if you want specifics email me (ychen11@nd.edu)
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08-01-2006, 06:35 PM
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#267 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 26
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thanks so much all of you seniors posting here!
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08-01-2006, 09:38 PM
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#268 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 40
| my results
Attending: Stanford (will be second year)
Accepted: Yale, Harvard, UCB, NYU
Rejected: UCLA, Princeton, Dartmouth
(I admit, my results were eccentric)
School Type: Private
Location: CA
Race/Gender: Asian, Female
Prospective Major: Math
Weighted GPA: 5.0/4.0
Class rank: 2/420
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 780
SAT I Writing: 800
ACT- n/a
SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 780
SAT II Math IIC: 800
SAT II Chemistry: 800
Extracurricular Info
school newspaper (editor in chief), school band, concert band, volunteer 300+ hours
Essay:
about my family's adopting a little girl from Nepal
Awards:
National essay contest 2nd place, International Math Olympiad semifinalist
Rec: both uberly awesome
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08-01-2006, 09:42 PM
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#269 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Sunny California
Posts: 1,140
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jesus, you got accepted into harvard, yale stanford, cal but not ucla?!
now i know for sure i'm not getting into ucla!
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08-01-2006, 10:32 PM
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#270 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 740
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omg, what a random admission
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