can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[A2Wolves6]

I agree and disagree with zoogies. I agree that you shouldn't be wasting your time looking at everyone's stats on this site because this site has the top applicants, the CC acceptance rate is much higher than the normal acceptance rate at these universities.

However, I think it's essential to know what your chances are at schools, and where you can get in. You shouldn't be looking and researching schools out of your league.

[zoogies]

That's true...I agree that it is essential to know what your chances are at schools, so you can build a balanced list that won't leave you acceptance-dry in May. I admit that (c) was not well thought out and poorly worded. Although I would dispute that you shouldn't apply to schools "out of your league."

How would you define "out of your league?" That's something an admissions committee decides; your decision is whether or not you would like going to the school. Say you really, genuinely want to go to Yale, but you have sub-600 SAT scores. It would be stupid, in my opinion, not to apply because you think you have a 99% chance of getting rejected. Honestly, that's not much worse than all the other applicants, who have about a 90% chance of not getting in anyway.

[KG974]

Graduated Senior: Actual Results, Northeast Ohio

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Hey i just graduated... heres how everthing went down

ACCEPTED: Case Western, Ohio St. Honors, Boston University

WAITLISTED: Boston College, Vanderbilt, Cornell AEM

REJECTED: Johns Hopkins, Tufts

SAT: 680 M, 670 V, 630 W ( 1350/1980)
SAT II: 690 M II, 640 Bio, 590 US HIST
ACT: 29 ( 34M, 25W, 30R, 28S)
RANK: 28/ 822 ( top 4%)
GPA: 3.84 UW
ALL Application Fees Waived ( low income)
Caucasion Male

AP TESTS:

Macro Econ: 5
Micro Econ: 5
Eng Lit: 3
Biology: 5

AP Econ Student of the year
Alternate Buckeye Boys State

EC's: ( average)
Mock trial 3 years
Law club ( pretty dumb and pointless)
Intramural Basketball 3 years
30 or so Volunteer hours
Future Leaders
Student Council

basically outside of Mock Trial those were all B.S clubs

Worked at Subway for 2 years.. still working there unfortunately
15ish hours a week during school year

Recs: 2 were decent, 1 was outstanding... explained what a go-getter i am....lol

Essays: the ones for the colleges were decent... Cornell's was pretty good... my Personal Statement was outstanding... i prolly should have used my income as a hook.. but i opted not to

Single Mom; 3 kids... one in college, income under 24k.. twin sis going to OSU
Suburb of Cleveland...

That is about it.... The process was painful... but overally it worked out in the end... if you look at my sn and look at my location you'll see where i'll be attending next fall... lets hope the grade deflation Gods will nice to me.. haha im a liberal atheist by the way

Im very happy with BU... they gave me 36k in grant money per year... which i need... cuz if you look at what my mom makes... as a waitress... then youd see why...

Look for Best Fit.... Find out where youd b happy... and do your research... go to Barnes and Nobles or somtin and read some of their college books... hah i do it all the time... they dont care... they wont kick you out

START EARLY... biggest regret i had was that i started the process in november... wayy too late... start early.... dont be afraid to reach for schools you dont think you'll get into.. be ambitious... find the best fit ... visit... i really couldnt and it may have hurt me.. but im poor.. ya know what can ya do... anyhow good luck... pm me or leave one on this thread if you have any ??'s.....

Good Luck

[b_s_Bowser]

Where: UMD College Park, Virginia Tech

Stats:

GPA: 3.24 UW, 3.7W

SAT: 1890 (590 Verbal, 670 Math 630 Writing)

Rigor of Classes: Moderate-High (5 APs, Most Honor Classes)

Extracurriculars: Computer Club - Webmaster
Rugby - 1 year
Other things:
Tutored at a Saturday School
Worked two jobs to support my family

Results: First deffered, but with help from CC, I wrote up a letter explaining my circumstances (below), and thus got accepted!

Point I'm trying to make: College Adcoms are human, they understand that things come up. In my case, I was homeless for a summer, and then bounced around houses until we finally rented a (rather ex*****ve) townhouse. My Parents work a combined total of 3 jobs, but still barely make enough to pay bills. My grades were affected:

9th: Kept getting 3.4 and higher
10th - 11th (the bad summer/years): 2.85s
12th: 3.71 (with 3 AP classes along with Calculus).

So I'm no top student, or anything, but I kept going no matter what happened (I could easily have dropped out in 10th-11th). That was the topic of my essay/letter, and it proved to help me out in the end.

[mommusic]

Congrats to you Bowser!

Otherwise, this is a pretty depressing thread. Kids with major ECs, stats, recs, who didn't get in to HYP. I guess it's useful as a warning to find other schools you can love and that will love you.

[american_in_canada]

yeah that's very encouraging... it gives me no reason to complain about stats and stuff when you had to go through something like that...

[julyinoh]

Zoogies, some of us like to see more than average test scores at schools. As a lot of us know, scores alone won't get you in and that's why we like seeing the whole package and forming our own conclusions..

[dvlfnfv5]

I'll do a very brief version of what everyone's said...

I'm a male from NJ
GPA: 3.89 W
SAT: 2060 (750M 650W 660V)
SAT II: Math II - 720, US History - can't remember
School doesn't rank, but I was 3rd-4th decile.

ECs (very briefly and hastily written)

Eagle Scout (a whole lot of other leadership stuff here and volunteering)
NJ Youth Orchestra
Band/Orchestra in School
Peer Leadership
X-C (Two Letters)
Other miscellaneous things I'm forgetting.

Colleges

Indiana University - Accepted to KSB and honors w/$
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Accepted to b-school
Rutgers - Accepted
University of Michigan - Deferred-Waitlisted-Accepted-Attending (hahaha)
NYU, Cornell, USC, UT-Austin, Wash U - Rejected

[GetOuttaBuffalo]

^ what is ur state of residency? (curious about the $ from indiana)

[dvlfnfv5]

lol i edited it in a sec ago, if you have any Q, just ask

[vanessav27]

Accepted: Dartmouth College (Early Decision, Will Attend)
Waitlisted: N/A
Rejected: N/A

School Type: Private Catholic Single Sex (Male)
Location: Missouri
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Philosophy
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.719
Class rank: 1

SAT I Scores
Math: 780
Critical Reading: 760
Writing: 740

SAT II Scores
Math IC: 740
Literature: 700
U.S. History: 700

AP Scores:
U.S. History: 5
Art History: 5
Calculus AB: 4
English Language and Composition: 5
English Literature and Composition: 5
European History: 5

Very good essay on my Catholic upbringing and how a particular instance was a watershed for my freethinking disposition and honest inquiry into many branches of philosophy (e.g., ethics, metaphysics, logic, epistemology, etc.).

Nothing else really that is a big deal.

Edit: Oh, and I thought you all might find it funny that I got rejected (blackballed) from the National Honor Society at my school because certain faculty were uneasy with my heterodox (in this particular context) perspective on the world, religion, etc. (which hasn't been proven, but it surely could be the only reason why I was rejected... I had more service and better grades than any other applicant).

[FerstAmmendment]

Graduated Senior Results: white male, Maryland

Accepted: Georgia Tech, Texas-Austin, UMBC
Deferred: Maryland

Type of school: public (cesspool)
SAT: 610M 590V 570W (1200/1770)
SAT II: none
ACT: nada
Rank: 8/276
GPA: 3.70 UW (4.5 W)

AP Tests (although the score doesnt matter, ill list 'em anyway):

APUSH- 4
Eng Lit & Comp- 2
English (forget which one)- 2
Calc AB- 1

Both recs were awesome

My Maryland essay I slaved over b/c it was my 1st choice school. Texas and GT essays were done in less than an hour over the internet, with a quick read over by one of my co-workers. (ironic how that all worked out eh?)

EC's:
Eagle Scout (along with a bunch of leadership positions)
Varsity Lacrosse all 4 years (really helped with GT)
32 hr a week job, at the time I applied I was also working another 20 hr and added that as well.
2002 NSCA State Champ; 02, 03 All State teams (I think those really helped with TX, considering NSCA's headquarters is right there)
NHS (secretary..but didnt do much)
Peer Mediator
Student Council ( was treasurer but again...just a waste of time)

MISC:
I have a security clearance, and I believed that helped quite a bit

Im probably forgetting stuff but oh well..

[infamy]

short form of what people have put. my results are different from a lot of people here since apparently i'm not a genius like everyone else.

major: mechanical engineering

attending-ucsd
accepted-ucsd, uc irvine, uc davis, uc santa cruz
rejected-ucla, berkeley, usc, yale, stanford, johns hopkins

unweighted gpa-3.4
UC GPA-3.75
weighted gpa-around 4.0
..i thought becuz my gpa had a crazy upward grade trend it would help, but as i learned, they don't really care about that at ALL

sat1-2110(680r/680m/750w), essay 10
sat math2c-790
sat chem-640

ECS: i won a bunch of piano awards..pretty much, i'm really into piano..but apparently it didn't help either. i also volunteered at museums etc. but no real leadership.

Essays: i thought they were decent but if i could i would spend more time on them.

but on the real, i'm happy with where i'm ending up. i didn't get into my no. 1 choice (berkeley), and it was kinda hard to get over but now i don't really think about it anymore. so..if you dont' get accepted to where u want to go it's definitely a blessing in disguise

[Drew00]

Graduated Senior Results:

Accepted: Michigan State University, Bowling Green (attending), Hope College, Wayne State University.
Rejected: None
Waitlisted: None

Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian
Religion: Athiest
Type of school: public
Prospective Major: English Literature and Philosophy
SAT: 500M, 640V 700W
SAT II: none
Rank: 80-ish/200
GPA: Unweighted: 3.32 (huge upward trend 2.8 - 3.3 - 3.5 - 3.8)

AP Tests

APUSH: 4
AP Eng-lit - 5

ECs:
Scattered, not that many.

Misc: I should have applied to some more selective schools, but oh well.

[Achil]

Accepted: WashU (Danforth & Nemerov), Duke (A.B. Duke), Ohio State (Distinguished Scholarship)
Attending: WashU
prospective majors/minors: writing, classics, computer science

School Type: competitive suburban public
Location: Ohio
Race/Gender: White male
SAT: 2390 (800r/800m/790w)
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.98UW, 4.68W
Rank: 1/117

I had taken 5 APs before I applied (with 5's), and took 4 more senior year.

ECs:
Varsity Track & Field (Captain)
Varsity Basketball
Academic Team
Theater stuff (reviewing, acting)
Latin Club (President)
JETS (member of 1st place team in state)
Show choir
tutoring
a random community service group
camp counselor

awards:
semi-finalist in Anthem essay contest, 4th in Peterson's essay contest
National Merit Finalist/Scholar
AP Scholar with Distinction (now National)
had a theater review published in the local paper
a couple class awards

essay: I wrote about how Daniel Quinn's <i>Ishmael</i> changed my outlook and how I then started writing a political blog

I dunno, it's a decent list but there aren't really any great hooks...I'm pretty sure my recs were good though, I guess that helped.