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10-30-2006, 09:22 PM
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#556 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 312
| I'll post stats of a friend:
3.5 UC GPA
1500 SATs (out of 2400)
NO EC or Volunteer Hours
Failed Adv. Alg. in Junior year...
All the other UCs: Rejected
UC Berkeley: Accepted
Oh, did I forget to mention a TINY detail: he's Hispanic. | 
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11-03-2006, 05:31 PM
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#557 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 239
| Congrats on getting into Cornell. Did you have legacy? And when you give GPA's is that all four years' GPA divided by 4 or just your junior year GPA? | |
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11-03-2006, 06:19 PM
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#558 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Haven
Posts: 21
| First post ever! Yay! I hope I'm doing this right.
SAT: 750V, 690M, 800W
SAT2: 800 Bio-M, 780 US Hist., 750 Lit
APs: 5's in Bio, US Hist., Lang, and Lit, 3 in Calc AB and 2's in Chem and Calc BC(a solid year of pain)
School Type: Public, very rarely sends kids to competitive schools
Unweighted GPA: 98.6 (Loosely translates to a 4.0, my school is weird)
Weighted GPA: my school doesn't believe in it
Rank: 1 out of 221 (was originally a class of 370...)
ECs: (nothing special)
HS Swim 9-12, Capt. 11-12
YMCA Swim for 10 years
YMCA assistant swim coach
Marching Band 10-12, section leader 12
NHS 11-12
Drama 9
Work:
Lifeguard/Swim Instructor 20hrs a week, full time in the summer
Essay: was about swimming. I know sports is one of the cliches of doom but I did it anyway. My additional essay was about overcoming a disabilty as a child, again kind of cliche. They were alright, my first one was literally written 40 minutes before the post office closed the day my first app went out.
Recs: were fantastic
Financial Aid: Yes.
Hook: First person in my family to go to college? Socioeconomic diversity? I live in a village? Basically I didn't have one.
Results:
Accepted:
Yale(attending)
Cornell
Wesleyan(University Scholarship)
Bowdoin
UVA
BU
UVM
Rejected:
Harvard EA
George Washington University | |
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11-03-2006, 06:38 PM
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#559 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 448
| what is your race? do you really live in a village? | |
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11-03-2006, 06:41 PM
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#560 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: New Haven
Posts: 21
| I'm white, so no hook there either. and yeah, my hometown is a three thousand person village of Olde New England goodness, we're attached to one of my state's major towns though so it's not like I live off in the hills. I usually tell people to think Stars Hollow, if you've ever seen Gilmore Girls. | |
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11-03-2006, 11:33 PM
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#561 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: south pas, L.A.
Posts: 206
| ohhhhhhh you make me nervous dude.. w/ those test scores/GPA you STILL didn't get into UCLA?! i am so sorry.. | |
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11-04-2006, 12:07 AM
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#562 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: CA --> Northwestern 2011
Posts: 435
| dawn, are you talking about gplayer's stats? Because those aren't really considered well above average at UCLA. | |
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11-04-2006, 02:04 AM
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#563 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 45
| will be really helpful if all these go into a database (aka collegedata.com)
collegedata.com seems to have historical data of actual applicants in a database. would be great if CC came up with a similar one! | |
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11-04-2006, 04:52 PM
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#564 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 239
| i agree with what you said, but the forum is called "What are my chances" and not "this is what i got, compare yourself to me, and then reason it out yourself" maybe start a completely different forum and group all the people who post their results together. that would be more helpful | |
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11-06-2006, 06:16 PM
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#565 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 1,703
| To Karupt, I thought that the UC's were a straight by the numbers college which doesn't weigh URM's the same way as other colleges, but hmmmm.... | |
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11-07-2006, 09:22 PM
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#566 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 18
| ACT- 29
GPA- 95.8% (school doesnt wait)
EC's- Editor of Newspaper, German Club Treasuere, work 30 hrs a week.
Accepted- Tulane (ED)
got in w/ 18 grand a year scholarship for four years (yah.. totally surprised)
Thats it... It's November 7th and my college search is over. I LOVE EARLY DECISION | |
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11-12-2006, 12:03 AM
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#567 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,020
| I agree with GodzillaBorland... it would be really useful if the what are my chances section had an actual results section... and then maybe divided by college, so that people could look up other people who got in to (or rejected from) where they are looking. Of course, they would still want personal chances I imagine, but this way there would be a quick resource to compare....
does any agree?? | |
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11-12-2006, 11:54 AM
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#568 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 12,325
| On many CC boards for the top colleges, there are April threads with results that include stats. A lot of people, however, who get rejected don't bother to post their results. | |
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11-12-2006, 10:33 PM
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#569 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,080
| Anyone get into Notre Dame with average SAts but killer essays ans ECs? Non-recruit, non-legacy, non-URM? | |
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11-14-2006, 10:52 PM
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#570 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 182
| This was for a friend of mine...not me unfortunately
African American Male
Maryland Resident
GPA 3.7 U 4.190 W
SAT: 570 CR, 620 M, 620 CR
ACT: 26
Hardest Possible Courseload
Rank: top 7% of 234 students (rank is by weighted GPA)...competitve private school also
Extracurricular Activities
-He served on my school's board which was like a 3 yr process (he got a recommendation on this and i think it helped him a lot)
-Diversity Awareness Club- President
-Spanish Club- President
-150 hrs of community service- tutoring children
-Work at grocery store -15hrs/week during school year (
-Summer internship-IRS 40hrs a week for 10 weeks
-a couple of summer programs
-started a recycle program at school
-yearbook club
hes done a couple of other things that I have prolly forgotten
-also hes in an accelerated program where I get a scholarship to my HS
Schools:
Accepted UVA, Maryland(scholars Program), Michigan, BC (EA), Elon (EA), St. Joe's (EA), UMBC (EA), UMiami (EA), Vanderbilt, Cornell, Pittsburgh
Deferred--> UNC-CH .....Accepted RD (attending)
Rejected: Princeton, Columbia
Last edited by candyman990; 11-14-2006 at 10:58 PM.
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