| | |  | | 
11-16-2006, 04:16 PM
|
#571 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1,080
| Wow! That was helpful. But he is an URM. So, that doesn't really apply. Thanks just the same. I was looking for non-recruits, non-legacy, non-URMs. Sigh...not sure if it will work even though my D's ACT SATs are about the same. | 
| | |
11-17-2006, 12:28 AM
|
#572 | | New Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 6
| Purdue University (with big scholarship)
ACT: 33
UW GPA: 3.335
W GPA: 3.557
RANK: 45/149
ECs: Class President, Varsity Golf, Vocal Madrigal Ensemble, Lots of Local Theater, Managed Website Business.
ALSO: Finished HS with 42 college credit hours from local community college. | |
| | |
11-18-2006, 08:32 PM
|
#573 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Yale
Posts: 183
| | |
| | |
11-22-2006, 10:52 AM
|
#574 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 100
| woah i never realized the impact of affirmative action until i came on this thread. | |
| | |
11-22-2006, 12:08 PM
|
#575 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 452
| his is a URM but many URMs get rejected with higher stuff....he probably had or did something else that was important | |
| | |
11-24-2006, 07:06 PM
|
#576 | | Guest | Intimidating thread... because only the successful applicants post here, haha. The ones who failed to get accepted probably never went to this site again haha | |
| | |
11-25-2006, 12:37 AM
|
#577 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 129
| Quote:
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.
| Oh...GEEZ. Now I hate being Asian. D: | |
| | |
11-25-2006, 05:22 PM
|
#578 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: south bay
Posts: 1,070
| Asian american female, large public school (listed in Newsweeks top 100 HS)
Accepted: Univresity of Tulsa, UCLA, UCSD, Davis, UCSB
Rejected: Berkeley. I'm still bitter about that.
GPA: 3.8 UW/4.5 W
SAT I: 2200 total, 760 math, 730 reading, 710 writing.
SAT II: 740 math II, 790 chem
Rank: maybe top 12.5%, probably lower.
Transcript: 6 sciences, 4 maths, which were all AP or honors, and regular track english.
TAed for AP chem
Placed in National Chem Olympiad twice, participated in Science Olympiad, ASB, school orchestra, school marching band, community orchestra
400+ hours at hospital volunteering
80 hours with land conservancy
National Merit Finalist
Applied as chemical engineering major. Probably why I got rejected from Berkeley, but still.
Last edited by moldau; 11-25-2006 at 05:39 PM.
| |
| | |
11-26-2006, 06:09 PM
|
#579 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2
| Applied: Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, Caltech, Penn
Accepted: All Schools
Rejected: None
Waitlisted: N/A
Stats:
SAT: 800 CR, 800 M, 800 W
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Biology-M, 800 Chemistry, 800 Physics, 800 French, 800 Modern Hebrew, 800 Spanish, 800 Chinese
ACT: 36 Composite (36E, 36M, 36R, 36S, 12 Essay)
Class Rank: 1/718
GPA: 4.00 UW / 4.83 W
AP Tests:
English Literature: 5
English Comp.: 5
Calc BC: 5
Chemistry: 5
Physics C (E+M): 5
Physics C (Mechanics): 5
French: 5
American Gov't and Politics: 5
Comparative Gov't: 5
Music Theory: 5
Biology: 5
Microeconomics: 5
Macroeconomics: 5
Environmental Science: 5
Psychology: 5
US History: 5
European History: 5
Spanish: 5
German: 5
Italian: 5
Did I mention that I'm an Indian-American female who can speak 293 languages??? | |
| | |
11-26-2006, 06:15 PM
|
#580 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas -> New Haven
Posts: 699
| Biochem, are you for real? Where'd you end up attending? | |
| | |
11-26-2006, 06:39 PM
|
#581 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,020
| oh, come on, I don't beleive that for a second... | |
| | |
11-26-2006, 07:12 PM
|
#582 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 595
| | |
| | |
11-26-2006, 07:14 PM
|
#583 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Maryland
Posts: 199
| You can't be seriously asking that, jegan. You just can't be. | |
| | |
11-26-2006, 07:35 PM
|
#584 | | Guest | you mean you guys don't speak 293 languages fluently? | |
| | |
11-26-2006, 07:56 PM
|
#585 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Kansas -> New Haven
Posts: 699
| Well, I thought it was an OBVIOUS exaggeration, but why would you put that you have a 4.83 gpa (what a random number)? Or why not put you were Native American or Hispanic or a more obviously underrepresented minority? Or apply to all the Ivies instead of just a few?
No harm in asking, eh. | |
| | All times are GMT -5. The time now is 08:31 PM. |
College Confidential is dedicated to providing the best free college admissions information available on the Web, through our many articles and this discussion forum.
