can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[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.

[dvlfnfv5]

Did you get rejected from anywhere? You gotta put that up as well...unless you did ED or sumthin

[twinkletoes23]

this just shows how random the whole process is... hmph

[mm10]

Accepted: Elon, UGA, Boston University, Loyola University New Orleans, Ithaca
Attending: Loyola University New Orleans
prospective majors/minors: advertising, international business

School Type: suburban public
Location: Atlanta, GA
Race/Gender: White female
SAT: 1950 (650r/690m/610w)
GPA: 3.85
Rank: top ten percent

I had taken 4 APs, and advanced courses since freshman year.


Letters in Soccer, Swimming, and Cross Country
National Honor Society
national art honor society

essay: I dont remember them

[joshb110]

Accepted: Rice (ED)
School Type: Public
White Male
SAT: 2340 (800 Math/740 Verbal/800 Writing)
SAT II's: 800 Math IIC 800 Math IC 800 Physics
AP's: Physics (5), Calculus AB (5), Chemistry (5), Biology (5), English Lit (4), English Language (4)
GPA 4.5232
Rank 4/820ish
EC's: pretty "weak" i guess, almost all of them were sports related
Essay: nothing special

[JCo'sDad]

Accepted: Penn(Wharton), Purdue, IU (bloomington), CMU, UA(Eller)
Attending: Wharton
Rejected: Cornell ( >.> made no sense to me)

prospective majors: MIS

I went to school in the middel east, class rank is based on national country. I'm 54/15,556.

Race/Gender: Multi race/Male
SAT: 780M, 550 CR, 600 W

EC:
International olmpiyad in informatics (twice)
ACM (4th place)
Arabic olmpiyad in informatics (gold medal)
#1 trice on the local olmpiyad in informatics
Burmese karate system (Brown belt)
I started an aids awarness program
I invest in stocks (I sent my investor's card to all the colleges I applied to)
Legacy (Cornell & Bloomington)

Recamendation:
I got them from the professors that taught me during all those olmpiyads.

Essays:
Basicly why I chose MIS ( comptuter + business)


I didn't use the fact that I'm American living in the ME, and I don't recamend using race-based hooks.

[daffymom]

Accepted: ED Bowdoin (attending)
recruited athlete
School Type: Public
Race/Gender: Caucasian/male
Prospective Major: Undecided
Unweighted GPA: 3.8 out of 4.0
Class rank: top 10%

Sat 710 Math
690 Critical Reading
670 Writing
AP Scores:
Calc A/B: 5
Biology 4

ECs:
Three Varsity sports for Sophomore/Jr/Senior year. (JV as Frosh)
Capt of 2 sports senior yr.
Class officer 2 years
National Honor Society
Reporter School Paper 3 years
Volunteer political campaigns
Volunteer counselor special needs camp: one week ea summer x 4 yrs
Tutor
State champion in recruited sport
(Son's stats)

[troublesomejason]

we might want to separate these and put these into their actual respective school forums. but what the hell. copy pasted from my scholarship resume:

Note: waitlisted at UPenn, Princeton, and Williams

Jason Wong
School of the Arts Theater Department

Education
School of the Arts Student Rank: #3 Graduated Summa Cum Laude SAT: 1500/1600
College Acceptances: Harvard University (matriculated), Yale University, Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Tulane University, University of Chicago, New York University (Stern School of Business), Columbia University

College Scholarships: Swarthmore College’s Philip Evans Scholarship Program (one of approx. 10 recipients), Tulane University’s Community Service Award (one of two full-tuition scholarships), New York University’s Stern Scholars Program (given to the top 5% of admitted students)

Awards Summary
California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition (2005); California Legislature Certificate of Appreciation (2006); California State Arts Scholar (2004); San Francisco City and County Certificate of Honor (2005); Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship (2006); San Francisco City Club Margaret O’Donnell Student Leadership Award (2005); National Coca-Cola Scholar (2006); California-Hawaii Elks Lodge and National Elks Lodge Most Valuable Student Award (2006); Lawrence C. Lowe Memorial Scholarship (2006); San Francisco Mock Trial Championship Team, (2005); Principal’s Student Leadership Award (2005); Ronald McDonald House Charities Scholarship (2006); California Regional Bank of America Award, Liberal Arts (2006); National Principal’s Student Leadership Award (2006); Williams College Book Award (2005); School of the Arts Prom Prince (2005); School of the Arts Outstanding Mock Trial Student Award (2006); School of the Arts Samantha Beggs Memorial Scholarship Award (2006); San Francisco Unified School District Certificate of Recognition for Service to the San Francisco Public Schools (2006)

Featured in The San Francisco Examiner, and Sing Tao Daily News

Public Policy and Community Service
Student Delegate to the Board of Education (2003-2006)
1. Authored and passed legislation and education policies that were unanimously adopted by the board
2. Updated policy to re-establish and support the position of the Student Advisory Council
3. Worked with the NAACP and other groups to address re-segregation and school performance
4. Contributed to the San Francisco Nutrition Policy, one of the first comprehensive nutrition policies in the nation

School of the Arts: School of the Arts Student Body Council President (2005-2006); Junior Statesmen of America Founder/President (2004-2005) and Northern California State Speaker Pro-Tempore; California Scholarship Federation President; School Site Council Secretary (2003-2006); Parent Teacher Student Association Executive Board Member (2004-2006); Populist Party Founder/President/Newsletter Editor (2005-2006)

Community Based Organizations: Commonwealth Club youth programs consultant (1 year); Kellogg Foundation Youth Innovation Leadership Board (3 years); DonorsChoose student board member (1 year); San Francisco Asian Heritage Street Celebration student consultant (2 years);

Tutor and Mentor in mock trial, history, English, statistics and student leadership (2002 to present)

Extra-Curricular and Professional Experience
School of the Art’s Mock Trial Team/Pre-Law Club Secretary (2002-2003), President (2003-2006); Defense Closing Attorney (2003), Prosecution Pretrial Attorney (2004), Prosecution Closing Attorney (2005 and 2006)

Work Experience, summer student intern at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy and Bass LLP in San Francisco, CA (summer 2006), student employee at the Exploratorium Interactive Science and Art Museum (2004), and student intern at Liang Law LLP, an immigration law firm in West Covina, CA (summer 2002)

San Francisco Poll Worker for the November 8, 2005 and June 6, 2006 Election Days for the Department of Elections of the City and County of San Francisco

Events
ACLU National Membership Conference San Francisco, California (Summer, 2004); Youth Innovation Fund for Youth Philanthropy and Civic Participation National Conferences at Washington D.C. (August, 2003), Nashville, Tennessee (Spring 2004), San Francisco, California (Spring, 2005); PG&E Renewable Energy Conference (August, 2005); San Francisco Student Safety and Sexual Harassment Summit Student organizer (May 2004); San Francisco Student Leaders Youth Summit Student organizer and member of a panel on student leadership (May, 2005); National Summit on Nutrition in Schools panelist on San Francisco Nutrition policy (2004); KALW Radio Interview May 27, 2003; SOTA School-wide Political Fair (Spring 2005), Oktoberfest (October 2005), Winter Ball (December 2005) LoveFest (February 2006), Political Fair/MayFest (May 2005) Program organizer

[TrackBabi17]

School:Public
Gender:Female
GPA:3.66
QPA:4.1 (ish)
Rank: 21/401

SAT: V/570 M/570 W/590
SATII: Lit/560 MI/600 MII/640

ACT Composite: 26 Critical Reading:30/Math:24/Science:23/Lang:26

Essay: About my confusion with my name

Major: It changed in each application from psycholgy, political science, economics and business
EC:
Track Captain- Qualifiefied for All-County Team
Field Hockey-Qualified for All-Division 2nd Team
Class Treasurer
Student Council
Model UN
and acolyting at church

Course Load:
AP Calc AB (11th grade, 4 on test)
AP English 11(2 on test, bad hate eng) and 12th grade
AP Econ
AP Psych
AP Stats
AP Calc 3

4 years of math
4 years of social science
3 years of science including chemistry, biology, and physics
3 years of orchestra
A holocaust course
2 years of foriegn language, Spanish

National Honors Society (Also the spanish, math one)

Drexel: Accepted with scholarship
University of MD Baltimore County- Accepted
New York University- Accepted with 12,000 in acholarships
Rice University- Accepted Interim Decision
Brown- Rejected
Columbia-Rejected
Cornell- FIRST CHOICE Accepted and attending

[Tonyt88]

Hispanic male from NJ

9th
World History [H] - A-
Geometry [H] - A
Spanish II - A+
Biology [H] - A-
Freshman English - A

10th
US History I [H] - B
Algebra II [H] - A
Spanish III - A+
Chemistry [H] - A+
Sophomore English - A

11th
US History II [H] - B+
Math Analysis [H] - A
Spanish IV [H] - A+
AP Chemistry - A
Junior English [H] - A

12th
AP US History - B
AP Calculus AB - A
AP Spanish Lang - A
AP Physics B - A
AP English Lit - B+
Final GPA
W: 4.389
Rank
3/197 [though not reported formally though I believe my GC hinted to it]

Tests:
SAT I: 2000 [600 V, 800 M, 600 W]
SAT II's: Math IIc: 800; Chemistry: 770; Spanish: 740

Essay:
On how after seeing Bizet's Carmen I ventured into a world of meditation, related it to Siddhartha.

Recs:
Teachers: one good, one really good
GC: Never got to see, she only talked about it.

ECs and Awards:
Playing dominoes [on common app as 5 hrs/wk for 52 wks/yr]
Academic Decathlon [10-12, Co-captain [12]]
Student Council [11-12, Treasurer [12]]
Peer Leadership [10-12]
Free the Children [10-12, Treasurer [11-12]]
Math League [9-12]
Panther Press, Newspaper [12]
Folio, Literary Magazine [11-12, Editor [12]]
FBLA [11-12, Tresurer [12]]
NHS [11-12, Sec/Treasurer [12]]
NAHS [9-12]
SHS [10-12, President [12]]
Spanish Club [9-12, Council member [9-12]]
Chess Club [10-12]

Worked August 2005 to time of application 15-20 hrs/wk

Bloustein Scholar
Ventures Scholar
NHRP Scholar
NJ American Legion Boys' State Delegate
Wordmasters Meet #1 Top 14 Scorers

DECISIONS:
BC: Accepted
Cornell: Accepted
Dartmouth: Accepted
Drew: Accepted
Harvard: [Attending] Accepted
Harvey Mudd: Accepted
MIT: Accepted
Princeton: Accepted
TCNJ: Accepted
Tufts: Accepted
Williams: Accepted
Yale: Accepted

[Sarcastic Assassin]

dvlfnfv5, I don't know if you're still reading this thread, but which school did you apply to in NYU?

As far as stats, I'm in a similar boat as you, along with being from the same state.

[Figgy]

I don't feel like listing my stats, but I will give advice. It's really not too late to do well. I realized it at the end of my junior year so I volunteered 400 hours [literally...I counted...one of my main endeavors was at a camp for financially disadvanted inner city kids so I racked up a lot of hours there...and it turned out that I loved it!] [I also created my own volunteer project] [along with other things lol] during the Summer, studied for the SAT and ACT for hundreds of hours, got all A+s in school, switched into more APs (multiple 100's in these), became captain of the sports I was in, and really started to try. I set my sights really high and applied to 3 safties (Bryant, Stonybrook, and Marist). 3 fits (Northeastern, Fordham and Stonehill[mostly a safty, but I want to make it look like I applied to more fits lol], and 8 reaches [Cornell, Columbia, Brown, Williams, BC, BU, Tufts, and Brandeis]. Well turns out that I loved the supplemental essay for Tufts and wrote an extremely passionately essay about the Revolution in Belarus and how we could help and decided to send that to all of the colleges. Well turns out that Cornell liked me (I'm guessing partly for that essay) enough to give me a gauranteed transfer for Sophomore year. I read that colleges look for people who want to change the world, so I do think my essay was a part of this. I got into all of my saftys and fits with giant scholarships and then got the GT from Cornell (along with some waitlists and some bad news from some reaches). Well now I'm attending my Freshman year at Stonehill after being given $26,125 for a $27,000 tuition. I am then going to Cornell Sophomore year. This is all a dream come true and shows that if you set your mind to something, it can really happen!

[liveforindie]

I'll make it short and simple...

GPA:
weighted- 4.2
unweighted- 3.7
(f-ed up freshman year, soph year was OK, straight As in junior year)

SAT: 2020
SAT II:
math 2- 720
lit- 730

California resident

Varsity cross country (4 years)
Varsity track (4 years)

Science Olympiad

Hospital volunteer
Library volunteer

School newspaper staff: reporter

Great essays...I write well...

And that about finishes it...



Applied to: UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UCSD
Accepted to: UCLA, UC Davis, UCSD


SCREW BERKELEY

[Sarcastic Assassin]

Tonyt88, you disgust me (just kidding). Where did you go to school in NJ (central, northern, southern)? I go to a competitive, suburban central Jersey school.

[Tonyt88]

I'm in northern NJ in Morris County