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02-21-2007, 05:30 PM
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#646 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 233
| yeah college data gave me the same chances for everything from emory to harvard. | 
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03-04-2007, 01:57 AM
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#647 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Mercury
Posts: 333
| This is a really helpful post... but it's nurturing my inferiority complex more than anything I’ve ever experienced…lol. I’ll post when I get all my rejections! | |
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03-04-2007, 11:28 AM
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#648 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 1,747
| Haha - me too - AWWLL my rejections.... hehehe. At this point, I have just been keeping myself ridiculously busy with extracurriculars. Two nights ago I pulled an all-nighter to work on speech. It was fun though - I got first. | |
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03-04-2007, 05:53 PM
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#649 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Bear Territory
Posts: 383
| arrrr *anxiously waiting for end of March...*
haha fhimas88888888 I did that for a Spanish Lit essay xD - got A+  | |
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03-10-2007, 03:20 PM
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#650 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 746
| I'll post here to give some of the sub-2200 SAT scorers hope:
White Male
Country: USA
State: NY
Major: Education or Business
SAT: 2030 (640 CR / 710 M / 680 WR)
SAT II: Math I 650 / US History 650
GPA: 96.1 weighted (about 92 unweighted)
Rank: 21/278
ECs:
Math Team
NHS
Saturday History Academy (pretty much US history club on Saturday)
Billiards Club
Volunteered as a Camp Counselor at a Nature Camp
Volunteered as a Little League Baseball Coach
Other stuff
Accepted:
1.) Wagner College (11K per year / Presidential Scholarship)
2.) St. John’s University (18K per year / Honors College)
3.) Pace University (15K per year / Honors College)
4.) NYU Steinhardt (20K per year / Lewis Rudin Scholar)
5.) CUNY Hunter
6.) CUNY Baruch
7.) Fordham University (Not sure about scholarship yet)
Rejected:
Nope 
Waitlisted:
Nope
Attending: NYU most likely. I still cant believe I got 20K a year.
Conclusion: I underestimated myself. I applied to only 7 schools and only 2 (Fordham and NYU) weren't safeties. After seeing my results, I regret not applying to Princeton. I thought I had no chance so I'd be wasting my time. I put a lot into my volunteer work and I think that's what set me apart from other applicants, especially at NYU. It just goes to show that you don't need super-stats to get scholarship $, even at schools like NYU. | |
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03-17-2007, 03:46 AM
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#651 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 7,684
| If it's any consolation, I think you probably would've been rejected by Princeton. But hey, you never know. =) | |
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03-17-2007, 09:58 AM
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#652 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Claremont, CA
Posts: 1,250
| average stats for these boards, but not average overall
Country:USA
State:CT
Major:Undecided - Humanities
Accepted:Wisconsin, Ursinus
Rejected:None
Waitlisted:Wash U St Louis, UNC CH
Deferred:UPenn (ED), Michigan
EA/ED:UPenn
Waiting for Final Word from: Michigan, Penn, Northwestern, USC, UT-AUSTIN, BU, GWU, Claremont McKenna
Sex:Male
Race:Asian
Unweighted GPA: 3.45
Weighted GPA:3.8
Class Rank:doesnt rank, but school very good - already have harvard, yale, brown, emory, vanderbilt, middlebury, colgate, stanford, and then GWU range out of class of less than 300
SAT I:1450/2130
SAT II:720/680/660
ACT:none
AP:5-4-4-3
Awards:State finals in debate, awards for community service, varsity letters
Employment:run own tutoring business, tutor kids, little league umpire
Extra-curriculars:editor of school paper, vp of fbla, capt debate, two sport varsity athlete, went to thailand to teach english, part of youth organization that raises money to sponsor schools in India, mock trial, some other sutff | |
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03-17-2007, 05:24 PM
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#653 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 57
| I am just looking through this b/c, and i have two years left, but how in the world does eveyone accumilate so many awards???? Where do u even here about them? i know about fastweb. but any other good places to find out about them? | |
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03-18-2007, 09:08 AM
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#654 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 746
| "If it's any consolation, I think you probably would've been rejected by Princeton. But hey, you never know. =)"
Yeah probably. I should have tried though. If I had cracked the 2100 mark, I might have given it a shot. I still can't believe I didn't apply to 1 Ivy, not even Columbia which is right in NYC. I think I'll be happy at NYU though. | |
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03-21-2007, 12:08 PM
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#655 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: In your shadows...waiting......TO STRIKE DOWN UPON THEE...
Posts: 140
| yo yo yo this is the dealy-o
got accepted to Rose Hulman Institute of Technology(full ride), USC, UW Madison, Cornell, Carthage, MSOE(32000 over 4yrs), UW Milwaukee, Lawrence Technological University, and some others whose name i can't remember! 
no rejects or waitlisted schools. | |
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03-21-2007, 08:20 PM
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#656 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 7,684
| ^^ how about some stats? | |
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03-26-2007, 07:35 AM
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#657 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA (UVA C/O 2011!!)
Posts: 405
| User Name: doctorsboy
Gender: M
Race: African American
College Class Year: 2011
High School: Private
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes
Academics:
GPA - Weighted: 3.45
Class Rank: other
Class Size: 83
Scores:
SAT I Math: 690
SAT I Critical Reading: 670
SAT I Writing: 660
SAT II Math Level 1 (IC): 650
SAT II Physics: 620
Significant Extracurriculars: Peninsula Youth Orchestra
Jack and Jill of America
Leadership positions: Tri - M Honors Society - Treasurer
President of Strings Chapter
Historian of Jack and Jill
Student Board of Peninsula Youth Orchestra
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Varsity Track (9-12)
Varsity Cross Country (9,12)
Volunteer/Service Work: Mission Trip to David, Kentucky
100+ hours at Virginia Air and Space Museum
Fed the Homeless many times
Honors and Awards: Director's Award for Strings (11)
Athlete of the Year - Jack and Jill Chapter (11)
Honor Roll (9-11)
Southeastern Virginia Regional Orchestra (11,12)
College Summer programs: Shenandoah Performs! summer camp (10,11)
Hampton Roads Chamber Players (10,11)
Great Essays
Applied:
Boston University - Accepted
Chowan University - Accepted
George Mason University - Accepted
James Madison University - Accepted
Vanderbilt University - Accepted
Northeastern University - Accepted w/ 60,000 Scholarship
Harvard College - Still Waiting =P
University of Virginia - Still Waiting =P
Morehouse College - Accepted w/ Full Scholarship
Hampton University - Accepted w/ Full Scholarship
William and Mary - Accepted
Ohio Wesleyan University - Accepted | |
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03-29-2007, 05:25 PM
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#658 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Charlottesville, VA (UVA C/O 2011!!)
Posts: 405
| one more to the list... Harvard College - REJECTED =P | |
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03-29-2007, 05:27 PM
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#659 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 2,802
| I'll do one once all my admissions stuff come in | |
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03-29-2007, 08:34 PM
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#660 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kolkata, India --->Cambridge, MA (but not MIT!)
Posts: 346
| My Stats And Decisions
I'm an Int'l applicant from India who was willing to pay no more than $ 8000 per annum.
DECISIONS:
Harvard ACCEPTED and MATRICULATING
Princeton waitlisted
Penn rejected
Cornell ACCEPTED
Dartmouth waitlisted
Brown ACCEPTED
JHU rejected (because of the MASSIVE fin. aid I'd asked for!)
Chicago rejected
Here's a brief CV:
Fee waiver used
Offered to pay $ 8000 p.a. (Guess that sure didn't matter!)
SAT reasoning
math 790
CR 750
W 750
SAT subject
math II 800
Chem 800
Bio M 760
1st in Class of 40
NTSE Scholar (Indian equivalent of National Merit Scholarship given by the govt.)
Selected by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt of India for their Program for Youth Leadership in Science
EXTRACURRICULARS
The youngest volunteer for the Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter.
Got a Certificate of Distinction signed by Hans Blix at the World Federation of UN Associations' Global essay comp. on peace and disarmament. ( I was competing against undergrad and even grad students from all over the world)
avid quizzer and debater. traveled all over India and won more than a handful of quizzes and debates. also accomplished at creative writing and essay writing!
teacher recs GREAT (that's what they told me anyway)
counselor rec (i guess it must have been good too!)
essays: worked really hard on them. they were quite good. one of them was about my love of independent travel (Let's Go anyone?)
special rec: from the president of the Alzheimer's and Related Disorders Society of India, Calcutta Chapter.
supplementary stuff: Cartoons with one-line punch lines. (Only a few days ago I realised this: Conan O'Brien drew similar cartoons while with the Harvard Lampoon!)
Moral of the Story: Ultimately I guess the staff of Let's Go and the Harvard Lampoon make the final decision abt your application!!!! | |
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