can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[bandgeek5]

School: North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
GPA: 4.882
Rank: unknown
AP courses: Calc BC, Biology, taking this spring
SAT: 1820
SAT II: Math IIC 710 Chemistry: 6## don't remember
EC: a lot of them, practically a leadership in everyone
Schools:
Cornell: accepted in Engineering
Carnegie Mellon U: accepted in MCS, CIT
Johns Hopkins U: accepted
University of Southern California: accepted in Engineering
UNC-Chapel Hill: accepted
North Carolina State: accepted

Rejected/Waitlisted: none

What do you think?

[Shrivats]

International Applicant. Indian, living in the UAE.

In the ICSE/ISC system.

Stats:

SAT: 2360 (800 CR, 780 M, 780 W)
SAT II: 800 Lit, 800 Math IIC, 800 Phys, 800 Chem, 800 Bio E
Asking for Aid at HYPMS, not at the rest.
GPA: 95-98% (Depending on the year).
Rank: 1/2
EC's: National and International Debate Wins. (5)
National Quizzing. (Won about 25 competitions)
4th in an All-India Essay Competition
School Prefect, House Captain, Debate Captain.
Bunch of the usual Science/Math/Writing stuff
Fundraising.
Volunteering.
Environmental Awareness Campaigns
Film-making

Recs: Great (Best in Career/Excellent)
Essays: Great. Spent quite a bit of time on them

Results:

Acceptances:

Penn
Duke
Rice
Berkeley (Regents)
CMU
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Michigan

Waitlist:
Yale

Rejected:
Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Cornell.

[cheesenips]

Large Public High School in SE Texas
Asian Male
GPA (UW) - 3.93 GPA (W) - 4.5
Class Rank - 1/787

Test Scores
SAT – 2310 Critical Reading – 740 | Math – 800 | Writing – 770
PSAT – 234 Critical Reading – 80 | Math – 74 | Writing – 80
SAT II Math IIC – 800 | United States History – 770 | Physics – 730
AP World History – 5 AP Computer Science A - 4 AP Statistics - 5 AP English Language and Composition - 4 AP Physics B - 4 AP United States History - 5

Awards
National Merit Finalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
Took 15 AP Classes
Qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination in 2005, 2006
Texas Junior Varsity Quiz Bowl Champions in 2005
Clear Creek Independent School District Superintendent's Scholar in 2004, 2006, 2007
Qualified for United States Tennis Association Texas Section Championship Division - 2004
Common Knowledge Scholarship Foundation (CKSF) September 2006, January 2007 National High School Internet Challenge Top Scorer
September, November, December 2006, January 2007 CKSF National High School Internet Challenge High School Winner
Fall 2006 Knowledge Master Open State Champions
Member of Regional UIL Number Sense Championship Team in 2005

Extracurriculars
Tennis (2003-2007)
Varsity

Quiz Bowl (2003-2007)
President
Varsity Captain

Service with a Smile (2003-2007)
Vice President
Historian

Mu Alpha Theta (2003-2007)
National Honor Society (2005-2007)

75+ service hours on other various volunteering projects involving Rosemont Assisted Living, Jori Zemel Bone Cancer Foundation, Armand Bayou Nature Center, Freeman Memorial Library

25 service hours at the Texas Seaport Museum on the 1877 National Historic Landmark tall ship Elissa – 2004

Work Experience
June 2006-July 2006 (40 hours per week for eight weeks )
University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston High School Student Researcher
worked in the Computational Biology Department on constructing a database of flavivirus sequence alignments as well as a new method of identifying studied flaviviruses

Results
Harvard (EA) - Deferred, then Wait-Listed
Yale - Rejected
Princeton - Rejected
Stanford - Rejected
Duke - Accepted
Penn - Rejected
Columbia - Wait-Listed
Cornell - Accepted
WashU - Accepted
UT Austin - Accepted
Boston U - Accepted

Final Thoughts: For HYPS, it's really helpful if you have a hook. For you juniors, try to start your college applications in the summer before senior year. You'll thank yourself later. I ended up submitting a lot of applications late (bonehead move), and I think that factored in to some of my rejections. (Harvard, Penn, Cornell, Boston, UT) Remember that college is just one step in your life, and that education is what you make of it. No matter where you go, opportunities will be there. Good luck!

[idamayer]

public magnet in TX
white female (jewish)
GPA 3.8uw 4.15w
Class Rank 32/350

Test Scores
SAT – 730M 700CR 770W
SAT II Math IIC – 800 Physics – 720 Literature - 720

Extracurriculars & Awards
German Club secretary for 3 years + nat'l german exam + german state awards
Latin club secretary / Certamen team + NLE
Aikido (martial art) 3rd kyu
Fencing (for lots of hours)
programming team / computer-club-thing
summer job programming

Results
Carnegie Mellon - accepted (both SCS and HSS)
University of Rochester - accepted (+ $10k)
Brown - waitlisted
Brandeis - waitlisted
Yale - rejected
Stanford - rejected

Comments
I am very happy with the way all of my college-related stuff worked out. I chose my schools carefully and put effort into my applications. Even with the rejections, I could not be happier with the whole application process. I agree with cheesenips about starting early. Write some practice essays the summer before - not ones to send, just to start writing. One practice essay turned out to be the essay I was most proud of. Also, I think it is really important to start looking at schools early jr. year. Being certain of where you would be happy going cuts out a lot of work and heartache later in the process.

[littleathiest]

RESULTS (in order of interest)
Swarthmore College: rejected ED
Amherst College: rejected
University of Pennsylvania: rejected
Vassar College: accepted & attending
Haverford College: waitlisted
Ursinus College: accepted with a 17.5K/year merit scholarshio
Franklin & Marshall College: accepted with a 12K/year merit scholarship

GENERAL INFORMATION
School Type: private
Location: southern Connecticut
Race/Gender: white female
Prospective Major: neuroscience (also expressed interest in a history minor/potential double major)
Unweighted GPA: 3.80
Weighted GPA: 4.28
AP Courses: US History (4), Biology (4), European History, Spanish Literature, English Literature, Calculus AB
Class rank: 1/60 but my school doesn't formally rank

SAT SCORES
SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 710
SAT II Literature: 720
SAT II U.S. History: 750
SAT II Math IC: 720
SAT II Biology-M: 640

EXTRACURRICULARS & AWARDS
~ 4 year Varsity Field Hockey Team member & letter winner along with 1 year captain & Coaches' Award winner
~ School Scholar for 6/7 semesters (1 semester on the High Honor Roll)
~ DAR Silver Medal in US History
~ Cum Laude as a junior
~ 2 year member of the school paper staff & 1 year editor-in-chief
~ 4 year Model UN member
~ Library volunteer
~ 2 year Spanish National Contest top 10 in Connecticut
~ National Merit Commended Student
~ 4 year choir member

[jwli]

Wow great posts.

I stopped reading after the first 10 pages because I literally grew sick to my stomach looking at all the stats and competition. You guys are simply amazing though. Great job and congratulations!

[Pat Says]

Shrivats, how did you not get accepted at all those school? Its kind of funny because you got accepted at Northwestern and I got waitlisted there but you also got rejected at Cornell but I got accepted there?! Crazy..

[Master]

cheesenips, thanks for providing that piece of advice. "For you juniors, try to start your college applications in the summer before senior year." it means alot to me. you got into some really good schools congrats

[fruitloops89]

Public high in NJ
Asian male
GPA 3.9uw 4.91w
Class Rank 7/280

Test Scores
SAT – 790M 700CR 730W
SAT II Math IIC – 800 Chem – 780 Bio - 770

Extracurriculars & Awards
RPI science medal
varsity debate (captain)
model UN (officer)
varsity tennis
columbia science honors program
science research (wrote and sent in my paper)
science league
math league (president)
comm. service
those were the main ones... had some other stuff not significant enough to type up

Results
Columbia-accepted
Rice-accepted
Northwestern-accepted
WashU-accepted
Uchicago-accepted
Rutgers- accepted
Caltech-rejected
Yale-rejected
most likely attending columbia

Comments
Pretty happy with my results, especially with columbia. I doubt I could have done any better, especially since I'm an asian male

[hippo2]

super competitive HS in california

gpa: 3.76 uw 4.18 w (rank 120/600)
act: 35 (33R, 34W, 35S, 36M)
sat: 2160 (780M 750W 630 R)
sat II: 800 math, 800 chem, 760 bio

strong ecs: research on west nile, hospital volunteer and such
decent essays

accepted:
northwestern
usc
ucb, ucla, ucsd, ucd (regents), uci(regents)
drexel
umichigan

[ironflag1515]

Public High School in NYC Suburb
Hispanic Male
GPA (uw) / GPA (w): 3.97 / 4.31
Class Rank: 4/612

Test Scores
SAT I: Math 790 | Critical Reading 730 | Writing 740 | Essay 11
SAT II: Physics 750 | Spanish 760 | Math I 770 | Math II 800
ACT: 33

Extracurriculars
VP of Key Club (volunteer club for local community)
News Editor of School Paper
Academic League competitor (ranked first in regional)
Young Democrats (Executive Board Member)
Math Lab Research
Internship at Engineering Firm
Cellist
Six Honor Societies (Foreign Language, Mathematics, Social Studies, English, Science, National)

Courseload (score)
11 APs (14 offered at HS)
AP English Lang (5)
AP English Lit (havent taken yet)
AP Physics C (Mech) (5)
AP Chemistry (havent taken yet)
AP Biology (5)
AP U.S. History (5)
AP European History (5)
AP Spanish Lang (5)
AP Spanish Lit (4)
AP Calculus AB (5)
AP Calculus BC (havent taken yet)

College Decisions

Accepted
Harvard
Yale
Columbia (Fu Foundation SEAS)
MIT
Caltech

Waitlisted
None

Rejected
Princeton

Comments: I was very pleased with my acceptances, considering I was very pessimistic on where I would be offered admissions. I am still uncertain on where exactly I will be going

[ironflag1515]

sry for double post but i forgot that i got Waitlisted from WUSTL.

[cheesenips]

ironflag, those are some awesome results. congratulations on all your acceptances.

[Phoenix257]

Accepted: Stanford, University of Washington - Seattle (honors)
Rejected: Harvard

American Citizen (Chinese)
Financial aid requested

SAT I: 800 M, 650 CR, 710 W
SAT II: 800 Math 2C, 700 Chem, 680 USH
GPA: 4.0/4.0 UW, Rank: 1/400

ECs: math team, speech and debate, judo, book club, Stanford EPGY. Taught a math class at a middle school and coached their math team.

Awards: AP scholar with distinction, AIME, some local/state math awards

[wogud644]

Accepted: U of Michigan-Ann Arbor, U of Illinois-Urbana, U of Wisconsin-Madison, Penn State
Wait listed: U of Virginia
Rejected: U of North Carolina, College of William and Mary(No!!!!)
plan to major in Biochemistry

International Student (Korean)
Went to Catholic High school in Ohio
Has been in US for 3 years

SAT I: 800M 590R 580W
SAT II: 790 Math 2c, 630 Chemistry, 580 Biology Yeah it was bad
Toefl: 106
GPA: 3.93 Rank: 2/29
No AP or honor class (our school is too small to offer these)

ECs: little bit of sports, Key club(president), Web team, Book Club
Award: 2nd place in county math competition
Essays: pretty good
Recommendations: good