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04-16-2007, 06:31 PM
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#706 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 100
| attending Colgate! | 
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04-16-2007, 08:58 PM
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#707 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 41
| Can someone explain to me what a legacy is?
- and i like how people on this forum gradually conform to a set vocabulary....ex: "crapshoot" | |
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04-16-2007, 11:16 PM
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#708 | | Member
Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UVA!!!
Posts: 796
| legacy means that one or both of your parents went to that school | |
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04-16-2007, 11:24 PM
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#709 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 41
| o ok thanks | |
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04-17-2007, 05:27 PM
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#710 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: CT
Posts: 5
| gpa: 3.85 weighted
SAT: 710 math/630 reading/750 writing
rank: 8/139
activities: National Honor Society (treasurer), Nat'l Art Honor Society, Tennis (captain), 10 years of dance, church volunteering, yearbook (treasurer)
Honors: National Merit Scholar, AP Scholar, Scholar Athlete Award
applied for architecture
didn't get in:
cornell
got in:
RPI ($12,000 scholarship)
Northeastern ($14,000 schol.)
Lehigh ($2,000)
Syracuse ($12,000) | |
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04-18-2007, 11:22 PM
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#711 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 4-space
Posts: 1,377
| Accepted: Caltech EA, full-ride, did not apply anywhere else
Stats:
GPA 4.0 UW
SAT 2390
Rank 1/300something
Hardest courseload possible, took things like DiffEq, Matrix Theory, Discrete Math, Graph Theory, and Abstract Algebra (independent study) junior year
9 APs with all 5s (7 of them are science APs)
Awards:
USPhO semifinalist, USChO semifinalist, AIME qualifier, National AP Scholar, 3rd place JV JETS, sophomore class homecoming princess (I'm sure that counts for something), coauthored Science paper (which probably impacted my scholarship but not my admission, since the paper people started editing the paper in February)
Essays:
Sucked
Recs:
One was "best in career," the other said "she kept it brief." I also got a recommendation from my research advisor, which I'd assume was pretty good.
ECs:
Math Club, Physics Club, BioResearch Club, Olympiad Team, went to HCSSiM over the summer. And a bunch of officer positions.
Other factors:
Applied as a junior, asian female, legacy | |
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04-19-2007, 03:01 AM
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#712 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kolkata, India --->Cambridge, MA (but not MIT!)
Posts: 346
| I'm an Int'l applicant from India who was willing to pay no more than $ 8000 per annum.
DECISIONS:
Harvard ACCEPTED (and parent contribution completely waived under harvard financial aid initiative!) 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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04-19-2007, 08:10 PM
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#713 | | New Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 5
| ah out of state UT-austin, and waitlisted at in-state MD?
weiirdd. Ferstamendment where are you planning on actually going? | |
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04-19-2007, 08:15 PM
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#714 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 146
| Accepted: Princeton (Attending), Chicago, Michigan Ann Arbor (Ross Preferred Admit)
Waitlisted: Stanford, Columbia
Rejected: Penn (Wharton), Harvard, Yale
Stats:
44/45 Predicted IB
SAT I 2290 (800M, 750CR, 740W)
SAT II 800 Math IIC, 790 Chem, 740 Literature
Class is unranked
ECs:
Varsity Swimming (Captain), Varsity Golf
Chess Team
Peer tutoring and inner city school tutoring
Certified swim and skiing instructor (+work experience)
Volunteer swim instructor at disabled children's hospital
Other stuff:
Essays were good I thought, interestingly one of my essays I sent to all three schools that rejected me--raises some questions about it's quality. | |
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04-22-2007, 05:27 PM
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#715 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 80
| Accepted - Carnegie Mellon (attending), Wisconsin, Penn State, Rutgers
Waitlisted - UMICH, Johns Hopkins, WashU
Rejected - Cornell, Northwestern, Columbia, UChicago, Rice
applied for engineering schools
GPA: 3.55 uw 4.1 w
Senior year courseload - multivariable calculus, ap physics, ap stat, ap language, ap gov - got straight B's in academic subjects for midyear report
SAT - 790m 680cr 670w
SAT II - 780mathIIC 770physics
ECs - tennis (4 years varsity+co-captain), violin, community service, academic decathlon, AIME
Awards - several all-state tennis awards, awards from regional academic decathlon competitions, over 500 hours volunteering at hospital
essays - pretty good IMO i mostly wrote about my passion for science and math
pretty sure my GPA+senior grades killed my chances at most of the top schools | |
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05-05-2007, 02:57 AM
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#716 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 419
| Class Rank 12/267 from average public school, suburban Rhode Island.
GPA: 3.73 out of 4.00
Courseload: Somewhat rigorous (avoided classes such as Calculus 2 and any AP classes while taking Physics II and Biology II)
AP tests: None
Results:
Dartmouth College- Accepted
Tulane University- Accepted
U.S. Naval Academy- Accepted (attending-History Major)
Notre Dame- Accepted
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy- Accepted
U.S. Air Force Academy- Rejected
SAT
Math: 700
Critical Reading: 710
Writing: 770
SAT II Subject Tests
U.S. History: 780
Physics: 760
Recommendations: Outstanding (From City Mayor, Congressman, and both U.S. Senators as necessary for the Academies)
Extracurriculars: All State Cross Country, Indoor/Outdoor Track (1:56 800m) Captain since sophomore year.
City/State Newspaper sports correspondent
Youth Coach
Math League
Yearbook
Boys State/Nation
Awards:
RI Gatorade athlete of the year track and field (Rhode Island)
Dartmouth Book Award
Who's Who Among National High School Students
National/Spanish Honor Society
Bill Reynolds Newspaper Correspondent Award (Rhode Island)
Secretary of State Award for Public Service
Of note: I spent 8 years of my life in a foster home, and I'm adopted by my aunt and uncle. | |
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05-05-2007, 08:20 AM
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#717 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: California
Posts: 451
| 3.73
2180
1:56 800M
You're sick dude, good luck with college. | |
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05-05-2007, 11:48 AM
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#718 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 84
| Background: Asian Male, CA, Public School
GPA: 3.1 Weighted (For UC's and CSU's A-G) 3.4 for others
SAT: 740 Math, 610 Critical Reading, 620 Writing
SAT II's: 750 Math IIC, 720 US History
AP's: None
Essays: The best I've every written
Rec's: Not sure, but I'm guessing they were at least decent
Major: Computer Science
EC:
Layout Editor for school newspaper, creative writing club, korean club, filipino club, and volunteer at my church. Also did misc. work at my father's company related to computer science.
Accepted: UCR, UCSC, UCD, UCSB, UCM, Penn State, Purdue, Illinois Tech (With $25K in scholarships and loans), RPI (With $22K in scholarships and loans), Cal Poly SLO, Boston University
Rejected: Georgia Tech, Carnegie Mellon, UCI, Cooper Union (Architecture)
Waitlisted: None | |
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05-06-2007, 04:04 PM
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#719 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 6
| psekar2 - congrats on CMU, I plan on applying there for Computer Engineering. We have very similar stats. =) | |
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05-06-2007, 07:56 PM
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#720 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 848
| after reading this, i feel like i have literally no chance at Dartmouth or UPenn...
3.5uw gpa
2250 SAT..
No national awards
Just a heartfelt essay about my upbringing..
Lots of EC's and volunteer work...
And i really like dartmouth.. | |
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