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Old 07-19-2006, 08:45 PM   #61
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 3,181
Accepted: Cornell (ED)
Rejected: Nope

SAT: 730V, 720M
SATII:
Writing-800
US Hist- 780
World Hist- 750
Math IIC- 690
Chem- 660

GPA: 97.8uw/103.4w or something like that
Rank: 4uw/6w

Standard ECs, sweet essays, awesome recs.
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Old 07-19-2006, 09:03 PM   #62
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You know what's crazy. . .two years out of high school I hardly remembered any of my stats. I had to look up the SAT scores on collegeboard because I honestly couldn't remember.

I guess I'll provide a little hope:


Accepted - Tulane University (Currently Attending), Wake Forest University
Waitlisted --> Accepted - Georgetown University
Waitlisted --> Rejected - Davidson College (w/athletic recruitment, those ****ers)
Rejected - UNC-Chapel Hill


SATI: 690V, 630M
SATII: Writing - 770, History - 680, Math IC - 640

GPA: 3.4ish/4.0 uw
Rank: 41 out of 277

Bunch of ECs (three varsity sports; recruited athlete), great essays, amazing interview with the Georgetown dude that I think probably got me accepted after the initial waitlist (I'm a broadcast/communication major, so I've always been good at talking to people [I still keep in touch with him every now and then, too]).

Ended up going to Brown University in fall 2005 and getting a 3.5 there. Went to Tulane and got a 2.33. Go figure, eh?
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Old 07-19-2006, 09:39 PM   #63
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 82
Accepted: Amherst (attending), Northwestern, UC Berkely, UCLA, UCSB, Wake Forest, Boston University
Waitlisted: Tufts, Duke, Stanford
Rejected: Brown, Dartmouth

SAT: 680V, 700M, 690W
SATII: US Hist- 720, Bio 700
GPA: 3.85UW, 4.5W
Rank: 20/398 (very competative public)
APs: total of 8 passed all, 3 5's, 2 4's, 3 3's.

Honors: Cum Laude society, AP scholar with honor, awards in student gov't, soccer, and dance.

ECs: Dance (choreography), vocal music, student government, lots of community service, work experience as dance instructor, extensive travel

Essays: outstanding. Recs: unknown
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Old 07-19-2006, 09:50 PM   #64
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 74
PA Student at Catholic School
Rank
13/209

SAT
680M 730 V 620 W - 1410/2030

SAT IIs
760 US History
730 Literature

APs
US History - 5
Euro - 5
English - 4
Chem - 2

GPA
4.67/5.00 W

ECs
NHS
Lasallian Youth, Community Service, a lot of hours
Newspaper, Editor
Young Conservatives Club

Essays: Good, except for GTown. That one was bad. Very bad.
Recs: I think excellent. I know the writers liked me


Accepted: Wake Forest(Attending), American Honors Program, Bucknell, Richmond, & Penn State-University Park
GTown EA: Deferred, Rejected
UChicago EA: Deferred, Rejected(I was kind of beat up over this. I really thought I was going to get in)
Rejected: Rice
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Old 07-19-2006, 10:35 PM   #65
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: PA
Posts: 63
Attending: Duke
Accepted: University of Pittsburgh, University of Michigan, Brandeis (full tuition), Case Western (25,600), Johns Hopkins, WUSTL, Rice, Emory, UNC
Rejected: Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, and Brown (waitlisted and then rej)

GPA at end of 11th: 3.96 UW, 4.1 W
End if 12th: 4.13 W
Rank: 7/274
SATs: 2210 M 790 CR740 W680
SAT IIs: 770 US History, 800 MAth IIC, 710 Biology
APs:US History, Biology, Physics, Government, Macro, BC, and Latin


Location: Pennsylvania
School: Public

ECs:
Nothing really great:
Soccer Varsity
Track Varsity
C0-president of Science Olympiad
NHS member
Interned with a Vet for a summer
Volunteered to help tutor a girl how to speak English
Newspaper Ed. of JCL
and other minimal stuff like that

Essay: WHo knows? I wrote it in the last minute... Oh well
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Old 07-19-2006, 10:40 PM   #66
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Damn, you guys apply to a lot of schools.
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Old 07-19-2006, 10:45 PM   #67
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 38
Accepted: UNC-Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, UGA Honors Program, Carnegie Mellon University (attending and CS major), UCLA, Case Western, Emory University

Deferred->Rejected: UPenn (Wharton) ED

Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke (was rather sad about this one...), UC Berkeley, Dartmouth

Race: Asian
Gender: Female
Class rank: 2 out of ~350
Medium sized public school in Georgia

EC'S, Awards...
-Salutatorian
-3 year debate member - won some team and speaker awards
-American Red Cross Youth Board 4 year member
-Beta Club 4 year member (2 year officer + won $1000 Beta Club scholarship)
-4 year Wind Symphony member (flutist, first chair in 12th grade)
-4 year District Honor band member
-All State band member
-3 year marching band member (piccolo!)
-3 year member of a local university ensemble - was first chair
-Meritorious NHS member 3 years
-Chinese school
-Tri-M Music Honor Society member
-Mu Alpha Theta member/officer

AP Scores:
Chem: 5
Eng. Lit: 5
Eng. Lang: 4
Bio: 5
Calc AB: 5

(I didn't take Physics C because I'd get a 2 haha)

SAT Scores:
Math: 700 (yea not that great...)
Writing: 740 (with 11 on essay)
Verbal: 740

SAT II scores:
Chinese: 750
Chem: 750
MathIIC: 730
US History: 790

Be sure to get good teacher recs. I think mine weren't that strong; I could have picked better teachers.
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Old 07-19-2006, 10:59 PM   #68
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 325
Accepted: cornell (and going), Carnegie Mellon, northwestern, tufts, boston university (w/ half tuition), johns Hopkins, u of Illinois, case western (w/ $20,000), Wellesley
Rejected: Princeton (applied ED, deferred), Dartmouth

School: large public
GPA: w. 4.45 uw. 3.9
Rank: 13/700
SAT: M 690 R 700 W 650
ACT 33
SAT II math IIc 730 Physics 720 US history 700
AP classes: here are the scores that I had while applying
BC 5
US 5
Music theory 4
Physics C mech 4
E& M 3
Then euro, stats and English lit this year

Honors/EC: music is a big one. I was the best clarinet player in my district for 2 years, went to all-state for two years and was 1st chair this year in the honors all-state orchestra. Many hours devoted to outside ensembles and lots of extra things like musicals. Was the music director for the student written musical/comedy revue. Went on a concert tour of spain and Portugal with a youth orchestra
perfect score on national latin exam, member of NHS, math team, JETS. I play soccer and ice skate. AP scholar w/ distinction. Regional outstanding award on the 36 hour problem
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Old 07-19-2006, 11:33 PM   #69
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 34
Accepted: Stanford (attending), USC, Princeton, Berkeley, Pomona, Santa Clara, University of Michigan, Georgetown, Miami University

Rejected: Harvard, Yale, UCLA

Major: Political Science/International Relations

SAT I Math: 630
SAT I Writing: 670
SAT I Verbal: 630
ACT: 31 (English 33, Math 29, Reading 31, Science 28, Writing 30)

Senior year schedule: IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Biology HL
IB Calculus SL
IB Spanish B SL
IB History of the Americas HL
IB English A1 HL

School Info:
Rank: 5/437
Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.79

EC'S
8 years of violin
Concertmaster for the Princeton High school symphonic and chamber orchestras
Section Leader for the Blue Ash Youth Symphony Orchestra
3 year member for the Southwest Ohio Regional Orchestra
3 years as Class of 2006 Vice-President
1 year as Student Body Vice-President
President of Book Club
Church activities
Full IB Diploma Student

Community Service:
3 years as a member of the 1st docent class at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

Summer Programs:
OSTA Middle School String Camp
Honors Algebra I program
Freedom Summer Scholars Program at Miami University
Accounting Career Awareness Program at Ohio State University
Anytown Leadership Program
Summer College Engineering Exposure Program at the University of Michigan
Martin W. Essex Scholars Program at the Ohio State University

Awards:
Quest Bridge Finalist
Quest Scholars Finalist
Top English Student 2004-2005
Top Spanish Student 2005-2006
Recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship
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Old 07-19-2006, 11:34 PM   #70
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Sarcastic Assassin - I can't exactly recall which school I applied to. I want to do business, so I either applied there or just the general Arts & Sciences school (whatever it may be called).
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Old 07-19-2006, 11:35 PM   #71
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Accepted at Stanford but rejected from UCLA. Craziness...well congrats on Stanford! (and those other really really ridiculously amazing schools lol)
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Old 07-19-2006, 11:45 PM   #72
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: UChicago
Posts: 554
Applied: GWU, American, George Mason, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, William and Mary, UVa, West Point

Accepted: All of them

What I learned: I should have shot higher...

SAT: 720 M 670 V 650 W
SAT II: 750 Hist., 750 Bio, 620 Math iic
AP: Bio, Calc AB, Stat, American History (all 4's and a 3 in Calc)
GPA: 3.84
Class Rank: 18% at moderately competitive public school

EC's
400 volunteer hours
Internship with Biomed. company and Forest Service
National Outdoor Leadership School
Eagle Scout
Class Pres.
Student Rep to School Board
Student member of State Board of Education
Band
Football
Track
Latin Club

Attending... UofC!!!
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Old 07-20-2006, 12:10 AM   #73
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Northport, NY --->Notre Dame 2010
Posts: 2,269
Stats:
GPA: 94.6 UW/97.9 W at the end of 11th grade (school doesnt recalculate rank)
Rank: 38/449
SAT: 2180 (790 M, 710 CR, 680 W)
SATII: 760 Physics, 760 Chem, 760 US History, 740 IIC
AP: Chem- 5, World History- 5, USH- 4
IB: Math Methods SL- 6

White male from Long Island, NY, no financial aid

Course Schedules
7th Grade
Math 7 Acc- 91

8th Grade
Math 8 Acc- 90
Acc. Earth Science 8R- 94
Spanish 1 7-8- 95

Freshman
English 9- 96
Math 9 Honors- 89
Biology- 92
Spanish 2R- 88
Keyboarding- 97
Music Composition (graduation requirement)- 92
Global History I- 100

Cum GPA 94.15- 87th of 457

Sophomore
English 10- 94
Math 10 Honors/Pre-IB- 94
Chemistry- 93
Spanish 3R- 93
Sports Marketing- 99
Academy of Finance Basic Accounting- 100
AP World History- 94

10th Grade GPA- 98.14- 33rd/440
Cum. 95.57- 64th/440

Junior
AP American History- 94
American Lit- 94
Math 11 Honors/IB-SL- 90
AP Chemistry- 100
Honors Physics- 98
Academy of Finance College Accounting- 100
Academy of Finance Economics/Banking and Credit- 100

11th Grade GPA- 103.71- 15th of 434
Cum- 97.90- 38th of 449

Senior year first semester
AP Government- 98
AP Stats- 96
AP Calc BC- 96
AP Physics B- 97
Syracuse Project Advance English WRT 105- 90
Academy of Finance- 100
Health- 94

school doesnt recalculate rank after first semester

AP Tests taken senior year- AP Calc BC, Physics B, Government, Stats, English Language, European History (self study)

ECs

Varsity Bowling- 4 years- All County 2004-05, been to national tournaments (finished 3rd in states this year but that wasnt on my app)
Academy of Finance- 10th-12th- 3 year program in business that includes summer internship (worked 133 hours between junior and senior years) and presentation of internship to employers in powerpoint presentation- I was an officer
DECA- 10th and 12th- 2004 State qualifier (2006 also but not on app)
Mathletes- 4 years
JV Golf- 9th and 10th, Varsity 11th, plan to try out for varsity lacrosse in 12th grade
Quiz Bowl- 9th-12th, co captain this year- was a main organizer of hosted tournament 10/29 which had 32 teams. Reached 3rd round of Long Island Challenge televised HS quiz show
Honor Society- Member 11th and 12th
Tutoring student in 10A math this year- 2-3 hrs per week

Summers
2003- People to People Sports Ambassador for bowling in England and Wales- 11 day trip including international tournament and 40 hours of community service with special olympics
2005- Academy internship at small company doing accounts receivable

Awards
All County Bowling
AP Scholar
AOF School Awards
DECA state qualifier

Teacher Recs- They were anywhere from above average to extremely good
Essays- some better than others, but on a whole id rate them an 8 out of 10

and.... my decisions

Duke, Early Decision- deferred, then rejected
MIT- rejected
Princeton- rejected
Harvard- rejected
Chicago- waitlisted (not taken off)
Notre Dame- waitlisted (not taken off)
WashU- waitlisted (not taken off)
Cornell (CAS)- waitlisted (not taken off)
Johns Hopkins- accepted
Boston College- accepted (honors, attending)
Wake Forest- accepted
SUNY Stony Brook- accepted (presidential scholar)
Penn State- accepted (rolling)


just so they can all be on one thread
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Old 07-20-2006, 02:10 AM   #74
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Location: Oregon/ Duke
Posts: 742
Hope this helps!

Accepted: Duke (waitlisted first)-Attending, Rice (ID), USC (half-tuition and honors), U of Oregon honors (EA)

Waitlisted: Georgetown (EA-->deferred-->rejected), Claremont Mckenna (didn't stay on), Duke (then accepted)

Rejected: Penn (wharton), Stanford, Dartmouth

School Type: Public
Location: Oregon
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Econ, Accounting, Public Policy, IR
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.40
Class rank: uw- 1/336, w- 5/336

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 780
SAT I Critical Reading: 720
SAT I Writing: 770

SAT II Scores
SAT II Spanish Reading: 710
SAT II U.S. History: 660
SAT II Math IIC: 740
SAT II Math IC: 710

Full IB Diploma:
IB Anthro SL: 6
IB History of the Americas HL: 7
IB Spanish HL: 6
IB Math Methods SL: 6
IB English HL: 6
IB Physics HL: 5

36 + 1 bonus = 37/45

EC's:
Two study abroads for three weeks each to Spain and Costa Rica
Class Prez as soph, Class rep junior and senior years
MUN
Constitution Team as sophomore (second in state)
Cross country
Ski Team
Community Service club
Internship at financial firm
Mentor
etc.

Solid teacher recs. Essays were good, but I'm really not sure if things worked well except for my Why Duke? which I thought was really good.
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Old 07-20-2006, 05:02 AM   #75
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 591
Accepted: Rice, UT Austin Honors, Cornell, MIT
Rejected: Princeton

Stats: admission chances .com/user.php?id=NTAzNTkxOTQz

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or a short summary

Rank: 15/458
GPA: ~ 89 UW, 101.5 W
IB: 7 total, 4 HL 3 SL (35 overall)
AP: 4 total
SAT I: 760M, 680R, 710W (12/12)
SAT II: Mathiic 780, Chem 750, US Hist 610

EC's: Martial arts, art, music, cooking, academic competitions, etc
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