can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[jared24]

Attending: Wesleyan University

Carleton - Rejected
Connecticut College - Accepted
Haverford - Rejected
Kenyon - Accepted
UNC-Asheville - Accepted
Northwestern - Rejected
Rhodes - Accepted
Vassar - Rejected
Wesleyan - Accepted from waitlist
Williams - Rejected

White male, North Carolina
GPA - 4.4/3.4
SAT - 2280 (720CR/760M/800W)
Rank - top 30% (highly competitive public HS)
7 APs
ECs - 5 years guitar, 3 years bass, 2 years teaching guitar, audio production, music club, ice/roller hockey, 5 years summer job (construction)
Recs - haven't read them
Essays - spent tons and tons of time on them, got them edited by English teacher several times and once by *********.com

[iowejf]

jared, do you think it was your rank that dragged you down?

[soulstealer07]

my AP exams were super easy this year!

[jared24]

iowejf- Yeah, my rank was probably the weak point in my app, along with my average ECs. Especially since I had no community service. I still did fine though, I got into some of my top choices.

[varunner41]

Attending: Sewanee: The University of the South

Sewanee: Accepted
Roanoke College: Accepted
Hampden-Sydney College: Accepted
Lynchburg College: Accepted
University of Mary Washington: Accepted (forced by alumni mother)
Gettysburg College: Waitlisted

I had a 3.4, scored 1370/2040, was a track/XC recruit, Eagle Scout, did some community service with Youth Group...
I also had some alumni connections at Sewanee and UMW.
As of last Friday I've taken 9 APs. Also have taken college-level courses. Rank just inside top 20% of class (school has an alarming dropout rate but routinely has three or four Ivy Leaguers/Dukies per year)

[you'llsee...]

ACCEPTED: Harvard (Attending), Yale, Princeton, UofChicago, Brown
REJECTED: MIT, Columbia, Standford

School Type: horrible public(highly "ghetto")
Gender/Ethnicity: Male/African American

SAT I: 2350 ( 800 V, 800 W, 750 M)
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.9/5.0 W
SAT II: 800 Lit., 790 Chem., 800 Bio
Rank: 1/450

10th Grade courses(the important ones):

Advanced Chemistry- A+
Advanced English- A+
Honors Global History- A+
French III- A+
Advanced Alg.II- A+

11th Grade Courses: AP American History- A+
AP Statistics- A+
AP Chemistry- A+
Advanced English A+
Pre-calc. - A+
Psychology- A+
Philosophy (at Drexel U.) A+
Advanced French- A+

12th Grade Courses: AP Calc - A+
AP Biology- A+
AP psychology - A+
AP English Lit. - A+
AP French - A+
Accounting II - A+
Anatomy & Physiology - A+


8 AP courses(score): US history(5), Chem.(5), Statistics(4), Calc.(5),
French(5), Biology(5), English(5), Psychology(5)

ECs: Track, Newspaper Editor, NHS president, Student Body V. Pres, Volunteer at Hospital, AIDS/Cancer medical research, Hi-Q team captain, raised money(over $5,000) for children in Africa who need serious medical attention), other stuff.......

Excellent Essay: about my Fundraiser for children in Africa and my medical research

Excellent rec. from Mentally Gifted Coordinator

[Figgy]

Howww did u get rejected from anywhere!? lol

Congrats on Harvard and the other schools tho!

[loslobos71]

I call BS. No safeties? Yeah, ok...

[Figgy]

lol damn I think ur right. He only has one post so I doubt this was the first thread that he just conveniently found. I wish I could delete my other post! lol

[MrSpam]

Attending: UCLA
Accepted: Berkeley, UCI(Full scholarship), UCSD, UCR(Full scholarship), USC
Rejected: Harvey Mudd

GPA: 4.17W/3.93UW/4.25UC
SAT: 1890(770M/580R/540W)
SAT 2: 790Math2/710Chemistry/700US History
ACT: 31(35Math/33Reading/30English/27Science)
AP: Calculus AB5/Chemistry4/US History3
Senior Schedule - AP US Gov't/Macroeconomics/Calculus BC/Physics B
Extracurriculars - ASB, Academic Decathlon(medals), Band(Drum major/Flute section leader), CSF, Science Olympiad(student coach,medals), Hospital volunteer, Rose Float decorator

[coolness_rookie]

South Korean International needing financial aid
Class of 2011

Accepted: Princeton, Cornell
Waitlisted: Yale
Rejected: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech
Attending: Princeton (w/ $38000/yr financial aid)

Full IB Diploma student, predicted 43/45
GPA: 96%
Rank: 1/109
SAT I: 2260 (M800, CR710, W750)
SAT II: M2 800, Physics 800, Chem 790
Extracurriculars: varsity basketball, community service (vice-president of two youth organizations), science/math competitions (regional, provincial awards), biomedical research, grad council (treasurer), tutor, orchestra (1st trumpet), etc.

[fhimas88888888]

Figgy and LosLobos - there are indeed students who have the stuff and don't necessarily need to apply to safeties. Albeit, I think it's always a good idea to apply to a safety, no matter how good your stats are. But, I do have a friend who had been doing scientific research at Illinois and won Intel; she applied to three schools: Stanford, Prineton, and Harvard. She got into all three and is attending Stanford. So, there are kids who are very smart and have accessed the resources they needed to pursue their passions (pardon the cliche) and ultimately fare very well in the admissions process. However, these kinds of cases only usually exist in sports, music/arts, and science/math.

[loslobos71]

ok....Doesnt matter what theyve done, everyone should apply to safeties.

[fhimas88888888]

Oh, I agree; I'm just trying to put light upon why some choose not to, and may not have needed to.

[veryscary]

Please, would some average students give their stats?