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07-26-2008, 02:37 AM
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#991 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 259
| Couple of comments:
1) Some of you are just plain lying...I find many of these hard to believe though I will admit that the amount of pure, throbbing genius on this site is insurmountable....
2) Being Asian sux really bad (which, of course, sux for me  )
3) The college racial biases are so blatant it's almost filthy (related to #2)
4) College admissions is ultimately a crapshoot | 
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07-26-2008, 03:55 AM
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#992 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 205
| sure is hard for us asians... well it's even harder for me... male, asian, middle class, INTERNATIONAL and not with a chinese passport, etc.
but we'll just have to deal with it, don't we. | |
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07-26-2008, 05:19 PM
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#993 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 153
| "1) Some of you are just plain lying...I find many of these hard to believe though I will admit that the amount of pure, throbbing genius on this site is insurmountable...."
Yeah, honestly. I'm like scared s**tless after going through this thread a little. | |
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07-26-2008, 05:33 PM
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#994 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 49
| stupidkid your username def doesn't make sense... lol
congrats your accepted schools are the most impressive i've heard! | |
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07-27-2008, 03:46 PM
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#995 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: It depends >-┐ Berkeley <--------------┘
Posts: 1,400
| Quote:
Accepted: Harvard (Attend), Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Duke, Berkeley, UChicago, Cornell, some other insignificant ones
Waitlist/Rej: None | wow . | |
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07-27-2008, 07:34 PM
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#996 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 282
| ^bs.bs.bs.bs.bs. | |
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07-27-2008, 09:54 PM
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#997 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 221
| Accepted: Columbia (attending), Cornell (CAS), Wellesley, Vassar, Pitzer (Trustee Scholarship), UC Berkeley, LA (Honors), Davis (Honors), SD, Mills College (Full Tuition Scholarship)
Rejected: Harvard
School Type: Public, Competitive
Location: California
Race/Gender: Chinese
Prospective Major: Political Science & Math, possibly Asian American Studies as well.
Unweighted GPA: 3.93
Weighted GPA: 4.33
Class rank: School doesn't rank
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 700
SAT I Writing: 660
SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 690
SAT II U.S. History: 75
SAT II Math IIC: 760
AP Scores:
US: 5 (independent study)
Psych: 5
[After senior year: Calc BC, US Gov, Comp Gov, Stats: 5; Physics B, Macro, Micro, Lang: 4]
Long-form Info
Extracurricular Info
*Mock Trial captain
*San Francisco Youth Commissioner: Youth lead on a 2 million dollar budget proposal win.
* Co-President Junior Statesmen of America
*Board of Directors: Lowell Gryphon Leos
*Vice President Shield and Scroll Honor Society
* 6 years of Chinese School
*American Math Competition
Awards
*Top ten at State finals for Mock Trial (first for my county)
*Nor Cal Math Competition 3rd
*Scholarships, etc.
Essays:
*For the Common App, I wrote about my passion of achieving social justice by how I realized the injustices, my work on the Commission and my political activism. For UCs, my other essay was about my mock trial world.
Recs
*One was terrible, and one was very good.
*Counselor: Very good
Random Extra:
First generation | |
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07-27-2008, 10:20 PM
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#998 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 37
| Accepted: USC (Annenberg), Cornell, Barnard, Northwestern (Medill)Waitlisted: None
Rejected: Yale, Stanford, Harvard
Attending: USC (w/ Presidential Scholarship)
High School Type: Independent
Location: New England
Race/Gender: White/Female
Prospective Major: Journalism (I applied to the journalism programs at USC and Northwestern, at the others I listed anthropology and comparative lit as my prospective majors)
Class rank: n/a
GPA UW/W: 3.9, give or take (my school doesn't actually use a 4.0 scale)
SATI: 2260 (730 V, 730 M, 800 W)
SATIIs:
740 Math IIC
760 Literature
680 Latin
APs:
I took AP classes but didn't submit AP scores (longish story)
ECs:
Sports Editor of school newspaper (a highly-renowned, high-stress, weekly paper)
Writing Editor of monthly student life magazine
French horn
various volunteer activities
JV sport- captain
Writer for weekly news digest
Work experience:
computer technician- 40hrs/week, two consecutive summers
Essays: My main common app essay was pretty light hearted. I liked it, but it was a bit long, and in retrospect, I might've done it differently. I was very proud of most of my supplemetal essays, though (with the exception of Harvard). My Yale supplemental essay was actually one of the best thing I've ever written (I still love it, despite the fact that it clearly didn't work as I'd hoped).
Recommendations: Never saw them, but I assume they were good.
Awards:
Nothing on the national level, a few on the state level-- nothing particularly impressive or worth mentioning. | |
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07-28-2008, 11:13 AM
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#999 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: 127.0.0.1
Posts: 592
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Originally Posted by stl2cali2k1 ^bs.bs.bs.bs.bs. | You don't have to believe me if you don't want to.
Edit: btw, stl2cali2k1, there's no ED/EA to princeton if you didn't know.
Last edited by stupidkid; 07-28-2008 at 11:23 AM.
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07-28-2008, 03:20 PM
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#1000 | | New Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 21
| Accepted: Yale (EA), Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia, U. Penn, Texas A&M
Rejected/Waitlisted: none
(Note: I applied to about four or five more schools besides the ones above, but after I was accepted EA to Yale I pulled those apps because I knew I wouldn't choose them over Yale.)
Actually Attending: Yale
High School Type: Public
Location: Maryland
Race/Gender: Black/Female
Prospective Major: Undecided, my essays implicated either an Astrochemistry or East Asian Studies Poli Sci. focus.
Class rank: 10/452
GPA UW/W: We didn't use a 4.0 scale and we weighted for APs. GPA was something like 99-100.
SATI: 2250 (800s in verbal and writing, 12 on essay)
SATIIs:
760 US History
780 Literature
750 Math II
740 Chemistry
APs:
Altogether, 9 classes. U.S. History (5), English Language (5), Calc AB (5), Chemistry (5), U.S. Government & Politics (5), Calc BC (5), English Literature (5), Music Theory (3), and Physics C Mechanics (4).
ECs:
-Chamber Choir (all of high school and middle school) this is where most of my awards came from, All-State all through high school, All-Eastern, Tri-County and All-County, solo and ensemble awards, district and state festivals, etc.
-Dance for 8 years with local competitive studio (hardcore time commitment, 13-15 hours a week)
-Mock Trial
-Citizens' Advisory Committee (got picked to serve on a board of county citizens by the Board of Education, I guess this would be leadership-ish?)
Basically, only a few EC's, but serious time, effort, and recognition displayed.
Work experience:
Legal secretary - summer of 9th and 10th grade, nothing remarkable
Intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - 2 summers (geodynamics one year, astrochemistry plus instrument programming the next)- I used this in my essay to talk about my potential majors and also submitted copies of my research along with my MIT app.
Essays: Main common app essay was about my work at Goddard, my interest in the space program, my love of the studies, etc. Wrote a couple varieties of a supplemental essay, but the best was about my trips to China and the interest I'd developed in the language, my self-directed studies, and my interest in one day working for state department there.
Recommendations: Saw a couple of them, not some others. Pretty good. Got them from chorus teacher because I'd had him all of high school, calculus and chemistry teachers, government teacher, mock trial coach, and dance teacher. Used same ones for different apps and scholarships.
Awards:
Ehh, school and county academic awards, Maryland Distinguished Scholar and also nominated for Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the arts, AP Scholar with Distinction from junior year, lots and lots of serious chorus awards and some dance awards. Also National Achievement Scholar from PSATs.
Last edited by sopranosenior; 07-28-2008 at 03:28 PM.
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07-28-2008, 11:24 PM
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#1001 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego
Posts: 23
| My friend got into Harvard, got rejected from UCLA, then went to St. Andrews | |
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07-29-2008, 05:35 AM
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#1002 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 132
| "My friend got into Harvard, got rejected from UCLA'
Things have happened that are even stranger than that.
But why pick St.Andrews over Harvard? Did they have an option or was money the big factor? | |
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07-31-2008, 04:45 AM
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#1003 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 119
| Dude, UCLA was exceptionally weird with admissions this year. I have heard so many stories of UCLA rejects that got into ivy leagues with no problem.
At my school, a friend of mine got into MIT and got rejected from UCLA. | |
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07-31-2008, 04:46 AM
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#1004 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 119
| oh and btw, WHY HASN'T ANYBODY GOTTEN INTO BROWN.
I went through the first 7 pages of this thread and have yet to see more than 2 acceptances and like 300 rejects =[ makes me not hopeful of getting in now... | |
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07-31-2008, 10:45 PM
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#1005 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 47
| collegedata.com is great to find out information out like this | |
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