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08-01-2008, 03:08 PM
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#1006 | | Member
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 448
| rejected:
Harvard, yale, princeton, stanford, mit, caltech, brown, columbia
Waitlisted:
duke, univ. of chicago
accepted:
upenn college (attending), nyu stern, rutgers full ride, northwestern
Gender: M
Location: New Jersey
Ethnicity: Asian
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Academics:
GPA - Weighted: 103.00
Class Rank: 3/560
Scores:
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 720
SAT Total: 2230
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 800
SAT II Chemistry: 740
SAT II Physics: 710
AP Micro and Macro: 5s (self-studied)
AP US Hist: 3
Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars:
Futube Business Leaders of America
Fed Challenge
Science League
Environmental Club
Tai Chi Club
Math League
Leadership positions:
FBLA Historian
FBLA President
Tai Chi Club Vice President
Environmental Club Treasurer
Volunteer/Service Work:
60 hrs hospital volunteer work
Honors and Awards:
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
3 FBLA state awards and 3 regional awards
Qualified and competed for nationals 3 years in a row
top 10% nj science league scorer in physics and chem
wasted a lot of money on app fees
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08-01-2008, 06:29 PM
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#1007 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 102
| "^bs.bs.bs.bs.bs." by FellowCCViewer referring to stupidkid's post about how he got accepted to all the top colleges
lol i know plenty of people like that?
ever met alex zhai? or possibly 1/4 of the kids at phillips exeter.
they are even better than stupidkid, they actually went to Siemens Nationals...=P | |
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08-02-2008, 01:27 PM
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#1008 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 281
| Wonderful, so they should have swept the boards at every college | |
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08-03-2008, 02:27 AM
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#1009 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 180
| Sigh, another brown reject.
Someone please post stats that has a brown acceptance that doesn't have 2400 as their SAT score =[ | |
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08-05-2008, 07:20 PM
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#1010 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 41
| @ Tonyt88 you are a lucky **************** !!!! Man i need some more ECs and Awards! | |
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08-05-2008, 11:23 PM
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#1011 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 7
| I got into Brown (and going), but I did have pretty high SAT's, but my grades sucked and I had practically no EC's:
OK, so yeah CR 780 M 770 W 770
Math II, Chem, and Phyz 800
Ok so those might have gotten me in, buuuuuuuuuuttt...
I was 24/423 in the class, with only band, science olympiad, not starring in either, and a little bit of community service. No sports, no leadership.
White Male Californian with highly educated parents
Rejected: UPenn Wharton, Stanford
Waitlisted: University of Chicago
Accepted: Brown, UC SB SD LA and B, Northwestern, CMC, Pomona
Brown seems pretty random with acceptance. I have a friend who did not get into brown, but who got into stanford, and I was rejected haha. | |
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08-06-2008, 05:19 PM
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#1012 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 109
| omg this is depressing. class of 08 had amazing stats and they still got rejected some places...me and my big ol dreams *sigh* | |
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08-08-2008, 02:19 AM
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#1013 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UNC '12!!!!
Posts: 1,215
| Accepted:
ECU, NC State, Florida State (w. scholarship), UNC-Chapel Hill (attending), Notre Dame, Emory (w. scholarship)
Rejected:
Duke, Columbia
Weighted GPA- 4.8ish
Unweighted GPA- 3.75ish
Class Rank: 5 out of 255
ACT: 33
SAT II's: Math IIC 800, US History 790
APs:
Physics B- 4
English Lang- 3
US History- 5
Calculus BC- 5
(below are senior year aps)
Music Theory- 5
English Lit- 3
Statistics- 5
Biology- 5
Psychology- 5
Extracurriculars:
Marching Band 9-12, Section Leader (12)
Jazz Band 11
Symphony 9-12, Principal Trombone (12)
Youth and Government 9
Academic Team 11-12 Co-captain, 11-12
Debate Team 11-12 Co-founder, 11-12
Psychology Club 12
Theatre- 9-12
Hospital Volunteer- 9-11 420 hours
Employment:
Movie Theatre 11
Quizno's 11-12
Honors:
All County, All District Band
Western Region Orchestra
Junior Marshall
Other stuff I don't recall
Recs:
My guidance counselor told me that a lady in Duke admissions made a comment about how impressive my recommendations were. And I still got rejected lol
Essays:
Main one was about my hearing loss and music. | |
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08-08-2008, 04:39 AM
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#1014 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 5
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I wish i had this thread back when i was applying
Accepted: Brown (attending), Upenn, Columbia, NYU, Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams
Rejected: Cornell W/L: Yale
NY, NY Asian Male
Prospective Major: Classics/History
SAT I: 2320 (m720 cr800 w800)
SAT II: world history: 730 Bio(m): 780 Latin: 800
APs: USH, Latin Lit, Micro/Macro Econ, Bio, Music Theory: 5
GPA: 96.4 (yeah what is this on the 4.0 scale i never figured out)
awards: national merit, national latin exam, music awards
Essays: I wrote about a death forest at the base of Mt. Fuji for common app.
supps- brown: about getting lost in Rome, yale: playing the cello at Union Square.
Recs: U.S. history, Latin (he let me read it. It was amazing), Physics teacher (I interned for her. we were bff), counselor (I dunno. I dated her nephew)
Interviews: Brown-a dream, Upenn-very professional, Cornell-i thought it went well...Yale-don't wanna talk about it
Hook: I'm fluent in a dead language?
EC's
Editor of a Latin-language newspaper and podcast
Piano teacher, accompanist, some awards.
Cello-principal in school orch., started a string quartet, profiled for major NY magazine as a street performer
Chamber chorus, director of a cappella group, major award for Wagner aria
conductor of annual school musical
Korean drumming (samulnori) vocalist and buk player-toured Asia
school opera club co-founder
School newspaper humor columnist, yearbook art editor, comics magazine editor
Mu Alpha Theta VP
Latin Club President
Latin, Physics, History tutor
7th grade counselor
Non-profit bookstore and art supplier volunteer
Voice Actor for readings of the bible
Work/internships:
NY City Opera, Urban Outfitters (worst job ever), instrument repair shop (best job ever), Jcrew (...actually the worst job ever)
Financial Aid was good pretty much everywhere. If you make less than 50,000 a year, expect almost a full ride from the ivies, and a really good deal everywhere else. I got a $48K package from Brown-No loans, all aid.
A few notes on the college process: Its dumb when people tell you not to stress out. It's stressful. Just remember that after all the letters come in you have a good 4 months to do whatever the hell you want. I skipped school for a week because I wanted to drive out to Chicago and it was awesome. Visiting really does help. Also, invest in a really nice dress shirt or a really nice winter ensemble from Bergdorf's or something for interviews. A killer outfit does a lot.
cheers
Last edited by DelendaEst; 08-08-2008 at 04:59 AM.
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08-08-2008, 09:43 PM
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#1015 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 287
| ^wait... are u an asian female or an asian male?
and did you apply ed or ea? | |
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08-08-2008, 11:11 PM
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#1016 | | New Member
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 5
| hey stl2cali2k1,
I'm an Asian male (wait, did i not mention that?)
and I didn't apply early anywhere because I'm lazy. | |
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08-09-2008, 05:24 PM
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#1017 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 287
| man i wanna go to brown lol...
whats your major | |
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08-09-2008, 06:55 PM
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#1018 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 41
| Wow you people are very crazy. | |
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08-09-2008, 10:08 PM
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#1019 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 252
| This thread is awesome. Thank You so much for sharing! | |
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08-11-2008, 01:16 AM
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#1020 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Joisey
Posts: 271
| There is hope in this world!
Your essays must have kicked arse byan1007! | |
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