Official Yale 2013 RD Results Thread

[bicyclekick]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

* SAT I (breakdown): 2200 CR: 710 M: 700 W: 790
* ACT: 34
* SAT II: USH: 790 Chem: 770 MathII: 770
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/190
* AP (place score in parenthesis): 5, 3
* IB (place score in parenthesis):
* Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs 1 Honors
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): various sports, community service, volunteering, etc.
* Job/Work Experience: one
* Volunteer/Community service: Mount Sinai Medical Center Volunteer, school stuff
* Summer Activities: volunteering/sports
* Essays: i thought they were good
* Teacher Recommendation: good
* Counselor Rec: good
* Additional Rec: good
* Interview: eh

Other

* State (if domestic applicant): NJ
* Country (if international applicant):
* School Type: public noncompetitive
* Ethnicity: white
* Gender: M
* Income Bracket: upper middle class
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

* Strengths: none lol
* Weaknesses: EC's among other things
* Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: its yale
* Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: rejected by harvard and brown, waitlisted at princeton, upenn, and columbia

General Comments:

[randomnerdz]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): M: 780; CR: 760; W: 800 (12E)
• ACT: N/A
• SAT II: Lit: 740, US History: 760, Math II: 770
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/570
• AP (place score in parenthesis): APHG (5), CHEMISTRY (4), USHISTORY (4), SPANISH LANGUAGE (4), STATISTICS (4), ENGLISH LANGUAGE (5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
• Senior Year Course Load: Most rigorous.
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Several state, national, and international writing (poetry) awards.

Subjective:

• Extra Curriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
  Interact Community Service Club (President)
  Model Organization of American States (President)
  Student Council (Student Body Executive)
  Literary Magazine (Editor-in-Chief)
  Business Professionals of America
  UIL Literary Criticism & Ready Writing
  Varsity Orchestra
  Interfaith Club (Secretary)
• Job/Work Experience: I worked at a calling center last summer
• Volunteer/Community service: I volunteered as a Research Assistant for two Psychology Professors last summer. I have hundreds of service hours and organize many youth and community action/activist projects.
• Summer Activities: Calling Center, Research Assistant
• Essays: How I promote human rights/activism with Interact; My beard -- and how it's taught me that no stereotype can constrain me; My empathy with strangers (creative piece)
• Teacher Recommendation: 1st- It was good. Not as good as it should have been.
  2nd- It was positive, but my teacher obviously didn't edit it. It was replete with grammar and factual mistakes.
• Counselor Rec: Wonderful
• Additional Rec: Interact Club Sponsor-Glowing; I'm one of her favorite students from the past 21 years
• Interview: On Campus-Exciting. I think he was impressed that I had arranged meetings with profs/department heads on my visit and that I had conducted individual research in Psychology.
  Off Campus- We talked for like 2.5 hours in a coffee station. She had just graduated, I'm not sure she knew what she was doing.

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
• Intended Major: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• State (if domestic applicant): TX
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Large Public
• Ethnicity: South Asian
• Gender:Male
• Income Bracket: Middle Class
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.

Reflection

• Strengths:My essays were very, very creative. I spent a lot of time on them. I am ridiculously active in my school. I dream big. I write poetry pretty well, I suppose.
• Weaknesses: Teacher Recommendations, Ethnicity..
• Why you think you were rejected: I was deferred early and now this. Yale just hates me, I suppose...even though I CLEARLY expressed my love for it.
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Columbia, Amherst, Williams, Grinnell, Tufts, UT; Waitlisted: Stanford, Princeton, Brown; Rejected: Harvard, Yale

General Comments: Don't get too emotionally attached to schools. Rejection stings.

[Canadianftw]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): CR680, M800, W740 (total: 2220)
• SAT II: MII800, Chem800, Phys750, Fre w/ L 660
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 98%
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 1%
• IB (place score in parenthesis): Total: 44/45
  • Math HL: 7
  • Physics HL: 7
  • Chem HL: 7
  • English HL: 7
  • History SL: 7
  • French SL: 6
  • TOK/EE: 3
• Senior Year Course Load: full IB + one non-IB course
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
  • Top 1% in national math contests, including a perfect score
  • Top 1% in national chem contest
  • 2x MusicFest Nationals Gold

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
  • School Concert Bands (Council Events Coordinator and Percussion Section Leader)
  • Piano: 9 years
  • Student Executive Council (Treasurer)
  • Track and Field/Cross Country teams (Athlete/coach)
  • Relay for Life (Finance Chair) - raised $44000 in the first year
  • School Yearbook (Editor and page designer)
  • Duke of Edinburgh award (School leader)
• Job/Work Experience: Kumon
• Volunteer/Community service: 250+ hours
• Summer Activities:
  • 2006: Teaching English in China
  • 2007: Canadian Math Society National Camp
  • 2008: Harvard SSP
• Essays: not good enough apparently
• Teacher Recommendation: good
• Counselor Rec: "I would not hesitate to identify him as one of my top students in my career."
• Additional Rec: awesome
• Interview: I had better ones, I had worse ones.

Other

• Country (if international applicant): Canada
• School Type: Public, ranked 3rd in the country
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: middle class
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

• Strengths: none apparently
• Weaknesses: everything
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I suck
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: rejected everywhere

General Comments: I've never felt so worthless

[southeasttitan]

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (780 CR, 620 M, 780 W)
• SAT II: 780 Lit, 750 M, 650 CR
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20/450
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish 4, USH 5
• Senior Year Course Load: 3 courses at Macalester College, AP Calc, AP Human Geography, independent projects in English, Newspaper
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2008 Davidson Fellow for Literature

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
  - Award-winning newspaper, Editor-in-Chief
  - Varsity soccer (not recruited)
  - State-ranked Quiz Bowl team
• Job/Work Experience: Loft Literary Center teen council
• Volunteer/Community service: 300+ hours, Head Start literacy program
• Summer Activities: Soccer, volunteering, writing
• Essays: I'm a writer, so probably my strongest suit. Wrote about my favorite passage from my book and my dog.
• Teacher Recommendation: Best in my career, etc.
• Counselor Rec: Great
• Additional Rec: N/A
• Interview: Dull and nondescript, but good, I guess.

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
• Intended Major: Literature
• State (if domestic applicant): MN
• School Type: Inner-city public
• Ethnicity: White. I know, what?
• Gender: F
• Income Bracket: $40,000/year
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Davidson Fellowship?

Reflection

• Strengths: Davidson Fellowship, essays, being from the city.
• Weaknesses: Math!
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea!
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Harvard, Northwestern, Macalester College, waitlisted Princeton, WashU, Boston College (lawl), denied Brwon

[ b]General Comments:[/b] ***??? I can't believe this!!!!!!!!

[hannaban]

rejected at Princeton, waitlisted at Columbia, and at Yale...


Decision: Accepted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2210 (Math 750, CR 690, Writing 770 essay 10)
• ACT: NOPE
• SAT II:Math IIC 800, Physics 720, Japanese 760
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/522
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on Calc BC, AP Euro, and Japanese; 4s on US History and English; 3 in French Language
• IB (place score in parenthesis): NOPE
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Statistics, AP English Literature, Ceramics, AP Macroeconomics, AP French Literature
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): International Japanese calligraphy awards
  [ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Youth and Government, Japanese Calligraphy, Japanese tea ceremony, Lax (not this year tho), Japanese American Citizens League
• Job/Work Experience: receptionist at accountancy firm
• Volunteer/Community service: started tutoring program for English learners, Japanese tea and calligraphy demonstrations, fundraisers for what I'm in, volunteer orchestra, etc.
• Summer Activities: Intern at bone marrow donor program
• Essays: about how I messed up –BIG TIME– in front of the grand tea master during a demonstration, but how the experience changed me (for the better, duh!)
• Teacher Recommendation: no clue
• Counselor Rec: best buddies
• Additional Rec: one of my original recommenders (my calc teacher) rewrote one and sent it in.
• Interviewretty cool man. unemployed though

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: YES and I hope I get some because Wellesley gave me $0 (
• Intended Major:electrical engineering
• State (if domestic applicant): ca
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: public
• Ethnicity:Japanese, so asian I guess. Unless my parents are secretly from somewhere else (heeheeeheeeeeee)
• Gender: F
• Income Bracket:197,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): NONE

Reflection

• Strengths: hmm I really tried my best, and although I had a lot of trouble with the supplement essay, I made it through!
• Weaknesses: I initially wrote a different essay for my supplement, but realized after I pressed "submit" that this wasn't what I REALLY wanted to write, and so I rewrote it and sent it to the admissions office. So I may have seemed like a mess.
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: They god a firm grasp of who I am (through my app)
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: rejected at Princeton, Stanford (SCEA); waitlisted at Columbia Fu; accepted at USC, Georgetown, and Wellesley (plus the UCs)

General Comments: Try your best in high school.



Right after I saw the blue screen, I screamed at the top of my lungs and clicked "next" before even finishing the song. WHY CAN I BE SO DUMB SOMETIMES?

[driveon]

Pick one:
Decision: Accepted


Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): CR 800, M 630, W 780
• ACT:35
• SAT II: Lit 760, US History 770, French 520
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8ish
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
• AP: US History (5)
• Senior Year Course Load: American Gov't, AP French IV, AP Biology, Independent Study (History/Government/Law/Sociology), AP English, AP Calculus, Psychology, school's required religion classes (Catholic school)
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar, regional/statewide stuff

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Academic Team (co-captain), Speech Team (president), Journalism Club/newspaper (president/former Chief Editor), Informed Youth (co-chair)
  [ *] Job/Work Experience: Summer Camp Counselor, Waitress
  [ *] Volunteer/Community service: Teen Advisory Council at local library, Habitat for Humanity, Rape & Abuse Crisis Center
  [ *] Summer Activities: writing, volunteering, working, hiking/camping
  [ *] Essays: pretty solid--they might have been what helped the most
  [ *] Teacher Recommendation: okay--my French and Accelerated Pre-Cal teachers (who are married, coincidentally) wrote mine, and they were decent but nothing special.
  [ *] Counselor Rec: okay
  [ *] Additional Rec:
  [ *] Interview: good

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: in a big way
• Intended Major: Anthropology
• State (if domestic applicant): mid-Missouri
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Catholic
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Female
• Income Bracket: around $100,000 (both parents working)
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation

Reflection

• Strengths: writing, leadership, volunteer experience
• Weaknesses: lower GPA, no outside-of-school camps or research, fewer class opportunities (small, rural school)
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I'll let you know once I figure it out!
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted EA to Stanford, accepted Columbia

General Comments: *is flailing*

[Midaji]

Decision: Accepted


Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 800 Math, 740 CR, 720 WR
• ACT: 34 (did not send in, only listed on app)
• SAT II: 800 US History, 790 Math II, 800 Chinese with Listening, 780 Physics
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/850 (large public school)
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s in Computer Science, World History, Psychology, BC Calc; 4s in English Comp, US History, Spanish Lang.
• IB (place score in parenthesis): none
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Economics (Macro + Micro), AP Gov, AP Chem, AP English Lit., Art
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Science Olympiad medals, Euro Challenge semi-finalist, National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction/Honor (forgot which)

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science Olympiad (group leader-->co-captain), Key Club (secretary--> President), Euro-Challenge, Fed Challenge
• Job/Work Experience: cashier
• Volunteer/Community service: Through Key Club
• Summer Activities: Work for family; Key Club
• Essays: Good, about personal/family obstacle, additional about my rejection from Stanford
• Teacher Recommendation: one was great, one didn't read
• Counselor Rec: Great
• Additional Rec: none
• Interview: none; I sent mine at the last minute

[ b]Other[/b]

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
• Intended Major: Undecided
• State (if domestic applicant): NY
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Large public; mildly competitive: about 10 each year to top schools
• Ethnicity: Chinese
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: ~60k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

[ b]Reflection[/b]

• Strengths: Nice, sort of emotional essays? Focused on personal circumstances instead about my accomplishments
• Weaknesses: No major awards, sports, legacies, etc. All in all a regular applicant
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Harvard, Wesleyan, Rochester, SUNY, BC, Lehigh; waitlisted by Duke, Wash U; rejected by Stanford SCEA

General Comments: The whole process is INSANELY random. You can't try to make sense out of the process. Personally, I was really paranoid, because my financial aid forms were really really late, and HYP didn't request them AT ALL. So I figured I was ignored, but it all came out great. Interviews also apparently don't matter much; didn't have one for Yale. Don't look too far deeply into things, just relax. And if you get rejected or waitlisted by a school, it does NOT forebode your results about your reaches. Even the most insignificant things you do could be very appealing to an admissions officer; just show yourself in many dimensions. All in all, I think I'm a normal candidate who got lucky.

[DBicknell]

Rejected

Stats profile : http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...user_id=219551

Now I get to decide between Penn and Harvard!

[haikumarukuchan]

Wow

you yale people

[churchill1990]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT: 2300 superscored (770 m, 760 CR, 770 w)
• SAT IIs: 760 Math 1, 730 French, 710 Math 2
• ACT: 32 (didn't send)
• GPA: 3.89 unweighted
• Rank: School doesn't rank

Subjective:

• Essays: Overall excellent. I thought it was the highlight of my application - Common App was a synthesis of morality vs. artistic expression during a theatre production I was in, Supplement described my passion for French and an experience I had while studying abroad
• Teacher Rec: Didn't read, but I chose teachers that like me :-)
• Counselor Rec: Same as above
• Hook (if any): Deferred SCEA

Location/Person:

• State or Country: WA
• School Type: Very small independent private
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• major strength/weakness: Strength: Essays, test scores Weakness: G.P.A, my music supplement possibly
• why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Just didn't work out I guess

General Comments: I was super exicted to be deferred SCEA, even though I knew my chances would be slim...congrats to all accepted!!

[Light Airen]

wow.. that's unfortunate.

but from your grades it's obvious you're a bright person! Good luck in the future!

[DBicknell]

Rejected

Stats profile : http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...user_id=219551

Now I get to decide between Penn and Harvard!

[MagiTF]

Congratulations to everyone accepted!!

I hope to see you all next year!

If you have any questions feel free to PM me. I (usually) respond relatively quickly.

[CCPWNZ]

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 730R, 780M, 760W = 2270
• ACT: 35 English, 35 Science, 35 Math, 30 Reading, 32 English/Writing = 34 Composite
• SAT II: 760 Math II, 770 Chem, 780 Physics, 790 Korean w/ Listening
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): idk man, it was 100 weighted
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
• AP (place score in parenthesis): world history, english lang/comp, physics b (5), us history (4)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
• Senior Year Course Load: ap chem, calc bc, english lit, comparative gov/pol, spanish
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): intel semi national merit commended ap scholar w/ honor

[ b]Subjective:[/b]

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): tae kwon do science olympiad school newspaper etc
• Job/Work Experience: just tutoring
• Volunteer/Community service: nursing home
• Summer Activities: research for intel
• Essays: alright, prolly nowhere near good as humanities crazy people at yale
• Teacher Recommendation: all good
• Counselor Rec: good, prolly bland
• Additional Rec: rec from research mentor good
• Interview: guy was real nice, couldn't have helped or hurt it was so informal and i learned more about yale than he prolly did about me

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah ($33k!!)
• Intended Major: mechanical engineering
• State (if domestic applicant): NY
• Country (if international applicant): (orignally south korea but i got moved over to regular us permanent resident later)
• School Type: public
• Ethnicity: KOREAN YO REPRESENT
• Gender: male
• Income Bracket: ~$130k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): anti hook for being korean and crappy grades

Reflection

• Strengths: maybe coming here from korea in 6th grade? alright at math/science compared to english
• Weaknesses: suck at sat/act reading, gpa low compare to others, have trouble with english sometimes
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: 100% luck
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: waitlisted literally EVERY ivy and other schools too (i.e. johns hopkins cooper union mit), rejected stanford/princeton.

General Comments: OMG OMGOGMOGMOMGOMGOMGOMOGMG WHAT???? WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[csboy1]

Accepted
Stats:

Unweighted GPA: 3.6
ACT: 28
SAT IIs: Didn't Send...they were horrible
Killer Essays
Great Ec's
Well done guys! DDDDD