Official Yale 2013 RD Results Thread

[dogdoc]

Decision: Accepted!!
so excited! i guess it's true what they say about not losing hope when you get deferred.

if you want my stats, feel free to stalk my profile...

[Millerl1te]

rejected stats later. accepted at hahvahd though. Btw csboy1, what were your ECs? and How'd you get away with not sending in SAT IIs?

[csboy1]

Yale doesn't require them ...I knew it would dramatically jeopardize my chances if I had sent them in, which is why I chose not to. I also got wait listed for Harvard & Princeton. However, I got into UPENN, Cornell, Dartmouth, & Duke --congrats for getting into Harvard, you deserve it!

[kfowler]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): N/A
• ACT: 34
• SAT II: 800 US History, 780 Math II, 730 Bio-M
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/96
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 USH
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load:
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Track, Golf (captain), Scholastic Bowl (Captain, All-State), Newspaper (Editor-in-chief), Drama (lead role in the spring play, but that was too late to matter)
• Job/Work Experience: Congressional Intern, Intern at State Senator's office
• Volunteer/Community service: tutoring
• Summer Activities: work and community college classes
• Essays: great
• Teacher Recommendation: good
• Counselor Rec: standard
• Additional Rec:
• Interview: didn't get one

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
• Intended Major: Political Science
• State (if domestic applicant): IL
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: rural public
• Ethnicity: white
• Gender: male
• Income Bracket: middle class
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Reflection

• Strengths: stats, ECs, essays
• Weaknesses: small high school
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: coming from a high school that they've never heard of or received an application from before
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted: Northwestern, Georgetown, Notre Dame, UIUC; rejected: HYPS

General Comments:

[rb3]

Yale, my love, after being so coldly deferred on a bleak December afternoon, I'm back. O. M. G. I made it!!!

Decision: Accepted!

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 760,770,770
• SAT II: 800,800,790,790
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10%
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5, 5, 4, 4
• IB (place score in parenthesis): n.a.
• Senior Year Course Load: Very heavy
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Sport, instrument, theater, 4-10 years each, + school involvement
• Job/Work Experience: Hardcore summer internship
• Volunteer/Community service: Some
• Summer Activities: Internship, vacation
• Essays: I put my sweat, lack of sleep, anger, and love into the two damned 1-page essays. <3.
• Teacher Recommendation: Great
• Counselor Rec: Great
• Additional Rec: Great (2 of em)
• Interview: Average-ish

Other

• School Type: Big, public
• Ethnicity: White?
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket: Low
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection

• Strengths: EC's, test scores, recs
• Weaknesses: GPA, no major awards
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Oh Yale..

General Comments:
I am humbled, very surprised, and ecstatic. Got into HYPS. I can't believe it. I don't know how to choose now.

[sherlock1016]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2240 = 730 Reading, 720 Math, 790 Writing
• ACT: 35
• SAT II: 750 US History, 740 Literature, 720 Biology
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Don't know, 96%
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Don't know, bottom of top decile
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 Euro, 5 APUSH, 5 EngLang, 5 HumanGeo
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: 6 APs
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):4 years of theater w/ 8 leads, All-State level singer, Select Choir (President), Music Honors Society (President), Male a cappella group (President), Literary Magazine (Editor), 2 years varsity tennis
• Job/Work Experience:
• Volunteer/Community service:Various singing and performing groups in the community for the sick and elderly.
• Summer Activities:Study abroad and local theater productions
• Essays: My counselor said my essays were the best he ever read
• Teacher Recommendation: I don't know, but guessing good
• Counselor Rec:he liked me a lot, I'm guessing superb
• Additional Rec: A music teacher, very good
• Interview: Went really well

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: nope
• Intended Major: History
• State (if domestic applicant): NY
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Caucasian
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: $200,000 +
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

• Strengths: ACT, extracurricular activities, essays
• Weaknesses: Grades, rank, location, no hook
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because I guess I just don't jump out
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted U Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Kenyon, U Mich. Waitlisted Amherst, Carleton. Rejected Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Oxford

General Comments: I was completely expecting a rejection from Yale. I loved the school, but I wasn't surprised, so this one didn't hurt.

[Millerl1te]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown):
• ACT: 36
• SAT II: 800MathII, 750 Chem, 720 USH
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0, 4.39 w (highest ever at school, except for valedectorian this year)
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 APUSH and 5 Lang, taking 5 more APs this year
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs, theology, music theory honors, and band
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF, Presidential Scholar candidate, huge Key club stuff
  

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): KEY CLUB(Pres, VP, Lt. Gov, chairman for huge projects that raised tons of money), Band, Peer Ministry, NHS, Rho Kappa, Mu ALpha Theta, SADD, Youth group, and a few more
• Job/Work Experience: 12 hrs/week since junior year
• Volunteer/Community service: over 900 (almost 9000 hehehe)
• Summer Activities: Haiti Mission trip, work.... work. Boy's state. work
• Essays: i thought they were pretty good
• Teacher Recommendation: amazing
• Counselor Rec: best student ever
• Additional Rec: from boss. very short and to the point
• Interview: i thought this went horribly
  

Other

• State (if domestic applicant): FL
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Catholic
• Ethnicity: Mexican and white (halfy)
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket: Upper middle
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
  

Reflection

• Strengths: act, uw gpa, urm
• Weaknesses: sat IIs, no competitions and few awards outside of key club (didn't really apply to any...)
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: prob URM, which makes me feel guilty
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected by Yale, but accepted by Harvard, MIT, BC, BU, UF, Fordham, Caltech, FSU, and Harvey Mudd

General Comments: congrats to those who got in. For those who didn't, I'm sure you will end up at another amazing place and will be even more amazing wherever you end up. Goodluck to all in making a decision.

Funny, in my rejection letter it said something like "we are sure you greatly disappointed." Not really. anywho, congrats to everyone who got into yale!

[lolcats4]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2320 superscored (800 CR, 770 M, 750 W)
• SAT II: 2400 + 780 (800 Literature, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry, 780 Math 2)
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87 UW for the 74 college credits I've taken (I'm home schooled)
• Senior Year Course Load (College classes): Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, U.S. History, Honors Intro to Shakespeare, Honors Organic Chemistry I and II (with lab), World Politics
• Senior Year Course Load (Home School): Western Literature, Philosophy, Government
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Presidential Scholar candidate (not really big unless I get Semifinalist or Scholar)

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Strategy game design, website management; Violin and Youth Orchestra; Boy Scout Venture Crew (Eagle Scout); Varsity Swim Team
• Volunteer/Community service: Boy Scouts, Venture Crew, Eagle Project
• Summer Activities: Rayado program, major trips w/ Venture Crew, otherwise nothing major
• Essays: Wrote main common app on my work in the video game industry (risk). Second essay was about my swim team.
• Teacher Recommendation: One stellar, one good (from college professors)
• Counselor Rec: My dad wrote this (as I'm home schooled) and it was good in explaining my home school situation
• Additional Rec: Had one written by my "boss" at the website I work for. He was an Oxford tutor and it was stellar.
• Interview: None

Other

• State (if domestic applicant): AZ
• School Type: Home School
• Ethnicity: White (Caucasian)
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: Below $60k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection

• Strengths: Test scores that validate my advanced college coursework, overall well-roundedness while having a very unique "edge" (video games)
• Weaknesses: Video games are a risk, essays weren't brilliant
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Columbia, Duke, Pomona, Georgetown, USC. Waitlisted at Harvard and Princeton, and rejected from Yale.

General Comments: Gratz to the admitted class Wouldn't have picked Yale over Pomona anyways!

[pvtejasvi]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): CR 640,590 (2nd time) , 630 (1st time), Math: 750, 670 (2nd time), 590 (1st time), Writing: 770,670(2nd Time), 600 (1st Time)
• 2160 (JAN SAT), 1970 Superscored before, 1910 (2nd time), 1820 (1st time)
• ACT:
• SAT II: US HIST: 770, MII: 680, CHEM:720, BIO-E: 700
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96/4.0
• Weighted GPA: 5.35/6.00
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/906 (SECONDARY SC REP), 1/816 (MID YEAR)
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 US History, 4 Chemistry, 3 World History (IB STUDENT)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): 4 SL Chemistry (TEACHER DIDNT TELL US ABOUT LABS) , 5 SL French
• Senior Year Course Load: 8 IB & AP Classes + Decathalon
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):AP SCholar, Valedictorian, Optimist Award - Chemistry, and more

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis (1 year), Newspaper (2 yrs), Decathalon (1 year)
• Job/Work Experience: Research Volunteer w/ paper being published
• Volunteer/Community service: Nursing Homes, Hospitals, local Research Foundation
• Summer Activities: Swimming, Tabla (INDIAN DRUM), Tennis, Research
• Essays: Excellent
• Teacher Recommendation: EXCELLENT but GENERIC
• Counselor Rec: EXCELLENT but GENERIC
• Additional Rec: Research Foundation Coordinator, Piano Teacher
• Interview: EXCELLENT!!!

Other

• State (if domestic applicant): TX
• Country (if international applicant): USA
• School Type: PUBLIC
• Ethnicity: INDIAN AMERICAN
• Gender: MALE
• Income Bracket: above 250k
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):NONE maybe research + ecs?

Reflection

• Strengths: ECs + research
• Weaknesses:SAT!!!! (3rd time - JANUARY SAT), ORM
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: SAT WAS A problem - couldn't compete well enough in that area
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected
  Rejected: Dartmouth, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern
  Waitlisted: Rice, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Upenn
  Accepted: UT Austin, Boston University
  

General Comments: Congratulations everyone that got accepted!!! If u were rejected like me - u are still a great candidate - even by applying u have proven that you are up in the best. As for me I will be off to UT Austin, I will wait on my 4 waitlists. sigh - more waiting - hopefully i will get in.....

[hookem168]

So is it Pomona all the way, lolcats, or are you staying on the H or P waitlist???

Btw, way to get into Columbia and the H+P waitlists!

I got flat-out rejected by all of the Big Four

[demonsword55]

rejected:
2200 (780 cr, 690 m, 730 w)
3.9 gpa uw (ranked 8/330)
good recs, EC's
I thought I had good essays
white male, no legacy, etc. i had QB though, if that helps

[ChandlerBing]

I was rejected by Yale. I was completely expecting it, and I don't think I'll post stats until later, but congratulations to everyone who was admitted!
This was an atrocious year to apply to the Ivy League.

My college decisions:

Accepted to Williams, Cornell, Tufts, Geneseo, Brandeis, and Binghamton.
Waitlisted at Amherst and Penn.
Rejected by Duke, Dartmouth, Yale, and Harvard.

It's Cornell vs. Williams for me!

[cinnamon9724]

Decision: Rejected

Objective:

* SAT I (breakdown): 800 W, 790 M, 760 CR
* ACT: 35
* SAT II: 750 Chem, 750 World History, 800 Math II
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): national merit finalist

Subjective:

* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): newspaper (eic), badminton (#1 singles), class board (secretary)
* Job/Work Experience: marketing survey place for a year
* Volunteer/Community service: a ton, don't feel like going into detail
* Summer Activities: repaired homes for needy
* Essays: ok
* Teacher Recommendation: don't see
* Counselor Rec: ditto
* Additional Rec: very nice
* Interview: went very well

Other[list][*] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes[*] Intended Major: chemical engineering[*] State (if domestic applicant): IL[*] Country (if international applicant):[*] School Type: public[*] Ethnicity: white[*] Gender: female[*] Income Bracket: 150,000[*] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Got into Brown so don't care!!!

[Peytoncline]

Decision: Rejected


Objective:

* SAT I (breakdown): 690 CR, 800 M, 780 W
* ACT: 35 (36 E, 36 M, 34 R, 34 S; 8 on essay)
* SAT II: 800 Math II and Chem; 740 Physics
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 UW (4.6 Weighted)
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rank - Top 5%
* AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geo (3), World Hist (4), Cal AB (5), Chem (5), Physics B (5)
* IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
* Senior Year Course Load: Band, AP Cal BC, AP Lit, AP Bio, Honors Senior Thesis, AP Lang, AP Gov't
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):many state-wide trombone awards; National Merit Finalist; Pres. Scholar Candidate; AP Scholar with Distinction


Subjective:

* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band, Band Council President, Science and Engineering Club (VP), quiz bowl assistant captain, green club, band competitions
* Job/Work Experience: None
* Volunteer/Community service: 141 hours
* Summer Activities: Band camps
* Essays: Common app - about a band experience and how that impacted me; princeton supplement - my dad's impact on my life
* Teacher Recommendations: Evidently they were good (wasn't allowed to read them)
* Counselor Rec: Assuming it was good
* Additional Rec: None
* Interview: Yes


Other

* State (if domestic applicant): Arkansas
* Country (if international applicant):
* School Type: Private
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Male
* Income Bracket: $90,000 - $120,000
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none


Reflection

* Strengths: GPA, Test Scores, Band Stuff
* Weaknesses: Not too many really huge awards like Intel or Siemens or USAMO
* Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Oh well, that's okay. I got deferred from SCEA, so this was kind of expected.


General Comments:Congratulations to everyone who got in. I got accepted to Princeton, so I think I'll be heading there next year.

[Dbate]

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

• SAT I (breakdown): 2070 (790 CR, 650 M, 630 W)
• ACT: 34 (36 R, 35 M, 32 E, 31 S)
• SAT II: Didn’t send in
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 13/495
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 English Lang, 5 US History, took Chem and Comp. Sci classes but not the AP tests
• IB (place score in parenthesis):
• Senior Year Course Load: Calc AB, Bio, Physics B, English Lit, Stats, Economics, Government (All AP)+Health
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): This:
  Speech & Debate Awards
  10th
  State Qualifier in Lincoln Douglas Debate
  5th Place Team Texas Forensic League State Tournament
  1st place University of Texas Longhorn Classic Tournament
  1st Place Aldine Debate Tournament
  National Forensic League Distinction Honor
  11th
  State Qualifier in Lincoln Douglas Debate
  State Quarterfinalist Extemporaneous Speaking
  3rd Place University Interscholastic League District Extemporaneous Speaking
  6th Place National Forensic League District Extemporaneous Speaking
  National Forensic League Special Distinction Honor
  Science Research Awards
  9th
  Fort Bend Outstanding Achievement in Science Award
  10th
  Fort Bend Outstanding Achievement in Science Award
  Elkins High School Top Chemistry Student Honor
  11th
  Evaluation of Photon Tunneling Probability by Spatial Variation published by The Society for Amateur Scientists
  4th Place American Physics Society-Texas Chapter
  Jacobs Engineering Science Research Award
  4th Place Science and Engineering Fair of Houston
  Fort Bend Outstanding Achievement in Science Award
  Elkins High School Top Chemistry Student Honor
  
  
  

Subjective:

• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate, Extemporaneous Speaking, Trumpet, Football, Science Research, Parliamentarian for Science Honor Society
• Job/Work Experience: Worked at Target two summers
• Volunteer/Community service: None
• Summer Activities: Target work and research
• Essays: One essay was about being the only black at science competitions and about identity. The other essay was about faith and evolution.
• Teacher Recommendation: My debate coach probably was really good, but the other one was probably average
• Counselor Rec: It was probably about science research (they basically allow us to tell them what to write bc they don’t know us)
• Additional Rec: None
• Interview: Went really well

Other

• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep
• Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering (but will probably switch to Applied Physics)
• State (if domestic applicant): TX
• Country (if international applicant):
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Black
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: 110K
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Black+Engineering+Research
• Strengths: My ACT score and research (sent in my 16 page research report on quantum tunneling)
• Weaknesses: My grades and rank
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My scores, research and GOD!!!!
  
  This is the research btw:
  9th Quantitative Analysis of Electron Transition in Helium
  
  Þ Evaluated the quantitative changes in the helium atom as electrons transition to higher energy states to understand how excitation affects atomic properties for application to engineering materials
  
  10th Evolution of Time Independent Wave Functions in an Electrostatic Field
  
  Þ Calculated dilations in the wave functions of the Helium atom in a static electromagnetic field to elucidate effects of magnetism on particles for optimization of engineering design environments
  
  11th Evaluation of Photon Tunneling Probability by Spatial Variation
  
  Þ Analyzed the relationship between the probability for photon plane waves to undergo quantum tunneling and the width of the tunneling barrier for development of more efficient engineering materials
  

General Comments: Good Luck to everyone else. I am so grateful.



I am sorry hookem, I really wanted you to get in. And southeastitain I am so glad you got in I ABSOLUTELY LOVED your essays.