Enjoyed this thread during our Admission cycle. Thought I’d share our recent experience.
D23 Results
White/Latina
Applied Neuroscience
Top Public HS
Rank 9/750
9 APs (one 4 in World History, others all 5, including Calc BC, Chemistry, Biology), Math Honors Classes
ECs – Soccer (Club, HS (captain), Div 1 summer league), Neuro-Psych Club (president), Life Science Teacher to 5/6th graders at a Saturday morning enrichment program, Music
SAT 1550 (800M/750)-one sitting.
Simons Summer Research Fellow
Regeneron Semi-Finalist
Letters of Rec from Biology/Research Teacher, English Teacher, and Summer Research Mentor, all very supportive.
Early Action
Accepted
UMich – Accepted
UMD – Accepted
Deferred Early/Rejected RD
Princeton
If we had to do it again, would possibly re-consider REA, number of actual unhooked spots probably not worth sacrificing some early acceptances. I think also some early results could give you some initial feedback on your application strength.
Regular Decision
Accepted
Brown–Attending
Carnegie Mellon
CWRU
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
WashU
Waitlisted
Duke – did not sign up for waitlist
Harvard – signed up for waitlist, didn’t send any updates (i.e., Departmental Academic Award Biology, ISEF Grand Award) or LOCI, received a rejection
Tufts – did not sign up for waitlist
UChicago – remained on waitlist because didn’t see an option to not withdraw, received a rejection
UPenn – did not sign up for waitlist
Rejected
Yale – A little surprised this was a rejection, after reading this:
“New STEM recruitment program seeks to increase yield of STEM matriculates - Yale Daily News”
thought we were a good fit.
Financials – The private schools COA were in the $35K-45K range with scholarships, grants. Out of state, UMich was the highest with a COA of attendance of $56K.