Congratulations! My D22 is a rising senior at UCLA and has had an amazing experience. She’s grown so much, made lovely friends and received a wonderful education. Have a great time!
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Congrats from one Bruin to another!
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I guess from my perspective, it looks like you applied to a well-balanced list, got a variety of great offers to consider, then picked what I assume was your favorite.
So to me that seems like a good strategy that paid off!
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S25 - CA, 4.0 GPA, 1580 SAT, 13 APs, applied - CS Major, spike - STEM ECs including national awards, varsity sports, community service, internship, strong recommendations
Accepted - CSUs, all UCs except UC Berkeley, Brown, CMU, USC, UIUC, GaTech
Waitlisted - Harvard, Cornell, UMich
Rejected - Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Princeton, UPenn, UT Austin
Attending - CMU
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What does CA stand for?
Most likely this means that the student is a California resident, because the post mentions California state schools (CSUs and UCs).
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Thank you!
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S25 Magnet Program, 1 B on transcript (when applied) IS Maryland, Engineering Major, lackluster ECs.
14APs plus MV Cal
SAT 1520 (780 math)
UMD >>>> Accepted/Attending Scholars
Georgia Tech>>>> Rejected
VT>>> withdrew (UMD was first choice)
Pitt >>> Accepted with $20k annual scholarship plus Honors
UDEL>>> Accepted with $17k annual Scholarship. Withdrew while Honors was being announced. Not selected for Honors in first round.
PSU>>> Accepted
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^my chance me with stats
accepted: MIT ea
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My daughter’s results:
Stats:
4.0 unweighted (actually 4.2 on a 4.3 scale, but my sense is most understand a 4.0 UW scale better!)
1570 SAT (790 V/780 M)
Full IB diploma
ECs:
Co-captain varsity equestrian team, represented team at Nationals Finals
Hiking (including completion of New England 67)
Completed independent research project on energy sustainability at her school, culminating in presentation to Board of Directors as well as 90 minute presentation to school and community members
Resident Assistant at Boarding school jr and sr year
Tour Guide for her school
Peer Tutor
Community Service including trail maintenance work to build and maintain sustainable trails
Chorus and a capella group
Summer job as counselor at science museum camp
Results:
*Applied as Chemical Engineering major to all schools
UNH - accepted to Honors College with $20k merit per year
UDel - accepted with $13k merit per year
Clemson - accepted with merit (amount not released)
Cornell - accepted ED!
UVA - withdrew
UMich - withdrew
Univ. of Washington - withdrew
UMass Amherst - withdrew
Edit to add:
Awards: NMSF, Rural and Small town award, Math student of year award (10 and 11), history student of year awards (10), foreign language student of year award (11)
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D26:
Suburban highly competitive public HS
GPA: 4.0 UW/ 4.98 weighted
Class rank: 1 / 250
SAT: 1580 (800 math/ 780 R/W)
ECs: Field Hockey- 3 yr varsity, various volunteer organizations, president school clubs, NASA project/competition
Summer internships: UConn research with professors (on something that I dont understand even after 100 explanations)
Awards: multiple Latin awards, NMSF (1510/1520 PSAT)
Results:
Brown - ED accepted
UConn - auto admit
Case Western - deferred.
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D26
First Generation, lower income
Title 1 Urban public high school
Full IB diploma, 4 APs, 4 dual enrollment courses
3.8UW/4.3W
34 ACT
EC’s:
Theater
Volunteer at Historical Museum
Creative writing (published in literary magazines, writing club at school)
Quiz bowl
Internship at county government agency
Tennis
Accepted to:
Ohio State EA
Dartmouth ED
Had to withdraw applications to over 20 colleges that she applied to in advance of ED acceptance, which was a bit painful after all of that essay writing!
She applied to several fly in programs, which helped her decide where she wanted to apply ED. She was accepted to Dartmouth Bound, offered the virtual program at Williams and was wait-listed at Bowdoin’s fly in program. She is very excited to attend Dartmouth in the fall, and relieved to know where she is going early on in the process!
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