Consolidated EA/RD 2014 results thread

feynmanfan1508
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:06:05 +0000

Accepted

Stats:
[li]SAT: 800 (M) 760 (CR) 800 (W) (one sitting), 2390 superscore [/li]
[li]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 770 US History, 800 Physics [/li]
[li]ACT: N/A [/li]
[li]GPA: 3.93/4.0 [/li]
[li]Rank: 2/352 [/li]
[li]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AIME Qualifier 2009 and 2010, 5s on Micro, Macro, Eng Lang, and USH [/li]
[li]Essays: Wrote about my passion for Carnatic Music in my first, mathematics and physics for the second, overcoming a previous failure at National Indian Classical music competition and succeeding the subsequent year for the third, being both innately Indian and American in my fourth (background- parents from india), and wrote about a humbling experience at NJGSS (Gov school in Sciences) for the fifth. [/li]
[li]Recs: Pre-Calc teacher and AP English Lang teacher…i guess they were good. didn’t seem them. [/li]
[li]Supplementary Material: Music recording from a concert in India [/li]
[li]Summer Activities: NJGSS, Performed as vocalist with an acclaimed dance troupe, Rigorous personal guru-student training in India Summer of 2006 for music…Idk [/li]
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Cured cancer ;) [/li]
[li]Location: NJ [/li]
[li]High School Type: Public [/li]
[]Ethnicity: pakka Indian **.

[li]Gender: Male [/li]
[li]Extracurriculars: Math Team President, DECA Quiz Bowl Captain, Chess team (3rd Board, 1st in Division), Science League [/li]
[li]Awards: NMSSF, AP Scholar with Honor, international awards for carnatic music, 1st place/perfect score in Shore Math League, 2nd Place Regional Chem I and currently 1st place state Chem II, [/li]
[li]Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Showed nerdiness in essays. [/li]
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Well I got a likely from Columbia a couple of months ago so I knew I had a great safety school in case I didn’t get in. A lot of you guys who got rejected were all around applicants, specializing in everything, who will get into HYPS, who look for that. MIT focuses considerably on the best math/science accomplishments. By the way, I got deferred by MIT in December, so for those who may have gotten deferred by yale or stanford, dont lose hope.