Son was rejected but was accepted today by George Washington with a Presidential Scholarship, so a good day overall. Five more schools to hear from.
rejected
ACT 32
GPA 4.33
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Rejected SFS
OOS California
SAT 1530 single sitting
SAT II: Math2 740, Bio 760, Lit 710
ACT 34
4.0/4.67 (8 or 9 of APs with 4s/5s etc)
Editor in Chief
Sports captain X 2 and referee
Solid volunteering in major areas as well as for community
Visited Campus
No Hooks. Not Catholic (not that it matters)
Accepted: UMich, UC Davis Regents/Honors, UCSB Honors, UCSD, SDSU Honors invite, CUBoulder Honors, Gonzaga, Santa Clara, Villanova, U Washington
Waitlisted: Wash U St Louis
Deferred: Yale
Rejected: Boston College, Georgetown
Still Waiting on a few.
Congrats and good luck to everyone!
Rejected!
ACT: 36
GPA: 4.3
Accepted. Good luck to all
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Accepted!!! Congratulations everyone! Georgetown is my dream school and I will be attending in the fall!
Accepted!! Georgetown was in my top 3 so I’m definitely very happy about this result :)) Unsure if I’ll be able to afford attendance given the recent drop in the stock market/my college fund, so hopefully the result of the financial aid decision on Monday is good.
Applied for biochem in the College
GPA 4.53/4, SAT 1580, SAT II Bio 790, SAT II Chem 780, SAT II Math II 780, 15ish APs, mostly science/public health extracurriculars, interview went pretty okay
Good luck to everyone else!!
Rejected
Major: psychology
1290 SAT; 27 ACT
Rank: 41/414 (top 10%)
4.12 weighted capped, weighted 4.4, unweighted 3.8 UC GPA
8 AP’s
Female, Asian
EC’s: Summer Exchange program, VP Future Medical Professionals of America (FMPA) Club, VP Red Cross Club, member in all honor societies, essay tutor, equity leader, weekly volunteer at local SPCA, hospital, and Red Cross
Awards: Okinawa Peace scholarship recipient, 1st place in Japanese speech contest, Smith College Book Award, art work displayed in city fair and art walk, and AP Capstone diploma candidate
Accepted: UCSB, UCSC, UCD, UCSD, UW (scholarship), VCU (scholarship)
Waitlisted: UVA, Reed
Rejected: UChicago, Georgetown
Waitlisted
Class Rank:1/50
GPA:4.0 (no weights at my school)
SAT:1430 (720 math 710 writing)
Accepted to University of Michigan
Georgetown was my number 2 school.
I’m disappointed but super happy for all of you that got in!
DD waitlisted for SFS
OOS
GPA: 3.98 uw
SAT: 1490 (760 writing, 730 math)
Congratulations to all those accepted, good luck to all!
Rejected but two great acceptances today. As D wisely said, “you win some and you lose some.” Congrats to all!
Admitted !! I am still in shock because I was not a strong candidate. TEST SCORES ARE NOT HIGH… good luck to everyone!!
Rejected McDonough
35 ACT, 94.85 GPA UW
780 SAT Math 2, 720 World History, but had a couple horrendous scores from freshman and sophomore year on subject tests
Heavy IB and AP Courseload
Solid EC’s including internship, summer business program, Music (many awards), Business Club Officer, Class Council Officer, and volunteering
A bit disappointed, but congrats to everyone who got in!
My son just got accepted!! We are from New Zealand. 1480 SAT strong EC’s and references. Now to combat Covid-19 so everyone can start in the fall.
Waitlisted!! Georgetown is one of my top schools, and I am so happy to even be on the waitlist! I applied for Human Science in the School of Nursing and Health Studies.
Accepted: UC Davis, UCSD, UCSB, UCSC, UCI
Waitlisted: Georgetown
Denied: Columbia (ED)
Daughter Accepted!
Major: Biochemistry
SAT: 1560
GPA: 4.41
Wasn’t expecting the news today!
Accepted!!!
33 ACT. 4.45 w gpa, 4.0 uw. Maryland. Catholic HS. Double legacy. Extremely strong leadership, EC, and essays. Top 1% of class.
Son accepted
Out of State (Illinois)
SAT 1510 single sitting (720 RW, 790 Math)
SAT II: Chemistry 780, Biology 760, Math2 760, Math1 780
UGPA 4.0/4.0
WGPA 5.50
School doesn’t rank, but colleges must know he is 1st out of around 1100
18 APs (12 exams taken, all 5s/4s, 6 to be taken later this year, apparently online now)
4-year varsity sport (captain junior and senior year)
Officer in NHS
Division leader
Sports Leadership Council member
Lots of volunteering at a hospital over the last 2 years, plus job shadowing in radiology department
2x Science Fair state winner in microbiology (research on bacteria and antibiotics)
No hooks
White male
for future applicants:
Accepted! I might attend but I don’t know for sure yet, I’m very excited though and congrats to everyone else!
Georgetown College
Major: American studies
SAT: 1560
GPA: 4.988 (weighted), I don’t know unweighted
subject tests: us history (800), math 2 (790), world history (770)
no class rank
junior year AP: art history (5), lang (5), physics 1 (4), us history (5)
senior year AP: calc bc, us gov, English lit, Spanish language and culture, macro
Female, white
extracurriculars: model un president for two years with five awards, debate captain, internship on a statewide campaign, concert choir/a capella, rector or a large retreat at my school, political columnist in my school newspaper, volunteering at a home for lower-income seniors, founder/president of my school’s jsa chapter, other less important commitments, secretary of a statewide political organization (NJ)
awards: first place amc 10 and amc 12, gold medalist national Spanish exam (2x), various model un awards, scholarship finalist for my school, brandeis book award, multiple honor societies, guest speaker at a teen leadership camp
Special Talent Essay: I talked about how I’m good at finding “Model UN pants” whenever I go shopping
Extracurricular essay: Model UN
Personal statement essay: I compared my life to food
Georgetown College essay about education: I wrote about my first experiences with learning (preschool) and why I think it’s important
I quite honestly think I was only accepted for my essays–all but the extracurricular essay were really creative.
Accepted: UVM, Pitt, American, Colby, Georgetown
Waitlisted: Bowdoin, Bates, Amherst, Swarthmore
Deferred: Dartmouth