Official 2005 - 2011 Decision Thread

jiess · March 31, 2009, 4:52pm

rejected. not surprised. I assumed my application was incomplete and never sent my resume of ECs.

Best of luck everyone.

Elastine · March 31, 2009, 5:48pm

Decision: ACCEPTED

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT: 2240
[] SAT IIs: 2400
[] GPA: 6 A’z at A Level Exams. School does not have GPA system. Would be a 4.0?
[] Rank: No rank.
[] Other stats: None.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: Risky stuff.
[] Teacher Recs: One good, one horrible.
[] Counselor Rec: Horrible.
[] Hook (if any): I guess a gap year working as a journalist in Pakistan’s premier news mag?
[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[] State or Country: PAKISTAN
[] School Type: Private
[] Ethnicity: South Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Intended Major: Undecided

seventytwo · March 31, 2009, 5:51pm

Decision: Accepted!

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT: (Taken 2x) CR 730, M 760, W 800
[] SAT IIs: (All taken 2x) Bio 780, Math II 790, Literature 670 (OUCH)
[] GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.33+ weighted (not exactly sure, but it’s at least 4.33)
[] Rank: 4/177
[] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: I liked my common app essay, but I’m pretty sure it’s the peer review that really did it - my best friend (a FANTASTIC WRITER) wrote my essay, and I owe her so much right now.
[] Teacher Recs: Okay. Probably good, but not the BEST essay they’ve ever written for a student.
[] Counselor Rec: Awesome.
[] Hook (if any): None. I’m Asian…
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[] State or Country: NY, USA
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Korean
[] Gender: Female
[] Intended Major: Biology
[li] major strength/weakness: I re-sent in another essay and a resume, only to find that the years were wrong on the resume… So this might have made me look a bit disorganized, but apparently it didn’t matter that much.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:

desiking75 · March 31, 2009, 8:02pm

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redkbro · March 31, 2009, 7:05pm

Decision:ACCEPTED

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT: 2270 (M 800, R 740, W 730)
[] SAT IIs: Math II 800, U.S. History 780, Biology 630
[] GPA: 4.52
[] Rank: 2
[] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: A bit clique, about sports
[] Teacher Recs: Pretty great
[] Counselor Rec: no idea
[] Hook (if any): Peer Evaluation by a current student
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[] State or Country: NY
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Intended Major: Biology
[li] major strength/weakness: Lots of extracurriculars, two sport varsity captain, volunteering, music, etc.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:

college316 · March 31, 2009, 8:43pm

I got in!

Here is my dilemma:
I got into Dartmouth, Cornell, Vandy, Middlebury, and Emory with no financial aid whatsoever.

Rice and Tulane are giving me about $25,000/yr.

My heart is completely set on Dartmouth and if I have to pay student loans til the next millenium I will; there’s nothing I’d rather spend my money on.

Is it worth it??

Consolation · March 31, 2009, 8:52pm

I would strongly consider Rice. Have you visited?

college316 · March 31, 2009, 10:47pm

I am visiting for Owl Days (don’t laugh) in early April.

People seem happier at Rice…like they go there not for the prestige/Ivy League but because they actually want to be there…plus the college system is a huge bonus.

Dartmouth is obviously strong academically but I want to make sure I’m not going to a homogeneous school.

shailen.sobhee · April 1, 2009, 2:10am

@Wharf Rat

Lol…they would kick you out of Dartmouth the day you break the son’s heart!!

Congrats btw :D

bristolstomp · April 1, 2009, 4:10pm

I’m an alum whose son gotdeferred from Ed but was rejected, (ending a 5 generation 8 person legacy.) I would tell you I think it is definitely worth it compared to what I know about the schools you mentioned, esp. Middlebury. But the isolation of Hanover and the winter etc. can definitely be difficult for some; also for some the competitiveness (remember how few got in) of those there can also be a turnoff, and lead to some lonely times for some. I myself struggled with the winter isolation stuff as I was a NJ suburban kid used to going into Philly for fun. I keep in touch with a lot of alums of D at all ages and I just can’t find one who regrets going, but its basically the only thing they know. I would definitely recommend that you visit there, do an overnight and really look at yourself and see if its a fit for YOU. It may sound silly but try JuicyCAMpus and talk to some kids there now. You’d be surprised what answers you can get. Congratulations on your acheivement.

bristolstomp · April 1, 2009, 4:13pm

I think the recently released admission figures show a 50% of color in terms of offers of admission. You might want to check with the Admissions office…

ZFanatic · April 1, 2009, 8:08pm

Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2070, 700 Math, 670 CR, 640 W
[] ACT: 32 Comp, 36 Math, 34 Sci, 29 Rdg, 29 Eng
[] SAT II: 740 Math II, 700 Chem, 620 Lit (gross)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.61…
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 47/498
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 10 APs by end of senior year
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Eng Lit, AP Calculus AB, Student Council Officer
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Physician Shadowing, Research, StuCo (secretary), NHS, 3 years school baseball, Boy Scouts (senior patrol leader and Eagle Scout)
[] Job/Work Experience: 5 years working as youth baseball umpire, and other employment always/year round
[] Volunteer/Community service: lots. Shoulda kept better track of my hours.
[] Summer Activities: Work, and Native American Youth Initiative program
[] Essays: Really good, but not super original or exciting. About my shadowing.
[] Teacher Recommendation: IDK
[] Counselor Rec: Most likely fantastic
[] Additional Rec: none
[] Interview: Pretty good. Not my best, but I’d say an A if it were for a grade.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: yep
[] Intended Major: Chem
[] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public Magnet
[] Ethnicity: Native American (obviously not that much help…)
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: ~130k
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Native American, but once again, didn’t help that much obviously.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Courseload (hardest of anyone at my school, I’m certain.
[] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: My passion for science and medicine, as well as that I actually am somewhat related to my tribal heritage. Obviously not good enough.
[] Weaknesses: GPA GPA GPA GPA.
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: SubPar GPA is the only thing I can really think of.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: It seems to me like they really care a lot more about grades than they let on. obviously, because it is the Ivy League, but I guess mine just weren’t good enough. It seems like they’d rather you took 5 AP’s and have all A’s than take 10 AP’s and make 4 A’s and 6 B’s
[/ul]

youngstudent · April 2, 2009, 12:26am

Decision: Accepted! (ED, Just posting now)

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT:CR :770, M: 700, W: 630
[] SAT IIs: can’t remember them- low 700s
[] GPA: 3.96
[] Rank:3/410
[] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: Personal, and very good
[] Teacher Recs: didn’t read em
[] Counselor Rec: didn’t read
[] Hook (if any): first generation? Lots of community service
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[] State or Country: MA
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Intended Major: Bio or Economics
[li] major strength/weakness:SAT scores[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
I really don’t know…

aprausch · April 2, 2009, 1:35am

Decision: ACCEPTED!

Stats:[ul]
[ *] SAT: 2300 (800 Writing, 750 Math, 750 Reading)
[ *] SAT IIs: Chem, US History: 700’s
[ *] GPA: uw:4.0, w:5.0
[ *] Rank: 1/300
[ *] Other stats: ACT 32
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[ *] Essays: My love of philosophy and my personal struggle of reconciling faith and logic.
[ *] Teacher Recs: One amazing, one mediocre
[ *] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see. Probably good.
[ *] Hook (if any): None. White, High-Middle Class
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[ *] State or Country: California!!!
[ *] School Type: Private Catholic
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Intended Major: Double Major Philosophy and Neurochem/bio
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strong scores, loved my essay. No real weakness aside from the boringness of my background.
[/ul]**Other Factors:**My school’s valedictorian last year is at Dartmouth. This year I follow in the footsteps. Maybe they like my school?

Hiyo_bye · April 5, 2009, 1:32am

Decision:Accepted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 total, 700 CR
[] ACT: 35
[] SAT II: 800 770 750 740 740 740
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 99.5 out of 100
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): unranked, top 2-3 percent
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 5 5 5 4
[] Senior Year Course Load: 7 AP’s
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): eh not much
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4-yrs of track/winter track/cross country, Captain + MVP senior year Mathletes 4 years, Research various awards etc etc
[] Job/Work Experience: 3 summers doing accounting work
[] Volunteer/Community service: a lot of track/school related
[] Summer Activities: work, volunteer, running, driver’s ed
[] Essays: Pretty good, worked real hard on them
[] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read, should be decent
[] Counselor Rec: She said it was great
[] Interview: Probably nothing too special
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah
[] Intended Major: Econ
[] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[] School Type: Very competitive public… we send like 30+ to Ivies
[] Ethnicity: Chinese
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: 200k+
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Strong stats/courseload in a tough school, a lot of dedication to running, and people like my writing in general
[] Weaknesses: Asian on Long Island… my school sent some strong students to HYP
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I put a lot of work into my Whraton app, contacting the school and whatnot. Luck played a factor as well.[/li][/ul]General Comments:

I’m pleased. Most likely going to Wharton next year. Also got into Dartmouth (likely letter), UChicago, Duke, Northwestern, NYU Stern (20k scholarship), Tulane and Binghamton. Waitlisted Cornell AEM, Rejected HYPS; ouch. Thanks College Confidential for all the help; I’ve been here for like a year.

ChandlerBing · April 5, 2009, 1:33am

Rejected!
But accepted to Williams and Cornell, going to either of those.

The Dartmouth rejection letter was very honest. Kudos to Maria Laskaris. Less sugarcoating= a high-quality rejection letter.

(Ephs>>>>Big Green. Deal with it. :D)

danr74 · April 5, 2009, 8:23pm

**Decision: Accepted **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT:1500/2280
[] SAT IIs:790 Chem 780 Math II 760 US Hist
[] GPA:97/100
[] Rank:1/230
[] Other stats:36 ACT
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: good i thought
[] Teacher Recs:one great one decent
[] Counselor Rec:good, pretty specific
[] Hook (if any):none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[] State or Country:NY
[] School Type:top 100 public
[] Ethnicity:white
[] Gender:male
[] Intended Major:econ/bme
[li] major strength/weakness:scores, grades[/li][/ul]Other Factors:

brainygotback · April 8, 2009, 1:34pm

ACCEPTED, idk why, but im grateful.
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: African-American
Age: 17
State of Residence: FL

School Type: Public
Class Rank: Top 2%
Unweighted GPA: 3.60
Weighted GPA: 6.0
ACT: 30
(math 26, reading 31, science 28, english 36, essay 10)
SAT Critical Reading: 700
SAT Math: 620
SAT Writing: 760
Combined SAT: 2080
SAT II US History: 710
SAT II Literature: 680
AP US Government: 4
AP US History: 5
AP World History: 4

IB Diploma Candidate
Math Studies SL - 5
Psychology SL - 4

-Took two extra classes online - Latin I and AP US Gov’t

Took one college course - Macroeconomics, got an A

Activities: Varsity Cheerleader, Badminton, Multicultural Dance Ensemble, National Honor Society, FBLA, NHS, Senior Class, Student Government, FCAA

Honors-
top scholar
most improved (cheerleading)
super star student award
original essay bronze medalist

leadership:
VP fcaa north miami teen chapter
Treasurer Dance Ensemble
Historian fcaa north miami teen chapter
Secretary of the Pioneer Cheerleaders
Senior Class Secretary and Student Government Participant

volunteer work -
-neonatologist’s assistant at University of Miami/Jackson Hospital (about 60 hours)
-tutoring
-recreational therapy and clerical work at nursing home (60 hours)

employment -
summer 07, camp counselor
summer 08, intern at nursing home

Arch3r25 · April 10, 2009, 4:48pm

Accepted

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 760
[] SAT Math: 770
[] SAT Writing: 800
[] SAT Total: 2330
[] SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math 2 760 US History 750 Chemistry
[] TOEFL (if applicable): Nay
[] ACT (if applicable): Nay
[] AP/IB taken/scores: This year: AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP Euro Hist, AP English Lang, AP English Lit. Last year: AP French Lang (5), AP US History (5), AP Macroeconomics (4), AP Microeconomics (4)
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): 103.3 – 4.0
[] GPA unweighted: 96.2 – 3.91
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1 out of 770
[] Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist, Presidential Scholars Candidate, AP Scholar with Distinction, Xerox Award, Junior Achievement Titan Business Competition State Champ, Tri-State Math League Top 3 Award

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: I like my essays a lot. Main commonapp one about professional wrestling, another about family heritage, and a third about my research interests and where I want to take them.
[] Teacher Rec #1: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[] Teacher Rec #2: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[] Additional Rec: Two research mentor recommendation letters from MIT Nuclear Engineering and Harvard SEAS professors. The MIT one was phenomenal. I didn’t read the Harvard one.
[] Counselor Rec: I didn’t read it. I assume it was crappy. I go to a massive school, and I barely know her, although we are on really friendly terms and I provided her with ample material for any sort of rec letter.
[] Hook (if any): Research is most definitely my hook.

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: New Hampshire
[] School Type: Private (Realistically, it’s public though)
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[] Gender: Male
[] Legacy: Wustl, Harvard Legacy
[] Recruited Yes/No: Nay…I wish. Anyone wanna hook me up with a ping pong coach?
[] Important ECs: Microfluidics summer research internship @ Harvard SEAS, Nuclear Engineering summer research internship @ MIT, Hospital Volunteer, Varsity Math Team Captain, Solo & Orchestral Violin, Granite State Challenge/Quiz Bowl Team, and Greater Manchester Red Cross. On resume: Obama for America volunteer, Community Alliance for Teen Safety Youth Board, and local State rep candidate’s campaign manager.
[] Work experience: Freelance PHP Programmer/Website developer

[/ul]Other Factors: A sweltering degree of awesomeness? I sent in my research abstracts, two mentor recs, a resume, presidential scholars candidate update, etc. Loads of supplementary material for them to judge. I have also self-taught myself around 7 programming languages and am fluent in French, proficient in German.

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: Waitlisted by Harvard & Accepted by Yale, Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Dartmouth, UChicago, Brown, Cornell, Tufts, BU, and WPI.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Good luck to everybody in college! Any future applicants reading this, feel free to PM me or email me with any questions or for advice.

Chlormel · April 26, 2009, 8:27am

Waitlisted!

Okay.

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