OFFICIAL Class of 2013 RD Decisions Thread

gkos13 · March 27, 2009, 9:44pm

Accepted!! Shocker for me too!

This definitely makes me feel better, since I was waitlisted at Duke.

meldoy1991 · March 27, 2009, 9:45pm

**Waitlisted: **

Stats:[ul]

SAT Reading: 760
SAT Math: 780
SAT Writing: 700
SAT Total: 2240
SAT II: Math2: 730 Chinese: 800 USH: 710
TOEFL (if applicable):
ACT (if applicable): -> freaking forgot to send in my ACT scores…>>;; <-
AP/IB taken/scores: Chinese AP: 5 APUSH: 4 Physics B: 4 (difficult to take AP classes before junior year at my school. @__@)
GPA weighted (if applicable): 3.99
GPA unweighted: uh…3.59 I think?
Rank or % estimate (if applicable): n/a
Academic Awards: National Merit Qualifier (1st round, whatever the official name is)
Extra Curricular Activities: Newspaper - Head Photographer, Orchestra - violin(level 7) (2 years), piano (level 9), Link Crew Leader (11/12th), started Pet/Animal club freshman year, president of Anime Club, Badminton 4 years (Varsity 11/12 grade), photojournalism intern for 1 years, 7 years Chinese school (…crap, did I not put this on my app?), dog-walker for past 3 years, worked at Fanime Convention on Registration staff for the past 2 years (work 24 hours over course of one weekend), 14 hours volunteer at music convention, volunteered just a little bit (12 hours total?) at annual Coastal Clean-Up over the past 3 years

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]

Essays: I sent in a photo essay for the describe yourself essay thing (or was that describe your community? I forget) Now that I look back at my essay, I don’t think it looked very professional…at least I had lots of fun putting it together?
My mom cried when she read my common app essay about building self-confidence this summer at Harvard Summer School but I think she was just trying to convince herself that I had a chance of getting into a good school. My Lang teacher seemed to like it and all my friends said it was really good. :0
My third essay was about why I wanted to do East Asian Studies. I talked about how while I once viewed my heritage of annoying and tried to Americanize myself, I’ve come to realize that I really want to learn more about everything.
Teacher Rec #1: maybe a little bit above average? I was on pretty good terms w/my english teacher.
Teacher Rec #2: This is what’s worrying me. I’m practically failing Calc right now. I had this teacher for Trig too, but by the time I asked her for a letter (which I did late too since my mom told me to tell my guidance counselor I wanted to do applied mathematics who then told me to get a math teacher rec - I’ve changed my major to East Asian Studies), I was not doing well in her class at all. (turns out I had mono, but I didn’t know that at the time. -__-)
Additional Rec: n/a
Counselor Rec: hopefully good. My counselor seems to like me quite a bit, even asked me to come back to Link Crew after my junior year in it (she’s the Link Crew coordinator - tons of people were rejected from becoming Link Leaders). I also always take pictures of Link Crew events for her and she always seems real happy about it…:0
Hook (if any): Errrr…I’m awesome? DX

[/ul]Location:[ul]

State or Country: CA
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
Legacy Yes/No: No
Recruited Yes/No: No

[/ul]Other Factors:
I went to Harvard for 2 months this summer and came back with a B in Intro to Philosophy and a B+ in Intro to Psychology.

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: My GPA is depressingly low, hoping my SAT could offset that a little. (my school is really competitive and I’ve been more of a live-now-study-later type person) Apparently my extracurrics are all over the place, like, I never really concentrated in one area. I’ve heard that colleges like it when you dedicate yourself to just one thing. But I’ve not really discovered what I want to commit to fully so I’ve been testing out different activities over the past 4 years. Maybe that was a bad move? (for the record, I dedicate myself to newspaper mainly) Bad teacher recs prolly.

I guess I just didn’t have anything that appealed to them. :(

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Congrats to all those who made it! I hope to be able to join you in the near future! Just gotta find out what’s the next step to take.

curlly37 · March 27, 2009, 9:45pm

**Accepted: **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 730
[] SAT Math: 720
[] SAT Writing: 720
[] SAT Total: 2170
[] SAT II: Biology M:730; Math 1:690; US History:690
[] TOEFL (if applicable):
[] ACT (if applicable):
[] AP/IB taken/scores: AP Bio:4; APUSH:4
[] GPA weighted (if applicable):
[] GPA unweighted:
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 63/750
[] Academic Awards: National Achievement Finalist, Edward J. Bloustein Scholar, Natioinal Honor Society
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: Basketball, Soccer, Ping Pong, Science League, Interact, volunteer at hospital 100+ hrs, volunteer at cerebral palsy center 1000 hrs, school track team[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: pretty good
[] Teacher Rec #1: great
[] Teacher Rec #2: ok
[] Additional Rec: from hospital and cp center, both generic
[] Counselor Rec: pretty good
[] Hook (if any): sudanese american who didn’t mention darfur crisis etc.

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: NJ
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity:sudanese american (other-Afro arab)
[] Gender: Male
[] Legacy Yes/No: No
[] Recruited Yes/No: No

[/ul]Other Factors: wrote about special needs children

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: sats were high enough, volunteered in my passions, only did extracurrics that related to my interests, decent grades, good essay, showed interest in bs/ms program

General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Probably won’t go to JH due to cost, but congrats to everyone else who is going. its really a great school.

scootypuff · March 27, 2009, 9:56pm

**Accepted: **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 670
[] SAT Math: 800
[] SAT Writing: 670
[] SAT Total: 2140
[] SAT II: Bio-M 800, Chemistry 800, MathIIC 800
[] TOEFL (if applicable):
[] ACT (if applicable): 34 (E: 36, M: 36, S: 32, V: 32)
[] AP/IB taken/scores: Biology (5), CalculusBC (5), Chemistry (5)
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.25
[] GPA unweighted: 3.93
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): N/A but top 10% at least
[] Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: JV Tennis 2 years, Orchestra 4 years, VP of Music Club[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: Some of best I’ve written.
[] Teacher Rec #1: From my chemistry teacher who’s known me for 2 years. It’s probably good.
[] Teacher Rec #2: N/A
[] Additional Rec: N/A
[] Counselor Rec: Probably good because I talked to her before she wrote it.
[] Hook (if any): N/A

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: CA
[] School Type: Large, Top 100 Public
[] Ethnicity: Chinese
[] Gender: M
[] Legacy Yes/No: No
[] Recruited Yes/No: No

[/ul]Other Factors:

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I showed a lot of interest in my major and the school in my majors essay.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Pretty excited after I got rejected from UCLA and got Cal spring.

Poseur · March 27, 2009, 10:02pm

Let’s talk about how I refreshed my email for 40 minutes before remembering that I had given them my other email address… and then saw that I’d gotten the email 30 minutes earlier. Yeahhh. BUT IT WAS WORTH IT!

Also, to those of you wondering on page 1 – to make BBcode not show up as BBcode, do something like [color=black][[/color]code]. If you surround the bracket with a color change (or bold or anything else, but color=black doesn’t show up), it doesn’t read as code. :]

ANYWAYS,

Accepted!

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 800
[] SAT Math: 800
[] SAT Writing: 790
[] SAT Total: 2390
[] SAT II: hehehhe… 720->750 Math IIC, 780 Lit, 590->720 French, 720 Phys, 690 Chem
[] TOEFL (if applicable): N/A
[] ACT (if applicable): N/A
[] AP/IB taken/scores: (10th) American Gov’t 4, Comp Sci A 5; (11th) Comp Sci AB 4, Calc AB 5, English Language 5, World History 5. Taking six more this year (arrrrrghhh!)
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.81
[] GPA unweighted: 4.0
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1/334 with other UW, 2/334 alone W
[] Academic Awards: Princeton Book Award and some typical score-based stuff… MD Distinguished Scholar, NMF, etc.
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: Internship in the Cognitive Science department at Hopkins (I’m sure this helped :)), lots of art stuff and science/math/technology stuff but nothing outstanding[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: I thought my “Why JHU and why this major?” one was pretty awesome since I’m interning in my department of interest already! My CommonApp one was about my love of death metal yayaya.
[] Teacher Rec #1: GOOD!
[] Teacher Rec #2: GOOD!
[] Additional Rec: I don’t remember if I submitted this one. If so, it was another teacher. GOOD!
[] Counselor Rec: Dunno!
[] Hook (if any): Internship at JHU? And I’m from Maryland lolz they love us!

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: MD
[] School Type: Competitive public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: F
[] Legacy Yes/No: Nawww
[] Recruited Yes/No:

[/ul]Other Factors:

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Showed lots of interest in cognitive neuroscience and in their department in particular. Also, good scores!

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: CONGRATS, EVERYONE!! (: Applicant pool was INSANE – my amazing friend got waitlisted, wudduhfuh?!

renegadeshark · March 27, 2009, 10:02pm

waitlisted :(

ProjectStanford · March 27, 2009, 10:05pm

Accepted!

Very happy and blessed again! To all those who did not hear favorable news; don’t worry - you WILL end up at a fabulous institution! Just be humble, hungry, and happy and you will go very far!

Best wishes to all,
PS

Polarize · March 27, 2009, 10:26pm

**Rejected: **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 720
[] SAT Math: 780
[] SAT Writing: 720
[] SAT Total: 2220 (took once)
[] SAT II: 800 Chem, 800 Math II, 730 Bio
[] TOEFL (if applicable): N/A
[] ACT (if applicable): N/A
[] AP/IB taken/scores: 5 Chem, taking five more this year
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): N/A
[] GPA unweighted: 95.1 out of 100
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): school does not rank; maybe top 10%
[] Academic Awards: None…
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: cultural after school program, volunteering program, swimming, tennis, a minor recreational club, reading (as a hobby…), breakdancing[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: not the best, but they should have been okay as it was simply sincere
[] Teacher Rec #1: should be decent, did not see
[] Teacher Rec #2: should be decent, did not see
[] Additional Rec: another teacher rec; should be decent, did not see
[] Counselor Rec: talked about a few of my EC’s (only took a quick glance). I assume it was okay. My school’s counselors writes like 100+ recs each, so she doesn’t know anyone that well.
[] Hook (if any): none; low-income, but since JHU is supposedly need-blind, they wouldn’t know.

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: NY
[] School Type: top public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Legacy Yes/No: No
[] Recruited Yes/No: No

[/ul]Other Factors: Did not do interview…thought they would contact me for one.

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: My long essay might have been a bit too boring for them. My complete lack of awards (that section was blank) and my insignificant + lackluster ECs probably didn’t go so well with them either. And probably because I didn’t show any interest, especially by not signing up for an interview. The fact that I put undecided for my majors/interests and explained my reasoning for it might have also been a turnoff.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Sigh…guidance counselor actually thought I had a decent chance of getting in…guess not. Don’t know really went wrong…Oh wells, it’s just how it is. Good luck to everyone and congrats to those who were accepted.

darkblue303 · March 27, 2009, 10:26pm

Waitlisted…dammit

Icestorm815 · March 27, 2009, 10:31pm

Waitlisted as well… At least when you get rejected there’s a sense of closure. Now I just strung along again through another waiting game… :(

brown2009 · March 27, 2009, 10:37pm

<size=+1><color=green> >Decision: accepted < /color>< /size></color=green></size=+1>

Stats:< list>
< *> SAT: 2160 : C/M/W: 700/780/680
< *> SAT IIs: MATH2 800; CHEM 800; BIO 770
< *> ACT:
< *> GPA: 3.98
< *> Rank: 19/500
< *> Other stats: 5 ON ALL APS: CAL AB/BC, CHEM, BIO,US HIS, EU HIS
< /list>Subjective:< list>
< *> Essays: GOOD
< *> Teacher Recs: GOOD
< *> Counselor Rec: GOOD
< *> Hook (if any):
< /list>Location/Person:< list>
< *> State or Country: CO
< *> School Type: PUBLIC
< *> Ethnicity: ASIAN
< *> Gender: MALE
< *> major strength/weakness:
< *> why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
< *> going to attend? WAITING FOR OTHER 2 MORE
< /list>Other Factors:
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confidentiality · March 27, 2009, 11:01pm

**Accepted - International applicant **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 610
[] SAT Math: 800
[] SAT Writing: 660
[] SAT Total: 2070
[] SAT II: Korean - 780, Math II - 760, and World History - 760
[] TOEFL (if applicable):
[] ACT (if applicable): 30 composite. 35 math, 35 english, 26 reading, 25 science. 10 essay
[] AP/IB taken/scores: US History (4), World (5), Bio (5), Calc (5), Enviro (4), Eng lang (3 - self studied). 4 more this year.
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.64
[] GPA unweighted: 3.82
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): Top 8% (the only reason my rank is relatively low is b/c I screwed up in PE. Luckily they don’t count towards unweighted/weighted GPA)
[] Academic Awards: Won couple essay contests for scholarships. AP Scholar with Distinction. Passed highest level of international korean language test. 
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: [/li]Tutor for special education kids at local elementary. Over 400 comm. service hours here.
Peer tutor - workshop leader. There are about 50 peer tutors in my school. I am the only one ever to be in charge of teaching other tutors how to tutor.
Paid tutor in neighborhood
Mu Alpha Theta - President (two years in a row) - I host a lot of tutoring activities here as well.
Korean Club - VP (two years in a row)
Over 400 hours volunteering my Saturdays with Pacific American Volunteer Association to do community service projects to improve the environment/community.

Work Experience

Work at my dad’s computer shop. 20hrs/week since 9th grade. I have to work b/c he works by himself and can’t speak English well. I had to file tax returns, secure deals with American customers, and manage responsibilities that most of my peers have yet experienced.

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: Amazing. Probably these are what got me in. I wrote about my passion in tutoring, my family responsibilities since I have to work to help my dad support family, and why I want to study math/econ at JHU. All three essays were really good.
[] Teacher Rec #1: Good
[] Teacher Rec #2: Good/Average
[] Additional Rec:
[] Counselor Rec: Awesome.
[] Hook (if any): First generation college student

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: CA
[] School Type: Extremely competitive public. Over 20+ ivies each year. 60+ to UCLA/Berkeley
[] Ethnicity: Korean
[] Gender: M
[] Legacy Yes/No: No
[] Recruited Yes/No: No

[/ul]Other Factors:

A lot of college/AP units. Way more than anyone in my school. I will have 10 college classes and 10 AP classes under my belt after graduation.
College GPA: 4.0

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Essays, family responsibilities, GPA, and extracurriculars probably.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Congrats to everyone else who got in. Any internationals get in? I have been living in US for a long time, but I was considred intrnational b/c I don’t have green card/citizenhip.

Feral24 · March 27, 2009, 11:03pm

Accepted: Whiting School of Engineering, EE/Computer Engineering

Stats:

<ul>
<li>SAT: 690 CR 750 M 800 W</li>
<li>SAT II: 800 Chem 790 Math2 760 Chinese</li>
<li>ACT: n/a</li>
<li>GPA: 3.98/4.0</li>
<li>Rank: top 5%</li>
<li>Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5’s on the five AP’s i’ve taken, minus a 4 on Comp Sci A</li>
</ul>

Subjective

<ul>
<li>Essays: main essay was pretty strong, about how i learned about independence from my dad’s illness, JHU essay was pretty strong too i believe, about how i became interested in computer engineering</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: not sure, but both teachers like me sooo</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: she likes me, i visit every once in a while</li>
<li>Supplementary Material: a research abstract</li>
<li>Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): anti hook, asian male</li>
</ul>

Personal

<ul>
<li>Location: Maryland (DC suburbs)</li>
<li>High School Type: Public, not so competitive, but alright</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>

Other

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars: National Institute of Science and Technology Internship (research on Human Computer Interaction), Chess Team (team won national title for high schools in my division), national honors society, mu alpha theta, science national honors society</li>
<li>Awards: maryland distinguished scholar finalist, national merit commended, ap scholar w/ distinction, harvard book</li>
<li>Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: soooooo excited, first top 20 school acceptance! if i did BME, i probably wouldn’t have gotten in though, seems very very hard</li>
</ul>

davematthews · March 27, 2009, 11:21pm

**Accepted: **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 750
[] SAT Math: 720
[] SAT Writing: 730
[] SAT Total: 220
[] SAT II: Math II 660, US History 720, Chemistry 630
[] TOEFL (if applicable): –
[] ACT (if applicable): 32
[] AP/IB taken/scores: US History-5, Chemistry-4, English Language-4, European History-4, Spanish Language-3
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): –
[] GPA unweighted: 3.8
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): not official, estimated top 10%
[] Academic Awards: Cum Laude Society, National Merit commended student, AP Scholar with distinction, high honors, Spanish honors society
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: Varsity Soccer, Varsity Lacrosse, Yearbook (managing editor junior year, business assistant senior year), Outing and Science Club (club leader), organize annual blood drive, community service once weekly with children with special needs, job on sundays [/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: decent, not the best
[] Teacher Rec #1: all recs were excellent according to my councilor, including one from my school’s headmaster
[] Teacher Rec #2:–
[] Additional Rec:–
[] Counselor Rec:–
[] Hook (if any): nope

[/ul]Location:[list]
[] State or Country: Massachusetts
[] School Type: Private
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[] Gender: Female
[] Legacy Yes/No: Sister attends now
[] Recruited Yes/No: No

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: good sat I and pretty decent gpa, hardest course load possible, I did have a few weak sat II scores though

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Yay! I’m really excited because i was rejected at duke and waitlisted at uchicago, northwestern, and rice…apparently there is a god

swamp147 · March 27, 2009, 11:22pm

**Rejected: **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 730
[] SAT Math: 750
[] SAT Writing: 710
[] SAT Total: 2190
[] SAT II: world history 790; math2 800; eng lit 650
[] ACT (if applicable): 34
[] AP/IB taken/scores: world history, eng lang, physics b, us history, all 5
[] GPA unweighted: 4.4/4.5
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): top 2% but school doesn’t rank
[] Academic Awards: not much, stuff that everyone gets for having a high gpa
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: tons of table tennis, math team, masterminds (quiz bowl), some other random stuff, nothing spectacular, but not lacking either.[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: essay was meh, decent
[] Teacher Rec #1: great
[] Teacher Rec #2: forgot if i sent in 2 recs, but i think this one was great too
[] Counselor Rec: good
[li] Hook (if any): probably none[/li]
[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: NY
[] School Type: public
[] Ethnicity: asian, chinese
[] Gender: male
[] Legacy Yes/No: no
[] Recruited Yes/No: no
[/ul]

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted:
suspended for 5 days for some serious s***, essays/recs not as good as my grades/test scores.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
congrats to those who got in! good luck to those who were waitlisted!
i wouldnt have gone here if i got in (accepted to american u honors, big scholarship) but it wouldve been nice just to be able to tell people that i got in haha. ah well

desparate_senior · March 27, 2009, 11:25pm

waitlisted, 2 time Intel -ISEF finalist, well rounded EC and STAT
is JHU not interested in kids who did science fairs and stuff?

Modulation · March 27, 2009, 11:26pm

Accepted to Engineering (Whiting)

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 730
[] SAT Math: 800
[] SAT Writing: 750 (79MC 8E)
[] SAT Total: 2280
[] SAT II: Math II-800, US history-750, BioE-750
[] AP/IB taken/scores: Calc BC/AB (5/5), Env. Sci (4), Biology (5), US History (5), US Gov (4), Music Theory (5), Comparative Gov (5), Stats (5)
[] GPA unweighted: 3.94
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): Top 7% of 780
[li] Academic Awards: National AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, a few regional science awards, nothing prestigious…[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Important ECs: Chamber Orchestra (Concertmaster), MN Music Listening Contest (Founder and Captain), Science Olympiad (Captain), Senior Service Project (Officer), Young Democrats (Secretary of State)
[] Job/Work Experience: Usher at Orchestra Hall, Violin teacher, Cashier/Server at Sbarro in the summer
[] Volunteer/Community service: Um, basically I organized a few fundraisers for orchestra and about 100 hours “everywhere”
[] Essays: Decent, commonapp about fixing my violin. Supplement about interest in engineering.
[] Teacher Rec #1: Decent
[] Teacher Rec #2: Decent
[] Additional Rec: Orchestra Teacher of three years
[] Counselor Rec: Knows me very well in a huge class
[li] Hook (if any): None[/li]
[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: Minnesota
[] School Type: Large public
[] Ethnicity: Chinese
[] Gender: Female
[li] Legacy Yes/No: Nope[/li]
[/ul]Other Factors:

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer:
Took hard classes (college) and female in engineering.

danr74 · March 27, 2009, 11:28pm

**Waitlisted: **

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading:770
[] SAT Math:790
[] SAT Writing:780
[] SAT Total:2340
[] SAT II: Chem-790 Math II-780 US-760
[] TOEFL (if applicable):n/a
[] ACT (if applicable):36
[] AP/IB taken/scores:8 5’s, taking 6 more this year
[] GPA weighted (if applicable):n/a
[] GPA unweighted:98/100
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable):1/230
[] Academic Awards:NMF, Pres. Scholar, National Chemistry Olympiad Finalist, bunch of local and regional awards
[li] Extra Curricular Activities:Math League (county champ), NHS treasurer, varsity club, summer medical research internship, 400+ hours comm. service (mostly from an annual mission trip), etc.[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays:good i thought
[] Teacher Rec #1:excellent, best student ever type
[] Teacher Rec #2:decent
[] Additional Rec:n/a
[] Counselor Rec:good, better than the generic rec. most students at a big school get
[] Hook (if any):scores, grades, i dont really know what counts as a hook

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country:NY
[] School Type:top 100 public
[] Ethnicity:white
[] Gender:male
[] Legacy Yes/No:no
[] Recruited Yes/No:no

[/ul]Other Factors:

**Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted:**couldnt tell you, applied bme and for financial aid, dont know if either of those affected it

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Oh well, i already got into bc honors and a likely to dartmouth, still waiting on harvard. congrats to everyone who got in though!

clichedanomaly · March 27, 2009, 11:31pm

Accepted: International

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 800
[] SAT Math: 740
[] SAT Writing: 710
[] SAT Total: 2250
[] SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 780 Physics
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): top 10%
[] Academic Awards: not really, but four-time dean’s lister for various subjects
[] Extra Curricular Activities: church youth group (leadership), church band, school string ensemble

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: common app one about my mission trip to east timor
[] Teacher Recs: well I picked teachers who liked me.
[] Additional Rec: -
[] Counselor Rec: should be pretty good, I was her class rep haha
[li] Hook (if any): -[/li]
[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: singapore
[] School Type: independent
[] Ethnicity: chinese
[] Gender: f
[] Legacy Yes/No: N
[] Recruited Yes/No: N

[/ul]Other Factors:

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I really have no idea O_o maybe cause I didn’t apply for finaid…

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I got a merit scholarship from Oberlin and no money from JHU so I’ll see what happens… congrats to everybody who got in!

heygirlhey_1 · March 27, 2009, 11:47pm

Accepted: ARTS&SCI

Stats:[ul]
[] SAT Reading: 700
[] SAT Math: 780
[] SAT Writing: 730
[] SAT Total: 2210
[] SAT II: 710 Math, 680 Lit, 660 CR (fails)
[] TOEFL (if applicable):
[] ACT (if applicable): 32
[] AP/IB taken/scores: Eng Lit 5, BC Calc 5, US Gov 5
[] GPA weighted (if applicable): 3.9ish
[] GPA unweighted: 3.6ish
[] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): ?/400, but probs top 10%
[] Academic Awards: None
[li] Extra Curricular Activities: Theater, part-time work, creative writing, archetypal community service, etc.[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: Very good
[] Teacher Rec #1: Very good
[] Teacher Rec #2: Actually never got there…oops?
[] Additional Rec: A very sweet one from my employer
[] Counselor Rec: Good? It’s a big public school…
[] Hook (if any): Didn’t apply for aid?

[/ul]Location:[ul]
[] State or Country: CT
[] School Type: Competitive public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] Legacy Yes/No: Nope
[] Recruited Yes/No: Nope

[/ul]Other Factors: Nothing really…

Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I showed a lot of interest (visited once and then went back to interview) and a boy applying for English is pretty similar to a girl applying for Engineering.

General Comments/Congratulations/etc: WOOT!!!

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