AP (place score in parenthesis): 7 AP’s thus far, all 5’s. 4 more this year
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro, English, AP Chem, AP Physics, AP Psych, Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):AP scholar stuff? Not much outside of awards in EC’s.
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Debate (captain), Mock Trial (Captain - State champs), NHS, Science Olympiad, Varsity Baseball
Job/Work Experience: None really. Applying for one this summer
Volunteer/Community service: Lots of work with the city of Burnsville. Wrote my essay on how it helped build me as a person and harbor a passion.
Summer Activities: Played a bunch of baseball in summer and most of my volunteering took place then.
Essays: Good. I didn’t write the optional one because I didn’t have anything else to say. My application represented me well and it worked.
Teacher Recommendation: Sent in three. One from AP Euro teacher was really good. He compared me to past Harvard student from our school who was very bright. Science teacher was generic. Optional one was about mock trial which was amazing.
Counselor Rec: Solid
Additional Rec: See above.
Interview: Lady seemed impressed. Doubt it had much to do with admission decision.
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<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): MN
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: over $100K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college?
Strengths: Strong ACT (one question away from composite 36), good leadership.
Weaknesses: My SAT scores were below average for Harvard
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Solid candidate who got lucky. Half of this process is luck.
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<p>General Comments: Congrats to all those who got in. I know there were more qualified people who got rejected (compared to me). You will be successful wherever you end up.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2200 (740 R, 800 M, 660 W)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 770 Physics, 760 US History
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.0 UW
[<em>] Rank: 1/450
[</em>] ACT: didn’t take
[<em>] APs (including this year’s): 10 total, got four 5’s on the ones I took last year.
[</em>] IBs (including this year’s): none
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 6 aps
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 2 or 3
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): State awards (1st and 2nd places) for math, knowledge bowl and fbla
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Key Club, Math Team, Varsity Track, Knowledge Bowl, FBLA, Church, Health Dept. volunteering
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 3 summer jobs
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): one key club essay and one success essay
[<em>] Teacher Recs: amazing
[</em>] Counselor Rec: great
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): I’m not sure on this one, the interviewer was a little wierd. I got the feeling that he didn’t really enjoy his time at Harvard
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): state position for key club … not really a hook tho…
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: USA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): uhh…
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, recs, Rank
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT I score, interview, race??
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Too many applicants…[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I’m not too mad about it…being on Harvard’s waitlist…BUT I’m going to have to reject Harvard on this one…cause I’m going to YALE!!! :]</p>
<p>I can’t even log into the system when I enter my PIN code, so when I E-mailed the school to verify what it was, they said that they couldn’t find me on record…
here’s the E-mail:</p>
<p>"We were unable to find your access information in our files.</p>
<p>Remember, you must include your first and last name in the body of your request."</p>
<p>Did anyone else get this? What does this mean?</p>
<p>Why haven’t I got the email yet. This is ridiculous. Its 2 hours past what they said they would. Isnt 2 hours enough for them to send 27000 emails. :/</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1760 (630 CR, 590 W, 540 M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 680 Bio E, 680 Bio M, 670 WH, 650 USH, 600 Math II, 550 Lit
[<em>] GPA (uw/w): 4.00uw/4.58w
[</em>] Rank: 2/236 Salutatorian
[<em>] Other stats: One out of a handful (less than/equal to 5) from my high school; high school rarely sends grads to top schools outside of UC system.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Wrote about my passion for law and how I’ve fulfilled and come to the passion: law academy, law courses, mock trial, mentorships, internships, etc.; supplement essay about JROTC leadership growth; supplement after deferral about my interest in Harvard/science abstract + research.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: From law academy teachers that talked about my mock trial work and my influence in the classroom, etc.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Talked a lot about my ECs and how accomplished she thought I was with my courseload, personality, ECs, etc.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Research at a CSU? Law “motif?”
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: California
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[li] Gender: Male[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other Factors?: My SAT killed it for me. General Comments, status update dates: I got rejected from all the private schools that I applied to but then again they were all reaches (Ivies) except for USC, which was supposed to be my match (even high match, nearing reach). I got accepted into UC San Diego, UCLA, and UC Berkeley. I am leaning towards UCLA right now but Cal might give me scholarships and seem to be really, really interested in me (calling me, inviting me to apply to Cal scholarships, etc.) I got sent an e-mail asking me to apply from the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Division. I also sent in two supplementary recommendations from lawyers that I’ve worked with through mock trial and an internship that were Harvard alumni, one of them having graduated from both Harvard College and Harvard Law.</p>
<p>webgoudarzi, think of it this way, as long as you’re still waiting, there’s still hope! mine got squashed when the email came on the dot at 5:04</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 800 800
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 US History, 770 Physics, 720 Math 1
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/500
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History, US History, Physics B (all 5s), taking Gov, Calc BC, Computer Science, English Literature, Italian, and Physics C this year
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: APs listed above + Chorus
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing amazing. Some Harvard Model UN awards, National Italian Exam, National Merit Finalist, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN, Mathletes (VP), World Language Honor Society (Prez), National Honor Society (Treasurer), Key Club in 10-11, county math team
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Assistant camp counselor, tutoring.<br>
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Practically nothing…just a few hours from Key Club over the years and a little from NHS/mentoring program this year
[<em>] Summer Activities: Just a regular old assistant day camp counselor
[</em>] Essays: Both were solid, though not amazing. One was about my MUN experiences (humorously starting with me walking into a pole…), the other about my lifelong love for math. Short response was about World Language Honor Society
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Fabulous, as far as I know
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good I guess?
[<em>] Additional Rec: Sent 3 teacher recs, all were good.
[</em>] Interview: Went surprisingly wonderfully. Just a very laid-back coversation about myself; the woman lived in my town and said she’d never interviewed someone that good from my town. (Although…I did lock my keys in my car prior to the interview and not realize it…)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: OK public. About 4-5 to Cornell, maybe 1 or 2 to Dartmouth/Brown in a given year out of 500.
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper middle
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Numbers, teacher recs
[<em>] Weaknesses: No “above and beyond” ECs or awards. Practically no research/community service
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Sometimes, just a 4.0 and a 2400 will do it. And I suppose I came across as a “real person” in my mildly humorous essays, as well.<br>
[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to all who were accepted, and if not, don’t be discouraged! I was also accepted to Yale EA and Cornell, but I was waitlisted at Princeton and Upenn.</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2180: 800 W, 690 CR, 690 M
SAT II: 780 US History, 740 Bio M, 690 Math II
Unweighted GPA 99.09/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/174
AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology: 5, US History: 5, English Language: 5
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP English Literature, AP Latin: Vergil, AP World History, Honors Physics, 2 courses at Bates College (Psychology and a course in British History)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Nordic Skiing (Captain), Varsity Cross Country (Captain), Varsity Track, Student Council (Executive Board Member), Odyssey of the Mind, Maine Junior Classical League (2nd VP), NHS (Executive Board Member)
Job/Work Experience: Employed at a strawberry farm
Volunteer/Community service: Running/Skiing mentoring program for elementary school aged kids. Some other random volunteering.
Summer Activities: Work, Training for XC/Skiing, Neuroscience Program at Bowdoin College, Book Group
Essays: I was extremely pleased with them. All of my friends loved them.
Teacher Recommendation: Amazing
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec: I had my XC coach write me a letter. It almost made me cry
Interview: Lasted about an hour and a half, the conversation flowed extremely well, and my interviewer said he was optimistic.
Other
State (if domestic applicant): Maine
School Type: Medium Sized Public (~700 students)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~75,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None. I had talked to the ski coach, but I was by no means recruited.
Reflection
Strengths: Extracurriculars, Recommendation Letters, Essays
Weaknesses: SATs
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I can’t even guess.
General Comments:Congrats to everyone!! I can’t wait for the accepted students weekend!</p>
<p>And I got rejected at Columbia…I don’t even care though. Luckily I checked Harvard before Columbia!</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (760/770/760)</li>
<li>ACT: 32 (did not send, I don’t think)</li>
<li>SAT II: 630 (math II) 760 (english literature) 730 (us history)</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.83 (4.85 W)</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 21/451</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): 3 AP’s (all four’s); taking 5 more this year; two of these AP’s will have been self-studies</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro, AP Literature, AP Bio, AP Micro, AP Calc BC, Yearbook</li>
<li><p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, some minor regional/local science fair/research recognition
Subjective:</p></li>
<li><p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): yearbook (editor-in-chief this year; design editor last year), involved in youth group&church (in/have been on worship team for both, play on the church coed softball team in a club league, taught Sunday School for past two years), gymnastics (only one year in high school), </p></li>
<li><p>Job/Work Experience: None</p></li>
<li><p>Volunteer/Community service: Mainly church work and mission trips</p></li>
<li><p>Summer Activities: Summers of junior and senior year were spent in a graduate biochemistry lab (one year was required for my Magnet program and the second for fun)</p></li>
<li><p>Essays: Well…I thought they were pretty good?</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recommendation: One from AP Bio teacher who’s taught me all four years and was my research advisor last year - should have been amazing, esp. because she pretty much said I’m the best kid she’s had in terms of how I do on tests/grasp the material; one from US History teacher…who didn’t really want me at Harvard, so I think his rec. was pretty generic (he wrote diff. ones for diff. schools); optional one from my research professor of two years, should have been pretty good as well</p></li>
<li><p>Counselor Rec: Solid</p></li>
<li><p>Additional Rec: described earlier</p></li>
<li><p>Interview: Guy was genial enough; I think he was rather impressed with my familiarity with Harvard/its programs, etc. and how I could talk about different subjects…but I don’t think I really stood out that much simply b/c there are other people more amazing</p></li>
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<p>Other</p>
<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): SC</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)</li>
<li>Gender: F</li>
<li>Income Bracket: over $200K</li>
<li><p>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): urh…nope, i got nothing</p></li>
<li><p>Strengths: Solid SAT scores…pretty well-rounded, female doing research</p></li>
<li><p>Weaknesses: Math II SAT was REALLY low; I was pretty much a typical Asian candidate (sciency…high SAT score, etc.) and a little too well-rounded, I think…if I’d had one strong suit that really stood out, I might’ve had a better chance</p></li>
<li><p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: (shrugs) Who knows? I wasn’t expecting it…in the minutes in between when I got my letter and others posted acceptance/rejectance/waitlisting, I almost thought I had a chance. </p></li>
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<p>General Comments: Congratulations to everyone who got in and will go there! I hope you have loads of fun…and who knows, I may apply to Harvard for grad school/med school in four years. :)</p>
