<p>bump </p>
<p>.</p>
<p>bump . again .</p>
<p>well, we are going to make a new thread for RD right??</p>
<p>yeah, but we kinda want this one stickied for reference and posterity</p>
<p>bump …</p>
<p>yea…kinda late :-)</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 800 M/800 W/800 R
[<em>] SAT IIs: 790 Chem/800 IIC/ 780 Bio
[</em>] ACT: –
[<em>] APs: Bio 5/ Chem 5/World History 4/ Calc AB 5/ Physics C Mech 5/ Physics C EM 5/ Physics B 5/ Calculus BC 5/ English Comp 5/ US History 5
[</em>] IBs: –
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.91 UW/4.52 W
[</em>] Rank: 14/580
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Ceramics/AP Enviornmental/AP Gov/AP Econ/ AP English/Newspaper
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 2
[<em>] Common or Princeton App?: Common
[</em>] Other stats: –
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] ECs listed on app:Siemens Westinghouse Regional Finalist 2005-2006&2006-2007/ Junior Science and Humanities National Finalist 2006/Other Science Awards/President and Founder of National Honor Society/Amnesty International President/FBLA President/Ex-CSF Member/other stuffs…
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Researcher at SUNY Stony Brook for past few summers
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): On creating clubs on campus and personal vendetta against academic apathy in my school/Passion for research
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): At Home, 2 Hours
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country: California
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public Suburban, Average to Low Stats, Largely Cal State feeder school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>] Income Bracket: 50-60k
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks: Possibly Essays? Spent a lot of time on them. Research maybe.
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: –
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Probably because of my extracurriculars, but colleges are hard to tell sometimes.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: HOORRAYYYY PRINCETON TIGERS '11</p>
<p>Congrats…2 months belated :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 790R, 800M, 750W
[<em>] SAT IIs: 720 Lit, 760 Math I, 760 US Hist
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] APs: Calculus AB - 5, US History - 5
[</em>] IBs: N/A
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.828/4.0
[</em>] Rank: 1/520
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 4 APs: English Language, Calculus BC, US Gov’t, Physics B. Honors: Econ, Spanish IV, Regular: PE IV
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1 (as far as I know)
[<em>] Common or Princeton App? Common
[</em>] Other stats: Nat’l Merit Semifinalist, AMC 10 School Winner, finalist at state science fair, business student of the month, winner of various desktop and t-shirt design contests.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul][<em>] ECs listed on app: Scholastic Bowl, Key Club, SNHS, Math Team, Saturday Morning Physics at Fermilab, professional writing class at Taylor U, Congressional Student Leadership Conference in D.C., volunteer at summer Bible camp, part of student delegation at forum on internet safety (keynote speaker was Dennis Hastert, the then-Speaker of the House), office aide, pre-calculus teacher’s assistant, Calculus Clubhouse.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Experience: Dad’s brain hemmorhage, Influence: Mom, Activity: Fantasy Football
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Was a fav. student of both (Physics, World History). One is now a professor at Roosevelt U.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Very plain, just talked about how nice of a person I was and what I did around the school… but then again she has a </em><em>load of students to attend to.
[</em>] Interview (feel and general location): Panera Bread. I was really hungry. It was 90 minutes long and he mostly rambled (posed <7 questions total).
[<em>] Hook (if any): N/A
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul][</em>] State or Country: Illinois
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Mostly-white (92%) suburban public that cares about (and is good at) everything besides academia. (avg. ACT: 23, approx. size: 2200) Very young teachers, feeder of any public school with an “Illinois” in its title. I will be the 3rd kid ever from my school to go Ivy.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Income Bracket: <100k
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Hooks: N/A
[</em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: S: Rank, SAT I/ACT, essays, letters of rec, interview, Nat’l Merit. - W: lack of work, ECs, APs, SAT IIs, awards, etc.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: No clue. But I ain’t gonna look that ol’ gift horse in the mouth. Too bad Dean Hargadon isn’t still around.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: N/A
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Now let’s just hope I don’t flunk out of Princeton…</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>I miss all the ED family.</p>
<p>Me too…the RD family isn’t as close…probably because they’re not as obsessively attached to Princeton.</p>
<p>hey guys! miss you too! :)</p>
<p>Hey!!! Me too!!! I can’t believe that the decisions come out in three weeks… aahhhh! Though I am surprisingly MUCH less nervous than before. That weekend before the ED letters, I was a complete mess… aimlessly wandering around the house… walking into walls. :D</p>
<p>I know jon you’re right! I mean I didn’t even apply ED but I knew everyone pretty much and I don’t really know anybody like that in the RD round.</p>
<p>How well did you “know” them???</p>
<p>As well as you can know someone online. You get to know their characteristics, beliefs, skills, etc. Of course, for the most part you have no idea what the look like, and in some cases no idea whether they’re a guy or a girl :).</p>
<p>In that case, I’m 17, male, and stunningly gorgeous. Psh… who cares about anything else.</p>
<p>Hahaha. I mean…there was a more distinct group. And there were certain “ED family superstars” like pk and ohmisszanna who were posting like 47 things a day or something ridiculous like that. And then there were a bunch of others, like nelle and btlesgirl and kraor and Ernie and jon and JTC and etc. etc. (and like how I’m using and instead of commas?)</p>
<p>Ungst, your comment reminds me of a story a USC admissions officer told us at a scholarship interview. There’s a place on the USC application to list 3 adjectives that describe you, and one kid wrote
- Handsome
- Brilliant
- Modest</p>
<p>I’m sure it wasn’t because of that…but he got in.</p>
<p>it seems like all of us EDers have popped in from time to time, but CC just isn’t the same…:(</p>
<p>well for one thing, there seems to be less of the stress we all shared</p>