<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED to Engineering! (Bioengineering) **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 780M 670W 670CR
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIc, 760 Chemistry
[<em>] GPA: 4.50 W (no unweighted available)
[</em>] Rank: 12/760 in a competitive Illinois school
[li] Other stats: 33 ACT</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Why NU = Awesome; other one = decent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: one told outstanding, other told decent (didn’t read)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: told great (didn’t read)
[</em>] Hook (if any): Research internship last summer</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Illinois, USA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian Indian
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I’m happy for all of us accepted. I’m still waiting for UPenn and Cornell to decide!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800 M 800 V 740 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 M2C 770 USH 680 Lit
[<em>] GPA: 4.13
[</em>] Rank: 1/340 South Dakota Public High School
[li] Other stats: 4 5s on APs</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Why NU = Hardly even remember, CTD experience
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Fine
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Fine
[</em>] Hook (if any): South Dakota</p>
<p>[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] State or Country: Western South Dakota, USA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b] Still waiting on Harvard, Yale, Stanford, P-ton, Cornell. Pumped though. Up till now I hadn’t gotten into a school I wanted to go to. Shwing.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2180 (Math 760, Verbal 690, Writing 730, 12 Essay)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 World History, 750 IC, 690 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 3.8 UW, 4.1 W
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[li] Other stats: APs: Physics B:5; Calculus AB: 4; Statistics:4; English Lit: 4</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Simplistic, to the point decent but not stellar
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>] Hook (if any): Norwegian citizen of Indian ethnicity, spent last two years of school in S.Korea. Currently taking a gap-year.</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Norway
[</em>] School Type: Private, International School
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[</em>] Gender: male</p>
<p>[/ul][ b]Other Factors: Did not apply for financial aid. I guess this is what helped all the way** General Comments: Yay! Not sure if I will attend though. Waiting on Penn, Cornell, Yale, Brown</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1460/2180
[</em>] SAT IIs: haven’t taken any
[<em>] GPA: 3.4
[</em>] Rank: n/a
[li] Other stats:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: convincing
[</em>] Teacher Recs: great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: great
[</em>] Hook (if any): top 5 for squash in Korea for U19 juniors; CTD summer (2 consecutive summers with A’s) </p>
<p>[/ul][ b]Location/Person: **[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Seoul, Korea
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:Squash coach wrote me a recommendation, and i think that made all the difference General Comments: unbelievable.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2320 (790 M, 760 CR, 770 W(
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIc, 760 U.S. History, 730 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 98.125 W
[</em>] Rank: 18/330
[li] Other stats: 5s on AP World History, U.S. History, Physics B, Calculus AB, Computer Science A, and English Language</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty good, strongly based on others I’ve written for other apps
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Strong
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Strong
[</em>] Hook (if any): Science research - I think I demonstrated my passion for astrophysics by my commitment to my research in high school. Nat’l finalist in Siemens + top 10 in Intel among major awards.</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New York
[</em>] School Type: Competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Jewish
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Mehh. General Comments: Yay!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2310
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 Math IIC, 770 Chem, 790 Bio-M, 750 Lit, 760 Math IC
[<em>] GPA: 3.98
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[li] Other stats: 5s on some APs (Bio, Chem, US Gov, Comp Gov, Enviro Sci)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good (recycled from common app)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Decent
[</em>] Hook (if any): Nope</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MO
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Sent in a science paper I wrote and an extra recommendation from a science teacher (not sure they read those…) General Comments: I barely met the deadline, but I’m glad that they extended it in the end. I guess it is true that the “unofficial” deadline is February 1st for most schools.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: CR: 720; M: 780; W: 800
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math IIC: 780; Latin: 660; Chem: 760
[<em>] GPA: unweighted 3.99; weighted: 4.28
[</em>] Rank: top 2%
[li] Other stats: co-captain of science olympiad, co-captain of robotics, member of ASB, president of Ethnic Council, county and state science fair award winner, sing indian classical music for 10 yrs, a few orchestras for violin, hospital volunteer w/ 300+ hours, member of several clubs with a couple elected positions</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[list]
[<em>] Essays: good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: eh, standard
[</em>] Hook (if any): tons of extra-curriculars</p>
<p>** Location/Person: **[list]
[<em>] State or Country: southern CA
[</em>] School Type: public in an upper-middle class neighborhood
[<em>] Ethnicity: indian
[</em>] Gender: female</p>
<p>General Comments: hmmm, now i have to decided between northwestern mcCormick and cornell engineering, this will be a toughie</p>