<p>^Aren’t we all getting e-mail decisions first anyway?</p>
<p>Yes. 10 char</p>
<p>^ I think it depends on the school, right?</p>
<p>I know Harvard emails you the actual decision, whereas for Yale, etc, you have to login to their status site.</p>
<p>do you think they’ll all be in the same hour? that would SUCK</p>
<p>These threads are scaring me.</p>
<p>^^^ Oh yeah, that’s right.
@Stupefy: I think most of the Ivies release decisions at about five. Good thing or bad thing? DX</p>
<p>@ darkblademaster: yes I’m definitely going to yale. I dropped the application process completely after I got in. I originally applied to yale SCEA instead of stanford only because it had less essays to write. However, during the 90 day wait I fell in love with the school.</p>
<p>^ Awwwwww 
and congrats!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (750CR, 680M, 770W)
[</em>] ACT: 35 Composite (36E, 34M, 33R, 35SCI)
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Math 1C (freshman year), 700 Math 2C (got it up 30 pts), 750 Lit.
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A (GPAs are only released internally)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top quintile (all that’s released)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Latin Literature (5), U.S. History (5), Calc BC (4, AB Subscore 4), European History (5), English Language (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none yet
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB English HL, IB History HL, IB Math HL, IB Theatre Arts HL, IB Biology SL, IB Mandarin-ab initio, Theory of Knowledge, Concert Choir
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, Cum Laude, Nat’l Merit Commended
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Piano student since 2nd grade, Composer/Lyricist for original musical, Vocal Arranger for NY-based musical theater composers, school musical (Director, senior year), advanced choral group (Tenor Section Leader and President, senior year), school pop a cappella group (Co-Leader), Varsity XC and Track&Field
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: N/A
[<em>] Summer Activities: Stagedoor Manor, acting camp, for 8 summers, trips to China/Italy, held reading of original musical in NYC June '09
[</em>] Essays: One on family/composing music, ended it with link in essay itself to 40-second clip from original musical, one on J.D. Salinger short stories, both very strong.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One from English teacher/a cappella group advisor, glowing, one from Biology teacher, good and eccentric - did an independent study with the effects of estrogen on mice in Biotech junior year.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Satisfactory.
[<em>] Additional Rec: From Drama teacher, glowing.
[</em>] Interview: Very good, lasted about an hour.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Double major English/Music
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private/independent
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper middle
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Transcript, original music (sent in one clip from show and corresponding sheet music as supplemental material), essays.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Demographic, I did better freshman year than junior year.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I hope because I was qualified and can add to the artistic community as a composer/arranger/performer.<br>
[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to Class of '14! Can’t wait to meet you!</p>
<p>you white people with lower SAT scores got in! :D</p>
<p>Pigs<em>at</em>sea: Unhooked white applicants are not a favored class in admissions.</p>
<p>You may want to reconsider your persistent cries of discrimination against Asian students in light of your own experience. You are a female who received a likely letter from Columbia SEAS. Qualified women in engineering – much like qualified URMs – are part of an underrepresented group of students that colleges are particularly eager to recruit. I don’t hear you lamenting the admissions boost you got.</p>
<p>what likely letter?</p>
<p>^^Excuse me? </p>
<p>You have posted repeatedly that you received a likely letter from Columbia.</p>
<p>Hey guys - I was defered to Yale EA , International Applicant from India & my sister went there too - I had a pretty good midyear report with straight A’s (I had 2 B’s earlier) and also won an award at Harvard Model UN in late January and my school won Best International Del so yeah! I also visited campus in early FEB after HMUN but theres a downside to all this : I gave my Physics SAT in Jan a few days after my exams and completely messed up - got a 740!! but YALE doesnt accept score choice - sort of worried that this would put me at a disadvantage cuz its not a very good score ( I had a 770 in SAT 2 Chem & 780 in Sat 2 MATH 2 earlier which Yale already has) - Let me know what you guys think - cuz i have to send the score anyway. Would love to get your take on my chances after a poor SAT Performance but decent MIDYEAR Developments on the Whole! Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m so so sorry if this is late! This website just came up in a Google search and I’ve become addicted already! Haha.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280, 800 Math, 780 Reading, 700 Writing
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 French with Listening, 780 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (It’s really more like a 95-96%)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/620ish
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), World History (5), Stat (5), Calc AB (5) Chem (5), US History (4), Calc BC (5), Enviro (5), Studio Art (4), Physics (4), Euro (skipped), English Lang (skipped), French Lang (5), Micro (skipped), Macro (skipped), Psych (5), English Lit (currently taking), French Lit (currently taking), Art History (currently taking, will definitely skip)<br>
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): I never took “IB”
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP French Lit, Linear Algebra (college), AP Art History, Mole Bio (college), Chem (college).
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Did well at Intel, never really got past AIME. Won essay contests, MVP awards for sports, published science research etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis - 2nd singles freshman year, and continued as 1st singles throughout high school. Named MVP, Captain, won state awards, etc. (I think I may have been recruited but I didn’t want to pursue tennis in college at the D1 level). Class President all four years. Editor in Chief of award-winning school literary magazine for 2 years. Established school Hispanic club, president and founder.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned at NYC science labs for four years and had work published professionally. Interned at the New Yorker for a month (I have a family friend :P)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Internships
[<em>] Essays: No Idea. I liked them! 
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: No idea, but they like me!
[<em>] Counselor Rec: “ “
[</em>] Additional Rec: Nope
[<em>] Interview: SOOOO GOOD! I LOVED HER. SHE WAS HILARIOUS 
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[<em>] Intended Major: Either science/English
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: 50k-100k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM. Legacy to Princeton and Tufts.
[/ul]</p>
<p>rush: I hope this isn’t rude but if your family income is 50-100K, how can you not apply for FinAid?</p>
<p>If you’ve got significant non-retirement investments or rental real estate, you’re finaid toast, regardless of your annual income.</p>
<p>i feel like this should be stickied…</p>
<p>anyone agree?</p>
<p>^There is a link to this thread in the Y Resource Threads sticky. An abundance of sticky threads has the effect of pushing current threads down the page.</p>