Please post your stats, regradless of Olin's decision.

Sandybeach
Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:01:26 +0000

I was wait-listed and then I said no to being placed on the waiting list because I figured I probably wouldn’t fit in at Olin. Plus I got a full tuition scholarship elsewhere.

SAT: 2130 (V-710, M-740, W-680) yeah… wasn’t too happy about it
ACT: Composit-34, Math-35, Reading-33, English-34, Science-33
SAT II’s: Math IIC-800, Bio M-740, US History-680 haha you can tell I’m not very good at anything that isn’t math or science =)

Essays: probably not too good, my heart wasn’t really in it because I didn’t like the school that much when I visited
Recs: really good according to my counselor
Counselor rec: really good
Extra currics: 11 years club swimming, 4 years varsity swim, 11 years piano, 300+ hours community service, lots of other stuff
School Stuff: President of a club, in three other clubs, ASB Historian, freshman class president, core council, student council…
Others stuff: two summers of research with graduate students. One was on a portable hemodialysis machine and the other one was on optimizing hydrogen production in cyanobacteria for fuel cells or solar panels.

Hope that helps! I have a feeling (like the rest of you) that the essays were probably the most important part. So for those of you applying next year:


make sure you actually like the school
write really good essays