GPA: 99.5/107
SAT: 1570
SAT Math 2: 800
SAT Bio: 760
4s and 5s on 12 AP tests
Achievements:
National Merit Finalist
Science Olympiad State medals
Published 10+ places for her poems
Japanese State Competition medals (not native speaker)
Main extracurriculars:
Science Olympiad Captain (and medals)
Lit Magazine Editor-In-Chief
Japanese Language Club
Non-Profit Teen Magazine volunteering and editors
@BWoodruff Would you mind if I asked how you got your decision so early? I applied as a transfer to the College this year and I thought decisions came out in May. Was this because you applied to a special program?
SAT 1420 (700 math, 720 reading)
SAT II: Lit- 700 World History - 610
Rank: 2
4.0 unweighted GPA
English Major
Amazing essays and recommendations
ECs:
Editor-in-chief of newspaper since soph. year
President of National Honor Society for 2 Yrs (In NHS since soph)
President of the Student Government (Public Relations Director, 11th Grade President, SG President)
Founded my school’s Black Student Union (2 Yrs)
VP of STEM Club (2 yrs)
Model UN (4 years)
400+ Volunteering hours
Organized service trips through NHS
Tutored kids in English, History, Physics, Algebra 2, Trig & Calc
Color Guard
Varsity Swim for 2 years
Varsity Track for 1
Participated in this summer entrepreneurship program, designed a prosthetic and a prosthetic startup & then won the contest at the end
I got into Boston College, Colgate, Franklin & Marshall, Ithaca, Northwestern (Medill School of Journalism), Syracuse (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications), Washington University in St.Louis (WashU), Wheaton, and Tufts, Wesleyan, Bucknell, Cornell, UPenn, and Dartmouth, and Columbia, Brown
Waitlisted: Harvard & Yale
NYU comes out today, so we’ll find out.
Any other questions, happy to answer!
Anyone have trouble with Penn losing/stating that you never applied for aid? Good GAWD. Funny, all other schools in the CSS have given us our FA information. . .
@itcannotbetrue I recall Penn and Princeton being two schools that required a separate fin aid application thru their own portal outside of CSS and IDOC. Perhaps they are referring to that?
@west2east20–yes, that is what they finally explained to me. My thoughts are, why put your institution as a CSS profile choice if you are not going to use the iDoc system AND not notify the families that they need to upload separately (until literally, decision day!)?
Anyone considering what “may happen” if fall matriculation just doesn’t happen? If the world isn’t back in a place by late August that large groups of people, especially college age can safely live in large groups?
Will it go virtual? Will everything be put on hold for an additional semester and start in January? What will tuition look like? Would you still pay full tuition for less of an experience via zoom meetings? Will students choose to take a gap year? Will the university allow a huge portion of kids to exercise a gap year election simply from a financial impact on the university? Interested in hearing others thoughts. As a frame of reference several notable and intelligent people in the healthcare, financial and technology world are starting to speak to a 12-18 month time frame until large group dynamics return.
Can anyone that has been admitted and applied for FA, tell me if the award matched your FAFSA efc or was it vastly different? I’m trying to understand how the css plays a role, can it lower or raise the efc?
CSS shows more information, such as your investment, additional real estates, etc. So it may increase your EFC. Did you run the EFC through the college board? Our college board EFC # matches closely to the Penn FA actual number, you may want to try that.