I find it hard to believe that you are accepted at Harvard, GT and UNC since their Regular Decision has not been disclosed yet. Also, if you were admitted on EA, that is also not possible since Harvard’s EA is a restrictive EA which means you cannot apply to GT.
@capcase Someone sounds a little salty.
@redwag actually REA is unique. With REA, the system that Harvard has, you are only allowed to apply to one PRIVATE school early. However, you can apply to as many PUBLIC schools early as you want. GT and UNC are both early.
My stats are:
Black Female
1420 SAT
SAT II World History: 600 | SAT II Literature: 700
4.0 GPA UW (My school doesn’t do weighted)
Rank 2
Won NFTE BizCamp
400+ Community Service Hours (Didn’t mention this anywhere tho)
Student Body President
National Honor Society President
President/Founder of Black Student Union
No demonstrated interest
Think I had great recs (1 from Physics teacher, 1 from English teacher)
Applied Major: English
Didn’t send any AP scores [My school does APs senior year, and I only took 1 JR year]
I don’t know what else to include here, so any questions you can ask
If you read many replies, you will find many talented students with better academic records are rejected just because they did not tour or show keen interest.
That is ego. Because washU doesn’t have confidence to track top students.
I found UC system is more fair & professional.
Yeah no, colleges have this thing called “institutional need”, which means that they accept kids (as there are tons who meet the academic thresholds) based on what the university needs that year. If you look at other replies, you will find many talented students with amazing academic records who are accepted without showing crazy interest because they happened to meet a need the university had whereas an equally impressive student did not meet that same need, and so one got in and the other didn’t.
The UCs also have the freedom to be less concerned with things like yield because a) they can accept a ton more students because they are bigger schools so all the qualified kids (or a larger share) can get in, and b) since they are public they don’t have to play the rankings game as hard as private universities do.
Don’t be salty my dude.
@redwag .Yes as posted above GT and UNC are public. But more so what would be the benefit of misrepresentation of those facts to an anonymous forum? Why would someone do that, to what gain?
No one knows that these students were rejected because of demonstrated interest. That’s pure speculation. All we know for sure is that they don’t admit purely based on best stats. The reality is that there are far more applicants than there are seats. So, some highly qualified applicants don’t get in. This is true at most of the “highly selective” schools.
Sorry to hear that, you’ll definitely get into other schools and have an even better experience at whichever college you go to!
Rejected
Asian female
G.P.A. 4.4 weighted
ACT 34
several leadership positions
good letters of rec
did research and was published
did not tour campus
did interview (went really well I thought)
Rejected, International (Asian)
GPA 3.85 UW
ACT 35 (35 35 35 33), Writing 8
SAT Subject - Math L2 800, Phy 800
AP - Phy 1 Chem Micro Macro Cal BC PhyCMech 5 / Phy2 4
Major - Environmental Studies
ECs - Student Body President, lots of physics & environmental studies research, organized local climate strike, organized local TEDx event, school drama club, head violinist of school orchestra, internship in Finnish NGO regarding env. issues
so-so essay (i guess)
good rec letters
Officially admitted!!
My son is now officially wait-listed for his Top 2 choices. Might make for an interesting May, but also a slightly depressing May 1st selection. His excitement for #3 is growing, so that’s good.
I guess getting an interview at WashU is absolutely meaningless, at least in terms of conveying a likely acceptance. I also find myself wondering why I never received an interview request from Harvard considering that I got deferred from Northwestern ED and now accepted to WashU Rd. I can’t imagine that Harvard didn’t have enough alumni to conduct interviews, since I live in the greater Milwaukee area. Strange.
@HokieCrazy Apart from WashU, what was the other school that wait-listed your son? Also, where else did he apply?
My son was also wait-listed from VT Engineering, which has apparently been exceptionally competitive this year because of their over-acceptance last year. He’s also applied to Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Wisconsin (deferred), Texas (denied), Penn State (accepted), and Clemson (accepted).
For reference, I believe the washu interview is purely based on alumni availability in your area. I literally live in pretty rural place so i didn’t get a interview but I got scholars finalist for washu (and acceptance). So it really doesn’t correlate with how competitive the applicant is and thats the case for most colleges
My son got a remote alumni interview over Skype, so I’m not sure its purely based on availability. We don’t live in an area with a lot of WashU alumni, so I was surprised we got offered one.
I’m not so sure about that—my friend and I were both accepted, and we had no idea they tracked demonstrated interest and definitely did not show any.
My post is just trying to convey a message and help future prospective students: do not bother WashU due to its ego and bias.