<p>rejected wat number am I supposed to put?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats</p>
<pre><code>* SAT Verbal:740
- SAT Math: 780
- SAT Writing:800
- SAT Total:2320
- ACT: 33
- AP/IB taken/scores:3 USH 4 Eng lang. 4 Macro Economics 4 WorldH
- GPA weighted:5.08
- GPA unweighted:4.0
- Rank or % estimate: 3/406
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Used one from another application, one about a race
- Teacher Recs: very good
- Counselor Rec: very good
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country:FL
- School Type:Public
- Ethnicity:White
- Gender: Female
- Legacy Yes/No: No
- Recruited Yes/No: NO
- Important ECs:V Swimming 4 years, Theater 4 yrs, Teen Trendsetters 2 yrs, Contemporary Church Praise Team, Web Development
- Deferred Yes/No: No
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:
National Merit Finalist</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Would have to be offered quite a bit of money as the NMF offer from Auburn is so lucrative</p>
<p>Time: 1:16</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): (Didn’t take)
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Math II - 800 - Chem 800, US History 780
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1st
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5) Chem (5) US History 4, World
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load:
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/Honor, National Merit Commended</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): A few school clubs that i was president/captain of, nothing amazing
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Some, maybe a 100 hours or so
[<em>] Essays: Common App was very good, Supplement was about Duke’s Focus program. Good, not amazing
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: both were excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably good
[</em>] Interview: Good, not great</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Math or econ
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): IL
[</em>] School Type: Catholic college prep, no ivies though (until me & another showed up)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 50k < me < 100k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc): None</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Academics
[</em>] Weaknesses: No hooks, interview
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Strong academics[/li][/ul]General Comments: Just very happy. Congrats to everyone else!</p>
<p>stats later, but accepted 1:16</p>
<p>definitely doesn’t look like there was any correlation?</p>
<p>Time: 1:16</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (740 CR 800 M 760 W)
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 800 Math II, 780 Chem, 800 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5-10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc B/C (5), Chem(5), Physics(5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stat, AP Bio, AP US, Chinese V, English
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Got an 160 USAMO index, not sure if that counts, I’m usually closer to 200</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Scholastic Bowl (captain/lead scorer), Out of school top level choir (soloist), Several plays, Tennis
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: minimal
[</em>] Essays: decent, probably should have spent more time than i did
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: 1 extremely good, 1 good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No Ideal
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: Went pretty well</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Math
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): IL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Half Caucasian, Half Filipino
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): nothing in particular</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Grades, GPA, Extracurriculars
[</em>] Weaknesses: Grades dropped off senior year, little clear leadership
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Numbers[/li][/ul]General Comments: </p>
<p>I’m so relieved to have gotten in. This makes me feel so much better for Thursday… and GO BLUE DEVILS THIS WEEKEND!!</p>
<p>Time: 1:16</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (Pratt)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] ACT: 32 / 34 ss (33E, 34M, 36R, 31S)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): M2: 780, M1: 740, PHYS: 700.
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 / 386
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Hardest. Calculus 3, Differential Equations, Astronomy 1, University Physics 2, Fiction Literature, British Literature, World Civilization, Social Civics, French 3.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ISEF finalist. Regional Science fair winner. Congressional Award Gold Medal. Several Statewide presentations.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Eagle Scout (Junior Assistant ScoutMaster), Birthday Book Club (Founder), Philmont (Crew Leader), Varsity Soccer, Governor’s School… etc.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours, started an organization to encourage children to read, served in a local science center, worked on several conservation projects.
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good, I think.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[<em>] Additional Rec: Good
[</em>] Interview: Good</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Computer Engineering (Pratt)
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TN
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private / Home schooled
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Medium
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc): Internationally recognized research, research presentations at universities in my state, Congressional Award.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Rank, ECs, Essays, Course Load
[</em>] Weaknesses: ACT, white male in engineering.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Research probably. I honestly have no idea.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I’m a bit shocked after getting WL at Rice, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern. Looking at plane tickets to go visit soon.</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=black][ b]Time: 1:16 [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):2340 (800CR/750M/790W)
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II (if submitted): 800 USHist, 780 Math I, 770 Lit, 760 Bio-M
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0, 4.84W
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/747
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): French Lang (4), Eng Lang (5), US Hist (5), Whist (5), Bio (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, IB French 5, AP Gov/Macroeco, AP Eng Lit, PAP Physics (Physics B), IB Latin 4, AP Psychology, Honors Debate 3
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Some state quiz bowl awards, state language awards, regional writing awards… nothing MAJOR</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Quiz Bowl, Latin Club (Pres), Debate
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Essays: Common app decent, Why Duke supplement short but sweet (talked about my 4 summers at Duke TIP)
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: One great, one average
[ *] Counselor Rec: Alright… New counselor this year, didn’t know me too well
[ *] Additional Rec: From one of my teachers from a summer philosophy course. Great.
[ *] Interview: none</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[ *] Intended Major: philosophy
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: large public
[ *] Ethnicity: white
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] Income Bracket: 200k+
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): zip!</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: Scores, GPA, recs
[ *] Weaknesses: ECs, leadership
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Dunno. Hard year; something stood out, I guess.
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] Congrats to all accepted, and to those who weren’t, don’t let this get you down. I was WLed from Swarthmore moments before getting this news; decisions aren’t necessarily predictive of other decisions, and you’ll go somewhere great.
I won’t attend, as I got into Stanford and am still waiting on some ivies. But I’m still honored.</p>
<p>1:16 Accepted. Now i know who to root for at the Final Four!!! Go Devils!!</p>
<p>Time: 1;16 ftwww!</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1920 660CR 610M 650W
[</em>] ACT:28
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted):660 Bio. 710 US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 14/104
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US (4) Bio (TBA)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:All Honors . 1 AP.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ARISTA</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):lots of clubs. </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: National Amusments. Cashier</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Feeding the Homless. Service through the Arts & I tutor like its no ones business etc.
[</em>] Essays: I didnt write one. Only My Common App essay went in .
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Amazing .
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Ok .
[<em>] Additional Rec: NONE
[</em>] Interview: NONE</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: NO. stupid IDOC. so just FAFSA
[</em>] Intended Major: Biological Sciences // Molecular Biology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NEW YORK.
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Challenging Specialized Public HS
[</em>] Ethnicity:Black
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket:$150,000+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):[/li]My race…</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>
<p>[li] Strengths:My Art Portfolio. I submitted that in place of an essay/interview/additional rec. It was beautifulllll. I just wanted to show I was diverse and even though I planned to major in the Sciences I still had talent in the Arts. </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses: My scores and the fact I didn’t have an interview. OR an essay for that manner. </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My portfolio. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
I guess the essay is really optional (unlike what my friends said).
Test scores are not everything.
Congrats to all =)</p>
<p>So far, I don’t see any acceptances from the 5:35 time. I hope for one soon, so that next year’s class won’t have to worry and go through all of the speculation.</p>
<p>1:16 accepted - pratt</p>
<p>First my cat dies and now I’m rejected from Duke. What a good way to start spring break…:*(</p>
<p>Time: 1:16</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted – Pratt</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Math(800) Verbal(710) Writing(800)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Math2(780) Biology(720) USHistory(690)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/259
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): CalcBC(5/5) USHist(5) Biology(5) EnglishLang(3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Chem, AP Stats, Calculus and Analytic Geometry III, Mathematical Reasoning
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Honor</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Huge amount of religious things, Sunday school, tutoring, math league
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Mickey D’s for over 13 months 
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered as Sunday School teacher
[</em>] Essays: I made sure they were really good.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Waived right, but both teachers liked me so I’m sure they were decent.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also liked me and knew me pretty well.
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: Went great, it was pretty relaxed and informal. The interviewer remarked that she enjoyed our conversation, so I’m assuming she submitted a good report. </p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NC
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Pakistani
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: $80k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, grades, test scores
[</em>] Weaknesses: EXTRACURRICULARS.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because I prayed a lot :P[/li][/ul]General Comments: I’m stoked. This almost makes up for being rejected by Stanford.</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=black][ b]Time: ?:??[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[ <em>] SAT I (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Chem 760 Math II 770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 2%
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Biology, AP Calc BC, AP German, English, Government
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): School departmental awards, Bausch & Lomb science award, hockey awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): hockey 4 year letterman/captain, guitar/drums, engineering seminar, nothing notable
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 20 hrs/wk
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 80 hours
[</em>] Essays: pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably bland, huge school
[ <em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: went very well</p>
<p>[/list]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah
[</em>] Intended Major: engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: St. Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 120k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): nothin, finally a school accepts me for being a good applicant. hahah vanderbilt is a joke.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: good grades/scores, normal kid who plays sports and goes out on the weekend.
[</em>] Weaknesses: not URM of course
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[/ul]General Comments: congrats everyone else, cant wait to paint up for duke games…hopefully they have some good looking girls. peaceeeee</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800CR 750M 790W
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 800 Bio, 800 MII, 740 USH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86-3.87
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): just above top 4%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s USH Eng Lang Stat; 4 World History
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: good
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): not great.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 11h/week
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: about 200h?
[</em>] Essays: commonapp was original; don’t know if it worked
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very enthusiastic
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: none</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[</em>] Intended Major: undecided
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: AZN
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: high
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc): not a hook, but I submitted an art portfolio. Obviously didn’t help.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Don’t know. I’m disappointed…It doesn’t matter anymore anyway…[/li][/ul]**General Comments: **uhhhh, SUCK IT DUKE! haha</p>
<p>Time: 1:16</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (Pratt)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): m 800 cr 610 wr 750
SAT II (if submitted): M2: 800, Bio: 750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5 / 469
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s in all math and science… bombed english… 4s on history
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): All state football award, 10th place integration nationally, 1st place calculus in florida</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Football Soccer and MAO all competitive and successful
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: who cares… community service doesnt compensate for stupidity
Essays: too raw
Teacher Recommendation: too raw
Counselor Rec: too raw
Additional Rec: too raw
Interview: Too raw i was cracking jokes the whole time
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Na
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering (Pratt)
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Medium
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc): All State football player, nationally recognized math competitor</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: Rank, ECs, Essays, Course Load
Weaknesses: SAT, but who cares</p>
<p>***e Duck!!! Go 'dores and gators!!</p>
<p>spiritualwatch, I’m so sorry. It’s not easy to lose a pet, having gone through the same more than once myself. Hang in there. Don’t feel regrets for Duke. It was a tough year. I poured my heart out to my application, had legacy, good stats, etc. and still was rejected. It’s a tough game.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Time: 116</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 760M, 800 CR, 780 W (2340) - only taken once
ACT: N/A
SAT II: 790 Bio M and 770 on US and 790 Math 2
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0/4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Val (1/324)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang 5, US 5, Bio 5
Senior Year Course Load: Most rigorious
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, Some state science olympiad awards, State econ awards, community service stuff…
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Science Club (Prez and founder), FBLA (treasurer and historian), SADD (Class rep), Acdec (captain), Quiz Bowl (Captain), Olympus Club (recruiter), NHS
Job/Work Experience: Paper route for 6 years and worked in a lab this summer
Volunteer/Community service: 400 hrs with Red Cross, 800 hours teaching Sunday Schoo, 105 hours at American Cancer Society, 200 hrs volunteering with local congressman
Summer Activities: Volunteering, SAT prep, lab
Essays: could’ve been better, but I’d say 7/10
Teacher Recommendation: waved rights
Counselor Rec: waved rights
Additional Rec:
Interview: Went well enough I suppose
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: Bio
State (if domestic applicant): Nebraska
School Type: Small public HS
Ethnicity: White (and PROUD of it)
Gender: M
Income Bracket: +150k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Geographic diversity?</p>
<p>Reflection[list][li] Strengths: SATs, state, ECs [/li]Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: idk…all around decent applicant I guess</p>
<p>Seems like they were looking for high math SAT scores.</p>
<p>1:16 rejected - told you guys time was ridiculous
ah well</p>