<h1>Extracurriculars: concertmaster two orchestras, president/captain of academic team, chess club, chinese student association and breakdancing club at the college</h1>
<h1>Awards: amc school winner pin? hehehe</h1>
<p>Denied</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2160 (770 M, 730 W, 660 CR)
* SAT II: 800 Math IIc, 770 Physics
* ACT: (not taken)
* GPA: 3.87 UW
* Rank: Unranked
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays:
o "Common App" - Pretty sick
o "Ethical Dilemma" - Don't remember, but it wasn't anything great
o "Sense of Humor" - Pranks
o "Math/Science Interest" - I liked it
* Teacher Recs:
o Forgot who wrote them
* Counselor Rec:
o Don't know her, she has around 100 recs to write
* Supplementary Material:
o Something I entered for Siemens
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
o ISEF 3rd place for teams
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: VA
* High School Type: Public, 3000 kids total
* Ethnicity: Indian
* Gender: Male
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars:
o Model UN (9-12) - awards won
o French Club
o Cross Country
o Varsity Math Team (11-12)
o Track
* Awards:
o JV scholar athlete
o French honors
o Science honors
o Grand prize at regional scifair, 11th
o ISEF 3rd place teams, stock market predictions, 11th
o 1st place school scifair 12th
o Some more stuff I can't remember
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: ****... Didn't really expect to get in though
</code></pre>
<p>10 minutes until email... I'm nervous D:</p>
<p>congrats all who made it in - you are all very deserving - go do great things!</p>
<p>You folks rejected- your stats are all great - you will go do great things too, just somewhere else!</p>
<p>son rejected
I don't have his complete stats
but here is the gist</p>
<p>High test scores 34 composite ACT - 800 Math SAT (not so high CR - 670 or so - abyssmal W 510 I think)</p>
<p>Low GPA (3.2) and class rank _ not a good writer and does/did poorly in English Composition (including probably his College app essays - very perfunctory) Grades VERY lopsided. A's in all maths and sciences - C's in all humanities classes except voice (choir - A's)</p>
<p>No hook unless being from a tiny town without much in the way of educational opportunity is one</p>
<p>Math and physics teachers recs were very good - most brilliant math student they have had in 30 years, blah blah blah. English teacher ?- who knows</p>
<p>white male</p>
<p>the usual EC's for a small school and small town - awards in knowledge bowl, science bowl, state math comp(1st place individual)- nothing of much high-powered note and no faculty interested or aware enough to inform him of competitions in which he would have excelled.</p>
<p>honors choir, state solo and ensemble competitions</p>
<p>wants to major in pure math</p>
<p>rejection was expected - but it would be a perfect school for him</p>
<p>REJECTED</p>
<p>GPA: 4.3 weighted
SAT I: 2390 (800 CR, 800 M, 790 W one sitting)
SAT II: 800 Math IIC
770 Physics
770 U.S. History
AP: Calc BC, Physics B, US History, English Lang., Psychology all 5.</p>
<p>pretty good essay, nice recommendations
asian male, international, and financial aid all converged in a trifecta of "REJECTION"
wasn't expecting much, but it sure stings hahahaha
congrats to everyone who got in!</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT II: Math IIC: 750, Chem 760, US Hist 750
[</em>]ACT: 32 (34 math)
[<em>]GPA: 4.3
[</em>]Rank: 7/409
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5s in comp sci A & AB, US Hist,
US Gov & Chem, Physics C this year, along with Calc BC
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: i made a calc joke in one. i thought they were good :/
[<em>]Teacher Recs: how subjective can i really be?
[</em>]Counselor Rec: same.
[<em>]Supplementary Material: um.
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location:maryland!
[</em>]High School Type: public
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: m
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y/N[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: way too many... computer bowl & trivia team incl.
[<em>]Awards: i break school records in computer & other competitions,
school webmaster, and i fix the school's computers among many other things.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: eh, oh well.[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted!!!
My first acceptance, hoorah!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380 (780 crit)
[</em>]SAT II:800 chem, 800 math, 740 lit
[<em>]ACT: nah
[</em>]GPA: 4
[<em>]Rank: 1 or 2 out of 300
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): amc 12 - 97.5, AIME 7. 5 5's and a 4 on various APs</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty decent I suppose.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I didn't think they would be great, I'm not exactly the loudest or most interesting kid in class
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Blarg, barely knows me (although she does know me)
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: MD
[</em>]High School Type: kinda small, frick - I don't think it's ever seen a caltech admit, although I would have to ask.
[<em>]Ethnicity: caucasian
[</em>]Gender: male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y/N N
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: founder of math club, brought AMC 12 to school, did a researchesque internship involving pharmaceuticals (pretty cool). Wrote a book (sort of).
[<em>]Awards: Other than amc 12 winner once, not too many :p
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Don't feel like I was super special, I just did what I like and showed them I suppose. </p>
<p>[/ul]</p>
<p>^ hey hey, that's not a very good attitude to take! at least you weren't rejected :P</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul][<em>]SAT: 2200
[</em>]SAT II: Math Lvl 2 800, Physics 800, Chemistry 800
[<em>]ACT: -
[</em>]GPA: 4.86/5.00
[<em>]Rank: 1st
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Physics B, Physics C, Calculus AB, Calculus BC, Statistics, Chemistry (all 5s)[/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Essays: Main essay talked about my trip to watch sunrise and my realization after that, supplementary essay talk about my childhood and how it made me curious about science. Generally they are acceptable essays, not very fantastic in my opinion
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Very very good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Very good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Letter of recommendation from research professor, published research paper on Applied Physics B
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Personal</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Location: Singapore
[</em>]High School Type: Math and Science High School
[<em>]Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>]Gender Female
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: N[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other</p>
<p>[ul][<em>]Extracurriculars: Astronomy Club, School Orchestra, Student Council
[</em>]Awards: ISEF 1st award, International Physics Olympiad Silver Award (and a bunch of others not so significant ones)
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Think Caltech think Feynman![/ul]</p>
<p>@static75: I'm just saying that normal people still have a shot - although I had good test scores, my ECs weren't incredible or anything (no usamo or olympiad, I didn't even call my 'research' actually research heh). I've found that CC has the ability to make everyone think they suck, even when they are quite good. Anyway, good luck everyone.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>SAT: 2310 (superscored)
SAT II: 800 Math Level 2, 800 Physics, 800 Biology-E, 780 World History
ACT: n/a
GPA: 3.994
Rank: 10/324
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AIME Qualifier 11th and 12th grades, five 5s and one 4 AP testing, only junior last year to take AP Physics C and accompanying AP tests</p>
<p>Subjective</p>
<p>Essays: one about Boy Scouting and church and another about my interest in the scientific method. Short essay on self-teaching myself HTML and CSS
Teacher Recs: biology teacher rec was fantastic, one good one from math teacher, another from English teacher
Counselor Rec: Pretty good
Supplementary Material: Very important for me (mentioned in acceptance letter, handwritten)--> research at national lab, music, and statewide essay contest winner
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>
<p>Personal</p>
<p>Location: Oregon
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian American
Gender: Male
Applied for Financial Aid: Yes</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: See my stats profile
Awards: See my stats profile
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I thought this would never happen, but I still tried my hardest at school and in everything I do. In the end, my work has paid off! Never give up. =) </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone and no matter what decision you receive, be happy! Think that the school you will go to is meant to be. If you get rejected, don't worry and most of all, don't let your hopes down in getting into another great college. I'm sure you'll be admitted to an institution just right for you. For the waitlisted, don't give up! To everyone: best of luck!</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: Math 800 Reading 710 Writing 710
[</em>]SAT II: Math II 800 Physics 750
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 4.52 (4.7 without Freshmen year)
[<em>]Rank: 11% (5% without Freshmen year)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc BC 5; AP Comp Sci. AB 5; AMC 12 100.5; IB Comp Sci. SL 5; IB History SL 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very subpar
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Assume good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: No clue
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Math Club coach person recommendation.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Dunno[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Colorado
[<em>]High School Type: 2000 Public; sends a good amount of students to top schools.
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Math Club, Science Bowl, Chinese Club, Ultimate Frisbee, Golf, People to People, Karate.
[</em>]Awards: Don't feel like listing them.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: My essays were really bad, so I didn't expect much. 4th on my list[/ul]</p>
<p>*Accepted!!! *</p>
<p>definitely was not expecting this; decisions will be tough! Congratz to everyone else, hope to see you at prefrosh weekend. I'm sure you all have memorized my stats by now(from all the CHANCE ME! :] threads)....</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:Math:800;Comprehension:740;Writing:780
[</em>]SAT II:800 Math II/Chem, 730 World History
[<em>]ACT:n/a
[</em>]GPA:98.5/100 ish
[<em>]Rank:1/500
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):All 5's on World history, Copmp Sci A, Chemistry, calc BC, US history, English Language
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:Wrote a fairly humorous one about my passion for random mathematics.
[</em>]Teacher Recs:English teacher said I might as well be the next Pythagorus (but he bloats everyone), Math teacher loves me but no idea what he said
[<em>]Counselor Rec:She hates me with a passion, wouldn't be surprised if it said "Kill this kid"
[</em>]Supplementary Material:A fairly extensive exercise in Number Theory that I completed over the summer with an epic tale of how I kept on failing.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):Not Asian [/ul]
Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:Midstate NY
[<em>]High School Type:Public, not horrible, but not that great.
[</em>]Ethnicity:White Jew
[<em>]Gender:Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:Math Team, Science Olympiad, Debate Team, Tutoring, Academic World Quest, NHS
[</em>]Awards:A couple random awards from the math team, some random science award, and first place in a regional essay contest
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Not all that surprised, I knew I was good but up against heavy competition. I just feel really cheated by the timing of everything. World Quest and Debate team only recently existed, our science Olympiad just a few weeks ago came in second at regional qualifying for State for the first time in our schools history (with me bringing in a nice crop of medals), and I finally managed to qualify for the AIME (hid my previous shameful AMC scores). And no one got to see any of this. I guess I could put it on the waitlist form, but just ugh. One down, a dozen (pseudo)rejections to go![/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Hey I didn't get any emails ..Does that mean rejected?</p>
<p>i got in as a non-asian :)
must have been the essays
2170 SAT
790 Math 2, 720 Physics, 680 US History
essays were all written the day the app was due- about random things really- whatever popped into my head
tons of ECs usually started by me
awards: mostly local chess, math, science, varsity lettered in 7 things, placed in around 10 different state competitions
dont really feel like bragging
GO Caltech 13'</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2230 (720CR, 780M, 730W)
* SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 720 Spanish
* ACT:None
* GPA: 4.106/4.300
* Rank: 2/340
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
5s on US Hist, Calc BC, Spanish Lang, English Lang/Comp
6 on IB Comp Sci SL
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Loved my main essay, it was very personal so it was really authentic. My two optional showed lighter aspects of my personality
* Teacher Recs: Humanities was excellent, not sure about my Physics one as I never read it, sent an extra from a professor at Rutgers who I interned with which was excellent
* Counselor Rec: Good I assume, never saw it
* Supplementary Material:Sent my extended essay which was based on the work I did at Rutgers, and a CD containing my IB Comp Sci Internal Assessment
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: NJ
* High School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: M
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Aviation training since I was 9, string quartet, Habitat for humanity, virtual controlling on VATSIM network, webmaster experience and a few more
* Awards: NHS, NSHSS, Spanish Honors Society, AP Student with Honors, Commended Student
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
</code></pre>
<p>Hey I did not receive any emails. Help me! I had got confirmation saying that my appication was complete..So what was wrong...Don't rejected applicants get e-mail? </p>
<p>Did anyone else not get any e-mail?</p>
<p>Accepted!!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2210: 800 Math; 750 Writing; 660 Critical Reading
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II; 770 Physics; 700 Chemistry
[<em>]GPA: 4.44/4.5
[</em>]Rank: 1/380
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Physics C E&M:5; Physics C Mech:4; MacroEcon:4; MicroEcon:5; AMC 12: 91.5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: CommonApp Main one: facilitating a diversity-promoting program- AMUST at my school; Why Interested in Engineering one: wrote about how I was exposed to math/science progressively throughout my life/went further into some activities
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Two pretty good ones from experienced AP teachers (Chem and History) that I have known for a couple of years now
[</em>]Counselor Rec: The plug-and-chug template type
[<em>]Supplementary Material: None
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]
Personal[ul] applying as JUNIOR; Russian female and first generation in America; captain/one of initiators of school's FIRST Robotics Team; no big-time research projects though
[<em>]Location: PA
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Russian
[</em>]Gender: F
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: FIRST Robotics team captain; Mock Trial team; Science Club/Science competitions; Community Service programs; 3 years of Varsity Tennis; Environmental Club president; Student Government; Gifted Program
[<em>]Awards: PA Math/AMC 10 School 1st place; numerous smaller math/science awards in our region through the gifted program
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: YAYAYAYAYAYAY! It feels great to be accepted to such a wonderful college but now the question is financing... that will be the biggest decision factor for me. I was not expecting to get accepted to Caltech at all being a junior. My biggest obstacle was finding out how to write the essays/figuring out the topic. But my suggestion is to write about yourself from various perspectives so that the admissions committee will get to know you well. And I found, at least for me, that it is not necessary to spend a couple of months over an essay- you just have to get that writing spark and it will turn out to be a passionate, sincere essay. Go class of 2013!!! [/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2210 (790 M, 760 CR, 660 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 Physics, 760 Lit
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 93/100 UW, 103/100 W
[<em>]Rank: 2/241
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chem 5, AP Physics 5
[/ul]
Subjective
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I did the commonapp one about a person who's influenced you and wrote about how each of my parents gave me a love for a different thing, one music and the other science. Then for the supplementary essay (which I wrote in half an hour the day the application was due) was about why I think math and science are so profound.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One from my physics teacher that I'm very close to and do an independent study with. I forget which was the other one because I sent different ones to every school.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: The standard counselor rec.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: My UChicago supplementary essay that was the only one I wrote that I really liked. It was the particle accelerator prompt and I wrote about smashing together physics and my guitar and discovering super string theory!
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nothing LOL
[/ul]
Personal
[ul]
[</em>]Location: CT
[<em>]High School Type: Average suburban public school that sends a student to a top school only about once every four or five years.
[</em>]Ethnicity: White, Albanian Immigrant
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
[/ul]
Other
[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Independent study in physics that I designed and am taking this year. Every school band. Student theater. Rock band with my friends that got pretty big locally. FIRST Robotics.
[</em>]Awards: NMS Semifinalist... that's like it haha
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I applied to CalTech off a whim not really expecting to get in, but I liked everything I'd heard about the school so I figured why not. I asked my guidance department to send out my transcript to them at the last possible minute, 2 days before Christmas break. Getting in was so unexpected but it lifted such a huge weight since I've been so worried about college over the last few months. I was at school (for 14 hours for this really cool team math modeling competition, the M3 challenge or something like that LOL) when my mom called and I asked her to get the mail and tell me what was there. When she told me there was some kind of big envelope I swear my heart almost stopped![/li][/ul]</p>