<p>No email still :(</p>
<p>Friend of D has received an acceptance. She lives in NJ.</p>
<p>Deferred. Now we’re in the Twilight Zone and have to figure out what to do about ED2. The one result we didn’t want.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted!</p>
<p>Deferred is no worse than rejection…so at worst you can treat it as a denial, then it will no longer be the one result you did not want.</p>
<p>I was deferred too:(</p>
<p>angerhang, what were your stats?? I was deferred too</p>
<p>I got accepted! All my work is totally worth it now 
And two of my friends got into Brown!</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who got accepted! For us poor ED II-ers who have to wait another 8 weeks, can you guys (if you feel comfortable) post your stats so we can see what the decisions are looking like from that perspective?</p>
<p>My D did not submit her test scores. Her UW gpa was 3.85 and she’s ranked in the top 5% of her class. Public magnet school, IB diploma. Legacy. Main extracurricular is theater and chorus.</p>
<p>SAT:600(CR)760(Math)710(WR) GPA:3.85(unweighted)
SAT II:690(physics) 790(MathC2) 800(Chinese)
AP: 5 Cal AB 5 Phy C 3 AP Stat
Taking 4 aps this year.
@goblue2018</p>
<p>wow good luck in RD. they must’ve sent me the wrong email haha somehow I got deferred with a 3.3 and a 30 act</p>
<p>Deferred with:
3.95 UGPA.
No test score.
10 APs (World History, Microeconomics, Government, English Lang, Biology, Chemistry, Calc AB, Physics-Mechanics, Us History, Psych)</p>
<p>For people who are applying ED2, I would suggest informally asking a Bowdoin admission counselor whether you should submit your standardized test scores. The scores are truly optional, and the advice my daughter received was not to submit her scores unless they were extremely strong. She received a 30 ACT and was advised not to submit. Then, really focus on conveying to the admissions counselor how you would add to the Bowdoin community. What is your niche? I don’t think you have to excel in every single possible category. My daughter is a strong student, but not a super star. She has zero athletic abilities. But I think what helped her is her essay, her interview, and her interest in theater/directing/music. It also didn’t hurt that both of her parents attended Bowdoin. (Not fair, I know!). Good luck to everyone who is deferred or still applying!</p>
<p>From what I am observing in results at other schools, being an athlete, legacy, URM, or child of faculty members has everything to do with it. I’m seeing very, very few admitted without one of those hooks.</p>
<p>^^I’d say “very very few” is an overstatement. But that’s only based on our experience with boarding/private schools. If my son’s high school last year was any indication, I’d estimate that at least 60% of his peers were accepted somewhere ED…and of those, at least 90% were white, upperclass, non-athlete, non-legacy students.</p>
<p>Somehow I’m thinking boarding school is not the typical applicant. I live in the public school world, admittedly a very, very good Top 100 public school, and apparently there is a lot of crying and gnashing of teeth down at the GCs office this morning. But the quarterback, who’s not exactly a scholar, got in an academic powerhouse. His test scores, GPA, and course rigor don’t even fog the school’s 25% line.</p>
<p>As the old joke goes, “holistic” is code for “we let in whoever we want”.</p>
<p>^Not disagreeing at all. Just giving ED kids a little hope I guess. Been thru this time of year twice already and I know that as soon as the first round of ED comes out, along with the first round of rejections/deferrals, soon to follow are the observations about only the “dumb jocks” getting in, the URM getting in…and from what I’ve seen I really don’t think it’s the case. Just defensive knee jerk on my part!</p>
<p>I am a urm+first gen and got deferred.</p>
<p>I don’t have any hooks but I got in… I don’t think it’s as much about hooks as it is about differentiating yourself from other people through a passion you have…</p>