<p>sorry about by accepted to nyu cas (used same thing for their forum)</p>
<p>Accepted.</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT breakdown: 2120- 680M, 700CR, 740W
GPA (UW): 4.0
Rank (UW): 1
GPA (W): 4.6
Rank (W): 9
AP’s: a handful, all 4’s and 5’s
Senior Year Course Load: BC Calc AP, Eng AP, Psych AP, blah blah blah</p>
<p>Subjective: </p>
<p>E.c’s: 4 years varsity soccer, capt. senior year, dabbled with some other varsity sports, vice pres of SGA, involved with a community council, NHS officer, few other things here and there
Job/Work Experience: work at local concert venue (Merriweather Post Pavillion), leadership internship
Summer: mostly play, some work
Essays: solid
Volunteer: 100+ hours
Recommendations: what teachers let you all read them?!</p>
<p>Other:</p>
<p>State: MD
School: Public
Gender: F
Ethnicity: White
Hooks: none</p>
<p>Reflection:</p>
<p>Strengths: grades/rank, essays… I think
Weaknesses: Math SAT score (in comparison to many other bucknell applicants)
Why was I accepted: well-rounded, no major strengths or weaknesses, just a pretty good student with some good extras
Other acceptances/denials: denied: UNC-Chapel Hill; accepted: St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Gettysburg College, University of Richmond, waiting on W&M</p>
<p>General Comments: Congratulations to those accepted and best of luck to all of us waiting to hear back on some final schools!</p>
<p>I got rejected but oh well. I have UCLA as my backup :].</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2120; M: 710, CR: 670, W: 740
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: Bio-M: 690, Math-II: 740
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I can’t say, my school is weird and goes on a 100-scale.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 / 273
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): none, yet
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): —
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Spanish, AP Am. Gov., Chem II, Calc I, Band, P.E.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Super small local awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching Band (Secretary, Section Leader), Saxtet (Group Leader), Spanish Honor Society (Founder, President), NHS, Girl Scouts
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: —
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Musikfest for 5 summers, Girl Scout Day Camp helper (one summer)
[<em>] Summer Activities: ^
[</em>] Essays: Tongue-in-cheek in a mature/sarcastic sort of way. Made me laugh, anyway.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good, I guess?
[</em>] Counselor Rec: same
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: none
[/ul]Other[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): —
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White/Filipino
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>]Income Bracket:~100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): —[/li][/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] Strengths: ECs, course load… er…
[</em>] Weaknesses: SATs were a little low-ish, lack of work experience
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted: Strengths and PA resident (but I have no idea if they put that into account)
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted Penn State-Main, Drexel, Case Western, RPI, Bryn Mawr. Still waiting on two more, but they’re Ivies, so. =P
[/ul]General Comments: Since Bucknell uses the Profile, I was hoping to get an acceptable fin aid package… and while what they gave me was nice-ish, it was nowhere near what I was hoping for. But I’ll visit at least, and check it out and all. Congrats to all that were accepted, and even those wait-listed! The pool was crazy insane competitive, so there is a little something to be happy about.</p>
<p>@ollie, how did you get your FA package… was it with your acceptance letter in the mail?</p>
<p>D accepted today. Engineering. Financial aid package arrived in same package.
ACT- M34,E28,R31,S28
GPA-3.93 out of 4
Rank-6/368
5 AP classes
Band</p>
<p>D accepted </p>
<p>Crazy amount of financial aid :)</p>
<p>Waiting on a couple more schools but Bucknell is number 1 so far!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2250 - 710 math, 740 writing, 800 reading
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 690 math II, 700 lit, 710 chem, 720 bio - m, 790 us history
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): bio (4), chem (4), us history (5), english lang (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: ap physics, ap economics, ap english lit, ap latin, ap calc-ab, ap gov & pol.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ap scholar with honor, trinity college book award, simsbury scholars award (top 5 % gpa)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): varsity football, varsity mens volleyball (captain), mock trial, model un (vice president), student council, dodgeball, off-season lifting program
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 years of summer job at eye doctor’s office
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: lot of church stuff, previous interning at eye doctors, helping out with special olympics, countless other random ones all the time
[<em>] Summer Activities: working, training for preseason, volunteering
[</em>] Essays: pretty damn good if i can say so myself
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: didnt see them but i was pretty close to both of the teachers and they wrote me really good letters for other things in the past so im assuming they were great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: decent
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: as white as they come
[<em>] Gender: the dominant one, jk - male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 80k - 90k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation American although my Mom did graduate college in Poland
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: taking all the hardest classes and excelling in them, my essays were legit
[<em>] Weaknesses: freshman year started off rough with relatively low gpa and almost no extracurriculars, maybe sats?
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: im a boss, who wouldnt want me?
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to boston college honors, colby, colgate benton scholars program, uconn honors and special law program, notre dame, providence honors, university of virginia, and villanova honors. rejected ed from penn. waiting on cornell, dartmouth, duke, hillsdale, georgetown, holy cross, trinity, tufts, and yale[/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>I just received a decision from Bucknell University stating that I was waitlisted. Im not saying that Bucknell was a safety, but it was a school that i thought i was going to get into.</p>
<p>only sent 1 act score: 33 composite</p>
<p>mathl level 2: 740
Chemistry: 700</p>
<p>gpa: 4.4 weighted (all ap courses)</p>
<p>multiple awards, nothing national but sevearl awards for essays and I was inducted into the cum laude society at my high school</p>
<p>Is there any chance that Bucknell did not accept me because they thought Bucknell was not my first choice? Not to sound to cocky, but do they defer students who may be over qualified? Please answer me honestly. Thanks</p>
<p>btw, average act for bucknell is 27-31</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2000: 730 Math, 670 CR, 600 W
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: Math I: 720 Math II: 750 BioE: 700
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/197
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (3), Euro History (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP US History, Calc AB, Envisci, English Lit, online AP Phsyics ( all AP’s school offers +1 online)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band (Treasurer/Section Leader), Tennis, Technology Student Association competitor, Envirothon competition
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked 15 hrs/week at a local restaurant for 2 1/2 years
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Raised money for local food bank
[<em>] Summer Activities: Worked, traveled to Australia and China
[</em>] Essays: Terrible, about a car accident with an Amish family. My writing ability is poor at best.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see, but my mom told me the one was practically written about another student with the same first name as me.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: N/A
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: None, but visited for a day
[/ul]Other[ul]</p>
<ul>
<li><p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: Small Rural Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Cauc
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>]Income Bracket: 30,000-50,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Emphasis on band involvement[/li][/ul]Reflection[ul]</p></li>
<li><p>[<em>] Strengths: Musical involvement, travel experience
[</em>] Weaknesses: Essay, SAT writing, teacher reccomendation
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Just lucky I guess, judging from some of the rejections here
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted at Drexel and PSU-Main, waitlisted at CMU and BC
[/ul]General Comments:
I got a nice amount of aid and am a little surprised that Bucknell, not being need blind, accepted and gave me the amount that they did.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Accepted! :-)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2310: 800 Math, 730 CR, 780 W
- ACT: 34 Composite
- SAT II: Math II: 760 Bio M: 760
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/617
- AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4) Calc AB/BC (5/4) US Gov (5) Bio (5)
- Senior Year Course Load: Orchestra, Anatomy, AP Stats, AP Econ, AP English, AP Physics C, AP French
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Student
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Orchestra (Secretary/Section Leader), Cross country/track, Math club (VP, treasurer), Mu Alpha Theta, National Honor Society
- Job/Work Experience: Worked 40 hrs/week doing research over the summer
- Volunteer/Community service: Raised money for health care charities, hospital volunteering, church activities
- Summer Activities: working
- Essays: Memorable. I wrote about one of my shadowing experiences in the OR.
- Teacher Recommendation: Excellent.
- Counselor Rec: Didn’t see.
- Additional Rec: Didn’t see, but probably solid.
- Interview: Visited campus, no interview
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* *
- State (if domestic applicant): OH
- Country (if international applicant): US
- School Type: Large suburban public school
- Ethnicity: Caucasian
- Gender: F
- Income Bracket: 90,000-100,000
- Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Dual citizenship
</code></pre>
<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code>* *
- Strengths: Musical involvement, recommendations, transcript, published research
- Weaknesses: Essays
- Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Well-rounded applicant
- Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted at UChicago, U of Cincinnati, Pitt, Syracuse, Union College, U of Rochester
</code></pre>
<p>General Comments:
I was also accepted on Tuition Exchange. Congratulations to everyone and good luck :)</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1990 (600 M, 690 CR, 700 W)
ACT: 29
SAT II: US History-750
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 15%
AP (place score in parenthesis): European History (3), US History (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, AP English Lit, AP Psychology, AP Economics, AP US Gov, Show Choir (Highest Honors class), Dance (Highest Honors class)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel, High Honor Roll
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club (Assistant Vice President), Model Congress (Central Committee Chair), Tri-M Music Honor Society (Public Relations officer), National Dance Honor Society, Hebrew Culture Club (President), Yearbook (Section Editor), Newspaper (Associate Editor-in-Chief).
Job/Work Experience: Camp counselor (Summer 2009), Lifeguard (Summer 2009-present).
Volunteer/Community service: Key Club, Relay for Life, tutoring, worked at a local fair,
Summer Activities: Lifeguard
Essays: Very solid
Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
Counselor Rec: Very Good
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A
Other
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: $140,000-$150,000 (only dad works-mom is unemployed English teacher)
and I have an older sister who is a junior at Tulane University
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
Strengths: Definitely my writing, so I thought my essays would help me a lot.
Weaknesses: Math SAT section
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’m not sure, but if I had to guess, probably my GPA and low SAT Math score-looking at the people who were accepted, they had higher scores than I did.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted to University of Wisconsin-Madison, SUNY-Binghamton, Tulane University, University of Vermont (with the Presidential Scholarship), University of Maryland, University of Miami, Fordham University (law program), University of Delaware, Penn State university-University Park, SUNY-Oneonta, and SUNY-Buffalo. I got waitlisted from Boston University, Bucknell, University, and Muhlenberg College. I was rejected from Union College and Lehigh University. I am still waiting on University of Richmond and Syracuse University. If I don’t get accepted to Bucknell, I’m leaning towards Wisconsin, Binghamton, or Tulane.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got in, and good luck to those waitlisted!</p>