2015 RD Stats

Colleges and Universities A-Z Mount Holyoke College
1

<p>Decision: Accepted
Decision: Waitlisted
Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Pick One:
[size=+2][color=green]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[size=+2][color=orange]Decision: Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[size=+2][color=red]**Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[size=+1]School applied to:[ /size]</p>

<p>**Objective:[ /b][list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>

<p>[ /list]**Subjective:[ /b][list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:</p>

<p>[ /list]**Other[ /b][list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>

<p>[ /list]**Reflection[ /b][list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>

<p>[ /list]**General Comments:[ /b]</p>

2

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted
School applied to: Mount Holyoke College, Agnes Scott College, Smith College, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, University of North Florida, Loyola University Maryland.</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): BLOCKED
[</em>] ACT: BLOCKED
[<em>] SAT II: BLOCKED
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.3
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 25 out of 460
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Taking it this year
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calculus, AP Biology, American Government Honors, Economics Honors, Multimedia Foundations Level 1, Drafting 1, English 4 Honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Musician of the Year, Most Outstanding in Web Design 2, Adobe Certified Associate in Web Communications</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Music: Piano/Guitar, Photography, Church Activities/Fund-raisers (Youth Director/Secretary), Dance, Blogging, Future Business Leaders of America, Student Government Association (Representative), Student Event Committee
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Materials Management Assistant at Mount Sinai Hospital, Music Tutor at local music school, lead piano player at my church
[</em>] Summer Activities: Piano lessons and a lot of music performances with a band from my music school.
[<em>] Essays: My essay talked a lot about my love for the Bollywood and Japanese culture. It wasn’t very serious and was borderline crazy since I was describing my unhealthy obsession for Bollywood movies and Japanese calligraphy.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both of my teachers mentioned the same thing about me, in different words of course, which was that I was very creative, soft-spoken, open minded, and sociable which pretty much describes the type of person I am today and I am extremely grateful for their recommendations since I asked for them last minute.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: My counselor told me that she strongly recommended me and chose the words friendly, task-oriented, and very lady-like as the first words that come to mind when describing me.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None
[li] Interview: None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): –
[<em>] School Type: Public, urban, vocational
[</em>] Ethnicity: Jamaican
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: Under $30,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My apparent love for art and music.
[</em>] Weaknesses: My grades were not that stellar, but I approved between my junior and senior year.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was very surprised when Mount Holyoke College accepted me after my rejection at Smith College (Smith College was my first choice, and Mount Holyoke was my second). MoHo really seems to care about a person as a whole and their potential rather than their statistics/grades, in my opinion. Also, I really believe they were inspired by my extreme dedication to art and music.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was accepted at Agnes Scott College and Loyola University Maryland. I was rejected at Smith College, University of South Florida, and Florida State University. And I have yet to hear from the others.</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: Congratulations to everyone who was accepted!! I can’t wait to attend the admitted students program and visit the campus in April for the first time!</p>

3

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>School applied to: MoHo</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t submit scores
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II:
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6 w-3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Statistics
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Honors physics, honors english, ap statistics, comparative film and religion, advanced photography, and all things theatre
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): just school awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Huge in theatre stage managed all the shows my junior and senior year, international thespian society (secretary), broadway enthusiast (president). Certified rescue scuba diver
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:Summer at Baskin Robbins, Internship as a Assistant stage manager at Horizon Theatre Company
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Two years of dog walking for lifeline animal shelter and one of my clubs raises over 500 dollars to help fight AIDS every year.
[</em>] Summer Activities:spent two summers scuba diving the Caribbean, and then just worked the other two summers
[<em>] Essays: How the affects of intolerance create a harmful society
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Math, history (also the principle)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: presumably good
[</em>] Additional Rec: One from an old director and a peer reccomandation
[li] Interview: Went really well!</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[</em>] School Type: competitive private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Income Bracket:Upper
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I think my passion for theatre in school and my community </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:grades and ecs
[</em>] Weaknesses: test scores and not the toughest schedule
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:I showed a passion for the school but other than that I was pretty surprised
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:Smith (waitlisted), Elon (waitlisted), Rollins (accepted with 22 thousand a year), CofC (accepted), and USC (accepted)</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: I am really excited about MoHo. I am going to visit next week, and if I am not accepted to Smith I think I will be attending!</p>

4

<p>Decision: Accepted…Spring Admission</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t submit
[</em>] ACT: 29, 30 Superscore
[<em>] SAT II: Didn’t submit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Part of a Fife and Drum Core (totally nerdy!! :)), Leader of a robotics club for three years (won multiple awards, placed as third our first year), Leader of a 4H club (also have others, but I won’t list them all…)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Employee at Starbucks since April 2010
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Summer Volunteer at the Museum of Science, Volunteer at the BU CityLab Summer Camp (also had several other volunteer positions, but I won’t list them all!!)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Two summers ago, studied abroad in Denmark to support my Danish Language. This summer, I worked and attended MIT’s Junction, taking Chinese
[<em>] Essays: My essay was really good and unique. I also submitted the (was it) optional supplemental essay, which was also phenomenal, if I do say so myself. :slight_smile:
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both were excellent–I was super happy with them! :slight_smile:
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Since I am homeschooled, my mother wrote it.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Had my boss write a letter of rec, as well as the Volunteer Coordinator at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and one of the Counselors I worked with at BU City Lab.
[li] Interview: None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New Hampshire
[</em>] School Type: Homeschool
[<em>] Ethnicity: Middle Eastern/White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Lower Middle
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m not sure…I have a lot of leadership and volunteering positions…</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My leadership skills, extracurriculars, ability to have a job since Junior in high school!
[</em>] Weaknesses: Test scores…
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m guessing my activities. My school load was also pretty heavy, and I had various college-level classes. My academic curiosity is apparent in my work.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Simmons (Presidential Scholarship), Merrimack College (accepted Honors with Presidential Scholarship), Clark (with Traina Scholarship). Waitlisted: NYU, Northeastern, Smith. Rejected: Wesleyan. Waiting for: Brown, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Tufts. (Yes, I applied to many schools, but I figured why not?!)</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:
I got accepted for Spring Admission, and am stoked! I want to use this summer either working in a camp for blind children in Lebanon or studying abroad in Syria to get a head start on Arabic (which I hope to learn!!). I may have had many letters of rec, but I submitted them all because I am home schooled and they all depicted my work in a strong manner. Although I haven’t been on campus yet, I’m excited to visit come next week!</p>

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<p>[size=+2][color=green]**Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[size=+1]School applied to:[ /size] MoHo, Smith, Barnard, Scripps, Loyola Marymount (LA), Wesleyan, Bard, Hampshire, Trinity (CT), Sarah Lawrence </p>

<p>**Objective:[ /b][list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): Blocked
[ *] ACT: Didn’t submit
[ *] SAT II: sent in my USH 720 score to go with my submitted AP of 4
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.15
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, most likely top 10-5%
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP USH 4
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro, Pre Calc, AP Bio, AP English Language, AP Psychology, Independent Art, Physics (AP Lit and AP studio art independently)
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Winner of film passion contest hosted by Action/Cut filmmaking (cash prize $100), Comic accepted to overseas contest (only one of 5 Americans to be accepted), Best student in English 1, 2 and Geometry
[ /list]**Subjective:[ /b][list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Founded film club on campus (president, I guess), Helped headmaster come up with a film curriculum for second quater, Helped faculty produce an advertizement for our school to attract students, was an extra in The Assignment (2010) by Timothy J Nelson, Named artist of the month, designed school logo used in greeting cards and on coffee house wall, (student councial) STUCO freshman representative, Prom comittee co-captian and raised $2,300, Student ambassidor all four years, Headmaster scholarship all four years</p>

<p>[ *] Job/Work Experience: work every summer since third grade renovating duplexes and houses around my town with my mom and stepfather.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered with JCTOD freshmen summer and worked on fundrasing in impoversihed areas
[ *] Summer Activities: Six week program with the International Fim Institute of New York
[ *] Essays: Really good, really
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Waived my rights
[ *] Counselor Rec: She is also my AP psych teacher, she loves me!
[ *] Additional Rec: None
[ *] Interview: Good :slight_smile: I had a student interveiw on campus and I remember telling her about my love of comics and cartoons and how I had once desired to be a newspaper cartoonist, but that I would be under constant dealines and that I was worried about keeping up with them. She stared at me and was like, “that’s terrible! You shouldn’t give up on your deams!” :smiley: Yeah, she was great. </p>

<p>[ /list]**Other[ /b][list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): Utah
[ *] Country (if international applicant): USA
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: Quite white
[ *] Gender: Female!
[ *] Income Bracket: About $50,000
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My school has sent several kids to MoHo in the past five years and the assistant dean of admission came up one weekend. She seemed really impressed with my questions. Strong film interest is always good for LAC’s seeking diversity, quirky cartoons :D, State residency?</p>

<p>[ /list]**Reflection[ /b][list]
[ *] Strengths: Film, GPA and courseload, Essay (very personal but sends a good message of bouncing back)
[ *] Weaknesses: SAT (for sure my math score)
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Film interest, unique story to tell, State perhaps, Meeting the Assistant director, ect.
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to: Loyola Marymount (LA), Smith, University of Utah, Waitlisted to: Scripps, Hamilton, Rejected from: Weslayan</p>

<p>[ /list]**General Comments:[ /b] </p>

<p>I was really happy about MoHo, until I saw my fin aid package. I’m going to see how the rest of my schools pan out (especially their financial offerings) but I love MoHo for its film offerings in particular. Good luck future applicants!!</p>

6

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!! :D</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 1910 M: 650, CR: 640, W: 620
• ACT:
• SAT II: Blocked
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 w-3.9
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
• AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (3), AP Lit, AP French
• IB (place score in parenthesis): school does not offer IB
• Senior Year Course Load: Pre-Calc Honors, Physiology, AP French, AP Lit, Gov/Econ, tutoring
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): just school awards</p>

<p>Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook Photographer (editor), Octagon (PR officer, VP), Art class, youth group coordinator,
• Job/Work Experience: none :confused:
• Volunteer/Community service: Been volunteering since I was 10 for my community youth group. Made sandwiches for the homeless, started a organic community garden, planted apple trees in an orchard, etc.
• Summer Activities: spent one summer taking classes at a community college
• Essays: Why MHC, community service and most influential person in my life
• Teacher Recommendation: Junior year Lit teacher (who recommended me for the tutoring program) and APUSH teacher–not allowed to read the recs
• Counselor Rec: presumably good, my counselor knows me really well and she liked the answers I gave her at my interview with her :slight_smile:
• Additional Rec: none
• Interview: Went really well! I loved my interviewer, she and I really connected. It was a 15 minute scheduled interview that took about 45 mins :D</p>

<p>Other
• State (if domestic applicant): CA
• School Type: competitive public
• Ethnicity: Indian
• Income Bracket: Middle
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I think my passion for the college was really shown through my interview and my essay. Also, my interviewer really liked my photography and the fact that I wanted to start up the yearbook community at MHC again.
Reflection
Strengths: ECs, photographs, and supplemental essays and materials that I sent in
Weaknesses: Grades, test scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I showed a passion for the school and my interviewer was also an admissions person but other than that I was pretty surprised
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Wellesley (waitlisted), UCI (waitlisted), UCD, SCU, NYU, UCSC
General Comments: I am really excited about MoHo. I am going to visit during the admitted students program, I’m now close to 100% sure that I will be going to MHC :smiley: YAY and CONGRATS to all those who got in and for those who got waitlisted/rejected good luck! And for those applying next year: the best of luck to all of you! If you have any questions just message me :)</p>

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<p>does MHC have a Facebook group for 2015? I couldn’t find one.</p>

8

<p>Yes just type in Mount Holyoke Class of 2015. It’ll come up.</p>

9

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT (breakdown): 1890 total with Math: 660 Writing: 620 Critical Reading: 610
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): BLOCKED
[</em>] GPA (out of 4.0): 94.27 (school doesn’t use 4.0 system)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] APs (place score in parenthesis): Did not send, but I have taken AP U.S. History and AP Government
[<em>] IBs (place score in parenthesis): N/A (school doesn’t offer)
[</em>] Senior year course load:AP Eng, AP Calc AB, AP Chem, Spanish 7 (jumped a level, I’ve been skipping levels since I began taking Spanish in the 9th grade…), Film. School only offers 7 AP and no honors classes.
[li] Major awards: Poetry Out Loud 3rd place in school, Kenyon book award, national honor society, posse semi-finalist, high honors, random school awards [/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Junior State of America (random position, 10-12 grades), Anime Club (co-founder, 11-12), Japanese lessons (10-11), Varsity Softball Player (10 - 12), Club Volleyball (10-12), Senior Trip/Prom Committee (10-12), and sewing (9 - 12). (school does not offer many ECs)
[</em>] Work experience: Teen Job at a local non-profit (10-12 grades)
[<em>] Volunteer/community service: internship at a State Senator office (12), camp counselor at a local Art Day camp (9-10), Community service in Guatemala with school (11)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Teen job (mentioned above), internship, camp counselor
[<em>] Essays: Great =) VERY unique!!!
[</em>] Teacher rec’s: Did not read but was told they were good
[<em>] Counselor rec: I think it was fierce =)
[</em>] Additional rec’s: I sent in one from my supervisor of my job, was able to read it, and it was great!
[li] Interview: Did not have one![/ul] </p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for financial aid?: Yes!
[</em>] Intended major (on app): Political Science, East Asian Studies
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School type: Charter, SUPER small!!!
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: WOMAN!
[</em>] Income bracket: Middle class!
[li] Hooks (urm, first generation college, research, etc.) To my knowledge, none… Perhaps my personality? Not sure if that is a hook…[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Personality, ECs, essays!
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA and SAT!
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because I’m fierce :sunglasses:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Bryn Mawr College, Denison University, Boston University. Wait-listed: Grinnell College, Carleton College, Wellesley College. Rejected: Scripps College, Vassar College [/ul]</p>

<p>**General comments: Super happy!!! =D **</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2250 total. CR: 700, M: 750, W: 750
[ *] SAT II: Lit 740. USH 660.
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.6
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: four APs.</p>

<p>Subjective:
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Theatre/Art Crew (crew head), NHS (VP), annual coat drive (organizer), winter and spring track, karate black belt.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: interned at local business.
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: coat drive organizer (received a certificate of achievement from the mayor)
[ *] Summer Activities: traveling, culture camp.
[ *] Essays: i was nervous about the short answers… they felt generic, but i tried to personalize them. common app essay was good.
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: from my (frosh+soph) english teacher and my junior world history teacher. both amazing writers and teachers.
[ *] Counselor Rec: good i think, she seems to like me.
[ *] Additional Rec: none
[ *] Interview: none</p>

<p>Other:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[ *] Country (if international applicant): usa
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: asian
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] Income Bracket: Upper middle
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>

<p>Reflection:
[ *] Strengths: SAT, common essay, leadership in extracurriculars.
[ *] Weaknesses: GPA. short answers.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my essay about my summer experience abroad. maybe my willingness to challenge myself with difficult courses?
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
A: smith, tcnj, rutgers.
R: barnard, wellesley, colgate</p>

<p>General Comments:
MHC class of 2015!!
so happy to be admitted (with $!)… i just sent in my deposit :D</p>

11

<p>Decision: Accepted :)</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): :smiley:

  • ACT: -
  • SAT II: -
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ?
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): around the top 2%
  • AP: -
  • IB: Predicted - around 42 points
  • Senior Year Course Load: English A1 HL, Biology HL, Chemistry HL, Finnish B HL, Psychology SL, Math SL
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Headmaster’s Honor Roll, Principal’s Honor Roll, Community and Service Award, etc
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council (Gr. 10 - Representative)(Gr. 11 - Public Relations Head), volleyball, soccer, netball, swimming, Hands On Student Involvement Conference (Gr. 10/Gr. 11 - Head of delegations)(Gr. 12 - Public Relations/Admin), THIMUN, HELIMUN, Red Cross, school yearbook committee, assistant to school nurse

  • Job/Work Experience: Internship at the neurosurgery department at a hospital, waitress at Wayne’s Coffee, newspaper delivering, shadowing at a hospital in Shanghai
  • Volunteer/Community service: Kantti elderly home, Tanzania volunteering, sea scout leader, U2 concert volunteer, CPR lessons
  • Summer Activities: Oxford University summer course, internship at the hospital, travel.
  • Essays: My essay for MHC talked about my “best mistake” which was the initial meeting between me and my best friend of six years.
  • Teacher Recommendation: From my Biology/Chemistry teacher and my Finnish teacher. No idea what they wrote about me!! :confused:
  • Counselor Rec: I don’t want to talk about my counselor… not on very good terms with.
  • Additional Rec: From the Professor I am shadowing (not sure if MHC received it)
  • Interview: None
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): –

  • Country (if international applicant): Finland!
  • School Type: Private, international
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Female
  • Income Bracket: Enough
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): -
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: Quite eccentric and in love with sciences which has led to my interest in neuroscience.

  • Weaknesses: Not the best writer. Literature is NOT my strength.
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I applied to Mount Holyoke College (and all my other US schools) at the last minute. My essays were crap and I was certainly not expecting any acceptances. However, I was surprised by my first acceptance which was from Mount Holyoke (which admittedly I have never heard of before randomly choosing my US schools). After the acceptance I took the chance to explore the MoHo website and fell in love.
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was rejected from UChicago, Stanford, Bowdoin and Hamilton. I was accepted to Occidental, Bard. I was waitlisted at Johns Hopkins, Northwestern and NYU.
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments: So excited! :smiley: MoHo sounds amazing! Congrats to everyone else who were accepted! Hope to meet you soon~~ :D</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted (Spring)</p>

<p>School applied to: Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Bryn Mawr, Barnard, NYU, BC, BU, Penn State, UMass, Fordham, Hunter, SUNY Albany and Binghamton.</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I: 1940
ACT: didn’t take
SAT II: 630 Math 2 740 Eng Lit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Rank 100 out of 520
AP History 3 Lit this year
Senior Year Course Load: AP Eng Lit, Engineering, Economics, World Governments, Pre-Calc
Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars </p>

<p>Not many as my dad was sick and dying for most of high school, but I did participate in a few different things.</p>

<p>Essays: Talked about my dad and what he taught me.</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good. </p>

<p>Counselor Rec: Pretty Good</p>

<p>Additional Rec: None
Interview: None</p>

<p>I am first generation but never mentioned it on my apps.</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: I guess just getting through high school with a fairly tough schedule and a dying parent.</p>

<p>Weaknesses: My grades could have been better. I think that my dad’s sickness was mentioned by me, my teachers and counselors and maybe they thought I was looking for sympathy but it did play a major role in how well I did.</p>

<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think they did look at me as a person and what I’ve been through helped me. </p>

<p>Accepted to: Penn State, Fordham, Hunter, UMass, BU, SUNY Albany
Waitlisted: Smith, Bryn Mawr, SUNY Binghamton
Rejected: Barnard, BC, NYU</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective: [ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR: 700, M: 800, WR: 730
[</em>] SAT II: Math II: 740, Bio E 640; :<
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): School doesn’t offer any :<
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calculus, Georgian, Russian, English, Chem, World History, Geography
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Class president for 4 years, president of various school clubs, member at a few, theatre, varsity track, Youth European Parliament.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Used to teach English/Math to little kids
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Over 500 hours…working with disabled children; Some assessment group at Ministry of Education.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Nothing awesome so didn’t include it in app
[<em>] Essays: Common App one was great, supplemental I - okay…I couldn’t submit supplemental II.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Most likely great.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Should have been pretty good.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Probably rather nice.
[li] Interview: Didn’t have</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Georgia (small country near Russia).
[<em>] School Type: Public (kinda…and kinda not…we’re still paying and you can’t get in without all sorts of exams…but it’s still *kinda</em> public-ish).
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Super low
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none…maybe my nationality? I think there are only 3 students from Georgia at MHC.</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: CommonApp essay maybe? Grades? My nationality? Honestly, I have no idea…I speak 4 languages fluently…maybe that helped?
[</em>] Weaknesses: Couldn’t submit one of the essays, had no interview, asked for too much financial aid, have no major awards, etc.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted: No idea…I honestly didn’t expect to get accepted…</em>superhappy!*
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: rejected at Cornell/Dartmouth, waitlisted at a few top LACs, accepted at few too…</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
I got a mind-blowingly awesome financial aid package, so… MHC, here I come! <3 Honestly, I’m really grateful to them for giving me this chance. Can’t wait!! (We have to buy some yellow clothes btw…it’s gonna be class of 2015 colour)</p>

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<p>^ Yellow is an AWESOME color!! :)</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Did not take
[</em>] ACT: 35, 36 superscore
[<em>] SAT II: Did not take
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 (BUT my school is ranked #2 school in the country by US News, I’m lucky its only 5 minutes from my house!)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A but probably somewhere in top 15%-25%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Did not take
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Will take HL Spanish, HL Math, HL Chem, HL Bio, SL English, SL History (I put HL History on my app b/c I thought I would take it - turns out IB only lets you take 4 HLs though)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: See above, plus Band and Theory of Knowledge S1, Exam Prep S2 (required course at my school)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): just school awards plus I have my Girl Scout Silver and Bronze Awards and am working on Gold Award</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Horseback riding (only do local B circuit due to lack of money but I have won several year-end championships), Girl Scouts, Creative Writing Club, FIRST Robotics freshman year (team won Silver at worlds), various “enrichments” required by my school, piano lessons, play flute in school band (not really extracurricular)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Girl Scouts, help at my barn’s schooling shows
[</em>] Summer Activities: Horseback riding
[<em>] Essays: Wrote a pretty good essay about my crippling shyness and how I had to overcome it for my IOP (a speech required by IB), also I mentioned the quote “shiny red pen</em>ses of puppies” (from Song of Solomon which my IOP was on) and I think that quote helped them remember me lol; did the “practice makes perfect” essay, I thought it was good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: IDK but my Spanish teacher wrote me one, we went to Spain with the school last summer and we know each other fairly well (again, I am shy)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: IDK, I think it was good
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Michigan
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public, school of choice (get in by lottery to keep open enrollment status), this year US News ranked us #2 school in US
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Female (of course!)
[</em>] Income Bracket: Middle class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I am VERY devoted to riding, my essay about what should be a weakness?
[</em>] Weaknesses: No interview, grades aren’t perfect, my essay was about something bad (being REALLY shy)
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essay really showed who I was, not about some amazing experience that I had that changed my life forever (like helping kids in Nicaragua or something), and my really rigorous schedule for the past 4 years with still pretty good grades
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted Albion College, University of Findlay, Berry College, Otterbein University (MHC was the only reach school I applied to)</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: 21st Century Scholar, I was really surprised by this, I NEVER thought I would get this big of a scholarship especially at my reach school</p>

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<p>Dear Ready2011,</p>

<p>“Not many [Extracurriculars ] as my dad was sick and dying for most of high school, but I did participate in a few different things. I think that my dad’s sickness was mentioned by me, my teachers and counselors and maybe they thought I was looking for sympathy but it did play a major role in how well I did… I think they did look at me as a person and what I’ve been through helped me.” </p>

<p>Congratulations on your acceptance to Mount Holyoke College. I know how hard you had to work, how difficult it is to concentrate, how many things you had to give up (starting with attention from your Mom…) while living with a dying parent. That you were able to keep up your grades and earn good test scores are a real testament to your character. </p>

<p>My daughter is just completing her first year at Mount Holyoke now. Her Dad died when she was 12, and it took her several years to recover so her grades as a High School freshman were shaky. I can see Mount Holyoke is the right place for her. She was looking for a community of learners in a supportive environment, and reports she has found that community. She loves Mount Holyoke’s traditions, and has a solid group of friends, whom she describes as “more like me than my friends in High School”: i.e.: hardworking, conscientious, not into a big drinking scene, but fun-loving and healthy. </p>

<p>Although losing a parent as a teenager leaves an empty place in the heart, like you, my daughter never wants people to feel sorry for her. Please private message me if you would like to communicate with my daughter. (There are not many students of single Moms at Mount Holyoke… Although the college is generous with aid, the costs remain a difficult stretch for the daughter of a widow.)</p>