<p>Are there any examples on this website where people had 4.0s and amazing SAT scores yet did not get into their top school/ the Ivies...if you are one of these people do you mind posting your stats and your rejection. I understand that this maybe mean but I am just trying to gauge admissions at Top tier schools. If you did get accepted to like Brown or Penn you can also post your stats here (please do) so I may compare and contrast...(if you can include E.Cs and Volunteering).</p>
<p>yes…
there are many. they are easy to find.</p>
<p>There are results threads on every school forum. There are many, many examples of students with 4.0’s, high SATs, and pretty great ECs rejected from their top school.</p>
<p>As the previous two posters said, there are LOTS of examples if you are really interested. Unfortunately, I happen to be among those who had pretty good stats but got rejected from all the Ivies (except for a waitlist at one, which I’m still waiting to hear from). </p>
<p>In summary, my admissions results went like this:
Accepted - UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Irvine (Regents), University of Toronto ($5k/year merit scholarship)
Waitlisted - Columbia
Rejected - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford (REA), MIT, Penn</p>
<p>Cumulative GPA: 3.8 UW (don’t know weighted)
SAT I: 2350 (760 CR, 800 M, 790 W)
SAT II: 750 Literature, 790 Math II, 800 French, 800 Chinese with Listening, 790 Spanish
AP: English Language (5), English Literature (TBA), Calculus AB (4), Calculus BC (TBA), Chinese Language and Culture (5), U.S. History (4), Macroeconomics (4), French Language (5), Spanish Language (5), German Language (TBA)
Academic Honors: National Merit, AP Scholar with Distinction
Tip Factor: Certifiably fluent in 5 languages (English, Mandarin Chinese, French, Spanish, German)
Other Information: Attended 3 high schools through high school career. Had to make many significant adjustments. I recently also thought of one other thing that the adcoms either may or may not have taken into consideration - my age. I’m a graduating senior even though I’m still 16 years old (will still be 16 for the graduation ceremony).
Extracurriculars: Foreign language learning/tutoring/translation/proofreading/volunteer job (9-12), piano - music diplomas, honor recitals, and church accompanist (9-12), writing/journalism - editor-in-chief of both newspaper and literary journal (10-12), church youth group (9-12), guitar (10-12)
Essays: My Common App essay won a Silver Key in the Scholastic Writing Awards (Personal Essay/Memoir category), so it should have been at least decent. Also liked the other supplementary essays I did.
Miscellaneous: Various other awards including several internationally-recognized proficiency certificates in Mandarin, French, Spanish, and German, piano diplomas, AMC 12 school winner, National History Day state finalist, writing awards, etc. </p>
<p>In retrospect, I’m actually not at all surprised that I didn’t get into HYPSM + Penn - after all, I had several significant admissions “anti-hooks” working against me (such as being an ORM from an over-represented state).</p>
<p>I didn’t even think to enter my common app essay in scholastic. I totally should have! Grawr.</p>
<p>@ raiderade: That’s exactly what one of my friends told me (that he regretted not sending in his essay to Scholastic)! I thought that since I really put a lot of effort into my Common App essay, why not enter it in a competition? But as it turns out, that award obviously didn’t help my candidacy for the Ivies very much. Heh.</p>
<p>Our school had ~40 people who had 4.0’s. There are 27 people going to HYPMS. By the pigeon-hole principle, there are people who are left out.</p>