Acceptance/Rejection Thread

Applying to College
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<p>Accepted: UCLA Honors, UC Berkeley, UCI Honors, UCSB Honors, UCSD, USC, Cal Poly SLO, Pepperdine ($15,000 per year), U of Arizona ($8,000 per year), U of San Diego ($12,000 per year), Santa Clara ($13,000 per year), San Diego State</p>

<p>Waitlisted: none
Rejected: none
Probably attending: UCLA Honors</p>

<p>GPA: 3.91 unweighted, 4.3 weighted
SAT I: 1430 (800 math, 630 verbal)
SAT II: 740, 740, 710, writing, math, US History, respectively
Location: Orange County, CA
Ethnicity: caucasian female</p>

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<p>Accepted: McGill School of Education, SUNY Geneseo, Emerson College, SUNY Purchase w/$2000 scholarship, SUNY Binghamton for Spring 2006 Semester
Waitlisted: SUNY Binghamton fall 2005
Rejected: Vassar College, Emerson College Honors Program, McGill University College of Arts and Sciences
Attending: McGill U. School of Education!!!
GPA: 3.4 for first three years, 3.7 junior year
SAT: 1280 (700 V 580 M)
SAT II: World Hist 730, Writing 720, Math IC 520
Location: Upstate NY
Ethnicity: White chick</p>

<p>Anything is possible!</p>

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<p>Accepted: Cal Poly SLO, UCSD, USC - all aerospace engineering
Waitlisted: none
Rejected: UCB, UCLA
Probably attending: Cal Poly SLO (honors) - cant afford usc because i'm white and middleclass, its a tossup between slo and sd, but they are comparatively the same schools... so yeah.</p>

<p>GPA: 3.6 unweighted, 4.1 weighted
SAT I: 1270 (670 math, 600 verbal)
SAT II: 580, 710, 580, writing, math, US History
Location: Orange County, CA
Ethnicity: caucasian male</p>

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<p>bump.............</p>

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<p>wfcp: just wondering, what do you think was your hook, ec's etc that got you into ucsd?</p>

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<p>probably that i wrote an essay on aerospace, ive been in physics for 3 years, and i was editor of video yearbook and wrote about that as well</p>

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<p>Son:</p>

<p>Accepted: WPI, RPI, Vassar, Colgate, Depauw, Case, SUNYIT, U of VMT</p>

<p>Reject: Penn, Prince</p>

<p>Waiting for: Cooper Union </p>

<p>1440, 3.?</p>

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<p>ACCEPTANCES: Stanford, Rice, Johns Hopkins
WAIT-LISTED: Duke
REJECTED: Harvard, UPenn, Georgetown
ATTENDING (probably): Stanford
UNWEIGHTED GPA: ~4
SAT I's: 1600 (highest sitting was 1560)
LOCATION: CT
ETHNICITITY: WM</p>

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<p>ACCEPTANCES: STANFORD, Duke, Penn, Brown, Chicago, Rice, Berk, UCLA Regents/Honors, UCSB, CMC, etc.
WAITLISTED: Yale, Georgetown, Swarthmore
REJECTED: none
ATTENDING: Stanford (most probably)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.95, rank: 2/490
SAT's: 1530 (800V), 800 writing, 790 math 2c, 790 world history
Location: Santa Barbara
Ethnicity: white male</p>

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<p>For son
acceptances: U of Florida (honors), U of Texas Austin, Tulane, Loyola, Santa Clara, Fordham
rejected: none
attending: U of Florida (scholarships at all, but full ride at Florida, saving money for grad school)
GPA: 3.71
SAT: 1510
Location: Houston
ethnicity: white male</p>

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<p>ACCEPTANCES: U VA (Echols Scholars/College Science Scholars), Cornell (nominated for Dean's Scholars), Georgetown, Northwestern
WAIT-LISTED: None
REJECTED: SCEA--Stanford
ATTENDING (probably): Still undecided
UNWEIGHTED GPA: 4.2 (?-2 B+s, otherwise straight As--9 APs)
SAT I's: 1540
LOCATION: Falls Church, VA (Washington DC suburb)
ETHNICITITY: White Male</p>

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<p>Accepted:
Dartmouth College
Amherst College
Duke University
Swarthmore College
University of Southern California
Oberlin College
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Irvine
Howard University
University of California Davis
Morehouse College
California State University Long Beach</p>

<p>Rejected:
Columbia University
University of California Berkeley
University of California Los Angeles</p>

<p>Attending Most Likely: Dartmouth College</p>

<p>Stats:
4.2 GPA
Good ECs
Lots of Volunteer Hours
Fairly Nice Essays
Full AP Schedule
First Generation </p>

<p>Ethnicity: African-American Male</p>

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<p>ACCEPTANCES: Pepperdine, Concordia, Brandeis, Connecticut College, Colgate, Claremont McKenna :)
WAIT-LISTED: none!
REJECTED: Pomona, Williams, Middlebury, Dartmouth :(
ATTENDING (probably): Claremont McKenna :)
GPA: 3.844uw, ~4.1w
ACT: 30
LOCATION: Montana
ETHNICITITY: white female</p>

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<p>ACCEPTANCES: NYU, Brandeis, Tufts, Millsaps, Vanderbilt
WAIT-LISTED: Tulane
REJECTED: Brown
ATTENDING (probably): Vanderbilt
UNWEIGHTED GPA: 3.4ish
ACT: 28
LOCATION: Laurel, Mississippi
ETHNICITITY: African American Male</p>

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<p>ACCEPTANCES: Fordham University, Bryant University, Rutgers University, Boston University (General Studies suckz)
WAIT-LISTED: Babson College, Bentley College
REJECTED: New York University
ATTENDING (probably): Fordham University-College of Business Admin.
UNWEIGHTED GPA: 3.5
SAT I- 580V 660M (1240 Combined)
SAT II Writing-620
SAT II Math IC-600
LOCATION: North Jersey, Oakland
ETHNICITITY: Indian (South Asian)</p>

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<p>Now that every school has notified me...</p>

<p>ACCEPTANCES: Swarthmore, UChicago, BC (A&S), UMich (LSA), Arizona State
WAIT-LISTED: Brown, Duke, Georgetown (College)
REJECTED: Yale, Penn (CAS), Stanford (Deferred EA)
ATTENDING (probably): still undecided... but probably either Swarthmore or UChicago at this point
UNWEIGHTED GPA: ~3.9
SAT I's: 1480
LOCATION: Vermont
ETHNICITITY: White Male</p>

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<p>Fot my daughter:</p>

<p>ACCEPTANCES: Carnegie Mellon, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC SantaCrus, Lehigh, Santa Clara
WAIT-LISTED:
REJECTED: JHU, Brandeis, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC San Diego
ATTENDING (probably): CMU or UCD
UNWEIGHTED GPA: 3.3
SAT I: 1410 (650V, 770M)
SAT II: 790 (Math 2c), 700 (Writing), 740 (Physics)
LOCATION: Northern California (Bay Area)
ETHNICITITY: Asian Female</p>

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<p>For my daughter:
Acceptances: Univ.of Puget Sound (merit), Lewis & Clark (merit), Univ. of Washington, Univ.of Oregon (merit), UC Davis, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz
Waitlisted : Colgate
Rejected: UCLA, Vassar, Wesleyan, Tufts, Whitman, Stanford
Attending: Univ. of Puget Sound
UW GPA: 3.7
SAT I: 1370 (710V - 660M)
SAT II: 740 (WR), 700 (LIT), 650 (Math IC)
Location: So. Cal
Ethnicity: White female</p>

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<p>Accepted:
Case Western
MSU Honors
UMich (LSA) Ann Arbor
NYU Stern
Smith
Wellesley</p>

<p>Waitlisted:
Wash U</p>

<p>Rejected:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Duke
Colgate (i didnt even know where that is, but applied cuz it was free :), but ill include them too)</p>

<p>Waiting:
American University (it was free too, dont think i care if i get in or not don't know where it is either, maybe DC?)
U of Rochester (don't care)
Don't remember all the rest of the free commonapp schools applied to</p>

<p>Attending: Wellesley
UW GPA: 3.96
SAT I: 1350 (740m 610v)
SAT II: 720iic 690bio 680writ
Location: East Lansing, Michigan
Ethnicity: Chinese, Asian, Girl</p>

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<p>Did you really apply to about 30 schools?</p>