<p>Hey everyone, I'm currently a junior next year and i plan on applying to U of R as a senior next year. I want to get an idea of the level of competition I'm up against. As i'm sure you've seen in other schools' boards, please post your decision and your stats, I don't know how to make one of the fancy template things that are used but here's just a general format:</p>
<p>*Decision:</p>
<p>*SAT I/II scores
*GPA and difficulty of courses
*Class Rank
*Race/Ethnicity
*Location
*Extracurriculars
*Essays
*Recommendations
*Intended area of study
*What other schools did you apply to/get into?
*Do you plan on attending if accepted?</p>
<p>*31 ACTs
*3.9 Weighted GPA - Hardest Classes in School
*No rank, but top 25%
*Hispanic
*New Jersey
*President of both Marching Band and Wind Ensemble & Work 30-35 Hours a week
*Very risky essay, but I guess it worked
*Very good rec I would assume
*Biomedical Engineering
*Rutgers (Accepted), Penn State (Accepted), Lehigh, Lafayette, The College of New Jersey, Bucknell, Case Western, RIT, Rensselaer, Washington U- StL, Tulane</p>
<p>Decision: Admitted (Regular Decision)
*1360 (670V, 690M)...760 Writing, 660 Math I, 720 Lit.
*3.9ish uw (I also do dual enrollment)
*6/224
*White
*Philadelphia, PA
*Editor of Paper, lots of CS, Intramurals, lots of other stuff
*Ok I guess
*Should have been good, got my newspaper mod and my bio teacher of 2 years
*Political Science
*Villanova (Accepted), Penn (Rejected), Univ. of Pittsburgh (Accepted honors), Catholic U (Accepted honors), College of the Holy Cross (Accepted) Albright College (Aceepted honors) BC (waitlist :( ...it was my first choice)
*To quote a very famous man in a very famous movie...Show me the money! No actually UR is at the top of my list as it stands right now.</p>
<p>*SAT I/II scores: 710 V/ 700 M 780 MIC/ 730 US / 660 W
*GPA: 3.65 UW Fairly difficult, all honors, 3 APs
*Class Rank: School doesn't rank, probably around 400/800
*Race/Ethnicity: Asian/Latino
*Location: NYC
*Extracurriculars: Explorer of the Year, Breast Cancer Walk, Red Cross, NYC Bikeathon
*Essays: Average, they were done at the last minute
*Recommendations: Counselor Rec: Good, Teacher Rec: Probably very good
*Intended area of study: Pre-Dentistry, Biology
*What other schools did you apply to/get into? Accepted Cornell, UMich, CUNY Honors, SUNY Bing, UMiami. Waitlisted Kenyon.
*Do you plan on attending if accepted? Not enough aid given sadly (17k out of 43k). I'm going to UMich.</p>
<p>*1310 SAT, 31 ACT, no SAT IIs
*4.07/5.00 weighted GPA, 3.4/4.0 unweighted GPA, AP and honors courses (for the most part, the hardest courses offered)
*top 10% out of 190
*Caucasian
*central/eastern Massachusetts
*Boy Scouts, working with Sudanese refugees, soccer, NHS secretary, etc.
*Pretty good essay
*Recommendations that made my mother cry (I thought they were really nice)
*Political Science and/or history
*accepted RD into the following: UMass Amherst Commonwealth Honors Program, Hamilton, Dickinson, Muhlenberg, Gettysburg, Union (waitlisted at Bucknell and Colgate)
*I'm not sure yet</p>
<p>My son's:
*Decison Accepted RD
*1440 SAT, 740/720/620 SAT II
*3.85 UW
*top 5% of 700 and shrinking
*Caucasian
*south Texas
*debate, debate, debate
*strong essays
*never saw recs
*Poli Sci or Philo
*accepted RD: Northwestern, U Chicago, Wake Forest, Emory, Carleton, Pomona (waitlisted CMC)
*undecided but U of R is offering substantially less aid</p>
<p>*1430(710M/720V), 710(M IIC), 700(Writing), 800(Bio)
*3.975 Weighted, All honors and AP
*3rd Decile
*White
*New Jersey
*All State Double Bassist
*Creative and risky
*Sparkling recommendations
*Computer Science or Information Science, possible Music minor
*Accepted: Rutgers, Case Western, RIT, Rejected: Cornell, NYU, Waitlisted: CMU
*If the waitlist at CMU doesn't pan out, probably</p>
<p>*1200 (650m/550v) 690 m1c, 640 chem, 570 writing (hehe, terrible, i nkow). 27 ACT
*4.0 UW all honors and ap's my crappy school offers
*rank 1/121
*arab-american
*KY
*i thought my essays were good
*i okay rec, one great rec
*tons of EC's
*chemistry major
*waitlisted at brown, cornell, wustl, and rochester
*accepted transylvani university
*still have to hear from UVa</p>
<p>*31 ACTs/ 740 on SAT II Writing
*My school doesnt do GPA, but I do take a pretty rigorous course load
*School doesn't rank either
*White
*Radnor, PA (suburb outside of Philadelphia)
*President of a few clubs, Varsity softball/ JV tennis, Community service coordinator, arts, drama, etc..
* Very very strong essay
*I think I can good recs. They were from very respectable teachers.
*Neuroscience/ Studio Art- double major.
*Bowdoin(deferred ED, then waitlisted), BC(deferred, then rejected), Carleton(rejected), Colby(rejected), Hamilton(accepted), Lawrence(accepted), Union(accepted), Wheaton(accepted), Yale(rejected)
*I need to visit still</p>
<p>*1570 SAT I, 800 Writing, 790 US History, 760 Spanish
*4.0 unweighted; 9 APs, 14 Honors and then a few required gym classes
*1 of 465 weighted and unweighted
*White
*Florida
*President of Mu Alpha Theta (math honor society), VP of Student Government, 125-150 hours of shadowing doctors (under own initiative), hospital volunteer (in ICU), School Advisory Committee (only rep of class of 05), Minority Whip (leadership position) in Model Student Senate, Math Team, Future Problem Solving, NHS, teen/peer court lawyer, Academic Team, etc.
*Awards: U of Roch. Social Sciences and Humanities Award, AP Scholar with Honor (5s on all four AP exams taken), National Merit Finalist, Multiple 1st and 2nd place awards in Statistics and Precalc math competitions, 2nd place state in Future Problem Solving, 1st place county for FPS, Best portfolio in Model Student Senate, 3rd place district Academic Team, etc.
*Essays were okay
*Teacher rec was great, counselor rec was okay
*Biology/Statistics/Spanish
*Accepted at: University of Miami, University of Florida, University of Alabama, Emory, Vanderbilt, Duke, Washington and Lee, Johns Hopkins
Rejected by: none! :)
*Since I didn't get REMS and only got a $10k scholarship, I do not plan on attending</p>
<p>*SAT I/II scores - 27 ACT, didn't take any SATs
*GPA and difficulty of courses - 3.9 GPA with many AP classes
*Class Rank - not sure, but top 10%
*Race/Ethnicity - Asian, immigrant of 3 years from Russia (siberia)
*Location - Missouri
*Extracurriculars - lots of in tutoring, peer help, and such
*Essays - good essays
*Recommendations - have not seen them (but assume they were good)
*Intended area of study - History, polit. science (?)
*What other schools did you apply to/get into? - got into Bates, Colby, Carleton, U of Richmond, waitlisted at Wash U (only b/c it waitlists everybody), rejected from Northwestern
*Do you plan on attending if accepted? - depends on fin aid.</p>
<p>*SAT I/II scores - 1370 SAT
*GPA and difficulty of courses - 3.9 GPA, honors stuff, I took 3/5 AP classes at my school
*Class Rank - 50/400
*Race/Ethnicity - White
*Location - Portland, OR
*Extracurriculars - 2 yrs Student Government, Key Club Officer, Cross Country and Track 2-year Varsity Letterman, Eagle Scout
*Essays - probably terrible
*Recommendations - no idea
*Intended area of study - undecided
*What other schools did you apply to/get into? Got into Willamette, University of Puget Sound, Rejected from Colgate, Rejected from William and Mary
*Do you plan on attending if accepted? - no, not enough aid</p>
<p>jmarsh 2006, give it your best shot. You won't know unless you try and I encourage you to.</p>
<p>My son admitted, regular decision.</p>
<p>*ACT 31, SAT lower, SAT IIs 770/680/640
*Very difficult gifted public school
*school does not rank or give GPA but I was told weighted it was 4.23 or something like that.
*Race: white
*Location: midwest
* Extracurriculars: great first two years, slim last two years but much volunteering
* recommendations, didn't read them
*essays: I think they were great but as I mom I could be biased.
*area of study: Mech E and foreign languages
* MIT, deferred then rejected. Tufts waitlisted, U of Evansville, Purdue Honors Engineering, Case Western Reserve, U of Rochester all accepted. </p>
<p>Son still hasn't decided but much will be based on aid which we don't know yet.</p>
<p><em>SAT I/II scores 770V 690M (1460)
*GPA and difficulty of courses Hardest AP'S in school...School doesnt give GPA really or rank but its an A and im high in my class.
*Race/Ethnicity White
*Location NY
*Extracurriculars Tons..Vice president of grade, in theatre, key club, gov't club, persian club (dont ask ahha), and sooo much more.
*Essays I thought they were really good.
*Recommendations I hear they were very strong.
*Intended area of study Biology
*What other schools did you apply to/get into? Got into Binghamton, Geneseo, Bard. Rejected Bowdoin, Waitlisted Wash U (<3)
*Do you plan on attending if accepted? No..insulted by waitlisting, so they can f</em> themselves :c)</p>
<p>*SAT I/II scores: 1100/530chem/610Writ/580Math
*GPA: 3.8, 6 APs, Honors every class except math, gym and language
*Class Rank- 12
*Race/Ethnicity: African-American
*Location: NYC
*Extracurriculars: Honor Society3yrs, Soccer team4yrs Co-Captain, Captain, Christian club2yrs, Bookclub1yr,
*Essays: I guess they were. No one edited them. The only one that was thoroughly edited was my college essay.
*Recommendations- I think they were the best because I knew all the teachers that wrote them on a personal level so they had something to write about.
*Intended area of study- Chemistry
*What other schools did you apply to/get into? SUNY Binghampton and Geneseo, Cornell, Dartmouth, Haverford, Connecticut
*Do you plan on attending if accepted? STILL NOT SURE</p>
<p>toren: either tufts syndrome or they just thought you didnt mesh well with their school..which is better off for you because maybe you belong somewhere else and not there..</p>