Accepted - Stats?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Boston University
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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>

<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section): 710CR, 650M, 720W
SAT IIs: 660 Bio-E, 720 Lit
ACT: 31
APs: Latin-Vergil (3), Biology (4), English Language (4), French-didn’t go so well! (2), taking Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Literature, Art History, and Stats this year
IBs: n/a
GPA: 3.4UW/3.8W
Rank: n/a
Other stats:
Subjective:
Job/Work Experience: Dunkin’ Donuts, Panera, Boogie Burger, and an Indie theater since sophomore year-each about 30 hours a week
Essays (subject and responses): My outlook on life, being shy and awkward, somehow twisted into something about art history
Teacher Recs: Nice
Counselor Rec: Eh, whateva
Applied on: New Years Eve!
Hook (if any): none
Location/Person:
State or Country: Indiana
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Most competitive private in Indiana
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>

63

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **
**College of Engineering **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): N/A
[</em>] SAT IIs: N/A
[<em>] ACT: 31
[</em>] APs: Junior – Bio (5); Senior – Phys EM/Mech, Stats, Calc AB, EngLang
[<em>] GPA: 4.733
[</em>] Rank: 7/458
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Key Club, Chinese Club, Italian Club, Health Careers Club, Captain of Biology II Team, Varsity Track and Field, Volunteered at Kessler and Pediatrics Clinic, Science National Honor Society (Secretary), Mu Alpha Theta, Italian National Honor Society
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): CommonApp – Wrote about a band-aid; Why BU? – Wrote about my visit
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Physics Teacher (Pretty good), US History Teacher (Great)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I guess it was pretty good, I was basically in her office every day since Freshman year working out class schedule problems and such
[<em>] Applied on: 11/22 I think, it was a few days before Thanksgiving
[</em>] Hook (if any): 1st generation
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NJ
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, 2000+ students, NJ
[<em>] Ethnicity: Filipino-Chinese
[</em>] Gender: M
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congratulations to the class of 2013! Not gonna lie, I’m pretty excited. Boston has always been one of my favorite cities.</p>

64

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **
COM
Stats:[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] SAT I (by section): 770 CR 670 M 660 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 Lit 770 Spanish 770 Math I
[<em>] ACT: 35
[</em>] APs: 5s on US Hist and Gov
[<em>] IBs: none
[</em>] GPA: 3.8 uw 4.3 w
[<em>] Rank: 16/656
[</em>] Other stats: NMF
[<em>] ECs listed on app: select choirs, band, drama club leadership
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 years, coffee shop and clothing store
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): don’t remember
[</em>] Teacher Recs: very good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[</em>] Applied on: ?
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul] ?
[</em>] State or Country: ohio
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): public, really good
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: 1/2 tuition scholarship</p>

65

<p>Acceptance - College of Engineering</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 760
[</em>] SAT Math: 770
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2330
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math 2 760 US History 750 Chemistry
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable): Nay
[<em>] ACT (if applicable): Nay
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: This year: AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP Euro Hist, AP English Lang, AP English Lit. Last year: AP French Lang (5), AP US History (5), AP Macroeconomics (4), AP Microeconomics (4)
[<em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 103.3 – 4.0
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 96.2 – 3.91
[<em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1 out of 713
[</em>] Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist, Presidential Scholars Candidate, AP Scholar with Distinction, Xerox Award, Junior Achievement Titan Business Competition State Champ, Tri-State Math League Top 3 Award</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I like my essays a lot. Main commonapp one about professional wrestling, another about family heritage, and a third about my research interests and where I want to take them.
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Two research mentor recommendation letters from MIT Nuclear Engineering and Harvard SEAS professors. The MIT one was phenomenal. I didn’t read the Harvard one.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I didn’t read it. I assume it was crappy. I go to a massive school, and I barely know her, although we are on really friendly terms and I provided her with ample material for any sort of rec letter.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Research is most definitely my hook.</p>

<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Hampshire
[</em>] School Type: Private (Realistically, it’s public though)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy: Wustl, Harvard Legacy
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Nay…I wish. Anyone wanna hook me up with a ping pong coach? :stuck_out_tongue:
[<em>] Important ECs: Microfluidics summer research internship @ Harvard SEAS, Nuclear Engineering summer research internship @ MIT, Hospital Volunteer, Varsity Math Team Captain, Solo & Orchestral Violin, Granite State Challenge/Quiz Bowl Team, and Greater Manchester Red Cross. On resume: Obama for America volunteer, Community Alliance for Teen Safety Youth Board, and local State rep candidate’s campaign manager.
[</em>] Work experience: Freelance PHP Programmer/Website developer</p>

<p>[/ul]Other Factors: A sweltering degree of awesomeness? I sent in my research abstracts, two mentor recs, a resume, presidential scholars candidate update, etc. Loads of supplementary material for them to judge. I have also self-taught myself around 7 programming languages and am fluent in French, proficient in German.</p>

<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: BU likes my school. Everyone I know that applied got in.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Grats everyone. BU gave me the Alexander Graham Bell Full Tuition scholarship, so I’m definitely considering this. I’ll probably be going to MIT/Harvard though, so I’ll be right next door in any case.</p>