<p>This is happening way too often. How horrible for the students. I would use the situation to contact Amherst and reiterate the strong interest in attending. </p>
<p>Also happened to someone I know. Not cool. Sorry to @Mayzie 's S.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): M 710 CR 770 W 730, superscore: 2210
ACT (breakdown): 30 (didn’t submit)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math I (750) Chemistry (770)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 94
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/104
AP (place score in parentheses): AP US (5) AP Bio (4) AP World (4) AP Spanish (4)
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Physics B, AP English, AP US Gov, AP Stats
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Scholar, American Chemical Society Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry, New York State Department of Education Scholarship (highest regent examination scores)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Co-Captain of Varsity Hockey (4 years), Chess Team, Math Team, Soccer Team goalie, Robotics Team,
Job/Work Experience: Paid Tutor
Volunteer/Community Service: Volunteered Hospital
Summer Activities: 2 summers at Harvard taking General Chemistry (b+) and Organic Chemistry (B+)
Essays: Amazng – Spoke about my love for science and how I view the world in a quirky way.
Teacher Recommendations: Both amazing
Counselor Rec: I think it was good
Additional Rec: Recommendation from my Professor in Gen Chem who also is the head of the chem department at Harvard
Interview: Went pretty good
Other
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 70,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):Urm, Organic Chemistry at Harvard, and Letter of rec from head of chem department at harvard
Reflection
Strengths: Strong focus in chemistry, very good essays and subject test scores
Weaknesses: Gpa and rank could have been higher (9th grade)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essays, my letters of rec, and my summer classes (organic chem as a high schooler)
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, NYU (full tuition), Macaulay Honors College, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Wait listed: Yale, Princeton, Amherst College, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, Washu, Rice, Vanderbilt. Rejected: Harvard (deferred EA), Dartmouth
General Comments: Apply to as many schools as possible. Each year, acceptance rates keep going down. As you can tell, had I only applied to 11 schools, there could have been a chance of getting in nowhere. Make sure you work on those essays since everyone starts to look the same with the same stats. Also regardless of where you get in, know that what you do in college counts much more than where you go to college.</p>
<p>@spuding, Congrats on your wondeful acceptances…do you know where you are going?</p>
<p>@mcjaym Yes I have committed to duke.</p>
<p>I missed a phone call yesterday morning at ~7 AM b/c I was getting ready to go to my AP lit test. I called them back and ended up getting off the waitlist. I’m still over the moon about it. 
Amherst Class of 2018 whoop whoop</p>
<p>Congrats to all the new Amherst freshmen. I was just accepted for transfer on Thursday and am more excited than can be imagined as I came from a very difficult situation.</p>
<p>Please feel free to PM me to make a friend who you will see on campus! I am a philosophy major and love to chat and socialize.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Early Notification, Schupf Scholarship ($25,000; awarded to 5 students from the accepted pool)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I: 2230 (700 M/740 CR/790 W/8 Essay)
SAT I Superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2320 (730 M/800 CR/790 W/8 Essay)
SAT II: 780 Math II/730 Spanish
Weighted GPA: 5.93/5.00
Rank: top 2%
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): European History (5), Microeconomics (4), Macroeconomics, Spanish Language (5), English Language and Composition (5), U.S. History (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Orchestra, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Literature and Culture, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, Honors Wind Ensemble, AP Music Theory, Honors Writing Seminar
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, Dean’s List, National Merit Commended Scholar, National Spanish Exam Gold Medals, National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Principal Chair in District Orchestra, District Band, All-State Honors Orchestra</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Math Team (junior yr), Literary Magazine (sophomore-senior yrs), Marching Band (freshman-senior yrs, Drill Captain, Staff, Section Leader), Future Flute Educators and Performers Project (junior-senior yrs, Founder and Project Leader, group of students teach flute, pro-bono, to area socioeconomically disadvantaged youth)
Job/Work Experience: Kumon
Volunteer/Community Service: Chinese School Teaching Assistant, Food Pantry Volunteer
Summer Experience: Intern at a Trade Center (sophomore), Travel Abroad to Mexico on a world languages scholarship from a local foundation (sophomore), flute camp (sophomore, junior)
Teacher Recommendation #1: Spanish, decent (did not read)
Teacher Recommendation #2: English, quite good (did not read)
Counselor Rec: excellent (did not read)
Additional Info: Music Supplement; won national essay contest; won state essay contest; published in national literary magazine; NHS, principal flute in school band, orchestra, marching band; placed in Chicago Area National Spanish Contest (top 10 out of nearly two-thousand competitors); took masterclasses with renowned flute teachers</p>
<p>Writing: feminism, flute; 10</p>
<p>CommonApp Essay: feminism, flute</p>
<p>Date Submitted App: late December
School Type: top public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: ~60,000-80,000
Hooks: none</p>
<p>Strengths: writing, roundedness
Weaknesses: testing?
Other Results: Penn (Likely Letter, Ben Franklin Scholar), Accepted at Dartmouth (Likely Letter), Northwestern, Oxford, Emory, UIUC Engineering (James Scholar); Rejected at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Duke; Deferred at UChicago, Waitlisted at Vanderbilt, Case Western Reserve, Williams, Cornell (opted not to stay on any waitlists); Shortlisted and then Rejected at Yale-NUS,
What would you have done differently?: would have done more research on Yale-NUS, would have applied to Stanford </p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Early Notification, Schupf Scholarship ($25,000; awarded to 5 students from the accepted pool)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I: 2230 (700 M/740 CR/790 W/8 Essay)
SAT I Superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 2320 (730 M/800 CR/790 W/8 Essay)
SAT II: 780 Math II/730 Spanish
Weighted GPA: 5.93/5.00
Rank: top 2%
AP/IB (place score in parentheses): European History (5), Microeconomics (4), Macroeconomics, Spanish Language (5), English Language and Composition (5), U.S. History (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Orchestra, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Literature and Culture, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, Honors Wind Ensemble, AP Music Theory, Honors Writing Seminar
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, Dean’s List, National Merit Commended Scholar, National Spanish Exam Gold Medals, National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, Principal Chair in District Orchestra, District Band, All-State Honors Orchestra</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Math Team (junior yr), Literary Magazine (sophomore-senior yrs), Marching Band (freshman-senior yrs, Drill Captain, Staff, Section Leader), Future Flute Educators and Performers Project (junior-senior yrs, Founder and Project Leader, group of students teach flute, pro-bono, to area socioeconomically disadvantaged youth)
Job/Work Experience: Kumon
Volunteer/Community Service: Chinese School Teaching Assistant, Food Pantry Volunteer
Summer Experience: Intern at a Trade Center (sophomore), Travel Abroad to Mexico on a world languages scholarship from a local foundation (sophomore), flute camp (sophomore, junior)
Teacher Recommendation #1: Spanish, decent (did not read)
Teacher Recommendation #2: English, quite good (did not read)
Counselor Rec: excellent (did not read)
Additional Info: Music Supplement; won national essay contest; won state essay contest; published in national literary magazine; NHS, principal flute in school band, orchestra, marching band; placed in Chicago Area National Spanish Contest (top 10 out of nearly two-thousand competitors); took masterclasses with renowned flute teachers</p>
<p>Writing: feminism, flute; 10</p>
<p>CommonApp Essay: feminism, flute</p>
<p>Date Submitted App: late December
School Type: top public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: ~60,000-80,000
Hooks: none</p>
<p>Strengths: writing, roundedness
Weaknesses: testing?
Other Results: Penn (Likely Letter, Ben Franklin Scholar), Accepted at Dartmouth (Likely Letter), Northwestern, Oxford, Emory, UIUC Engineering (James Scholar); Rejected at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Brown, Duke; Deferred at UChicago, Waitlisted at Vanderbilt, Case Western Reserve, Williams, Cornell (opted not to stay on any waitlists); Shortlisted and then Rejected at Yale-NUS,
What would you have done differently?: would have done more research on Yale-NUS, would have applied to Stanford </p>