<p>Yay!!!!! I was accepted for engineering @ UP! I just checked today on the online application status check and the decision was there (finally...)! </p>
<p>OOS-international</p>
<p>Waitlisted
31 ACT
3.6 UW
OOS</p>
<p>^How come? 31 is pretty good.</p>
<p>Mm, so given my current choices, I think that if I'm not accepted to a free trip to Ecuador that DePauw University is offering me this summer, I'm headed to Penn State on June 28th. I'm pretty thrilled, I always sort of knew I'd end up there.</p>
<p>Skullduggery: Ecuador? Do you have family there? Otherwise, you can't be willing to be "bought" for that trip. You won't be missing much. Go to Happy Valley.</p>
<p>Chronicological: Did you get someone on the admissions committee mad at you? Something you said on the app? Which college did you apply to? Engineering?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted! - Chemistry</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* GPA: UW 3.98, W 4.20
* SAT I (by section): Didn't send since my ACT was higher
* SAT IIs: Haven't sent yet
* ACT: 31, M 33, E 29, R 31, S 31, W 8
* APs: My tests were horrendous...I probably won't send them.
* Rank: 10/360
* Other stats: Although my WGPA was not high, this was due to the few number of AP and honors math and science course available. I took every AP course available except for foreign languages and AP USH.
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: Robotics Club, Mu Alpha Theta, National Honors Society, Beta Club, International Club, Book Club, Chamber Music Club, Young Libertarians
* Job/Work Experience: None
* Essays (subject and responses): Didn't really work on them as hard as I did for other schools
* Teacher Recs: Pretty good, written by my amazing senior English teacher.
* Counselor Rec: Decent.
* Applied on: Jan. 1
* Hook (if any): I'm not sure...Taiwanese from Oklahoma maybe?
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<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Oklahoma
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, sends some students to top schools
* Ethnicity: Taiwanese American
* Gender: Male
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<p>Nope, just Penn State UP, good essays ( I think, I'm usually pretty good about those), pretty good ECs (4-5 activities with leadership roles and over 5 years or more in each of them), all AP classes this year and straight A midterms, my only hook really is being from South Dakota. It's probably that I applied later. I didn't realize I really wanted to go to PSU until after Christmas. Oh well, guess I'm not going.</p>
<p>Plainsman -- it's not that I have family there, or are willing to be bought; it's just a great opportunity that they're offering, because I have been trying to find a way to do a foreign exchange there for a long, long time. More than that, I do like DePauw, it's tied with Penn State (which is a really odd combo, I know). I'm having real difficulty deciding between the two, especially since the $10,000 scholarship DePauw is offering makes the two the same price for me (OOS), so it'll come down to financial aid and/or Ecuador...but I still have to visit DePauw, too.</p>
<p>Chronicological,</p>
<p>I wouldn't give up hope just yet. Your stats are great! It's just the whole applying late that is kind of a killer. I was accepted with the same GPA and lower stats. I am also OOS but I applied before the priority Nov 30th date.</p>
<p>I am withdrawing my admission because I will be attending another university and I'm sure there will be many others who make the same decision as I do. You are more than likely to get our spots. Especially with a test score like that. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Dunno if i posted that I got in or not already. In for smeal.</p>
<p>Waitlisted
1440/2160 SAT
3.8 UW 4.3 W GPA
7 AP's rest honors
Decent EC's and awards
In state and a legacy (though I doubt that matters)
Weird that they waitlisted me, but NYU-Stern accepted me RD.</p>
<p>^Did you happen to apply after the priority deadline?</p>
<p>Crap. They offered me a really bad package. I’d be more than $100k in debt by graduation if I were to go. =[</p>
<p>^
DePauw is not worth it.</p>
<p>Nono, not DePauw. Penn State.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted, then Accepted - Political Science</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>GPA: UW 3.74, W 4.20</li>
<li>SAT I (by section): Got 640 across, but didn’t send since my ACT was higher</li>
<li>SAT IIs: Too low to send</li>
<li>ACT: 31, M 29, E 31, R 30, S 33, W 8</li>
<li>APs: –</li>
<li>Rank: Top 10%</li>
<li>Other stats: Attended Harvard University Summer School Program for two years. Took Introduction to Psychology, Astrobiology, and Law and Psychology.</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>ECs listed on app: National Honor Society, Student Council, Interact Club, Mock Trial, Model United Nations, String Orchestra, Ice Hockey, Volleyball</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Sales associate at local store, Tutor, and Actor</li>
<li>Essays (subject and responses): No essay, only personal statement. Wrote about Harvard SSP.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Sent in my English teacher’s. PSU alum. (Had to wake up at 3am first day of school to get - she only takes the first 20 people).</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: No clue.</li>
<li>Applied on: December 26</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Well known high-school to PSU.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: New Jersey</li>
<li>School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, sends some students to top schools</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White, Caucasian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
</ul>
<p>Gpa. 3.97 UW ,weighted 4.30.
SAT scores: 1980 O<strong><em>O* sweat*
Subject test: didn’t take it yet…
Act:29…O</em></strong>_O; <em>gulp</em>
taken all honors…
taken all the math and science classes available at my skool
ONLY taken 2 AP’s-calc and physics- (but made it up with college courses at harvard and this community college) so…think of it as…6 AP’s…lols
skool type: catholic
rank: top 10% (out of 350)
ethnicity:asian (works against me!!! arghhh!!!) >.< first gen. to go to college in america
no legacy…
essay…so so…
recs…standard…i got one from my lab teacher in harvard summer school tho…
extra currics: Live Poet’s Society, Book Club, Mission Club, Interact CLub, Founder of a charity organization, Indian Classical dance, Math League, tutoring, vocal recordings in multi-languages, independent cancer research reviews, piano, and thats pretty much it…
Languages: Tamil-mother tongue, Telugu-2nd mother tongue, Hindi-can only read and speak a little- (Indian dialects), Russian-can speak and read Cyrillic, and Spanish…and Japanese ^.^* and im sending colleges me singing in russian and english ^O^*
Other factors: Completed 8 credit course for undergraduate biology in Harvard this summer and im sending hopkins this huge lab report i did on yeast…fun stuff…LOL</p>
<p>dhara…</p>
<p>when did you go to harvard ssp?</p>