<p>They no like us cuz we too good.</p>
<p>I support this thread.</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): CR 650 M 800 W 800 Composite 2250
ACT: 35
SAT II: MathII 800, BioM 790 Chem 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 2%, exact rank unknown
AP (place score in parenthesis):
AP Calc AB (3), AP stat (4), AP European History (3), AP Bio (4), I took AP Calc BC, AP Gov, AP Japanese, AP literature this year. I bombed them all. For some reason, My allergies flare up right around AP testing and I start getting migraines. </p>
<p>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: Economics, Honors Physics, AP Calc BC, AP Literature, AP US Government, Art, AP Japanese</p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Eagle Scout
Won the Northern California Science Fair</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Boy Scouts, 7-12
Research with published work 9-12
Pilot 11-12
Bhangra Team 11-12
Club Golf 7-12
JSA President 10-11
Red Cross President 10-12
Organized a prosthetic limb assembly line which was featured in the newspapers 10
A bunch of other minor stuff</p>
<p>Summer Activities:</p>
<p>Research all Summer from 8AM to 5PM for 4 years. Got a paper published and a great rec
SAT boot camp 10-11</p>
<p>Essays: Pretty good
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see. Assuming amazing I was her best student
Counselor Rec: I didn’t see. My counselor loves me though. She personally called my first choice to give another rec
Additional Rec: Research Professor. He was the head of Mass General. Great rec
Interview: I had all of them. I am a good interviewer</p>
<p>Others:</p>
<p>School Type: Mediocre public
Race: Asian Indian!!
Gender: Male
Hook: Legacy to WashU and MIT (but I didn’t apply to MIT)</p>
<p>Results:</p>
<p>Accepted to: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, UPenn, Dartmouth, Brown, Vanderbilt, WashU (likely letter), USC</p>
<p>Waitlisted at: WashU (I was sent a likely letter in Feb. Then I was waitlisted. I was told by Admissions that they didn’t think I was going to Matriculate there, so they put me on waitlist. If I showed interest, they would accept me. So, I did and they accepted me. Then I sent them a longgg letter chastising them for yield protection saying that i would rather go to a lowly trade school than go to school that champions yield protection. Their waitlist is 15k people long!) Duke (Trinity)</p>
<p>Rejected by: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Stanford</p>
<p>When I visited colleges, I hated Princeton because it was in the middle of nowhere. I thought NJ was the worst place in America, in my opinion (no offense). I hated Yale because of the campus that was far from everything. Columbia was too busy for me; it just made me angry. I liked the Harvard name, but I really didn’t like the campus. I didn’t like Brown because its small for me. I loved Stanford for all the wrong reasons. I loved it because it is close to my house in Palo Alto. Beyond that the school wasn’t for me. My cousin goes there and she dislikes the atmosphere. Her brother went to Penn and loved it. So in the end, I got into one of my top 2 colleges (Penn, Stanford). I am very excited and I believe that it is the perfect place for me!</p>
<p>God, I hope this helps someone, PM if you have questions</p>
<p>I am white and totally support this thread. Please post away!!!</p>
<p>SVMMom
Thank you for your support!!!</p>
<p>Davidthefat: I never mentioned stereotypes. I said that a lot of Asian American applicants have similar applications. And I’m part Asian, with many Asian friends. I have a lot more Asian friends who play piano and tennis than baseball.</p>
<p>One of my friend:</p>
<p>ACT: 35
SAT II: 800 Chem-790 Math2-800 US History
UWGPA: 4.0
WGPA: 4.8
Rank:we don’t rank, but he was number 2 out of 600
AP or IB: 13 APs
Course Rigor: Most rigorous course load
High School: competitive </p>
<p>Awards and Honors: Top 10 swimmers in the state
Major Award: National Merit Scholar,<br>
Financial Aid: No
State or Region: Cali!!
Race and Gender: Asian Male
Hook: None
Intended Major: Economics</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Summer internship with Johnson and Johnson China.
Swimming Varsity 9-12
VP of NHS 10-12
Won Cali’s FBLA</p>
<p>National Universities:
Rejected/Waitlisted: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, MIT EA, Penn (Wharton), Stanford
Accepted: UCB and Pomona College
Wlisted: Dartmouth and Brown</p>
<p>This is another friend</p>
<p>SAT: 2330 6th try
SAT II: 750Math 2 800 US History 680 BioE
UWGPA: 3.79
WGPA: 4.38
Rank:we don’t rank,
AP or IB: 6 APs
Course Rigor: Most rigorous course load
High School: competitive </p>
<p>Awards and Honors: Top 30 swimmers in the state
Major Award: National Merit Commended,<br>
Financial Aid: Yes
State or Region: Cali!!
Race and Gender: Asian Male
Hook: He lied about his race and put URM instead
Intended Major: Economics</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Interned for a State Senator 1 month
Speech and Debate 9-12
Hospital Volunteer 9-11
Swimming Varsity 9-12</p>
<p>he wrote so much crap on his apps. His Harvard interviewer told him that it would be physically impossible for him to do all the things he wrote he did.</p>
<p>National Universities:
Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, MIT , Penn (Wharton), Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, UCLA
Accepted: UCB and Stanford</p>
<p>This is another kid</p>
<p>SAT: 2400
SAT II: 800 Math-750 Chem -740 US History
UWGPA: 3.8ish
WGPA: 4.4
Rank:we don’t rank,
AP or IB: 11 APs
Course Rigor: Most rigorous course load
High School: competitive </p>
<p>Awards and Honors:
Major Award:
Financial Aid: Yes
State or Region: Cali!!
Race and Gender: Asian Male
Hook: Double Legacy Stanford and MIT
Intended Major: Undecided</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>1st in State speech and Debate in his category 2 times in a row
Hospital work
President of Speech and Debate</p>
<p>National Universities:
Rejected: Princeton, Yale, Columbia, MIT EA, Penn (Wharton), Stanford, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago
Accepted: UCB and Northwestern
Waitlisted at Harvard</p>
<p>This is another kid</p>
<p>SAT: 2350+
SAT II: 800 Math-800 Chem -720 BioM
UWGPA: 3.9ish
WGPA: 4.5 (he cheated through high school)
Rank:we don’t rank,
AP or IB: 11 APs
Course Rigor: Most rigorous course load
High School: competitive </p>
<p>Awards and Honors:
Major Award:
Financial Aid: No
State or Region: Cali!!
Race and Gender: Asian Male
Hook: Brother at Harvard who is owning it up with a 4.0
Intended Major: PreMed and Econ</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>1st in State speech and Debate in his category 2
His dad is a researcher who gives his son work to present as his own</p>
<p>National Universities:
Rejected: Princeton, Yale, Columbia, MIT , Penn, Stanford EA, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell
Accepted: UCB and Harvard</p>
<p>This is another kid but Asian sports recruit</p>
<p>SAT: 1900
SAT II: 650ish Math-650ish BioM
UWGPA: 3.4ish
WGPA: 3.7 (he cheated through high school, he got his teachers to change his grades with begging every single semester)
Rank:we don’t rank,
AP or IB: 4 APs
Course Rigor: not rigorous at all
High School: competitive </p>
<p>Awards and Honors: 29# in his sport in California. Didn’t get recruited to Pac10 though
Major Award:
Financial Aid: No
State or Region: Cali!!
Race and Gender: Asian Male
Hook: Legacy at Stanford
Intended Major: Econ probs</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Sports</p>
<p>National Universities:
Recruited to Harvard</p>
<p>Hey, they need some Asians to bring down the Curve!</p>
<p>I think this thread is sorely needed as an African american. A lot of Asians are rather upset about AA and I wonder if this thread would show whether a disproportionate amount asians are unfairly getting rejected from top schools. As far as I see, asians are getting into top schools easily just not the holy grail of HYP (which I don’t put any stock in anyway)</p>
<p>Carry on.</p>
<p>nil
Thank you for your support!</p>
<p>Do you know any URM who got rejected from every Ivy and Stanford, MIT, Caltech with 2300+ and UWGPA 3.9+?
I am very curious. </p>
<p>I have 3 friends who got rejected from MIT, Caltech, Stanford and every Ivy schools they applied.
They all had 2350+, 800s (or high 700) on SAT subject tests and 4.0UWGPA.</p>
<p>Also, not every Asian is against URMs. (Check my posts. I rarely mention “URMs”.)</p>
<p>“A lot of Asians are rather upset about AA”
I think people have right to voice their opinion. Don’t you think?</p>
<p>I had 770 CR/800 M/790 W; 800’s on Bio, Chem, and Math II. 790 on USH. No glaring weaknesses in my apps.</p>
<p>Accepted: Duke, UChicago, UCB, UCLA, UMich, UNC
Rejected: HYPS, Dartmouth, Columbia, Penn</p>
<p>At my school, the only kids who get into Stanford are mexican or athletes.
One kid i know has a 2100 and a 4.2 gpa and he got into Stanford bc he is mexican</p>
<p>I’m Indian, does that count?</p>
<p>
Actually, I do.
Well, scratch that… he got into MIT and will be attending.</p>
<p>
Ignorant post is ignorant. He didn’t get in just because “he is mexican”. Have you seen his entire application? Essays? Recs? Are you an admissions officer?
No? Then you have no right to say he got in because he was Mexican.</p>
<p>"I’m Indian, does that count?”</p>
<p>I think so. Aren’t Indians classified as Asians?</p>
<p>“Ignorant post is ignorant. He didn’t get in just because “he is mexican”. Have you seen his entire application? Essays? Recs? Are you an admissions officer?
No? Then you have no right to say he got in because he was Mexican”</p>
<p>I assure you that if everything else about his application was exactly the same, and he checked “Asian” instead of Hispanic, then he would have been rejected.</p>
<p>^Not necessarily. Socioeconomic status is NOT mentioned, as are other hooks.
20more, while I agree with you in the compilation of this thread, make sure it doesn’t turn into yet ANOTHER AA battle.</p>
<p>What sport does the last Asian friend play Jenga?</p>
<ul>
<li>Note: Came to Canada in grade 10, from a non-English speaking country.</li>
<li>SAT I: 2270 (R750, M800, W720)- once. </li>
<li>ACT: 34 (E32, M36, R34, Sci35)- sent to low ranking schools only. </li>
<li>SAT II: MathII 800, Physics 780, Chem 800 (Korean800)</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA: 93/100 in my school, GC put 4.0. </li>
<li>Rank: GC put ‘top 1% out of 400 seniors’ </li>
<li><p>AP: All self-study from a Non-AP school:
AP Calculus(5), Physics B(5), Physics C-Mechanics(5) </p></li>
<li><p>Awards: 1 national and some state and metropolitan city level awards in math/science/physics. Several school awards.
-ECs: article publication in a science magazine(10); UTornoto’s Int’l Physics Olympiad program(11); 1 physics research paper(11); co-founder/chair of chess club(10); school’s education leader(9); junior ski instructor certificate(11); ski-patrol certificate; local ski-racing team(10-12); NGO’s youth tranlation team leader(11); hobby tennis and certificates(8-12); hobby guitar(10-12); Mensa Int’l member. </p></li>
<li><p>Volunteer Service: 200 hours. </p></li>
<li><p>Summer Activities:Was selected to district’s a science lab program for gifted students(9), math/physics summer camp and subsequent awards(10), a month-long residential physics research program with college credits(11); summer camp counselor for adopted children(8-11)</p></li>
<li><p>State: Toronto, Canada</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: tough public. </p></li>
<li><p>F/A: Yes </p></li>
<li><p>Hooks: 0 </p></li>
<li><p>Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Duke, UPenn, Columbia, and even ‘Cornell CAS’</p></li>
<li><p>Accepted: Berkeley, Northwestern, Vandy, UTDallas, URochester, Carnegie Mellon. </p></li>
<li><p>Waitlisted: JHU, Dartmouth.</p></li>
<li><p>Comments
It has been a lonely and tough battle to get info and to prep this much in two years of attending a Canadian public school. My GC did not even know what a score of 5 in AP meant 
Plus, I had language difficulty. I would have been happier if more adcoms had recognized my hard work. However similar we orms might look, the efforts we, as individuals, make should not be ignored. </p></li>
</ul>
<p>To future Asian applicants: Do apply to many matches and safeties just as I did. :)</p>
<p>I think that this thread should stay a results only thread. If you want to argue AA, go to that thread and argue away. I do not think Asian students should have to defend having a results thread.</p>
<p>SAT: 2360
ACT: 34
SAT II: 800 Bio, 800 Math IIC
GPA: 4.0 UW
Rank: N/A
APs: 5 (4 more sr. year)
High School: Public, competitive</p>
<p>Awards: Regional/county awards for community service, typical academic honors, many awards for my specific ECs
Applied for financial aid: Yes
State or Region: CA
Race and Gender: Asian Female
Hook: N/A
Intended Major: Biological Sciences/etc.</p>
<p>ECs: Lots of cancer-related activities, other community service, music/art</p>
<p>Essays: Definitely geared towards the values of my 1st choice; I realized halfway through the wait that it would affect my chances at some of my other schools…</p>
<p>Results:
Accepted - Brown (attending, 1st choice), Case Western, USC, Cal, UCLA, UCSD
Waitlisted - Dartmouth, WashU
Rejected - Hopkins</p>