<p>This is NOT AA discussion thread.</p>
<p>This is a result only thread.</p>
<p>Year: Class of </p>
<p>SAT I:
ACT:
SAT II:
UWGPA:
Rank:
AP or IB:
Course Rigor:
High School Type: </p>
<p>Awards and Honors:
Major Award:
Financial Aid:
State or Region:
Race and Gender:
Hook:
Intended Major: </p>
<p>ECs:
Essays:</p>
<p>Results:
National Universities:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Accepted:</p>
<p>LACs:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Accepted:</p>
<p>Comments:</p>
<p>Asian female, international applicant, class of 2015. I go to a 5-year language program that’s the equivalent of three years of senior high and an associate’s program; I’m currently in my third year and will head out to the U.S. next year. My school has a set schedule for everybody and offers very few electives, and definitely no APs.</p>
<p>SAT I: CR: 770 Math: 800 Writing: 690
ACT: n/a
SAT II: Chem: 780 Bio: 780 Math II: 800
UWGPA: I think something like 87.5 on a 100 scale. The first place student in my class had a 91% average.
Rank: 17/110
AP or IB: AP Chem: 5, AP Calc: 5. Self-studied as my school doesn’t offer APs.
Course Rigor: The most rigorous my school offers. I cross-register with the college section to take classes in my free periods, most often in the department of international affairs (international negotation, world history, stuff like that). I also take the max number of electives available (2), Spanish Lit and English Business.
High School Type: see above</p>
<p>ECs, Awards, Extra Extra: Off the top of my head: debate, drama (scriptwriter), storytelling (no for realz, that’s an actual competition in my school). Volunteer at animal shelter, children’s home. Work experience: camp counselor, math tutor.
Financial Aid: need so much like whoa
State or Region: international
Hook: international? Lots of people apply from my country, though.
Intended Major: Chemistry/Comp sci/chem engineering, depending on the college</p>
<p>Essays: Pretty decent. I mean, I worked all summer on them.</p>
<p>Results: </p>
<p>Rejected: Brown
Waitlisted: Bryn Mawr, Grinnell
Accepted (offered aid in parentheses): Allegheny (20k), Wooster (25k), Penn State Univ. Park Honors (7k), IUP Honors College (2k + instate tuition)</p>
<p>Comments: Attending IUP because it’s the cheapest option. <em>sighs</em></p>
<p>My best friend’s stats (Indian).
SAT I: 2400
ACT: NA
SAT II: 800 Chem, Physics, Bio, Maths 1 and 2
UWGPA: 3.99 (Not a history person, he is)
Rank: Top 1%
AP or IB: Many APs
Course Rigor: Most challenging
High School Type: Competitive Public</p>
<p>Awards and Honors: Lots of stuff in STEM fields
Major Award: USAMO, etc.
Financial Aid: No
State or Region: NJ
Race and Gender: Indian/Male
Hook: None
Intended Major: Neuro</p>
<p>ECs: Amazingly scientific
Essays: Great, but not outstanding</p>
<p>Results:
National Universities:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Accepted: EA MIT</p>
<p>LACs:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Accepted:</p>
<p>Feel like bragging? Were you disappointed?
Post your college admission results. This might help future Asian applicants.
Also, people need to see the uphill battle Asians are facing in college admissions.</p>
<p>[What</a> Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? – New York Magazine](<a href=“http://nymag.com/news/features/asian-americans-2011-5/index2.html]What”>What Happens to All the Asian-American Overachievers When the Test-Taking Ends? -- New York Magazine - Nymag)</p>
<p>Beatles</p>
<p>He plays Tennis, but he isn’t that good. He got into Harvard, the number 40 tennis school. He wanted to go to Stanford but he didn’t get recruit. Then, he also wanted to go to Columbia, but the coach told him that he wouldn’t survive in Columbia because of his low SAT and gpa</p>
<p>I feel bad for Asians in the U.S. A race that does so exceedingly well in every aspect of the college admission process that they inflate their availability, and in turn, become compared disadvantageously to other applicants. It’s a paradox…</p>
<p>Anyway, I know a ‘typical’ Asian that was accepted to Brown, Dartmouth, and Penn. He ended up going to the Diana Vagellos program for Life Sciences/Business at Penn. 2290 SAT, 800s in Chem/Bio, don’t know his GPA but he was Valedictorian. </p>
<p>Aside from that, he competed in Speech/Debate (how I knew him) and was an amazing public speaker. Took first place in every event he did. He deserved his acceptances 100% regardless of race, imo</p>
<p>Thanks for the article, Belly. I’m currently reading through the whole thing and already sent it to some of my Asian friends.</p>
<p>Thanks for the article, Belly. NY is such a good mag, and I keep forgetting to check it out.</p>
<p>GPA:3.81/4.47 (top 4% for a competitive magnet school)
APs: 8? I can’t remember. 5s on all of them except two.
SAT: 2260
SAT IIs: 790/740
ACT: 35</p>
<p>Recommendations: Excellent. Written like recommendations should be (addressed me as a student, as a member of the community, as a person unto myself). They were pretty embarrassing to read.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Helped edit a fairly popular fiction anthology, wrote grants to implement an alternative energy project at school, worked throughout high school, head of honor society, various other smaller leadership roles</p>
<p>Other: First-gen</p>
<p>Accepted: Middlebury, Haverford, Vassar, Oberlin, Cornell, Amherst, Tufts, UCB, UCLA
Waitlisted: Dartmouth
Rejected: Brown</p>
<p>Posting for my son:</p>
<p>SAT 2320
GPA 4.0/4.0
10+ AP courses and college level math courses
Science research experience 2+ years
math state level awards and AMIE qualifier few times
Quiz Bowl </p>
<p>Admitted: Chicago, Columbia,Rice,Swarthmore, UMich
Waitlisted: UPenn, Williams
Rejected : HYPSM</p>
<p>Bump10char</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2360 (1 sitting), 770 math and 790 CR
ACT:
SAT Subject Tests: 760 Bio, 800 math II, 800 chem, 720 world history
Unweighted GPA (out of 100): 93 or something…got an 89 in high school
Weighted GPA: ~96 (we do 100pt scale)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10% i think
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem, Bio, Calc BC, USAP, WHAP, English Lang - 5; Psych, Physics C, Chinese - 4; Stats, US Gov, Comp Gov (not yet taken)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: English IV H (2 semester-long seminars), MVC, Diffeq, Organic Chem, Adv Studio Art, AP Gov (US/Comp), AP Stats
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): East Asian Club (Co-pres), Literary Mag (EIC), Art Club (Co-pres), Science/Math club (Pres), Comm Service (Officer)
Job/Work Experience: lol…none unless you count that time that i set up a little booth at an expo and made like 200 bucks
Volunteer/Community service: ~700 hours (450 at hospital, 250 at school)
Summer Activities: welch (summer research program) and a local research program
Essays (subjects and personal opinions): average, i actually wasnt satisfied with them
Teacher Recommendation 1: from my chem/orgo teacher…i think we’re good w/ each other
Teacher Recommendation 2: from my hist teacher…i never talked in his class…lol. but he’s nice
Counselor Rec: prob really good
Additional Rec:
Interview: awkward…it was my first one. decent, at best.
Other
State (if domestic applicant): TX
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: small 130/grade private, sends 10% of people every year to HYP
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
Gender: F
Income Bracket: upper middle
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none…but i submitted an art portfolio. i think it lacked a general sense of creativity tho (read: not very good)…because i’m still discovering my inner eye
Reflection
Strengths: test scores, ECs (leadership)
Weaknesses: grades kinda, recs, essays
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: A fluke, no doubt. Luck was on my side.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected at Harv, Prince, Stan, Upenn, waitlisted at Williams, accepted at Yale, Northwestern, WashU, Vandy, Rice, UT, and A&M
General Comments:
lol, never imagined that i would post…but i can’t help but empathize with all the juniors that are lurking on these threads.</p>
<p>Y’all biggest competition isn’t URMs, because asians make up >15% of most Ivies. IT’S THOSE DARN CHINESE PEOPLE AND THEIR PROPENSITY TO SPEND OVER 15K ON A PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING COMPANY TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN GOT INTO SELECTIVE SCHOOLS! Boom.</p>
<p>Not true at all. The parents ar involved, they don’t splurge.</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): CR 600 M 790 W 680 Composite 2070
ACT: N/A
SAT II: MathII 780, Physics 760, Chemistry 720
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%, exact rank unknown
AP (place score in parenthesis):
Macro-economics (4), Micro-economics（4）, Psychology (4), Calculus AB (4), English Language (3) (I know… they’re all bad) Taking: Physics C, Statistics, Chemistry, Calculus BC</p>
<p>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: Economics, Independent Studies Math, English (AP Lit got cancelled due to low enrollment), History (no AP History offered at my school), AP Bio, AP Physics B, AP Chem, Peer Tuturing</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity Table Tennis (Captain 9,10,11,12, won a lot of medals and awards)
Recreational Table Tennis Club(President 9,10,11,12)
School tutoring club (Co-founder and President, 12)
Math Club (President, 9,10,11,12)
JV Basketball (9,10)
Student Council (11,12)
Job/Work Experience:
Basketball Columnist/ Freelance Translator (11,12)
Math/Physics Tutor (9,10,11,12)
Volunteer/Community service:
Youth Camp counselor (10,11,12)
School Teaching Assistant (10,11,12)</p>
<p>Summer Activities:</p>
<p>SIMUW (Summer Institute of Mathematics at University of Washington) - 2009
AwesomeMath - 2010
Essays: Assuming good
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see. Assuming decent
Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it
Additional Rec: Not sending one
Interview: Haven’t had it yet</p>
<p>Others:</p>
<p>School Type: Mediocre public
Race: Latino
Gender: Male
Hook: ABSOLUTELY NONE</p>
<p>Results:</p>
<p>Accepted to: Harvard (attending), Yale, MIT, Columbia, Boston College, UCLA, UC Berk.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at: Northwestern, Amherst, WashU</p>
<p>Rejected by: Princeton, Dartmouth, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Penn Wharton, Cal Tech</p>
<p>This is the Asian Admission thread. I think there are threads for Latinos.</p>
<p>My high school: Very competitive school with high Asian population</p>
<ol>
<li>About 9% went to Ivies during 2007-2011</li>
<li>About 18% went to Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech and Chicago during 2007-2011</li>
</ol>
<p>2007-2011 (5 year stat from my HS)
Ivy League:</p>
<p>White Male: 37%
White Female: 41%
Asian Female: 15%
Asian Male: 7%</p>
<p>2007-2011 (5 year stat from my HS)
Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Cal Tech, Chicago:</p>
<p>White Male: 36%
White Female: 36%
Asian Female: 16%
Asian Male: 12%</p>
<p>Very few URMs (less than 5) from my HS went to those colleges, so I did not include them in the stat.</p>
<p>What about your HS? Are Asian doing better at your HS?</p>
<p>^Your data are enrollment counts reported as percentages. Whether or not this data supports the claim that Asians get different results would depend what “high Asian population” means and the total number of students counted. For example, if whites outnumber Asians 2-to-1 in your high school, that is a high Asian population in any US state except Hawaii, and it would explain most or all of the 3:1 discrepancy in matriculation rates, with further analysis depending on the actual counts and not only the percentages.</p>
<p>There are more whites than Asians in my HS but it is about 50-50 among top students (in terms of academics).
Personally, I did not see much of URM advantage because only few URMs got into those colleges from my HS. However, it seems that white students are preferred over Asians even though Asian students usually have stronger academic credentials (SAT, ACT, SAT II and GPA) than white students.</p>
<p>At my high school, which I don’t go to cause I’m in 8th grade, the kids matriculating at top schools tend to be Asian or Jewish, more former than Latter.</p>