awesome thread.
seems to me admissions are just a crapshoot.
i also have one question where i couldn’t find a thread to ask:
is journalism considered an EC?!
Dude, I go to Troy, too. Are you serious that 4.32 is in the fourth decile. I am so screwed.
mk, sure
Accepted: MIT (attending), Olin College of Engineering, Stanford, Rice, Duke, Berkeley, UT-Austin
Waitlisted: Caltech
Rejected: Harvard, Yale
Race: Asian
School: Public, but let me finish last 2 years of hs at University of North Texas, so I had 76 credits
Rank: not ranked
GPA: 4.0
SATs
Math: 800
Verbal: 800
Writing: 770
Math IIc: 800
Biology: 780
Chemistry: 790
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
Essays: I went for a more natural, laid-back, story-telling feel. Most people who read my essays said they were good. I wouldn’t say they were spectacular or anything
Recommendations: My rec writers didn’t let me read any of them, so I don’t really know, but the dean at my school liked me quite a bit for some reason
ECs:
lots and lots of tutoring, through my school’s program as well as the university’s volunteer tutoring program
Habitat for Humanity
Mu Alpha Theta - publicist, webmaster
Research Organization - physics chair, webmaster
University Student Government Association - representative for my school
Research over the summer and throughout the year (possible because we all lived on campus), but no publications or anything
Created lecture notes database (kind of like MIT’s ocw) <a href=“http://www.wikinotes.vze.com%5B/url%5D”>www.wikinotes.vze.com</a>, 4 years running, over 1000 pages of notes, quizzes, and diagrams all self-made
Cello
Awards/stuff:
qualified for AIME last 2 years
National Merit Finalist
some success at local/state math competitions
All-Region orchestra 5 years
^ just checked out your website…I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!
yay for you making it
:-DDDD
Accepted: UPenn (Huntsman Program), Williams College, Georgetown, U. Chicago, Cornell, NYU, Duke, U. Michigan, Trinity College, Northwestern, U. Virginia
Rejected: Princeton, Harvard, Dartmouth
School Type: Private
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Race/Gender: White male
Prospective Major: Business/Economics
SAT I Scores:
-Math: 790
-CR: 700
-Writing: 660
SAT II Scores:
-MAth IIC: 740
-Spanish: 790
-Physics: 750
IB Scores:
Physics HL - 6
Math HL - 6
Spanish B HL - 7
Portuguese A2 HL - 7
Geography SL - 6
English A1 SL - 5
Extracurriculars:
-School Newspaper
- MUN
- Student Council
- Soccer and Volleyball varsity team
Community Service:
-Helped raise funds for soccer club
Reccomendations:
-Very good
Essays:
-Very good (I guess)
Wow, congrats on getting into Huntsman! That is a serious accomplishment. I assume you’re attending there?
It’s amazing the number of people posting these who are attending top schools…clearly, CC is a very selective place in itself.
White Male
One of the most prestigious public schools in VA (we have 100+ people with a 4.0 and above)
4.24 GPA (weighted), 62/440 rank
AP Scholar With Honor after junior year (the only one at my school) (Scores:US History:4, Euro History:5, Macroeconomics: 4, Microeconomics: 4)
SAT: 2170 (770 CR, 640 Math, 760 Writing, 10 Essay)
National Merit Commended Student
Current Schedule and Grades:
Dual Enrollment Cisco Networking: A+
AP Enviro: A
Honors Physics: A+
AP Government: A
AP English Lit.: B+
AP Stat: B+
Great Recommendations (one from a State Senator/Democratic Candidate for Attorney General of VA who I interned for)
Very Solid Counselor Rec.
I thought my essay was pretty good…who knows…
Young Democrats Vice President and Co-founder
Economics Club Co-Founder
Table Tennis Club Cofounder and Treasurer
Was President of the Diocese of Southern Virginia Episcopal Youth Community (represents high school kids in a 40,000 person diocese. I preside over a 12 person board that plans 2 large retreats (about 500-800 kids each) and smaller events throughout the year.)
Four years of Varsity Tennis. I was Co-Captain my senior year.
Member of a promotions unit of my school’s Robotics team.
I applied to:
William and Mary
Mary Washington
University of Richmond
American University
JMU
I got into all of them. Most with a good chunk of financial aid (including some nice scholarships and grants)
I’m going to W+M.
Oops…i copied and pasted my own old chances thread. By the time applications were in my rank was 52.
Accepted: UT Austin (attending), SMU
Rejected: UPenn(Wharton), I should have applied to more lol
Canadian White Male living in Texas, parents from Eastern Europe
SATs: 2110
SAT IIs: Math IIC: 780, Math Ic: 730
Rank: 24/~1300 or top 2%
AP:
5: US History, Macro, AB Calc.
4. Micro, English Lit
3: English Lang
2: French Lang
IB:
6: HL Econ
5: HL Math, SL French
4: SL Physics, SL Computer Science
3: HL English (not sure how I screwed up on this one)
GPA: 3.85 UW, 4.25 W
Recommendations: Average with the exception of one which was incredible
EC’s: Equity Research, Started my own equity business (biraynetworks.co.nr), simulated stock market, French Club, IB, IBSSA, National French Honor Society, Near 100 hours of volunteer work, leader of fantasy teams (haha), and possibly some other ones
after reading a lot of these posts, i am surprisingly a slight bit more confident in getting into ucsd and maybe ucla.
i love this thread. 
me too, I think many pll on CC are too hard on other people’s chances, I became bit more confident by this thread too
I think people in general are harder on other’s chances on CC partly because we don’t see the whole package–essays, personality, interview, recommendations, etc.
Attending: Warwick University
Accepted: NYU, UC Berk, UCLA, UCSD, Rice, Cornell, Imperial, University of College of London, University of St. Andrews
Waitlisted: Washington University in St. Louis, Georgetown, Northwestern
School type: public
Location: Cupertino,CA
Race/gender: Asian
Major: economics, politics, and international studies
UW GPA: 3.85
SAT I: 800m, 800cr, 740w
SAT II:
Korean 800
Math IIC 800
USH 760
Lit 710
AP
Calc AB 5
Econ-micro: 5
Lit: 3
Government 5
USH: 4
Extracurricular
Kendo and Tae Kwon Do: black belt
Samsung Internship: 4 years
Samsung Marketing job: senior summer and currently
Yearbook: junior-senior
Hospital Volunteering: 4 years
finale, your stats and your colleges are freaking incredible! I’m definitely going to PM you!!!
Applied to Harvard EA, accepted. Applied to no other colleges afterwards.
School type: IB magnet within larger, public school context
Location: Miami, FL
Race/gender/nationality: caucasian female, dual US/French citizenship
Major: philosophy
GPA UW: 3.71
GPA W: 6.78
Class rank: 3/750
SAT I: 800 cr, 800 w, 670 m
SAT II:
French 800
US History 750
Biology 760
Literature 780
AP
French Language 5
French Literature 5
English Language 5
English Literature 5
European History 5
US History 5
Psychology 5
Biology 5
Extracurriculars/Awards
-editor of school literary magazine
-vice president of debate team (3rd place in LD at FL Novice State)
-1st place on National French exam (division for native speakers)
-regional gold key, national silver key in Scholastic Art Awards
-job: private tutor (french)
-comm serv: archival work for former US Attorney General.
Application
-I think my recommendations (debate coach, history teacher, art teacher, former US Attorney General) were the strongest part of my application.
-My interview went very well.
-My essay (about my interest in philosophy) was probably average in relation to other Harvard applicants’.
-I also sent in a visual art supplement: <a href=“http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001004[/url]”>http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001004</a>
-My father graduated from Harvard in 1955. He would not have been considered a significant donor.
How in the world do you end up with a 6.78 weighted gpa? Haha, got to love weighted grades.
indeed. IB inflated our GPAs something terrible.
Generally they only give up to 5s for weighted credit…
nice art, ontolome
Accepted: Princeton ED
Race: White
School: Public urban magnet
Rank: unranked, probably around 80/750 (but in a markedly harder courseload than almost all my peers)
GPA: 94.something/100
SAT I:
Math: 800
Verbal: 800
Writing: 800
SATII: Chem, Physics, Math II, US History, World History all 800, Lit 790, Bio 760
APs: BC Calc, AB CS, US and Euro history, both Gov, both Econ, Physics B and both C, English language - all 5s. Latin Vergil - 3 (arrgh)
Intended Major: Physics, or philosophy, or history, or…
Essays: Well-written and clever but maybe a bit bland.
Recommendations: Presumably good. A successful and rather well-off Princeton alum with some connections also wrote me an extra rec.
ECs:
Speech/Debate (no major awards when I applied, subsequently I became a state champion)
Theater
Newspaper
Research (a little)
Awards/stuff:
AIME - Qualified 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades
SET member as part of CTY
NM finalist
AP Nat’l Scholar junior year
Probably some other bogus things
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