I’m surprised that UCLA even acknowledged any teacher recommendations. :rolleyes:
tonyt, can you PM me those sites?
umm…ucla doesnt even look at teacher recs…unless you are talking about grad school.
Accepted:Vanderbilt(attending), Johns Hopkins, Case Western, Ohio State, Miami of Ohio
Waitlisted:WashU
School Type: Public
Location: OHIO
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Biology/Biochem
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.25
Class rank: 10/822
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 720
SAT I Critical Reading: 700
SAT I Writing: 670
ACT: 34
ECs:
~Genetic Research Project at Case Western
~Mini Med School at Case
~Took Genetics and Biotech Course through the Equinox Program at Case
~4-H (Treasurer, many awards through the years)
~National Honor Society
~Future Leaders
~Intramural Ping Pong : )
~Science Club (went with teachers to take classes in Disney World)
~Teacher Aide
~National Merit Finalist
Recs:
~My Bio teacher from sophomore year knew me really well. I basically lived in her room so I’m sure there was plenty to write about.
~I did really well in my genetics class, so I had that teacher write a rec as well.
~I think my counselor rec was pretty good. I made an effort to get to know my counselor. It was tough because there are so many kids at my school.
Essays:
~I wrote about all of my different endeavors in the field of genetics. At “science camp” (I’m a dork I’ll admit it) I met a ton of great people who really shared the same interests as me and we got along amazingly well. My research project was also spotlighted as I gained so much knowledge from the whole experience.
Advice to seniors this year:
~The one thing I wish I had done is apply to more schools. Reach for the stars when you apply. Certainly have some matches and some safe schools, but you never know exactly what admissions are looking for.
~Don’t be scared by the “sticker price.” My EFC was higher than we expected, and I never thought my family would be able to afford Vandy, but they pulled through with some nice grant money.
is it true that those public collges look at your test scores and GPA more than private ones?
liang: Yes, though it’s not cut-and-dry. Big schools, public or private, are always more numbers-concerned than small schools.
really, but there are many 2000s got into harvard
UUUAUUUUU!!! Nicely done guys CONGRATS but but but wait a minute where are the normal people?i mean Harvard Princeton Brown Stanford Duke PENN U of Chicago Columbia…Holly crap!!!
Attending: Rice University
Accepted: UT-Austin, Austin College EA, Rice (ED)
didn’t finish any other apps. Deferred EA from UT Plan II Honors
School type: Very large public
Location: suburban Houston
Race/Gender: white female
prospective major: humanities
unweighted GPA: 3.85 (?) – only on our transcripts, not report card
class rank: 32/950 (based on weighted GPA) at time of application. Graduated lower (39?) due to a slight case of senioritis.
SAT: 800V/730M/720 W (9 E)
SAT IIs: 760 US, 620 Spanish
Was AP Scholar with Honor at time of application. Took 9 total AP classes. US History, Spanish, Psych, and English junior year. Bio, AB Calc, English Lit, Euro, Econ senior year.
ECs: leadership through Girl Scouts and church, talked about my job in my “most meaningful EC” essay
Attending: Stanford University
Accepted: Stanford University, Vassar College, Barnard College, Tufts University, University of Washington, The Evergreen State College
Rejected: Yale University, Harvard University
School Type: Large, Urban, Public, IB Program
Location: Tacoma, Washington
Race/Gender: African-American/Female
Prospective Major: Undecided
Unweighted GPA: 3.81 at application, 3.79 at graduation
Class Rank: 33/431
SAT: 730 CR/600 M/730 W
ACT: 29 composite/30 english/27 math/34 reading/25 science
IB Diploma Candidate at time of Application
I also took 8 classes my first semester of Senior year (our normal course load is 6 classes), and 7 classes my second semester of Junior year
ECs included participation in Mock Trial and chair of Mock Trial my senior year, various academic persuits (advanced summer classes, etc), summer jobs, French Club member, Stage Crew Prop Master, Spanish peer tutor
My essay topics were: my experiences with institutionalized racism and how it has affected me, a meaningful experience: serving soup to the homeless with my youth group, and how being hospitalized with viral meningitis at the end of my freshman year affected my high school experience and views about schooling.
Interesting side note: My good friend and I both applied to Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. We have almost identical stats but he is a legacy at Harvard and I am a legacy at Stanford. We were both rejected from Yale. He was accepted to Harvard and rejected at Stanford. I was accepted at Stanford and rejected from Harvard. Coincidence? Yeah legacy points really don’t matter…right.
liang: uh, yeah. Harvard’s private and mid-sized. The people with sub 2100 SATs there are disproportionally recruited athletes, URMs, legacies, etc.
not always pyro. my friend got into yale and harvard but she wasn’t an URM, legacy, beneficiary, etc Her sat was 2020
she has outstanding ECs?
Attending: Yale University
Accepted: Yale, Harvard, Tufts, Vassar, WashU, U of Vermont, SUNY Geneseo, Penn State, Syracuse University (with big scholarship)
Rejected: Cornell
Waitlisted: N/A
Really really wanted to go to Cornell, phft. Life sucks. Oh well. Stats:
School type: Large, good, suburban public school in New York
SAT I: 720V/780M/760W
SAT II: 780 Latin, 760 Bio M
AP USH 5, AP Calc 5, AP Lit 5, AP Bio 5
Not a legacy at any schools I applied to.
School doesn’t rank, but I think in the top 5%, and definitely in the top 10.
ECs: Don’t feel like listing them all, but I did a ton of EC’s and volunteer work in science-related fields. Around 200 volunteer hours, I think.
In the end it came down to Yale with almost no money and Syracuse with a lot of money. I hope this pays off.
do we have a thread like this in the premed forum? WE SHOULD
nevi87: How the heck do you get into Harvard and Yale, supposedly the hardest of the ivies to get into, but not Cornell, supposedly the easiest of the ivies?
there s nothing supposedly of top notch admissions
Because any of the top ranked schools are a crapshoot. I’m sure people with similar stats got rejected by yale and harvard but accepted by cornell.
but there are some people that really strong, and got in all of the top ranked schools they applied
<em>cough</em> finale <em>cough</em>
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