Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Accepted: WUSTL (attending), Cornell, Tufts, BU
Rejected: Harvard (deferred EA), MIT, Princeton

School type: Public
Race: White
Gender: Male
Class Rank: 3/444

SATs: 2270 (790 V, 780 M, 700 W)
SAT IIs: BioE - 800, Math II - 800, USH - 710
APs: Bio - 5, Calc - 5, English - 5, Euro History - 4

Extracurricular/Activities/Work:
NOSB (Natl. champions 2005), science bowl, science olympiad, math team, acadeca, fps, environmental club.
Eagle Scout
2 summers doing volunteer research at cancer lab
Part-time computing job
Community service at soup kitchens and food bank

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Do yall’ mind writing your essay topics/themes also please?

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yea essay topics would be great!

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let’s not get greedy, now

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Accepted: Kenyon (attending), Oberlin, Macalester, Centre
Waitlisted: Dartmouth, Brown, Tufts, Wash U
Rejected: None

School Type: Public
Location: Kentucky
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Undecided
Unweighted GPA: 4.0

Weighted GPA: 4.24
Class rank: 1, not shared

ACT Scores (single sitting)
Composite: 31
English: 34
Math: 27
Reading: 32
Science: 32
Writing: 10

SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 730
SAT II U.S. History: 690

AP Scores:
US History: 5
English Lang/Comp: 4

SUMMER PROGRAMS
*Governor’s Scholars Program 5-week selective entry program, design selected for campus t-shirts
*Savannah Summer Seminars: 1-week program at Savannah College of Art and Design
*Shakespearean drama 1-week seminar

ACTIVITIES
*National Forensic League (NFL): 20 Hrs/wk, 42 Wks/yr, 9th-12th
Captain, designed t-shirts for 2 years, volunteer as coach (6 Hrs/wk, 35 Wks/yr for 3 years), numerous national and state awards listed, most notably, 17th at Nationals

  • Piano: 5-11 Hrs/wk, 52 Wks/yr, 9th-12th - Play for 9 years,
  • Art: 5-15 Hrs/wk, 52 Wks/yr, 9th-12th - Selected to paint mural for school district, volunteer as an aid at art conferences (12 Hrs/wk, 1 Wk/yr for 4 years), numerous regional and state awards listed
    *Mock Trial: 18 Hrs/wk, 31 Wks/yr, 11th-12th – Prosecution attorney, 2nd at regional against national champion team.
    *International Thespian Society: 35 Hrs/wk, 9 Wks/yr, 9th-12th - Charter member (over 100 hours), designed t-shirts, lighting technician/actor for many school plays
    *Student Technology Leadership Program (STLP): 10 Hrs/wk, 5 Wks/yr, 9th-12th – Editor-in-chief of state paper, selected for conference every year
    *Academic Team (Governor’s Cup) - 8 Hrs/wk, 22 Wks/yr, 9th-12th – Moderator, FPS, Arts and Humanities, Math, Science, Composition, both state and invitational awards listed.
    *Community Theatre Guild: 35 Hrs/wk, 5 Wks/yr, 9th-12th – 13 shows, volunteer for children’s theatre (9th-12th, 90+ Hrs per show)
    *Co-Ed-Y (Mock UN/Congress): 6 Hrs/wk, 35 Wks/yr, 12th – President, Congressional Delegate award, qualified for national conference.
    *Future Educators of America (FEA): 4Hrs/Wks, 20 Wks/yr, 12th - Press Officer, student mentor
    *Math Tutoring: 6 Hrs/wk, 20 Wks/yr, 12th
    *V/JV Tennis Team: 25 Hrs/wk, 11 Wks/yr, 9th-10th
    *School’s Morning Announcements: 2 Hrs/wk, 36 Wks/yr, 11th-12th

*College Course: Spring 2006, local university

Essays
*All very well written, writing is a strong suit

Recs
*Both were highly complimentary, one was written by an AP English teacher and was phenomenal.
*Counselor was somewhat unreliable, so not sure.

AWARDS NOT LISTED IN ECS
*2006 Junior Miss: Local winner with state placements
*Foreign Language Competition Placements Listed
*Inaugural Class of KY 2004 (selected by University of KY)
*KY Commonwealth Diploma (State AP Recognition)
*School Awards Listed

Hope this helps! Sorry if it is too long. I tried to be thorough because these really helped me with my application process.

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Accepted: Northwestern, Columbia (Attending), UPenn, Cal-Berkley, Amherst
Waitlist->Reject: Dartmouth

School Type: Private
Race: White
Prospective Marjor: Economics
Unweighted GPA 3.95
Class Rank: Top 5 Percent my counseler told me (though they dont tell colleges our ranks)

SATs: 2320 Combined with 800 math
SAT IIS: Low 700s for all 3

ECs:
Band, Student Council President, Track (Captain), Economics Club founder

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On essays…can you share what you wrote about, not just how good they were?

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My essay is hard to summarize. I wrote about viewing the world 2-dimensionally, in black and white, weaving an analogy through with television. For the Tufts additional essay, I picked wich news story was ignored in 2005 and answered the decline of democratic rights in Russia.

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Accepted: UChicago EA (attending…I didn’t apply anywhere else because Chicago was my top choice by far)

School Type: Public
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Mathematics/Economics
Unweighted GPA: 3.9 approx
Weighted GPA: 4.82
Class rank: 11/410

ACT Scores (single sitting)
Composite: 32
English: 31
Math: 30
Reading: 32
Science: 33
Writing: 29

SAT Scores
Composite: 2130
Math: 790
Verbal: 700
Writing: 640

SAT II Scores
SAT II Math 2: 800
SAT II Chem: 730
SAT II Physics: 690

AP Scores:
Calc BC: 5
Physics C E&M: 5
Physics C Mech: 4
Chem: Not sure yet…I took it late
Biology: 4
Econ Micro: 5
Econ Macro: 5

IB Scores (out of 7):
French SL: 5
Chem SL: 5
Math HL: 5
Bio HL: 5
Physics HL: 5
Econ HL: 5
English HL: 6

SUMMER PROGRAMS
*Worked with a math professor at the U of MN on a math project having to do with wavelets
*FEE(foundation for economic education) 1 week seminar
*Volunteered at the math library at the U of MN

ACTIVITIES
*University of Minnesota talented Youth Mathematics Program (UMTYMP), through which I took my math classes from grades 7-11

  • Trumpet Lessons/Minnesota youth Symphonies
  • National Honor Society (committee head of the multicultural festival)
  • Econ Challenge Team (1st place in regionals, 3rd in state)
  • badminton team

Possible Hooks: I took all of the IB Sciences offered at my school (3 years bio, 2years physics, 2 years chem). I also (through UMTYMP and through U of MN) was able to take the following math courses: 3 years of calc (including multivar), linear algebra, combinatorics, and topology(grad level)

Essays: “mind that does not stick” prompt on the uchi app. I wrote a short story about writing an essay.

AWARDS NOT LISTED IN ECS
*National Merit Scholarship
*AP award (don’t remember which one)
*IB diploma
*many department awards at my school

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Well, I was not happy with my results. It’s a bit sad since I poured out my soul over nothing for the last four years.

So here it is.

Accepted: UCSD(attending), UCI, Pomona College (can’t afford)
Wait Listed: Scripps (HAW)
Rejected: UCLA, UC Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard (I can dream, no?), Occidental

School Type: Public
Location: California
Race/Gender: Asian
Prospective Major: Bioengineering Pre-med (it’s an impacted major, so I can’t get out of it)
Unweighted GPA & UC GPA: 3.6
Weighted GPA: 4.32
Class rank: fourth decile (I went to this… insane school full of Asian nerds. even 4.32 doesn’t get you into the first decile)
Graduated with: Full IB Diploma, Troy Tech Diploma… etc. (All those mean nothing… except that you get to have extra strings and pieces of gold cloth on your gown. YUCK)

SAT I Scores: 2180
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 740
SAT I Writing: 700

SAT II Scores (I took a lot… Maybe I shouldn’t have. What a waste of money)
SAT II U.S. History: 800
SAT II Math IIC: 780
SAT II Korean: 800
SAT II Biology E: 800
SAT II Spanish: 710

Extracurricular Info

Summer Internship at UCI Medical Center
Media Ministry leader for three years
Private tutor for a year
SAT Instructor for a summer
FBLA Active Member

[Hm… A little weak on extracurricular.]

Awards
Ho Nam Korean Society Scholarship
Lions Club Scholarship
CSF Seal Bearer… (or something like that. who gives a…)
Principal’s Honor Roll (4 years)

[A little weak here, too]

I think what brought me down were…

  • Crappy Interviews
  • My personal statement [I read it over and groan with frustration]
  • Going to a crazy school where only the top 20 people got into all the Ivy leagues and the rest got screwed. Seriously, if you aren’t going to be in the top 5% at least, go to the easy, stupid school. Not

Yeah, can you see why I’m a bit… well, BITTER?

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How are a handful of people, some of whom may not be honest, posting their “stats” and results going to help future admissions cycles? If you want answers, all you have to do is:

a) Check a college guide or the college’s website for readily available information regarding SAT/ACT averages, GPAs and class ranks of their recent class. That should give you a good, ACCURATE idea of where you would stand among the pile of applications.

b) Accept that these are averages and still don’t mean you will either get in or not get in. There are people with lower-than-average stats that get in. There are people with higher-than-average stats that don’t. This leaves you really with no definitive answers.

c) Conclude that you are wasting time, time better spent on building a real college list independent of “what your chances are.”

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I agree and disagree with zoogies. I agree that you shouldn’t be wasting your time looking at everyone’s stats on this site because this site has the top applicants, the CC acceptance rate is much higher than the normal acceptance rate at these universities.

However, I think it’s essential to know what your chances are at schools, and where you can get in. You shouldn’t be looking and researching schools out of your league.

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That’s true…I agree that it is essential to know what your chances are at schools, so you can build a balanced list that won’t leave you acceptance-dry in May. I admit that (c) was not well thought out and poorly worded. Although I would dispute that you shouldn’t apply to schools “out of your league.”

How would you define “out of your league?” That’s something an admissions committee decides; your decision is whether or not you would like going to the school. Say you really, genuinely want to go to Yale, but you have sub-600 SAT scores. It would be stupid, in my opinion, not to apply because you think you have a 99% chance of getting rejected. Honestly, that’s not much worse than all the other applicants, who have about a 90% chance of not getting in anyway.

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Graduated Senior: Actual Results, Northeast Ohio

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Hey i just graduated… heres how everthing went down

ACCEPTED: Case Western, Ohio St. Honors, Boston University

WAITLISTED: Boston College, Vanderbilt, Cornell AEM

REJECTED: Johns Hopkins, Tufts

SAT: 680 M, 670 V, 630 W ( 1350/1980)
SAT II: 690 M II, 640 Bio, 590 US HIST
ACT: 29 ( 34M, 25W, 30R, 28S)
RANK: 28/ 822 ( top 4%)
GPA: 3.84 UW
ALL Application Fees Waived ( low income)
Caucasion Male

AP TESTS:

Macro Econ: 5
Micro Econ: 5
Eng Lit: 3
Biology: 5

AP Econ Student of the year
Alternate Buckeye Boys State

EC’s: ( average)
Mock trial 3 years
Law club ( pretty dumb and pointless)
Intramural Basketball 3 years
30 or so Volunteer hours
Future Leaders
Student Council

basically outside of Mock Trial those were all B.S clubs

Worked at Subway for 2 years… still working there unfortunately
15ish hours a week during school year

Recs: 2 were decent, 1 was outstanding… explained what a go-getter i am…lol

Essays: the ones for the colleges were decent… Cornell’s was pretty good… my Personal Statement was outstanding… i prolly should have used my income as a hook… but i opted not to

Single Mom; 3 kids… one in college, income under 24k… twin sis going to OSU
Suburb of Cleveland…

That is about it… The process was painful… but overally it worked out in the end… if you look at my sn and look at my location you’ll see where i’ll be attending next fall… lets hope the grade deflation Gods will nice to me… haha im a liberal atheist by the way

Im very happy with BU… they gave me 36k in grant money per year… which i need… cuz if you look at what my mom makes… as a waitress… then youd see why…

Look for Best Fit… Find out where youd b happy… and do your research… go to Barnes and Nobles or somtin and read some of their college books… hah i do it all the time… they dont care… they wont kick you out

START EARLY… biggest regret i had was that i started the process in november… wayy too late… start early… dont be afraid to reach for schools you dont think you’ll get into… be ambitious… find the best fit … visit… i really couldnt and it may have hurt me… but im poor… ya know what can ya do… anyhow good luck… pm me or leave one on this thread if you have any ??'s…

Good Luck

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Where: UMD College Park, Virginia Tech

Stats:

GPA: 3.24 UW, 3.7W

SAT: 1890 (590 Verbal, 670 Math 630 Writing)

Rigor of Classes: Moderate-High (5 APs, Most Honor Classes)

Extracurriculars: Computer Club - Webmaster
Rugby - 1 year
Other things:
Tutored at a Saturday School
Worked two jobs to support my family

Results: First deffered, but with help from CC, I wrote up a letter explaining my circumstances (below), and thus got accepted!

Point I’m trying to make: College Adcoms are human, they understand that things come up. In my case, I was homeless for a summer, and then bounced around houses until we finally rented a (rather ex*****ve) townhouse. My Parents work a combined total of 3 jobs, but still barely make enough to pay bills. My grades were affected:

9th: Kept getting 3.4 and higher
10th - 11th (the bad summer/years): 2.85s
12th: 3.71 (with 3 AP classes along with Calculus).

So I’m no top student, or anything, but I kept going no matter what happened (I could easily have dropped out in 10th-11th). That was the topic of my essay/letter, and it proved to help me out in the end.

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Congrats to you Bowser!

Otherwise, this is a pretty depressing thread. Kids with major ECs, stats, recs, who didn’t get in to HYP. I guess it’s useful as a warning to find other schools you can love and that will love you.

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yeah that’s very encouraging… it gives me no reason to complain about stats and stuff when you had to go through something like that…

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Zoogies, some of us like to see more than average test scores at schools. As a lot of us know, scores alone won’t get you in and that’s why we like seeing the whole package and forming our own conclusions…

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I’ll do a very brief version of what everyone’s said…

I’m a male from NJ
GPA: 3.89 W
SAT: 2060 (750M 650W 660V)
SAT II: Math II - 720, US History - can’t remember
School doesn’t rank, but I was 3rd-4th decile.

ECs (very briefly and hastily written)

Eagle Scout (a whole lot of other leadership stuff here and volunteering)
NJ Youth Orchestra
Band/Orchestra in School
Peer Leadership
X-C (Two Letters)
Other miscellaneous things I’m forgetting.

Colleges

Indiana University - Accepted to KSB and honors w/$
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Accepted to b-school
Rutgers - Accepted
University of Michigan - Deferred-Waitlisted-Accepted-Attending (hahaha)
NYU, Cornell, USC, UT-Austin, Wash U - Rejected

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^ what is ur state of residency? (curious about the $ from indiana)

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