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anyone else?
Background: Asian Female, Northern California, Public School
GPA: 4.0, 4.5
Rank: 3/500
SAT: 770 Math, 760 Critical Reading, 790 Writing (2320)
SATII’s: 800 Math IIC, 800 Chinese, 800 Biology, 790 US History
AP’s: 5 Calculus BC, 5 Chemistry, 5 Biology, 5 US History, 5 English Language
Awards:
National Merit Finalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
USABO Semifinalist
AIME Qualifier
Journalism Awards
Varsity Letters
1st Place in School Talent Show (Piano)
Activities:
Founder and President of SDFA (10-12); tutors low income children
Varsity Girls Soccer (10-12)
School Literary Magazine (9-12); Staff Editor (11th); President (12th)
Journalism (11-12); Co-editor (12th)
Treasurer of Girls Math and Science Club (11th); Vice-President (12th)
French Honor Society (10-12)
Published articles in School Science Biology Journal (11th, 12th)
Published Poetry in School Literary Magazine (11th, 12th)
Volunteer at Hospital (9-12)
Piano (11 years)
Summer Activities:
Gave piano lessons to elementary school children (9th)
Benefit Concerts; donated money to charities (11th)
Lifeguard at YMCA (11th)
Accepted: Stanford (Attending), Princeton, Caltech, UC Berkeley, UCLA (Regents)
Rejected: Yale, MIT, Johns Hopkins
Waitlisted: Harvard, Cornell, Duke
tombo, how were you rejected from Hopkins?
I’m taking a course there right now and I really see no reason why you would be rejected.
Could you please elaborate?
tombo, I’m completely stealing your template (and maybe you stole it from someone else, I dunno).
Background: Asian-American Male, East Coast, Non-Competitive Public School
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
Rank: 2/600 (when I wrote my application)
SAT: 800 Math, 770 Critical Reading, N/A Writing (took SAT II)
SATII’s: 800 Math IIC, 800 Chemistry, 770 US History, 760 Writing
AP’s: 5 Calculus BC, 5 Statistics, 5 US History, 5 US Government, 5 Biology, 5 English Literature (after I was accepted), 4 English Language, 4 European History, 3 Chemistry
Awards:
National Merit Finalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
AIME Qualifier
TSA Awards
Piano Competition Awards
Johns Hopkins SET
Activities:
TSA (9-10)
Yearbook (10-12)
National Honor Society (10-12)
Volunteer at Library (11-12)
Piano (12 years)
[this is the reason I only got into 4 schools]
Summer Activities:
Summer Residential Governor’s School (10th)
Harvard Secondary School Program (11th)
Accepted: Swarthmore (Attending), Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia (in-state), McGill
Rejected: Cornell, Yale, Princeton, MIT (early + regular)
Waitlisted: Washington University in St. Louis
A special thanks to those who posted info that included some rejections.
If you were rejected by your first choice school, how are you experiencing freshman year at a back-up college. I know that many h.s. seniors think that if they don’t get into their dream school, they will be miserable forever. What’s your reality?
holy crap, ugen64, with ur stats u got rejected from cornell?
Northstarmom,
My S is too busy & uninterested to visit or post on this forum, so I’ll take the liberty of posting on his behalf, as I have for some time now. He was rejected from his “uberreaches,” and is having a BLAST at his “safety” school, USoCal. He has made wonderful friends, gets along extremely well with his compatible room mate, is enjoying LA (getting out to Little Tokyo, Chinatown, camping in the mountains with his dorm floor, watching emmy nominees on the red carpet, USC football with classmates), and has not mentioned any complaints about his teachers, classes, or peers. Whenever any of us speaks with or IMs him, he is in great spirits, frequently laughing and much more outgoing and happy than any of us can ever remember. (His only mild “complaint” is that the dorm food is “not the greatest,” but as I recall, we always said that when I was a student as well, way back in the day.)
From our perspective as parents, we’re thrilled that he also got very nice merit awards, which have made his education much more affordable AND we’re glad he’s thriving so well in his new U.
Goes to show, “Love your safety” is a very good plan!
ugen64 and tombo have identical stats, yet tombo got into more prestigious schools. its not fair
i would say not. by what the two posted, tombo had significantly more leadership positions than did ugen64, and also played a varsity sport.
of course, ugen64 had pretty great stats anyway.
Background: White male from Oregon, Public school
GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1 of 250
SAT: 2250 (790M, 730R, 730W)
SAT 2: 800 Chem, 800 Math2, 740 US History
AP: 5 Chem, 5 US Hist, 4 Both Econ, 4 English, 5 Calc AB
Awards
AP Scholar
AIME Qualifier
Various chem awards (Bausch & Lomb, American Chemical Society, etc.)
State math qualifer (Local awards in math)
NCTE Writing nominee
Activities
Swimming, Tennis (9-12)
Community Service (9-12)
Math/Science clubs (9-12)
Student Tutor (11-12)
Student Government (9-10)
Band (9-10)
Summer
Umm, I had fun and travelled during the summer, and I wrote that in my applications.
Accepted: Oberlin (attending), Kenyon, Grinnell, Whitman
Waitlisted: Princeton
Rejected: Stanford (even visiting this site, I really thought I would get in, and was pretty crushed when I got the rejection letter; I thought that I would have to “settle for” Oberlin because I missed the top-tier. But after the sting of rejection wore off I was able to see what I had with a spot at Oberlin. I am loving it here and can’t imagine going to any other school. So while it isn’t bad to aim for schools like Stanford, by no means should you ignore your “lesser schools” on your list. Everything works out, trust me.)
Wow orygunrules, your credentials are superior. I am surprised that you didn’t get into Stanford or Princeton. It shows just how fickle the system is.
And Re: Northstarmom,
I did touch on this in my earlier post, but I will say that Stanford was, by far, my first choice, and earlier this year in April I was really quite depressed. I was one of those students that thought life actually would be terrible because I didn’t get in. But I soon realized that fretting over the rejection wasn’t going to change it. I scheduled a visit to Oberlin, and spent a few wonderful days touring the campus here. As a potential science major, Oberlin’s new facilities were simply amazing. I’m so glad that I was “forced” to choose this school over Stanford. Classes here are great and the people are amazing (though I no longer play an instrument, music has always been integral to my life; thus, the presence of the conservatory is also a welcome feature of the college.) I guess I’m just trying to say that it all worked out, and I’m so glad it worked out the way it did.
Hi – could you please send me either an email or a personal message so that I can ask you about Oberlin? Thanks!
Thanks, that’s a comforting sentiment. We find out the contents of the next four years of our lives in 3 months. YAY!!!
No – you decide and determine the content of each day of the next four years, by yourself. All you find out in the next few months is where those decisions are going to be made. This is NOT sophistry – this is reality – you ARE who you decide to be…
Background: Caucasian Female, NY, Public School
Average: 96.5
Rank: 33/255
SAT: 690 Math, 600 Critical Reading, 640 Writing
AP’s: 4 Calculus AB, 4 Economics, 4 AP Studio Art
Summer Activities:
Worked 2 double shifts waitressing 6 days a week for the past 2 years.
Field Hockey camp 4 years
Au Pair for a Sweedish Girl 1 year
Accepted: Middlebury, Lafayette(Attending), Lynchburg, University of Vermont, University of Mary Washington
Rejected: Tufts
Waitlisted: Lehigh
hey … whats with the SAT score man! and you got into some of the UC’s ! tips? i got 1770 for SAT, average C for my GCSE A levels. btw i’m international student.
I LOVE THIS THREAD
It’s sooo helpful to see real people and where they got in.
just read this interesting article about colleges, nothing new but still a great article
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Could you put up the text to that somewhere else? Because I can’t read it, and I do not want to subscribe the The Economist.