Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m bored so lemme share my results:

Accepted: Northwestern (ED-will attend), Rutgers (rolling)
Rejected: None :slight_smile:

SAT 1: 2100 (710 M, 700 CR, 690 W)
SAT 2: 730 US History, 730 Math 2, 700 Bio
APs: 5 US History, 4 Bio, 3 Eng Comp
GPA/Class rank: around a 90% average/Top 15-20%

EC’s: A lot of music, choir groups, rescue squad volunteer (certified EMT-B), School Newspaper, wrote for online sports publication (Scout.com), Varsity Football, Tennis
Work Exp: Lifeguard 3 years, Camp Counselor 2
Awards: AP Scholar, All-State Chorus, National Merit Commended (221 score- NJ sucks)

Essays: Common App- talked about experiences touring around the country with choir in middle school…short answer: talked about EMT stuff. NU Supplement: Pretty solid Why NU essay

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Accepted: Penn-Wharton (ED-will attend)
Rejected: None

SAT: 2300 (800M, 700CR, 800W)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Chem, 740 Spanish
AP: 5 U.S. Gov, 3 Spanish Language
GPA: 3.93UW, 4.52W
Rank: 1/566

ECs: Leadership positions in two clubs, cofounder of Junior Statesmen of America
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, A county Spanish Award, a school Spanish award, attended Buckeye Boys State and elected to a high position there

Essays: Very good
Counselor Rec: Excellent
Teacher Recs: Good

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booyak…varsity football O.o wow…

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Accepted: University of Chicago Early Action
Rejected: none.

GPA: 3.34
SATI: 800 Critical Reading
800 Writing
740 Math (2340 total)

SAT II:
800 Math IIc
770 US History

AP exams: BC Calculus 5

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I forgot to add,

AP French 5
AP US History 5

AP scholar, National Merit Semifinalist

Is my essay good? Well, it was lots of fun.

Here are a couple lines from it:

“black background with white lines depicting a chessboard in jarring perspective. Doll-sized aristocrats and naked women strolling arm-in-arm along the squares stretching into the pictorial horizon.”

Counselor recommendation compared me to A Beautiful Mind. At first I was ambivalent about the analogy to a schizophrenic, but it seems to have done no harm!
Two of three teacher recommendations were quite good I believe.

So. As you can see, GPA isn’t everything. Back in the summer, people on this thread told me I had no chance at any of the top-25 schools. For some reason, everyone hates the “low GPA high SAT” profile. Guys, we don’t bite!

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you’re writing isnt that great, you just think it sounds really smart

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orange apply to other schools also university of chicago is not a great school…personally speaking in terms of morality…heard they manipulated their data just to rank alittle higher on us news

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Darkhope,
it’s true that the new president seems prestige-obsessed. I’m heartbroken that they’re switching to the common app, and they seem terribly focused on usnwr all of the sudden. However, while there is a new administration, the faculty is the same, and I’d be thrilled to learn from them. I wrote about it in my essay, how some of the greatest books I’d read were by Chicago faculty, and it’s a real gift to be able to have them as my professors. Chicago’s admissions office is turning shady, it’s true. They rejected some great kids from my high school, better students than I was, and this outraged me. But they are NOT the university, and they won’t be my professors. I made my decision, I want to go to Chicago.

Which leaves me in quite a nice situation now :slight_smile: I feel liberated. I can do anything- take cooking classes, learn Turkish, read Octavio Paz, life is good. I don’t have to worry about next year anymore, I got into the school that I would be happiest to go to.

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=D orange gl! and have fun =D

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good job orange!!!cheers for low gpas~

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Accepted: Northwestern ED and Mizzou
Rejected: nowhere because I didn’t apply anywhere else :slight_smile:

SAT: 2010 (640 Reading, 670 Math, 700 Writing)
SAT II: 720 Math II, 620 US History, 600 Literature
ACT: 31 (29 Math, 33 Reading, 26 Science, 36 English, 12/12 Writing)
AP: US History 5, English Language 4, Human Geography 3
GPA: 5.45 / 5.0 weighted
Rank: 8/623

EC’s: Symphonic Band (9-12), Marching Band (9-12), Pep Band (9-12), Orchestra (12), Newspaper (11-12), Math Team (11-12), Spanish Club (10-12), Big Brother Big Sister (10-12), New Beginnings (11-12)

Leadership: Editor in Chief of newspaper, Features Editor of newspaper, Vice President of Spanish Club

Employment: Babysitting

Awards: National Merit Commended Student, Illinois State Scholar Finalist, AP Scholar, IMEA flautist, NCTE writing competitor, National Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta

Essays/Counselor Rec/Teacher Recs: All focused on my writing capabilities :slight_smile:

As you can see from my stats, test scores certainly aren’t everything. Many of my SAT scores are in the lower 25th percentile of NU admitted students, but since I applied to NU’s journalism school and all of my strengths lie in my writing abilities, I got in.

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Bless the year 2007 =D

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arrrgh i tried to post before but it somehow died :frowning:
ill try again

Accepted: ED Princeton
Rejected: Nowhere, for obvious reasons

private school in california (very competitive, 20or more go to ives each year)

SAT: 2030 (680 Lit, 680 R, 690 M)
SAT 11: Math 710, Liter 680, Us History 700

APs: Literature, Us History, Government, Latin, Calculus, Chemistry, Physics

5s on all APs

GPA: 3.667 UW
Class rank: school does not rank

ECS:
crew national level (11th in nation), co prez school junior classical league, on board of califonria junior classical league, writing center peer tutor, relay for life, engineering, independent study greek

Awards:
maxima cum laude national latin exam all four years, national latin honor society, many many more really dont feel like listing…if you want the whole shedang ill post it later

recs: excellent (both teacher and counselour, head of school insisited on writing one)

hook: legacy, and profound hearing loss

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i want the whole shedang

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national latin honor society, national latin maxima cum laude all four years, school departmental awards in both english and latin all four years awarded to best student in subject, national merit commended scholar, wrote 25 page paper on foreign policy and was published in important reveiw, won best engineering design at technology challenge (national level), rewarded for outstanding research during internship at stanford medical center developing drugs to inhibit tumor growth in cancer, also won school award for being “inquistive”, 2nd in CA for reading comprehension in Latin at AP Latin level, 10th in nation for reading comprehension in Latin at AP Latin, 1st in CA for Derivitives in Latin, 8th in nation for Derivitives in Latin, and won many regattas for crew

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guppy8888 who do you row for?? and what did you win? (i row too)

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i would love to say what team, but i dont want to say for confidential reasons…but i will say that my team won on a national level

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i think guppy’s hook was his awards

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personally, (and i could be wrong) i think the hook was more my interest in classics and the legacy

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hook was disability…