Do you row for Marin? Cause they are amazing…they beat us every year at Nationals, except two years ago when my boat (lightweights) took 3rd. It must be difficult rowing when you can’t hear the coxswain…
I hope that this thread will eventually get more organized and everything.
This is SUCH a valuable tool, but it’s just a shame that everybody posts their information in a different format and sometimes exclude certain information (How difficult is it to be thorough, properly format/spell things, etc.).
The main problem is trying to search through all of these results to find specific colleges (Like UC’s or something, or a specific college; if we can get people to post the full name (what’s so hard about that? It can be a problem as some people abbreviate universities, and some universities have multiple names that can result in several variations of abbreviations, etc.) then people can just use their browser’s search feature on every page to quickly find what they’re looking for).
Maybe some time in the future create a new thread with some sort of format template (Of course, not everybody will follow it as there are always those people that for some reason ignore these kinds of instructional posts in these kinds of threads, and are just trigger happy to post their cluttered posts)? Maybe something like this:
Country:
State:
Major:
Accepted:
Rejected:
Waitlisted:
Deferred:
EA/ED:
Sex:
Race:
Unweighted GPA:
Weighted GPA:
Class Rank:
SAT I:
SAT II:
ACT:
AP:
Awards:
Employment:
Extra-curriculars:
Something like that. I WISH that we could get an organized thread started with this kind of outline in which EVREYONE that replies reads the first post to find out the format and then responds using the format (And if they don’t know one of the above, or if it isn’t applicable, they can so indicate).
Country: USA
State: NYC, NY
Major: Music
Accepted: UChicago (EA)
Rejected: N/A
Waitlisted: N/A
Deferred: N/A
EA/ED: UChicago
Sex: F
Race: Caucasian
Unweighted GPA: My school doesn’t do GPAs, but my average is about a 92.5%
Weighted GPA: See above
Class Rank: School doesn’t rank either
SAT I: 2210 (740CR, 680M, 790W)
SAT II: N/A (Chicago doesn’t look at them)
ACT: Didn’t take
AP: Latin Poetry (4), Calculus AB (2007), English Literature (2007)
Essays: I think they were very solid.
Extra-curriculars:
- Juilliard School Pre-College student from 8th - 12th grades
- Principal bassist of Juilliard orchestras each year
- Perfect scores on juries at Juilliard for 4 years
- Founder/Editor of Juilliard newspaper
- Fencing team at school
- Awards at summer program at Oxford University
- Substitute bassist in two professional orchestras
- Mentoring program at school
- Studies in the summer with bassists in the Boston Symphony
- Assistant principal of summer orchestra at Tanglewood
- Independent study course at school in composition/ history of requiems
I find it interesting looking at those who got into HYPSM. Most seem to have rather unbalanced resumes, either amazing stats and a few ecs or amazing ecs and average stats. Those that were really good (but not amazing) in both got rejected. I guess thats what I got out of all of this…would i be off the mark?
Cosmos…wow on your musical accomplishments! Wow!!
In at JMU… waiting to hear back from everywhere else
3.4 Weighted
690 Math
670 Crit
660 Writing
Good Luck to everyone!
Black Male
GPA: 4.190 weighted…3.75 unweighted
ACT: 27
SAT II’s : 610 Biology 600 Math I
Rank: 15/234
Extracurricular Activities
-Multicultural Student Alliance- President
-Spanish Club- President
-100 hrs of community service- tutoring children
-Work at grocery store -15hrs/week during school year ( I hope that counts for something)
-Summer internship-Dept of ED. 40hrs a week for 10 weeks
-a couple of summer programs
-I served on my school’s board which was like a 3 yr process
-yearbook club
Ive done a couple of other things but you get the picture.
-also i’m in an accelerated program where I get a scholarship to my HS
University of Miami (EA)-accepted w/ money
Elon University-accepted w/ money
U pitt-accepted w/ money
UMBC-accepted
Hampton-accepted
St. Joe’s-accepted w/ money
Boston College (EA)-deferred
UNC-Chapel Hill (EA)-deferred
UVA-applied (first choice)
Vanderbilt-applied
Cornell-applied
Princeton-applied
Michigan-applied
Country: USA
State: Kansas
Major: Neuroscience
Accepted: Pomona College (attending), Wichita State University, University of Kansas
Rejected: NA
Waitlisted: NA
Deferred: NA
EA/ED: Pomona College
Sex: Female
Race: African American
Unweighted GPA: 4.00
Weighted GPA: 4.21
Class Rank: 1/255
SAT I: 2030 (660CR, 680M, 690W)
SAT II: NA
ACT: 33 (Pomona didn’t see this score tho and admitted me ED with a 29)
AP: APUSH - 4
Awards:
-National Achivement Semifinalist (find out if I’m a finalist soon)
-Questbridge College Prep Scholarship winner
-Questbridge College Match Scholarship finalist and winner
-DAR Good Citizen,
-AMC schoolwide winner 9-11
-AIME qualifier 11
-National Honor Roll
-Ventures Scholar
Employment: None yet, but I’m a Kansas Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) and in class to be a CMA (Certified Medication Aide)
Extra-curriculars:
Scholars Bowl - Varsity Captain
Health Occupation Students of America (HOSA) - Chapter President and State Historian
National Honor Society - President
Country: USA
State: OH
Major: History
Accepted: Yale (attending), UMich (w/ $$)
Rejected: –
Waitlisted: –
Deferred: –
EA/ED: Yale
Sex: F
Race: white
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.7
Class Rank: top 5%
SAT I: 2360
SAT II: 800 USH, 800 Chem, 800 IIC
ACT: n/a
AP: 5’s on 7 exams
Awards: Regional/State/Natl Debate awards, AIME, NChO, Natl Merit, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Mock Trial awards, etc.
Employment: Internships…one at a local Uni, one in DC
Extra-curriculars: Debate (Captain, coach),
singing (several choirs),
newspaper (Editor-in-chief),
politics,
music in general,
theater,
NHS,
Mock Trial (exec. board),
over 100 hrs community service
leadership positions in several more minor clubs as well…
impressive stats
Country: US
State: CA
Major: Politics, Philosophy, Econ
Accepted: Pomona College (ED) / attending
Rejected: –
Waitlisted: –
Deferred: –
EA/ED: Pomona
Sex: F
Race: White
Unweighted GPA: 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Class Rank: top 4%
SAT I: 2230
SAT II: 740, 720
ACT: –
AP: 5 - APUSH, 5 - APStat, 4 - APCalc, 4 - AP Lang
Awards:
-Many, many debate awards
-Literary Magazine 1st place writing contests
-All-American Academic Award
-Science Fair, regional
Employment:
- Debate instructor (summer job)
- Tutor
Extra-curriculars: - Debate, debate, debate! (VP Student Affairs)
- Literary Magazine (Editor in Chief)
- Junior Statesmen (President)
Accepted: Princeton
Rejected: None
SAT 1: 2220 (720 M, 800 CR, 700 W)~one sitting beginning of jr year
SAT 2: 790 US History, 750 Chem, 740 Bio, 730 Lit
APs: 5 US History, 5 Euro, 4 Chem (taking 8 more this year)
GPA/Class rank: 1/400
EC’s: student school board representative, mock trial lawyer, newspaper editor, spanish nhs vice president, cross country, spring track, science/physics league, community service, habitiat for humanity vice president, nsh tutor
Work Exp: freelance web designer
this is inresponse to dvlfnfv5-
what do u think helped u into umich, i have similar stats and its one of me top choices
Applied: NYU (stern)
Accepted: NYU (stern)
GPA uw- 3.89
GPA w- 4.54
SAT- 2260 (770 m, 700 cr, 790 wr)
SAT II- math1c: 800
math IIc: 760
chem: 760
Copied from my resume:
Achievement History
National Latin Exam: Two Gold Medals (Latin 1,2), 1 Silver Medal (Latin 3)
Bronze Medal in New Jersey Statewide Latin Competition at Montclair State University
National Merit Commended Student
Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar
Collegeboard AP Scholar
New Jersey State Certified EMT-B
National Society for High School Scholars
National Honor Society
Columbia University High School Chemistry Seminars
Majority of Courses: Honors and AP
Honor Roll: Every Semester
Extracurricular Activities/Athletic Achievements
Varsity Ultimate Frisbee (2004-2007)
Country: USA!USA!USA!
State: Virginia, Jim Webb country
Major: Economics, switching to Accounting
Applied:
William & Mary (ED for econ)
Wisconsin-Madison (Econ)
Notre Dame (EA for Econ)
Purdue (Krannert for Econ)
Illinois-Urbana Champaign (Accounting)
Deferred: UIUC cancelled app
Accepted: everywhere but UIUC
GPA UW: 3.50
GPA W: 3.74
SAT: 2120 (660 CR 710M 750 W)
SAT II: 790 Math IIC (aargh) withdrew my world history one
ECs
Varsity football (we won conference, got to state semifinals where we promptly lost 42-2)
Chinese school from since 1997 (again, aargh) as student and volunteer
Band (Marching, concert) performed in national competitions/ section leader, first chair, blah blah blah
All District Tuba 2 years
Volunteer at local community center
I work hard for the money (Boston Market~)
Founded club, on It
accepted ED at Dartmouth
would have also applied to: princeton, yale, williams, bowdoin, haverford, notre dame, and villanova
school: catholic, all girls
state: MA
race: caucasion
GPA: unweighted A- weighted A+
rank: N/A
SATs:
CR 800
W 750
M 730
SATIIs:
bio (M) 730
math IIC 750
us history 730
ACT: 32
APs:
english language 4
spanish language 4
bio 4
us history 5
(still to take english lit, spanish lit, calc AB, and us gov)
ECs:
lots of singing and acting
model UN
campus ministry
Awards:
prize in chorale gr 10
national merit commendation
AP scholar with honor
Summers:
gr 10 – one month in spain (exeter academy program) studying spanish/spanish history
gr 11 – one month in argentina working for habitat for humanity
gr 12 – 6 weeks in china taking classes at a university
Supplemental material:
cd of me singing
essay about what dartmouth means to me (they didnt ask for one)
probably forgetting lots more… hope this is helpful!!!
Country: USA
State: Alaska, Anchorage
Major: Electrical Engineering
Accepted:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, with merit aid
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, merit aid pending
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, with merit aid
Illinois Institute of Technology, with merit aid
Rejected: None
GPA UW: 3.75
Rank: 11/44
SAT: 1910 (680 CR 660M 570 W)
SAT II: none submitted (690 bio-m, 670 math-2)
ECs
Student Government Rep, Treasurer, two years
School Government Rep, two years
Amateur radio general license
Engineering internship
Siemens competition, cool unrelated electronics projects
350+ volunteer hours at science museum
Model UN, two years
Karate, three years
Gym hockey, two years
Awards:
No real awards, I listed an intramural card house building contest.
Lucky: How did you get into Penn with such an average (read: mediocre) transcript?
I realize that all you guys love posting / reading stats, but did you know theres a really simple site to help. Its <a href=“http://www.collegedata.com%5B/url%5D”>www.collegedata.com</a>, i used it a lot. its awesome. its a LOT easier than this way
yeah this is pretty cool, except all the schools i type in give me exactly the same chances ie. jhu, cornell, northwestern. how accurate is this thing?