public magnet in TX
white female (jewish)
GPA 3.8uw 4.15w
Class Rank 32/350
Test Scores
SAT – 730M 700CR 770W
SAT II Math IIC – 800 Physics – 720 Literature - 720
Extracurriculars & Awards
German Club secretary for 3 years + nat’l german exam + german state awards
Latin club secretary / Certamen team + NLE
Aikido (martial art) 3rd kyu
Fencing (for lots of hours)
programming team / computer-club-thing
summer job programming
Results
Carnegie Mellon - accepted (both SCS and HSS)
University of Rochester - accepted (+ $10k)
Brown - waitlisted
Brandeis - waitlisted
Yale - rejected
Stanford - rejected
Comments
I am very happy with the way all of my college-related stuff worked out. I chose my schools carefully and put effort into my applications. Even with the rejections, I could not be happier with the whole application process. I agree with cheesenips about starting early. Write some practice essays the summer before - not ones to send, just to start writing. One practice essay turned out to be the essay I was most proud of. Also, I think it is really important to start looking at schools early jr. year. Being certain of where you would be happy going cuts out a lot of work and heartache later in the process.
RESULTS (in order of interest)
Swarthmore College: rejected ED
Amherst College: rejected
University of Pennsylvania: rejected
Vassar College: accepted & attending
Haverford College: waitlisted
Ursinus College: accepted with a 17.5K/year merit scholarshio
Franklin & Marshall College: accepted with a 12K/year merit scholarship
GENERAL INFORMATION
School Type: private
Location: southern Connecticut
Race/Gender: white female
Prospective Major: neuroscience (also expressed interest in a history minor/potential double major)
Unweighted GPA: 3.80
Weighted GPA: 4.28
AP Courses: US History (4), Biology (4), European History, Spanish Literature, English Literature, Calculus AB
Class rank: 1/60 but my school doesn’t formally rank
SAT SCORES
SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 710
SAT II Literature: 720
SAT II U.S. History: 750
SAT II Math IC: 720
SAT II Biology-M: 640
EXTRACURRICULARS & AWARDS
~ 4 year Varsity Field Hockey Team member & letter winner along with 1 year captain & Coaches’ Award winner
~ School Scholar for 6/7 semesters (1 semester on the High Honor Roll)
~ DAR Silver Medal in US History
~ Cum Laude as a junior
~ 2 year member of the school paper staff & 1 year editor-in-chief
~ 4 year Model UN member
~ Library volunteer
~ 2 year Spanish National Contest top 10 in Connecticut
~ National Merit Commended Student
~ 4 year choir member
I stopped reading after the first 10 pages because I literally grew sick to my stomach looking at all the stats and competition. You guys are simply amazing though. Great job and congratulations!
Shrivats, how did you not get accepted at all those school? Its kind of funny because you got accepted at Northwestern and I got waitlisted there but you also got rejected at Cornell but I got accepted there?! Crazy…
cheesenips, thanks for providing that piece of advice. “For you juniors, try to start your college applications in the summer before senior year.” it means alot to me. you got into some really good schools congrats
Public high in NJ
Asian male
GPA 3.9uw 4.91w
Class Rank 7/280
Test Scores
SAT – 790M 700CR 730W
SAT II Math IIC – 800 Chem – 780 Bio - 770
Extracurriculars & Awards
RPI science medal
varsity debate (captain)
model UN (officer)
varsity tennis
columbia science honors program
science research (wrote and sent in my paper)
science league
math league (president)
comm. service
those were the main ones… had some other stuff not significant enough to type up
Results
Columbia-accepted
Rice-accepted
Northwestern-accepted
WashU-accepted
Uchicago-accepted
Rutgers- accepted
Caltech-rejected
Yale-rejected
most likely attending columbia
Comments
Pretty happy with my results, especially with columbia. I doubt I could have done any better, especially since I’m an asian male
Public High School in NYC Suburb
Hispanic Male
GPA (uw) / GPA (w): 3.97 / 4.31
Class Rank: 4/612
Test Scores
SAT I: Math 790 | Critical Reading 730 | Writing 740 | Essay 11
SAT II: Physics 750 | Spanish 760 | Math I 770 | Math II 800
ACT: 33
Extracurriculars
VP of Key Club (volunteer club for local community)
News Editor of School Paper
Academic League competitor (ranked first in regional)
Young Democrats (Executive Board Member)
Math Lab Research
Internship at Engineering Firm
Cellist
Six Honor Societies (Foreign Language, Mathematics, Social Studies, English, Science, National)
Courseload (score)
11 APs (14 offered at HS)
AP English Lang (5)
AP English Lit (havent taken yet)
AP Physics C (Mech) (5)
AP Chemistry (havent taken yet)
AP Biology (5)
AP U.S. History (5)
AP European History (5)
AP Spanish Lang (5)
AP Spanish Lit (4)
AP Calculus AB (5)
AP Calculus BC (havent taken yet)
College Decisions
Accepted
Harvard
Yale
Columbia (Fu Foundation SEAS)
MIT
Caltech
Waitlisted
None
Rejected
Princeton
Comments: I was very pleased with my acceptances, considering I was very pessimistic on where I would be offered admissions. I am still uncertain on where exactly I will be going
Accepted: U of Michigan-Ann Arbor, U of Illinois-Urbana, U of Wisconsin-Madison, Penn State
Wait listed: U of Virginia
Rejected: U of North Carolina, College of William and Mary(No!!!)
plan to major in Biochemistry
International Student (Korean)
Went to Catholic High school in Ohio
Has been in US for 3 years
SAT I: 800M 590R 580W
SAT II: 790 Math 2c, 630 Chemistry, 580 Biology Yeah it was bad
Toefl: 106
GPA: 3.93 Rank: 2/29
No AP or honor class (our school is too small to offer these)
ECs: little bit of sports, Key club(president), Web team, Book Club
Award: 2nd place in county math competition
Essays: pretty good
Recommendations: good
SAT: 720 Verbal 750 Writing 650 Math (2120 new scale / 1370 old scale)
SAT II: Literature - 680 Chemistry - 590
GPA: 3.65 (weighted) on a 3.85 scale (my school is weird!)
Class rank: 7 / 193 (top 3%)
AP Exams: Chemistry - 2 English - 5
National Merit Scholarship Commendation
Dual high school program. I go to a regular high school in the morning and a magnet school of arts in the afternoon until 4:15 (study Creative Writing there). Earned me a total of 34 credits instead of the required 22.
Summer program at Wesleyan University
Poetry class at Trinity College
Chemistry class at University of Connecticut
10+ hours of community service per week
Publication in Trinity College’s Lit. Mag.
I’m poor and not a legacy to any of these schools. I declared English as my major on all applications and checked Caucasian for ethnicity.
Schools:
Brandeis University - Accepted
Brown University - Rejected
Columbia University - Rejected
Dartmouth College - Rejected
Georgetown University - Accepted
Johns Hopkins University - Accepted
New York University - Accepted
Trinity College - Accepted
University of Connecticut - Accepted into Honors Program
Vassar College - Rejected
Wesleyan University (top choice) - Rejected
Omg Scabooter, you and I are a lot alike. . .
I also had Writing & Verbal SATs in the 700s and the Math in the 600s, and I also attend a dual high school program. . .also for Creative Writing!
I’m poor & a non-legacy too. I’m really interested in Johns Hopkins as well. Did you emphasize your interest in writing on your applications?
School Type: Magnet
Location: Maine
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Bio/Physics
Unweighted GPA: N/A
Weighted GPA: N/A
Class rank: Does not rank: but probably 2 of ~25
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 750
SAT I Critical Reading: 750
SAT I Writing: 660
SAT II Scores
SAT II Chemistry: 740
SAT II Math IIC: 800
Accepted: Harvard (Attending), University of Virginia, Emory, Vanderbilt, Boston University, Syracuse
Waitlisted: Washington University in St. Louis
Rejected: Georgetown, Cornell
SAT: 2200 (730 cr, 770 m, 700 w)
SAT II: 700 Bio M, 800 Math II, 790 US Hist
GPA: 3.79 unweighted but with a ton of AP and honors classes
Rank: Top 20% but not exactly disclosed
National Merit Scholar (224)
Three 5s on AP Tests
Varsity Track and Cross Country Captain
National Honor Society President
Music, Drama Invovement
Community Service (money raised for national NM society)
Model UN (with one award)
Location: New Jersey
School: Small Public
Sex: Male
Race: White/Jewish
Yeah it was bad
