iowejf- Yeah, my rank was probably the weak point in my app, along with my average ECs. Especially since I had no community service. I still did fine though, I got into some of my top choices.
Attending: Sewanee: The University of the South
Sewanee: Accepted
Roanoke College: Accepted
Hampden-Sydney College: Accepted
Lynchburg College: Accepted
University of Mary Washington: Accepted (forced by alumni mother)
Gettysburg College: Waitlisted
I had a 3.4, scored 1370/2040, was a track/XC recruit, Eagle Scout, did some community service with Youth Group…
I also had some alumni connections at Sewanee and UMW.
As of last Friday I’ve taken 9 APs. Also have taken college-level courses. Rank just inside top 20% of class (school has an alarming dropout rate but routinely has three or four Ivy Leaguers/Dukies per year)
ACCEPTED: Harvard (Attending), Yale, Princeton, UofChicago, Brown
REJECTED: MIT, Columbia, Standford
School Type: horrible public(highly “ghetto”)
Gender/Ethnicity: Male/African American
SAT I: 2350 ( 800 V, 800 W, 750 M)
GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.9/5.0 W
SAT II: 800 Lit., 790 Chem., 800 Bio
Rank: 1/450
10th Grade courses(the important ones):
<pre><code> Advanced Chemistry- A+
Advanced English- A+
Honors Global History- A+
French III- A+
Advanced Alg.II- A+
</code></pre>
11th Grade Courses: AP American History- A+
AP Statistics- A+
AP Chemistry- A+
Advanced English A+
Pre-calc. - A+
Psychology- A+
Philosophy (at Drexel U.) A+
Advanced French- A+
12th Grade Courses: AP Calc - A+
AP Biology- A+
AP psychology - A+
AP English Lit. - A+
AP French - A+
Accounting II - A+
Anatomy & Physiology - A+
8 AP courses(score): US history(5), Chem.(5), Statistics(4), Calc.(5),
French(5), Biology(5), English(5), Psychology(5)
ECs: Track, Newspaper Editor, NHS president, Student Body V. Pres, Volunteer at Hospital, AIDS/Cancer medical research, Hi-Q team captain, raised money(over $5,000) for children in Africa who need serious medical attention), other stuff…
Excellent Essay: about my Fundraiser for children in Africa and my medical research
Excellent rec. from Mentally Gifted Coordinator
Howww did u get rejected from anywhere!? lol
Congrats on Harvard and the other schools tho!
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I call BS. No safeties? Yeah, ok…
lol damn I think ur right. He only has one post so I doubt this was the first thread that he just conveniently found. I wish I could delete my other post! lol
Attending: UCLA
Accepted: Berkeley, UCI(Full scholarship), UCSD, UCR(Full scholarship), USC
Rejected: Harvey Mudd
GPA: 4.17W/3.93UW/4.25UC
SAT: 1890(770M/580R/540W)
SAT 2: 790Math2/710Chemistry/700US History
ACT: 31(35Math/33Reading/30English/27Science)
AP: Calculus AB5/Chemistry4/US History3
Senior Schedule - AP US Gov’t/Macroeconomics/Calculus BC/Physics B
Extracurriculars - ASB, Academic Decathlon(medals), Band(Drum major/Flute section leader), CSF, Science Olympiad(student coach,medals), Hospital volunteer, Rose Float decorator
South Korean International needing financial aid
Class of 2011
Accepted: Princeton, Cornell
Waitlisted: Yale
Rejected: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech
Attending: Princeton (w/ $38000/yr financial aid)
Full IB Diploma student, predicted 43/45
GPA: 96%
Rank: 1/109
SAT I: 2260 (M800, CR710, W750)
SAT II: M2 800, Physics 800, Chem 790
Extracurriculars: varsity basketball, community service (vice-president of two youth organizations), science/math competitions (regional, provincial awards), biomedical research, grad council (treasurer), tutor, orchestra (1st trumpet), etc.
Figgy and LosLobos - there are indeed students who have the stuff and don’t necessarily need to apply to safeties. Albeit, I think it’s always a good idea to apply to a safety, no matter how good your stats are. But, I do have a friend who had been doing scientific research at Illinois and won Intel; she applied to three schools: Stanford, Prineton, and Harvard. She got into all three and is attending Stanford. So, there are kids who are very smart and have accessed the resources they needed to pursue their passions (pardon the cliche) and ultimately fare very well in the admissions process. However, these kinds of cases only usually exist in sports, music/arts, and science/math.
ok…Doesnt matter what theyve done, everyone should apply to safeties.
Oh, I agree; I’m just trying to put light upon why some choose not to, and may not have needed to.
Please, would some average students give their stats?
I already posted mine a few pages back, but:
Accepted: Boston University EDI CGS, UMass-Amherst
Rejected: University of Pittsburgh (in state too)
Waitlisted: Indiana University-Bloomington (I put business down)
Attending: Boston University 
School Type: Top Public
Location: Pennsylvania
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Major: Marketing
Stats:
SAT: 1700s 
GPA: 3.3±
Rank: Doesnt rank, but ~top 40%
AP: NONE
ECs:
Community Service
Baseball coach for mentally/physically handicapped kids (Wrote my essays on this)
Community service in Israel at the Haifa Zoo
Hebrew school teacher
I’m pretty average
Accepted- Binghamton, Marist, Bucknell, Lafayette, University of Rochester, Wesleyan(attending)
Rejected- Colgate, Williams, AMherst, Swarthmore
SAT:2090
CR-730
Math- 640
Writing- 720
SAT II
Bio 730
US History- 770
APs
US- 5
Senior
Psych
Bio
Lit
Calc
no 4.0 scale
97.03 average 18 out of 214
ECs- Varsity XC, indoor track, and Spring track 3 years
Interact
Band, orchestra 2 years
NHS
Community Service- hospital dog shelter
My reccommendations were probably killer
essays decent
I got rejected from my reaches which I was prepared for but I was a little ticked at getting into Wes and not Colgate, I didn’t interview for any of them except Rochester, probably should have done that
Accepted: University of Pennsylvania (attending), University of Chicago, Northwestern (Founders scholarship), Washington University in St. Louis, University of Kansas, Kansas State University
Waitlisted: Georgetown School of Foreign Service (didn’t accept a spot on the waitlist)
Rejected: Yale
School type: Public
Location: KS
Race Gender: Caucasian/Female
Major: Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Stats:
SAT: 2340 (CR 800, M 740, W 800)
SAT II: Lit 750, US history 730, Math I 650
Rank: 1/369 (4.0 unweighted/4.75 weighted)
APs: US- 5, Language and Composition- 5, (Senior: US Gov, Chem, Lit)
ECs:
Debate (Vice President, 4 years), Forensics (Vice President, 4 years), Model U.N. (Captain, 4 years), Student Speakers Bureau, Newspaper (copy editor), Private violin lessons (7 years), Student Ambassadors (2 years), Student Council (2 years), National Forensics League (Vice President), Girl Scouts(11 years), NHS
Awards
Debate and Forensics awards on the state level, National Forensics League All American, Various school awards, Presidential Service Award for 5 years, Silver Award in Girl Scouts
there are more that I can’t remember off the top of my head.
Yale rejected you? Wow, do you know why? Your stats look excellent!
Hey sarahc - we could hang out!
I guess I’ll post my friend’s stats:
Accepted: all the HYPMS (Harvard EA), Rice, UT (latter two with full rides)
Rejected: Cornell – no idea why
Attending: Harvard & MIT joint program for biomed
School type: Public
Location: NC
Race: Asian
Stats:
SAT: 2350 (CR 800, M 800, W 750)
SAT II: 800s on Math I, Math II, Chem, USH
GPA: 4.0/4.0
APs: 5s on 5 of them, and a 4 on 1
ECs:
Debate Team (state champs)
Project leader for Niger Poverty Community Service Program
Founder and President, Science National Honor Society
Robotics Team (junior & senior years)
RSI (summer after junior year)
Awards:
Tomorrow25
Siemens Regional Finalist
Coke Scholarship
USABO finalist
bunch of other more random and less important stuff
Hooks:
did lots of research on stems cells, etc.
knew professors at Harvard & MIT from summer programs
Here’s a quick one
School: Public
State: CA
Accepted: UC Irvine, UC Davis, Cal Poly Slo, Santa Clara University, UC Santa Barbara
Rejected: U Texas- Austin, Cal, UCLA, USC
Attending: CCC hopefully transferring to USC in a year
GPA: 3.75 (uw)
SAT: 1970 (630 CR, 710 M, 630 W)
SAT II: Terrible I can’t recall off the top of my head but both under 650 (US History, Math 2C)
Wow…this is the most useful thread I’ve found on this entire forum so far…seeing what the successes are instead of what the hopeful’s are is really useful, thanks alot