Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[woodchuck]

Accepted: UC Davis, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley (Regent’s Scholarships for all the UCs), Brown University, Cornell University, UPenn, Dartmouth, Amherst, and Duke

Rejected from: Princeton, Stanford (SCEA deferred first), and Harvard (my top three choices, boo hoo)

Waitlisted: None

Horrible Public School (Haven’t sent an Ivy League student in years)
Ethnicity: Asian
Income: Dad makes > $100,000
GPA: 4.68 (4.0 unweighted)
Rank: 3/540 (because of deflated Debate & Acadec grades)
SAT: 2310 (picked and chosen)
SAT IIs: Korean: 740 (that REALLY sucked… average was 742), Chemistry: 750, Math IIC: 800, USH: 750, Math IC: 800

Subjective:
-Essays: Pretty good, but all my “why here” ones were the same, lol
-Interviews: all of them were good EXCPET for Duke. I got REALLY screwed over, so I was pretty surprised when I made it, haha

-Debate: 9, 10 (PF Captain/Treasurer), 11 (PF Captain/President), 12 (PF Captain/VP), Went to State Championships in Dual
-Model United Nations: 11, 12 (Founder and Secretary General)
-CSF: 9, 10, 11, 12 (VP)
-Writers’ Club: 11, 12 (Cofounder and VP for both years)
-Christian Club: 10, 12 (Board)
-NHS: 11, 12
-Church Praise Leader: 10, 11, 12(lead guitar)
-Cross Country for two years and Track for one
-Student intern at the Superior Courthouse 12

Volunteer Activities:
-Local hospital 9, 10, 11,
-the courthouse 11,
-church (Lead the praise band on guitar) 9, 10, 11, 12.

Here is my senior year schedule:
0 Debate
1 Gov/Econ AP
2 Calculus B/C AP
3 Music THeory AP
4 Environmental AP
5 English AP
6 Cross Country (dropped now/season over)
7 Academic Decathlon (dropped now/season over)
8 World History AP (independent)

-National Merit Finalist
-County of Los Angeles Volunteer of the Year Award (11)
-International Korean Oratory Contest Winner in Korea (9)
-National Forensics League with Distinction Degree
-State Qualifier for debate in Dual Interpretation (11)
-Dosan Anchangho Korean Writing Contest winner (9)
-Undefeated Public Forum Debater Trophy (11)
-Academic Letter (11)
-SHS Scholarship Fund winner (11)
-multiple trophies in other debate forms
-passed Level Advanced of Certificate of Merit for piano twice (10, 11)
-finished Level of Proficiency in Korean 4/5
-Student of Month x 2
-various Academic Achievements in all core subjects
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-Had the highest score at Scrimmage (12). Bronze Medals in Essay, Art, Interview, and Mathematics. Silver Medals for Speech, Music, and Superquiz. Gold Medal for Overall Highest Scorer for my school

AP scores: 4 on Chemistry, 3 on Physics, and 5’s on USH, Psychology, Calculus A/B

[TheIndividual]

Accepted: Washington University in St. Louis, Northwestern University, Rutgers Honors (w/ scholarship)
Waitlisted: University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University
Rejected: None

GPA: 3.784 UW, 4.430 W [Very Competitive Public]
SAT: 730 M 740 CR 640W (Essay: 11)

SAT II:
Math IIC: 720
Chemistry: 710

AP Scores
Chemistry 5
US History 4

EC
Freshman Summer-- Took classes at local community college
Sophomore Summer – UPenn PreCollege Program
Junior Summer – took a class at my state university/ Shadowed General Internist Hospital Specialist at Brigham and Womens Hospital (Harvard Med Teaching Affiliate )

***Also I am researching with a professor at Rutgers. We are trying to find a correlation between cortical asymmetry (depression) and hypertension/heart disease using a electroencephalogram and a pulse/blood pressure monitor. I think this is pretty unique

Model UN (10,11,12)
–Have attended numerous national conferences in Model UN and have won several Individual (national) Awards – As many of you MUNers know, winning at large conferences is no easy feat (This includes “Best Delegate” awards as well)
–My school’s MUN team is the best MUN team in the state
– Placed first several times at my High School’s ‘mock’ model united nations conferences.

-I was lucky enough to receive a New Jersey Legislature Citation of Praise and Commendation for my Community Service

-I shadow General Internists every weekend at the Best Hospital in New Jersey

200+ hours of volunteering at Nursing Home
National Math Honors Society (11,12)
National Spanish Honors Society (11,12)
JV Lacrosse (9,10)

[ReInventor]

Accepted: SUNY Geneseo (Will attend!), Bard College, Hampshire College, Sarah Lawrence College, Syracuse University, University of Vermont, SUNY Binghamton, SUNY New Paltz.
Waitlisted: Vassar College, Oberlin College
Rejected: Wesleyan University

Gender: F
Location: New York
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 3.90
GPA - Weighted: 4.00
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 300

Scores:

SAT I Math: 600
SAT I Critical Reading: 790
SAT I Writing: 730
SAT II Literature: 730
SAT II Biology - M: 720

Extracurriculars:

Significant Extracurriculars: Bassoon (Band, Orchestra, Small Ensembles, Area All-State, Community Orchestras, 100 NYSSMA Score, etc.), Vocal (Highly selective choir and selective small ensemble), Bass Clarinet (Marching band), Literary Magazine Club, Respect Comittee, Cultural Awareness Club, Educational Equity and Diversity Club.
Leadership positions: Conserve Our Wildlife Club President
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Okinawa-Te Karate, Junior Black Belt (8+ years experience)
Volunteer/Service Work: ESL Student Tutor, Literacy Program Tutor
Honors and Awards: Student of the Week (Music [x2], English [x2], Science, Social Studies, Phys. Ed [x2].), High Honor Roll, NYSSMA Score of 100, 1st Bassoon Area All-State Band, Social Studies Award, essay published.
College Summer programs: Exploration Summer Programs (At Yale, 2006)

Things didn’t really work out for me. All these stupid extracurriculars seem like a waste now.

[generalobserver]

Accepted: UMich Honors, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn/Wharton, Northwestern, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Duke

Denied: Stanford SCEA deferral, then denial

Waitlisted: Yale

Objective:

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown):760 V 780 M 800 W (2340)

• SAT II: 800 MathII, 790 U.S. History, 770 Chem
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 BC Calc, 5 U.S. History, 5 Gov, 4 Chem
• Senior Year Course Load: I finished my schools math curriculum as a junior (through multivar calc) but 5 ap’s.
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st Place State Science Fair, Intel ISEF finalist.
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Subjective:

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars : Varsity Debate Award Winner, Varsity Cross Country (Captain), Varsity Tennis (Captain), Community Service Club (Co-President), Science Fairs.

• Job/Work Experience: Tutoring
• Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring, etc, etc.
• Summer Activities: JSA, Summer Science Program
• Essays: About how although I am focused, I am successful in several very different areas.
• Teacher Recommendation: Both were very good, probably couldn’t have been better.
• Counselor Rec: She loves me.
• Additional Rec: Astronomer from UCLA who worked with me at SSP over the summer.
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Other

<pre><code>* School Type: Large public

• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Percentile: Probably top 5 out of 750
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Comments: I am very happy and will most likely be attending Princeton in the fall.

[TarHeel3007]

for class of 2012: Accepted: duke (likely letter), unc-ch ($5K), princeton
rejected: HYS
waitlisted: penn, swarthmore

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 780 M, 750 CR, 780 W, 11 E
ACT: n/a
SAT II: 790 Math 2, 760 Chem, 720 USH, 660 French Lang
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (w/o 2nd sem…)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):somewhere inside top 10/370–not too sure
AP (place score in parenthesis):BC Calc (5), AP Env Sci (5), US govt and poli 4, AP Chem (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C (double pd–counts as 2 APs), Multivariable Calc @ unc (1st sem), honors english, AP French lang, AP Stat
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): haha none unless ap scholar w/honor counts

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): too lazy to list, but a lot i guess–co-prez of Asian club, Prez Env club, captained bball, chinese school, most activities were at least 3 years-most 4 years
Job/Work Experience:none
Volunteer/Community service: hospital volunteer, special olympics asst coach
Summer Activities: china to visit relatives, volunteering, JSA session @ pton,
Essays: influential person (long–i used Homer), i thought they were creative. couple of my short essays, i wrote about how i love bball and march madness (2 paragraphs total); worked on my long essay for ever–thought of the idea like near end of jr year.
Teacher Recommendation:i’d say really good cuase my teachers like me, but you never really know…although my math teacher told me he wrote a really unique rec
Counselor Rec:i feel liek it was good–he was my JV bball coach and varsity asst coach
Additional Rec: probly really good cuase she loves me
Interview:not bad for YP, terrible for H–1st one

Other
State (if domestic applicant):NC
School Typeublic
Ethnicity: asian
Gender:F
Income Bracket:not sure but no free $
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): just about every thing that’s not a hook cept female for engineering and i wnet to JSA @ P

Reflection[list][<em>] Strengths: im an azn who plays bball? (but not recruited) hahah. im a recycling fiend.
[</em>] Weaknesses:no nat’l awards, im asian,
[*] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i have no clue cuase i did write none for a lot of these blanks. i wished on the clock the morning before…im still speechless and sooo shocked i got into P. i do know that the stupid legacy girl @ my school who said she is “1/8” NA got the Stanford acceptance over everyone–even the kid who has liek 4 generations of legacy and like half his family there. disappoitned i wasnt even WL @ S ccuase i loved my Stanford app

[emidac]

Applied to: GA Tech, U Illinois, UT Austin, U Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Stanford
Got in: GA Tech, U Illinois (Honors), Carnegie Mellon, Stanford (Full Ride… Will be Attending)
Denied Cornell, UT Austin (They claimed I was too late? I would disregard this for chance purposes)
U Michigan still hasn’t told me **** but I could care less at this point. They should really tell people earlier if they want to keep their good applicants.
Major: Civil Engineering
Hispanic Male
1st Generation College Student
HS: Bergen County Academies Extremely Competitive (1 of 2 Intel Schools of Distinction in USA)
Full Honors Classes
AP Physics C, AP Calculus (in between AB and BC), AP Statistics Many Engineering Related Classes
GPA: 3.5
SAT: 710M 720CR 700W Totals: 1430 // 2130
SAT Subject: MathIIC 640 Retook for 780 Spanish w/ Listening 690
We don’t rank but honestly mine is probably quite low
Weekly Internship at large engineering // construction firm every wednesday of senior year Senator Sarlo is my mentor so that might mean something
Internship also counts as Work XP cuz I get paid… 8hrs/Week
Volleyball 9-12 Varsity 12
I’m 6’ 5" and growing… possible volleyball recruitment … never talked to coaches so I doubt this would affect chancing purposes
Model UN JCC Chair 11-12
Junior Statesman 11-12
Some Math Team 9-12
~100 hours volunteering
National Honor Society 11-12
National Spanish Honor Society 10-12
National Merit Commendation
National Hispanic Recognition Program
Dean’s List 9-12
Honor Roll 9-12

[mrchipmunk90]

Accepted: Vanderbilt University, Villanova University [EA], The College of New Jersey, Loyola College in Maryland, Marist College

Waitlisted: Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, Lehigh University, Boston College

Rejected: UPenn [ED-Wharton], Georgetown

Attending: Probably Vanderbilt, unless I get off the waitlist was Northwestern

Stats:

<pre><code>* SAT I: 2230 [M: 780 CR: 680 W: 770]

• SAT IIs: 800, 770, 660, 630
• ACT: N/A
• GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.8 W
• Rank: 5/28
• Other stats:
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Subjective:

<pre><code>* Essays: Good?

• Teacher Recs: Didn’t read
• Counselor Rec: Generic
• Hook (if any): none
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Location/Person:

<pre><code>* State or Country: NJ

• School Type: Competitive Public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: Male
• Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: idk
• Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: idk
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[dlesk]

Accepted: UPenn Wharton (deferred ED, accepted RD), McGill
Rejected: Nowhere

GPA: 94% (school doesn’t weight, all classes are advanced)

Rank 8/950

SAT: 690 CR 750M 710W 12 essay
SAT 2: 800 math 2, 780 physics, 710 french

Subjective:
Essays: Spend literally 50 hours on them
Teacher Recs: Superb, picked ones that loved me
Counsellor Rec: She didn’t know me
Hook: My own business with 10k a yr revenue, work exp. at law firm
EC’s: trombone in the band, debating, quiz bowl, class president, science journal editor,

Location: Montreal Canada
School Type: Very Competitve Public that you had to apply to
Ethnicity: White
Sex: Male
strenths: for wharton, explained why it was the perfect fit for me and how i wanted to study business as a subject rather than using university to get a job…
weakness: english… i got 77,79,81, and 94 in my english courses and a 690 SAT CR, mind you im a good writer and it showed in the essays

if anyone has questions regarding applying to penn or wharton (or mcgill) feel free to msg me

[ianmtdel]

Accepted: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UCSD, UCD, UCI, UCSB
Rejected : UCLA, Cal Poly SLO, Cornell, Stanford, Princeton, UCB

Asian Male from competitive high school

Stats

SAT
Writing: 670
Critical Reading: 690
Math: 760

SAT Subject Tests:
Math Level 2 790
Chemistry 790
Literature 570 (flu that day)

AP’s
Calc AB 4
Calc BC 3
Literature and Composition 4
Environmental Science 4
Chemistry 4
Physics 5

GPA:
UW: 3.56
Weighted: 3.68

President of Environmental Club
150 Hours Community Service at Hospital and Retirement Home

Essays:
Wrote mostly about my disadvantaged life as an underachieving Asian in an Asian-minded school.
Also wrote about how I know that i am naturally smart but need to be given a chance to do well in school.

Note: Anybody who feels like they are at a dead end just needs to really pour out their heart in the applications. If they say things that are taboo, like I did, you will find a lot more honest results given. Heck, I even got a letter back from the Stanford admissions person who read my paper saying “I like your honesty.”

[Puddly]

Accepted: UPenn CAS, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley (full tuition), UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UCLA (honors program), UC San Diego, NYU (honors program), USC (full ride), University of Washington – Seattle (honors program), San Francisco State, San Jose State
Rejected: Stanford, Princeton, Cornell
Waitlisted Columbia

GPA: 3.85, W: 4.52

Rank Doesn’t rank

SAT: 760CR 740M 730W
SAT 2: 770 Chinese, 700something US History, 650 Lit

Subjective:
Essays: According to the Yale admissions officer, “There was such maturity in the reflection of your essays. :)” My tip: Be honest about yourself; tell them who you really are. Don’t tell them what you think they want you to say; say what you think means the most to you. For my Yale and Harvard additional essays, I wrote about a time when I met an old man at the bus stop, and he started talking to me about his losing battle against cancer. It was honestly the most depressing moment I’ve ever had to endure, and I did not know how to console him. I could have said something cliched and overused that he’s probably heard from nurses a billion times, but I chose not to. Instead, I simply listened, and I think that helped him more than anything I could have said. In essence, you should retell a story/a moment that really shows who you are, even if it isn’t something academic. They know you do well in school; they know you have a bunch of activities – what they want to know is your maturity, and I, being an avid reader and writer, can easily tell if something is forced, so they, being trained admissions officers, will immediately see if you’re forcing maturity. When I first wrote my personal statements, I kept fretting over the fact that my essays weren’t the peak of academia, so I kept changing words and changing structures, and, by editing like that, my essay lost its voice. So, simply, let it flow.
Teacher Recs: Good, I guess?
Counsellor Rec: Fraught with grammar errors.
Hook: Work exp. with a realtor?
EC’s: Debate, MUN, volunteering, school’s honor society, founded own club that raised $150 for a library, tutoring program, fencing, etc.

Location: CA
School Type: Very Competitive Public that had an admissions process like a college’s (You had to write an essay, and they looked at your grades.)
Ethnicity: Chinese
Sex: Female
strengths: I did very well in all my English courses. But when I was doing my essays, I refused to let any teacher look at them – only friends who read it and told me whether it flowed or not – and I guess I was successful in preserving my voice in my essays.
weakness: My lit score. I didn’t bother retaking any of my SAT IIs because I liked SAT I more than the SAT IIs, and I didn’t know that we needed 3 SAT IIs for privates, so I was like, “eh.” Guess it didn’t matter, huh?

[rlm89]

Accepted: dickinson, goucher, sewanee, mary washington (honors program), auburn, ole miss, unca, washington college
Wait-listed: franklin and marshall, rhodes (“high wait listed” - they tell you your rank)
Rejected: american (this was a surprise), vandy, uva, william and mary, washington and lee (early decision)
Attending: dickinson and sewanee and my one and two right now, respectively. we’re just waiting on aid decisions which will really dictate things. if we can’t afford either, i will go to ole miss to study journalism.

GPA: my school does not have gpa’s in the classic sense, nor do they tell you your cumulative high school average. currently, mine is an 89 weighted, 85 unweighted. my grades have been up and down throughout high school, but generally consistent.

Rank: my school does not rank.

SAT: 710 critical reading, 630 math (i know, i know), 650 writing.

Essays: i wrote my common app essay on teaching myself to play guitar in one summer. other essays for supplements were about my passion for writing, my passion for visual art, and an underground newspaper that i started at my school. writing is my “thing”, so i spent a lot of time on my essays.
Teacher Recs: i haven’t seen them, but i’m sure they were great. one of the teachers i chose was one whose class i did not really excel in, but i have a great personal relationship with her.
Counselor Rec: i’m really close with my counselor and he knows me well.
Hook: i’ve done everything i can to further myself in journalism, from internships to my school paper to summer programs.
EC’s: editor of school weekly newspaper, school writing tutor, officer of environmental club, ballet, president of my school’s chapter of the young democrats, school tour guide.
Work experience: 1. internship at local newspaper for two summers. i had about fifteen of my articles published. i sent my schools a portfolio of my work from the internship and from my school paper. 2. internship for a political campaign of a somewhat influential william and mary alum (i applied to w&m). 3. job for my dad’s company.
Courseload:
ENGLISH - two years of ap, two years of honors.
HISTORY - american history, world history, ap comparative politics.
SCIENCE - general bio, physics, honors bio, ap env sci.
MATH - my weakness! geometry, alg II, precalc, pre-engineering (no idea why i signed on for that).
LANGUAGE - up to french 4. i turned down ap because ap french at my school is notoriously killer.
ART - i’ve taken lots and lots of art courses, showing a real interest and passion.
Other: i interview very well, so i suppose that helped.

Location: virginia (not northern).
School Type: a top prep school in pennsylvania.
Ethnicity: i didn’t specify on my apps, but i am white.
Sex: female.

[auraeight]

Accepted: UPenn, Duke, Emory (Emory Scholars semifinalist, Oxford Scholar awardee), Clemson Honors (National Scholar)
Waitlisted: Harvard
Denied: Yale

Location: SC
School Type: midsized public, one of top in SC but that’s really not saying much
Sex: F
Ethnicity: Asian (non URM)

SATI: 2370 superscore from 2 sittings (790V, 780M, 800W)
SATII: 800Math2, 720US, 640Chem
GPA: 4.8something W, not sure what it is UW but it’s not high haha
Rank: 9/330ish when applying, 10 after first semester

EC’s: good amount of tennis honors + captain for 4 years (I think this was my greatest EC achievement), decent leadership, ~350hrs volunteering, summer research with a college professor, some other stuff I’ve completely forgotten haha
Academic Awards/Honors: National Merit Finalist (Semi when applying), AP Scholar with Distinction, some minor local awards

Essays: not very well written IMO, I definitely didn’t put much effort into them
Recs: ehh…let’s just say my teachers/GC weren’t exactly the most brilliant writers out there

Courseload: toughest for my school
AP Results: took a lot, did alright on them

Notes: I didn’t try my hardest in hs…probably could’ve gotten into some better schools if I studied a bit more and bumped my SATII’s and GPA/Rank up and worked harder on my applications. but whatever, I had fun in hs and will have fun in college so it’s all good

[asdfjkl1]

Accepted: cornell, nyu, bu, northeastern, local safety, public university honors, franklin and marshall.
Rejected: none.
Attending: public/cornell in a year.

GPA: 3.85
Rank: top 10%.
SAT II: 790 US, 730 World. Bad for spanish.
ACT: 30.

Essays: Incredibly honest and sincere.
Teacher Recs: Good?
Counselor Rec: Very good?
Hook: …No.
EC’s: fbla, tennis, model un, religion. Lots of leadership/awards.
Work experience: A lot.

Courseload: Much less impressive than it looks. A few APs (light for my school) + College Credit + Some Regulars.
AP Results: 5s on USHistory/World. 3 on Composition.

Location: ny.
School Type: public.
Ethnicity: white.
Sex: female.

Notes: great interview for cornell.

[afro_ninj4]

Accepted: Penn State, Virginia Tech, University of Delaware, George Mason (accepted to Honors College)
Waitlisted: UVA
Rejected: Cornell

Full ride offers from Virginia Tech and Penn State. Attending Penn State

GPA: 3.6 uw/ 4.0w
Rank: top 18%.
SAT II: 670 US, 520 Math I (forgot calc)
ACT: 27.

Essays: varied in quality
Teacher Recs: avg
Counselor Rec: avg
Hook: URM
EC’s: lots
Work experience: lots

Courseload: Somewhat rigorous

Location: va.
School Type: public.
Ethnicity: black/puerto rican.
Sex: male.

[LindseyM33]

Accepted: univ. of southern california, univ. of washington (seattle), univ. of miami, univ. of oregon (honors & 10k/yr scholarship), boston univ.

Wait-listed: univ. of michigan

Rejected: univ. of florida (very surprised.)

Attending: univ. of southern california! go trojans!

GPA: 3.85 UW

Rank: top 10%

ACT: 27 (yeah, i know…)

Essays: all about my passion for journalism and how i have pursued my passions in the field

Teacher Recs: one from my ap literature teacher which was good and my newspaper teacher showed me the letter she wrote me which was very good.

Counselor Rec: good

Hook: i’m very involved with journalism: editor-in-chief of newspaper, summer internship with a top newspaper, HS football freelancer during the fall for the newspaper i interned with over the summer, president of the quill & scroll journalism honors society. i also moved from california to florida before starting my junior year of HS. big change but i recovered and became editor in chief for my senior year.

EC’s: see above under hook. also includes: 4 years of varsity lacrosse (one year as caption during my sr. year), 1 year of basketball, national honors society, founded an operation smile club (singlehandedly raised $1,000 and attened a conference in Utah for the club)

Work experience: (1) summer internship with newspaper (2) HS football freelancer (3) Fitness Associate at a local fitness center

Courseload: APs and Honors.

Other: i traveled to Pennsylvannia for my USC interview (from FL). i interview well and i went all that way for my dream school and it paid off!

Location: Florida

School Type: top public school

Ethnicity: white

Sex: female

[maea]

Accepted: Rice University, College of William and Mary, Emory University (main campus), Emory University (Oxford campus - w/ scholarship), Georgia Tech (honors program)

Waitlisted: Tufts University, Brown University

Rejected: None

Prospective Major: Math and/or Psychology

SAT I: 780M, 720CR, 650W (1500/2150)
SAT II: 760 Math II, 660 Chemistry
ACT: 34 (34E,33R,35M,32S)

AP Taken: Chemistry (4), Psychology (5), US History (4), Calculus BC (5)
AP Taking: Economics, Government, Statistics, Literature

GPA: 3.96uw, 4.47w
Rank: 11/~450

EC:
Robotics (Leader) (20 hr/wk)
Orchestra (Violin) (6 hr/wk)
Math Team (1 hr/wk)
Leadership Club (1hr/wk)

Volunteer:
~600 hours working with kids without proper homes.

Work:
Math Tutor (8 hrs/wk)
Intern at CEISMC (the Center for Education Integrating Science, Math, and Computing) (10 hrs/wk)

Summer activities:
Brown Summer Mini-Course in Mood Disorders (2006)
Worked at Bruster’s Ice Cream (2007)

Awards:
National Merit Semifinalist
Academic Varsity Letter
Robotics Varsity Letter
Math Team Varsity Letter
CalTech Signature Award
National Honors Society
Math Honors Society
Spanish Honors Society
AP Scholar with Honor

Essays: Decent
Recs: Very good
“Hook”: Took two math classes (Calc II and III) at Georgia Tech in my junior year and got A’s in both

[PhysicsGirlNY]

Accepted: Stevens Institute Of Technology, RPI, NYU, Fordham, St. John’s University (safety-full ride)
Rejected: Columbia (and happy about it! :D)

attending: Stevens
GPA: 94.45 (UW), 99.33 (W)
rank: 5/256 (top 2%)
SAT: 660 CR, 780 M, 730 W. (1440/2170)
SAT II: 750 math level 2, 650 physics

major: physics

EC’s: Mathletes (president), Chess, Art, Science Olympiads
Volunteer: a few church things

awards:
Renssealer Medalist, AP Scholar with Honor, 1st place in a state poster contest, 1st place in some school poster contest, AMC 12 school high scorer,
school pi memorizing competition 2nd place (i’m so unaccomplished i put that down on my apps )

AP’s:
10th
World History (4)

11th
US History (3)
Drawing (3)
English Language and Comp (5)

12th
Calculus AB
Chemistry
Gov’t
English Literature
Italian
Physics B (self study)

courseload senior year: guidance counselor said I’m not lying if i say I have the hardest schedule in the school so…um…quite difficult. all honors/AP’s each year (although I got a C in AP Chem this year after straight A’s in every other classs in previous years but that class is death)

essay: idk… I obviously am gonna think it’s good cuz i wrote it and everything but who am I to judge?
teacher recs: 1 was def really good…other was from a kinda new teacher so I have no idea if he’s any good with them
guidance rec: good I suppose.
hooks: uhhhh no. I mean, perhaps being a female going for a physics major helps especially for Stevens and RPI which have dreadfully unbalanced male/female ratios.
public school. white female.

I wanted to get into Stevens. i got in w/ nice financial aid.
Columbia- questions on app I know I answered really badly. interview sucked. I had no interest in the school. So worthwhile to appply

[Sharif08]

I guess i’ll post mines too

Accepted to: Temple University (Honors Program; Full Scholarship), Drexel University (Honors College), Johns Hopkins University (Matriculating; Received ~ $51,000/$52,000)

Waitlisted: University of Pennsylvania

Rejections: None

Major: Biology (pre-med)

SAT: 680V, 630M, 670W (1310,1980)
SATII: Biology(M)-670, Physics-570(I know and I had a 97 average in school)

GPA: 3.85

EC’s: Varsity Track (shot put;placed third in city), Varsity Bowling, Kung-Fu (13 years-black belt), Ninjitsu (8 years-black belt), Over 700 hours community service, church events, Member of three youth groups (president of one), 4 jobs since freshmen year, personal tutor,Boy Scouts

Awards: National Achievement Outstanding participant, All-Public honors, Boy Scout Honors, Community Service Award, etc

AP’s: Only three: AP Calc AB,BC, AP Physics C: Electricity and magnetism, Almost all others throughout highschool were honors courses (except 2)

“Hooks”:URM, 4.0 In college biology course, Research Internship at Thomas Jefferson University (Schoolyear and summer)

Essays: Great
Guidance Rec: Great
Teacher Recs: Great

Location:Philadelphia, PA
School Type: Top Public School
Ethnicity: African American
Sex: Male

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Accepted: Penn State-University Park (Attending), Pitt

Rejected: Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, CMU, UVA, Michigan, USC, UC Berkley, UCLA, UCSD, Penn State Schreyers (Honors College)

Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Asian American
School Type: Mainly White, suburban, Best school in the PA based on 11th grade standardized test scores

GPA: UW-3.6, W-4.02
No Rank

SAT: M-800, CR-550, W-570

SAT II: Math 2-760, Chem-600

ACT: 29

[openyoureyes]

Accepted: Bucknell, Lehigh, Boston U, Ursinus (18K scholarship)(matriculating), Pitt (honors)
Waitlisted: UPenn, Dartmouth, Hopkins

Female
Public school
gpa: 4.5 w/4.00 uw
rank: 2/780
sats: 680m/660cr/710w
700 mathI/730US
7 APs total (so far 2 fives 1 four)
a boat load of extracurriculars and three leadership positions (one editor-in-chief, marching band leader, treasurer of a club)
1 good rec, 1 great rec
good essays