Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
941

Applied: UNC Chapel Hill, University of South Carolina, Campbell University, VCU
Accepted: UNC Chapel Hill (attending this Fall), University of South Carolina, Campbell University (Presidential Scholarship), VCU

Gender: M
Location: North Carolina
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 3.66
GPA - Weighted: 4.27
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 128

Scores:
Bad scores:

SAT I: CR-550, M-590, W-670
ACT: Composite-26, English-30, Math-27, Reading-21, Science-25

Extracurriculars:

Community Service:
-Spent nearly 300 hours making blankets for a hospital where a close family friend was involuntarily committed (wrote essay about this).
-Spent summer before Senior year volunteering at local hospital (contributed nearly 60 hours).

Part-time job as Pharmacy Technician at local pharmacy since Sophomore year - work approx. 25 hours weekly

No significant awards
-Finalist for local essay contest and won trip to New York City and Washington, DC
-Departmental Award for AP Statistics
-Departmental Award for Computer App. II
-Junior Marshal

Recommendations were very good. I got one from my Yearbook teacher who as taught me every semester since Spring of my Freshman year. She knows me very well. The second one I got from one of my Pharmacists who attended UNC.

I feel my essays were very good.

942

Accepted: Boston University (CAS) [Attending], Northeastern University (CAS), University of Massachusetts Amherst
Waitlisted: Boston College (CAS)
Rejected: Brown University, Tufts University (CAS)

Gender: Male
Location: Metropolitan Boston
School: Public

Academics:

Unweighted GPA: 3.3
Weighted GPA: ? (~4.0, probably)
Class Rank: Just barely top 10%
Class size: 312
Courseload: Taking second-most AP classes out of entire school

Scores:

SAT I (CR/M/W): 770/800/700 superscored
SAT II: Math II 730, Lit 730, US History 720, Chem 750
AP: US History 4, Eng Lit 5

Extracurriculars:
Drama Club - Member, 9-12
Ballroom Dance - Officer, 12
Boy Scout- First Class, 9, 10
Retail Work - Floor Associate, 12

Community Service:
Went on a mission trip, assorted hours helping friends.

Recommendations:
One from French teacher/Ballroom Dance instructor, one from Bio teacher.

Essays were weak.

943

Applied: Harvard, Yale, Wharton-UPenn, AEM-Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Emory, Rutgers (Honors)
Accepted: Dartmouth, Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rutgers (Honors)
Waitlisted: Emory

Gender: F
Location: New Jersey
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Public Magnet
High School Type: sends many grads to top schools (this year was incredible: 14 Cornell, 1 Harvard, 1 Stanford, 3 MIT, 6 Caltech, 1 Brown, 2 Dartmouth, 2 Princeton, 1 at least Columbia, 1 at least UPenn)

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 95, 96, 93
GPA - Weighted: n/a?
Class Rank: top 10%
Class Size: 70

Scores:
Bad scores:

SAT I: CR-800, M-800, W-760
ACT: N/A

Extracurriculars:

Significant Extracurriculars
Academic Team
NJSYO
Model UN

Leadership positions:
Student Council
Multicultural Club Treasurer

Volunteer/Service Work:
Volunteering at Hospital
Teaching English in China
300+ hours of Volunteering

Honors and Awards:
3rd place New Jersey Academy of Science winner
UNAUSA 2006 Honorable Mention, GA1
UNAUSA 2007 Best Delegation, ESCAP
RUMUN 2007 Best Position Paper, CSTD
National Merit Scholarship Finalist

Recommendations: Waived right to see.

Essays: meh? Not bad, not spectacular.

Note: My interview with Dartmouth was pretty awesome. Interviewer and I really clicked, and we had an actual conversation.

944

Applied: Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Cornell, Brown, NYU, RPI, SUNY Stony Brook (Honors)
Accepted: Princeton, MIT (Attending), Cornell, Brown, NYU, RPI, SUNY Stony Brook (Honors)
Waitlisted: Harvard

Gender: M
Location: NYC
College Class Year: 2012
High School: Private Prep
High School Type: Sends many grads to top schools: This year especially we have around 30-40 kids in total going to Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and top LACs

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 97%
GPA - Weighted: ehh i dunno.
Class Rank: 2
Class Size: ~120

SAT I: ehh bad day only took once though lol CR-640, M-700, W-630
ACT: 34
SAT IIs: Chem: 710, Math II: 760, USH: 770,

Significant Extracurriculars
All-America Soccer Player. US U18 National Team
Started my own graphic/web design business.
Started the peer-to-peer tutoring service at my school.
Student Government (VP)

Leadership positions:
Captain of every soccer team that I’ve played for.
Founder of the tutoring service and my business.
Student Body VP

Volunteer/Service Work:
Soccer Camp

Honors and Awards:
National Achievement Semi-Finalist
National Merit Scholarship Finalist
A bunch of athletic awards.
A bunch of regional and local awards.

Recommendations: Waived right to see but my teachers all love me so I’d assume they were great.

Essays: My best grades always come from English so I’d say that they were pretty good ;-).

945

Accepted: Princeton (attending), Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, University of Connecticut (honors program)
Wait-listed: Columbia, Duke, Dartmouth
Rejected: Yale (applied SCEA, deferred, then rejected), Brown, and Williams

GPA: 3.8ish unweighted

Rank: somewhere around 4/250ish

SAT: 700 critical reading, 800math, 710 writing.
SATII: 800 math II, 770 phys, 770 bio

Essays: I wrote several different essays and chose which ones I wanted to use for different apps. I wrote one about my smile, cross country, wrestling (I didn’t use the wrestling one and the cross country one together in one app), volunteering in mongolia, and my interest in physics.
Teacher Recs: Haven’t read them, but I’m sure they were good.
Counselor Rec: I’m pretty close with my counselor, but not close enough that I’d be 100% positive she’d write a super good rec.
Hook: nothing really
EC’s: Class president, wrestling (captain, state champion, 2xconference champion, 3x allstate, 3x allconference).
Work experience: none at all
Senior year Courseload:
AP Comp Sci
AP Chem
AP Eng. lit
AP Spanish lang.
humanities (required)
video art (I wanted an easy senior year)
social psych. (see above)

Location: CT.
School Type: semi-competetive public.
Ethnicity: asian.
Sex: male.

Good luck to all the juniors. hope this helps

946

Accepted: Tulane, LSU (attending), ULL
Waitlisted: Emory
Rejected: Brown

School Type: Public
Location: Louisiana
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Biology/Biochemistry
Unweighted GPA: 3.6
Weighted GPA: ?
Class rank: Top 10%

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 660
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 750

ACT Scores
ACT English: 36
ACT Math: 30
ACT Reading Comprehension: 34
ACT Science: 31
ACT Writing: 8

AP Exams
AP English Lit: 5

Extracurricular Info
*School Bowling Team
*Month-long medical profession job-shadowing at local hospital
*Summer prospective medical professionals program at ULL
*National Honor Society
*BETA Club

Awards :

  • National Merit Scholar
947

update: accepted from wait list at rhodes. denied wait list offer from f&m.

attending either: sewanee, rhodes, dickinson, or ole miss.

948

I’m helping people too!

Accepted: Cornell, Dartmouth, Williams (attending), Northwestern, Middlebury, NYU Stern, Vassar, Wesleyan, SUNY Binghamton, Oberlin, Adelphi

Waitlisted: Harvard

Rejected: Yale (EA-deferred), Brown

Grades:
gpa: 4.0 weighted
rank: 2/172
APs: euro 4, us 5, physics B 4, english comp 5
sats: 2300 math 760 writing 770 reading 770
sat IIs: bio 670 physics 660 ushistory 770

Senior load:
ap calc bc, ap bio, ap gov&pol, ap engl lit

ECs:
Key Club<em>President
Student Service Center</em>President
Yearbook_Editor
Newspaper
Mathletes (haa)
Marching Band/Rockettes
National Honor Society
Class Office (in order of yr 9-12: secretary, vp, vp, president)

Sports:
varsity winter track (4 yrs)
jv lacrosse (2 yrs)

Rundown:
Hours and hours of volunteer stuff, have held 3 jobs, was homecoming queen, worked 2 summers at a christian camp, 3/4 asian =]

Essays: free choice, change-the-world topics, very creative
Interviews: All super strong
Recs: waived my right to see them but they’re pretty much AMAZING. I think. I asked my AP English lang teacher, and I was the only one to get a 100 avg in his class for his pract. two decades of teaching; my AP physics teacher b.c. admissions likes physics teachers; and my community service teacher-person

Advice to juniors: The top liberal arts colleges are better than ivies! I got great fin-aid everywhere, but seriously Williams is tops. I’d only go to Yale over Williams. Get solid undergrad at a small LAC where you’ll get the most out of your education, and save the ivies for grad school–where it really matters.

949

P.S. if any neurotic junior needs advice/help I went on 5 overnight trip/previews programs at colleges and I’ve consulted many sources to decide where’d I’d apply/attend. feel free to message me

950

Accepted:Harvard, Pton, CUNY Honors,MIT, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Binghamton, URochester, Cooper Union

Rejected:CalTech, Yale

Waitlisted: Dartmouth

School Type: Public School in on of the boroughs of NYC
Race: Daughter of Jamaican Immigrants
Prospective major: electrical engineering and mayb minor in physics, and history and spanish
GPA: 3.89
Rank:top 3%

Sat I:2330
W: 750
M:790
CR;790

SAT II-
Physics-740
Chem-650
US-790
world his-800
Mat II-800
bio (m)-790

AP Exams (the ones I already done)
US:5
Span Lang:5
Cal AB:5
AP Physics c-EM:5
AP Stats:5

EC’s:
NHS,Model UN,Amnesty International, in my Church, choir and Youth board, but I had a have had a job since I was 14 and at 16 I worked at McDonald’s (been working there for 2 yrs)

Award:
National Merit Scholar
National Achievement Commended
Bausch and Lomb Award
Harvard Book Award
Yale book Award

I also enrolled in some history,French (french 1-II), and physics classes at a local CC while in high school.
I didn’t participate in heaps of EC’s and I held no positions in the clubs I was in at school. I come from a poor family. I worked and then I went home to watch my 5 younger siblings at home. My mother had a stroke after the birth of the youngest, she is not incapacitated (and still has a job) but she needs some help.

I was prepared to stay in city and go to CUNY City because I was not going to have my parents shell out $$ for me to go to school if I could go for free. But due to the new financial aid polices, Im going to MIT.

Be yourself in this college game. I know many people who believed if they killed themselves with EC’s, AP’s, and other activities and classes they only took so they could look good on paper they would go to HYP and other such places. In the end they only felt disappointed. take classes you find interesting and don’t lose yourself. In the end, people have to be rejected and don’t take it as an assault on your character or ability your be a good student. If a college doesn’t want you their loss. You make the best of college, college does not make the best of you.

951

Final Results…so glad that this ish is over!

Country: USA
State: CA
Major: poli sci/sociology

Accepted:
Stanford ( Attending)
Columbia
USC ( Presidential Scholarship)
Morehouse ( tuition + room/board scholarship)
UCLA- ( some kinda of 4.500 one time scholarship)
American U ( frederick douglass scholarship 15,000 a year)
UVA
UC Berkeley
Rejected:
Duke , Yale, Princeton
Waitlisted:
WUSTL, Wharton, Harvard

Sex: Male
Race: Black
Unweighted GPA: 3.5
Uc Gpa:: 4.4 ( full IB) ( elc for Uc‘s)
Class Rank: 20/504

SAT I: 700 Cr, 700 Writing, 490 math ( took once)
SAT II: 720 Literature 740 Us History 630 World History
ACT: 28

Awards: Alice Walker essay contest winner, Questbridge College Match Finalist, bunch of letters from senators, california youth think tank leadership award winner, martin luther king youth of the year award, coke scholar, other ish
Employment:
Barnes and Noble booksellers ( 15+hours a school week)
Students in Prevention Peer Educator- traveled to local schools telling kids to say no to drugs.

Extra-curriculars
Minister to local congregations/motivational speaker to schools
ASB President/secretary
2X Chairman City Youth Advisory Commission
State Youth Ambassador
Black Student Union Co Founder/ Vice President ( 2 years)/President ( 2 years)/ State Trez
Franklin Tennis caption-numer one doubles/singles
reporter for local newspaper
reporter for local television station
bunch of city committees…

Hooks: Low income, 1st gen, father incarcerated…beastly essays lol

952

Finally, the (near) end

Accepted - NYU (5,000$ scholarship), JHU, Rutgers (16,000$ Provost and other scholarships), Drexel (15,000 scholarship), WashU
Waitlisted - Brown, Cornell
Rejected - Columbia

Attending - probably Hopkins, unless by some rare chance I get off the waitlist at Brown

Tests =
ACT - 32 -33 superscored
SAT IIs - 700 math, 720 Bio M, 790 Lit
GPA - UW -4.0
- W - 4.4
APs - 5 5 5 Euro, APUSH, Bio -already taken
Senior year APs - English Lit and English Lang, AP Calc BC
Rank - 1/300

Background
State - SD
Race - mixed, not URM

Application Stats=
Counselor Rec- didn’t see
Teacher Rec - one lukewarm, other was great
Interviews - at Columbia - went badly, I gave the stupidest answer to a question and I knew I had killed whatever chance I had at that point - at Brown - went well
Essays - key point of app - one was extremely bad (I re-read it and knew I must have been out of my mind when I wrote it, it was so trite and cliched) and the other was okay - about growing up in two cultures

ECs =
Art - taken local art classes for 7 years in watercolor, acrylic, and recently, oil painting - sent in art portfolio to most colleges, invited to local professional art organization
Writing - won a few poetry contest honors, nothing much
Debate - done since 9th grade - won a few awards in regional tournaments
Chorus - in top chorus at our school this last year - took superior award (not on app)
Job - shadowed urologist and worked on filing in office
Volunteer - a few hours at Humane Society and local nursing home

Awards on app =
NHS (yeah, doesn’t mean much)
NSHS - Spanish honors
Others listed above - not much, really

Overall - The process isn’t as random as some CCers think. For example, I know I was most likely waitlisted at Cornell because of the bad essay and SAT subject scores, and I could probably give several good reasons as to why things turned out as they did. But I got into my number 2 college, so I’m not complaining.

953

White, Male, Public School
GPA: 100.4/100 weighted
94.94/100 unweighted
AP’s Taken:
Sophmore: Biology 4, World History 4 (only took exam, HS did not offer course)
Junior: Chemistry 3 (lol), United States History 5
Senior: Calculus AB, Microeconomics, US Government, Spanish Language, English Literature
Honors: English 9,10,11 Spanish 10,11 Chem 9, Physics 12, Math 9, 10, PreCalc BC Acc 11, History 9,10
SATs: 690 math
650 CR
640 Writing
SAT II’s: 710 US Hist
680 Math 1
630 Bio-M
ECs: President of Spanish Honor Society, Managing Editor of School Newspaper, Secretary of Habitat for Humnaity, English Honor Society, Math Honor Society, National Honor Society, Job (15 hours a week), Volunteer trip to Costa Rica, Volunteer in State Park
Good Essays

Accepted:
Middlebury (attending)
Dickinson (EA) with $15,000 scholarship)
Franklin and Marshall ($7500 scholarship)
Wheaton College ($12500 scholarship)
Gettysburg College ($15000 scholarship)
SUNY Geneseo
SUNY Cortland Honors
Muhlenberg College
University of Rochester ($8000 scholarship)

Waitlisted:
Colby
Bates
Hamilton
vassar

Rejected:
Bowdoin

954

Accepted: UC Berkeley (attending), UC San Diego, UC Davis, UCSB, UCR

Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, UCLA

School Type: Public
Location: California
Race/Gender: Asian
Prospective Major: Psychology
Unweighted GPA: 3.974
Weighted GPA: 4.25
Class rank: 14/400 with one B

[I’m ecstatic that this is probably the last time I’ll have to spit these numbers out]

SAT I Scores
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Math: 750
SAT I Writing: 690

SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 650
SAT II French: 610
SAT II Math Level 2: 740

AP Scores:
Calc AB: 5
Bio: 3
French: TBD

Long-form Info

Extracurricular Info
*4 years of Football
*2 years of Track/Field
*Pretty lazy for school-related ECs

Awards
*haha does a football one count?

UC Essays:
*One on being an immigrant (moved here from Indonesia when I was 10) and the perspective it gave me, overcoming the language barrier, etc. Topic fulfilled the purpose of bolstering the ‘able to overcome obstacles’ and diversity arguments.
*One on quickly recovering from a torn MCL from football. Topic emphasized the fact that I’m a student athlete and the perseverance/overcoming obstacles part.

Recs
*Both teachers had some blemishes grammar-wise (a French teacher and a eloquent teacher who’s not too great a speller) but well done nonetheless
*Counselor did not know me very well
*Coach gave me a great rec that gives a different perspective than the teachers

[EDIT] I forgot interviews
*Harvard one went great, mostly because the guy was so damn likable and made it so easy and comfortable that I could actually think
*Princeton one was less of an interview and more of an information session. Pretty much ineffective because I didn’t really need him to inform me about the school, I needed him to be able to inform the school that I was more than just numbers.

Regrets
*Applying to Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford - Waste of time and money considering how huge of a reach each one was.
*The Stanford app earns a special Turd Award in my heart for being especially wasteful with my time, making me answer ridiculous, irrelevant questions like “What is your favorite memento” (who even has a memento?) or ‘Favorite magazine.’ What, did they want me to put something smart like The Princeton Review?
*Not applying to Columbia, Brown, other Ivies - Less of a reach even though it’s still one hell of a reach. Definitely my fault for not doing my homework.
*Okay, I’m done ranting. I am very happy with Berkeley because it just feels very right to me (my second visit, I spent two hours doing nothing but walking around campus, and I LOVED it). What prestige it has is simply icing on my already delicious cake.

955

Accepted:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
Columbia

Rejected:
None

Attending:
Harvard

GPA: 4.0 unweighted
SAT 1: 2390 (one sitting), 2400 (super score)
SAT 2: 2400 (3 800’s)
AP: 4 AP’s with score of 5, 1 AP with score of 4
EC: Music, 1st places in several international competitions, top prizes in several national and international competitions, concerto performances with more than 20 orchestras

Public school - competitive

956

Accepted: Brown University, Duke University, Rice University, University of Southern California, University of Texas at Austin
Waitlisted: Stanford University
Rejected: none

White male from public school in the Midwest. Applied to sciences and engineering.

SAT: 2200 (740 CR, 750 M, 710 W)
ACT: 34
SAT II’s: 800 Math II, 700 Lit, 780 Chem
AP’s: 5 Psych, 5 Comp Sci A, 4 English Language (taking Calc BC, Bio, Chem, English Lit, and US Gov/Pol this year)

Unweighted GPA: 4.0/4.0
Weighted GPA: N/A (school does not weight grades)
Class Rank: N/A (school does not rank – probably would have been top 3% or so, out of 300-ish)

Extracurriculars:
* symphonic band, marching band (drum major), citywide honor band, pit orchestra, etc.
* math team, Mu Alpha Theta (president)
* literary arts magazine
* governor’s school summer program for our state
* independent comp sci research

Awards:
* National Merit semifinalist
* a few random awards from math and programming contests
* AIME qualifier
* other miscellaneous things

Essays: Common App one was pretty good. I wrote it about how my experience at a summer program really had a profound effect on me (I realize this is a topic that a lot of people warn AGAINST because it’s ‘cliche,’ but as long as it’s honest, written well, and profound it clearly doesn’t make a difference). Essays were mostly good, though they were almost all last-minute. Other topics included: puzzle games as a child, the seemingly ordinary conversations with friends that unexpectedly turn into something amazing, deaths of people at my school (another apparently cliched topic that MUST be avoided, right?), my shame in the fact that I was born in France as a child (that one was kinda iffy). Some of my single-sentence short responses for the Stanford app were kinda fun and cute.

Attending: University of Texas at Austin for the Dean’s Scholars program

957

anybody who needs help deciding on where to go or what your chances are of getting in to a school…shot me a private message

958

Accepted: Pomona, UChicago, UTexas-Austin, Rice, Dartmouth
Waitlisted: UPenn, Amherst, Duke
Rejected: Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Georgetown, Williams

White male from Texas, intended major is government

SAT: 2280 (740 CR, 800 M, 740 W)
SAT II: 740 Math IIC, 790 US Hist, 750 Chem
ACT: 34 (35 M, 35 E, 35R, 31 S, 10 W)
APs: 4 Human Geog, 5 World Hist, 5 US Hist, 4 Chem, 5 Eng Lang, as a senior in Euro Hist, Spanish, US Gov’t, Microecon, Comp Gov’t, Calc AB, Eng Lit

GPA: 5.17/5.00 (weird system at our school)
Rank: 31/491

Extracurriculars:

  • President of debate team, state qualifier
  • All-State Choir
  • Eagle Scout
  • Teen Court Attorney
  • President of Spanish Club
  • President of Young Republicans
  • Founder/Co-Premier of Bolshevik Club

Essays:
Common App was decent, about my bid to change a rule at the state level for academic competition to allow Sunday events. Also, I’m running my presidential campaign in 2036. Specific app essays probably were lackluster because of my ‘shotgun’ approach.

Attending: Dartmouth College

959

Accepted:
Northeastern University (15k/year scholarship) (attending)
Villanova University (Nothing :()
UMASS Amherst (Honors College)

Waitlisted:
RPI
Lafayette College

Major:Engineering (Undecided)
10/150 class rank
GPA: UW: 89 W: They don’t tell us, but rank factors it in
SAT CR: 620 M:730 W:730 1350/1980
All honors and AP classes throughout highschool
NHS
Mock Trial
Sailing (big EC, wrote essays about it)
Soccer
Many awards, all through school no national awards or anything like that

I really wanted to go to Nova, but with no money and the fact that you have to transfer out of the college of engineering if you decide that you don’t like engineering swayed me to NEU. I also think that I just liked Nova’s basketball team more than the school itself :P. Right now, couldn’t be happier about Northeastern, can’t wait for the fall! :slight_smile:

960

Accepted:
Georgetown University
University of Notre Dame
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of Richmond (15K)
Northeastern University (12K)
Bentley College (full scholarship)
Case Western Reserve (28K)
SUNY Binghamton

Rejected:
Duke University

Major: Business (Undecided)
top 2% class rank
GPA: 98.86 weighted
SAT: CR: 620 M:730 W:730 1350/1980
APs: Euro/3, APUS/4, Eng. Language/5, Eng. Lit, US Gov, Calculus AB
NHS Secretary
Midnight Run Founder
Math Team
Football (subject of my Georgetown congratulations letter)
Rowing
Latin and Math awards

I’m deciding between Georgetown and UNC right now.