Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
981

Accepted: National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT (2+2 Program, Business), and Gallaudet University
Rejected: None

Attending: Gallaudet University

Stat:
ACT: 21
GPA: 2.5 (messed up in fresh and soph year)
Class Rank: 351 out of 528

Senior Courses:
Finance
Accounting
US/VA Government
Physics
English 12
Trigonometry

Essays: Good
Rec: Good

EC:
Junior Varsity Basketball (Fresh, and soph year)
Varsity soccer (Fresh yr)
FBLA (Sr year)
10+ hours community services
1 year job experience
Explore in Your Future program for 5 days last summer at RIT

I’m not really one of the top students in my school, but I have improved academically in my junior and senior year.

982

I have been warning rising seniors at my school that college admissions were brutal this year… even looking over this thread the difference between the results this year and those from years past are astronomical… yay!

Accepted: Pomona College, Carleton College, Whitman College, Tufts University, Haverford College, Macalester College
Waitlisted: Amherst College, Swarthmore College (didn’t pursue either)
Rejected: Harvard University, Brown University

Attending: Carleton College

School Type: Private, non-religious
Location: Minnesota
Race/Gender: Caucasion/Female
Prospective Major: Biology w/ concentration in neuroscience
Unweighted GPA: 3.85
Weighted GPA: n/a
Class rank: n/a

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 760
SAT I Writing: 780
ACT- 33

SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 800
SAT II French: 700
SAT II Math IIC: 700

APs: English Lit - 5, French Lang - 4, AB Calc - 5, European History - 5, (also Biology, French Literature and BC Calc senior year, ended up with 5’s but obviously weren’t on applications)

Extracurricular Info
Varsity Fencing (3 years), captain (1 year)
Costume Crew (4 years), head (2 years)
Ultimate Frisbee (3 years), captain (2 years)
Literary magazine editor (2 years)
Member of Rimshots! Percussion Ensemble and various other percussion ensembles
Played in orchestra outside of school for 3 years

Study abroad in 10th grade in Switzerland
Summer abroad in France

Work Experience
*Work 10 hours a week at a health clinic in the cancer center as a radiological clerk
*Babysitting ~ 5 hours/week

Awards:
*National Merit Finalist
*AP Scholar with Honor
*Cum Laude

983

accepted: tufts(attending) bu rutgers: pharm and engineering stevens: practically full ride
rejected: mit columbia fu foundation penn jhu brown

you can check my stats on my profile

gluck!

984

accepted:
BC (honors) —> attending
NYU
Lehigh
Cornell (guaranteed transfer) —> may or may not pursue
BU (honors)
Fordham (honors)

Waitlist:
Columbia (Fu)
Northwestern
Washu

Rejected:
Penn
Hopkins

3.9 UW 4.3 W
1480/2180 SAT
Solid EC’s
Assume great essays and outstanding recs.

985

Attending: Stanford
Accepted: Stanford (SCEA), Princeton, Columbia, Duke, Northwestern, WashU
Waitlisted: Yale, Emory (didn’t stay on either)
Rejected: Harvard

High School Type: Independent
Location: Massachusetts
Race/Gender: Peruvian/Female
Prospective Major: Undecided

Class rank: n/a
GPA UW/W: 3.8/4.6
SATI: 2360 (760 R, 800 M, 800 W)

SATIIs:
790 Math IIC
770 Chemistry
720 US History
720 Literature

APs:
4 Euro (sophomore)
5 Chemistry
5 English Lang
5 US History
5 Calculus AB
4 French Lang
(still waiting on scores, UGH CB!, for Physics C (Mech), Calc BC, English Lit, Spanish Lang, Comparative Gov/Politics)

ECs:
Varsity Soccer 4 yrs, captain, league all-star 3 yrs, MVP 2yrs
Varsity Lacrosse 4 yrs, captain, league all-star 1 yr
Science Bowl team 3 yrs, co-captain
Darfur committee 1 yr
Step Team 2 yrs
Food Bank Volunteer ~100 hrs
Piano 10 yrs

Work experience:
Summer Intern at highly recognized research institute (computer programming, data processing/entry/analysis)
Soccer Referee
Hostess at restaurant

Essays: excellent (spent like 4 months on these… so difficult to write!)
Recommendations: excellent

Awards:
National Merit Finalist
Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award
AP Scholar with Distinction
various school academic prizes

986

i only applied to two schools, so I’m probably not that big of a help but why not hey?

Accepted EA: University of Vermont
Accepted ED: Tufts

SATS
m: 760
V: 770
w: 780

SAT II
chem: 750
lit: 790 (700 first time)
math ii: 720

APS
Chem (5)
Lit (4)
English Language (4)
European History (4)
US History (senior year)
Calculus AB (senior year)

GRADES (all unweighted)
3.5 GPA from all four years
3.7 from last two
graduated cum laude (top 20%, but only junior and part of senior year go into it)
lowest gpa: 3.2 sophomore spring
highest gpa: 3.9 senior fall

ECS:
150+ hours community service, but all from before junior year
head of technical theatre at my school, so super involved
student tour guide
summer job at YMCA summer camp for three years
one month stage management internship at hometown theatre

APPLICATION:

  • In my main essay I wrote how reading freud in english class allowed me to get over my prejudice of looking for deep meaning in superficial things.
  • I applied ED to tufts which probably helped
  • got recs from the teacher who taught me freud and member of the drama department, so pretty strong

I hope this helps a bit?

987

Passioniskey,
Where did you go with AFS? I am a returnee (Belgium yp early '80’s). I am hoping that at least one of my kids will spend a year somewhere with AFS.

988

Accepted: Harvard (Attend), Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Duke, Berkeley, UChicago, Cornell, some other insignificant ones
Waitlist/Rej: None

Race: Asian Male
SAT: 2350 - 770 CR, 780 W, 800 M
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 780 Physics
GPA: 3.957 unweighted
Rank: Should be top 5% of class of 1000
Course load: 9 APs so far six 5’s and three 4’s

Extracurriculars:
Math Research 10,11,12
Math Club - President 9,10,11,12
Academic Club - Captain 9,10,11,12
Science Olympiad 9,10,11,12
Orchestra 9,10,11,12
Tutor people in math 11,12

Distinctions:
USAMO qualifier - 11
USNCO qualifier - 11
2006 Siemens Regional Finalist - 11
2007 Siemens Semifinalist - 12
2008 Intel STS Semifinalist - 12
ARML team high scorer - 10,11
USAMTS Silver - 10
National Merit Semifinalist - 12
National AP Scholar - 11

989

Stupid question from new user… what does BUMP mean?? When is it used?

990

When no one replies to your thread, your thread will slowly sink down the list, and the lower it goes, the less likely people will see it and answer it. So, to put your thread back on the top of the pile, you type bump, so that your thread will appear once again at the top of the listing on the CC forum. So, you “bump” it up!

991

thanks! : ))

992

BUMP = Bring Up My Post :slight_smile:

993

Couple of comments:

  1. Some of you are just plain lying…I find many of these hard to believe though I will admit that the amount of pure, throbbing genius on this site is insurmountable…
  2. Being Asian sux really bad (which, of course, sux for me :()
  3. The college racial biases are so blatant it’s almost filthy (related to #2)
  4. College admissions is ultimately a crapshoot
994

sure is hard for us asians… well it’s even harder for me… male, asian, middle class, INTERNATIONAL and not with a chinese passport, etc.

but we’ll just have to deal with it, don’t we.

995

“1) Some of you are just plain lying…I find many of these hard to believe though I will admit that the amount of pure, throbbing genius on this site is insurmountable…”

Yeah, honestly. I’m like scared s**tless after going through this thread a little.

996

stupidkid your username def doesn’t make sense… lol
congrats your accepted schools are the most impressive i’ve heard!

997

wow .

998

^bs.bs.bs.bs.bs.

999

Accepted: Columbia (attending), Cornell (CAS), Wellesley, Vassar, Pitzer (Trustee Scholarship), UC Berkeley, LA (Honors), Davis (Honors), SD, Mills College (Full Tuition Scholarship)
Rejected: Harvard

School Type: Public, Competitive
Location: California
Race/Gender: Chinese
Prospective Major: Political Science & Math, possibly Asian American Studies as well.
Unweighted GPA: 3.93
Weighted GPA: 4.33
Class rank: School doesn’t rank

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 700
SAT I Writing: 660

SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 690
SAT II U.S. History: 75
SAT II Math IIC: 760

AP Scores:
US: 5 (independent study)
Psych: 5
[After senior year: Calc BC, US Gov, Comp Gov, Stats: 5; Physics B, Macro, Micro, Lang: 4]

Long-form Info

Extracurricular Info
*Mock Trial captain
*San Francisco Youth Commissioner: Youth lead on a 2 million dollar budget proposal win.

  • Co-President Junior Statesmen of America
    *Board of Directors: Lowell Gryphon Leos
    *Vice President Shield and Scroll Honor Society
  • 6 years of Chinese School
    *American Math Competition
    Awards
    *Top ten at State finals for Mock Trial (first for my county)
    *Nor Cal Math Competition 3rd
    *Scholarships, etc.
    Essays:
    *For the Common App, I wrote about my passion of achieving social justice by how I realized the injustices, my work on the Commission and my political activism. For UCs, my other essay was about my mock trial world.
    Recs
    *One was terrible, and one was very good.
    *Counselor: Very good
    Random Extra:
    First generation
1000

Accepted: USC (Annenberg), Cornell, Barnard, Northwestern (Medill)Waitlisted: None
Rejected: Yale, Stanford, Harvard

Attending: USC (w/ Presidential Scholarship)

High School Type: Independent
Location: New England
Race/Gender: White/Female
Prospective Major: Journalism (I applied to the journalism programs at USC and Northwestern, at the others I listed anthropology and comparative lit as my prospective majors)

Class rank: n/a
GPA UW/W: 3.9, give or take (my school doesn’t actually use a 4.0 scale)
SATI: 2260 (730 V, 730 M, 800 W)

SATIIs:
740 Math IIC
760 Literature
680 Latin

APs:
I took AP classes but didn’t submit AP scores (longish story)

ECs:
Sports Editor of school newspaper (a highly-renowned, high-stress, weekly paper)
Writing Editor of monthly student life magazine
French horn
various volunteer activities
JV sport- captain
Writer for weekly news digest

Work experience:
computer technician- 40hrs/week, two consecutive summers

Essays: My main common app essay was pretty light hearted. I liked it, but it was a bit long, and in retrospect, I might’ve done it differently. I was very proud of most of my supplemetal essays, though (with the exception of Harvard). My Yale supplemental essay was actually one of the best thing I’ve ever written (I still love it, despite the fact that it clearly didn’t work as I’d hoped).
Recommendations: Never saw them, but I assume they were good.

Awards:
Nothing on the national level, a few on the state level-- nothing particularly impressive or worth mentioning.