You don’t have to believe me if you don’t want to.
Edit: btw, stl2cali2k1, there’s no ED/EA to princeton if you didn’t know.
Accepted: Yale (EA), Harvard, M.I.T., Columbia, U. Penn, Texas A&M
Rejected/Waitlisted: none
(Note: I applied to about four or five more schools besides the ones above, but after I was accepted EA to Yale I pulled those apps because I knew I wouldn’t choose them over Yale.)
Actually Attending: Yale
High School Type: Public
Location: Maryland
Race/Gender: Black/Female
Prospective Major: Undecided, my essays implicated either an Astrochemistry or East Asian Studies Poli Sci. focus.
Class rank: 10/452
GPA UW/W: We didn’t use a 4.0 scale and we weighted for APs. GPA was something like 99-100.
SATI: 2250 (800s in verbal and writing, 12 on essay)
SATIIs:
760 US History
780 Literature
750 Math II
740 Chemistry
APs:
Altogether, 9 classes. U.S. History (5), English Language (5), Calc AB (5), Chemistry (5), U.S. Government & Politics (5), Calc BC (5), English Literature (5), Music Theory (3), and Physics C Mechanics (4).
ECs:
-Chamber Choir (all of high school and middle school) this is where most of my awards came from, All-State all through high school, All-Eastern, Tri-County and All-County, solo and ensemble awards, district and state festivals, etc.
-Dance for 8 years with local competitive studio (hardcore time commitment, 13-15 hours a week)
-Mock Trial
-Citizens’ Advisory Committee (got picked to serve on a board of county citizens by the Board of Education, I guess this would be leadership-ish?)
Basically, only a few EC’s, but serious time, effort, and recognition displayed.
Work experience:
Legal secretary - summer of 9th and 10th grade, nothing remarkable
Intern at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - 2 summers (geodynamics one year, astrochemistry plus instrument programming the next)- I used this in my essay to talk about my potential majors and also submitted copies of my research along with my MIT app.
Essays: Main common app essay was about my work at Goddard, my interest in the space program, my love of the studies, etc. Wrote a couple varieties of a supplemental essay, but the best was about my trips to China and the interest I’d developed in the language, my self-directed studies, and my interest in one day working for state department there.
Recommendations: Saw a couple of them, not some others. Pretty good. Got them from chorus teacher because I’d had him all of high school, calculus and chemistry teachers, government teacher, mock trial coach, and dance teacher. Used same ones for different apps and scholarships.
Awards:
Ehh, school and county academic awards, Maryland Distinguished Scholar and also nominated for Maryland Distinguished Scholar in the arts, AP Scholar with Distinction from junior year, lots and lots of serious chorus awards and some dance awards. Also National Achievement Scholar from PSATs.
My friend got into Harvard, got rejected from UCLA, then went to St. Andrews
"My friend got into Harvard, got rejected from UCLA’
Things have happened that are even stranger than that.
But why pick St.Andrews over Harvard? Did they have an option or was money the big factor?
Dude, UCLA was exceptionally weird with admissions this year. I have heard so many stories of UCLA rejects that got into ivy leagues with no problem.
At my school, a friend of mine got into MIT and got rejected from UCLA.
oh and btw, WHY HASN’T ANYBODY GOTTEN INTO BROWN.
I went through the first 7 pages of this thread and have yet to see more than 2 acceptances and like 300 rejects =[ makes me not hopeful of getting in now…
collegedata.com is great to find out information out like this
rejected:
Harvard, yale, princeton, stanford, mit, caltech, brown, columbia
Waitlisted:
duke, univ. of chicago
accepted:
upenn college (attending), nyu stern, rutgers full ride, northwestern
Gender: M
Location: New Jersey
Ethnicity: Asian
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Academics:
GPA - Weighted: 103.00
Class Rank: 3/560
Scores:
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 720
SAT Total: 2230
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 800
SAT II Chemistry: 740
SAT II Physics: 710
AP Micro and Macro: 5s (self-studied)
AP US Hist: 3
Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars:
Futube Business Leaders of America
Fed Challenge
Science League
Environmental Club
Tai Chi Club
Math League
Leadership positions:
FBLA Historian
FBLA President
Tai Chi Club Vice President
Environmental Club Treasurer
Volunteer/Service Work:
60 hrs hospital volunteer work
Honors and Awards:
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards
3 FBLA state awards and 3 regional awards
Qualified and competed for nationals 3 years in a row
top 10% nj science league scorer in physics and chem
wasted a lot of money on app fees
“^bs.bs.bs.bs.bs.” by FellowCCViewer referring to stupidkid’s post about how he got accepted to all the top colleges
lol i know plenty of people like that?
ever met alex zhai? or possibly 1/4 of the kids at phillips exeter.
they are even better than stupidkid, they actually went to Siemens Nationals…=P
Wonderful, so they should have swept the boards at every college
Sigh, another brown reject.
Someone please post stats that has a brown acceptance that doesn’t have 2400 as their SAT score =[
@ Tonyt88 you are a lucky **************** !!! Man i need some more ECs and Awards!
I got into Brown (and going), but I did have pretty high SAT’s, but my grades sucked and I had practically no EC’s:
OK, so yeah CR 780 M 770 W 770
Math II, Chem, and Phyz 800
Ok so those might have gotten me in, buuuuuuuuuuttt…
I was 24/423 in the class, with only band, science olympiad, not starring in either, and a little bit of community service. No sports, no leadership.
White Male Californian with highly educated parents
Rejected: UPenn Wharton, Stanford
Waitlisted: University of Chicago
Accepted: Brown, UC SB SD LA and B, Northwestern, CMC, Pomona
Brown seems pretty random with acceptance. I have a friend who did not get into brown, but who got into stanford, and I was rejected haha.
omg this is depressing. class of 08 had amazing stats and they still got rejected some places…me and my big ol dreams <em>sigh</em>
Accepted:
ECU, NC State, Florida State (w. scholarship), UNC-Chapel Hill (attending), Notre Dame, Emory (w. scholarship)
Rejected:
Duke, Columbia
Weighted GPA- 4.8ish
Unweighted GPA- 3.75ish
Class Rank: 5 out of 255
ACT: 33
SAT II’s: Math IIC 800, US History 790
APs:
Physics B- 4
English Lang- 3
US History- 5
Calculus BC- 5
(below are senior year aps)
Music Theory- 5
English Lit- 3
Statistics- 5
Biology- 5
Psychology- 5
Extracurriculars:
Marching Band 9-12, Section Leader (12)
Jazz Band 11
Symphony 9-12, Principal Trombone (12)
Youth and Government 9
Academic Team 11-12 Co-captain, 11-12
Debate Team 11-12 Co-founder, 11-12
Psychology Club 12
Theatre- 9-12
Hospital Volunteer- 9-11 420 hours
Employment:
Movie Theatre 11
Quizno’s 11-12
Honors:
All County, All District Band
Western Region Orchestra
Junior Marshall
Other stuff I don’t recall
Recs:
My guidance counselor told me that a lady in Duke admissions made a comment about how impressive my recommendations were. And I still got rejected lol
Essays:
Main one was about my hearing loss and music.
I wish i had this thread back when i was applying
Accepted: Brown (attending), Upenn, Columbia, NYU, Wesleyan, Amherst, Williams
Rejected: Cornell W/L: Yale
NY, NY Asian Male
Prospective Major: Classics/History
SAT I: 2320 (m720 cr800 w800)
SAT II: world history: 730 Bio(m): 780 Latin: 800
APs: USH, Latin Lit, Micro/Macro Econ, Bio, Music Theory: 5
GPA: 96.4 (yeah what is this on the 4.0 scale i never figured out)
awards: national merit, national latin exam, music awards
Essays: I wrote about a death forest at the base of Mt. Fuji for common app.
supps- brown: about getting lost in Rome, yale: playing the cello at Union Square.
Recs: U.S. history, Latin (he let me read it. It was amazing), Physics teacher (I interned for her. we were bff), counselor (I dunno. I dated her nephew)
Interviews: Brown-a dream, Upenn-very professional, Cornell-i thought it went well…Yale-don’t wanna talk about it
Hook: I’m fluent in a dead language?
EC’s
Editor of a Latin-language newspaper and podcast
Piano teacher, accompanist, some awards.
Cello-principal in school orch., started a string quartet, profiled for major NY magazine as a street performer
Chamber chorus, director of a cappella group, major award for Wagner aria
conductor of annual school musical
Korean drumming (samulnori) vocalist and buk player-toured Asia
school opera club co-founder
School newspaper humor columnist, yearbook art editor, comics magazine editor
Mu Alpha Theta VP
Latin Club President
Latin, Physics, History tutor
7th grade counselor
Non-profit bookstore and art supplier volunteer
Voice Actor for readings of the bible
Work/internships:
NY City Opera, Urban Outfitters (worst job ever), instrument repair shop (best job ever), Jcrew (…actually the worst job ever)
Financial Aid was good pretty much everywhere. If you make less than 50,000 a year, expect almost a full ride from the ivies, and a really good deal everywhere else. I got a $48K package from Brown-No loans, all aid.
A few notes on the college process: Its dumb when people tell you not to stress out. It’s stressful. Just remember that after all the letters come in you have a good 4 months to do whatever the hell you want. I skipped school for a week because I wanted to drive out to Chicago and it was awesome. Visiting really does help. Also, invest in a really nice dress shirt or a really nice winter ensemble from Bergdorf’s or something for interviews. A killer outfit does a lot.
cheers
^wait… are u an asian female or an asian male?
and did you apply ed or ea?
hey stl2cali2k1,
I’m an Asian male (wait, did i not mention that?)
and I didn’t apply early anywhere because I’m lazy.
man i wanna go to brown lol…
whats your major
Wow you people are very crazy.