“This site has made me feel like I don’t try hard enough”
This site is basically full of all the worried overachievers who need to self-validate (not that I don’t fit into this category, just and observation), so yeah, even people with amazing stats are dwarfed here by the top handful of students in the nation.
…I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep at night anymore…
^ Me too. I never knew how much one could truly overachieve until I joined CC.
^^haha that was actually one of the first posts I read on CC. Totally FREAKED me out…not a good way to start…lol
And! The scary part: he’s real, I swear. And he’s one of the nicest guys out there. 
Awesome, do you personally know him?
He just stuns me, wow, he’s REALLY amazing. 
How does one even get to know of all these opportunities in the first place? I don’t even hear about 1/10 of those things he listed on his resume, but jeez… I need to like get in touch with him and beg him to find me all these opportunities. We apparently both have a common interest in leadership, politics, and law so that would actually work out quite well, haha.
MY RESULTS (I’M A CURRENT FRESHMAN):
Accepted to: University of Miami (attending, $16,000 scholarship a year), Georgia Tech, Elon, University of Maryland, Clemson
Waitlist: Richmond, Lehigh, Lafayette
Rejected: Emory, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia (even though legacy!)
2120 SAT (750 M, 670 V, 700 W)
A-/B+ weighted GPA at a competitive private all girls’ school in massachusetts
(mostly As and Bs, 2 C+s…)
4 APs, 7 honors classes
captain of varsity volleyball and varsity tennis
volleyball: MVP, All-league nomination
volunteer at hospital, middle school volleyball instructor
9th grade class VP, dance team, service committee, gospel choir
OMG kalvy54. im so screwed.
Attending - NYU
Accepted: NYU (duh), SUNY Binghamton Honors Program, Penn State, Geneseo
Rejected: Brown (deferred/rejected), Cornell
GPA: 4.3 W, around 3.7 UW
SAT: 2040 - 670M 680CR 690W
SATIIs: US History-690, Physics-670, Literature-640
Class Rank - Top 7%
APs: World History - 4, US History - 4, English Comp - 4, Comparative Government - 3, English Lit - 3, Biology - 4, French Language - 3
ECs:
Marching Band 4 years - 11th treasurer 12th VP
Wrestling Team 4 years - Varsity for 3 years
Baseball Team 2 years - Varsity for 1 year
National Honor Society tutor
Awards:
NHS inductee 2007
Most Outstanding Student - French 4H 2007
Most Outstanding Student - AP French 2008
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
etc…etc…usual stuff
As you can see, my SATs weren’t great. I have legacy at Brown but apparently it didn’t matter. Only upset about being rejected from Brown; was indifferent towards Cornell. Didn’t really consider going to Bing, PSU, or Geneseo, since they were all safeties. I’m very happy where I am now (NYU). Can’t imagine myself anywhere else.
All these stats have proven is that the admissions process is truly unpredictable. There’s absolutely no trend anyone can follow. I, personally, am quite relieved by that. I can no longer be bothered to stress.
Yea, please put what level of education your parents achieved.
That factors in.
Stats from a more average gal…
Accepted: Richmond (attending, & was semifinalist for Richmond Scholars, but did not make the final round), Vassar, Villanova ($2000 merit scholarship)
Rejected: William and Mary (my first choice)
Small public rural high school in DE
GPA: weighted 4.60 / 4.25 (weird scale)
SAT: 2100 overall / 720 writing / 680 math / 700 reading
SAT II’s: 680 Lit, 650 Math II
My school offers 2 AP classes, and I took one of them. I took mostly other honors classes with a couple regular classes thrown in.
No special EC’s, really… I play piano, played tennis a couple of years, was in a lot of volunteer clubs (Key, Leo, etc) but did not have a large amount of hours at all. And by that I mean like 20. Haha. I did Governor’s School and I was a nominee for the state-wide NHS scholarship. But besides that… nada.
My recommendations were very good, and my essays were alright.
Attending: Carnegie Melon
Accepted: Berkeley, UVA, UMich, Brown, MIT, Rice, Virginia Tech, and Georgetown.
Waitlisted: Harvard.
Rejected: JHU, Princeton, and Yale.
School Type: Public
Location: Virginia
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Math
Unweighted GPA: 4.1 (4.3 awarded for A+)
Weighted GPA: 4.53
Class rank: 2 of 550
SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 800
SAT I Critical Reading: 750
SAT I Writing: 750
SAT II Scores
SAT II Literature: 760
SAT II Bio (M): 770
SAT II Math IIC: 800
ACT: 35
Extracurricular Info
Concert Band 9-12
Marching Band 9-12 (section leader 10,11 drum major 12)
All District Concert Band 9-12 (1st chair 10-12)
Jazz Band 9-12
All State Band 10-12 (third chair 12th)
Top Soloist Award for Jazz in County
Rugby 9-12 (Squad B Captain 10, Squad A Captain 12)
Hockey 9-11
Math/Physics Tutor
Freshman Mentor
Three hours most weekends spent at an abused womens shelter every other weekend fairly consistently adding up to around 250 hours over 9-12.
Class Treasurer - 12
Latin Club 9-12 (VP 11 Pres 12)
Boring 2 week internship for USDoE.
APs
Bio - 5
Stats - 5
Calc AB - 5
Calc BC - 5
World History - 5
European History - 4
US History - 4
Lit - 5
Physics - 5
Latin -5
Music Theory - 4
(National AP Scholar)
I taught Piano as my means of income for 5 years.
One rec came from band director who loves me and another from my math teacher (Calc AB, BC, and Stats) for the other one used.
Man, a national AP Scholar with 11 AP classes is tough, I only got like 9 or something like that. Plus, you’ve got really good test scores, not too shabby EC’s but I will admit they do seem a little spread out, it helps a little to show focus in one area.
this helps 
thank you!
I wonder in regards to Rjg062 if the fact that he didn’t have 2 core teacher rec’s had anything to do with the somewhat surprising results. The band one probably should have been a supplemental at least I would think. Interesting though…
Yeah 2by2 I think that was probably it. I’m happy though I just wanted in at a technical school the money CM threw at me was considerably larger than MIT.
I’m a senior this year so here’s my first semester list.
Accepted: Stanford, Florida A&M (Full Ride offer), Bowdoin College, Williams College
Rejected: N/A
Waitlisted: N/A
Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: My school doesn’t weight grades but every class is considered honors.
Class Rank:2
Class Size: 99
Scores:
SAT I Math: 700
SAT I Critical Reading: 690
SAT I Writing: 680
ACT: 31
AP US History: 4
AP World History: 4
AP Language and Comp: 3
Extracurriculars:
Significant Extracurriculars: SAT Tutoring Seminar, Church Member, Recycling Program, US Academic Decathlon, Math Team, Science Olympiad Team, Track and Field, Intramural Basketball
Leadership positions: Track Team Captain, Founder of SAT Tutoring Seminar, Founder of Schoolwide Recycling Program, USAD captian, Youth Minister
Athletic Status - list sport and your level: Varsity track and field
Volunteer/Service Work: Volunteering 300 hours a year as a pharmacy technician (12th Grade)
Volunteering 100 hours a year as a youth minister (since 9th grade)
Honors and Awards: AAU All American, Two Time Georgia State Champion,
College Summer programs: Destination Dartmouth, Bowdoin Invitational, Windows on Williams
I guess EC’s can get you pretty far. haha
You must have gotten pretty far with those EC’s, Lovett b/c your stats aren’t that strong for Stanford -_-. Not to be rude but if you started an SAT tutoring thing yourself in which case you are the tutor, then you should have gotten much higher scores.
why are all these people getting rejected from such great schools?.. harvard… yale… princeton… they’re so smart. geez i’m so nervous now.