re: Post #1060
haha, i’m sorry. looking back three years later, i realize how precocious that post was.
Some of these are depressing:(
Guess community college doesn’t seem all that bad…lol
Why does it seem only geniuses are posting?
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Location: California
School Type: Medium-sized Public (1400 students), Very uncompetitve
Income: $80,000/year
I’m a first-generation college student
I’ve taken the hardest class schedule at school, all honors/APs.
Prospective Major:
Psychology or Cognitive Science
GPA:
Un-weighted: 3.9
Weighted: 4.4
UC GPA: 4.15
Rank: Top 3% (10 out of 353)
SAT I:
2070 superscored (660 CR/760 M/650 W)
(2040 in 1 sitting)
ACT:
33 composite (35 E/34 M/30 R/33 S)
SAT II:
750: Math 2C
710: Biology
Classes
9 AP planned
-Biology (4)
-Statistics (5)
-Calculus BC (5)
-Chemistry (5)
-English Language (3)
-US History (4)
-English Composition
-Spanish Language AP
Community College Courses
-Finite Mathematics (A)
-Sociology 101 (A)
-Psychology 101 (A)
-Art 101 (A)
-Cultural Anthropology (A)
-Ethnic Studies
-Calculus 101C
Extracurriculars:
Basketball - all four years, varsity starting center
Math and Science Bowl/Academic League - 3 years, on starting team
World Affair Challenge - 2 yrs, our team won last year
Tutoring - 50+ hours nonprofit
LEO Club - 250+ hours nonprofit
CSF - President
Essay/Rec:
I think both of these are pretty good, but you never know.
I got accepted to all UCs and Pomona College. Rejected from Stanford. Currently a proud Sagehen '12
Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Location: Rhode Island
School Type: Medium-sized Catholic competetive high school
Currently a senior
Statistics:
SAT Reasoning - 1940 (560 R, 710 M, 670 W)
SAT Subject - 730 Math I, 580 Biology E, 610 Spanish
GPA - (we don’t do it on a 4.0 scale) 96 weighted (frosh-jr year. I don’t know the updated since first semester sr year.)
Class rank - we don’t rank, but if we did I would be between top 10 and 15%
Courses:
Never taken college prep, always honors & 5 AP’s.
Frosh year:
(all honors) biology, algebra 1, religion, english, computers, arts, spanish I, physical education
Soph year:
(all honors) geometry, chemistry, english, spanish II, religion, world history, physical education
Junior year:
(honors & AP) AP english, AP biology, us history, algebra 2, spanish III, religion, physical education
Senior year:
(honors & AP) AP english, AP Human Geography, AP Government, precalculus, religion, physics, physical education
AP Exams:
(from jr year)
AP bio - 2
AP English - 3
Extra Curriculars:
National honor society
spanish national honor society
SADD
LaSallian Youth
Repairing RI
100+ hours of volunteer
campaign volunteer september 2008
CCD teacher at church
chorus
a capella chorus
dance - 14 years - studied just about everything
work at a shoe store for dancers - 18+ hours per week since 2007
history day - went to states in 2007
volleyball camp 2006 at rhode island college
^^ i think that’s it. i forgot what else was on my resume.
Essays/recommendations:
2 recommendations, one very strong, the other I never saw but I’m guessing it was good. My guidance counselors was probably also very strong.
My essays were phenomenal, not going to lie. My alumni interviewer for my ED school loved them. One was the common app essay, I wrote on a topic of my choice - relating my first time dancing on stage in front of judges to overcoming the critiquing that we experience everyday. my other essay was about my major (global politics/other majors in social&decision sciences) and i talked about my love for politics & law and how i hope to grow intellectually through the programs at college.
Colleges:
Accepted to University of Pittsburgh, but I am not going there because I was also accepted to Carnegie Mellon University Early Decision.
any questions just reply to me.
it seems like only genius kids because thats what CC is;
very few ppl below the 98th percentile in anything are going to want to post their stuff because everyone else on CC would be completely above and beyond them
seriously, it seems like everyone here is a valedictorian or has a really high ranking. do colleges look heavily on class ranking?
I’m sure the statistics obtained from College Confidential are not always true for one or representative of a diverse population. Unlike what it seems here, the majority of people do not do high school research, huge community service projects, USA Whatever Olympiads, etc. I know someone from our school who was accepted to Harvard (yet rejected from YPMS) with non-2300+ SATs and very few ECs, none that were prestigious at all. While there are some people who are accepted right off the bat because they have some type of hook (like the Dean of Admissions at Harvard said: those who have done national/international competitions/athletics and those who excel at one subject area/talent), the majority of applicants and those accepted are normal people. You have to remember that there are only about 6000 2300+ scorers for 2008 collegebound seniors. Now compare this to all those applying to the top colleges and the spots that the top colleges had. Even if they tried, the top colleges would not be able to fill their classes with all 2300+ scorers, theres just not enough of them.
^^^that is VERY comforting.
Accepted (EA): Georgetown University, Boston College, Fordham University (w/ Dean’s Scholarship)
Waitlisted/Deferred: None!
Rejected: None, did not see this coming.
School Type: Public
Location: Island off the coast of Maine
Race/Gender: Caucasian/Male
Prospective Major: Int’l Relations
Unweighted GPA: 3.86
Weighted GPA: N/A
Class rank: 9/155,
SAT I Scores
SAT I Critical Reading: 800
SAT I Math: 650
SAT I Writing: 690
Total: 1450/2140
SAT II Scores
SAT II U.S. History: 740
SAT II Chem: 610 -Yikes! I know
Long-form Info
Extracurricular Info
-Model UN
-Speech Team
-Students for a Free Tibet
-Varsity Indoor Track
-Varsity Outdoor Track
-Theatre/Drama-lead in musical
-Jazz Band/Jazz Combo/Pep Band
-Bar Harbor Community Band
-Johns Hopkins CTY
-Interact Club
-Pastoral Council
-Youth Group
-Nat’l Honor Society
Leadership:
President of Student Body
Student Council
Vice President-Interact Club
Senior Officer-Model UN
Hearing Committee Member
Elected Pastoral Council Member
Work Experience:
Family Business-5 years
Acadia Repertory Theatre-Actor
Rachel Jackson-Crew Member
Awards:
1st place-State Speech Championship-N. Prose
1st place-State Speech Championship-Oratorical Declamation
Runner-up best delegate-Global Model UN conference
National Merit Commended
1st place-Hancock County Track Tournament-110 hurdles
<h2>1st place-Hancock County Track Tournament-300 hurdles</h2>
Other Info:
First Generation Student
Dual citizen- U.S. and Ireland
Very Financially disadvantaged
cicero_oratore is so completely right.
Acceptances: Cornell (attending), Brown, Michigan, Boston College, Davidson, Wesleyan, Kenyon, Richmond, Rutgers
Rejections: Princeton, Dartmouth, UVA, Emory
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Location: New Jersey
School Type: Top-tier Boarding Prep School, sends many kids to ivies
GPA:
Un-weighted: 3.3
school does not weight or rank
SAT I:
1890 (620 CR/680 M/590 W)
SAT II:
670: Math 2C
700: Chemistry
700: US History
Classes
4 AP’s
-Statistics (5)
-Calculus AB (5)
-Chemistry (5)
-US History (5)
Extracurriculars:
Varsity Sport Captain
Numerous Community Service Awards
^No offense, but that is REALLY hard to believe. I’m thinking you either must have had a huge hook (some national award, recruited athelete, etc) or there’s something else missing from this picture.
Well, generally if one attends top-notch private schools, a student’s GPA is, on average lower. Due to the increased rigor, prep school kids can usually get away with slightly lower grades, but an 1890 at Cornell is pretty sketchy, I’d say he’s either lying, is an athlete, an incredibly strong legacy, or won a MASSIVE award.
QUESTION:
I am applying to RICHMOND ED 2 and WAKE FOREST regular…will I get in?
My high school is ranked 77th in the nation on a 7 point grading scale
GPA: 3.58
ACT: 21 writing: 8
5 AP’s 12 Honors----5.2 GPA for my senior year
EC:
Editor of the yearbook…2 years
Attended summer journalism conferences
DECA Club secretary and treasurer
4 time varisty starter for lacrosse and field hockey
Lacrosse team captain-Senior year
have been playing lacrosse for 12 years
lacrosse national tournament selection 4 years
all state and all conference for lacrosse
mvp on my lacrosse team
2 time all american nominee
Nominated for the National Society of High School Scholars
Nominated for the Scholar-Athlete Games
Who’s Who Among America
Future Leaders of America
Involved in my church
A lot of community service
I nanny for two families every summer
Also, I am positive my essays are excellent.
THANK YOU!
Stop posting what are my chances threads in the actual results thread…it takes one click to get back to the What Are My Chances forum, so just make a new post there.
Actual Results
Accepted: Case Western Reserve University (attending), Boston Univ (waitlisted, then accepted), Purdue Univ, James Madison Univ (legacy), George Mason Univ (legacy), Virginia Commonwealth Univ
Rejected: Northwestern Univ (legacy), Lehigh Univ, College of William + Mary, Virginia Tech (waitlisted, then rejected)
HS: Northern VA, Top Public
HS GPA : 3.23 (weighted with .5 for AP, took 6 AP classes, 94-100 was an A)
SAT: 1400 / 1600, 2010 / 2400 (760 math, 640 verb, 610 writing)
SAT II : 740 (us history) 660 (chem) 660 (math 2)
EC: Rowing team for 3 years (varsity letter, won states for our boat level senior year), Violin for 8 years (first at districts, various festivals, played at carnegie hall), volunteer work at hospital, bass guitar for five years, built and sold computers
Notes: Applied undecided or arts + sciences to all schools
GL guys 
Accepted: Penn, WashU, Tufts, UCSD, American, Macalester
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Williams
HS: Public HS in Oregon
HS GPA: 3.89
Rank: 16/312
SAT: 770 v 750 m 740 w
SAT II: 790 Bio-M 790 US History 770 World History
I took 7 AP classes. Four of these were my senior year so the scores didn’t affect my admission. The other scores were:
Euro - 5
US History - 5
Biology - 4
EC: Varisty Swim Team (SR year captain), Varsity Water Polo, SR Class President, Hundreds of hours volunteering with Relay for Life
Good Luck! My only advice is to make sure you do not choose a school based solely on “prestige.” I am currently at Penn and am looking to transfer.
raas- i hear you on the “prestige” thing, may I ask what your reasons are for transferring. I applied to Penn this year and though its a reach, I would still love to hear what you like/dislike about it. feel free to PM me.
This thread: EPIC WIN!
I was deferred to Cornell SHA… and I want to prove soooo badly that they’re my number one. so I have gotten an extra internship at a premium hotel and asked my couselor to write my another letter of rec (she knows how hard I’ve been trying) I kept my GPA up at a 3.8 for this 1st senior yr sem. and I have updated cornell with my new internship and a short message on how cornell is still my #1! but I want to do more! What can I do?!!