Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Accepted: NYU Stern (20,000 scholarship/yr), UPenn (23k scholarship per year), UC Berkeley (Regents and Chancellor’s scholarship), Princeton, UCLA, UCSD (regents)

Waitlisted: Columbia

Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740CR/770M/750W (2260)
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: 760MIIC/790USHist
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/744
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
Euro H (5)
French Lang (4)
US H (5)
English Lang (4)
Psychology (5)
Chemistry (4)
Chinese (5)
French Lit (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): French SL: 5, more this year. (IB diploma)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
AP Physics B
AP/IB English Lit HL
AP Calc AB
IB History of the Americas HL
IB Visual Arts SL
IB/AP Biology HL
IB TOK
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
National French contest
AP National Scholar
National History Day (regional)
Speech and Debate awards (pretty insignificant considering I didn’t final in State)
And bunch of other worthless crap
[/ul]** Subjective:**[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Best Buddies (4 years, Public Affairs –9th, Treasurer-10th and 11th, and President- 12th)
Speech and Debate (co-treasurer)
Academic Team
Art (self-taught: sold art work to support education of a couple people with similar background as I: girls in rural China oppressed by a patriarchal society)
Lots of family commitment: babysitting, cooking, tutoring little sister etc.
And other crap not worth mentioning
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at a pharmaceutical company summer 2007, internship with CA assemblyman this year, lots of babysitting
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Library, Soup Kitchen…very general (required by IB)
[<em>] Summer Activities: art, Best Buddies leadership conference, nothing mind blowing, a visit/camp in China.
[</em>] Essays: I thought it was good, honest, very personal but nothing flashy.

[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Southern CA- a little ghetto in Sunny San Diego
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Large poor Public (a little over 3000 people)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese (immigrant)
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none[/li][/ul]Reflection[list]

I did have very unique life experiences. That probably was what made me stand out.

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Well, I remember last year when I would always look at this thread, but I would only find posts that were out of my league. So this one is to relieve the nervousness of the soon to be seniors that are not as smart as some of the HYP kids here.

Accepted- Case Western Reserve University (attending), U of Miami, Siena College (full ride) , Boston University, SUNY Binghamton Albany and Stony Brook, Tulane

Waitlisted- NYU, BU—>accepted like a week ago, Tulane—> differed then accepted

Rejected- College of William and Mary, Colgate

SAT Math-650, CR-600, Writing-580
GPA 94
AP Environmental, US History, US Government, Spanish Language
Awards A bunch of science awards, nothing national
ECs 4 year varsity wrestler (captain), Science Research, Envirothon Team, and Ping Pong club
Work Teachers assistant at an SAT tutoring place
Volunteer Missionary Trip to the Dominican Republic
Essays Very good, I received a lot of help
Other Small public school, Asian Male

Well I hope that made some people feel better. Anyways, GOOD LUCK next year!

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^ i’m really jealous your school had a ping pong club, i’ve been thinking about trying to start one at mine

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Accepted: Duke (attending), Brown, UChicago, Northwestern, Rice, Vanderbilt, UNC-CH (Honors Program, $2,500/yr Distinguished Scholarship)

Waitlisted: Columbia (Engineering), UPenn, WUStL

Rejected: Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell

Objective:
* SAT I (breakdown): 690 CR / 770 M / 770 W (2230)
* ACT: n/a
* SAT II: 800 MIIC / 750 Chem
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/585
* AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), Psychology (5), Chem (5), US History (5), English Lang (4), Physics C: Mechanics (4), Calc BC (5), Calc AB Subscore (5)
* IB (place score in parenthesis): French SL: 5
* Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Statistics, AP Environmental Science, IB Twentieth Century Topics, IB Physics HL, IB TOK, Calc III, Differential Equations
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Some Science Olympiad Medals, National French Contest 18th in State

Subjective:
* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club (Vice President), Science Olympiad (Co-President), Science Bowl (Team Captain), Soccer
* Job/Work Experience: n/a
* Volunteer/Community service: Various projects through Key Club
* Summer Activities: Camp Junior Counselor, Summer Ventures in Science and Mathematics, NC Governor’s School for the Natural Sciences, Research Internship at UNC-CH
* Essays: Mediocre, in my opinion.

Other:
* State (if domestic applicant): NC
* Country (if international applicant):
* School Type: Public Magnet
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* Income Bracket: middle
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

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i can do my sister
Accepted: Emory ED
Wait Listed:
Rejected: Dartmouth (they didn’t withdraw her application)

School Type: small, private, catholic- she was in the 2nd graduating class
Location: FL
Race/Gender: white
Prospective Major: international business
Unweighted GPA: i think a 3.9
Weighted GPA: 4.25
Class rank: our school won’t say but she was in the top 5 out of 50 kids (top 10%)

SAT I Scores: highest sitting- 1240 (superscore: 1250)
SAT I Math: 630/660
SAT I Critical Reading: 590/580
SAT I Writing: 590/640

SAT II Scores-
french- 510
math level I- 570

Extracurricular Info
work experience- florida neurosurgical associates; secretarial positions
modeling- local newspaper, jewelry store commercial
tennis- varsity tennis, captian, MVP twice, played #1 spot 9-12 grade
cheerleading- varsity co-captian, basketball and football cheerleading, “most spirited”

her hook- she co-founded a local charity with me that delivers flower arrangements to local hospital patients. her essay was about how she was inspired to do this because of our “adopted” grandmother.
**also- she made a scrapbook-like book full of photocopied awards, the legal proof that our charity exists, pictures from her modeling, and Most Outstanding Student awards

Awards
most outstanding student in various classes throughout high school

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Well, I looked at this thread a lot during my application process. Here are my stats:

Accepted: Chicago, RPI, Case, Vassar, Skidmore, UVM, SUNY Binghamton, Clarkson, and some schools that you haven’t heard of that my parents made me apply to
Waitlisted: Vanderbilt
Rejected: Hamilton

White Male
Small public high school in upstate New York.
GPA- 95.07/100
Rank- 7/106; top 10%. Not really competitive compared to some other schools.
SAT Verbal- 620
SAT Math- 700
SAT Writing- 660
Total- 1320/1980 (This is superscored. Highest in one sitting is 1280/1940)
ACT- 32 English, 30 Math, 33 Reading, 32 Science, and 8 essay for a 32 composite

School doesn’t offer any APs, just classes affiliated with local community colleges. I have taken one of the most rigorous schedules available at my school, and have accumulated 20-25 college credits.

Awards- 8 Varsity Letters, Rensselaer Medal (probably only a help at RPI), MasterMinds League MVP and 2nd team All-City, All-League selection in outdoor track

ECs- MasterMinds (Trivia team)(9, 10 JV) (11, 12 V) Aforementioned awards junior year
Soccer- (9, 10 JV) (11, 12 V) Moved up at end of 10th grade, can I put a check for varsity down on my app?
Indoor and Outdoor Track- (9, 10, 11, 12 V). All-League for outdoor junior year
National Honor Society- (11,12)
Church Worship Band- I have played drums in this band for four years. Probably 120+ Hours
Varsity Club- 12 (should have joined earlier haha)
American Legion Boys’ State Rep- 11
Jazz Band/Concert Band- (9, 10, 11, 12)
Club Soccer (9, 10, 11)- About 4 hours/week, 16 weeks/year. That’s a rough guess though

Work experience- Worked as soccer referee during the summer between my sophomore and junior year

Essay- Chicago’s main supplement essay is probably better than the Common App essay, but the teachers who reviewed the essays loved both.
Recs- Probably very solid considering my acceptances.

Here are my thoughts…

I should have shot higher. Chicago, Hamilton, Vandy and Vassar were my only reaches. I wouldn’t have applied to some of the schools on my list because they aren’t great fits for me. My parents influenced my application process too much.

Reasons for rejection/waitlist: Hamilton requires a sample of expository prose. I had written a TON of good stuff last year. Unfortunately, I don’t have any teacher-graded papers left. I had to send in a garbage, last-minute paper that I wrote in my extremely easy english class, and I thought it was bad. I think the admissions committee thought so too, because with the Vassar and Chicago acceptances, it seemed like Hamilton would be a waitlist at the very least.

Vandy was just extremely selective this year.

I now know what my ideal school would have been; a selective LAC located in the south (so I could be in a more conservative atmosphere). Hmm. DAVIDSON. And it has D1 athletics to boot. It’s too bad I didn’t do my research very well.

I wouldn’t have applied to many of the schools on my list. UVM was a free app. Clarkson was also free. Hamilton, Vassar and Skidmore were too liberal. I wouldn’t have wasted the time of those forced safeties. I was planning to take the winter sports season off to do my research, but my parents didn’t let me.

Regardless, my final three was one that most people in my geographic area couldn’t even sniff. Chicago’s a fantastic school, RPI is great, and SUNY Bing is solid too, especially considering the cost.

In the end, I chose RPI. Chicago was tough to turn down but I can get out of RPI debt-free. I wanted to major in statistics, but RPI doesn’t have a program. Instead, I am going to major in math and attend grad school in statistics. A transfer app to Chicago or Duke might be in order too after my first or second year at RPI.

So, my advice to the 2014 college grads (and beyond) is to do research on the college that fits you. If you don’t think that you’ll fit in somewhere, don’t apply! I know I did, but I might have taken the spot of someone that DID want to go to that particular school. I am lucky that I got accepted to the schools that fit me. Best of luck to all of you guys!

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back in March I spent a little too much time on this site

Accepted: Cornell (Architecture, Art, & Planning)(attending), U of Waterloo (Ontario), UMD, UVM, Virginia Tech
Waitlisted: UNC-Chapel Hill, UVA, UChicago

white male
small private school, not that competitive
GPA: 3.95 out of 4.33 UW
Rank: top 10% out of like 65 though haha
SAT: 1920 CR+M+W, 1260 CR+M
SAT II: 770 US Hist, 640 Chem, 660 Span w/ Listening
ACT: 34 composite
APs: US Hist (5), Lit (4), Chem (3), Spanish (dont know yet), Lit (didn’t take exam), Calc AB (don’t know yet)

School has limited APs, no honors classes.

ECs: XC and track all 4 years, captain of both senior year. Minimum wage job at ice cream store, 11th/12th grade. piano through 1st semester 12th grade. Was a running coach for an autistic athlete in my neighborhood for a summer.
Service: most of my hours came from 3 separate service trips and at an internship at a local historical society.
Awards: AP Scholar, MD Distinguished Scholar Semi-finalist, National Merit Commended student, stuff like that
Essays: nothing unconventional or earth-shattering except for my UChicago extended one which i thought was awesome
Recs: pretty good
Income bracket: middle-upper
Hook: nope

notes: I was really surprised at the Cornell acceptance. Lots of people I knew who were more qualified than me to go there didn’t get in, so I think admissions is really a crapshoot. Also I think having a low-paying job might have helped because it’s not something a lot of private school kids in my area do. oh, and I was waitlisted at every school that I sent my low-ish SAT scores to. that’s interesting.

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Accepted: University of Florida, Georgia Tech, Emory, Auburn University
Waitlisted: University of Miami (Later Accepted), Washington University in St.Louis (Later Accepted)
Denied: Vanderbilt
Attending: Auburn University for In-State Tuition

School Type: Public, I’ve attended 4 high schools
Location: Alabama
Race/Gender: White
Prospective Major: Pre-Optometry with Biomedical Science
Unweighted GPA: 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.2
Class rank: 40/692

9 or 10 APs- can’t remember

ACT- 27 (horrible :frowning: )

Extracurricular Info

NHS
Mu Alpha Theta
NSHS
Tri-M Music Honor Society (Secretary)
First Priority
Marching Band
Symphonic Band

Volunteering
United Way Youth Leader’s Council
Interact (Freshman Correspondent, Webmaster)
Junior Civitan (Service Project Leader)

Work Experience
Victoria’s Secret Sale Associate (present)
Atlanta Bread Company Cashier
Steak N’ Shake Waitress

Awards:
District Honor Band (4 years in a row)
Honor Roll (4 years)
Top 10% of graduating class

excellent recs
great essay

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Accepted: University of South Carolina, Clemson University, University of Tennessee, Florida State University.
Rejected: University of Florida ;_;

3.4 GPA
25 ACT
1120 SAT

EC:
Lots of stuff haha

3 AP courses, loads of Honors courses.

Sorry if I took the lazy route. :smiley:

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Accepted: Brown (attending), Dartmouth, University of Chicago, Georgetown, Northwestern, WUSTL, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Rice (Trustee scholarship 20k/year), University of Maryland-College Park

Waitlisted: Amherst (chose not to remain on waitlist)

Rejected: Harvard, Yale (SCEA deferred->rejected regular)

School Type: Highly competitive public
Location: Northern Virginia
Race/Gender: Caucasian/Male
Prospective Major: Chemistry
Unweighted GPA: 3.98
Weighted GPA: 4.67
Class rank: School does not rank

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 800
SAT I Writing: 800

SAT II Scores
SAT II Chemistry: 790
SAT II U.S. History: 770
SAT II Math IIC: 780

Awards/Extracurriculars: Viola and Speech/Debate focused. Leadership in both and statewide/national awards.

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I forgot about this thread. Heres my chances post from back in the day: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/550260-chances-rice.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/550260-chances-rice.html&lt;/a&gt; . The posters were right, I got into Rice.

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GPA: 4.0 uw / 4.4 w (hardest course load I could take)
ACT: 32 (12/12 on writing)
Class rank: 1 of 65
SAT II Chemistry and Math Lvl 2: 800

APs: 4 on Chemistry, 4 on Language and Comp, waiting on results of Calc AB and Lit and Comp

EC’s: Christian groups, school musicals

Results:
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, Amherst, Williams, Princeton, MIT
Waitlisted: Wash U. in St. Louis, Kenyon
“Sophomore transfer option”: Cornell CALS (don’t know whether I’ll go, but signing up for the course load)
Accepted: Vanderbilt (attending), Northwestern, Oberlin, Ohio State

In all honesty, I attribute all results to God. I praise Him that He allowed me to get in where I did, and I pray I would continue to serve Him at Vanderbilt and potentially Cornell. This will be my final post on this forum, and I want to emphasize something with it: a man’s opinion is only worth so much. Some people may have told me I could not have gotten into Northwestern or that Kenyon was a shoo-in. Submit the apps, see what happens, and don’t put all your stock in what one person says. Don’t stress about this stuff – there are more important things in life. I struggled with being obsessed with the search; don’t let it consume your life. I pray that College Confidential would seek verity, would find peace, and would experience true love.

God bless you all.

in Christ,
~ Tanstripe ~

P.S. A blessing on all those who bash this post :wink:

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^lol at your piousness.

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Decent public HS in Missouri
GPA 3.9 UW, 4.86 W
Rank 17/300
ACT: 36, 10 Writing
SAT: 2370, 10 Writing
SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 US Hist, 690 Chem
IB (no APs offered): 5 SL Spanish, 6 SL Psych., don’t know about the rest yet
EC’s: A couple of leaderships, a lot of volunteering…nothing great; no hook
Essays: To be honest, I thought they were good, but after admissions was over I read a lot of my friends’ essays and mine were crap compared to them.

Accepted: Dartmouth and some safeties.
Rejected: HYPS, Penn.

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GPA: 3.7 UW
ACT: 33
EC: 7 years lacrosse, captain senior year, plenty of volunteering, and some other piddly stuff
Awards: Nothing really. Nat’l Merit Commended, AP Scholar w/ Honor, minor stuff.
Courseload: 6 AP / 6 Honors, almost most rigorous, all AP scores thus far are 4’s.

Accepted: Syracuse U, Santa Clara U, U of Oregon
Waitlisted: Boston College (not yet heard from), Johns Hopkins U (declined), Colgate U (summer WL = reject)

My Thoughts: I was hoping to get into at least one of my reaches, but that’s just not the way the dice rolled. I had a downward trend, freshman year being a 4.0 and senior year, hovering around a 3.3, with varying grades throughout the middle. If I hadn’t gotten lazy I’m sure I would’ve been accepted at one or two. Santa Clara was my first choice anyway, and I got considerable financial aid, more than could be said of Syracuse. It’s off to SCU in the fall, and I suppose an attempt to transfer 12 miles down the road to Stanford, since that’s always been my real first choice :slight_smile:

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Public School
Race- Asian
GPA- 3.46
Rank- 12/315
SAT-1880
EC- Captain of Debate Team and Mock Trial team, Simulated Congressional Hearings, 4 years of tennis, 2 years of soccer, National Honor Society, Model United Nations, Biomedical Magnet Program
Accepted- UMass Amherst, Drexel, Loyola, Boston University ( Attending), UMaryland College Park
Rejected: Brown, Colgate, JHU, Vanderbilt
Waitlist: Carnegie Mellon

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Wow…one thing i notice is that this generation applied to a lot schools then i did. Avg. was like 4-6 now i see 9-13, thats crazy…no need for that…your making harder for everyone else.

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These are my brother’s stats:

Accepted: Dartmouth (Attending), UNC-Chapel Hill, UF
Rejected: HYP, Cornell, U Chicago

School Type: Public
Location: Florida
Race/Gender: White South African
Prospective Major: He said computer science, he’s now studying neuroscience and probably following up with law.
Unweighted GPA: 4.00
Weighted GPA: 4.75
Class rank: 1

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 740
SAT I Writing: 630

SAT II Scores
Don’t know, but he took Math I, Bio, and USH

ACT: 35

All IB Classes
AP Scores:
World: 5
Eng Lang: 4
IB SL Chem: 5

Long-form Info

Extracurricular Info
IB Extended Essay on politics in South Africa
Violist in a wedding quartet
Violinist in a voluntary trio
Chazzan at synagogue
Private violin lessons 12 years
Athletic Leadership Council at School
Varsity Tennis Co-Captain
4 Year Letterman Varsity Swim Team
Jr. Lifeguard Captain
Captain, Masterminds Team
Counter-Factual History Writer
Web Site Designer for Nonprofits

I think the interview sealed his acceptance to Dartmouth. He didn’t get into any of the other Ivies, but had a fantastic interview with a Dartmouth alumni interviewer in our area. That and his ACT score.

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Daughter’s results:

Virginia resident, white female, highly regarded suburban public high school, Notre Dame double legacy.

4.1 weighted GPA (top 10 percent)
10 APs (didn’t report scores to colleges)
SAT I: 1970 (640R, 620M, 710W)
SAT II: 690 (Spanish), 620 (Math Level I)
ACT: 28 (32 English, 25 Math)

Extracurriculars: Varsity rowing, Spanish Honors, Good but not crazy amount of volunteer work, NHS

Results:

Notre Dame – reject
Boston College, William and Mary – waitlist, then denied
UVA – admitted from waitlist and will attend
Wisconsin, Virginia Tech, JMU, Virginia Commonwealth – admitted

Not bad results, quite happy with UVA.