Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Attending: Columbia College of Columbia U.
Also Accepted at: Duke, Cornell, Northwestern, Hopkins, Tufts
Waitlisted –> Rejected: Harvard

SAT I - 2260 (800M, 720V, 740W, 12 essay)
SAT II - Math IIC 800, Chem 790, US History 750

Rank - 7 out of 380

Awards:
1- National Merit Scholarship Finalist and Winner ($2500)
2- NYS Regents Scholarship ($2000)
3- American Chemical Society Award of Achievement
4- USAA National Mathematics Award
5- USAA All-American Scholar

Activities:

  • Novice Captain of Debate for 2 years, Top 32 in NYS, Top 32 and 10th place speaker at Princeton Invitational
  • Founder and Teacher of an Advanced Math Class for Sophomores
  • Math Research for 2 summers (2004 Ross Math Program at OSU, 2005 Columbia with a Post-Doc). Wrote a research paper. 2nd place in NYS in category of math, 2nd place on Long Island in the category of math
  • We the People Constitution Team, NYS champions, 4th place in the nation
  • Co - Captain of Percussion for Marching Band

Good luck guys

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accepted: carnegie mellon, nyu(stern), drexel bs/md
rejected: u penn

sat: 710 math, 690 verbal, 720 writing
sat II: 670 math IIC, 620 bio m
ap: bio-5 engish lit-4

e.c.: president of a couple clubs, volunteer hours

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Accepted: Stanford U, Villanova U, U Southern California, Santa Clara U, U of Pittsburgh, U of Maryland (attending)

Scholarships: Dean’s scholarship at USC, small scholarship at SCU, full tuition at Pitt, full-ride at Maryland.

Rejected: n/a (I kept it short and simple.)

Attended mildly prestigious Jesuit school in Maryland (Georgetown Prep)

Grades: we didn’t do GPA, but I had a cumulative 94.8 unweighted average when I applied.

Junior year Courses:
AP Art Studio I
AP English Lang & Comp
AP US History
Honors Chemistry
Intro to Calc
Junior Religion
Spanish II

Senior Year Courses (went a little crazy)
AP Art History
AP Art Studio II
AP Lit & Comp
AP Physics C
AP Calculus AB
Senior Religion

Best SAT scores
750 Verbal (old one) 730 CR
710 Math
630 Writing (shame, shame)

SAT II’s
Lit - 720
Math Level 2 - 760
US History - 770
Biology - 760

ACT
34E/34M/34R/30S–33 Composite

I ran cross country and track for junior (JV on XC, Varsity on track) and senior year (same), I played piano for 9 years, guitar for 4, um, I was in my church youth group for a couple years, I went to World Youth Day in Germany August 2005…nothing too special. NHS, about 200 of community service (i.e. satisfying my school’s requirements).

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you can see lots of actual results like what is in this thread at collegedata.com, in this section called Admissions Tracker. I think it must be new because it wasn’t there a while ago.

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do colleges take boy scout status seriously? - Eagle scout

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They love Eagle Scouts/Girl Scouts’ Gold Award

107

is that really a big ec/possible hook? i just got my gold award, and i’ve been pretty dedicated for 12+ years.

108

Accepted to all schools I applied to: Chapman University (attending), University of Redlands, University of San Diego, Santa Clara University, Loyola Marymount University, University of the Pacific

Classes: Mostly honors, 4 AP classes, a few regular, 3 foreign language year, no physics, Calculus
GPA: 3.3 UW
SAT: 690 CR, 660 M, 650 W 1350 V+M, 2000 total
SATII: 760 US History, 710 Literature
ECs: Band/jazz band, Science Olympiad, literary magazine, founded psych club, a few others
Personal, personality showing, good essay and good recs.
Aid: Scholarships ranging from $8000-15000 from all schools except LMU. Chapman gave best grant at $11000. SCU gave huge loan.

I’m satisfied as I got in my number one college, got enough money with my stats that suffered from my bad hs experience and am following my dream of going to California (and in the process getting away from my parents). Good luck to all future appliants.

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georgetown prep is more than mildly prestigious haha

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^Well, not many people outside of the NE/Mid-atlantic know it that well, unless they’re lacrosse fans.

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Amherst: waitlisted –> rejected
Brandeis: accepted
UC Berkeley: accepted (attending, lots of aid)
UC Santa Barbara: accepted (nearly full-ride)
Harvard: rejected
Northwestern: waitlisted –> accepted (couldn’t afford it)
Pomona: waitlisted –> rejected
Stanford: rejected (early action)
Yale: rejected

4.0 UW - International Baccalaureate - 2220 SAT - 750 Math IIC - 740 Chemistry - Editor-in-Chief of newspaper - Concertmaster of orchestra - job at local newspaper - VP of Model U.N. - National Merit Scholar

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yea, im a lax fan, but still its a great school

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Accepted: Hamilton (1/2 scholarship + research $), Tufts (Nat’l Merit $), Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Cornell (Human Ecol.+research $), RPI EA(1/2 schol.), Union/Albany Medical College (1/2 schol.), Georgetown EA and HARVARD (attending-gasp)
Waitlisted: Penn (jerks, but ill live)
Rejected: none

Sex: Male
Race: White
School: New England Day-Prep, not upper eschelon…sends a few to Ivies/yr
Major: Biology (Premed)
Rank: Salutatorian/41
GPA: 11.15/12 (A+=12, A=11…)

SATs: 800M 740V 660W (jerks, again)
800 Math II
760 Physics
740 US Hist.

ACT: 29 :confused: (not submitted)

APs:
Calc BC: 5
US History: 5
Physics B:4
US Gov: 5
English Lit.:4
Biology: 5

PSAT: 219 (NY)

ECs:

Soccer: (Varsity, Club, Premier, Regional, National, International levels)
-Captain of Varsity, just started on the other teams that travelled around the country and world. personally, won some minor awards (allstar team selections). i was semi recruited by a few DIII schools but im not playing any more.

Track: (Varsity)
-Captain of Varsity, again recruited somewhat by DIII schools, but will run DI at Harvard.

Student Government:

  • President and Student Judiciary, oversaw running of newly implemented leadership program.

Drill Team:
-1st Sergeant, Squad Leader

Hospital Volunteer (2 summers), Hematology research project, various community service events, MUN, JA, HOBY, NYLF-Med., Student Ambassador, JV Basketball, Campaign work for senator, Math and Science Tutor

Awards: National Merit Finalist ($ for Tufts), Cum Laude Society, AP Scholar w/ something, Harvard book award, RPI Medal, National Latin Exam 3x Summa Cum Laude, Soccer State Champion, Regional Champion

Interviews: I connect well with adults and the only interview that I thought didn’t go well was the Harvard one. Quick anecdote, my Columbia guy was 2 hours late (we met in an inner city library on a weekday evening) and felt bad so he afterwards he told me he was giving me a “7 out of 7” for “patience”.

Essays: I can write fairly well (ignore the SAT se vous plais)…wrote the extra essay for Harvard, main common app one was about my developed passion for medicine, Hopkins one was about my science research class and in the question about an EC on the common app i described a drill maneuver i performed.

Advice: Always go EA, even if you dont want to even go to the school, it takes a huge weight off your shoulders senior year. visit the schools and find what makes you happy, the name and the pamphlets are the worst things to base your decisions on…really take the time in April to spend time at the colleges youre deciding on. hope this helps…

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somebodynew…why did you pick UMD-College Park over Stanford? i am confused.

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^^scholarship money i’m guessing?

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Accepted

George Washington…Finance (Attending)
Tulane…Finance
DePauw…Economics
Indiana…Finance
Loyola Chicago…Finance

Rejected

Cornell…Economics (ED)
Chicago…Economics (EA)
NYU…Finance
USC…Finance
Boston College…Finance
Boston U…Finance

White Male
Illinois resident

Attended one of the top public high schools in the country. We usually send around 100 students to top 15 schools every year (Mostly Northwestern/Chicago). Then another 100 or so to the University of Illinois.

Stats

UW GPA: 3.4
W GPA: 4.6
Rank: 230 out of 650
SAT: 2060
ACT: 31
Took 10 APs and 8 Honors courses (4 or 5 on all but 2 APs)
Very strong essays

ECs/Awards

Editor of an award-winning newspaper
Most Talented Writer award from a top journalism school
State Scholar
Community Service
AP Scholar with Honors
Job
3-year internship

Interviews

My interview at GW went extremely well. The only other interview I did was at the U of Chicago, which was terrible to say the least and kinda scared me away from doing any other interviews.

The interview started by him asking me where I lived, at which point he entered into a rant about how much he hated my town because it was too “elitist”, and then told me about all his bad experiences there and his failure to buy a house there. His next question was “What don’t you like about the U of Chicago”, so I answered that I didn’t like the workload and then he went into a rant about why I am doing an interview with something who hates the University so much. Later on in the interview he accused me of lying about my ECs. Then he cut the interview short and said he had to go to a “meeting” and gave me his card so that I could e-mail him if I wanted to continue the interview. I did, and 7 months later I’m still awaiting a response. I called the school twice, and they didn’t help me any.

Notes

I’m terrible at math, which killed my GPA/rank and sunk my SAT/ACT scores. Plus I’m a finance major, which involves math, so that didn’t help me any. I got a ton of scholarship money from DePauw, Indiana, & Loyola. Nothing from GW or Tulane.

I visited Chicago, NYU, Boston College, Tulane, and GW (twice).

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Attending: Emory
Accepted: Emory, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, BC, Colby
Wait listed: UChicago, Bowdoin
Rejected: Notre Dame

GPA: 3.8uw
SAT: 700V, 650M
EC’s: Very active in a variety of clubs, modest volunteer work, no varsity sports.

Other: From Nebraska, which probably helped at some colleges and hurt at others. Essays varied in quality. My HS was difficult but nothing extraordinary.

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nevermind…

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Asian female from Northern NJ public school
GPA: 3.75 unweighted
Class Rank: 10/313
SAT: 800M, 750W, 700V (2250 total)
SAT II: 800IIC, 760IC, 710Chem, 740Writing, 610Bio
Prospective Major: Business, Marketing

ECs

  • Orchestra (President), String Ensemble, Pit Orchesra, String Quartet, all that music stuff… (section leader)
  • Odyssey of the Mind
  • Yearbook Club
  • National Honor Society, German Honor Society, Music Honor Society (VP)
  • lotsa tutoring

Awards/Honors:

  • NJ Governor’s School on the Environment
  • Odyssey of the Mind accomplishments on the regional, statewide, and worldwide level
  • NJ Bloustein Scholar and other not so special stuff

Accepted: UMich Ross Preferred Admit (with $20k), NYU Stern Scholars ($20k), BC Carroll, CMU Tepper, UIUC Business Honors Program, GTech Business, Rutgers (full ride)
Waitlisted: Cornell AEM
Rejected: UPenn Wharton (ED), Columbia, Dartmouth
Attending: UMich Ross

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Accepted: Michigan (attending), Northwestern, Cornell, Purdue, USC
Rejected: Penn, Columbia

School Type: Public
Location: Michigan
Race/Gender: Engineering at accepted schools, business/econ at rejecteds
Prospective Major: Electrical Engineering or Business Administration
Unweighted GPA: 4.17 (school gives 4.33 for A+)
Class rank: 6/678

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 740
SAT I Critical Reading: 680
SAT I Writing: 770

SAT II Scores
SAT II Chem: 720
SAT II U.S. History: 770
SAT II Math IIC: 800

AP Scores:
US: 5
Gov’t US: 4

Long-form Info

Extracurricular Info
*Previous two summers spent with DaimlerChrysler (first in Germany, then in USA/Canada
*Internship with US Representative
*NHS, Key Club, Quiz Bowl, etc.

Awards
*National Merit Commended
*Valedictorian
*Achievement on national math tests like AIME, etc.

Essays:

  • My engineering essays were awesome. Non-engineering for Penn and Columbia were not. Upon reading them now, I really believe that I could have been accepted anywhere I wanted for engineering with the essays I wrote.
    *Teacher and counselor recs were awesome.