Accepted: bc, unc, tufts, duke, ncsu
rejected: brown after defferal
waitlisted: William and Mary, bucknell (lol)
3.9 uw, no weighted. No rank, competetive private, probably top 15 out of 100 ish
2230, 1450
730, 710, 660 for SAT II
my ec’s were few but they had meaning. Good recs. One was from a teacher who gave me an award. Killa azz essays.
Going to tufts. I should have applied to mo reaches. I’m getting happier about my choice though. 
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No, I am a URM, and I’m also from the south. My EC’s were a big fit, bc Im in the hotel school. Also, I went to summer college the year prior to applying, and I’ve come to find out that for my program, something like 80% of ppl who went to summer college and applied to cornell eventually got in and matriculated. I guess they interpret summer college as a big indicator of your interest in the school.
P.S.-- Ivy’s dont give out sport or merit scholarships. I’m sure however they help you with admissions. haha
wow I can’t believe you only applied to one school! 
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<li>Sorry this is so late…</li>
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Accepted: Yale, UVA, Johns Hopkins, George Mason, & Roanoke
Waitlisted: –
Rejected: –
Objective:
<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 660CR/760M/740W (2160)
ACT: –
SAT II: 780 MathII /720 French / 710 Bio E
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/558
AP (place score in parenthesis):
Euro (3)
Stats (5)
Lang & Comp (4)
French Lang (5)
US Hist (4)
Comp Sci A (3)
Calc BC (5/ subscore 5)
Physics C (2)
Human Geo (3)
Psych (5)
Bio (5)
Lit & Comp (4)
Gov (5)
Senior Year Course Load:
APHUG
AP Psychology
AP Biology (lab & lecture periods)
AP Literature
AP Government & Politics
Teacher Cadet
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
-George Washington University Medal for Math and Science
-National Merit Scholarship Program- Commended Student
-National Hispanic Recognition Scholar
-AP Scholar with Distinction
-Marine Corps Recognition for Outstanding Scholastic Excellence
-Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship
-Summa cum Laude
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Subjective:
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars:
Captain, Academic Team
Vice President, Science Honor Society
Science Bowl Team
Physics Club
National Honor Society
Beta Club
Secretary, French Honor Society
French Club
Secretary, Future Educators Association
Math Honor Society
Freshman Volleyball Team
Job/Work Experience:
Internship at National Institutes of Health (NIH) summer 2008 & 2009
Volunteer/Community service:
Volunteering at Holy Family Catholic Church
Tutoring Students at Lake Ridge Middle School
Tutoring Students at Woodbridge Senior High School in French, Math, and Science
Volunteer Teaching Assistant at Antietam Elementary School
Volunteer for the Obama Campaign
Summer Activities:
the internship at the NIH & that’s about it.
Essays: I thought it was pretty good, about my internship & another about my math teacher.
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<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): Northern Virginia
& i’m going to Yale! :]
hey yale girl I am also looking at Yale and I wanted to kknow if the standardised tests really make up that big of a factor or is it just something that they look at and consider?
I applied ED, but had a bunch of schools ready to apply regular.
Asian male
Top Private School in the Northeast
Class size: about 200
Rank: No rank but I’m among the top 10 or so students I would guess
SAT: 2320 (800 CR 760 M 760 W)
GPA: 3.84UW now LOL, was a 3.92 when I applied before my “senioritis” hit this spring.
ECs: Lots of good ECs, some great ones in community service. Also two varsity sports (I’m highly ranked in one)
Awards: AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, Dartmouth book award, School’s top service award.
Rejected: Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Dartmouth
Waitlisted: Amherst (didn’t get in but I didn’t do much to push it either, was pretty happy about Brown…although if I din’t get into Brown I would have really wanted to go here)
Accepted: Brown (attending), Columbia (college), Northwestern, Pomona, Middlebury, Emory, Boston College (Honors), Michigan (Honors), Colgate.
Funny how the college process works. Dartmouth was my dream school (my brother went there and he LOVED it), but fate worked out so I got into Brown instead. Anyway I couldn’t be more happy about being a Brown Bear!
Decisions:
Kalamazoo College: Accepted, will attend
Carleton College: Waitlisted
Macalester College: Waitlisted
Grinnell College: Accepted
Knox College: Accepted
Kalamazoo and Knox gave me merit aid.
**Stats: **
SAT I (by section): 760 CR, 660 M, 720 W.
SAT IIs: 770 Lit. USH was only okay. 700?
ACT: 32.
APs: English Lit - 4. School only offers English and Chem.
GPA: 4.1 on my schools odd weighting system. Dont know what it was unweighted.
Rank: N/A.
Awards: National Merit Finalist, Illinois State Scholar, National Latin Exam awards, individual awards in the WYSE academic competition, flute awards… those were the main ones.
ECs: Band, Latin Club, Film Club, Senior Retreat Team, Debate, YRUU (Unitarian Universalist Youth Group), National Honor Society, WYSE Academic Team, Habitat for Humanity planning/fundraising, Habitat for Humanity trips
Job/Work Experience: Barnes and Noble 12-15 hrs/week
Essay: How my bookshelf reflects who I am.
Teacher Recs: I hope they were good! One teacher let me read his and it made me feel all warm-fuzzy about myself… hopefully the other two were similar!
Counselor Rec: Good. My counselor was really rooting for me.
Senior Year Courses: Survey of the Humanities (dual credit), Theology, Honors Psych (dual credit), Honors Bio, AP English, Trig/College Algebra (dual credit), Government… I think thats it? Hard to remember now, haha.
Location/Person:
State or Country: IL
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): TINY, all-girls Catholic. Very average, rarely sends grads to top schools.
Ethnicity: White.
Gender: Female.
hey sstewart, i don’t really know much about how the admissions process works. one of my friends who goes to harvard says that if you get a 2200 or higher on your SATs, you’re basically in, but i doubt that’s true. they say that they try to find the best match for you and for the school. i think i got lucky, because my test scores aren’t amazing or anything. i had a great interview & pretty good essays. & being hispanic didn’t really hurt either. but i don’t think that standardized test scores are everything. they certainly take in other factors as well, which would weigh as much or more than the scores. good luck to you & i hope you decide to apply. it really is an amazing school & i love it :]
if you have any other questions, just ask!
thanks yale girl, and well I am a immigrant and jamaican so I think tht would play into my application also. I think? and seriously you can make this response a page long if you want but how fun is yale. It is not my top school but it seems interesting. What makes it different from all the other Ivys and also what would you say are the down sides.
tthanks alot.
can any other recent grads post their results. it is really helpful.
also yale girl would it be possible if I could get your email address so that you could help me a little more with yale u.
thanks
I posted this below earlier, but decided it belonged here. It is the acceptance history from our local high school. So it shows a couple hundred actual results.
<a href=“http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance.html[/url]”>http://www.pvpusd.k12.ca.us/penhi/collegeacceptance/collegeacceptance.html</a>
It’s a California school, so lot’s of Cal here, but a lot of Ivy applicants.
I think this data is from last year or the year before.
thanks bovertine, that was truly a wealth of information
Accepted:
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon U
Maryland
URI- Pharmacy
RPI
Case Western U
Rutgers
UConn
NYU
Rejected: None 
SATs: 730 Math, 630 CR, 620 Writing
SATII: 730 Math IIc, 730 Chem
Rank: 50/290
GPA:3.4
Extracurriculars:
-Swimming- 8 years
-All American
-Recurited(this helps a lot!!!)
-Math Team
-Assistance Swim Coach @ YMCA
off-topic, quertyelmer:
were you recently all-american in swimming?
if so, what events/times
I don’t use this thread anymore, but I wanted to post my stats to help out future applicants.
Accepted:
Yale (SCEA)
Williams (Early Write; Tyng Scholarship recipient–funding for grad school)
Dartmouth (Likely Letter)
UF
UNC-Chapel Hill (Likely Letter; Morehead-Cain Scholarship)
Not rejected anywhere. I’m glad I didn’t apply to more schools; choosing between full merit scholarships at both Williams and UNC and 100% financial aid at both Yale and Dartmouth was difficult.
Attending: UNC-Chapel Hill on the Morehead-Cain scholarship.
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (800 M, 770 CR, 750 WR)
ACT: 36
SAT II: 800 Math II 770 Physics 730 Lit
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 1% of 700
AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics B (5), English Language (5), Euro History (4)
[Not on application: AP Chem (4), AP Calc AB (5), AP Spanish Literature (3)]
IB (place score in parenthesis):Physics SL (7)
[Not on application: HL History (7), SL Math (7), HL Spanish (6), HL English (6), SL Chem (4)]
Senior Year Course Load: Hard. Full IB.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Regional, State, and national yearbook/journalism awards
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Editor-in-Chief of Yearbook for 2 years (11,12), Editor-in-Chief of literary magazine for 3 years (10, 11, 12), Edited the school dvd, Section editor of the newspaper (12), Cross country runner (10-12), Track runner (11)
Job/Work Experience: Held jobs since 10th grade. Two internships at a journalism company. Helped organize a statewide journalism conference.
Volunteer/Community service: Just to fulfill IB requirements
Summer Activities: Camp counselor; journalism competitions and awards; 2 journalism internships.
Essays: Amazing.
Teacher Recommendation: Amazing
Counselor Rec: Don’t really know her… at all
Additional Rec: Amazing, from yearbook rep who said I was the best she’s ever seen
Interview: Boring
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Undecided on all but UNC-Chapel Hill, where I applied as a Journalism major.
State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Giant public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 60,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen
Accepted: Boston College (attending), Georgetown, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Cornell
Wait-listed:Brown, Dartmouth
Rejected: Yale, Columbia
I will post my basic stats
Race: Caucasian male
Income bracket: <$60,000
SAT I: 2310
SAT II’s: Math 2-800, Physics-730, Math 1-800
GPA UW:3.9 (do not know weighted)
Rank: School does not give out, but top 3 for sure.
Good luck to everyone who will be applying for next year!!!