I never considered myself a “lucky”/hooked applicant… Weird. It wasn’t until I started partying with juniors that they conducted a self-survey of an applicant.
And I am VERY glad I chose UNC.
This is so useful in calculating your chances on your own!
^ whoa… a 3.4??
thesmart1, why did you choose BC over Georgetown?
Couple of reasons. First and foremost: i absolutely love the city of Boston and i support just about all the sports teams there(Celts,pats,sox,bruins). Also, I am going for business so BC beat out Georgetown there (although Notre Dame and Cornell have better “ranked” business u-grad programs). I might have chosen Notre Dame if it wasn’t such a far drive from my home, but BC was also just my favorite campus when i visited and everything seemed to fit. I feel not only will i get a great education there but have the best college experience.
georgetowns feel and campus knocked my socks off. BC was too… stereotypical. Stereotypically beautiful, nonetheless.
Oh and i forgot another reason was that BC gave me slightly better FA than g-town. but yes, g-town’s campus is gorgeous too
Prospective Econ major
Applied (in order of preference at time of application): Princeton, Northwestern, Yale (SCEA), Georgetown, Duke, Bowdoin, Harvard, Cornell, Virginia, Wisconsin, Rutgers
White male from NJ; competitive public school
No legacy/hooks anywhere
Income Bracket: High (but not nearly high enough to buy my way in)
SAT 1600/2390
SAT IIs: 800s in Math II, Physics, US History
APs: 5’s on Calc AB, US History, English Language at time of application; have since gotten 5’s on Stats, Macro, Physics: Mechanics
GPA 4.2 W; Top 10% (and maybe 5%) of class; rank not reported
4 yr. job as a caddie
3 yrs. varsity golf (team undefeated county champions 2 yrs in a row)
1 yr. FBLA (Fed Challenge participant)
2 yrs. Student Newspaper
Some limited volunteering
No real awards 
Essays: Really Superb
Recommendations: Solid, prolly not great (teachers don’t love me because I often skipped homework and ignored rules on silly stuff like formatting)
Interviews: Ranged from so-so (G’town, Princeton) to great (Bowdoin, Harvard)
Accepted: Virginia (attending), Bowdoin, Wisconsin, Rutgers (merit $$$)
Rejected: Princeton, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern (waitlist), Harvard (waitlist), Yale (deferred), Georgetown (extended waitlist, priority transfer status)
For what it’s worth…
Accepted:
CMU (SCS)
UVA (SEAS)
VT
RPI ($60000 in merit scholarship)
Penn (SEAS)
Columbia (SEAS)
Rejected:
MIT
Princeton
Attending: Columbia
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2260 (800 M, 730 CR, 730 WR)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 770 Spanish
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A- probably would be middle of class given that a lot of ppl took way more AP classes than me (think 9-12 APs over four years)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Computer Science AB (5), Chem (5), Spanish Lang (5), US History (5), US Gov(5), English Lang (5), Calc BC (5)
Senior Year Course Load: A few APs + a couple of post-AP programming classes. A class in digital electronics was actually the most difficult…
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Uh…AP Scholar + National Merit Semifinalist? Otherwise, no.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Piano (since 3rd grade or so…got a couple of trophies for getting consistently good ratings at the local festival over the years), Quizbowl (VP), Computer Team (10-11- lost interest and dropped it senior year to focus more on Quizbowl)
Job/Work Experience: Summer internship at NRL, senior year fall internship at Northrop Grumman
Volunteer/Community service: Odd one-time jobs to meet NHS requirements
Summer Activities: Video game academy/pre-college program at CMU, internship at NRL
Essays: BS’d over Thanksgiving. Common App essay was particularly bad…
Teacher Recommendation: Average? One was from the Quizbowl sponsor who knew me pretty well, one was from a teacher who wrote me a rec to get into the NRL internship
Counselor Rec: Probably formulaic…I only talked to her when I had to
Additional Rec: None
Interview: I got rejected from both schools I interviewed for. Granted they’re kinda ridiculous places that I didn’t really have a shot at anyway…
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Computer Science
State (if domestic applicant): VA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public magnet
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
THis forum helped me a tonnnnnnn w/ SAT prep so I’ll give back as well. I never did a chance because I saw all the crazy stats on here…but for you out there that have less qualified #s than the super smart on CC…this is for ya’ll. I’ll respond to personal messages for details. PM and I’ll respond when I can. Good luck
Accepted: RMC, JMU, VT, W&M, UVA, Brown (Emma watson’s going), Stanford
Rejected: Columbia
Attending in fall: Stanford
No merit scholarship @ the Publics.
Great financial aid at both, Stanford of course owns Brown…
4.6 W; 3.8 or 9 UW
1900 one sitting; 2160 next; 720 in 3 sections
630 chem; 680 math II
AP Psych -5 ; HIstory 3; Gov 4; Lit 3
28 college credits - dual.
Pretty good ECs.
Holla. Work hard. Believe. Dream. Achieve.
Oh yeah; uhh Asian, 1st gen to go to college, born here, Virginia, public school
did u take any ap classes?
sweet i have similar stats. what were your EC’s?
there is a search word tool on this thread dude…
@enigma: you should’ve applied to more schools. Sounds like you chose really hard and really easy ones. You might’ve had a better shot with liberal arts colleges. and you can always transfer after freshman year. its a lot easier to get into good schools as a transfer as long as you get As freshman year, which doesn’t sound like it will be a problem for you.
Would be interested in learning where some of the INTEL and Siemens winners (semi-finalists, finalists) ended up. Thanks.
Applied: College of William and Mary (ED)
Accepted: College of William and Mary
Stats: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-william-mary/805345-ed-chances-white-nova-chick.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-william-mary/805345-ed-chances-white-nova-chick.html</a>
Accepted: UNH, College of the Holy Cross
Wait-listed: Navy
Rejected: Notre Dame
basic stats
Race: Caucasian male
High School: public, 2400 students
SAT I: 1970
ACT: 30
GPA UW: 3.76
Rank: 5 out of 519
Extracurriculars: National Honor Society, National Latin Honor Society, newspaper staff, Editor of the yearbook, varsity golf team
Also earned my eagle scout during my senior year, and was involved in a lot of community service.
Good Luck
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Accepted: Duke University (ED), Ohio State University (In-State), and Case Western Reserve University (EA)
Attending: Duke University
Hi,
Columbia is my top choice, could you give me a few more details about you?
Mine:
8/334 class rank
public school in a town in upstate ny (north of Albany)
3.83 GPA, no weighting
2260 SAT (800 W, 740 CR, 720 M)
34 ACT (35 M, 33 Sci, 34 eng/write)
730 SAT 2’s math 1, chem
690 SAT 2’s us hist, eng lit
ethnicity: south asian
no financial aid
major activites:
founded world culture club
top student in my teacher’s academy of classical indian dance (now i teach)
lone student rep on 2 school district action teams
secretary of class of 2010
heavily involved in National Art Honor Society
Educational Internship with 2nd & 3rd grade “Enrichment” class