28 years old
Moved to the US from Israel 5 years ago.
Served as a combat officer in the Israeli military
Married
HS - horrible
GED - honors
CC GPA - 3.95 Major - 4.0, dean’s list
ACT - 24 composite score
Extracurricular:
2 tech internships
Humane society volunteer
Phi Theta Kappa
Work:
4 years sales experience
Israeli military - 4 years
Looking to get in at:
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Thank you for the input
CC has helped me a TON with my college search and everything college.
I applied to six schools: USC, Cal Poly SLO, Santa Clara, USD, Chapman, & SDSU.
Objective:
SAT: 2010 (710 Math, 690 Reading, 610 Writing)
SAT II: Did very poorly, but didn’t send to any schools because none of my schools required it.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.3
Weighted GPA: 3.7ish
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Probably 25%ish
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (1) lol haha - hated that class, will take APES & AP GOV this year.
Senior Year Course Load: 2 APs + 2 normal + 2 HEAVY electives.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): TONS of stuff. Sports. Leadership ASB. Virtual Business team (competed in NYC & did really well). Lots of travel. Lots of Clubs.
Job/Work Experience: None.
Volunteer/Community service: 70 hours.
Summer Activities: Summer School one year…
Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good I assume.
Counselor Rec: Pretty good I assume.
Additional Rec: Has a friend of a friend who knew higher-ups at SCU write a rec for me for SCU.
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): California
School Type: Really good Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: >150,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none 
Accepted to:
Waitlisted:
Denied:
Attending:
Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo!!
Really tough choice deciding between SLO & SCU though…
I’m pretty confident in my decision… and glad my life is on to it’s next stage.
Thanks CC for all the help! And goodluck to everyone else!
Actual results (pretty boring due to ED):
Stats:
SAT: 730 CR, 770 M, 800 W
SAT II: 740/760/790 in Spanish/Math II/Bio
APs: 5s in Bio, BC Calc, Spanish Lang (others pending senior year)
GPA: 4.02 when I applied, I believe
Small private school with impressive acceptance records. No big awards.
Applied: Brown University PLME (ED), UCSD. Accepted to Brown, revoked UC application.
Results for a high SAT/low GPA applicant.
Stats:
SAT: 790 M, 790 CR, 720 W (2300)
SAT II: 750 Math II, 740 Physics, 800 Chem
AP: 5 on Chem, 4’s on AB Calc, US History, and Literature
GPA: 3.65 UW
Rank: Unranked (but about 35%)
Course Load: difficult, but not appallingly so.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars: sports, no leadership, but all conference honors in a few.
Job/work experience: none.
Volunteering: a little bit.
Summer activities: lots of summer programs.
Teacher recommendations: one glowing, one pretty mediocre.
Counselor rec: fine, I assume?
Other stuff
State: MN
School: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income: No financial aid
Hooks: recruited athlete at a few LAC’s
Acceptances:
Boston College
Bowdoin
Carleton
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Waitlists:
Amherst
Middlebury
Northwestern
Williams (dream school, I applied ED - this is the only waitlist I stayed on)
Rejections:
Dartmouth
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Moral: Ivies want high GPA’s to the exclusion of everything else. Look for schools that will overlook low GPA’s if the other stats are there. Schools that fit these criteria that I should’ve applied to but didn’t: Tufts, UChicago, Wash U.
I’m headed to Carleton in the fall pending an unlikely waitlist acceptance from Williams. I’m not ecstatic about my results, but considering the amount of effort that I put into high school, these results are about as good as I could expect.
I applied to fourteen schools: Tulane, Seattle U, University of Washington, Gonzaga, University of Portland, Azusa Pacific, Chapman (film production), Santa Clara, Loyola Marymount(Film Production), USC(Film Production), Loyola of New Orleans, Fordham, Scripps, and Pomona (rest applied for medicine)
Objective:
SAT: 1760 (660 Math, 550 Reading, 550 Writing)
SAT II: math II 650
ACT:28
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Weighted GPA: I don’t know
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10%ish
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (3)
Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs ( Physics B, Lan&Composition, Calculus AB, and Spanish)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Sports
Job/Work Experience: Babysit
Volunteer/Community service: IDK
Other:
State (if domestic applicant): WA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White/Black
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation
Accepted to:
WAITLISTED:
-Pomona
Attending:
Loyola Marymount for Film production
So excited!
@ Shibykin
Lucky hahah
Waitlisted at Amherst and reject at brown Penn dartmouth duke williams northwestern… yet got into stanford. Interesting!
Country: United States
State: California
Accepted:
Pomona College (Attending), Scripps College (JES Scholarship), Reed College, UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB (Regents Scholarship), UCI (RS), Tulane University, Occidental College, St. John’s College - Santa Fe, Willamette University
Rejected: Stanford University, Claremont McKenna College
Waitlisted: Pitzer College, Wesleyan University
Deferred: N/A
EA/ED: N/A
Sex: Female
Race: Caucasian
Unweighted GPA: 4.00
Weighted GPA: 4.22
Class Rank: 1 or 2 out of ~70 (depending on W or UW GPA)
SAT I: CR: 770; M: 710; W: 800
SAT II: USH 760; Lit 740
ACT: N/A
AP: 5 on APUSH
Awards:
Photography, Drama, and Modern World History subject awards
National Merit Commended Student
Principal’s Honor Roll
Employment: [N/A]
Essays:
Main essay was about my efforts to teach myself German and how language connects all of my primary interests: writing, dramatic arts, and philosophy.
Supplementary essay for Pomona was an eccentric little piece about my passionate participation in California marine culture (grunion running) =]
Community Service:
Tutoring in everything fathomable
Library volunteer work
Extra-curriculars:
Excessive participation in performing art school’s drama program all four years, as well as various summer programs at local theaters
10 plays, 5 major roles
CSSSA Innerspark at CalArts (11th grade)
Piano, Guitar, and Clarinet
Art Club (9th and 10th grade)
Self-taught German (11th and 12th grade)
Hooks: I included an arts supplement in my applications to Pomona and Occidental with an audition tape, a resume, pictures from shows, and a glowing recommendation from my drama teacher. My parents believe that this made both me and my (new and obscure) high school stand out in Pomona’s competitive admission pool.
Country: United States
Sex: Female
Location: CT
Race/Ethnicity: Caucasian
GPA (UW): 4.47 (my school uses a 4.5 scale)
GPA (W): 4.89
SAT: 2240 (690 M/750 CR/800 W)
SATII: 800 World, 800 USH, 760 Math II, 750 Lit
Rank: 3/435
Graduating with 10 AP classes, all other classes either honors or advanced honors
Waiting on 6 scores, but 5s on AP World, AP U.S., AP Language and AP Calculus AB.
Awards: Lots of school awards, a Williams book award, National Merit Commended. Nothing major.
ECs: Varsity Soccer (4 years)
Club Soccer (4 years, 20+ hours per week, recruited at several schools)
Varsity Outdoor Track
Interact Club (Treasurer)
Girl Scouts
Safe Rides (Leader)
National Charity League
Literary Magazine
Work: Part-time job at a gym (10-15 hrs/week), part-time at a pet-store
Accepted at: Carleton*, Hamilton, Vanderbilt, UNC-Chapel Hill, UVA, College of William and Mary, UConn, Macalester, Northwestern
Waitlisted at: Williams, Amherst
Rejected at: Harvard and Princeton (haha)
I’ll be going to CARLETON!!! It was my first choice school and I’m really really excited.
Here are my brother’s stats, for the average, underachieving student 
I’m very different from him but I thought this could help some people. I panicked when I read this thread…
Results:
Accepted: Denison University (matriculating), University of Portland, Fordham
Waitlisted: Colgate University
Rejected: College of the Holy Cross, Washington and Lee University
GPA: 3.4 (I don’t know how my school does it)
Very prestigious Jesuit private school in Chicago
Race/Gender: Caucasian/Male
Rank: N/A
Prospective Major: English
SAT I: 2000 composite
SAT II: I don’t know…he took them though
ACT: 27
Senior Classes: AP Macroeconomics, AP English Literature, French 4, AP Chemistry, Religion 4, Precalculus, Photography
Awards:
~First Honors
~AP Scholar
Probably some other stuff…
Extracurricular Activities:
~JV Soccer (2 years)
~Varsity Soccer (4 years)
~Club Soccer (4 years)
~Varsity Tennis (3 years)
~Model United Nations (executive board member senior year)
Work Experience:
Yeah right. He’s interning for a future senator now though, which is awesome.
Volunteer Experience:
He did hard labor at a soup kitchen/shelter.
Essays: were probably great but he overuses flowery adjectives and vocabulary.
Interviews: None
He is an example of someone who is extremely intelligent but never applied himself in school…probably like a large percentage of people out there.
Accepted: UCSB (guess where i’m attending)
Rejected: UCLA, UCSD, UC Berkeley
Major: Music (Undecided at UCLA, i didn’t have the chops to auditon there and get in)
GPA:
3.6 UW
3.85 W
Test scores:
SAT: 1630
ACT: 26
SAT II - US - 570
SAT II - Lit - 610
Senior Courseload: School Broadcast, AP Statistics, AP Gov, AP Lit, Honors Pre-Calc, Academic Decathlon, Self-studying Envi Sci.
EC’s -
Asian culture club - 4 years
Muslim Students Association - 2 years
Piano - 2 years
Guitar - 1 year
Students Run LA training Program - 1 year
Cross country JV - 1 year
School Broadcast Host and Video editor(co founder) - 2 years
C.S.F. - 2 years
Competed in a summer slam poetry event, got eliminated in semi-finals.
Christian Club President - 4 years
Volunteered at a local music school(150 hrs total)
Acadeca - top scorer in school, silver medal in speech and interview
Work:
Assistant Floral Designer for two consecutive summers (10th and 11th)
AP Exams:
APUSH - 3
AP Lit - 3
Essays: Average, basically just how music inspired me to get my act together. Other was your stereotypical latino essay.
Hooks: Grades went from 3.4 soph year to 4.2 junior, so that might’ve helped. Only played piano for 2 years, and my audition at UCSB went surprisingly well, so it’d could’ve gotten me in. EC’s are good too.
Interviews: None, although I wish I could’ve, because I would’ve kicked butt.
Country: United States
Sex: Female
Location: CA
Race/Ethnicity: Asian
GPA (UW): 3.27
GPA (W): 3.61
SAT: 1790 (CR 610/M 520/W 660)
SATII: 520 Lit/590 Spanish
Rank: 60/472
Graduating with 13 AP/honors classes
ECs: Marching band, Wind Ensemble, LINK crew leader, AVID tutor, Boys and Girls Club volunteer, NHS, CSF
Work: restaurant host for 2 years
Accepted at: SFSU, CSUSM, CSU Fullerton, UCR, SJSU, UCSC
Waitlisted at: CSULB
Rejected at: UCI, SDSU
i’m pretty sure that 80% of the stats posted on this website are completely fake.
check out college guides and websites. i wouldn’t trust a bunch of teenagers who have access to the internet to post whatever they want.
And what makes you say that?
What makes me say that is it is completely and totally impossible for this many students to have these kind of test scores, etc.
The entire site basically consists of a bunch of high school students complaining about getting 2350s on their SATs. It’s utterly ridiculous. I know quite a few people who have gotten into ivies with less than what many people here claim to have achieved.
But just a personal opinion is all
No, actually it isn’t.
If by basically, you mean .1-.2% of the posters, then I agree completely.
Of course. This proves what?
I seriously find it pointless to argue with someone on a college blog.
I’m sorry. I was just making a statement.
That’s all.
Country: United States
Sex: Female
Location: Ohio
Race/Ethnicity: White
GPA (UW): 3.93 after first semester.
GPA (W): N/A
SAT: 2290 (730 CR, 760 M, 800 W)
SATII: 780 Math II, 750 Lit
Rank: 8/260 at the time.
Most rigorous curriculum – only 2 AP’s offered, though.
Also National Merit Finalist
ECs: Tons of debate awards. Cross country. Quiz bowl. Newspaper. Youth ministry group.
Work Experience: None. And no community service, either – I wasn’t in NHS and I was lazy.
Accepted: Northwestern (Attending), Tufts, BC Honors, UMich, UWisconsin, Tulane Honors + $$
Waitlisted: WUStL
Rejected: Brown (Deferred ED), Duke
Can more graduated seniors do actual results?
^Sure
Application Cycle 2007
Residency: California
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Chinese
GPA (UW): 3.99
GPA (W): 4.50
SAT: 2190 ( 690 CR 800 M 700W)
SAT II: 780 Math II 780 Bio E 740 Chem
AP: All 5’s Bio, US History, Econ Micro, Eng Lit, Calc AB
EC: Cross Country 2 years
Tennis 1 year
Volunteered at Hospital 2.5 years
Summer research at Standford Pyschiatry
Usual clubs
Lots of awards…etc
Rejected: Stanford, JHU, Duke, Harvard, Yale
Waitlisted: UPenn
Accepted: Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCD (All the UC’s offered full scholarship)
Berkeley Class of 2011:D
Experience: Wish I had better LOR