Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Accepted: Queens College, Hunter College, York, CUNY Brooklyn, SUNY Purchase, Pace, Drexel
Waitlisted: 0
Rejected: Fordham

School Type: Public
Location: NY
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: Art History
Unweighted GPA: 3.2
Weighted GPA: roughly 3.4
Class rank: 82 out of 302

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 450
SAT I Critical Reading: 710
SAT I Writing: 700

SAT II Scores: 0

Long-form Info

Extracurricular Info
Stage crew all 4 years of high school.
Stage/prop manager for 10th and 12th grade
KIC- environmental community service- 4 years- leading position
STAR- students against racism 9-11g
Art Club- 4 years

Other strong point:
*Great recommendations from trusted teachers who have known me for at least 3 years of high school
*In depth college essay about how modern art has influenced my life.
*4 AP courses
*Honors courses
*Though ending with a low GPA, my gpa was a 3.8 in 10th grade
*Orchestra for all 4 years

Work Experience
*I work at a sleep away camp for 1-2 months in the summer.

Awards (nothing special):
*Graduated with honors

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i read this whole thread. now i feel like a dork. lol Xd

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Applied: Berkeley, UCLA, Northeastern, Boston U, NYU, Cornell Hotel Management, Michigan, Univ. Washington, USC, UMass Amherst
** Accepted **: UCLA, Berkeley, Northeastern (128K scholarship over 4 years), BU, Cornell, Univ. Washington, USC, UMass.
Waitlisted: NYU/Michigan
Attending: UCLA<a href=“Economics/Math%20major”>/b</a>

Boarding School in Pennsylvania
Asian
Location: CT

Test Scores

SAT: 770 M, 660 CR, 680 W (2110 all 3) (1430 on 2)
SATII scores: 790, 750
ACT: 32

Classes/GPA/Academics

No Ranking

Sophomore Year: GPA (3.06…Long Story, more about this later).

Junior Year: GPA (3.90)

Senior Fall Midterm- (4.34 at Fall Term end) (4.8 UC GPA)

Senior Year Schedule
AP Microeconomics-A
AP Macroeconomics-A
AP Statistics-A
AP Chemistry-A
Pre-Calculus Honors-A
English Electives-A-

Calc I College Class- A+

AP Tests (not really relevant):
Japanese: 5
Macro:5
French:5
Micro:5
Eng. Lit: 4 (didnt even take the class or study lololol)
Chem:4

Extracurriculars:

Varsity Hockey All 4 Years (TAKES UP ALL OF MY FALL AND WINTER, no time for other ECs)- Ranked Top 10 Hockey Teams among Independent Prep Schools

USA Hockey 1992 Birth Year Select Festival Camp in Rochester NY and St. Cloud MN- (Ranked as number 5 defenseman in the East coast in 2004,2005,2006).

Invite to tryout for Japanese U-16 National Hockey Team.

International Club- Executive Member and Country Representative- 3 years

BBoying/Breakdancing/Hiphop dance club- Founder/President

Won tons of bboying crew battles/showcase battles/1v1 battles in NYC/Japan

FBLA

Summer Internships at Yachiyo Corporation in Japan
Short Internship at a Investment Firm (Hedge Funds, Public/Private Equity)- 2 weeks
Volunteer work at Church
Volunteer coaching for club hockey teams.
Princeton University Select Hockey Camp 2007
Boston University Select Hockey Camp 2006

Essay: (What got me in)
I came to this boarding school in Pennsylvania as a recruit for hockey. Known for having the best hockey program in the state of Pennsylvania, people from all over the world (as close as Pennsylvania and as far as Russia, Czech Republic, Canada…etc) are recruited there regularly. In 2004, I was selected as one of the top six defensemen in the Mid-Atlantic Region (NY,NJ,PA,MD,DE) and was asked to play in many showcases. This continued until 2006 and I moved onto the new school. I had high hopes of being a pro, the first Japanese NHL hockey player. My focus was always on hockey, I had very little interest in academics. I was heavily recruited to many schools/semi-pro junior leagues, and I knew at that time that I would go to college for hockey. Then during my sophomore year, disaster happened. I had a season ending injury, and I required surgery. My grades at the time weren’t absolutely atrcoious, however, my surgery required routine check ups back home in Connecticut, I missed tons of school due to the fact that I had to travel home every week and my grades dropped horribly. Not only that, recruiting stopped, I was depressed and was a horrendous mess. I then soon realized that I need to change my focus from athletics to academics. Ever since then, my academics and attitude towards school have improved dramatically. I still play hockey now, but doctors say that my wrist will never heal fully and that I shouldn’t play much longer. (Hell, I need extended time to write in-class essays because I get such bad pain in my wrist).

Pretty interesting I got rejected from Michigan but accepted from Cornell eh?

Strengths:
Experience/Hardships
Upward Trend
Essay
Extracurriculars

Weaknesses:
Sophomore GPA (which has explained in my essay)

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Accepted: Stony Brook, American, Fordham, Boston University, Villanova, Binghamton, NYU, Lehigh
Rejected: Carnegie Mellon
Waitlisted: GWU
Attending now: Lehigh

GPA: 90.51 (unweighted; school doesn’t weight)

SAT: 2040/2400 or 1360/1600
CR - 630
Math - 730
Writing - 680

SAT II:
Math II - 670
US History - 650

AP: US History (4)
Statistics (5)
Calculus AB (5)
Macroeconomics (5)

School type: competitive specialized public school
Location: NYC
Race: Mixed (white / asian)
Gender: Male
Prospective major: Economics
Rank: N/A

EC’s: Mostly music related.

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Hyperbole^

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If only, i could be as ignorant of reality as you Clarissa. My dad has worked his ass off supporting me and teaching me and i’m not going to let him down by being average.

Listen here, you pretentious little girl, what if everyone had your mindset?

We wouldn’t have cell phones, computers, Microsoft, or running water. We need more people who are exceptional and innovate not average joes who view a “B” as the best they can get.

I’ll probably be alot more successful then you. Now kindly go back to the average life you love.

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Thank you, for saying that

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No probs. I love arguing with people.

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bump please. would like to see some more.

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Agreed! ^^^

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applied Texas A&M, Univ of Texas(biomed eng major) and honors biomed, cornell, duke, johns hopkins
accepted Texas A&M(full ride), Univ of Texas(bio med), cornell(attending)
waitlist:johns hopkins
denied: duke, UT honors

gpa 4.48
rank:6/590 around
AP 5’s: apush,bc calc, physics C mech and E&M, bio, chem, stat, ap gov
4’s: economics-micro, us history

SAT I
800 math
690 reading
630 writing

SATII
chem:800
phys:790
math II:800

national merit finalist, national honor society, national ap scholar, ap scholar with distinction, …ok well im just too tired to type rest, i honestly didnt have that many extra curricular, i had tennis, orch, and service groups, just the normal stuff and some academic clubs

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^ How did you get a 5 and a 4 on the APUSH test? Did you take it twice?

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Why don’t you just check the statistics part of this website…it has stats of accepted and rejected people.

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Oh dear, looking at this thread makes me feel a bit inadequate about my college application… despite the fact that I graduated last year and have already been through this. Huh.
But yeah, for people applying now, please remember that those on CC are probably on the higher-acheiving end of things. If you don’t have a 2400 SAT and mountains upon mountains of ECs, don’t worry. It’s not the end of the world, and of course you should still apply to your dream schools. Don’t let anything here discouraged you.

So, then, my stats:

Caucasian female from Pittsburgh, PA.
HS: Public, but an arts magnet school (so I took dance classes in school for about 3 hours every day).
Accepted: Carleton College (attending), Northwestern University, Warren-Wilson College
Rejected: Stanford University
Waitlisted: N/A

GPA: 3.86 unweighted, 4.25-ish (I honestly forget) weighted
SAT: 1450/2190 (740 Math, 710 Reading, 740 Writing)
Class Rank: 5/121
APs: At the time of application, had taken:
English Language: 5
US History: 4
Spanish Language: 4

ECs:
Dance lessons–8 years, about 15 hours a week outside of school, so total spent about 30 hrs/week dancing
Ultimate Frisbee–10th-12th grade, including summers, about 15 hrs/week in season
Think-a-Thon–academic/creative thought competition based in Pittsburgh. 10th-12th grade, captain of team in 12th grade
Science Olympiad–founded and co-captain in 11th grade
Model UN–founding member in 10th grade, president in 11th-12th. As part of this, I organized/ran/chaired two MUN conferences for local middle schools.
NHS–11th-12th grade, Vice-President in 12th
Some scattered volunteer work (about 50 hours)

Awards:
National Merit Scholar
AP Scholar
Team wins for Think-a-Thon and MUN
Dance awards
So nothing too spectacular there.

I wrote my main essay about why homemade Halloween costumes are better than store-bought ones, and used that as a way to talk about the benefits of the arts and why creative thinking in necessary, and why having attended an arts-focused high school has prepared me to be a strong thinker.

My teacher recs were, I think, both solid. One was from my 10th and 12th grade English teacher (and Think-a-Thon coach) and focused on how I thought outside of the box and would do pretty much anything to help my group achieve, be it in an in-class group project or a competition. The other was from my Elementary Functions and AP Stats teacher (also 10th and 12th grade), not sure what it focused on, but she loved me.

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Accepted to:

  • UCLA (partial scholarship - athletics)
  • UCSB
  • UCD
  • UCSD
    (All ELC except for UCLA)

Denied:

  • Stanford
  • UCB (don’t really know why; I committed to UCLA for athletics though)

Objective:
SAT: 2170
• W: 800
• V: 720
• M: 660
SAT II:
• 780 - US History
• 660 - Spanish
(definitely NOT a math/science guy)

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
Weighted GPA: 4.75
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5% (I know I was in top 10 of 300)

AP (place score in parenthesis): oh boy…
• AP Euro (3)
• AP US History (5)
• AP English Language (5)
• AP Stats (3)
• AP US Gov (4)
• AP Macroeconomics (4 - self-study)
• AP Spanish Language (5)
• AP Studio Art (3)
• AP English Lit (5)

  • AP Chem (1 - banished to the netherworld)

Senior Year Course Load: AP US Government, AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Spanish Lang, AP Studio Art, AP Macroeconomics, Yearbook (editor)

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): foreign language award, high honors,
AP Scholar with Distinction, etc.

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Yearbook Editor, Varsity Swim (4 years), JV Water Polo (2 years), National Honors Society, California Scholastic Federation, Spanish Honors Society, Environmental Club, Art Club

Job/Work Experience: None at the time
Volunteer/Community service: mandatory 100 hours for school; varied
Summer Activities: LA County Junior Lifeguards (8 years)
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read until after admissions… 1 was excellent, the other superficial/poorly written
Counselor Rec: I don’t know; doubt it was any good

Other
State (if domestic applicant): California
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: Private Catholic HS in LA
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $175,000-$200,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ABSOLUTELY NONE. White, male, middle class, both parents got bachelor’s… My essays probably killed me though, I crammed last minute and after reading them over they sounded really insincere.

I’m glad about where I ended up—I really like everything about UCLA, especially given priority registration, better counselors, and athlete tutoring. It was really a no-brainer. I don’t think getting into Berkeley would have made a difference, but I would have gotten $30,000 in financial aid from Stanford had I gotten in (which kinda stung). Retrospectively, I have to think my ADHD really limited how well I could do at the time, but I’m still pleased with my choice. I definitely should have applied to some east coast schools/Ivies, but at the time I convinced myself I wasn’t smart enough to even try. Oh well, live and learn.

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$175,000^ middle class?

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In Los Angeles, you’d be surprised

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Bump, let’s see more.

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if ur making 175K a year no effin way ur middle class even in LA trust

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When applying to HYPS, at some point I think it’s just the luck of the draw. My friend who is now a sophomore at Princeton was 3rd in a class of 500, student repesentarive for the school board, editor in chief of the newspaper, mock trial for four years, cross country for four years, excellent test scores and was rejected by Yale and waitlisted by Stanford, her dream school. Similar to other posts on this thread with excellent qualifications but got into one ivy and not the others

The reason this happens is because, Ivies talk to one another. & if one Ivy decides that they want a student, the other Ivies usually back off.