Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Accepted: Princeton (attending), Duke, Univ. of Miami, Wash U, Univ. of Florida, Rice

School Type: Parochial
Location: South Florida
Prospective Major: biomedical engineering (indicated when I applied, though my interests have changed and I’ve transfered out of the engineering department)

Race/Gender: Puerto Rican/Female

SAT: 760-CR, 720-Math, 690-Writing
SAT IIs: Math II-740, Lit-750, Chem-600, Spanish-600, Math I-710

GPA: 5.08/4.00 (weighted)
Rank: 1/284

AP
Chem (2), World His (5), US His (4), Macro (4), US Gov (3), Calc AB (5) Bio (5), Eng Lang (5), Eng Lit (4), Comp Sci A (4)

Other stats: National Hispanic Scholar, National Merit Commended, AP Scholar, president of NHS and Science Club, Spanish Honor Society, research experience at top biomedical ophthalmic institute

Applied early? Only to Univ. of Miami, regular decision for the rest of the schools

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paco, twinkletoes23 is right–the full scholarship to the Maryland honors program was the thing that got me to attend. (Stanford would have cost 39,000 a year)

Forgot to mention that I had applied SCEA to Stanford and that Pitt was rolling.

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Accepted: Northwestern - Medill (Attending), Williams, U-Missouri-Columbia journalism school, American
Waitlisted: Brown
Rejected: Columbia, Harvard, Georgetown

School info
Public, suburban, diverse school in north Texas (suburb of Dallas)

Ethnicity
African American Male

Stats
SAT
Writing: 660
Reading: 620
Math: 600

SAT II
U.S. History: 630
Math IC: 540
Literature: 550

Grades
Top 11% of class
3.5 out of 4.00
Took hardest courses in school

Extracurricurlar Activities
Editor-in-chief, HS newspaper
VP of Junior Optimist Octagon Int’l
Member of NHS, FBLA, UIL Academics Team
Varsity Tennis player - 4 years

Add’l Info
Attended Northwestern University’s National High School Institute - Journalism
Intern at NBC 5 in Dallas for 5 years
Involved in tons of other journalism activities

Why I got in:
NU and Mizzou basically accepted me because of my journalism credentials, which are VERY long. I have NO CLUE why Williams accepted me at all.

Overall, the admissions proccess is crazy and unpredictable. But this thread can help prospective freshman.

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Applied / Accepted: UCLA (attending), UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz (I did not want to leave CA)

High School: Large, 70% Hispanic/Latino (I’m Hispanic), in the Imperial Valley (the poorest CA district)

SAT I (Here comes the horror!)
Reading: 600

Math: 620

Writing: 540

(Basically 1760)

Sat II:
US History 690
Math IIC 570

AP Scores:
Calculus AB - 3
US History - 4
Envir Sci - 2
English Lit - 2

GPA: UW 3.52 W 3.89
Class Rank: 23 of 348 (Could have been in the Top 20!)

EC’s: COSMOS (CA Summer School for Math & Sci) UC Irvine 2004
American Field Service
CSF (Honors Club)
Rotary Interact
15 Hours of Community Service (very lazy, HS Requirement)

I do not know how I got into UCLA. The COSMOS program was probably the deciding factor in my application.

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Ethnicity: First generation Asian male.

Applied: Columbia (CAS), Duke (CAS), Penn (CAS+Wharton in joint degree program-Huntsman), Cornell (CAS), Michigan (LSA and Ross for preferred admission to Ross and Honors to LSA), UoRochester (CAS), NYU (Stern), Berkeley (CAS), UChicago, Boston College.

Accepted: Duke, Cornell, Michigan (Honors and Preferred Admit to Ross), UoR, NYU, Berkeley, UChicago, Boston.

Attending: Michigan

High School: Public, above-average size. Upstate NY.

SAT I: 2200 (V: 680, M: 760, W: 760)

SAT II: Biology (730), Math IIC (710), Japanese (780).

GPA: UW 4.0. W 5.0 Hardest schedule possible.
Rank: Top 10

EC’s:

Numerous hours in community service to Interact, Rotary, etc.

Main passion is music: trombone and piano (my abilities on the french horn is negligible). Performed more with trombone but competed more with piano as it is my main. For piano, I have went up to nationals and have competed (but lost…) in the Manhateen School of Music. Trombone I performed regularly around my region and state including Cornell playing a premier piece that was written int eh university.

Athletics is decent. Varsity Soccer and tennis. Regional championship and such for both.

Leadership as high school marching band drum major and a high position in Boys State. Also coordinator of coordinator of activities in regional organization for Chinese people spanning 3 nearby towns.

No job. lol

Why I got in: I speak fluent Japanese and Chinese, which I guess is important for most business and political fields. I personally think my over stressing in music made some of the school question twice why I didn’t go to a music school instead… In the end, it came down to Ross at Mcihigan, Berkeley, and Boston (money$$$). Michigan won due to their guaranteeing me into their b-school through the Preffered Admission. Plus, honors program at michigan was interesting.

I was quite crazy in high school now that I think about it… Despite this, my sacrifice of average SAT score in order to preserve my social life probably ended my chance at Huntsman, where there’s like a 5 % acceptance and much more qualified students… :frowning:

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Great thread btw,
I’ve compiled the links for most of the results threads that have appeared throughout the forums: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5&lt;/a&gt;
So you might want check that out if you’re looking for a specific school, and to see some results that people haven’t posted here.

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Is this thread only for just-graduated seniors or are current college students encouraged to post as well?

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Anyone! The more the better

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Accepted: SFSU, UCI, UCD, UCSB, UCSD(attending), UW, Tulane, UBC, New School(with scholarship)
Rejected: NYU, Boston U, UCB, UCLA, McGill

School Type: Public magnet, Title 1(40% students living under poverty line)
Location: Los Angeles
Race/Gender: White/Middle Eastern female. I usually marked other or decline to state
Prospective Major: Undeclared at some schools, Communications/Journalism at others
Unweighted GPA: 2.9
Weighted GPA: 3.4
Class rank: Top 15%

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: N/A
SAT I Critical Reading: N/A

SAT I Writing: N/A
ACT- 30

SAT II Scores
Literature: 700
U.S. History: 660

APs
World History: 3
U.S. History: 4
English Language: 3
English Lit: 3
Environmental Science: 4
Macro-Economics: 3

ECs
3 years Varsity member of Academic Decathlon, team captain
Treasurer of French Club
Founder/President of World Awareness Club
Magnet Council
Magnet Dinner Committee
Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior cabinet

Volunteering(don’t remember exact hours, all together amounted to about 160)
Therapeutic Horsemanship Center for children
Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic
MOCA volunteer(various work, from paperwork to teaching visitors about art exhibits)
a few AIDS walks

Awards:
13 awards in various Decathlon subjects
Honor Roll
Spanish Achievement

Recs:
Very good, I had my English teacher for 3 years/Decathlon coach who is practically my second mother, and my counselor who is awesome

Essays:
SAVED ME! I’m a relatively good writer, I suppose.
My main big one was about my quirks and my love of the little things, the two other UC ones I wrote about my perseverance under pressure and how AP classes have piqued my interest to learn more.

Don’t know how I got into UCSD, but I’m happy!

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Attending: Harvard
Accepted: Harvard, Columbia, Williams, Pomona, Northwestern, WashU, Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois, Spelman, Miami (OH)
Rejected: Yale

School Type: Public
**Location: **Southern Ohio
**Race/Gender: **Black Female
**Prospective Major: **Mathematics
Unweighted GPA: 3.77
**Weighted GPA: **4.53
**Class rank: **Top 10%

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: N/A
SAT I Critical Reading: N/A
SAT I Writing: N/A
ACT: 35

SAT II Scores
Literature: 710
U.S. History: 780
Math 2: 740

APs
Euro History: 5
U.S. History: 5
English Language: 5
Spanish: 3
Physics: 5
Government: 5
Calc AB: 5
Calc BC: 5

ECs
too many to list. pm me if you wanna know

Awards:
AP Scholar
National Merit
lots of other small awards

Recs:
excellent. one from ap us teacher, one from ap calc bc teacher

Essays:
i didn’t think they were that great, but i guess someone did…

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Attending: NYU (Stern) :slight_smile:
Accepted: Rutgers, Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), Univ of Michigan (preferred admit-Ross), Cornell (Hotel School of Management)
Rejected: UPenn (Wharton- ED, deferred->rejected), Princeton, Dartmouth

School Type: Public
Location: Central New Jersey
Race/Gender: Asian Female
Prospective Major: Finance/International Business
Unweighted GPA: ?
Weighted GPA: 5.29
Class rank: 3/728

SAT I Scores (2140)
SAT I Math: 700
SAT I Critical Reading: 690
SAT I Writing: 750
ACT: 31

SAT II Scores
Chemistry: 710
Math 2: 780

APs
U.S. History: 5
Calc AB: 4
Biology: 5

ECs
FBLA: president, computer consultant, senior liaison, etc…
JSA: president/founder
Interact: vice president
Varsity Lacrosse
Varsity Volleyball

Awards:
AP Scholar
lots of FBLA awards

Recs:
i wouldn’t know…

Essays:
i thought they were decent. PM me if you’d like to see them

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Going to Attend: Cal as EOP recipient
Accepted: SFSU, SJSU, SDSU, Long Beach State, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, UCB, UCLA, UCD, UCSC
Rejected: Stanford

School Type: Public (extremely ghetto)
Location: San Francisco
Race/Gender: Asian Female
Prospective Major: Biology
Unweighted GPA: think it was a 3.86
Weighted GPA: 4.16
Class rank: 5

SAT I Scores 1660
SAT I Math: 550
SAT I Critical Reading: 530
SAT I Writing: 580
ACT: n/a

SAT II Scores
US Hist: 490
Math 2: 520
Lit: 510

APs
AP calc bc - 2
Ap lit - 2
ap phys b - 2
(ouch that hurts! lol but o well) noteto others: don’t catch senioritis! or at least dont catch it too early

ECs
california young playwright’s program
prom committee
fundraising committee
french club
Bay Area Video Coalition youthlink intern
fencing team
volunteer at art festivals

Awards:
CSF life member

Recs:
I wasn’t allowed to see them…

Essays:
Not as good as they would be if i’de actually taken more time to revise them…

my stats give all of u hope ahahaha

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accepted: Northwestern UChicago USC(full ride) Case Western (trustee), Upitt(full ride), UIllinois at Chicago 7 year med program, BU 7 year med program(attending)
waitlisted: Brown
rejected: lots of 7 year med programs haha

female asian
public high school IL
SAT: 730CR 780M 800W 2310
ACT: 34
760mathIIc, 750chem, 690 lit
GPA: 4.66 weighted ranked 2 out of 705
AP: bio, chem, CalcBC, euro, U.S.hist, eng, humangeo, spanish
5s on most

excellent recs

activities: academic stuff, amnesty,speech,math/science stuff, band/orhcestra, mainly music focused- regional/state, prestigious programs, sent in a flute recording

i turned down lots of full rides, but couldnt resist the guarantee to a med school!

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Attending: UPenn (Vagelos Life Sciences & Management)
Accepted: UPenn, Yale, UChicago, Duke, JHU, NYU, Boston U, UMichigan(full schol)
**Rejected<a href=“after%20being%20waitlisted”>/b</a>: Columbia, Harvard, MIT

Class Rank: 2/210
weighted GPA: 4.33
Location: New Hampshire
Type of School: Private, Catholic
Race/Gender: South Asian, Female

Old SAT I: 770,770
New SAT I: M 720, W 740, R 740

APs:
English Lang - 4
Chem - 5
USH - 5
Bio - 5
Calc AB - 5
Calc BC - 5

SAT II:
USH- 760
Math IIC: 800
Bio-M: 800
Chem: 740
Writing: 750

Activities:
Dance
Debate
Asian American Club (President)
Preservation work
National Honor Society
bunch of minor clubs

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Accepted: Brown (applied ED, didn’t apply anywhere else)

Male Chinese
Attended large public high school in TX.
SAT: 760 W, 760 M, 740 CR
SAT II: 780 Math I, 740 Eng Lit(I think), 700 US hist
GPA: 4.1 weighted, 3.9 unweighted
4’s on AP US History and AP English Comprehension

Took 2 AP classes junior year (all that’s offered at my school), 5 AP courses senior year.

Recommendations from teachers were all glowing; counselor had never even heard of Brown so she didn’t know what to write(why you shouldn’t go to public school).

3 year Varsity soccer, captain senior year.
100 + hours of community service with Key Club + Student Council
Class President, Student Council Secretary
Worked since I was 16.

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Ahh WaitingForColleg we have very similar stats and I’d love to get into Brown ED. Although, I am a white female from Massachusetts, so things probably aren’t looking as good for me.

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Accepted: UCB EECS, UCLA EECS, UCD, UCSD, MIT , Stanford
Waitlisted: Harvard (then rejected)
rejected: none

EC: Robotics Team, Swim Team, couple of self made community service projects
Locale : suburban, competitive pub high school
Stats:
GPA 3.8 UW, 4.3 W
5 on 4 APs, 4 on 1, 3 on 1(self study)
SAT : 800M/710V/670W 2180???
Letters:
1 awesome (showed in depth what I did and what kind of person I am), 1 generic but “glowing” , 1 good one from counselar that explained grades.

essays were very good.

going to Stanford !

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Accepted: Duke (matriculating!), UNC-Chapel Hill (governor’s scholar), George Washington (presidential scholar, honors program, women’s leadership program), William and Mary
Denied: Georgetown, Columbia, Yale

I should mention that I was a legacy at William and Mary and UNC-CH.

White female from competitive NC charter school.

Stats:
GPA: 3.85 unweighted, 4.85 weighted
Class rank: my school doesn’t do it
SAT: 2120 (740 V, 660 M, 720 W, 12 Essay)
SAT IIs: Literature 690, US History 660, Math IIC 640

APs taken:
Sophomore year: US Government-4
Junior year: English Language-5, US History-5, Calculus AB-3
Senior year: English Literature-5, Psychology-5, Latin Literature-Collegeboard lost my score!!
<em>Also took Comparative Politics at NC State University as an additional course (because it is not offered at my school)</em>

Activities/Honors:
Student Body President
Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Class President
Prom Committee Chair
Featured Playwright, NC Theatre Conference
National Merit Commended Scholar
National Honor Society
Latin Honor Society
International Thespian Society
AP Scholar with Distinction
Musical Theatre Club Chair (2 yrs)
Model UN Secretary (2 yrs)
Student Legislative Assembly Chair (3 yrs)

Also, in the community:
Tri-Speaker, NC Youth Legislative Assembly (write bills that eventually are considered in the NC legislature)
Intern with NC Democratic Party
TA, Raleigh Little Theatre (3 yrs)
Previously employed at Comedyworx Improv Theatre (1 yr), Raleigh Family Health Care (1 yr), summer camps (3 yrs)
various community theatre productions

Essays: very awesome; discuss work in improv theatre and how it relates to my interpersonal skills
Recs: uberly good! One teacher compared me to Ferris Bueller.

Good luck to everyone next year! If you have any questions, send me a PM and I’d be glad to help.

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Accepted: Cornell (Attending), Penn, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA
Rejected: Amherst
Waitlisted: Columbia, Williams

School Type: Public
Race: White
Location: Northern California
Unweighted GPA: 3.76
Class rank: top 4% (ELC status for UC’s)

SAT I Scores 2160
SAT I Math: 700
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 730

SAT II Scores
Math IIC: 780
US Hist: 760
Chemistry: 720
Lit: 630

AP Scores:
Calculus AB: 5
Chemistry: 5
Biology: 5
English Literature: 5
French Language: 4
English Language: 4
US History: 4

ECs
Some club officer positions, youth orchestra, varsity tennis, etc.

Awards:
Varsity letters

Recs:
Excellent, I think

Essays:
Very original

Attending: CORNELL!!! I’m excited!

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Attending: Vassar College
**Accepted: **Vassar College, Lafayette College (Marquis Scholarship, $16,000/yr), Lehigh University
Rejected: Yale (deferred EA), Brown, Cornell CAS (waitlisted)

Class Rank: N/A
unweighted GPA: 4.0
weighted GPA: 4.57
Location: Central New Jersey
Type of School: Competitive Public
Race/Gender: White Female

SAT I: 2320 - 790 M, 770 CR, 760 W
SAT II: 800 Math II, 740 USHistory, 730 Chem

**APs:<a href=“at%20the%20time%20I%20applied,%20this%20is%20a%20normal%20number%20for%20my%20school”>/b</a>
USH - 5
Psych - 5

Activities & Whatnot:
-Volunteering (therapeutic horseback riding lessons for kids with disabilities), Volunteer of the Year 2005
-Varsity Field Hockey 3 years
-Fencing 4 years
-Dance 4 years
-Piano 3 years
-French Honor Society 3 years, Tresurer senior year
-National Honor Society 2 years
-National Merit Finalist
-Eco Club 4 years
-Edward J. Bloustien Distinguished Scholar (for the top 10% of kids in each Jersey high school)
-Cornell Summer College 2005- A in Sustainable Animal Husbandry (I want to be a vet)

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