Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

[apollosarrow]

White Male here.
Attended medium-size private school in southern Michigan as a boarding student. Live in DC.
Income bracket: 200k+. Didn’t apply for financial aid, obviously.

ACT: 34 (35 superscore).
SAT: 2160
Made it to National Merit Scholarship Finalists
Graduated Cum Laude.

Awards:
Selected ‘Outstanding Junior Boy’
4-year Dean’s List
Published in our school’s “Prize Papers”
Excellence in Sculpture Award
Full Scholarship for three years to this high school
Two-time creative writing award winner

ECs:
Frisbee Club Captain (wooo)
Helped start Docents club to work with nearby Art Museum. Presented to the school’s board of trustees & other cool stuff.
Math Club.
Gold Key Club President.
RA/RHC in the dorms.
I made it clear in my essays that I did a lot of other stuff—reading, exercise, following my own interests outside of class. Nothing huge.

Over the summers I took more classes (Microecon, Product Design, Intro to Philosophy) and got a three month internship at museum archives.

Applied: Harvard, Columbia, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, Northeastern, University of Cincinnati, UMich (instate).

Rejected: Harvard, Columbia.
Waitlisted: Carnegie Mellon.
Accepted: UCinci (with $3000+ scholarship), Northwestern, UMich (with $2000+ scholarship), Northeastern (with full tuition & honors program), and Northwestern.

I’m attending Northwestern… although now I kind of wish I had done northeastern…

Should have done sports (I could do varsity tennis or swimming, chose not to make the time commitment) and strived for national-level awards (rather than school-level). Or saved the world and all that jazz. Oh well.

Oops, forgot to include GPA:
4.0 UW
4.6 Weighted (my school only allows up to 3 APs…)

AP Calc AB—5
AP Chemistry—5
AP USH—5
AP Eng Lang—5

Senior Year: AP Physics C, AP Calc BC, AP Statistics, French 4, etc.

Essays: very strong (IMO), about how I see myself as a person and where I am going with my life.
Recs: Decent. Nothing crazy. I was allowed to see them.

[rainbowrose]

Accepted: Tulane, Tufts, Wash U in St. Louis, Middlebury, Brandeis, Wesleyan
Waitlisted: Williams, Northwestern
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth,

School Type: Public
Location: Long Island
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: (I put Chem on my apps) Undecided
Unweighted GPA: ~97.5/100
Weighted GPA: ~98.5/100
Class rank: ~5/350

ACT Scores
ACT Math: 35
ACT Science: 34
ACT English: 35
ACT Reading: 33
ACT Writing: 9/12

SAT I Scores (Didn’t Send)
SAT I Math: 730
SAT I Critical Reading: 680
SAT I Writing: 670

SAT II Scores
SAT II Math II: 790
SAT II Chem: 760
SAT II Bio: 780

Extracurricular Info
Science Olympiads - President
Music Honors Society - Historian
Future Educators - Executive Board Member
Vocal Jazz for 3 Years

Summer
CTY (YAY! lol)
Summer@Brown
Research- Rising Junior and Senior years
*Siemens Semi Junior Year
*Senior year… didn’t work out so much wrote my EC essay on my failed project basically and why I wanted to continue research anyway

That’s the super short version… but… yea…

[tmanneopen]

Accepted: Northeastern
Waitlisted: UPenn, CMU, Lehigh
Rejected: MIT

Objective:

SAT I superscore (breakdown): 2240 (750 CR, 730 M, 710 W)
SAT II: 770 Chem, 760 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.67
Weighted GPA: 4.51
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/361
AP (place score in parentheses): AP English Lang (5), AP Chem (5), APUSH (5), AP Comp Sci A (3)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP English Lit, AP Bio, AP Gov, AP Stats, Latin 4

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):

<ul>
<li>FIRST Robotics (Team HYPER 69)(Head Programmer) (Perennial top 3 in competition, spent 600 hours or so in last 3 years for it)</li>
<li>Science Olympiad (Co-Founder)</li>
<li>Swimming (MVP of a meet, varsity letter)</li>
<li>Academic Decathlon (Captain)(6th in states)</li>
<li>MOON (Math team, president)(Top in division)
Job/Work Experience: Self-employed tutoring service
Volunteer/Community service:Just NHS</li>
</ul>

Other:
Teacher Recommendation #1: Amazing
Teacher Recommendation #2: Amaazing
Counselor Rec: Very good
Additional Rec: Mentor from robotics, very good
Interview: Excellent

State (if domestic applicant): MA
School Type: Public, sends a few to ivys each year
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First-gen college student

[comeonapril1]

accepted: WashU (4k merit aid/year), northwestern, rice, vanderbilt, emory, pomona, washington and lee (full-ride), USC (full-tuition), UMiami (full ride + stipend—message me if you want details, miami gives wonderful merit aid)
attending: UMiami

white, female from missouri
went to a public high school
top 1% of class, took very hard classes
took ap bio, lit/comp, gov, comp. politics, calc bc, stat and got 5’s on all exams taken
GPA W: 4.58
GPA UW: 3.98
strong recs and community service
did not apply for financial aid

[andrewszatkowski]

White male from Maine
Income: 100k-ish, got great money from all schools except UVM who gives **** for aid.
School: Public, fairly crappy, haven’t sent anyone to Ivies in who knows how long, Hamilton/Vassar/Bucknell are probably the best schools anyone has gone to in the past 8 years or so.

Accepted: Hamilton (enrolled), Carleton, Colgate, Vassar, UVM, UMaine
Waitlisted: Middlebury, WashU
Denied: Dartmouth, Stanford (applied on a whim)

SAT (too lazy to retake)
690 Cr
710 Math
710 Writing
SAT II
790 Math 2
690 Chem
710 U.S History
(didnt study/prep for any of these)

Recommendations:
One from AP Chem prof and one from Hon. English 12. Both pretty decent, Chem one was funny.

Volunteer:…none. Just didn’t have the time.

Sports:
Soccer(3 years)
Indoor/Outdoor Track (4 years)
Sailing (Senior year instead of Soccer)
Rock Climbing (3 years)(Captain)
*Note, I was only ok at all of these, except Rock Climbing, where I did pretty well.

Clubs:
FIRST robotics team (Web design leader, won some award)
Math Team (our team was a joke, we all just did it to hang out)

Grades/other ****
4.0 unweighted/Valedictorian
5 on AP Calc test Junior year, took APUSH, AP Chem, and AP Physics Senior year

Went to S.Korea on some scholarship program, relatively competitive, pm if you want more (not NSLI-Y)

no real leadership or community involvement

wrote a funny essay about fruitcake that the schools seemed to like

[UVAhopeful]

White female; applied as a math major (it obviously didn’t help at all at the top tier schools)
Attended private school in VA
Income bracket: 150k+, still applied for financial aid.

ACT: 35.
SAT: 2270
Graduated Salutatorian with a 4.0 (class of 81). My unweighted GPA was somewhere around 97.5 (it was 97.7 before senior year).

AP Calc AB—5
AP Euro - 5
AP USH—5
AP German - 4
AP Environmental Science - 4

Senior Year: AP Physics C, AP Stats, AP Biology, AP Government, AP English Language

Essays: humorous, definitely my own “voice”
Recs: Never saw them

Awards:
National Merit Commended Student
AP Scholar with Distinction
nothing too amazing, a few language awards

ECs:
varsity volleyball, basketball, and lacrosse; captain of all three my senior year; German Club, Quiz Bowl, some other stuff

I’ve had a few small summer jobs here and there.

Applied: Yale, Brown, Duke, UNC, UVA, William and Mary, WashU, George Mason

Rejected: Yale, Brown, Duke
Waitlisted: WashU (didn’t pursue)
Accepted: UNC (honors program), UVA (Echols Scholar), William and Mary (Monroe Scholar), George Mason (University Scholar and full tuition for 4 years)

I’m attending UVA. As you can tell from my username, I have wanted to go there for quite a long time.

I didn’t go all in in any extracurricular activity. I played too many sports so I never had the time to really pursue an interest or activity outside of sports. My SATs could have been better for the higher schools. Still, the rejection from Duke hurt the most (I toured it and loved it). Still, I ended up depositing at the school I always knew I would. I’m not really what you call a “diverse” student. Basically, I got into all the schools I knew I would and none of the schools I thought I had a slight change at.

[hihellofriend]

Asian Subcontinent Male
No financial aid
top boarding school (30%+=ivies or equivalent)

applied: columbia, RPI, penn, brown, tufts, bc, bu, carnegie, yale, dartmouth, stern, washu, uchicago, gw, gtown, cornell,

SAT:2230
SAT2: 800 MATH LVL 2, 750 BIO M
AP: 5-CALC BC, LIT, CHEM, AB SUBSCORE 4-PHYS C (MECH), LANG, MACRO, MICRO, STATS, EURO 3-USH
GRADES: 3.65 UW, (school doesnt weight, but if it did) 4.0 W
Rank: none, 28%-ile

ESSAYS: religion/race-based narrative. not so great, I assume.

AWARDS/EXTRA ISH:national merit finalist, high honor, ap scholar w/distinction, 3 varsity sports, president of couple clubs, 300+ community service hours, nominated and attended national leadership conferences in dc and san francisco, counselor at camps for under prvgld kids, internship at cardiology department, helped write and conduct published research, went to doha qatar and interned with bank officials (uncle), and helped with planning medical clinics in doha as well.

DECISIONS:

ACCEPT- tufts, stern, carnegie, bu, rpi
WAITLIST- washu, bc, gw
REJECT- yale, dmouth, gtown, columbia, brown, cornell, uchicago, penn

ATTENDING- Stern

thought i would do better, but hey rotten luck? this or that could have been better? idk, gave it my all came up short of columbia (dream school). stern should be mad fun though, im still in nyc, so im happy.

[brimacki]

I’ll give statistics for high school and undergrad:

High School:
GPA: 3.75/4.00
class rank: ~top 10% (i went to a giant school, ~700 graduating)
ECs: church youth group (service trip every year (sometimes international), raised $50,000 to build a church in bulgaria)
SAT: ~2000/2400
ACT: 29 (i think)/36
essays: worked super hard on these, probably harder than any other paper in high school. had all 4 of my professional parents/step-parents (3 of whom were university professors at the time) and my uncle who was in a senior management position for Chevron’s communications division… did I mention how important essays are?!?
APs: about 40% of my classes were APs, most of the others were honors level (i.e. advanced high school level)… if you have the opportunity to challenge yourself that’s probably more important than getting all As in easy classes.

Applied: Berkley, MIT, Michigan, Dartmouth (didn’t want to go here, this was a parent pleaser), RPI, RIT, Carnegie Mellon
Accepted: Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, RPI, RIT
Attended: Michigan (Engineering)

Undergrad resume:
Major: Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences
GPA: 3.15 (had one terrible semester, this would probably be a 3.2 if I didn’t)
ECs: fraternity treasurer (2 years), fraternity philanthropy chair (2 years), fraternity community service chair (1 year), member (3.5 years; rushed freshman fall), member of entrepreneurship club for 1 year (although i don’t put this on my resume)
Internships: Information Science REU (after 1st year), Nuclear Materials lab assistant (after 2nd year), Plasma Physics simulation research assistant (after 4th year)
study abroad: B.A., Argentina (after 3rd year)
GRE: 720/800 (math) 440/800 (english) 8/12 (writing, i think)… note that the english score doesn’t matter all that much since i applied to an engineering graduate school
Essays: Didn’t do a good job on the ones before christmas break, did a great job on the one i got to have my uncle (see above) edit.

Applied: Michigan, UCSD, Wisconsin
Accepted: Wisconsin (attending)

I know it’s long, but hope it helped

[danng]

GPA: 3.92 uw / 4.61 w
SAT: 2200
SAT II: Chem 750 and Math II 760
Ethnicity: Asian

Extracurriculars:
4 years regional orchestra
3 years all-state orchestra
2 years pit orchestra concertmaster
4 years varsity tennis
2 years Chineses school TA
50 hours volunteering at the hospital
2 years nhs, red cross, german honor society and math honor society
2 years tennis instructor

Results:
Accepted: University of Virginia (attending), Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), University of Notre Dame, New York University (Stern), Emory University, Rutgers (Business School), University of Georgia
Rejected: UPenn (Wharton), Princeton, Cornell (AEM)

[RavenclawGirl]

GPA: 4.00 uw/ 6.167 w
SAT: 2220
ACT: 34
SAT II: Chem 720, USH 750, Math II 660
Rank: Top 2% (large public school)
APs: World History (5), Spanish Language (4), Euro (5), Chem (5), English Language (5), Music Theory (3), US History (5),
Senior Year: Macro (5), Gov (5), English Lit (5), Calc BC (5), Psych (5), Physics B (4)
Ehtinicity: W
State: FL

Extracurricular:
-3 years on school newspaper (staff writer, section editor, editor-in-chief senior year, with best newspaper student awards all 3 years; sent all colleges a journalism portfolio)
-President of English Honor Society, Secretary of Science Honor Society, Treasurer of Key Club, member of various other honor societies
-Interned at the University of Miami for one summer, wrote a research paper and presented it at a mini-symposium (sent the research paper to all colleges)
-Girl Scout Gold Award (200 hour service project)
-Children’s Hospital Volunteer (150 hours)
-7 years dance and piano training
-NCTE writing award school nominee, Silver Night nominee in New Media (prestigious community service award), Positive Person in Pinecrest (newspaper column), EuroChallenge semifinal team, Chemistry Olympiad second place team (district)

Results:
Accepted:
University of Florida
University of Miami (PRISM program, Singer Scholar semifinalist)
UNC Chapel Hill (Honors College)
WashU
Vanderbilt
University of Virginia (Echols Scholar) (Attending)
Northwestern
Tufts

Waitlist:
Georgetown (Withdrew)
Amherst (Withdrew)
Duke (Accepted a place on the wait list, but even after additional recs, rejected)

Denied:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Brown

Reflection: My strength was writing, and I did not spend nearly enough time on my essays :(. I also wish I had applied ED to Duke, but I wasn’t sure enough at the time…

See you in the fall, danng

[OrdoCruor]

GPA: 3.92 unweighted, 4.92 weighted
SAT: 2120
ACT: 33
SAT II: Math I 720, US History 730
Rank: 17/332
IB: SL Math Studies (7) HL ITGS (4) HL History of the Americas (5)
Senior Year: IB HL ITGS, Honors Calculus, IB HL History, AP English, Sociology, Culinary Arts (lolz)
Ehtinicity: White
State: MO

Extracurricular:
-3 years in journalism, section editor for the paper for two years
-Varsity swimming for 4 years
-60 hours of tutoring
-Founded an ultimate frisbee team
-Quiz bowl team captain for one year
-Other things I can’t remember right now

Results:
Accepted:

Truman State University
Rhodes College
Brandeis University
Northeastern University

Waitlist:
WashU
Boston College

Denied:
Harvard
Boston University

Attending: Truman State University

Reflections: Gotta love going to college in the aftermath of a recession where your family lost all of its savings. Dreams, goals, aspirations, hard work? These things don’t matter if you don’t have any money.

[katrinne]

I am from the east but really wanted to be on the west coast so i applied to these schools:

accepted: uc santa cruz, university of washington
waitlisted: uc davis
rejected: uc berkeley (legacy)

school: competitive public
state: CT
race/gender: white Female

GPA: 3.8 UW
SAT: Math 690, Critical Reading 730, Writing 780
ACT: 29
SATII: English Lit 720, Spanish 680
Rank: 32/203
APs: English Lit, Spanish, US History

ExtraCurriculars
Pre-professional ballet for 13 years; performed with local ballet company alongside professional artists and trained at American Ballet Theatre and Boston Ballet in summers
Class Secretary all four years of high school
Writing: Submitted to school’s literary magazine and attended summer program at Walnut Hill School; took summer pre-college courses in writing at Yale
Flute: Played in school band for Freshman and Soph years

Additional: Assisted in school’s college and career counseling office and helped guide peers to their colleges (I would like to pursue counseling as a career)

Matriculation Decision: UC Davis (I got in off waitlist)

[CSIHSIS]

Boy is it discouraging when people with 2200s on their SAT and 9 AP classes say that their app was “unremarkable” when my school only offers 4 APs and you can only take 3 of them.

[stokes894]

I completely understand where you’re coming from. I go to a private school in Georgia, and it only offers around 10 AP classes. However, they make it so you can only take AP classes if you have had perfect grades in that subject every single year. Because of this I only took one AP class 11th grade and I’m taking 2 next year.

[avilliotti93]

Accepted: Boston University (Attending), Babson, Bentley, Case Western Reserve, U of Pittsburgh, Fordham, American U

Waitlisted: Northeastern (yeaahhh)

Rejected: Carnegie Mellon, Colby, NYU, and McGill

GPA: 3.55
SAT: 1880

[biganthony]

accepted: Wesleyan (attending), Wash U (wait listed first) Emory, BU, Stony Brook, Tulane, Drexel, UVM

rejected: UPenn, Cornell, JHU, Northwestern, Rice (wait listed first)

wait list- Carnegie Mellon

GPA <em>out of 100</em> weighted-94

SAT- 2130 (760M, 680CR, 690W)

[retrorocket]

GPA: 4.00
SAT: 2300+
Rank: Top 5%
AP/Honors/IB: Yes

Applied: Brown, Dartmouth, JHU, WashU, USC, UCB, UCLA, UCSD
Accepted: Brown, USC, UCB, UCLA, UCSD

Risky essays proved risky.

[RedSeven]

GPA: 3.99 UW / 4.41 W [W slightly lower at time of application]
SAT [not sent to all schools]: 740M/750CR/770W = 2260
SAT IIs: 590 German [not sent to all schools]
ACT: 36 (36E/36M/36R/35S/8W)
AP: None
IB: Diploma Programme (Physics, Chem, German, Math HL; English, History SL) [Scored 39, not included on applications for obvious reasons]
Rank: School did not rank [School profile included information suggesting a rank of at least top 10%]

Ethnicity: White
State: MI
Gender: M

Senior Year Schedule: IB Diploma courseload (as listed above)

Awards: National Merit Scholar [SF at time of application]

ECs: Mock Trial (10th-12th, Captain 11th-12th), German Honor Society (11th-12th), regular volunteer work at a specific organization (11th-12th), and some other minor ones that I don’t feel like typing out.

Essays: Common App essay was strong (topic was mock trial). Supplement essays were generally decent-good.

Recommendations: Submitted two, probably good, but not spectacular.

Accepted: Rice (:)), Northwestern, Emory, Colgate, UMich, MSU
Rejected: WashU ED (thankfully), Brown, Duke

[javalava]

most soul-crushing thread on this website

[SillyStokey92]

Anyway, I’ll post again.

Gender: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian/White
Resident: NC
Applied for FA: Yes (My older sister is in college too)
Not First Generation College Student
Permenant US Resident (Not a US citizen, but treated legally like one in most regards. I DO NOT count as an International Student)
Applied as: English/Journalism Major

Freshman: (UW GPA 4.0, W GPA 4.5)
Honors English I: A
Honors Geometry: A
Honors World History: A
Honors Earth/Environmental Science: A
Health/PE: A
French I: A
Creative Writing: A
Computer Applications I: A

Sophomore: (UW GPA 4.0, W GPA 4.5)
Honors Biology: A
Honors English II: A
Honors Civics and Economics: A
Honors Algebra II: A
Theatre I: A
French II: A
German I: A
Marketing: A

Junior: (UW GPA 3.25, W GPA 4.375)
Honors Chemistry: B
Honors Pre-Calculus: B
AP English III: B
AP US History: B
International Marketing: A
Housing and Interiors I: A
AP Psychology: B
Honors French III: B

Senior: (UW GPA 3.375, W GPA 5.0)
AP Calculus AB: C
AP Calculus BC: B
AP Human Geography: A
AP European History: A
AP English IV: A
AP Environmental Science: B
Honors French IV: B
Library Science: A

Cumulative UW GPA: 3.656
Cumulative W GPA: 4.594

Rank: Last time I saw it, it was hovering around 50/441 (Borderline top 10%). My high school is extremely competitive and ranks consistently within the top 10 in the state, maybe even top 5. It is also important to note that my school graded on the 7 point system (100-93: A; 92-85 B; etc.)

SAT Score (Not sent, but recorded on Common App): 2160; 660 CR, 720 M and 780 W (9 Essay)

ACT Score (Sent): 33 (34 W, 34 M, 34 R, 28 S, 9 Essay)

I took 9 APs by graduation (3 junior year and 6 senior year). I got 5’s on AP US History, AP Psych, and AP Human Geography. I got 4’s on AP Language, AP Literature, AP Environmental and AP European History. I got a 3 on AP Calc AB and a 2 on AB Calc BC.

I have been a member of many clubs. My major clubs have been the Interact Club (with whom I did community service) for 3 years, the Environmental Club for 2 years, the Book Club for 1 year, and the French Club (I am the secretary of the French Club and work hard to keep everything in order) for 3 years. I also joined GSA and Young Dems this year, but they weren’t formed in time for me to put them on the app.

I had solid recs, one from my APUSH class last year (my teacher had clear favourites, and people always told me I was one of them) and my AP Language teacher (She could never say a bad thing about anyone and she loved my writing.) I think my essays were good and reflected me as a person.

Now the real deal, the colleges.

Accepted: Wingate University ($15,000 a year scholarship), Appalachian State University, Elon University ($18,000 a year scholarship), UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University (Attending, $30,000 a year scholarship), New York University ($15,000 a year scholarship), The University of York (Conditional), and the University of St. Andrews (Unconditional).

Waitlisted: University of Chicago (Later rejected)

Rejected: Northwestern University, Brown University, Durham University, The University of Warwick, and the University College of London.