Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1701

My brother:

Accepted: UIUC (attending), Umichigan
Waitlisted: Northwestern
Rejected: MIT, Caltech, Stanford, UC Berkeley

3.77 UW GPA
34 ACT
1520 SAT (Out of 1600)
800 Math 2 Subject test
650 Bio subject test
630 Lit subject test
National Merit
AP Scholar with Honor

AP Classes/scores:
Calc BC-5
US History-3
English Lang-3
English Lit-3
Gov-3
Biology-5
Physics C-5

He got a C+ in multivariable calculus and a C- in DFQ during his senior year.

EC’s:
Ranked #1 in state for chess for 4 consecutive years of highschool. (Ranking of 2080 at peak, grandmaster is 2200) Ranked in top 5 highschool students in the nation.
Varsity Basketball-2 Year’s
Science Olympiad-4 Year’s
In charge of school recycling program

1702

I used this when applying, so I suppose it’ll help those who are in that position now :slight_smile:

Accepted:
Williams College (early decision, attending)
Baylor University (regular decision, safety-I only applied there because my mom was practically in love with the place)

<em>Statsssss</em>
~3.8 GPA, unweighted
Rank: 100/898 unweighted; 90/898 weighted
ACT: 32 superscored
SAT Subject Tests: 800 American History, 720 English (I gave up on Subject Tests after that lol)

<em>AP Classes/Scores</em>
AP Calc AB-5
AP English Lit-5
AP Psychology-5
AP Spanish-4
AP European History-4
AP American History-4
AP Lit-4
AP Biology-3 (I took it over the previous summer over the course of three weeks, so I didn’t expect that AP to go over well…)
Other than that, I took all honors courses, except for Astronomy second semester of senior year, which was not offered as an honors course.

Public School
Illinois (Chicagoland area)
Class of 898 students

Hooks: African-American. That’s about it, I think…?

EC’s:
-Girl Scouts (3 yrs)
-Flute player (8 yrs)
-Marching Band (4 yrs), section leader 1 year
-Food Pantry Volunteer (1 yr)
-Church Choir (4 yrs)
-Model U.N. (2 yrs)
-Students for Peace and Justice (2 yrs)
-School newspaper (2 yrs)

Awards:
-Cum Laude Society (our school’s version of Nat’l Honors Society, top 15% of class)
-National Achievement Finalist
-AP Scholar
-Prairie State Achievement Scholar
-Science National Honor Society
-Spanish National Honor Society

1703

Graduated in 2012. Results:

Accepted
University of Minnesota (Currently Attending)
Purdue University
Boston University
Ithaca College

Denied
University of Wisconsin
University of Michigan

Waitlisted
Marquette University
Cornell University

I was a little surprised I wasn’t at least waitlisted to Wisconsin considering my brother got in with a 32 ACT, 3.2 gpa and basically no extra curriculars. Marquette just kinda annoyed me because I was well above the average accepted student. I think they must focus a lot on volunteer work because I was just kinda average in that specific category. They are also a private catholic school with mandatory religious studies so I’m guessing they use it as an easy way to weed out the kids who didn’t do church work or go on missionaries all throughout high school. The Cornell waitlist was obviously just because I was recruited to row for them.

Stats
GPA: 3.5
ACT: 27
Very Rigorous High School

EC’s
-Jazz pianist and vocalist (placed 1st in state multiple times)
-Theatre (performed as lead actor in multiple plays/musicals)
-Rowing (placed in top 10% at nationals, raced internationally, recruited to Cornell)
-Forensics and debate (was state finalist 2 years in a row in both)
-Work (worked 20 hrs. per week at Dairy Queen for 3 years (: )
-Columnist for school newspaper
-Ran a small home recording studio and played at musical festivals

Volunteer Work
-Toys for Tots (collected toys for children in need around xmas for 3 years)
-Set up and tore down activity tents for mentally handicapped adults at annual event for 3 years
-Ran activities at middle school annual Fun Fair for 4 years
-Tutored mentally handicapped middle schoolers for 3 years

AP’s
Literature (5)
Psycholgy (5)
Biology (2) <- idk what happened there haha

1704

Hey I know wrong post but I saw we almost had same scores @dmmonat29 and I wanted to apply to penn state and Syracuse but afraid I might not get in I was wondering I have a 3.7 gpa 25 act what schools can I get into top8% texas resident what texas schools can I get into in texas tamu I am also black from Africa if that helps ut Austin or Texas tech
Ec
NSHSS
Nhs
Anime club
President volunteer service award letter from Obama 135.6 hrs
BPA first in regionals state 14th in nationals
160hrs this year volunteering
Academic decathlon
Student council
All ap this year and honors except normal debate class
National forensics league
Please chance me ill chance back

1705

Accepted: Yale EA (Attending), UCONN, Drexel, St. John’s, University of St. Joseph
(I know, my list of colleges isn’t nearly as impressive. I had pretty low self-esteem for some reason)

School type: Public
Location: Rural Connecticut
Race/Gender: Mixed Carribbean Black and White, Female
Prospective Major: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Bio, as a Pre-Med
Unweighted GPA: 3.86 (School doesn’t weight)
Class Rank: 3/83

SAT I
Math: 710
Writing: 760
Reading: 750

SAT II
Bio E: 710
Bio M: 740
Chem: 750

AP Scores (at time of app)
AP Lit and Comp: 5
APUSH: 3
(end of senior year)
AP Lang and Comp: 5
AP Bio: 5
AP Calc: 3
AP Chem: 5

ECs
4 years in Concert, Marching, and Jazz bands, with first chair alto, sax section leader, and first chair in each, respectively
3 years of Model Congress, 3rd place for best delegate
4 years of indoor and outdoor track, captain of both
4 years in Class Exec board, treasurer, booked and planned Prom as well as other fundraisers
2 Years in National Honor Society

Community Service:
2 Years as an Altar Server
1 Year as a CCD Aide
2 Years as a Lector
(all at the same Catholic Church)

Awards:
-National Achievement Scholarship Finalist ($2500)
-Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award
-Journal Inquirer Scholar Athlete
-National Merit Commended Student
-Several school academic awards and sports awards

Essays: My main one was a discussion of my realization of the difference between Religion and Faith, the extra supplemental for Yale was about the social difficulties of skipping a grade

Recs: My teacher recs were fabulous, and my guidance counselor and I had a very good relationship.

Extras: I spent 5 weeks at Wesleyan in the summer between my sophomore and junior years for Jazz, and I skipped a grade.

1706

Freshman at Virginia Tech
HS GPA: 3.2 UW 3.7 W (3.86 UW senior year, virginia tech cared about mid year report senior year so i got lucky)
SAT
reading: 550
math: 640
writing: 590

Maryland Resident

Applied to: UMCP, Penn state U park, Virginia Tech, Delaware, JMU, Rutgers- New Brunswick, Towson, UMBC, Drexel

Accepted: Virginia Tech, Rutgers- New Brunswick, Towson, UMBC, Drexel
WL:Delaware JMU
Rejected: Penn State, UMCP

1707

Graduated in 2013. Freshman at Princeton

Act:28
Gpa uw: 3.8
Gpa w: 4.4

AP:
Physics C- 4
Calc ab- 5
Microeconomics- 4

Extracurriculars:
Vice President of FBLA
Varsity track
Key club
3 years working at a summer camp
200+ volunteer hours

Admitted:
UMD CP
Villanova
Northeastern
Case western
Rutgers
Drexel
Princeton

Rejected:
Carnegie Mellon

1708

@donson
Princeton with a 28?? That’s insane

1709

@frankpercic it just goes to show that anything can happen and everyone has a chance

1710

This thread is amazing! Love chance threads but this is even better!

1711

princeton scea hopefuls 2018
I’m new to CC and a parent of an EA to Princeton. I don’t remember seeing my son so stressed this last 2 weeks, but his application was sent. He was also able to apply EA to 2 public schools UNC and UF. He’ll be applying regular to many other schools including Yale, Cornell, Brown, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Washington U (St. Louis), Emory, Rice, UMich and UVA. I know it’s a lot, but he must get out there to see where he can get in. Hi’s stats are:
GPA 4.0 - 4.85 W, top 1% of class (ranked 10 out of 852), AP’s: Human Geography 5, World History 5, Chemistry 5, Calculus AB 5, English Lang & Comp 5, US Hist 5. This year his classes are AP Art Hist, AP Calculus BC, AP Eng Lit comp, AP Psych, AP US Gov/Polit, Physics Honors and Spanish 4 Honors. SAT 2220 (CR 730 M 770 W 720), SAT II Math 2 790, Chemistry 770, US Hist 740. ACT composite score 32
His EC has been mostly swimming for the last 7 years!! grueling training and time consuming. Varsity swimming all 4 years of HS, team captain, varsity water polo 3 years, many volunteer hours with special olympics, give kids the world, surfrider foundation and relay for life.
HS Scholar-Athlete of the year 2013, Academic all american, National honor society, Mu Alpha Theta-math honor society, Rho Kappa - social studies honor society.
I know this is way too long, but I wanted to provide as much as possible for you out there. What are his chances with the schools I mentioned? I don’t know if I should mentioned he’s also hispanic. Your comments are welcome

1712

Saona63, you should start your own thread.
This thread is for graduated seniors to posted their actual college acceptance/rejection/waitlist results as well as their stats. This information is helpful to students who are in the process of applying to colleges (like your son) so they can gauge their own chances.

1713

Also, he is within the top 2% if he is 10 out of 852. Good luck to him regardless

1714

ACT: 23
GPA: 2.78
Community College GPA: 4.0
173/523
Big upward trend(2.4>2.8>3.2>currently all A’s).
Great essays.
State: Texas
Rigorous courses throughout High School(5 AP’s, tons of Pre-AP/honors)
Major: Chemistry unless otherwise stated.

Applied to:
Texas Tech University (Petroleum Engineering)
Houston Baptist University(safety)
Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Purdue University (West Lafayette)(I wish)
University Of Texas At San Antonio

Accepted:
Texas Tech University - Petroleum Engineering(I don’t know how it happened…)
Houston Baptist University
Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne
University Of Texas At San Antonio

Pending:
Purdue University (West Lafayette)

I know most people in the CC community are no where near my stats, but I thought it might help someone who may be. I will be attending TTU unless somehow magically I get into Purdue.

1715

Major: CS
Accepted: UC Berkeley (attending), UCSD, UCD, USC, Illinois Urbana-champaign
WL: Carnegie Mellon
Denied: Columbia, UCLA

ACT: 35
SAT: 2140
GPA UW: 3.8~
GPA W: 4.25~
Rank: Top 30% (kinda sucked)
SAT II’s:
Physics 800
Math 790
Chem 750

11 AP classes over 4 years with 4’s and 5’s on all (mostly 4’s).

ECS:
-Soccer (main)
->Highscool Varsity 2 years (top 10 in nation at one point, but don’t think that mattered too much)
->Club 12~ years
-youth and gov (1 year)
-~200 hours community service

Essays: Pretty good I think (8/10)

Seeing that it’s the time of applying to college again, thought it might be helpful to post. I obsessed over CC a lot during my high school years.
My biggest concern when applying to colleges were my EC’s and my gpa/rank. Although I played a lot of soccer, and was pretty decent at it, I really didn’t join any clubs or other organizations during high school (I was pretty shy). My rank was also not so great and I was pretty unsure going into the application process where I stood. Though, I put a lot of effort into my essays (I’m not too great of a writer so I put in a tremendous amount of hours) and also got pretty good test scores. Tbh, I didn’t think I even stood a chance at getting into UCB but I was apparently good enough…

Overall: Don’t worry too much if your feeling anxious about college acceptances. Even though you may not think you are as strong of an applicant as you wish you were, chances are you are still probably great. Also, try not to compare yourself too hard to the people who post here on CC. Some of those people are freakin crazy and they do not represent the majority of applicants (I believe). Try hard on what you can now (essays mainly) and just leave the rest up to chance. A lot of admissions is just luck!

1716

Please do more please

1717

There will probably be a bunch more once early decision/early action results come out in about 2 1/2 weeks. You should check back by then

1718

My brother’s stats:

Major: poly sci
Accepted: Columbia (Kleugy Scholar), Stanford, Brown, UChicago, USC, Oberlin, Occidental, Pomona, Clairemont Mkenna, Tufts
Rejected: NYU Abu Dhabi (ED)
SAT: 2150
GPA UW: 4.0
GPA W: 4.5
Rank: 1 out of 54
SAT II’s:
Physics 800
Math 800

Speaks English, Spanish, and Arabic fluently

10 AP’s throughout high school 5’s on all
AP Scholar with Distinction

ECS:
-Highschool Starting Varsity 4 years in XC, Swimming, and Lacrosse
->President and Founder of the Philosophy Club
->President of the Honor Board Committee
->HOBY, Boys State
->Attended UD Summer College & Brown Summer college
->no community service at all

Essays: very, very good.

He was devastated after not getting into NYUAD and had no hope. He got accepted to every other school he applied to. We are in a very low income bracket, >10,000. He received full tuition/room/board grants to every school.
Came down to final visits at Stanford and Columbia & ultimately decided Columbia was for him. :slight_smile: happy ending

1719

Accepted: College of William & Mary ED (attending)
Withdrawing apps fom uva and university of richmond

School Type: Public
Location: Virginia
Race/Gender: Caucasian
Prospective Major: International Relations
Unweighted GPA: 3.82
Weighted GPA: 4.23
Class rank: 31/441

SAT I Scores
SAT I Math: 530
SAT I Critical Reading: 640
SAT I Writing: 610

AP Scores:
Language & comp: 3
Macroeconomics: 3
Enivronmental Science: N/A
Spanish: N/A
Gov’t US: N/A
Literature & comp: N/A

Extracurricular Info
Active in church youth group since 6th grade
President of Junior Class
Secretary of Sophomore Class
3 Years of Chamber Orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall
NHS President
Lead Student Ambassador
National Spanish Honor Society
Member of Track and Field team
Active in younglife
Recipient of William & Mary Leadership Award
Founded non-profit organization that donated toys to children in southern Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
Chesapeake Scholar musician’s award
All regional violist
SCA Spirit Coordinator

Essays:
*Really strong, had both AP English teachers read them and I was very pleased with both
Recs
*One teacher rec was astounding, the other petty good

1720

Applied: Stetson University, Eckerd College, Rollins College
Accepted: Stetson University, Eckerd College

(Still waiting on answer from Rollins…Feb 15th.)

School type: Publicish (You had to apply to get in the school)
Location: Florida
Race/Gender: Caucasian, Male
Prospective Major: Double major Economics/Marketing
Unweighted GPA: 3.13
Weighted GPA: 4.89
Class rank: Unknown out of 87 (Senior class)

To be honest my SAT scores are awful, I don’t test well.
SAT Math: 500
SAT Reading: 570
SAT Writing: 490

Didn’t take ACT.

I’ll be graduating high schools with my AA.

Extracurricular Info (Really haven’t done much)
Founder of Autism Awareness Club in 10th Grade
60 Hour unpaid internship
I work about 30hrs a week to help my family.

Essay: I used the same one from a pass ENC1101 class about human rights.
Recs: Although I waived my right to read my recommendations, I asked the same teachers/people to write me a few for scholarships and they were amazing, so I’m sure they were excellent.