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<p>I know someone who got into NU by baton-twirling!</p>
<p>Guidance counselor? What’s that?</p>
<p>NM finalist in '72 with a 610 M score and a 3.3. One college app (UCLA). Admitted.</p>
<p>Things were different then.</p>
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<p>see stats above.</p>
<p>Results?
In at Penn and Maryland, waitlisted at Georgetown, rejected at Old Dominion.</p>
<p>OK…my results:</p>
<p>Harvard-rejected
Brown-rejected
U Penn- admitted (and attended)
Georgetown-waitlisted
WPI-admitted
SUNY-Stony Brook-admitted</p>
<p>broetchen …my guesses:
Penn-rejected
Georgetown-waitlist
University of Maryland-admitted
Old Dominion-admitted
Surprised at ODU rejecting you, yet accepted at Penn</p>
<p>^
I guess, it shows that even back then, things could be unpredictable.
Also, essays may have been a factor.</p>
<p>This is a fun thread. Was telling my family that I’d probably be rejected at the schools I applied to back then, and they don’t believe me. I have posted on other threads where I did go to school. </p>
<p>It would be fun to get a ‘chance’ from the time of application and a ‘chance’ for now.</p>
<p>Class of 1982
Female
Class rank 4/500. Middle to upper middle class city About 6 in my class went to Ivies, one to MIT.
I took APUSH but not the test, no one did. All honors classes, rank/gpa were weighted, I took most rigorous schedule, all core classes including 7 yrs of lang and 5 of sci, much more rigorous than the val who took steno and drafting. There was a drug problem in my school and many kids with a lot of potential did not get accepted to top schools they probably were qualified for.</p>
<p>SAT 680V/750?M
Achievement tests (forget exact scores)
Math - high 700’s, maybe 800?
Latin - high 700’s
French - no recollection
Rensselear and Bausch and Lomb medals recipient
National Merit semifinalist, National Honor Society, etc
Some other HS awards probably after admissions at end of sr year
Competive summer program at Milton Acad, other summers I worked
School musical sr year, crew jr year
Student council, don’t remember how many years
Quiz bowl team alternate one year?</p>
<p>No sports, no otherECs except the lame fake clubs in school (French club, etc)</p>
<p>Applied to
Brown EA
Cornell U - College of Engineering
Boston University (double legacy)
RPI
U of Rochester (free app from B&L medal)
visited Worcester Poly but don’t think I applied, they were still using punchcards</p>
<p>Oh I almost forgot- THE SCANDAL! In my sr year “we smart kids” decided to put a fake person on the ballot for student council. To demonstrate apathy. Well he (the fake guy) got elected and when they found out weren’t too happy. All the instigators who signed the nomination forms got kicked out of their clubs and some teachers didn’t write rec’s. I may have been on student council and lost my seat. All the class officers and yearbook staff lost their positions. I can’t say if it was noted or reflected in my application, I did get recommendations. There were no suspensions just had to do some jobs around the school.</p>
<p>jackief, it sounds like you were from NY state? If so, where? </p>
<p>Brown EA-likely accept then, waitlist now
Cornell U - College of Engineering- admit then…and now.
Boston University (double legacy)-admits
RPI- tough one…but I say admit then and now (also, I think being female may help here…)
U of Rochester (free app from B&L medal)- admit then and now
Worcester Poly - admit then and now.</p>
<p>Funny…we had a ‘scandal’ too…but it did involve underage drinking…basically no harm, no foul, no notation on transcript…</p>
<p>My mom, 1978:</p>
<p>Public school in MA
GPA about 3.6
No rankings
SAT: Verbal 560 / Math 780 (!!!)
PSAT: V 66 / M 64
“Crappy score on AP Physics exam if [she] took it”</p>
<p>– Math team through junior year
– Was computer programming at the Air Force base by senior year
– No other ECs (then again, she seems to have trouble remembering these things)</p>
<p>Applied to Rensselaer Polytechnic and Cornell</p>
<p>The girls at my school (class of '82) were told to take typing so we could make money in college by typing papers for other students. Boy, I really was glad I took that advice after computers arrived! Still say typing and algebra I are the classes I have used the most (on a daily basis) in the last 26 years. The least–Algebra II, without a doubt!</p>
<p>When I graduated high school in the early 70s I had no choice economically but to go to the local “commuter” school, but I was a good enough student and test taker that I received a lot of mail from “elite” schools. Most of it I tossed without ever reading because I knew I would be attending college via the city bus, but I do specifically remember one letter. To understand, you need to know that I have a first name that is often confused with its feminine homonymic.</p>
<p>The letter asked if I would like to become a member of the first class of women to matriculate to a fully coeducational University of Pennsylvania. </p>
<p>For years I wondered about what an interesting dorm assignment I might have received. :)</p>
<p>Poseur…I will chance your mom as in at RPI and waitlisted at Cornell, then. Now, rejected at both…</p>
<p>Close! In at RPI and rejected at Cornell. Actually, she doesn’t even remember that much – she thinks that maybe she just had a bad interview with Cornell and didn’t end up applying, haha.</p>
<p>Graduated 1984 from small private school in southwest
Rank 2/31
GPA (90-ish on scale of 100)
SAT 650V/650M
SATIIs ?? English - high 600s? Spanish - high 500s?
APs ENG LIT - 3 (but school did not offer AP classes)
ECs - not much, a little theatre, violin, maybe a club or two, no awards or offices that I recall</p>
<p>Applied: Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona, Kenyon, Carelton, Colorado College, University of VA (OOS) - ED. </p>
<p>P.S. - I am yeslek’s mom (currently signed in on her computer).</p>
<p>yeslek12: my ‘chances’ for you:
Williams-admitted (???)
Swarthmore-rejected
Pomona-admitted
Kenyon-admitted
Carelton-admitted
Colorado College-admitted
University of VA-admitted</p>
<p>CDK-</p>
<p>I was waitlisted and then rejected at Brown, accepted everywhere else, and attended Cornell. I’m surprised you said RPI chance would be tough, I considered it, along with all the non-Ivies, to be safeties. Cornell was my first choice all the way, it had ED and so I picked Brown which had EA at that time for my early choice. No I was not from NY but from MA and didn’t apply to MIT because it was all geeks and too close to home. </p>
<p>I got a small merit award from Cornell as well as the medal schools. Yeah I know the Ivies don’t give merit awards now, but this was named after someone, some XXX scholarship for about $2K, which wasn’t bad considering tuition was $7K my freshman year. My Dad was POed that BU didn’t give me much if anything, after all his years of donations which stopped after that (yes the reason that legacy admits are important)</p>
<p>I think yeslek was admitted to all.</p>
<p>Here’s another applicant from the 1980s:
B average high school, no APs.
no ECs
no sports
SAT Verbal 550 Math 500
no subject tests
only applied to Barnard - admitted, natch!</p>
<p>It doesn’t surprise me that Poseur’s Mom got into RPI, until recently 75% of those who applied got in, and women get a bit of a break. I am surprised it was co-ed. We have a friend whose about our age as far as I know and it wasn’t co-ed when he was there. </p>
<p>JackieF - I’m not suprised by the RPI acceptance either - esp. with the medal.</p>
<p>If you guys can all acknowledge the lower admissions standards of the past, why isn’t there the same consensus concerning the justifiability of grade inflation?</p>
<p>Even if Harvard draws from the same group of talented kids year after year (and this is obviously not true - enormous amounts of new talent are made accessible in more modern years), wouldn’t it make sense that those kids, when exposed to nearly a full college curriculum for half of their high school years, would perform at a higher level than that same group would when AP classes were not the norm?</p>
<p>ee33ee, I personally am not particularly worried about grade inflation in colleges. I am also not a fan of grading on a curve, I believe in grading on standards.</p>
<p>U of VA - deferred then rejected (surprised me but did turn out for the best - even in those days very hard to get in out of state)
Williams - rejected (my first choice of the LACs)
Swarthmore - Waitlisted (I actually did a pretty last minute sloppy job on the application)
Pomona - accepted (and attended)
Kenyon - accepted
Colorado College - accepted
Carleton - accepted</p>
<p>I think my essays were what got me into the LACs.</p>