<p>Bowdoin
Duke
Williams - early write, but i withdrew
Lafayette - withdrawn but i think i would have made it
Rutgers - Honors program + 5k scholarship</p>
<p>Colby was withdrawn as well, but being an asian male i'm quite confident i would have made it.</p>
<p>applied to eight:
harvard,princeton, stanford, mit, colgate, swarthmore, JHU, and upenn</p>
<p>got in:
colgate, jhu and upenn
waitlisted:
princeton
Got rejected at all others
GPA: don't really remember, but I'm ranked second in my class, at a pretty competitive private school in Costa Rica
SATs: 800v, 740m, 730wr</p>
<p>I'm happy , mainly because I got into Penn, had I been rejected there I guess I would've been pretty bummed.</p>
<p>I think people forget sometimes that it's not only a question of choosing the most qualified applicants, but also the type of applicants who a committee think will be happy at their school. Granted, this is more to protect the school's retention rate than anything, but it comes to the same thing as far as us high-school seniors are concerned.</p>
<p>"Match" isn't only matching objective things like grades and test scores, but also personalities, motivations, maturity levels, etc. </p>
<p>In my case, even if I could have gotten into HYP, there's no way I would have gone. So if I got rejected would it be because they thought I needed another 100 points on the SAT or because they were pretty sure I wasn't going to matriculate? There's no way to tell, but I think at the very least it'd be a little bit of both.</p>
<p>My hook was probably the typical poor hispanic girl. That's the only thing that I could think of, but it doesn't really matter cause I'm going to Columbia!</p>
<p>Reach: Dartmouth (Accepted)
Georgetown (Accepted)
Duke (Rejected)</p>
<p>Slight Reach: John Hopkins (WL)
Davidson (WL)</p>
<p>Match: Vanderbilt (Accepted)
Boston College (Accepted)
W&L (Accepted)</p>
<p>None of my schools were "safeties" because I liked them all, and would have been happy at any of them.</p>
<p>If I had posted my scores early, I think most would have told me no way at most of my schools (probably even some of my matches)... because everyone is so fixated on SAT scores (I suppose it is the only common denominator- I got 640 on Verbal, 680 writing, but 800s on everything that had to do with Math). But if you go to a hard school, where the colleges know what your classes mean- I think it makes a difference. I have a friend who was rejected from all safeties but got into MIT & JHU (they understood just how hard that Physics C class he was in was and the C junior year didn't knock him out of the running). I think depth sometimes matter more then breadth to colleges (I was very deep and strong in math, not just SATs but AIME scores and other things), and had really pushed myself at my school (and my grades were a split between As & Bs). So my only advice after all of this is don't apply to a safety you wouldn't be happy at (a few of my friends made this mistake), and if you are strong in an area let them know. I think they are jaded by so many "perfect" applicants. I came right out and told them that writing was tough for me, but showed them how I had worked hard to improve in HS... I think they somehow respect that. Also, I think never ending lists of ECs doesn't really matter as much as people think- objective measures (certain contests, national honors etc) means a lot more.</p>
<p>Reach
Brown - accepted
Dartmouth - accepted
University of Pennsylvania - waitlisted
Georgetown School of Foreign Service - accepted
Amherst College - waitlisted</p>
<p>I posted a chances thread on the Parents forum and got a HUGE range of replies. It was predicted that I would get into some "top 25 schools but not HYPS" by some, and one dad say "you will get in absolutely everywhere."</p>
<p>Well, results are in...and....</p>
<p>Yale (accepted)
Princeton (accepted)
Stanford (accepted)
Dartmouth (accepted)
Duke (accepted, 'top 350')
Vanderbilt (accepted)
UVA (accepted OOS)
UNC-Chapel Hill (accepted OOS)
UT-Austin Plan II (accepted)
USC (accepted + full tuition scholarship)</p>
<p>HARVARD = REJECTED</p>
<p>I love the fact that I was rejected at Harvard, because I got in so many amazing places and yet didn't make the cut at the "epitome of American elite education" or whatever Harvard as known as. All I know is that I am so thankful that I am so lucky and I seriously sit around in class thanking everyone around me (silently) for making me whoever I was that could get me in all those awesome places. </p>
<p>So chances threads, semi-useful. Maybe. Actually, nobody can predict what will happen. But I'm glad what happened happened.</p>
<p>Haha, I completely agree!! I got a likely letter from Dartmouth, so last Thursday I was just going to be hearing from HYP. Harvard was the one that I desired least out of those three, and luckily I checked it first. The initial rejection from Harvard made getting into Yale (30 seconds later) so much more exciting. </p>
<p>A flare of rivalry born in the first 15 seconds of my acceptance...:)</p>
<p>Told I'd be a shoe in at Carnegie (accepted)
Told 75% or so at Hopkins (waitlisted)
Told 60% at Cornell (rejected)
50% at Amherst (accept)
Told 30% at Duke and Dartmouth (reject)
Told 10% at Harvard (reject)</p>
<p>So I guess other than Cornell and Hopkins they were accurate.</p>