<p>Accepted:
Grinnell- target
Rice- target
Bowdoin- target/reach
Middlebury- "
Dartmouth- reach
Northwestern- reach
USC- safety
Wash & Lee- target
Haverford- target/reach
Dartmouth- reach</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Penn- reach
Williams- reach.. but ED</p>
<p>Rejected
Yale- reach
Princeton- reach</p>
<p>What were your stats?</p>
<p>I was told I was pretty much going to UF. And yeah, I was accepted there. But I also applied to Dartmouth, Brown, Williams, and Amherst.</p>
<p>I got an early write from Williams.
And was accepted to Brown and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>A lot of people expected an Amherst acceptance after that... rejected, :)</p>
<p>I'm heading out to New Hampshire.</p>
<p>And I'm happy.</p>
<p>Yay!</p>
<p>NOT MY MOM.
It's her account.
I was told I'd never get into my dream school, an I didn't -- except academically.
I was also told I'd never get into two totally competitive BFA programs that accepted like six people and I did.
Your parnts are supposed to idolize you; but mine didn't think I'd get in either.</p>
<p>I was given the "no way in hell" look on more than one occasion. Fortunately, they were wrong (hahahaha) for the most part.</p>
<p>Harvard (hasn't taken anyone from my school in 10 years) WAIT-LISTED
Yale- deferred then REJECTED (I did give the interviewer cheek, after all)
Dartmouth-ACCEPTED
Swarthmore-ACCEPTED
Emory-ACCEPTED
Quinnipiac-ACCEPTED (Honors Program)
University of Connecticut-ACCEPTED
New York University- ACCEPTED
Wesleyan-ACCEPTED
Fairfield-ACCEPTED</p>
<p>I was desperately scared and nervous. I was extremely clever to send supplemental writing pieces, lets just say that.</p>
<p>Indiana (Safety) In
WashU (Slight Reach) In
Duke (Reach) Rejected
Harvard (Reach) Rejected
Georgetown (Match) Rejected
Vanderbilt (Match) In
Emory (Match) In
Tulane (Safety) In with DHS
UChicago (Slight Reach) Rejected
Smith (Match) In with STRIDE
Case Western (Match) In with Trustees
Wake Forest (Match, with money) In with no money
UVA (Slight Reach) In</p>
<p>They did a good job, except with Georgetown and Wake Forest about money. I despise Georgetown.</p>
<p>Actually, I was yelled at because I was very unsure about myself but everybody didn't think so and was mad.</p>
<p>Well, people were right. I got in to Yale, Stanford, and Nortwestern 7yr Med Program. But I was waitlisted on Harvard and Brown.</p>
<p>What i was told was...</p>
<p>UPenn - huge reach
Michigan - reach
USC - slight reach
Northwestern - reach
Claremont - reach
Wash U - reach
UT Austin - reach
UW Madison - slight reach
BU - safety
GWU - safety
UNC CH - people on the UNC board told me theyd be surprised if i didnt get in, so i guess match</p>
<p>actual results (capitalized for correct ones)
UPenn - deferred-REJECTED
Umichigan - deferred - still havent heard
USC - REJECTED
NU - REJECTED
Claremont - accepted
Wash U - waitlisted
UT Austin - accepted
uw Madison - accepted
BU - ACCEPTED with 5k merit money
GWU - waitlisted
UNC CH - waitlisted</p>
<p>I didn't post my son's stats on chances threads, but I PM'd a few CCers who are already students at Rice & Pomona, which were son's top two choices. This seemed to me to be a less humiliating way to ask for chances. </p>
<p>They replied that they thought he had a pretty good chance, with the caveat that he should demonstrate strong interest in his essays (so perhaps "slight reach"?). </p>
<p>We know that Rice & Pomona are both a bit "quirky" in terms of acceptances, so he applied to others he would have really liked (Carleton, Grinnell, two UT Honors Programs, Harvey Mudd & Stanford), figuring that he would at least get into UT Austin (top 10% rule) & probably one or two others.</p>
<p>He was accepted by all but Stanford (which I didn't ask for chances, because I knew the answer would be reach to big reach.</p>
<p>The only school I asked chances for was UCLA, which was my dream school....I was told match/slight reach. I got rejected from there unfortunately, so I guess the prediction was accurate, I think I might have been close though like the prediction cuz a couple of my friends with similar stats were accepted. Oh well, I got into USC and UCSD so I'm content!</p>
<p>This was my brother's case: he applied to Notre Dame, Cornell, and WPI. He had 50/50 chance on getting in Notre Dame and Cornell, but an almost certain chance of going into WPI. </p>
<p>He got into all of them! (Maybe because of great extracurricular activities and being hispanic...not to good SAT's or AP's)</p>
<p>I agree with you, Be quiet and drive: stop worrying about what other people say and strat worrying about what your dream college thinks about you. Start working towards success, not towards other people's acceptance.</p>
<p>I have been a ?lurker? here on CC for about a year now as we entered the tiring and stressful college application process. As a parent, I read the chances threads with some dread, even though I did not fully take them to heart. I was amazed at the exceptional SAT and AP scores ? that my D did not have. AP classes at her school are, frankly a joke. We knew she was disadvantaged in the college process but that she has the potential to excel anywhere. She did what we encouraged her from freshman year ? do the best you can with your opportunities in your high school. She will graduate as valedictorian. She set school records in athletics and served as President of clubs and her class. However, I think what got her into Duke and Davidson and on the waitlist in Dartmouth was not only those, but excellent recommendations. One interviewer read one of the recommendations to her and it was amazing. My point is, to everyone out there without brilliant SAT scores or AP scores, have heart!</p>
<p>Hmph. Why was she worried in the first place? Best that one can expect from a situation is all they expect, too.</p>
<p>Why was she worried? She knew where she wanted to go to college. However, her SAT math was well below the average range (writing was 200 points higher), SAT subject tests scores were horrendous and AP scores were almost laughable. We were consistently told by admissions officers that they look at more than standardized tests and apparently that is the truth.</p>
<p>As a parent, I too have been lurking CC to gain some insights, alternately alarmed or optimistic, regarding my Ds applications next year. With respect to the admissions now coming in at my Ds highly competitive school, as well as what I glean here, I have to agree that one cannot rely on nor predict "chances" based on super high stats alone, particularly at the elites. The decisions coming in from the high ranked colleges and Ivys at my D's school are all over the place. So far, 12 to Stanford, of which only 3 were quite "predictable". Several MIT and Harvard rejections of SATS close to perfect, one who attended RSI, was a Westinghouse finalist, ISEF winner, and has a patent. 5 girls accepted to Harvard, 3 other girls to MIT, of the 20or so students who applied, and who all had, in my view at least, great chances, yet no guys who had stellar stats as well. Strange. Girl with stats in mid 2000s to Swarthmore (but an accomplished writer), another with much higher SAT rejected; a guy in everywhere he applied P,Y, CalTech, Stanford, Rice, Olin, UCB, Mudd, who one least expected; rejections at matches and acceptances at reaches....the list goes on. I agree, the brilliant SATs are by no means the whole story. Interviews, essays, commitment to ECs, depth of character, that special something, quirkyness or individuality in some way, how the college wants to form the new class...etc.
One can only try, and be hopeful and believe you end up where you ultimately belong. Maybe it's best to have several "dream" schools, realistically after all there's a tremendous choice in this country, so many offer a great education. Bottom line is what one makes of college rather than what the college does for you.</p>
<p>ForeverBlue,</p>
<p>Time to perk up !</p>
<p>Congrats to your D.</p>
<p>I had an interesting experience...</p>
<p>Pitt- Safety- Accepted, Honors Tuition scholarship
Case Western- Match- Accepted, no scholarship ("chances" said I'd get one easily)
University of Chicago- Match, Dream School- Accepted EA, University Scholarship (makes my lack of scholarship from CWRU even more ???)
UPenn- Reach- Accepted
Harvard- Reach- Denied
Olin College- Reach (wasn't actually sure what my status was on Olin, hard to find stats as it gets more competitive every year)- Denied
Carnegie Mellon MCS- Match- Denied (???)
Johns Hopkins- Match- Waitlisted
Washington University in St Louis- Match- Waitlisted</p>
<p>Overall a very weird year- never thought I would have gotten waitlisted at WUSTL, not gotten ANY money from Case Western, denied at Carnegie Mellon, or in to Penn, but such is life. Headed to Chicago w/merit next year and couldn't be happier, as it was my first choice all along.</p>
<p>Reach:
Georgetown- denied
UNC Chapel Hill- denied</p>
<p>Match:
Boston College- accepted early action
Villanova- accepted regular decision</p>
<p>Safety:
Northeastern- accepted (honors)
UConn- accepted (honors)
Fairfield- accepted (honors)</p>
<p>I seemed to guess all of my reaches, targets, and safeties correctly. I was planning to apply to UPenn (super stretch), John Hopkins (stretch), and NYU (target) but once I got into Boston College (which was my first choice school) I stopped applying :)</p>
<p>Pitt- Safety/match - Accepted
VT - match - waitlisted
Dickinson - match/reach - Accepted
U of South Carolina - Safety - Accepted</p>