<p>um rejected,
uc w gpa about 3.7osh, uw 3.28ish
sat: 2100</p>
<p>national award ECs (see earlier posts)</p>
<p>uhhh yeah lol. my only speck of hope is usc/ucla</p>
<p>highereducation, did you apply to fallback schools OO;;</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!
Revelle!
Still waiting on Cal and UCLA</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
College/Major Applied To: ERC/Biology
Fee Waiver Used?: Yes
SAT I (by section): 720 CR, 690 M, 690 W, 12 E = 2100
SAT IIs: Lit:680 US History: 630
GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.8
Rank: 15% (out of 1300 students)
APs (including this year's): World History, Human Geography, Lang/Comp, US History, Biology, Lit/Comp, MacroE, Government, Environmental Science, Calculus, Psychology
Senior Yr Courseload: AP Lit/Comp, AP Gov, AP MacroEcon, AP Psych, AP Calculus, AP Environmental Science, Academic Decathlon, Orchestra
Number of Apps from Your School: Not very many (OOS)
Other stats (Awards, etc.): Mult. piano awards
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: Hospital work, piano, swimming, acdec, student council, NHS
Job/Work Experience: Parents' restaurant
Essays (subject and responses): Who knows
[ *] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): 1st gen, low income
Location/Person:
State or Country: TX
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, very competitive (1300 students)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): 1st gen
Strengths: Ability to overcome hardship
Weaknesses: GPA
Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: Who knows
Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Happy, but waiting on other schools.</p>
<p>Peppers-yeah, I was overcautious and applied to ALL of the UCs ( I got into merced. Riverside, sc, davis, Irvine, sb). I also applied to high caliber privates. By speck of hope i just mean “reach” schools that I might have a chance of getting into (Berkeley- I doubt, privates besides USC- I doubt)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] College/Major Applied To:Bioengineering: Premed
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?:I'm not poor
[<em>] SAT I (by section):750 Reading 770 Math 740 Writing 2260
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 740 AP US History, 700 Physics
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:3.9, ~4.4
[</em>] Rank:3 or 4
[<em>] ACT:I don't take pointless tests
[</em>] APs (including this year's): 5 World History, 5 Biology, 5 Calculus BC, 5 Calc AB subscore, 5 US History, 4 Physics, 3 English Language, in progress English Literature, Psychology, and Government
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: izaite
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: dozens
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): science fair winner, lots of community service, a year or two of sports, volunteer at hospital and church, treasurer of teh school, key club, nhs, csf
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app:above
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses):they seemed Ok not great
[<em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): overall awesome?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):complete garbage
[</em>] Ethnicity:indian (not the feather kind)
[<em>] Gender: MALE
[</em>] Income Bracket: pretty up there
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):i'm the ownage
[</em>] Strengths: high Sat, lots of APs, lots of communtiy service
[<em>] Weaknesses: not much
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied:high sat and AP scores
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: pretty much expected it just waiting on Stanford and berkeley now</p>
<p>lol the post above me has a <em>slight</em> tone of "holier than thou"</p>
<p>just wanted to point that out cause i thought it was funny</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] College/Major Applied To: Economics, Sixth College
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 1930 (really bad)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 720 Biology, 720 Math IIC
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.88 UW, 4.75 W
[</em>] Rank: 4 out of 621
[<em>] ACT: 31 composite (what got me in probably)
[</em>] IBs (including this year's: All IB courses or Pre-IB courses since Freshman year
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 6 IB courses
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: More than 10
[li] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Chancellors Scholarship (YAY!)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] ECs listed on app: 3 Major ones: Co-captain of Varsity Golf, Performance piano, and Founder and prez. my HS's Interact club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship as a sales rep. (made quite a few bucks, in the thousands for the company)
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Talked about going into business and econ. Was said to be extremely good and well-knit
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): First Generation, really ghetto school.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): outside of the IB program, less than 20 percent go to college.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: M
[li] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: Essays. Major work and donations to Rotary International.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!</p>
<p>College/Major Applied To:Molecular Biology. Accepted to ERC
Fee Waiver Used?:no
SAT I (by section):Math 740 CR 740 Writing 700 total 2180
SAT IIs:Math 780 Chem 800 Phy 750<br>
GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:no GPA in school but around 3.9
Rank:no rankings
ACT:NA
APs (including this year's):NA
IBs (including this year's:Chem HL, Phy HL, Math HL, French SL Geography SL and Eng Sl
Senior Yr Courseload:Hardest possible
Number of Apps from Your School:3 about
Other stats (Awards, etc.):INternational award gold. </p>
<p>ECs listed on app:Too many to list.
Job/Work Experience:Cancer foundation volunteer. Orphanage volunteer
Essays (subject and responses):very good me councellor said.
Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.):dunno
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
State or Country:Out of state .live in Oman, in middle east
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):small private. 800 people
Ethnicity:East Indian
Gender:Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):dunno
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied:accepted
Other colleges accepted to: UC DAvis, Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois-Urbana Champaign, U Of Rochester and waiting for others.</p>
<p>any other international students accepted?</p>
<p>im international!...Pakistani</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] College/Major Applied To: applied math, muir
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?: no
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR :690 Writting:680 Math: 720
[</em>] SAT IIs: USH-610 MathII-740
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.75uw, 4.0uc, 4.03w
[</em>] Rank: 6/91
[<em>] ACT: Nope
[</em>] APs (including this year's): 6
[<em>] IBs (including this year's): none
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Econ/Gov, Ap English, Ap Stats + non a-g
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: ~10-15 (out of 91 students)
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: asb chaplain, class chaplain, asb historian, nhs...etc
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: black angus, tech company, tutoring
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Acting/Leading is my passion, math, reason for not taking certain class
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): nothing
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[<em>] Strengths: math (took calc bc as a soph and got a 5 on the AP exam)
[</em>] Weaknesses: gpa
[li] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: Average gpa and above average sat for ucsd[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: none</p>
<p>Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:
* College/Major Applied To: human bio, Warren
* Fee Waiver Used?: no
* SAT I (by section): CR :730 Writting:650 Math: 780
* SAT IIs: USH-770 MathII-750 Bio-710
* GPA, Weighted: 4.2
* Rank: n/a
* ACT: n/a
* APs (including this year's): 7
* Senior Yr Courseload: AP Econ, Ap English, AP BC Calc, AP Phy C + TA
* Number of Apps from Your School: hundreds
* Other stats (Awards, etc.): some</p>
<p>Subjective:
* Essays (subject and responses): lame crap
* Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): summer paid internship at lawrence berkeley national lab</p>
<p>Other colleges accepted to: Rice, Cornell and waiting for others.</p>
<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: California
* School Type, public, ranked in top 50 in the the nation
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: F
* Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: crazy class load</p>
<p>General Comments:
* apparently UC's are more expensive than Rice by more than 10K. haven't seen the financial from cornell yet, but definitely not going to any UC's</p>
<p>highereducation ain't gonna get no higher education</p>
<p>LOL</p>
<p>wow that was a j4ck455 move =</p>
<p>don't talk to me like that 1800</p>
<p>*** i got a 2030</p>
<p>my slight "holier than thou" attitude is the reason i got in</p>
<p>Or it made the admissions officers cry when they were forced to let you in because your point total was too high =(</p>
<p>and the beauty of the UC admissions process has dawned upon you</p>
<p>tears of joy no doubt</p>