<p>Final results</p>
<p>Accepted : Emory, U of R, BU honors, PSU, and Uconn</p>
<p>Rejected : Cornell, Upenn, Brandeis, Dmouth</p>
<p>Waitlisted : Rice, Reed, Vbilt, and Pomona</p>
<p>Accepted: Stanford!!, Berkeley (Engineering), UCLA (Engineering)</p>
<p>I didn't send in the rest of my apps after getting in to Stanford SCEA...
And this is my bff's record:</p>
<p>Accepted: Stanford!!, Rice, Oberlin, Northwestern (Business), Texas (Honors Business)
Rejected: Yale (deferred then rejected), Harvard, Princeton, Penn (Wharton)
Waitlisted: Columbia, Wash U (??)</p>
<p>I still can't believe my best friend and I are both going to the school of our dreams. If you work in Stanford's admissions office, I love you!!!</p>
<p>Hehe that's pretty sweet!:D</p>
<p>^^ and both of you are internationals. how amazing! how unbelievable!</p>
<p>MY FINAL DECISIONS:-</p>
<p>Yale-Accepted but probably won't go..
UCB-Rejected (My first choice..sigh..)
Duke-Rejected
Dartmouth-Waitlisted
Rice-Accepted
Harvard-Rejected(surprise surprise!)
Stanford-Rejected
UCLA-Accepted</p>
<p>I haven't read through all posts, but Cornell seems to reject a lot of internationals, despite having IB classes and doing relatively well.</p>
<p>Hence my rejections:
Cornell (it was crapshoot, actually)
Johns Hopkins University (never had a good feeling about it)
McGill University (just to round out my Canadian universities)</p>
<p>and my acceptances:
University of British Columbia (my co-1, next to Cornell)
University of Colorado at Boulder (safety)</p>
<p>Pending notice:
University of Rochester
University of Washington (an acceptance would leave me torn between it and UBC)
University of Mighigan at Ann Arbor (very popular)
Simon Fraser University (safety; but of lesser significance since I got in to UBC)</p>
<p>I'm from Canada (an Asian with Dual Citizenship). Best luck to all of you still waiting--I am toiling in that same pit of anxiety--and congrats to those who have been accepted.</p>
<p>Final Results</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Upenn (wharton), Johns Hopkins, NYU, Illinois Ist of Tech, Carnegie Mellon</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Harvard, Yale and Caltech</p>
<p>Rejected: Cornell </p>
<p>I love MIT, although stanford is still amazing. If any internationals applying this year have questions, I will be happy to help them.</p>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>@Sid: Stanford, Princeton...NOT Cornell. That's a trend I am not happy with. Congrats on those acceptances, though; impressive.</p>
<p>Impressive Sidfromaus!</p>
<p>Accepted:
UC Irvine Honors Program (OOS)
UC Davis (OOS)
USC
Santa Clara
Boston College</p>
<p>Waitlisted
Claremont Mckenna
Tufts</p>
<p>Denied
Cornell
UPenn
UCLA (OOS)
Stanford</p>
<p>I'm okay about the rejections though, I prepared myself well for them. My college counselor said that UCLA would be a core for me though so that came as more of a shock; but I'm over it already. I really need help deciding where I'm going though, it's between UC Irvine, USC and BC. All very different schools I know. Although, if I get into Tufts, I'd probably go there.</p>
<p>sidfromaus: COmplete stat details please...A to Z. I f you could produce your essay and anything else you sent in to MIT, it would be awesome and helpful.
Thanks.
and good luck for MIT. Go there.</p>
<p>Accepted:
-Duke
-Georgetown (the college)
-McGill Desautels Faculty of Management</p>
<p>Denied:
-Stanford (EA)
-UPenn
-Yale
-Columbia</p>
<p>I am disapointed as I really wanted to get into Penn but otherwise I'm fine with Duke. I guess we were not that lucky this year with this record number of applicants to top schools ^^</p>
<p>Accepted:
Amherst</p>
<p>Denied:
Duke
Yale
Dartmouth
Brown</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Cornell Ag</p>
<p>What a brutal year.</p>
<p>SAT: 690CR; 800M; 730WR = 2220
SAT II: 800 Math2; 800 PHY; 780 CHEM</p>
<p>ACCOLADES:
Academic
- Top 40 students in the Australian end-of-year Examinations getting a national ranking of 99.90 percentile.
- 1st class honours for Maths at Melbourne University
- I received a ‘Prize’ (highest accolade) in the Australian Maths Competition (largest maths comp in the world) each year for the last 4 years;
- a HD in the IBM Maths Olympiad each year for the last 4 years;
- a HD in the ICAS Maths Competition each year for the last 4 years;
- a HD in the University of Canberra Maths Comp each year for the last 4 years
- High Distinctions in Australian National Science Competition for the last 2 years
- Australian Schools Chemistry Quiz for the last 2 years
- Maths Olympiad team in year 9.
- Go to the only selective school in the State – hence very competitive and rated in the top 10 schools in Australia.
- Received Academic Awards in the school for the top 5%, in each year of high school.
- Have a GPA of 99.9 on a 99.95 scale.
- An A+ average in all 4 years of high school
- I am currently doing a very rigorous year 12 syllabus and am also enrolled in a Maths course at Melbourne University. I am also self-learning the first year physics and chemistry courses.
- Also received the school Maths Prize – based solely on exam and internal test scores throughout the year.
- Class ranking is 1/351</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Last year, I entered the Young Achievement Australia where I was introduced to other business enthusiasts. 10 of us grouped together and created a company. The aim was to achieve business experience. We formed a company with a principle created by selling shares. 300 shares at $2 each were sold...hence $600 were raised. Using this principle, we created a company that sold season’s greeting cards to large companies. All in all, at the end of the year, we were able to create a profit after tax of $18,000. Hence the Return on Investment was 30:1 or 3000%. . Keep in mind that this is the profit after having donated 35% of the revenue ($14000) to charity, and paying a later tax of 30% ($7800). I was the FINANCE DIRECTOR.
(wrote my essay on it)</p></li>
<li><p>2 years back, I also helped register a direct trade between cricket bat manufacturers in rural India to direct retailers in Australia. This disposed off the middleman businesses, which were leeching off the low wages of India. Instead, by registering this direct trade, I was able to ensure fair wages to the cricket-bat manufacturers of a certain town in India.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Extra-Curricular:
- 4 years: School Debating Team
- Ray Willis Leadership Scheme (to address racial issues in society).
- 4 years: Environmental Action Group
- 4 years: Strategy Club
- 4 years: Pres of Maths Club
- 4 years president of the Business Club
School Sports Teams - 4 years: Cricket, Basketball, Tennis, Volleyball, Rugby and Squash (Captain)
Compete at a State level in Basketball, Squash, Cricket and Rugby.</p>
<p>Leadership
- 4 years: Student Representative Council
- 4 years: House Captain
- 4 years: Red Cross School Ambassador
- Awarded the Bluey Truscott Scholarship... an esteemed distinction based on student’s performance in academics, extra-curricular activities and leadership.</p>
<p>Community Service
- Senior Residence: approx 120 hours each year for last 3 years
- Tutor children from the recent wave of Sudanese Immigrants.
- Red Cross Volunteer in the Youth and Education Services.</p>
<p>Work Experience – I have been trying to fund my education in America (fingers crossed) since I was legally allowed to work.
- 2 years: KFC
- 2 years: At a tutoring college. Started teaching (maths and science) when I was 16 - taught people older than me.
- Now do private tutoring
- Also worked for an insurance company in the last 2 summers as an assistant to the managing actuary.
- Accountant for Gloria Jeans</p>
<p>ESSAYS: Original and from the heart i reckon....If anyone would like to read them to analyse my chances in greater detail, i would appreciate it. One was about how the differnet societies have shaped my personality. The other was about my 2 businesses. A common theme in all my essays was about "following my passions"</p>
<p>Recommendations: Quite good i guess, cannot compare since i havent read others'</p>
<p>Trust me when i tell you that SAT scores do not matter for Big universities like MIT, Stanford and Ivy Leagues, although Caltech does look at them a bit too much. But i know people who made HYM with scores less than 2200 and even a 1900 as internationals.</p>
<p>Brilliant stats Sidfromaus..Are you human? You deserved to get into every freaking college you applied to!</p>
<p>What you said about the SAT is correct..My sister was admitted into Yale (Class of 2011) with an 1850!
I got my acceptance from Yale recently..My SAT score isn't too impressive..Just managed a 2050.</p>
<p>I'll probably end up in UCLA or Rice!</p>
<p>Sid, I must say, you are good at Mathematics.</p>
<p>UC Davis - Accepted..</p>
<p>Waiting for notice:
UC Berkeley
UC LA
Cornell University
Yale University</p>
<p>Although I am pretty sure will be rejected by Yale.. :( (Most likely by Cornell too..)</p>
<p>Sid, u and ur resume is quite impressive. You deserve to get a place in every colls. I really admiore for your achievement...the company was a great idea.. :)</p>
<p>If u can, plz pm your essay/s to me. I'd love to read it/them</p>
<p>^ Uhh Ivy decisions were released long back.</p>