<p>@DwightEisenhower: Of course you ought to be happy. Many congrats!! :D</p>
<p>i’m so freaking happy right now i can’t even explain it. like… my mind was just blown…</p>
<p>accepted: WUSTL, unc chapel hill (w/ scholarship + honors college), university of chicago, university of pennsylvania, stanford
waitlisted: harvard, georgetown
rejected: princeton</p>
<p>it hurt to be rejected from princeton, as it was my ABSOLUTE first choice, but that’s mostly because i didn’t expect to get into stanford AT ALL. and my mind has just been blown. like… my face is twitching, guys. i was SURE i was going to be rejected. wow.</p>
<p>Accepted:
Pomona College
Georgetown University
Princeton University
Columbia College
University of Virginia
University of Kansas
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Stanford</p>
<p>Reject:
None</p>
<p>All i have left to look at is UPENN</p>
<p>Accepted: Michigan, Michigan State (with $12,000 scholarship over 4 years or something like that) </p>
<p>Waitlisted: Chicago </p>
<p>Rejected: MIT, Brown, Stanford </p>
<p>Time spent on essays: ~4 months (waste of time I tell you)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.85
ACT: 34
SAT: 2260
ECs: Relatively weak with a few leaderships here and there (search for my posts for extra details) </p>
<p>Colleges tell you to be “yourself.” This is a misleading statement. If you want to get into a top school, you need to know where you’re going the moment you step into high school as a freshman. What do you want to do with your free time? Extracurriculars? Fill your life to the brim with extracurriculars, especially if your school offers alot, because only then will ADCOMs accept the fact that you’ve taken a full advantage of what your school has to offer. You need to have a clear-cut direction. I didn’t have this. </p>
<p>Now I hope to correct my mistakes. I will work myself to the death in college. I mean it. I will seize every opportunity I see. No parties or anything like that. In fact, “sleep” will no longer be a word in my dictionary. </p>
<p>(OK I’m overemphasizing. I’m happy that I’ll be going to Michigan. I’ll be close to family. :))</p>
<p>Accepted: Pomona, Scripps, Willamette, Whitman, Colorado College
Rejected: Stanford
No waitlists</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m not bummed about the Stanford decision–I was prepared and it wasn’t really my first choice anyway. That would be Pomona–I would have cried a bit if I hadn’t gotten in there. I’m happy with what happened.</p>
<p>Accepted: University of Delaware, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Case Western Reserve, Wellesley, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, BROWN UNIVERSITY
Rejected: MIT
Waitlisted: Princeton </p>
<p>7 for 9… or 7.5 for 9 lol… not disappointed. Brown was my first choice all along. :D</p>
<p>Rejected: CalTech, Rice, Columbia, Yale
Waitlist: Stanford, MIT, Harvard
Accepted: UT Austin (honors), Baylor (honors), UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Cornell, Duke</p>
<p>SAT: M/C/W = 740/800/790
ACT: 35
SAT II’s - Math II, Chem, USHist (800 on all)
UIL Academics - Mathematics State Champs, Number Sense State Champs
Academic Decathlon Team Captain - State Champion (back to back!), Team State Champs.</p>
<p>AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH</p>
<p>By order of preference:</p>
<p>Stanford: Rejected
Harvard: Rejected
MIT: Rejected
Princeton: Rejected
Yale: Waitlisted
Cornell: Accepted, but financial aid will almost certainly be unaffordable
Rice: Waitlisted
McGill: Accepted
Tufts: Accepted
UMass: Accepted</p>
<p>Quick stats:
-2400 SAT, 2380 SAT II</p>
<p>-Near top of class but only that I’m top 10% is reported, grades went steadily from B average to A+ average from freshman to senior year, class difficulty maxed out, took a math class at Tufts and got an A+, 9 AP exams, 5s in the two I took last year (APCS AB, Calc BC)</p>
<p>-Have placed in the top ~50 class of class of '09ers in math competitions from Mathcounts to AMCs, 11 AIME most lately</p>
<p>-Programming/misc computer stuff for many years, won a game programming competition and cash prize, coded a full web application with Flash/LAMP and a fair bit of HTML/CSS work</p>
<p>-Founded and led SAT Prep Clinic and Math Team at my school (a teacher was more responsible for the latter’s foundation than I was, though)</p>
<p>-Good athlete and musician to boot, MMA, skiing, tennis, violin (with music supplement, have played in various orchestras), guitar</p>
<p>-Standard glowing recs as far as I can tell, including one from the professor of the Tufts class I aced; multiple former admissions counselors and English teachers looked over my essays and said they were excellent. Interviewers for Harvard and Yale pretty much told me I was a perfect fit and they would recommend me strongly, other interviews went pretty well, except for ironically the Cornell one.</p>
<p>So now I’m just stunned and wondering what happened…?</p>
<p>And now, what do I do? Go to my eighth/ninth/tenth choice? Take a gap year? Join the military like several friends are doing/have done?</p>
<p>Update: </p>
<p>Accepted: Full rides to UCLA, UCSD, UCI, UCSB, UCDavis. Cal. USC. Claremont McKenna</p>
<p>Waitlist: Pomona, Stanford (I’m actually super happy about this. I was so sure I was going to be rejected…)</p>
<p>Rejected: Yale, Brown</p>
<p>Though I would have loved to go to both Yale and Brown, I’m happy that I at least have great options to choose from. Many of my friends don’t, sadly.</p>
<p>Accepted: Georgia Tech, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Waitlisted: Carnegie Mellon
Rejected: Cornell, Stanford, Penn</p>
<p>for computer science.</p>
<p>Dammit. I’m actually not incredibly disappointed, though. I’m happy with what I got… though still hoping for CMU.</p>
<p>Cleer- those are two of the best Comp Sci schools in the country! Nothing to be disappointed about at all!</p>
<p>I’m going to either CMU Drama or NYU Tisch for Technical Theatre!</p>
<p>Accepted: UPenn (Wharton)
Waitlisted: Columbia
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth</p>
<p>I’m actually ecstatic. Yale was my first choice, but I’m so relieved that as an international student in this economic climate I could get a spot at such an amazing institution. Getting invited to a scholar program at Penn only reinforced that a rejection isn’t a personal affront, but simply based on the needs of individual institutions, which I totally get.</p>
<p>I’m happy. I just hope I’m as happy with the financial aid offer :)</p>
<p>I’ll just add that those aren’t the only schools I applied to. My safeties are all Canadian.</p>
<p>Accepted:
UVM
Hofstra
Fordham
NYU (Tisch School of the Arts)
BU (College of Communication)
Syracuse</p>
<p>Rejected:
Cornell
Columbia
UPenn
Brown</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Dartmouth</p>
<p>I’m thinking of attending either BU or NYU.</p>
<p>Accepted:
Boston College
Wake Forest
Villanova
Tulane
Providence
University of Miami
College of Charleston
UVM</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Emory
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Rejected:
Middlebury
Dartmouth (deferred ED)</p>
<p>I’m trying to decide between BC and Wake.</p>
<p>accepted: uc berkeley, uc irvine, uc san diego, university of the pacific
rejected: columbia, u penn, stanford, yale
waitlisted: university of chicago</p>
<p>GOING TO BERKELEY!</p>
<p>Accepted:
Cornell
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
U Maryland College Park
U Maryland Baltimore County</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Northwestern (not taking it)</p>
<p>Rejected:
MIT</p>
<p>Its between Cornell and CMU</p>
<p>Accepted:
MIT, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, UVA, Michigan</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Harvard, Duke</p>
<p>Rejected:
Princeton, Yale</p>
<p>I’m going to either MIT or Dartmouth… probably MIT unless Dartmouth impresses me when I visit.
Vandy could be a possibility simply because the girls are so damn attractive there!</p>
<p>Accepted: UChicago, UGA, UPenn (hahaha lol series of U’s)
Waitlisted: Harvard, Stanford, Columbia
Rejected: Princeton, Yale </p>
<p>I’m staying on the WL for Harvard and Stanford and writing them letters with some updates. Hoping that the volatility this year will lead to some WL movement??? 
Otherwise I’ll be waiting for Finaid offers from Chicago and Penn to make a decision, although I’m leaning towards Chicago just based on personal preference.</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Middlebury, Carleton, Grinnell</p>
<p>Rejected:
Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth</p>
<p>ah well… what can i say? being an FA international sucks. congrats too all who made it somewhere!</p>
<p>first rejections from Harvard and Penn…
Ivy is Ivy but i’m already grateful for what i have now!</p>