<p>Got accepted to University of pittsburgh, Stony Brook
Waiting on University of Washington… but def. going to pittsburgh probably even tho i got a scholarship to stony brook…
Still kinda mad that I haven’t received anything from University of Washington!!! gah!</p>
<p>I have a question… is Stony brook good?</p>
<p>hey…im not from the states, and im just wondering whtas with all the fuss about 2012 and 2013 admission???
what does it all mean?? have students been confirmed for admission for 2012 already???
how???</p>
<p>ihate: When we talk about 2013 admission, we’re talking about graduation year (4 years after we’d start going). So, for kids graduating high school in 2009, they’d be admitted for the college class of 2013</p>
<p>make sense?</p>
<p>:S :S
10char</p>
<p>Accepted:
University of Chicago
University of Washington
Carleton College
University of Southern California
Washington State University
Willamette University</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Northwestern University
Johns Hopkins University
Harvey Mudd University</p>
<p>Rejected:
Yale University
Harvard College
Columbia University
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgetown University
Princeton University
Pomona College
Cornell University (ED)
University of Pennsylvania
Stanford University</p>
<p>SAT: 2150 (770M, 690R, 690W)
SAT II: 2250/2400 (800M1, 750M2, 700US)
ACT: 32</p>
<p>Not at all surprised about the Ivies and Stanford. Was slightly shocked by straight-up rejection by Cornell ED, but I got over it. Slightly annoyed by Pomona, but whatever. Total shocker by Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown…I thought that I was for sure at least a waitlist. Apparently not. Definite shock that I was waited at Harvey Mudd and got into UChicago; didn’t expect either of those.</p>
<p>Hopefully financial aid for Chicago works out well, cause that’s where I’m going. :)</p>
<p>ab2013 ur joking right:</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. "</p>
<p>I happen to disagree</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I concur. Be you’re self- why put your individuality at stake just to attend college? Be you’re self, DO what you love, and you will prevail. If not, well, then it wasn’t meant to be. </p>
<p>Adcoms know a generic application when they see one.</p>
<p>Accepted: Rice (will attend), UIUC, Purdue, Rose-Hulman, UCI
Rejected: Princeton, MIT, Columbia SEAS, Stanford, UCB (that one hurt the most really, because i was kind of expecting to get in)</p>
<p>as far as the whole “be yourself” thing, i completely agree with both sides. in many cases, being yourself is great. however, some of you may not realize this, but there are tons and tons of smart kids out there who are COMPLETELY ORDINARY. case in point: ME.</p>
<p>sure, in my group of friends, i’m “quirky” and all that jazz, but i cannot express this on paper, and it’s pretty hard to fully show this in a 1 hour interview. also, i’m the math/science guy. looking back on my essays, they were mostly formulaic and generic, some would say, but that’s just my writing style, simple and straightforward. i cannot help that, and i will not change myself for any school</p>
<p>i agree with the person who said that you have to know what you want and where you’re going. i entered high school not thinking about college at all. i did activities that i liked, and things that interested me. i didn’t go out of my way to do super nerdy things like science olympiads or whatever because that wasn’t my personality and also because i had no idea they existed. if you go into the application process expecting to simply present yourself and having (top) colleges simply accept you, you’re dead wrong. 9 out of 10 times you’re going to need to sell yourself SOMEHOW. whether this means writing essays that are super-far out there, or going out of your way to participate in everything you can depends on you. whether or not you’re willing to do this is also up to you.</p>
<p>personally, i have no regrets. sure it would have been nice to go to MIT or Princeton, but in retrospect, i would not have changed a thing about my time in high school.</p>
<p>Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon, Texas Christian U, U North Texas</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Rejected:
Johns Hopkins (and probably Cornell, although that decision hasn’t come in yet…)</p>
<p>I want to go to CMU! But I can’t; the tuition there is way too expensive for me… and my family really doesn’t qualify for financial aid. Dang. The upper middle class always gets jipped of the money! lol. TCU, here I come…</p>
<p>Accepted:
Swarthmore (early write)
NYU CAS (turned down possible smart start scholarship)
Dartmouth (had likely)
Wellesley (had EE likely)
Cornell engineering (had likely)
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Duke
SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Binghamton</p>
<p>Waitlisted: WUSTL, UChicago, Williams, Harvard, Princeton Yale</p>
<p>Rejected: Amherst (Last minute, typo-ridden essay. <em>sigh</em>) </p>
<p>Now it looks like CORNELL 2013! Congratulations everyone! I’ve heard that this year was a tough one!</p>
<p>Accepted:
Stanford, Duke, Chicago, Notre Dame, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Harvard</p>
<p>Rejected:
Princeton, UPenn SEAS (after being deferred) </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone
thanks for all the help,
good advice is to apply places EA, so u dont have to deal with safeties and such</p>
<p>Here’s to working our asses off for four years!
woooot</p>
<p>How tough this year was it to get into Cornell this year as opposed to previous years? I unfortunately got rejected (never a pleasent feeling). I had really thought that I would get in, but I guess sometimes that’s the luck of the draw…</p>
<p>Last update/final count:</p>
<p>Accepted: Mount Holyoke, Reed, UM-CP (spring semester)</p>
<p>Wait list: Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Sewanee, Vassar</p>
<p>Rejection aka ■■■: Brown, Johns Hopkins, Kenyon, Middlebury, Northwestern, UChicago, Yale</p>
<p>Putting self on Bryn Mawr and Vassar waiting lists. Despite anger and tears over Bryn Mawr’s decision, still love the school.</p>
<p>Of course, I’ve now started to fall in love with Reed, except then I finally got the actual decision in the mail, along with financial aid stuff, and they decided I should only get around $5000. OMG. I cannot AFFORD college, people, stop telling me that I can! (“Don’t tell me what I can’t do!” <em>geek</em>)</p>
<p>Whatever to Dickinson and Sewanee.</p>
<p>Surprised I didn’t get into Kenyon; I went for the Trustee Scholarship weekend thingy and had what I thought was an A+++ interview.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins’ rejection only bothers me because I was going to use them as a bargaining chip for aid if I got in. I live in Baltimore and don’t really want to stay, but as a Baltimore City Public School student, tuition would’ve been FREE for all four years. And that is a lovely, lovely thing. Go figure, I don’t get in, but a friend who doesn’t need financial aid AT ALL (one parent makes over $300k a year, iirc) did. And is using them as a bargaining chip for aid from other schools. Grr. I know, I know, I shouldn’t whine about not getting into a school I wouldn’t go to in the first place, but man, this sucks now that I’m facing very little aid from the places I did get into. Though I am happy for another friend who did get in- then again, she doesn’t go to BCPS.</p>
<p>Yale= :(. Wasn’t expecting to get in AT ALL, but it was still my dream school (my unrealistic dream school. Bryn Mawr was my realistic dream school that I of course DIDN’T GET INTO, WTH). Was kind of hoping for UChicago but that didn’t happen either, though I know someone who got in (good for them, it was their #1 top choice dream).</p>
<p>So Reed or MHC, really. UM-CP was safety-ish, and it’s way too big for me. Also, I’d like to get far away from this state. It’s lovely, but I’m sick of it after almost 12 years, especially since I’m a native of Los Angeles. LA->Smalltimore and the Land of Crabs.</p>
<p>In at Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn, and Columbia.
Attending Princeton next year!</p>
<p>Accepted: Grinnell (almost full ride), London School of Economics, IIT, U of I
Waitlisted: Barnard, Claremont Mckenna College
Rejected (oh lord): Pomona, Vassar, Swarthmore, Haverford, Bates, Yale, Dartmouth, Stanford, Columbia, Northwestern, Wesleyan</p>
<p>That’s what I get for being an international applicant who needs financial aid. Crap. I think I might appeal some of my rejections due to some discrepancies I discovered…</p>
<p>SAT: 2140
SAT II: literature 710, math 770
ACT: 33
ECs: one leadership position, swim team all 4 years, political activist club, Best Buddies, volunteering at library, nothing too outstanding, but consistency…
Location: IL
GPA: UW 3.73, W 4.52
Rank: 85/850 (so top 10%)
APs: Psych (5), Government (5), English Lang (5), APUSH (4)
Senior schedule: AP Calc BC, AP Econ, AP English Lit, AP Art Hist (have taken all honors/APs throughout high school…what sucks is that it was all for nothing)
Essays: good and poignant, I thought
Awards: National Merit Commended (204 on PSAT), AP Scholar, Honor Roll and Dean’s List all years of high school
Income: <$100,000</p>
<p>I think what might have gotten me in is my heritage and the things I have had to overcome/face.</p>
<p>Also, I was a QuestBridge non-finalist. Perhaps that worked against me…</p>
<p>Dang. It bites.</p>
<p>Accepted: Williams (EA), U of Chicago, Duke, U of Rochester (20G scholarship), The College of New Jersey, Tufts</p>
<p>Wait-listed: Johns Hopkins (<em>sighs</em> first choice =/ ) , U of Washington St. Louis</p>
<p>Rejected (and this one kinda hurts): Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Darthmouth, Stanford, MIT, Penn State (the last one was just “***?!”).</p>
<p>Congrats to those who did better than me, and condolences to those who didn’t…</p>
<p>What to do! Is a full court press the right way to go - meaning letters of reference, etc for the Universities I have been waitlisted at? </p>
<p>GPA 4.429
ACT 34
lots of activites
basic white american female</p>
<p>Accepted:
Central College (Presidential Scholarship - full ride)
U of Rochester ($65K)
Creighton University ($75K)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:<br>
UVA
BC
Notre Dame
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Penn</p>
<p>Denied:
Dartmouth
Harvard (both my parents went to Harvard)</p>
<p>Any help out there!</p>
<p>Accepted: Bryn Mawr, BU School of Management, American (Kogod), Providence College, USF(safety), George Wahington School of Business</p>
<p>Waitlisted: Northeastern -why??</p>
<p>Rejected: Boston College(expected), Cal Poly SLO-(wth?)</p>
<p>Still waiting on NYU Stern my first choice-feeling depressed. </p>
<p>Good grades 4.1, 4 year starter Varsity soccer + team captain, IB diploma, crappy SAT’s, Mexican.</p>
<p>i got rejected from USC where i thought i had a really good shot at getting in and then I found out about a bunch of kids who got in who honestly aren’t that smart at all… this whole college process is so depressing. I think I’m going to appeal the decision, any ideas anyone?</p>
<p>Accepted:
Cornell (will attend)
Carnegie Mellon
Colgate
Holy Cross
TCNJ
Rutgers
Fairfield</p>
<p>Wait-list:
Bucknell
Boston College
Tufts</p>
<p>Rejected:
UVA
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Brown</p>
<p>Cornell was my number one choice (except Princeton/Dartmouth, which I did not apply to), so I literally danced when I received my Cornell acceptance after so many rejections and wait-lists.</p>
<p>7/14 (I predicted 9/14, but with a Cornell rejection, so I still win!)</p>