<p>I know that there are a lot of Results threads on CC, but especially for intl students, a seperate thread would be very helpful for prospective applications ... I think
So to all intl students out there: Post your Stats and Decisions, please wait for alle colleges to respond first ... and can someone post a template?
And also, please do not discuss anything here, it should be an results threead only</p>
<p>Here’s the template:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA:
[ *] Weighted GPA (using your school’s system):
[ *] Number of AP/IB/Honors Courses:
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience (place hours/week in parenthesis):
[ *] Volunteer/Community service (place hours in parenthesis):
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays (subjects and opinions):
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]International Specfic[ /b][ list]
[ *] EFC:
[ *] Applied for financial Aid?:
[ *] Financial Aid (merit):
[ *] Financial Aid (Need):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Choose One:
Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 1940
[</em>] ACT: didn’t take
[<em>] SAT II: World History 750; French (w/o listening) 620
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: 9.8/10.0 (grading between 4-10)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Valedictorian
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: not that heavy (we take our secondary leaving examiantions and it basically takes all of our time… actually we only go to school for couple of months during our senior year.)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Writing Competition, Some economic stuff
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Private art school for 12 years, founder of a home work club for the immigrant children, some amnesty international stuff, politics, tutoring
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Working as a full-time assistant teacher at my former high school
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Red Cross, Amnesty (maybe something like 100 hours)
[<em>] Summer Activities: Just traveling, no academic things…
[</em>] Essays: My common application essay was about art and I
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: very, very, very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: spectacular
[<em>] Additional Rec: letter from my art teacher (my mom cried when she read it :D)
[</em>] Interview: Brown only offered me one. It went pretty well (lasted 2hrs 11mins)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Deferred SCEA?:
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[<em>] Intended major?: Art, Philosophy, Economics (basically undecided)
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): FINLAND
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: ok
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): a Finn
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: my school work, involvement with art, recommendations, portfolio
[</em>] Weaknesses: sat’s
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: well-rounded kid with a lot of passion
[</em>] Where were you accepted: Yale, Brown, Williams, Vassar, Bates, Colby, Brandeis, Tufts, Reed
[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (CR: 790 M: 760 W:750 12E)
[</em>] SAT II: Math II 800, World History 730, Literature 700
[<em>] TOEFL: 113/120
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): On the top, probably
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): -
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): -
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Pretty intense; about 20 subjects
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Medals from National English Olympiad, National Russian Olympiad, and Standardized Mathematics Olympiad; Golden Key Best student award; about 15 other medals from various competitions; scholarship to study at a local bilingual school
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Team captain in “Global Debates” international competition, member on the national team for World Schools Debating Championships 2010, translating Harry Potter GoF, founded school French Club, creating and maintaining websites
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Translating, Editing
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Red Cross Youth, environmental cleanups
[<em>] Summer Activities: Youth Leadership Summit, NY; reading (a lot?)
[</em>] Essays: 1. About translating Harry Potter to Mongolian 2. Spending childhood in a developed foreign country, racial discrimination and consequent love for my own country despite its many (many!) problems
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Read only one and thought it was excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read,
[<em>] Additional Rec: -
[</em>] Interview: Awesome interviews over Skype with admission officers from Harvard and Yale. Good Princeton interview.<br>
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended major?: Undecided
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): -
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Mongolia
[<em>] School Type: Private, very small
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: very low
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Not exactly a hook, but pentalinguality
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: SAT I given my circumstances, well-roundedness, interviews
[<em>] Weaknesses: SAT II(?)
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Hmmm…
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: [/li]Accepted: Harvard (LL), Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia (John Jay Scholar and an LL), Dartmouth, U Chicago, Hamilton, Amherst, Pomona
Waitlisted: Grinnel, Reed, Penn
Rejected: -
[/ul]General Comments: I’m in a happy conundrum! Congratulations to everyone else who was accepted!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (CR 740, M 790, W 770)
[</em>] ACT: -
[<em>] SAT II: Math II 670, Physics 660
[</em>] Unweighted GPA: -
[<em>] Weighted GPA (using your school’s system): ≈11,2 (out of 12, Danish relative scale. Somewhat untranslatable, but somewhere around 4.5)
[</em>] Number of AP/IB/Honors Courses: -
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%, no official ranking though
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): -
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): -
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Same course load for everbody
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): -
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in parenthesis): Friends of Music club (arranging 5 concerts a year for 200+ people)(President, 2.5 years), my own blog, street team for major national music magazine, concert reviewer job for the national radio’s online community, volunteer work for an upcoming
[<em>] Job/Work Experience (place hours/week in parenthesis): Kitchen assistant, small restaurant (2.5 years, 7 hours)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service (place hours in parenthesis): -
[<em>] Summer Activities: Participated in debate panel at the Roskilde Festival (music festival), but none others, really
[</em>] Essays (subjects and opinions): CommonApp: First days of secondary school, placed weight on my schools creative focus. Other essays: reviewing concerts, writing about music, arranging concerts (enabling others to do their best).
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read them, imagine they were a bit generic (we’re not used to the enthusiastic US recommendations)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[<em>] Additional Rec: -
[</em>] Interview: Princeton & Brown in person, both went fine
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Country: Denmark
[</em>] School Type: Public, average size
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]International Specfic[ul]
[</em>] Financial Aid (merit): scholarships at BU & UMass
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT I, clear passion in essays & ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT II, summers
[li] Where were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Stanford, Brown, NYU, BC, BU, Umass Amherst. Rejected: Princeton[/li][/ul]General Comments: Bilguun, you blow my mind! I’m really happy for you and the rest of the internationals going to the US next year.</p>