<p>Accepted:
Indiana University Bloomington (attending + Media Scholars + $36000 scholarship)
University of Oregon ($32000 scholarship)
The University of Arizona ($24000 scholarship)
University of Wisconsin - Madison
University of California, Merced (lol)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
University of California, Davis
Syracuse University (what?!)</p>
<p>Rejected:
University of Texas, Austin
University of Washington
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego</p>
<p>Waiting on:
University of Michigan (applied early action, got deferred, still havent heard back and its March 31. absolutely ridiculous. not even worth posting if i get in)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6 (on transcript); really a 3.94 (long story)
ACT: 31</p>
<p>Accepted:
Yale (deferred EA)
Columbia (likely/Kluge scholar)
Amherst (early write/Schupf scholar)
Johns Hopkins
Emory
Duke (likely)
GA Tech
WashU</p>
<p>Rejected:
Harvard. lol I wonder what happened here.</p>
<p>Choosing between Yale and Columbia, but will most likely go to Yale, because it’s my #1. I haven’t visited either yet, so I will definitely do so before making a decision.</p>
<p>Accepted: Boston College CSOM EA, Babson College EA, Carleton College, University of Washington
Waitlisted: Wash U St. Louis, Swarthmore, Claremont McKenna
Rejected: Pomona and Penn Wharton</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 720 CR 750 M 700 W (taken twice, did not submit)
[</em>] ACT: 34 Composite (1st try)
[<em>] SAT II: Bad, did not submit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 14/416 (13 after mid year report)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 11 classes but no tests yet
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB French SL, IB TOK, IB Psych SL, IB English HL, IB Business/Management HL, Sports Med 1
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semi-Finalist</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Serious tennis (team captain), work, physics club (co founder and treasurer), finance club, music, volunteering, DECA (double state qualifier 2 years, event finalist, national qualifier), a few more.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Assistant tennis coach at a club + my own racket stringing service
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 100+ hours at school, local environmental groups, and state parks
[</em>] Summer Activities: Tennis
[<em>] Essays: Very, very good. Lots of time writing and editing
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: 1 amazing (teacher told me what he would write), 1 good I assume (did not see)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Should be good, I have a good counselor
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[li] Interview: N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Not sure yet
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): WA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[<em>] School Type: Rich, excellent, public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian American
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100K +
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing special, recruited athlete at some schools</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Good essays, scores, gpa, lots of good EC’s, showed dedication through tennis, had good work exp + ran my own racket stringing service
[</em>] Weaknesses: No real hooks, no science/math senior year, not a minority
[/ul]General Comments: Pretty disappointed to only get in 4/9 really, especially looking at this other minority applicant at my school who got in everywhere. Crushed especially by the Pomona rejection.</p>
<p>Accepted:
UCI
UCR (Regents Scholarship)
UCLA
UCSD
UCSB
UCD
UC Berkeley
University of the Pacific</p>
<p>Denied:
USC (even with legacy, whaaat?)
Stanford
Yale
Brown
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>GPA: 4.82 (weighted), 3.8 (unweighted)
SAT: 2170
SAT II: Math IIC: 770, Biology (E): 730
Decent ECs…nothing outstanding
9 AP classes altogether
Pretty good essays (I hope! haha)</p>
<p>I’m probably gonna go to UCLA! It’s been my dream school since I was a little kid. Honestly, I didn’t even really care about the privates after I got accepted there (although I was a little disappointed about USC). I’m considering Berkeley, but I just love the vibe at LA way more! Plus, they have some really sick hip hop teams I want to audition for :]</p>
<p>Accepted:
Babson College
Bentley University (offered President’s scholarship ~half my tuition)
Boston University (CLAS)
Claremont Mckenna College
New York University (CAS)
University of California, Davis
University of California, Santa Barbara
Wesleyan University - One of my top five choices =) </p>
<p>Rejected:
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of Southern California
University of Virginia</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Boston College (not even gonna consider, I treat waitlisting as rejection)</p>
<p>All my rejections came from target schools…disappointing considering it’s theoretically a 50/50 chance but whatever. I fell in love with Wesleyan and couldn’t be any happier/humbler that I’ll be going there in the fall =)</p>
<p>^HAHA, I’d love to. I honestly considered doing that with my friend who got into BC but got rejected from NYU…BC’s a great school though, you should consider enrolling (unless you already are).</p>
<p>Accepted:
University of Colorado Boulder
Colorado School of Mines
Duke
Case Western Reserve
Emory
UNC-Chapel Hill
UVA
Brandeis
Michigan
Northwestern
Wake Forest
Carnegie Mellon
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Accepted:
Boston University
Boston College (Honors!)
Umass Amherst
Smith College, early notification (Stride program!)
Wellesley College, likely
Harvard College</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Tufts University
Williams College</p>
<p>Rejected:
Brown University
Princeton University</p>
<p>SATS: 1400/2070
GPA: 3.4 (One terrible year due to illness, most schools I communicated with were fine with it)
ACT: 30
SATII: Bio(E) 640, Chem 640</p>
<p>New Jersey resident</p>
<p>Accepted:
University of Florida (Attending)
University of Tampa (18k/yr)
Rutgers (6k/yr)
The College of New Jersey (Loved this school, would have attended if I didn’t get into UF)
Randolph-Macon College (Full ride)
Christopher Newport University
George Mason University (Never heard about scholarships from CNU or GMU…)</p>
<p>Rejected:
Georgia Tech (Saw that one coming a mile away)
University of Georgia (No idea how that one happened)</p>
<p>Seems that I may be meeting some of you next year.
Accepted:
Yale-no aid, but I don’t need it. Too many scholarships
Harvard-same as above
Stanford-same as Harvard and Yale
Georgetown-same as the past three
Rutgers-full ride, instate.
Rejected:
Dartmouth-Don’t know why, but I think it was because two other kids in my school were going on the rowing team.
University of Michigan- Out of state.
Now, for Columbia, it’s interesting. I was originally rejected, but they changed my status to the waitlist. I called and asked, and they told me their initial decision was correct, but things had changed.
I’m probably going to Yale, mainly because I’ve had my heart set on there forever. But I would have been comfortable with any other school, especially Harvard and Stanford.
Some quick stats:
Perfect GPA
Valedictorian
Intended major: political science (and I really showed them I loved politics.)
Perfect SAT score. Perfects on SAT 2 Lit, Math 2, American History, and World History.</p>
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