<p>blue paper means acceptance…and so white…rejection? just trying to prepare myself for tomorrow!</p>
<p>I hope you’re right about scores counting less, because I’d like to think my essays were twice as good as my scores.</p>
<p>WHY CANT MY MAIL JUST COME!!!</p>
<p>@daswitty… What exactly is a 4.21 GPA at your school… How many B’s, and did you have a super-rigorous schedule too?</p>
<p>accepted to the college!</p>
<p>SAT: 2180/1460, ACT: 34, SATIIs: Chemistry 800, Math II 780
GPA: 103/100, ranked 2nd or 3rd out of 700
not much community service but lots of ECs and decent essays. amazing recs
white, female, catholic.</p>
<p>congratulations to everyone accepted and best of luck to everyone deferred!</p>
<p>A 33 ACT is in the range of any school… It’s above average for test scores. I only had taken 1 AP (my school only offered one.) This year I am taking 3.</p>
<p>My interviewer said that the early action students typically have very strong test scores, as they don’t have time to look at all recommendations and essays. They instead just tend to see the scores an defer those who have strong extracurriculars and essays if the scores aren’t necessarily there.</p>
<p>I got in, but there wasn’t a blue paper</p>
<p>Deferred with a 34 ACT, Top 5% of class, 20+ hours working per week, 350+ hours of community service and a 4.0 UW GPA with 4 APs this year (7 total). From NY.</p>
<p>I GOT ACCEPTED TO SFS!!!</p>
<p>i cried.</p>
<p>Student5000–You are kidding, right? lol The Extracurriculurs take like 15 seconds to gloss over. They wouldn’t accept anyone without reading the essay. What if it were horrible?</p>
<p>Just what he told me. Obviously they look at everything but they put more emphasis on scores early action.</p>
<p>@eric2dea My school’s A starts at a 94 so I would get about one B a semester my entire four years at the school. 4.5 was an A in an honors class and 5.0 an A in AP. I’ve taken one AP my junior and four this year. But our school requires religion which is a regular class so a 4.0 tends to bring those down. I’m about the top 15% at my school gpa wise but top 5% ACT.</p>
<p>@student5000 That might have been true in the past, but I really don’t think it’s too true now. My SAT IIs were in the toilet compared to everyone else on here, but I was still accepted. By far, my essays and recs were the strongest part of my application. I think if it was based primarily on scores, we would be seeing some different results. Who knows, perhaps my 660, 710, and 730 were “good scores” to them. (I will admit, my ACT is a 33.)</p>
<p>Thanks DasWitty, although it seems you took harder courses and the standard is higher at your school, I’m about the same percentile as you. And student500, although UI’ve heard that said before, there’s been a few students here with near perfect SAT’s and a 4.0 that got deferred… so who knows how the hell they accept kids.</p>
<p>…and I just got my deferral</p>
<p>Is 15% acceptance rate top 10 in the nation?</p>
<p>Deferred. 34 ACT, 2200 (1420) SAT, 780 Math I, 760 Chemistry, 740 Literature, #1 HS soccer team in nation, #2 Club soccer team in nation (which I travel to 3 hours twice a week for practice), Vice President and co-founder Dead Poet’s Society, Math Club, Science Team (spend lots of time on this and soccer), 4.903 weighted, 3.95 unweighted, 6/450 class rank, National Honors, National Merit Semi-Finalist (finalist pending), Southern Baptist white male, from South Carolina, great essay on morality and how it affects me and how I live my life based on an instance in 1st grade that changed my life, 50+ hrs community service. IB Diploma Candidate Finally, I’m 16 years old, as I skipped 7th grade. Applied to MSB. Have absolutely no idea how I got deferred. In shock right now.</p>
<p>You’ll be able to tell an acceptance from a deferral before you open it even though they’re in the same sized envelopes; the deferral is painfully thin.</p>
<p>Accepted - White male from Indiana, 2280 Sat, 4 out of 129 in class. Hoya Saxa!</p>
<p>^Noting how many people get deferred, defer-all is the correct way to spell it in this circumstance.</p>