Accepted: UNC-Chapel Hill (EA), The Ohio State University (EA), Case Western Reserve University (EA), UIUC (RD)
Deffered: Brown (ED)
Rejected: University of Chicago (ED2)
Waiting on:
Amherst
Bowdoin
Brown
Carleton
Colby
Emory
Haverford
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
Swarthmore
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
Vanderbilt
WashU
Williams
chance me!
Stats:
White, Female, from Chicago Suburbs
36 ACT, 1590 SAT, GPA 3.92 unweighted, 4.7 weighted. 13 AP Classes, (I’m in six right now, but the seven I took in previous years were all fives except for a 4 in AP Physics)
I work as a student ambassador to the UN.
I was the captain of the Water Polo and track teams.
I volunteer every weekend at the Night Ministry ( a foundation dedicated to preventing HIV among homeless people)
I was the lead in three of my school musicals
I am student council president
I mentor an underprivileged child in the inner-city
I am a national merit finalist
National Honor Society President and French Honor Society Treasurer
I study abroad for a year in Luxembourg
I play the piccolo in symphonic band and the flute in marching band
I plan to major in Systems Science and Engineering with a minor in Nano-Scale Science and Engineering. Debating adding a minor in Jazz Studies as well but we’ll see!
Wash U has been my dream school forever. Yale is my second choice and I’ve gotten in EA but Wash U is where I belong and I hope I can get in:)
Accepted: Georgia Tech, Syracuse
Deffered: N/A
Rejected: N/A
Waiting on:
Cornell
Rice
Washu
CMU
Cal Poly
UVA
Cooper Union
USC
Upenn
@kitkat18 Wow! You are too good to be true. Any college would be lucky to have you.
International applicant
business major
Accepted:
University of Southern California WBB
Villanova Honors
Penn State Honors
UCI Honors
UCD
Rejected:
UPenn
Waiting
Cornell
WUSTL
Northwestern
Good Luck everyone!!
International applicant
business major
Accepted:
University of Southern California WBB
Villanova Honors
Penn State Honors
UCI Honors
UCD
Rejected:
UPenn
Waiting
Cornell
WUSTL
Northwestern
Good Luck everyone!!
Accepted:
UC Davis
Cal Poly SLO
Rejected:
Stanford (REA)
UChicago (ED2)
Waiting:
Wash U
Vanderbilt
Tufts
Northeastern
Cornell
UC Santa Barbara
UCLA
UC San Diego
Accepted:
UIUC (EA)
IIT
Northeastern (EA)
Penn State
UT-Austin
Cal Poly-SLO
UW-Seattle
Waiting:
WUSTL
Rice
Accepted:
Boston College
Case Western (lots of merit)
UMiami (lots of merit)
Rejected:
none so far
Waiting:
WUSTL
Emory
Georgetown
Brown
UPenn
GW
Tufts
Hopkins
@juliet816 how much merit from case??
Deferred EA:
Princeton
Michigan
Accepted:
Rutgers
Waiting to hear back from:
WashU
Barnard
Cornell
Brandeis
NYU
BU
Tufts
U Miami
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Johns Hopkins
U Chicago
Northeastern
Rejected:
None so far
First choice is WashU (after I got deferred from Princeton) because of how amazing my visit was. I also have a few friends who go there and they just gush about how much they love WashU, so I’m praying I get in. Best of luck to everyone!!
Accepted:
UCF
UF
(both in state)
Denied:
None yet
Waiting on:
WUSTL
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Columbia
Brown
UC Berkeley (OOS)
I thought this was too many schools, y’all are going way overboard with the applications.
Any chance of today?
@chisquareNomad $35,000 per year
My son applied to a long list of schools. The number was driven by the hope for competitive, big merit scholarships that would allow him to go to a more selective school than what we can otherwise afford. Unfortunately, when that’s what you’re doing, you have to maximize your odds by applying to several schools with type of merit. We knew it was a long shot, but wanted to at least try. In his case, seven of these schools offer full-ride type of competitive merit; he is still in the running at one of them. If it doesn’t happen, he will be happy at one of the other schools on his list.
Accepted by:
University of Cincinnati (Honors + Merit)
University of Dayton (Honors + Merit)
Fordham University (Honors + Merit)
Indiana University (Honors + Merit)
Miami University (Honors + Merit)
Ohio State University (Honors + Merit)
University of Richmond
University of South Carolina (Honors + Merit)
Villanova (Honors + Merit)
Waiting to hear from:
Davidson College
Vanderbilt University
Washington & Lee University
WUSTL
can we quit with the college lists pls n thank u. this thread should just be about the school, not ur college list!
Looking at the strength of the acceptances and remaining applications for virtually all of the students in this thread, a few things seem clear (and obvious).
All of these factors create serious difficulties for well-qualified students like those present on this thread. Assuming you’re at the top of the class, with over 1500 on the SATs and assuming the leading admissions factors are not independantly assorted among the top 20 colleges, many of these students, especially the unhooked and non-economically and non-ethnically diverse EA and RD applicants should probably be applying to fifteen to twenty (i,e., all) of these schools, to have a reasonable assurance of getting into one or more of them.
I thought I understood this process well before this year, but in the three years since my older child applied to colleges things have slid so much further in these ways that I’ve realized the eight non-safeties my D applied to this year may well have been too few. With a pool as talented as the one here clearly she will be very fortunate to be admitted at Wash U.
As @prodesse said, “Students with very high GPAs and test scores have no matches, only safeties and lotteries,” and @CardinalGreen added, “Based on my D’s SAT, GPA, extracurriculars, and other qualifications, the 30 most selective schools are her MATCH schools. Yet they admit 5-15% of applicants. What else can students in this position do but apply to 10 or more? Otherwise, bad luck can mean getting shut out.”
My 2016 D took the ACT once and got 36s on all 4 sections. She was Valedictorian with 48 A+ and 8 A grades and was a National Merit Finalist. She had tons of extra curricular, volunteer hours, and leadership roles. She only applied to 7 schools and get rejected by 3 of them (Stanford, Harvard, Duke). She was accepted to 4 (WashU, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, and Purdue). Fortunately, WashU was her favorite, so she didn’t really care about the rejections, but I really don’t know what more she could have done (except a varsity sport or maybe win a national robotics competition). I totally get why students are applying to so many schools.
With that being said, my daughter this year only applied to 5 schools 
Accepted:
Indiana
Fordham
Waiting
WashU
NYU
Columbia
She really wants WashU or NYU. We’ll see. I’m happy that my son (who’s a few years away and been on way too many college visits) just wants to go to IU.
Side note - I really wish the SAT and ACT were harder, or they limit the number of tries (or place more emphasis on the PSAT). This would better differentiate (I know the arguments against - I’m just pro testing because my daughters both got 36s and were NMF).
Heard from the GC - she hasn’t received anything from Wash U today. If they always send an email to the GC’s on the day of release, I guess it’s not today. I don’t know if they send emails to the GC’s. I am just reporting what she said.
Accepted: Vanderbilt (CV Scholar-full tuition), Purdue (16k + Stamps semifinalist), College of William and Mary (likely letter, Monroe Scholar), University of Virginia, University of Alabama (full tuition)
Deferred: Harvard, Michigan
Waiting on Ivies, WashU, Emory, NYU, Tulane, Duke, Johns Hopkins