<p>I’m so pleased to see people are still using my thread! Makes me proud. I’m kind of violating my own rules that I set down when I started this thread by posting fluff, but I’m just glad to see the thread has survived over the years.</p>
<p>Keep it up!</p>
<p>bumpity bump</p>
<p>This thread was awesome! Come alive old applicants! Post your stats!</p>
<p>hey guys 
i haven’t been on CC in quite a bit, but i thought i’d contribute to this wonderful threads with my stats from last year.</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted none **
**Decision: Waitlisted at Milton, Deerfield, Hotchkiss, Concord, and Exeter **
**Decision: Rejected at Andover **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SSAT/ISEE/TOEFL/PSAT: 98% overall, i think the score was 2268.
[</em>] GPA Unweighted-Weighted: was in middle school, so no GPA, but consistent 94-95 average, all A’s
[<em>] Rank: school does not rank
[</em>] Other stats: violin for 4 years, piano for 10 years, but did not have many extracurriculars
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: they were alright, pretty mediocre, and i crammed them all over winter holiday, but i had some people look over it for me
[</em>] Teacher Recs: should’ve been great, my teachers all liked me (:
[<em>] Principle/Counselor Rec: good, i think, we got along pretty well, i still visit her sometimes now
[</em>] Hook (if any): nope, i’m pretty ordinary
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: from New Jersey, but living in China
[</em>] Current School Type: private, international
[<em>] Ethnicity: American Born Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors: many people from my school in my grade were also applying to these schools, and two of them had siblings who attend or attended Milton and Deerfield.</p>
<p>General Comments: i was pretty surprised, and very devastated. i had expected to get into at least one school. i’ve come back to reality though, and i will be reapplying this year - currently taking a break from all the essays to visit CC - and i’m hoping for much better results! i joined more extracurriculars, maintained a high honor roll GPA, and hopefully my essays and interviews have also improved. (:</p>
<p>**Decision: Waitlisted at Loomis **
Decision: Rejected at Hotchkiss, SPS, and Deerfield</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SSAT/ISEE/TOEFL/PSAT: 87% overall
[</em>] GPA Unweighted-Weighted: W-3.58 UW- 3.415
[<em>] Rank: School does not rank
[</em>] Other stats: piano for 8 years, swimming, field hockey, and softball,various leadership roles
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: meh. i just read them and all are ok except my hotchkiss which was fabulous
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Math likely sucked, english was good
[<em>] Principle/Counselor Rec: likely neutral
[</em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: USA
[</em>] Current School Type: Top Private Day (you’d know it, i promise)
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[/ul]Other Factors: no FA, recs were likely bad because I was relatively immature last year.
General Comments: Re-applying this year and I think I’ve worked out the kinks. I’ve joined more ecs, got a hook, raised the ssat, and imporoved my relationships with my teacher. I also widened my spectrum of schools im applying to, and im applying to some HADES and some with a 40% acceptance rate</p>
<p>I’m glad Ehpant bumped this and added her story from last year. Together with aaralyn’s recap right above it, I think it paints an appropriately realistic picture for this year’s crop of applicants.</p>
<p>I blanch every time I see a first-time applicant applying only to the most selective schools and seeming (at least to this semi-Tiger Dad) a bit too confident. I truly wish everyone the best of luck, but know that it ain’t as easy as you’d like to think…</p>
<p>bump… M10 isn’t too far away!</p>
<p>It’s one whole month away!</p>
<p>That will pass slower and faster than anyone can see…</p>
<p>It FLIES by.</p>
<p>Exactly! Time is passing by so fast, it’s crazy. It might also be my nervousness, but I keep imagining different admissions results decisions… I can’t wait until march tenth.</p>
<p>Only 29 more days…hope I won’t end up posting in this thread in red.</p>
<p><em>grim face</em> More than likely each of us will have to, though. I’m just hoping that we can all post at least one green.</p>
<p>A month… I just want this to be over. It’s taken over too much of my life- a bit like an addictive drug, you know? So promising, so hard to wean off, if you don’t keep reminding yourself of the numbers.</p>
<p>Exactly one month :)</p>
<p>Bumping this thread, super helpful for all…</p>
<p>I’m gonna bump this thread too…</p>
<p>Also, how exactly do you post in different color and stuff? What are you supposed to do with the codes?</p>
<p>It’s like bb code or something, idk it’s somewhere on the cc website.</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the codes:</p>
<p>[College</a> Confidential - BB Code List](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=bbcode]College”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/misc.php?do=bbcode)</p>
<p>gonna bump</p>
<p>bumpy bump</p>