me too. all my friends got into ivies lol
I just hope we all get in lol
10 hours lol
4 hours!!!
rejected 
Accepted!! Good luck everyone!
Rejected.
Accepted! Best of luck to everybody!!
For the sake of future lurkers, could you all post stats?
In case it helps anyone
Rejected
SAT : 1570
GPA: 4.55 W and not sure UW
Main ECs:
started a backyard fish breeding business
wrote a book
horseback rider for 10 years
I’m feeling very disappointed, but I guess that’s part of life! Congratulations to those who were accepted, and it’s a shame I won’t be getting to attend school with you next fall.
Heyy @JLBbal5l did you get in? Do you think getting a financial aid e-mail means that you are admitted?
I was unfortunately rejected. I’m an international student and I got 1440 on the SAT. My extracurriculars were 4 pages long … However, we should not get frustrated because there are many options! Good luck everyone
Accepted
4.0 UW GPA, 4.3 W
34 ACT
Recruited athlete
rejected 34 ACT 3.9 GPA
@whythoo11 Yes I did!
Congratulations to everyone who got in! For those that didn’t, there is a special place for you out there so don’t sweat it !
To everyone who was accepted: What were your stats?
I hope those of you who have been disappointed find your perfect fit. I also wonder if asking for stats of admitted students might be missing the heart of what a CMC student really is. Sure, these students have the grades and test scores and the resumes that impress but I imagine that the admissions office saw a deeper passion for learning, a commitment to success and the ability to contribute in each candidate. You can’t put those stats in an easy, written format. If you walk the CMC campus, students stop and say hi to strangers, they are engaged in intriguing conversations and they just seem incredibly confident and happy. Not sure a stat could make that point.
@anneabeau That’s such a great point and I couldn’t agree more. I feel CMC is the type of school to really look for “fit” over any other aspect of the application due to such a small number of seats and a large number of qualified applicants. Take into account the fact that around 33% of our class consists of recruited athletes and that there are only around 300-350 kids per class. So clearly, taking away the athletes (who are all very smart and qualified anyway), it’s a very competitive process.
With that being said, I definitely agree that CMC is one of the few colleges that values the non-quantifiable aspects of one’s application, as it worked in my case. I have a 3.98 weighted GPA (3.67 unweighted), a 31 ACT (32 super scored), 780 Math 2 subject test and 720 US History, and 9 AP courses taken ( Calculus BC, Physics, Economics, English, Spanish, etc,). So from a “stats” viewpoint, I’m well below the average, as many CMCers are valedictorians with 36 ACTs and what not.
However, did you know that I have suffered ADD and anxiety disorders throughout high school and only got diagnosed at the beginning of my senior year? That I’m a three year letterman for my school’s highly ranked basketball and track teams (I’m not a recruited athlete though)? That I’m half black and half asian and wrote a very powerful common app essay about it? That I’m a director of a non-profit organization with other directors currently at Harvard, Wesleyan, Stanford, and USC? That I performed biomedical engineering research at Case Western Reserve University for 2 straight summers? That I made a linkedin account at the age of 13 and now have over 500 connections to many successful people in many different industries? That I even landed a finance internship through linkedin at a company based out of SF? That I’m part of my city’s youth forum council? That I went through 3 years of high school with no 504 plan and no medication even though I needed them badly? I can go on but I think the point has been made.
My CMC essay could probably give someone goosebumps because it did for my friends that read it. I’m from Cleveland, Ohio, and flew all the way to CMC in October for a campus visit, information session, and interview. I also submitted the optional video response and have been constantly emailing with my regional admissions officer since August. Basically, I showed extreme interest in CMC and applied ED 1 as well.
Now just looking at my stats would make one think I don’t deserve my acceptance, but clearly, the CMC admissions office saw something in me.
Stats only say so much. CMC looks at the whole application.
@JLBball5, I am so happy that you are in my son’s class. You are so perfectly CMC. Congratulations. It is going to be a fantastic four years if everyone at Claremont McKenna is as exceptional as you are (and I know they are!) I would take a chance on you every single time!
Anne and JLB, I think you make valid points when you say that CMC looks at the whole applications, as most or all highly selective institutions do. However, I think it’s a little presumptive to think that you and your son were accepted because you grasped that and others didn’t.
Sure, some people aren’t good fits for CMC, and they are rejected. But there are hundreds if not thousands of applicants who are similarly qualified who don’t get in. Many of them would likely be fantastic CMCers. In modern college admissions, there are so many qualified applicants that (in my opinion), the last, most important determining factor is just luck.
I don’t intend to disparage either of your profiles. But one thing that I didn’t know characterized CMC that I’ve come to love is the humility of the students. Unlike some other schools, you’ll rarely find students extolling their own virtues, even though most students are doing incredible things. Often, it’s the opposite, and that’s a fantastic environment in which to live and study.
I thought I was hot stuff when I was accepted (CC doesn’t allow you to delete posts, so you can go through my profile and see how awful I was in high school). But I quickly realized that everyone at CMC is just as qualified, and everyone at other similarly or more competitive schools are just as qualified, too. Many of those students were probably competing with me for a spot that (I think) I won because of luck or good favor.
Best of luck to you both and to all of the applicants, whether rejected or accepted.
In response to the past couple of posts about the “average” CMC student, here is the relevant data from CMC’s 2017-2018 common data set:
Total first-year men who applied/admitted/enrolled - 2936/316/194
Total first-year women who applied/admitted/enrolled - 3413/342/158
Mean/median ACT composite score of first year students enrolled - 31/32
Mean/median ACT math score of first year students enrolled - 31/31
Mean/median ACT English score of first year students enrolled - 32/33
Mean/median SAT math score of first year students enrolled - 700/710
Mean/median SAT evidence based reading-writing score of first year students enrolled - 722/730