<p>Accepted!
(also accepted to Middlebury this morning and waitlisted at Bowdoin last night)</p>
<p>Do any of you guys have “TEC:pas” under the sign under your decision letter? I think that’s an enclosure for presidential scholars, but I’m not sure. </p>
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<p>No, it just means that the initials of the person that prepared the letter for Terry Cowdrey are PAS.</p>
<p>Okay, thanks. I’ve never bothered to figure out how those letters beneath worked. (I should probably figure it out now)</p>
<p>Waitlisted and not accepting, got into colleges I liked more anyways 
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<p>Waitlisted. Colby is my dream school. Please decline if you do not plan on attending to make this dream possible.</p>
<p>International…waitlisted. </p>
<p>Rejected RD </p>
<p>Objective
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (CR, M, W): 2040 (610/760/670)
[</em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8-3.9
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A but according to GPA distribution, looks like 10%
[</em>]AP (place score in parentheses): Calculus AB (5); Stats; Physics B
[li]Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Physics B; honors english, 2 honors social studies, an honors science, and a bunch of silly electives[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective
[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): clubs etc, nothing special… below average i’d say
[</em>]Essays: I thought they were good but evidently not
[<em>]Teacher Recommendations: didn’t read
[</em>]Counselor Rec: didn’t read
[li]Interview: none[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other
[ul]
[<em>]State (if domestic applicant): MA
[</em>]School Type: medium competitive public
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Income Bracket: low?
[/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection
[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: GPA?
[</em>]Weaknesses: SAT, senior course load, extracurriculars
[<em>]Why you think you received your decision: my weaknesses
[</em>]Where else you have applied and/or have been accepted/rejected: rejected by Colby, Bates, U Rochester; accepted to UVM; waiting on UMass, Colgate, Hamilton
[/ul]</p>
<p>General comments/advice/hindsight: this feels horrible because i have only gotten rejections so far RD</p>
<p>How the hell do you check your status? myColby portal thing is so janky I can’t figure it out.</p>
<p>@notloureed If you can get to the “Class of 2018” tab, it should be there. Try clearing your cache and cookies if you can’t log on. </p>
<p>Waitlisted (RD) </p>
<p>Objective
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (CR, M, W): n.a.
[</em>]ACT (breakdown): 34. I don’t remember the breakdown
[<em>]SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math 2 (710) U.S. History (780)
[</em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 17/570ish
[</em>]AP (place score in parentheses): APUSH (5), AP Lang (4), Physics B (5)
[<em>]IB (place score in parentheses): n.a.
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: leadership (it’s like an honors class), AP English Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Spanish V, AP Biology, a few electives
[li]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Girl Scout Bronze and Silver Awards[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective
[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): math team, peer tutoring, leo club (secretary), ultimate frisbee, girl scouts
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: sales associate since summer 2013
[<em>]Volunteer/Community Service: tons because I’m a girl scout haha, summer hospital volunteer
[</em>]Summer Activities: work, hospital volunteer, scuba diving
[<em>]Essays: I thought it was good
[</em>]Teacher Recommendations: very specific and positive
[<em>]Counselor Rec: hopefully pretty good
[</em>]Additional Rec: n.a.
[li]Interview: I interviewed on campus in the spring of my junior year. It probably could’ve been better because it was my first college interview but I thought it was at least ok[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other
[ul]
[<em>]State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>]Country (if international applicant):
[<em>]School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Income Bracket: upper middle class
[</em>]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection
[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: GPA
[</em>]Weaknesses: I shouldve been on a sports team haha
[<em>]Why you think you received your decision: there were probably a lot of qualified applicants
[</em>]Where else you have applied and/or have been accepted/rejected: waitlisted at middlebury, accepted to U of R and various safety schools
[/ul]</p>
<p>General comments/advice/hindsight: I was disappointed to be waitlisted. I knew it would be hard to get in though so I’m not too surprised. Congrats to everyone that was accepted!</p>
<p>Waitlisted RD </p>
<p>Objective
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (CR, M, W): 2120 (660, 740, 720)
[</em>]SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math 2 (790), physics (720)
[<em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 (sharp drop in senior year though to around 3.0 weighted… O.o)
[</em>]AP (place score in parentheses): Statistics (5)
[<em>]IB: diploma candidate… courses listed below
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: 1) IB English A HL, 2) IB Chinese A SL, 3) IB Math HL, 4) IB Chemistry HL, 5) IB Economics HL, 6) IB Music SL, 7) TOK 
[li]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Math competitions - AMC and 2 types of Canadian math competitions that i can’t quite recall the names of: top 25% in 2 out of those 3 each year from G9~11.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective
[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Student council (secretary G11 & 12), Cadenza music club (secretary G11 & 12), JV volleyball (co-captain G11), Varsity volleyball G9~12, Varsity basketball G10 & 11, STAMP tutoring program G11, World Scholars’ Cup G9~12, Service club G11 (secretary), National Honors Society (president in G12), student coach volleyball and basketball G9~11
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: Athletic director intern in school G11 & 12, cram school assistant/tutor/trash taking out person/phone calling advertising person/answer parents’ questions person G9 & 10.
[<em>]Volunteer/Community Service: Teach English to aboriginal elementary kids.
[</em>]Summer Activities: Service - 1) 2 weeks with elderly and mentally disabled 2013, 2) National Science and Technology Museum summer camp assistant every weekend 2012.
[<em>]Essays: CA essay - talked about identity/family background. probably not the best writing but quite sincere
[</em>]Teacher Recommendations: reliable and probably really sincere, my teachers really know me and know what they’re doing, but that means they can easily acknowledge some of my main weaknesses too
[<em>]Counselor Rec: same as teacher recs
[</em>]Additional Rec: peer rec. one of my best friends wrote one for me without me asking for one. i’ve known him for 10 years.
[li]Interview: n/a[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other
[ul]
[<em>]Country (if international applicant): Taiwan
[</em>]School Type: International school (private)
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Income Bracket: Not super rich, but have been saving up for college tuition forever and can pay tuition.
[li]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): n/a[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection
[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: ECs and course load probably.
[</em>]Weaknesses: GPA drop. definitely. big fat weakness.
[<em>]Why you think you received your decision: My GPA really doesn’t put me up there, but I feel like my ECs, course load, and recs tell the admissions committee about my love for learning and being involved (?).
[</em>]Where else you have applied (in order of acceptance rate, low → high): 1) Wesleyan University, CT, EDII (rejected), 2) Colgate University, NY (not out yet), <colby’s acceptance="" rate="" falls="" here="">, 3) Trinity College, CT (accepted), 4) Pepperdine University, CA (accepted), 5) Skidmore College, NY (not out yet).
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<p>*General comments/advice/hindsight: Good luck to everyone with waitlist/colleges that haven’t gotten back to you yet! 
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<p>Rejected</p>
<p>30 ACT, 3.96 GPA, national competition winner, great EC’s, handsome dude</p>
<p>Hindsight: Maybe I should’ve attended the interview that I scheduled</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>33 ACT 34 superscore
3.82 cumulative GPA 9 AP courses</p>
<p>Average EC’s with no real leadership
Decent amount of volunteering
I thought I wrote a great essay, about my visit during experience colby.</p>
<p>Not sure why I wasn’t accepted because they paid for me to fly there in a “diversity visit” (I’m a white male from WI) and they told me people at this visit are usually accepted. I am really sad because I really liked Colby and would have gone, but now I have to go to a safety state college which I am not enthused at all about. </p>
<p>My son has been accepted. Was waitlisted by lower ranked Dickinson. Go figure. Sat was 2170 </p>
<p>My daughter had a similar situation–accepted at Colby and Colgate and Macalester, but rejected at lower ranked Connecticut College. Go figure.</p>
<p>GDMACK–how do you know she’s reject at Conn? Their decisions don’t come out until tomorrow, right?</p>
<p>To all those wait listed - don’t give up! Make an effort to show admissions they should take you - call, e-mail, get more recommendations, send them something they haven’t seen from you, request another interview - you can do it!!!</p>
<p>Accepted RD, got Presidential Scholars and Bunche Scholars invitations </p>
<p>Objective
[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (CR, M, W):
[</em>]ACT (breakdown): 34
[<em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): who knows. I’m too lazy to calculate
[</em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
[<em>]AP (place score in parentheses): 33444555
[</em>]Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, and band and physics. I’ve depleted the AP classes at school
[li]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National level NHD stuff, some state-level awards[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective
[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): debate (captain), band (section leader, 1st chair), lit anthology (editor in chief)
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: nope
[<em>]Volunteer/Community Service: nope
[</em>]Summer Activities: nope
[<em>]Essays: I thought my Colby essay was tacky and gross. My least favorite of all the supplements I’ve written for any college. I think it was my second-to-last supplement and I was like UGH JUST BE DONE I HATE COLLEGES. It was specific though, with a bunch of citations to Colby, including a professor’s research and their diversity center.
[</em>]Teacher Recommendations: idk man
[<em>]Counselor Rec: who knows
[</em>]Additional Rec: nope
[li]Interview: ahaha fun story. So I was supposed to have an interview and I thought it would be 2 hours later so I sat in a class and listened. My interview time passed, and they called me (but AT&T sucks at Colby), but I didn’t know until I went to the admissions office when I thought it was supposed to happen. So instead of a student interviewer I had one of the real admissions officials and she seemed to like me. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Other
[ul]
[<em>]State (if domestic applicant): HI
[</em>]School Type: mediocre public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White Asian
[</em>]Income Bracket: ~150k. Financial Aid sucks for people in this income bracket, I’ve learned. I got my admissions package today and got nothing in need-based aid. It may have been because I sent in my financial documents a little late
[li]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): from HI. (They only had one person from HI and he’s graduating this year. Another kid from HI applied ED and got in, but I’m sure they figured that it’d be beneficial to have more than 1 HI kid.) Also they figure I’m full pay (although we really can’t afford it)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection
[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: ACT, GPA, location
[</em>]Weaknesses: um I thought my supp was bad. and that interview thing. and I’m not incredibly charismatic. Like some kids were super “I LOVE COLBY OMG” at the diversity fly-in and then there were a few of us that went to other fly-ins and were like “well X is better here but Z college has nicer Y” and I had also just barely applied to Yale (literally the night before leaving) and was still kind of into the idea that I could get into Yale.
[li]Why you think you received your decision: because I’m from HI. And high stats don’t hurt. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>General comments/advice/hindsight:</p>
<p>I’m almost inclined to say that I got admitted because Colby knew they wouldn’t have to give me any financial aid (not that I can afford it without significant aid, but they don’t really think like that). It’s kind of off, in that way, because they’re asking for like half of our post-tax income. They really stressed applying ED if you wanted to get out of their budget restrictions. I’ll say it: Colby’s not my favorite, and I will not be accepting their offer of admission unless they come up with some aid. Hopefully this’ll allow some of you WL to get into Colby. It’s a great place, but given these conditions, I will not be able to go. Incredibly thankful to get Presidential and Bunche Scholars. I’ll definitely recommend the junior that I’m going to help with the college process to apply here because I really do like Colby (also the guys there are quite good looking). I’m pretty sad, though, I really wanted Colby to be an option. </p>
<p>international student - waitlisted. Congrats to all those who got admitted! </p>