Colgate RD Results 2021

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[aB][asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]**
[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FFA500]Decision: Waitlisted[/color][/size]**
[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FF0000]Decision: Rejected[/color][/size]**

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service:
Summer Activities:
Essays (rating 1-10, details):

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1:
Teacher Rec #2:
Counselor Rec:
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?:
Intended Major:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:
Ethnicity:
Gender:
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):

Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted?

General Comments:

Other schools you applied to and their decisions:

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yo @AMCFito you went to colgate in focus?

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 770M, 750L
ACT (breakdown): 33C, 34SC
SAT II: 710 Math II, 690 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/245(+/-)
AP (place score in parenthesis): USH(3), Chem(3), Lang(4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: Spanish 1 and 2, AP Calc AB, AP US Gov’t, AP Lit, Physics, Band
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, National Hispanic Recognition Scholar, AP Scholar

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band (Section Leader), NHS (Pres), Science Club (VP), Chess Team, Knowledge-bowl Team, Exercise
Job/Work Experience:n/a
Volunteer/Community service: Mostly through NHS (emphasis on tutoring)
Summer Activities: Mississippi Governor’s School, Weight Loss
Essays (rating 1-10, details): CommonApp Essay: 9/10, fantastic and well thought out. Had lots of help from teachers. Colgate Supplement: 7/10, Sweet and short.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10, English teacher of 4 years, smart lady and respects me
Teacher Rec #2: 10, Math Teacher of 3 Years, loves to boast about me
Counselor Rec: 6, Not well acquainted with her
Additional Rec: 9, Good
Interview: n/a

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Astronomy
State (if domestic applicant): MS
Country (if international applicant): n/a
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: M
Income Bracket: 120k-140k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hispanic from underrepresented area of the country.

Strengths: URM. Teachers very likely spoke well of me.
Weaknesses: Stats are within range but not high enough to make up for discrepancies.
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted? CommonApp essay and recommendations likely made me stand out.

General Comments: They named me an Alumni Memorial Scholar!

Other schools you applied to and their decisions: Accepted: Swarthmore, Williams; (Unofficially) Accepted: Rice, Columbia, Cornell; Waitlisted: UChicago; Deferred: Princeton; Rejected: None so far!

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): lmao
ACT (breakdown): 32C
SAT II: not sent in
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Art History (3), Language (5), US History (4), World History (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Spanish, AP Literature, AP US Government, Calculus, Financial
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): an nonprofit organization that fosters friendships between people with and without disabilities (v.p. for two years and president for one), a local community service club (treasurer for one year, v.p. for the next)
Job/Work Experience: i work 20 hours a week at my job and have been doing so for the past two years (~40 hours in the summer)
Volunteer/Community service: volunteering every saturday at a play gym for children with disabilities, regular events with an environmental organization near me, and mentoring local teenagers with IDDs. then random general stuff here and there like relay for life (& other charity walks), hours here & there at soup kitchens, etc.
Summer Activities: i went to a conference for the nonprofit organization i have leadership roles in, but beyond that just working & extra volunteer work
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10 - my common app essay is about how my brother having autism has affected my life, the things i have been involved in, and my future goals

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10 - the teacher who wrote it for me has been basically a second father to me for the last four years - he was one of my favorite teachers, a really close mentor to me, and the adviser of my main extracurricular activities
Teacher Rec #2: 8/9 - it was from my science teacher who adores me & told me i am one of her favorite students that she has had
Counselor Rec: 9 - my counselor and i are very close & she knows a lot about the mentoring i do along with my personal issues, we are incredibly close
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: international relations & spanish
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: <50,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nah

Strengths: my essays & recommendations definitely
Weaknesses: no hook
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted?: they clearly found a spot for me on campus & saw my heart through the application (as cliche as that is) since they put me in the benton scholars program which i could not be more excited about!!

General Comments: its clear that they care a lot about community service & advocacy for anybody applying in the future!!

Other schools you applied to and their decisions: BU (accepted), northwestern (denied), suny geneseo (accepted)
waiting on amherst, vassar, tufts, GWU, barnard, and dartmouth

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 1440 (740 R/W, 690 M)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: US History 730, Lit 690
Unweighted GPA: 93.17 (3.8 to 3.9ish?)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (5), Seminar (5), English Language (5), Psych (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Capstone, AP English Lit, Accelerated Physics, AP Gov
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, School Scholarship for Academics, nothing really major

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track team captain, Dorm Council, Student Proctor, Student Ambassador
Job/Work Experience: Sleep-away summer camp counselor
Volunteer/Community service: Three week trip to teach at a school in Ghana, various NHS activities
Summer Activities: aforementioned counseling
Essays: Personal 8/10 about gaining self-esteem through working with kids at camp and deciding that I want to be a teacher
Teacher Recommendation: 7/10 USH teacher, 8/10 English teacher and assistant XC coach
Counselor Rec: 9/10 (I’m very close with my counselor)
Additional Rec: N/A
Short Answer Questions: 7/10 about the political activism at Colgate (sort of generic imo)
Interview: None

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: History/Poly Sci and Education minor
State (if domestic applicant): NH
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Independent
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Upper middle
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection:

Strengths: Course load, personal essay, and counselor rec
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Wanting to be a teacher
Weaknesses: SAT
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I think I showed passion for teaching and the admissions officer wrote that they appreciated my passion for politics.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted at Middlebury, Bates, St. Lawrence, and UVM, waitlisted at Davidson, rejected at Williams

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Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send
ACT (breakdown): 32C, 33SC
SAT II: didn’t send. should have.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8? School doesn’t do GPA. 95-96% grade average.
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank.
AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send. I was told not to send my AP scores to schools before they accepted me. Might’ve been dumb to listen to that.
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: Got screwed over. Moved to NY from MO for only senior year, missed registration, and was left with leftover classes. However, all classes at my new school are honors, and I got one AP (Gov).
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Received awards are negligible.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Filmmaking Club (founder and president), Elected Class Representative (Freshman-Junior year), Future Business Leaders of America (District Winner, State Finalist), Youth Court (Defense and Prosecuting Attorney), Newspaper (Page Designer, Blogger), Girl Scouts (Bronze and Silver Awards), Student Leadership Team, NHS
Job/Work Experience: Daycare Assistant for my junior year. 13 hours a week.
Volunteer/Community service: Library, Social Services (dealt with independent living homes, tutoring for economically disadvantaged children, and after school programs), Youth Court (cases represented were genuine, kids were sent to a court run by teens instead of legitimate court for first time offenses) … Volunteered in total around 60 hours a year.
Summer Activities: Summer day camp - planned a day camp for local Girl Scouts throughout school year and then led a 7-day camp
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App: 7.5/10 … I could’ve done a lot better but there was a central theme, good grammar, decent organization, and I got personality across. I fear that it came off a tad narcissistic.
Supplement: 8/10. Awful organization, but great point and demonstration of interests and application of self to world.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: APUSH teacher. Loved him. Probably 9/10. Great guy who knew me better than most teachers.
Teacher Rec #2: Biology/Forensic Science teacher. She was the moderator of my Filmmaking Club. 9/10. Able to vouch for my leadership abilities and creativity which I saw as a huge plus. Knew me decently well.
Counselor Rec: 6/10. Just moved to my new school, so she knows almost nothing about me besides my resume.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes.
Intended Major: Economics
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Small, private, Catholic, all-girls
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 150K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.

Strengths: Test scores (barely), profound connections to my ECs, recs
Weaknesses: Essay, counselor rec, ECs that don’t correspond with major, pretty much zero demonstrated interest
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted?: I applied to Colgate without doing much research and assumed from the 28% acceptance rate that I had a decent chance of getting in. The acceptance rate dropped to 10% this year, so I consider myself lucky to be waitlisted.

General Comments:

Other schools you applied to and their decisions: Accepted: Fordham, SUNY Geneseo, SUNY Binghamton, two small MO schools
Rejected: WashU, Bowdoin
Waiting to hear from Union College and Georgetown. I’m pretty much accepting the fact that I need to kiss Georgetown goodbye, but I’m holding on to a sliver of hope.

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@collegeissomuch where are people getting the 10% acceptance figure for this year? Last year or was 28.7% --could the acceptance rate really have dropped by so much?

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@Emsmom1 WL letter said 770 were admitted out of over 8,500 applicants. Less than 10%, unless other factors are involved in the calculation of acceptance rate. I’m shocked too. Doesn’t seem right.

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That is very strange.

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How big is the freshman class? Anyone know?

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So, it looks like last year they enrolled 775 for the freshman class- unless they are expecting 100% yield, they would have had to admit more than 770 to fill the freshman class.

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown):
Old: 1970/2400 (640 R, 620 M, 710 W) 9/12 essay
New: 1250/1600 (600 R, 650 M i think) 13/24 essay :frowning: :frowning:
SAT II: Literature - 650, Math 2 - 640
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5 at time of application, 3.6/3.7 after midyear grades
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 162/748
AP (place score in parenthesis): Eng Lang (5), APUSH (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP US Gov, AP BC Calc, AP Comp Sci, Astronomy
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Posse Finalist, won 1st place for best game at summer intensive at columbia, had a rap i wrote published in school magazine, and won a nifty basketball championship

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Co-Director of STEM events organization, Co-President of school’s Poetry Club, avid programmer and rap writer, Social Media/Data Analyst/Web Development intern at an educational startup, student at intensive hosted by TC @ Columbia, volunteer for city H.S fair, played in basketball league, 3rd seat trumpet in concert band, attended creative writing institute, and did mock trial for a bit
Job/Work Experience: already above
Volunteer/Community service: already above
Summer Activities: already above
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Personal Statement 8196/10 stupid dumb brilliant fuego fuego flame flame flame @neuromaniac please attest to this, Supplement 8.5/10 i executed it brilliantly (and hilariously too i guess) but it could’ve used some more grammatical tweaking

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: apush teacher, should’ve been amazing
Teacher Rec #2: ap english teacher, he told me it was 3 pages ya allah
Counselor Rec: usually they’re dry so idk
Additional Rec: shold’ve been gr8
Interview: they don’t do interviews, though i did go to Colgate in Focus and mooch odee food from them

Cookiejective:

I like cookies, i like food, i like free

Applied for Financial Aid?: Ye
Intended Major: Computer Science and Creative Writing
State (if domestic applicant): Brooklyn
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Algerian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: idk
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hair game, flannel game, teeth game, smile game, first generation Algerian immigrant

Strengths: Hair game, flannel game, teeth game, smile game, and i guess my overall backstory
Weaknesses: Not fully able to demonstrate hair game, flannel game, teeth game, smile game since apparently the common app doesn’t ask for that stuff smh, oh and wimpy sat scores
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted? i like food

General Comments: i’m broke

Other schools you applied to and their decisions: University of Rochester, Oberlin, Boston College, Skidmore, Stony Brook, Ithaca, RIT, Rutgers, Scranton, WVU, Adelphi (all accepted), Case Western (waitlisted), Macaulay Honors (rejected)

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@Emsmom1 You’re right. Wishful thinking on my part, lol. I’m sure the wording was different than how I remembered. Not as big of a drop then. Sorry about that.

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[aB][asize=4][acolor=#008000]Decision: Accepted[/color][/size]**

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send
ACT (breakdown): 33 C, 34 super scored
SAT II: Didn’t send
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1st in my class
AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Gov, AP Chem, AP Physics II, Honors Molecular Genetics, AP Literature
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, National Commended Scholar

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Founded the Science National Honor Society chapter at my school and am the president of that, Math Honor Society, Softball 9-12, NHS, STEM Academy, Honors Institute, Science Bowl
Job/Work Experience: Internship with neuro and spine surgeon
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at my church and for a soccer organization in my town. Easily 200 hours
Summer Activities: Volunteering at my church, internship
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Pretty decent. Common App probably an 8/10, talked about how I struggled in a class and how it brought about the worth ethic I now have today. Supplemental probably a 7/10, did it last minute, but I think it embodied me pretty well-- I definitely spoke from the heart and not too formally.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10/10-- My APUSH teacher loved me and in the personal note the Colgate admissions rep wrote, he quoted my teacher, so clearly it was a pretty good rec
Teacher Rec #2: 9/10- Very close with my Physics teacher. I have had her for 2 years, went to England with her, and she also helped me start Science National Honor Society at my school
Counselor Rec: 8/10- probably somewhat generic, as I do not know my counselor very well.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: Didn’t have one (don’t have anyone in my area)

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, but didn’t get any
Intended Major: Psychology with a concentration in neuroscience
State (if domestic applicant): Nevada
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

Strengths: Recommendations, GPA, rank, ACT
Weaknesses: Probably my essays, probably could have done better on those
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted?
Likely accepted based on my aforementioned strengths: GPA, rank, ACT, recs

General Comments: I was also admitted as an Alumni Memorial Scholar.

Other schools you applied to and their decisions:
Johns Hopkins- Waitlisted
University of Rochester- Accepted
Case Western Reserve- Accepted
Fordham- Accepted

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That’s not including ED and EDII, which bump it up signifcantly

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown):
ACT (breakdown):33
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc (4) Chemistry (4) UPUSH (3) (Didn’t send these btw)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit and Comp, AP Euro History, Calc 3, Macroeconomics (Last two taken at Umass Lowell)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Soccer at a very high level, yoga (lol), Running, Skiing
Job/Work Experience: Children’s ski instructor,
Volunteer/Community service: Children’s summer camp, volunteered at various places
Summer Activities: Stuff above.
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common app- 9/10 Worked very hard on this one and received many edits
Colgate essay- 7/10 Worked a decent amount on this one but it wasn’t amazing. It was cited in the little note at the bottom of my acceptance so maybe it was okay.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 9 (Didn’t read but he was my college prof and sure it was very good. He liked me a lot)
Teacher Rec #2: 10 (She sent it to me and it was amazing)
Counselor Rec: 7 (Not sure how good this one was)
Additional Rec:
Interview: Nope

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
Intended Major: Math
State (if domestic applicant): MA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Online classes/ college classes/ tutorials
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nurfin

Strengths: Probably difficulty of classes, grades, and tests
Weaknesses:Extracurriculars weren’t amazing
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted? Eh not sure

General Comments: :slight_smile:

Other schools you applied to and their decisions: Accepted: Boston College, Holy cross, Umass amherst. Waitlisted: Colby. Rejected: Middlebury ED1. Waiting on Princeton (I can dream lol)

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hahaha @followonsoundcloud that’s absolutely true insert fire emoji

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT (breakdown): 32
SAT II: 720 biology
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): none but def below 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus AB(3) – can’t remember if I sent that in or not
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Stat, AP Comp Sci, english electives, history elective
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): school community service org elected position (sophomore-senior year), french club (sophmore and junior year), honor roll (freshman-junior year), stage crew for musical (junior and senior year), member of 3D printing team (freshman-senior year)
Job/Work Experience: none lol
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at local zoo (sophomore-junior year), volunteer at local SPCA (senior year), volunteer tutor at local public elementary school (freshman-sophomore year)
Summer Activities: Engineering course at Johns Hopkins (got a B in, which counts as 3 college credits)(b/w sophomore and junior year), exchange trip to prague(b/w junior and senior year), volunteering at zoo (b/w freshman and sophomore year)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App - 8/10, it was pretty good but no masterpiece or anything; supplement - 8/10, short but sweet, was pretty short but good

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: spanish teacher freshman and junior year - 9/10, he loved me and is known for writing great recs
Teacher Rec #2: bio teacher junior year, she worshipped me but is not a super organized person; probably 7.5/10
Counselor Rec: 9/10
Additional Rec:
Interview:

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: biology
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: +$200,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): girl in STEM

Strengths: girl in STEM, my act, my super cool personality :), my money since they’re not need blind :frowning:
Weaknesses: grades, felt like i didn’t do a whole lot during my summers
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted? I visited twice and am a girl interested in STEM, which I think is one of their smaller demographics

General Comments: I am not attending next year and instead will be going to University of Delaware! Everyone at Colgate is super nice and I hope that whoever gets my spot from the waitlist will have a great time! :slight_smile:

Other schools you applied to and their decisions: UMD- Spring admit, UD acceptance w/ honors, VA tech accept, Cornell deny

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What was ur jr year coarse load @kfmaguire

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If the 8500+ applications figure (post #7) holds true, then Colgate’s overall acceptance rate this year should land at about 28%.