<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 Reading/800 Math/690 Writing
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chem/800 Math II/750 World History
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 3.91
[<em>]Rank: Top 10%, my school doesn’t rank besides deciles.
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: One Good, Other Great
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good?
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good?
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Extra Rec from my boss @ a web development summer job
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Working on a website to automate the diagnosis of melanoma.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Ann Arbor
[<em>]High School Type: Suburban Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Ocean Bowl, Science Fair, Soccer, Politics,
[<em>]Awards: ISEF 4th Place Comp Sci, ISEF Artificial Intelligence 1st Place, Siemens Competition Semifinalist, numerous other science/math/language awards
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Just Have FUN! It doesn’t matter too much where you are next year.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2290 (800M, 780CR, 710W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 math 2, 780 physics, 760 chem
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 108.6w, 98uw (out of 100)
[<em>]Rank: 1/416
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Physics B, Euro, APUSH = 5; AP English Lang. = 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: honest, creative
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: filled out all optional essays, recommendations from WTP and SHP
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NY
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: lots (wtp-me, columbia shp, honor societies, school clubs…)
[<em>]Awards: national merit commended, AP scholar with honor, a few small competition honorable mentions
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Good luck to everyone who was deferred! Can’t wait to meet the rest of you MIT '13ers!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:N/A
[</em>]SAT II: MathII-720 Physics-770
[<em>]ACT:33
[</em>]GPA:96.56 W
[<em>]Rank: 12/649
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Average, I can’t think of a good topic
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Idk, How do most of you know?
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Idk
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): ummm…
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Suburb, Upstate New York
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Pacific Islander
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Boy Scouts, Varsity Lacrosse
[<em>]Awards: Academic award in lax, Eagle Scout(as of yesterday so not on app but I will add it as a supplement)
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]: I would brag if I got in…but I feel like a weak applicant compared to everyone else here. I have never heard of doing research and science competitions.</p>
<p>Does anyone know the admittance rate of the deferred?
So what’s the admittance rate EA here so far among CC ers?</p>
<p>Accepted!!! OMGGG OMGGG OMGGGG OMGGG SOO UNEXPECTED!!!</p>
<p>Wow…after looking at those deferred people’s stats…I now truly feel humbled and honored to have been to accepted…though be warned…I’m pretty much an oddball and my stats = crappy, so my stats below prob won’t help you too much.</p>
<p>[/list]Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2160 (M: 760 CR: 720 W: 680)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 = 800, Physics = 760, USH = 750
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: UW GPA > 3.8, W GPA>4.0
[<em>]Rank: 16 out of ~250 in this Connecticut HS I transferred to 10 months ago from NJ.
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc AB (5), AP Physics B (4), AP USH (4), currently taking AP Environmental Science, AP Biology, AP English Literature, and AP European History
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Talked about my physical disability in context of my whole life, low expectations from my teachers, relatives, and peers, and academics.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Said to be very good. One was awesome…said “clearly, she is the best of the best.”
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Said to be very good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Sent in a co-authored research paper & a letter of recommendation from a MIT professor I had worked with over the past summer @ Harvard Medical School.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): life impacting physical disability (?) & the fact I had worked with a MIT professor for the summer (?)
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Southeastern Connecticut…moved from northern New Jersey 10 months ago.
[<em>]High School Type: 1000 ish public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian (chinese)
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Year long research internship at University of Connecticut’s Mercury Lab, Founder and president of the math club at CT HS, founder and president of the book club at NJ HS, Science Olympaid at CT HS, and school newspaper editor at CT HS and a reporter at NJ HS. Those aren’t much compared to what all of those deferred people’s are…
[<em>]Awards: National merit commended, and ap scholar…seriously. that is all the awards I have…none of those math or science awards that a lot of other people seem to have. I’ve also done NO math or science competitions throughout my high school career. NO ISEF, WESTINGHOUSE, SIEMENS or anything like that!! I even never took AMC tests!
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Congrats to those who got in! For those deferred, don’t be discouraged. You still have a chance. Make sure to write a very good essay and get good people to write you a stellar letter of recs…those might make a diff more than you think.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: 1 about a market place, 1 about research, 1 abstract
[</em>]Teacher Recs: idk
[<em>]Counselor Rec: idk
[</em>]Supplementary Material: add’l rec
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: Illinois
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Female</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Math Team, Orchestra, Tennis, WYSE
[</em>]Awards: AP Scholar w/ Distinction, Siemens Semifinalist, NCTE nomination
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]: WOW, I still can’t believe that I got in. After I skimmed the letter and saw “pleasure” “admission” “Class of 2013”, I stopped reading and cried. Seriously, it’s really humbling to be admitted as 1 out the 540 in a STRONG applicant pool of 5,000. I would have been happy with a deferral. [/li]Congrats all! and Good Luck everyone else!!!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2290 770CR 720M 800W
SAT IIs: 760 Bio E, 740 Math I + 730 Math II (not sure which they used)
GPA: 96/100
Rank: 7/148
Other stats: 5 on AP English Lit. (school does not offer AP or IB classes)
Subjective:
Essays: “For Fun” essay - About wildlife rehabilitation
Main essay - Chose the “Tell us about your world” essay. I told about growing up convinced that humans were destroying the world and therefore living with a survival guide and preparing for the world’s end - and how it linked to my environmental ECs.
Optional - About the school student recycling program I created.
Teacher Recs: One outstanding, one decent (I think. I didn’t see the 2nd.)
Counselor Rec: Decent (again, didn’t see, so no idea)
Awards: NMSF, Renesslaer Medal, Bausch and Lomb Science Award
Hook (if any): No born-with hooks, but my ECs were interesting (two just plain bizarre) - no Key Club or NHS here - and focused on my proposed major (Environmental Engineering).
Location/Person: Small town where one person (an African American) has gone to MIT in the last 10 years. Like I said, we don’t even have APs.
State or Country: NY
School Type: Public, baby.
Ethnicity: White as Michael Jackson. Wait. But yeah, I didn’t answer on the application.
Gender: Female
Other Factors: I’m 400% positive that my ECs were what got me in (I won’t list them, but I had 4 prominent leadership positions both in-school and in a national organization, and my ECs were not at all typical - for example, instead of being on an Olympiad team, I started/captained an Envirothon team and wrote the team’s entire curriculum. And I treated mange-ridden foxes and raised orphaned possums to be released back into the wild.) And possibly my lady parts.
General Comments: I won’t be attending MIT (I’m ED-bound to Cornell and the $15,000/year tuition cut I’ll get by going there as a NYS resident); I’m actually a tiny bit sorry that I was accepted because I know how desperately most of you wanted to get in (I never, ever thought that I’d be accepted to both my ED - which I adore - AND MIT EA. The other person in my school who applied EA was also accepted (keep in mind that I live in a podunk small town where only one person - a URM - has gone to MIT in 10 years, and where maybe one person every two or three years goes to a place like an Ivy League school); she’s (yes, another girl) a sweetheart and absolutely brilliant (and a beauty), and she deserves it 100% (she’ll be seeing you acceptees in the fall). I know that MIT is the peak of academic awesomeness, but my heart belongs to Cornell. To next year’s applicants (or this year’s): Be INTERESTING. MIT is deluged with 2300+ SAT valedictorians who’ve worked in university labs; it’s bored to tears with them. Have a different story to tell than “How I Totally Discovered How Cancer Works In Mice This Summer”; be fabulous and they’ll know you are. Also, be lucky. Luck’s a HUGE part of admissions in most situations where the acceptance rate is below 10-15%.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2280 (2 sittings: 800 M, 770 W, 710 CR)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2 800; Biology 710; Math 1 770
[<em>]ACT: 34
[</em>]GPA: 4.19 (school does it weirdly, no idea what this translates to)
[<em>]Rank: top 5-10%
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC - don’t remember.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Eh, okay, maybe. Don’t really remember.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Probably fairly awesome
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably awesome
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Art portfolio
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: New York State
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: President of community service club, Science Olympiad, Math Club,
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, National Honor Society, other stuff.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 760 V 800 M 770 W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Chem 800 Math IIC 780 Physics
[<em>]ACT: 35 (33 reading, 35 english, 36 math, 35 science) 9 essay
[</em>]GPA: 3.889/4.000
[<em>]Rank: unsure. we don’t rank at our school
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 10 127? AMC 12 i think 105 AIME 3 i think. AP Chem 5, AP BC Calc 5, i’m taking two ib’s and taking another ap this year
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: i thought these were strong. did community and a creation essay.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Thought these too were relatively strong.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Had a good recommendation from him but then again, he might have for everyone…
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Did not send yet.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): um…semifinalist chem olympiad? maybe?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NJ
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: ASIAN
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Large range: Model UN, Math Team, Clarinet, Lacrosse, Bunch of extra programs, NHS, Tri-M, etc.
[<em>]Awards: 3rd for state chem competition. a bunch of honor bands.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Eh, i guess I was a little too plain. Anybody’s thoughts or comments? [/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2330 770 M 760 V 800 W
[</em>]SAT II: 800 IIC 800 Physics 760 US History 750 Chem
[<em>]ACT: Nah
[</em>]GPA: 4.00, 103.3 weighted 96.0 unweighted?
[<em>]Rank: 1 out of 713 (Huge private school)
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 French, 5 US History, 4 Microeconomics, 4 Macroeconomics, and 3 Physics B (Had a really horrible day…800 in Physics SAT II pretty much nullifies this.)
[/ul][ b]Subjective**[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Inspiring, reflective of my dreams.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good/Generic
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good/Generic (Huge school)
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Two research abstracts, two recommendations, and a resume. Summer of Junior Year did a research internship in MIT’s nuclear engineering department and worked on evaluating a quantum algorithm – did simulations with MATLAB code and a NMR spectrometer. Got a glowing recommendation from my professor - brilliant guy that discovered pseudopure states. Summer of Senior Year did a research internship in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Science – worked on a microfluidics project evaluating how variations in orifice dimension and nozzle geometry would affect the monodispersity of drops through a PDMS device. Developed software in LabView for image processing and particle analysis. The post-doc I worked for and the professor that ran the group collectively wrote a recommendation that they sent in.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Glowing recommendation from a MIT professor?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: New Hampshire
[<em>]High School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: XY
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: See stats profile – bunch of leadership positions on school academically competitive teams, loads of political involvement, and community service. 2 summer research internships.
[<em>]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, one state award, few other generic awards.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Harvard legacy probs hurts my chances at top schools like MIT. Being a white male also didn’t help. At least I got into UChicago.</p>
<p>I still really like MIT, and I’m grateful that they gave me a reality check to get going on my college apps. The admissions protocol seems rather different than most Ivies, but I think that this will manifest itself in the way that MIT grads go out to change the world.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
SAT: 690 CR, 700 W, 720 M (2110 total)
SAT II: 700 physics, 750 MII
ACT:
GPA: 3.3 (but highest one was 3.9!)
Rank: 16 out of 103
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
Essays: GOOD. Liked them
Teacher Recs: GOOD. my teachers love me and know I dont care about school. LOL
Counselor Rec: EXCELLENT
Supplementary Material:meh… I wrote about a short story I had made, nothing impressive really…
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM (latino), dual citizenship?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
Location:Peru
High School Type: Private
Ethnicity: LAtino
Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
Extracurriculars: physics, creative writing, rowing, etc
Awards:none
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]hm… i actually knew i was risking it…</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2250 (800 M, 670 CR, 780 W)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2: 800 Chem:800
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.4 W, 3.95 UW
[<em>]Rank: 1/300ish
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Calc (5), Chem (5)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: thought they were good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: excellent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: idk
[</em>]Supplementary Material:
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MA
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: baseball (captain), boys state, math team. this is what probably killed me. all i do is play baseball
[<em>]Awards: RPI medal, and then some school awards - math, chem, high scorer AMC
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: M 770 R 680 W690
[</em>]SAT II: Math I: 720 BioM: 710 World: 700
[<em>]ACT:N/A
[</em>]GPA:4.0/4.78
[<em>]Rank: school doesn’t rank, but would be #1
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):gov:4, calc bc:3 (ab 4), lang:4, world:5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: pretty good…1st about how I used to hate language school but ended up loving it and working there; other about my experience doing research and how I learned to be patient with results
[</em>]Teacher Recs: one good…the other I realized was very generic after I sent it in because I got a look at it for another school
[<em>]Counselor Rec: probably great, we’ve had issues in the past and he know that but he always tells me how he respects my dedication and stuff
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Piano supplement (Passion by Mendelssohn, sonatina by hayden 1st movement, and a persian piece) pretty good
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): eh
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MD
[<em>]High School Type: Public, only one to an Ivy in the past few years; a few to schools like UChicago and Cornell
[</em>]Ethnicity: Iranian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: yearlong HHMI biomedical research internship at NIH, assistant teacher at farsi school, NHS, Spanish NHS, Future Docs and Scientists club, PIANO!, Students Against Destructive Disorders, Music ensemble
[<em>]Awards: Maryland Distinguished Scholar Semifinalist, Nat Merit commended, Humanities award
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
Congrats to all who got in…those of us deferred should be happy although I must say I was quite dissapointed but at least we get a second chance! Those rejected…it probably just wasn’t a good match, I know everyone on here will do amazingly at any school they attend.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: didn’t take
[</em>]SAT II: chem 780, math I 730, math II 740
[<em>]ACT: 35
[</em>]GPA: 4.477
[<em>]Rank: 11/300
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC: took them but I never got the scores back, so I didn’t write it on my application / AP: Chem 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I’ve worked on them since the beginning of summer. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was 150 hours of my time put in to each essay
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I got one from my Pre-calc/Trig teacher and one from my AP Chem teacher. They were good, but not great. I also got letters from my choir teacher (because I’m the piano accompanist), the head of the cardiovascular research department at Columbia University Medical Center (summer research internship), and from my orthodontist (on going internship). The last two wrote awesome letters
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I didn’t read it
[</em>]Supplementary Material: a CD/DVD of 2 piano performances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, an art picture (charcoal drawing)
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: NJ
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: chinese
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Emergency Medical Technician for 2 ambulance corps (over 700 hours of service) / Piano (10 yrs) / Drawing (8 yrs) / Research Intern at Columbia University Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy / Orthodontic Office Assistant / Dental Office Assistant / NJ All State Mixed Chorus / NJ All State Women’s Chorus / School Choir+Chorus piano accompanist / NJ Governor’s School of the Arts Finalist / School Yearbook Editor / Spring Track&Field / Gifted and Talented / Emergency Medical Services Club (Internal response team)
[<em>]Awards: U of Rochester Bausch & Lomb Science award / performed in solo piano concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center / winner of various piano competitions / 100m High Hurdle Gold Medal
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]College isn’t all about straight A’s and high SAT scores anymore. You have to get out and show you can do other things.</p>
<p>Pardon the lack of formatting, I copy pasted off my Caltech thread post. </p>
<p>So after years of reading these things, hoping I’d get in, it’s my turn to post and that’s weird as shoe. Thanks be to the FSM.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2320 (800 m)
SAT II: 800 math,chem
ACT: 36
GPA: 3.95 uw
Rank: 4/630ish
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP 5: Chem, Physics C (both), Calc BC, Stat, English Lang, CS A, Euro history, World history, psych, human. 4: Enviro (indep), US
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective
*Nailed my interview. Showed my passion and my eccentricity.
* A bullet I added: I joint enroll at Georgia Tech. I independent studied calc 2 there and just finished my finals today in dif eqs and intro modern physics (phys 3).
* Essays: Scientist and Common app essays both unpolished but very strong content wise. Showed me as quirky and passionate, quite well.
* Teacher Recs: One eh, one incredible (from physics teacher)
* Counselor Rec: Very strong about my integrity, etc
* Supplementary Material: Nope
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Classes? Quirky essays? The grace of the FSM.</p>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: GA
High School Type: Large public charter (very competitive, makes rankings frequentlyish)
Ethnicity: is absurd and meaningless.
Gender: see above
Applied for Financial Aid: Y
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: science bowl captain, sci club president, violin (not good at it) and quit last year for schedule reasons, tutor 15 hrs/week, mostly math
Awards: 1st place AAPT physics bowl (lower division) for ga/fl/nc, 2nd in state on chem olympiad, 3rd in state in chem lab @ sci oly, went to nationals for sci bowl last year, siemens ap scholar, departmental science award x2, governor’s honors program in science
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
</code></pre>
<p>The biggest thing that got me in was disregarding every shred of advice my counselor gave me while doing my best to play nice. Go with your gut and your passions and take what matters to you, not what someone else says is the regular path or the best shot for college.</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Race: Human
Public School in the suburbs of Connecticut</p>
<p>SAT I
CR: 760
Math: 800
Writing: 780 (12 essay)</p>
<p>SATII:</p>
<p>Chemistry: 780
Japanese: 800
Chinese: 800
Math II: 800
Math I: 780</p>
<p>Class Load This Yeah
AP Calculus AB
AP Physics C
AP Biology
AP Psychology
AP Literature</p>
<p>Previous AP Scores
APsss
AP Us History: 5
AP Euro: 5
AP Stats: 5
AP Lit: 5
AP Physics B: 4 ()
AP Chem: 5
AP Scholar With Distinction
National Merit Scholar Commended
GPA: 4.29
Rank 12/377</p>
<p>ECs
Treasurer of the class of 2009
President of Model United Nation
Chinese School
Japanese School
Habitat for Humanity
National Honor Society
National Math Honor Society
Writer for School Newspaper
Politically active
240 Hours of Community Service at Yale New Haven Hospital
Nominated to the Leadership Council at Yale New Haven Hospital
Southern Connecticut Conference Scholar Athlete
Math Team
Robotics
Piano (10 years)</p>
<p>Sports Varsity XC, Indoor and Outdoor track
Trilingual</p>
<p>Comment: Dissapointed but not that much, i guess been a over represented minority hurt my chances</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: Math 750 / CR 690 / Writing 610 (The SAT CR & Writing sections are highly flawed in my opinion)
[</em>]SAT II: Math II 800 / Chem 780
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: Around a 94 or so unweighted
[<em>]Rank: 3/155 I believe
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Calc 5 / AP Chem 5 / APUSH 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Felt they were fairly strong; one about my quirky/eccentric shaping environment and one about creating Chemistry the Musical
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Should have been quite strong; they know me quite well
[<em>]Counselor Rec: My principal told me he wrote a glowing rec for me; He knows me quite well
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Script for a musical I helped create (Chemistry the Musical); it is quite hilarious
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): First generation…if that counts for anything
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Lunenburg, MA (Suburbs)
[<em>]High School Type: Public; Very small
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Jazz & Marching Band, Acting (Musicals, class plays, etc.), Mock Trial, Math Team, A Capella, Varsity Track, and Student Government (quite involved)
[<em>]Awards: Honors in the Chem Olympiad (Top 100 in nation), various math league and competition awards, Principal’s Leadership Award, Saxophonist in the Central Districts ensemble, and other various awards.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I’m pleasantly surprised :)[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats
SAT:1940
SAT II: Math II: 640 Chem: 670 Chinese: 800 Eng. Lit: 740
ACT:32
GPA: 4.00
Rank: 1</p>
<p>Subjective
Essays: pretty good. I wrote what I know, from my own experiences. I used humor.
Teacher Recs: one good, the other was okay.
Counselor Rec: okay
Supplementary Material: 2 piano songs recorded
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): ISEF 2nd place winner; congressional page</p>
<p>Personal
Location: Ohio
High School Type: Public (small)
Ethnicity:Chinese
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other
Extracurriculars: too many to list. (mainly: mock trial, singing, piano, quiz bowl, volunteer, NHS)
Awards: 2 international science awards, 1 presidential volunteer award</p>
<p>just be yourself. if the admissions don’t admit you for who you are, you’ve lost nothing. Test scores aren’t everything; don’t stress over them too much. They’ll admit you if they see a gem in your personality.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2300
[</em>]SAT II: 800 (Math II), 790 (Bio E)
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.4 W
[<em>]Rank: 2
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP scores: 5, 5, 3, 3, 2
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Amazing
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Amazing
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): MITES program.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Northern California
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Taiwanese/White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Member of the School Board
[<em>]Awards: Student of the Month is prolly biggest one
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: My dream came true!! I must dedicate my life to making other people’s dreams come true. DO THE INTERVIEW. And in the interview, don’t talk about grades/tests. The rest of the app is for that.[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT: OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAANNNNNDDDD!!!
[</em>]SAT II: Math II and Physics… good enough
[<em>]ACT: Not submitted
[</em>]GPA: Good enough
[<em>]Rank: Top 50%… or higher. Not going to be too specific here.
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): iono…
[/ul] Subjective
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Meh… not so hot. Oh well. Passable.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: One pwns everyone into the ground, other is great, but not pwnzorz.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Pretty good I would think.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None was sent.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): nopers.
[/ul] Personal
[ul]
[</em>]Location: Somewhere special =D
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asianmanese
[<em>]Gender: Robot
[/ul] Other
[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Meh… okay, I guess
[<em>]Awards: Nothing special.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Meh. I’ll wait…
[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2310, 730 math (ouch) 780 reading 800 writing
[</em>]SAT II: 800 math lvl 2, 790 chem
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 4.00 unweighted
[<em>]Rank: 1/151
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chem 5, AP Calc BC 4, AP English Language 4. I listed my AMC scores but they were really bad…
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: decent at least. I liked them. I did the ‘world’ one about my parents.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: amazing. My school kinda sucks and has maybe two other ‘competitive’ students, so my teachers think I’m sent from above.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: see above.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: did both optional essays
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): attended WTP @ MIT this summer, could be a hook, I guess?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Kansas
[<em>]High School Type: small public, rarely sends any kids to top-20 schools
[</em>]Ethnicity: South Asian
[<em>]Gender: female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: nothing too fabulous. Key Club Pres, Scholars’ Bowl Capt., Varsity Tennis, Interact Club, Spanish Club VP.
[<em>]Awards: nothing worth mentioning, haha.
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Best of luck to those applying RA! And just be yourself on the apps, don’t try to make yourself into somebody you’re not.[/ul]</p>
