Consolidated EA/RD 2014 results thread

Djokovic · December 9, 2009, 1:00pm

With only 6 days left until we get decisions emailed on the 15th. I thought it would be appropriate to start a results thread!

Here is the outline. Just remove the spaces and pick accepted, deferred, or rejected

[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ size=+1][ color=red][ b]Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Deferred[ /b][ /color][ /size]

[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT:
[ *]SAT II:
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA:
[ *]Rank:
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
[ *]Teacher Recs:
[ *]Counselor Rec:
[ *]Supplementary Material:
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location:
[ *]High School Type:
[ *]Ethnicity:
[ *]Gender
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:
[ *]Awards:
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]

Djokovic · December 9, 2009, 8:34pm

Correction! The date is now Dec 12th, 2009 at noon PST! Three days left!

GeekMom63 · December 12, 2009, 2:14pm

Accepted

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: M 800 CR 750 W 770, Total 2320
[]SAT II: M2 800 Phys 800 Bio-E 750
[]ACT: 30
[]GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.85 weighted
[]Rank: homeschool
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Phys-C 5,5 Calc-BC 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Worked hard but still not fantastic
[]Teacher Recs: Astoundingly blushingly great
[]Counselor Rec: From Mom - of course it was good
[]Supplementary Material: none
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Wrote a useful program for a teacher, visually impaired, showed great passion in Feynman essay
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Denver Colorado
[]High School Type: homeschool / took most classes at community college as highschooler
[]Ethnicity: white
[]Gender male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Other than wrote a useful recordkeeping program for a teacher and math summer camps, almost nothing.
[]Awards: NMSF
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Yay![/ul]

zzdumdumzz · December 12, 2009, 2:15pm

Accepted, but damn it i can’t go because i got ed into wharton! Why?!!! T.t

StrangeCamus · December 12, 2009, 2:18pm

**Just want to clarify something…

“The Admissions Committee has completed its review of the Early Action applications and
has decided to postpone a decision on your application until our Regular Decision round.
We expect to reach a decision on your application and notify you by April 1, 2010.”

Is that the beginning of the deferral (i think it is), or is it just a postponing of the decision?**

So much anxiety for not getting in…Was kind of hoping for acceptance, but wouldn’t have been surprised by a rejection (mainly my GPA). I’m sort of in a state of shock, pulled both my not being accepted (what I was hoping for a while) and not being rejected (by my GPA)

Deferred

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2260 (800m,800w,660cr)
[]SAT II:800 mathII,760 chem, 740 physics
[]ACT:
[]GPA:3.59 UW, 4.3 W (Huuuuge increasing trend)
[]Rank: School doesn’t rank
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 AP Calculus AB, 5 AP English Language/Composition, 4 AP Physics B, 3 AP US History, 6 Math IBSL, 4 Physics IBSL
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Awesome, very personal (about my academic + fun side)
[]Teacher Recs: Hopefully, great (i really don’t know)
[]Counselor Rec: Better than most other students at my school (I met with the counselor alot and was more personal)
[]Supplementary Material:
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none that i can think of
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: SoCal
[]High School Type: Competitive Public
[]Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Alot…AMC testing, Boy Scouts, school clubs, school newspaper, stem cell research internship at Seoul National University, alot more minor things
[]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, etc…i’ll update later if i have time
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]

Djokovic · December 12, 2009, 2:19pm

Deferred

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2340. Math: 790 Reading: 750 Writing: 800 (two sittings)
[]SAT II: Math II: 800 Bio M: 780 Physics: 790
[]ACT: None
[]GPA: 4.0 UW. 4.92 W
[]Rank: 3 out of 548 (Top .54%)
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
Physics B: 5
Environmental Sci: 5
World History: 5
Biology: 5
Calculus BC: 5 (AB Sub-Score 5)
Macro/Micro Economics: 5 and 5
English Language: 5

[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Felt decently strong about
[]Teacher Recs: Read only one. The teacher basically said I was awesome and one of a kind. Other one should be sweet.
[]Counselor Rec: She is retiring this year and said I was one of her top 5 students ever in her 15+ years of counseling
[]Supplementary Material: Two supplementary letters of rec from internship mentors (one from engineering, the other was an economics professor).
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope just another ORM[/li]
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Santa Barbara, California
[]High School Type: Public, but best in district
[]Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese). Permanent resident
[]Gender: MALE

[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars:
Science Bowl (vice president 2 years),
Economics Team (2 years),
FIRST Robotics team (Team 1717 ftw!),
Boys Tennis Team (4 years),
Piano (4+ Years),
Sustainability club (founder/president),
Internship in UCSB Economics (summer),
Internship in EE at UCSB (summer and now),
Ping Pong Club
245 hours of community service at Hospital
Etc.
[]Awards:

Westmont College High School Math Competition Team Winner 2008 and 2009
Capital Markets Contest 2009:: (state) 1st place
California State Economics Challenge Championship 2009:: (State) 1st in California,
National Council on Economic Education- Economics Challenge West Regional 2009:: (Regional/Semi-national) 2nd out of 8 states
Regional Science Bowl 2009:: (Regional) 1st place
National Science Bowl 2009:: (National) Nationals Qualifier
National Merit Semi-Finalist 2009-2010
National AP Scholar 2009
Music Teachers’ Association of California:: Certificate of Merit for Piano 2006, 2007, 2008: (State: for levels 4,7,9)
American College of Musicians: National Piano Playing Auditions 2008:: Intermediate C (State) state winner
Most Improved Player on HS Tennis Team 2007 and 2008
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Wow… Congrats to all that made it. but I really thought I had a good chance at Caltech. Now MIT EA is my only hope left
[/ul]

HiPeople · December 12, 2009, 2:19pm

^How can you ED to Wharton and EA to Caltech at the same time?

I got deferred but Im having trouble editing, how do you get it in the right format?

Djokovic · December 12, 2009, 2:22pm

removed the spaces!!

apple1984 · December 12, 2009, 2:24pm

Deferred

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 800 CR, 800 W, 740 M
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 780 US History
[]ACT: 34 (35E, 36M, 32R, 34S) 9 on essay, 32 E/W
[]GPA: 4.4 W, 4.0 UW
[]Rank: 6/446
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 on AP US, AP Stats, AP Calc BC (and AB subscore), AP Chem, and AP Eng Lang
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Quite good
[]Teacher Recs: Haven’t seen either of them, but probably excellent
[]Counselor Rec: Barely know her, probably positive though
[]Supplementary Material: None
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Ohio
[]High School Type: Very strong public
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: MUN, Leadership Conference Planning Committee, JETS, etc.
[]Awards: Nothing spectacular, mostly at school and local level
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] I’m not entirely surprised; at least I didn’t get rejected.

minder42 · December 12, 2009, 2:26pm

[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Deferred[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 2300, 800M, 760 W, 740 CR
[ *]SAT II:800 physics, 800 math II, 800 Chem, 770 bio
[ *]ACT:n/a
[ *]GPA:4.3
[ *]Rank:school doesnt rank, but prob top 15%
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5s in chem, compsci,bio, physics b, calc ab, eng lang, world hist, 4 in us hist
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: Good essays
[ *]Teacher Recs: Great from physics, good from hist, awesome from the guy i intern under
[ *]Counselor Rec: prty good
[ *]Supplementary Material: sent a research paper
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):?
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location:California
[ *]High School Type:Public
[ *]Ethnicity:Indian
[ *]Gender: M
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: national supercomputing and robotics competitions-won, president of science club,research internship, karate, etc
[ *]Awards:some national science/math competitions, international robotics competition winning team

thefirstdude02 · December 12, 2009, 2:27pm

Rejected

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 730 CR / 790 M / 790 W
[]SATII: 800 Physics / 780 Math2 / 770 Chem
[]ACT: N/A
[]GPA: 3.6UW
[]Rank: N/A
[]OtherTests(AMC, AP, IB): 7 APs: 2 5s, 4 4s, 1 3
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Eh, didn’t really try for Caltech.
[]Teacher Recs: Seriously solid
[]Counselor Rec: Same
[]Supplementary Material: Rec from summer research supervisor
[]Hook: Not quite sure what was used.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Michigan
[]High School Type: Private, sends many graduates to top institutions
[]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Numerous and very good
[*]Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, many others[/ul]

zzdumdumzz · December 12, 2009, 2:29pm

Yeah, Wharton isn’t single choice ED and Caltech/MIT doesn’t have Restricted EA, so I did all three.

Djokovic · December 12, 2009, 2:30pm

Caltech is so brutal this year… who do they think the yare

HiPeople · December 12, 2009, 2:30pm

how do u remove the spaces

GeekMom63 · December 12, 2009, 2:31pm

To get it in the right format, remove all the spaces in the template.

estrat1 · December 12, 2009, 2:31pm

Rejected

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2220 (CR/M/W 740/800/680)
[]SAT II: Phy/Chem/Math2 800/800/800
[]ACT: n/a
[]GPA: unsure (between 3.8-4.0)
[]Rank: School doesn’t rank
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Computer Science A: 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I thought my Common App essay was amazing, though the Feynmann essay might have been a little meh :P.
[]Teacher Recs: Didn’t see, but one teacher thinks I’m born to do physics and the other thinks that I’m a really good writer (physics and english teachers respectively).
[]Counselor Rec: Didn’t see, but I think she likes me.
[]Supplementary Material: None
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nobel Prize =P…okay, nothing xD.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: -
[]High School Type: -
[]Ethnicity: -
[]Gender: -
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Nothing significant.
[]Awards: None
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Not really; I fell in love with another university after visiting xD. Also, I didn’t add any personal info because I didn’t really want anyone to find me =P. And to anyone else rejected, don’t worry - you’ve heard this before, but I think you’ll all end up somewhere you’ll love =).

And to everyone who got in, congratulations :D.

HiPeople · December 12, 2009, 2:31pm

Deferred

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2300 superscore
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 760 Chem
[]ACT:
[]GPA: 3.95ish UW (we weight but I think this is recalculated unweighted); that is with ~10 AP classes.
[]Rank: We dont rank, but top 1st decile
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC: 120, 103.5 (I hope the second score didnt affect me because I didn’t even have to report it. I guess honestly hurts if it did affect me); AIME: 10, 8
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Cant really say but my parents said it was okay. 
[]Teacher Recs: Didn’t see
[]Counselor Rec: Didn’t see; each counselor has 500 kids! No counselor in the school knows their students that well.
[]Supplementary Material: I sent in a research paper over sports statistics. Nothing that great but I dont have the access to professors over the topic that I did (because there are few people that do this). I guess my dad was right: he coulda gotten me a lab over biology and done something with Siemens (some of my friends got Siemens this way), but I went with something I actually liked and passed on the better opportunity to win the award because I liked the experience better than the final destination.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): USAMO (well, I guess it isn’t really a hook)-I was the only one from my school to qualify for USAMOx2 ever (we have a tenth grader that will eventually do it) even though so many people take AMC, but I don’t think they consider school background
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Midwest
[]High School Type: Huge (1000 seniors)
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Math Club (pres), Math Circle, Research (w/o professor), Tennis, Orchestra, I put fantasy sports (if that got me deferred I would be quite disapointed becuase its the same as other more “academic” ECs, and I actually self-analyze everything using math concepts-if an admission officer thought it was just a “video game”, I can tell you that it is not that at all…it requires a lot of historical analysis to predict player peroformance and I dont go by projected stats from ESPN-and this can be extended to real life analysis, like if I wanted to build a basketball team, I would first choose people with high assist/TO ratio rather than purely high assists (so Paul over Nash anyday) because it correlates better to winning).
[]Awards: USAMOx2, USNCO, National Merit, ARML… (I think I left out USNCO out of Caltech admissions though because people told me it wasn’t important since I came from a easy local region…I guess that was bad idea-I guess I should of not only put the top 5 awards but also additional awards like USNCO even if they weren’t in top 5)
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]

Thanks guys for telling me how to put this in the proper format.

Good job to everyone that got in! Hopefully I can still get in RD.
I left out so many awards and ECs in my application because people told me “dont just make a list…” because it will annoy people. After this, I guess I’m going to learn from my mistake and make a list of all my ECs and send in multiple additional recs.

nwoodward · December 12, 2009, 2:32pm

Accepted

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: M-790, V-680, W-680
[]SAT II: Math II-800, Chemistry-800, Physics-730 (Sophomore year)
[]GPA: 3.9/7.3 (when applied) & 3.9/8.3 (now)
[]Rank: 1/360
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP’s 5-Calc AB, Calc BC, Chem, Comp Sci A, Phy C: E&M, Eng Lang, Psych; 4-World Hist, US Hist, Phy C: Mech, Statistics
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Great, used math/science humor, replaced sentences with math jargon
[]Teacher Recs: really good (all 6 of them)
[]Counselor Rec: very good
[]Supplementary Material: none
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Research at MIT for 2 months.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Tampa, FL
[]High School Type: Magnet performing arts (Rated D by Florida State)
[]Ethnicity: W
[]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Dual Enrollment courses (2 years), Physics lab research (1.5 years), Mu Alpha Theta (president and only coach), Science Honors Society (VP), BMX, writing electronic music, working on my Saab
[]Awards: Siemens Semifinalist 2009, some calculus awards, science bowl 2nd place
Course Load at University
Calculus I,II,III, Bridge to Abstract Math, Linear Algebra, Geometry, Vector Calculus, Introduction to Probability, Essentials of Statistics, Differential Equations, Combinatorics/Graph Theory (graduate), Visual Complex Analysis, Physics I,II, Modern Physics
Next semester
Complex Variables (graduate), Graph Theory (graduate), Elementary Abstract Algebra

[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] so happy

Djokovic · December 12, 2009, 2:32pm

for everyone posting, make sure to removed the spaces between formatting codes such as [ b]!!!

HiPeople · December 12, 2009, 2:34pm

ok mines in the proper format now

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