<p>Is it just my imagination, or does it seem like people who only have ACT scores with no SAT scores were either denied, waitlisted or given a GT. I’m a little freaked out, because my D, who is a junior, wants to apply ED to Human EC and is only taking the ACT. Am I just being paranoid?</p>
<p>On a separate note, congrats to everyone who got in!! :)</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 750 CR 780 M 710 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 Phys 800 Math II 740 Chem
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] APs: Chem 5, Lit + Calc + Physics Senior Year
[<em>] IBs:
[</em>] GPA: 3.9/4
[<em>] Rank: 2/285
[</em>] Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Varsity Math Team (Tri-Captain, #2 High Scoring Junior), Destination Imagination (School’s Chapter Founder, Global Finalist Team), National Honor Society, Community Service
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Camp Counselor
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): One about Thanksgiving, another about my Volvo…
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Awesome!
[<em>] Counselor Rec: No idea!
[</em>] Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NH
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>i dont think theres any correlation between whether you took the SAT and whether you get in…probably just a coincidence</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted Engineering</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2080 (720M 690R 670W)
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 770MII, 690Chem, 660Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.05ish?
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): CS A (5) Chem (5) Gov’t (5) English Lang (4) Latin Lit (4) Vergil (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Math SL (7)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 5 IB HL’s, 1 SL, AP Calc AB
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ThinkQuest - 1st place
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President of music club, president of cultural group division, secretary of math club
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Taught weekend music classes, numerous other volunteer experiences
[<em>] Summer Activities: Cornell University Summer College 2008
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good, apparently.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One awesome, one good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): VA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public, IB Magnet
[</em>] Ethnicity: ASIAN!
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~ 80k-100k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Essays? ThinkQuest probably helped a lot.
[<em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores. GPA/rank.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Probably essays and programming experience. I mentioned how much I enjoyed Cornell Summer College.
[/ul]General Comments: Congratulations to everyone who made it!!!</p>
<p>Decision & College: Accepted to Arts & Sciences</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 800
[</em>] SAT Math: 790
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2390
[<em>] SAT II: 790, 780, 760
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: three 5’s
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.99
[</em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): top 2% at competitive public
[li] Academic Awards: NMSF, publication, some state-level stuff</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I liked them a lot.
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: Very good.
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: Very good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also very good.</p>
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CT
[</em>] School Type: competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: yes, double, but not the donating buildings kind.
[</em>] Important ECs: captain of 2 sports teams, a few clubs with some solid leadership</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Why do you think you were accepted: Good stats + double legacy, nothing glaringly wrong with me haha.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Big congrats to everyone who got in, Cornell’s super awesome! I will probably attend Yale though, so eat lots of Collegetown Bagels for me!!</p>
<p>to JustAMom: I can confirm acceptances with only ACT scores, given the experiences of friends getting accepted this year (as well as folks I know here now.) </p>
<p>just remember, anyone in general looking for a pattern: we have probably 15-20 results here whereas thousands of students were accepted.</p>
<p>Decision & College: Accepted College of HumEc</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 770
[</em>] SAT Math: 770
[<em>] SAT Writing: 750
[</em>] SAT Total: 2290
[<em>] SAT II: 800s in world history, math ii, and chemistry
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable): 114
[<em>] ACT (if applicable): 33
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Three 5s, three 4s, one 3
[<em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.18
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 3.89
[<em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): n/a
[</em>] Academic Awards: AP International Diploma, a few nationwide awards</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Above-average Commonapp essay, decent Why HumEc essay
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: “probably” above-average
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: “Probably” decent
[</em>] Additional Rec: from a professor I know, at another Ivy League institution. took her class.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: no idea…
[</em>] Hook (if any): I think I have one, but it’s personal :P</p>
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: south korea
[</em>] School Type: private and selective.
[<em>] Ethnicity: asian
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: no
[li] Important ECs: Volunteering! more than 600 hours…</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: Got lucky I suppose 
Can’t still believe this good luck.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: See you guys in Ithaca</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!!!
TO CALS! probably will not be going though
congrats guys! im too lazy to do stats, sorry! you can check out my previous posts though</p>
<p>Thanks faustarp. I was aware of previous years, but thought it was strange the way this year on CC there were very few, if any, ACT only acceptances. Thanks for the info…I feel better now! :)</p>
<p>I got a GT with ACT only. Im from NY and my 33 act was much better than my sat so I only sent that to ILR.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 760 CR, 780 M, 770 W (1540/2310)
[</em>] SAT II: 750 Latin, 730 Math II, 730 World History, 720 Math I, average to bad on a few others
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 97/100
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), US History (4), Calculus AB (5), Calculus BC, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, English Literature and Composition, Latin Virgil, Physics B.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Basically the unscored AP exams above.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, NMSQT Commended Scholar, National Latin Exam Gold Medals (3), some statewide Latin competition prizes, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): High School Classical Culture Society (Treasurer x2, President), New Jersey Junior Classical League (Central Registrar), National Honor Society (Treasurer), Literary Magazine (Assistant Editor in Chief, Editor in Chief), Mock Trial (Witness x2), Students Against Destructive Decisions
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Local hospital, making lunches for poor, pancake breakfast for blind, setting up for local art shows and carnivals, etc.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Film Camp, Summer Rowing Program, NYLF on Medicine, Honors Pre-Calculus Class
[</em>] Essays: CommonApp showed source of intellectual interest, Cornell Supplement was good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should have been great.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably bad, actually. I don’t think she knew me very well and probably wrote the wrong information.
[li] Interview: Yes, I think it went well.</p>[/li]
<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope.
Intended Major: Classics
State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
School Type: Private, ~215 in graduating class, gets about a dozen kids to top twenty universities each year
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Not sure, specifically. But no FA.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Classics? Maybe?</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: SAT’s, EC’s, Essays</p>
<p>What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Center it around passion for many things, brought it all back to Classics, etc.</p>
<p>Weaknesses: SAT II’s</p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Guidance counselor things. </p>
<p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted- Brown University (attending), University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Washington University in St. Louis, Colby College, Vanderbilt University, University of Notre Dame (Honors Program), University of Michigan; Waitlisted- Duke University, Cornell University, Williams College; Rejected- Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>Accepted!!! </p>
<p><b>Objective:</b>
SAT I (breakdown): 780cr, 750m, 800w = 2330 total
SAT II: Math 2 - 800; Chem - 790; French - 690
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98 - only 1 B in multivariable calc (took at community college b/c they don’t teach it at school…)
Weighted GPA: 4.5/5.0 (But should be about 4.75…see below)
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), Chem (5), Phys C: Mech (5), Phys C: E&M (4)
Senior Year Course Load: Hardest Available - Multivariable Calc, AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Lit, AP Gov/Econ, Photo (I had no arts credit before this…)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Hnr, Laureat National in Grand Concours Nat’l French Competition, a few math awards, class prize 2006</p>
<p><b>Subjective:</b>
Extracurriculars: Tae Kwon Do (Black Belt, Paid Instructor, Best Student Award 2008), Amnesty Int’l (Co-President, previously Publicities Officer), Photography (I submitted some of my work, won 1st in my district in a PTSA contest), Publicities Officer & Student Teacher for Oxybridges Science Institute, a ****load of sports freshman and sophmore year (soccer, track, xc, field hockey)
Job/Work Experience: Internship at USC synthesizing nanowires w/ high-powered lasers; Internship at Caltech building a program to compare nucleotide and protein strings to find motors on viruses; currently an instructor at my tkd studio; tutoring math, french & chem since 2006
Volunteer/Community service: N/A
Summer Activities: 2005-6 my family and I lived abroad on the French/Swiss border…we spent those summers moving back and forth…I taught myself Alg 2 when we moved back –> Honours PreCalculus as a sophmore (class for juniors at our school); Internship at USC 2007; Internship at Caltech 2008
Essays: I wrote about living in Europe and how on the school ski trip, a depressed girl woke me up in the middle of the night and asked for my swiss army knife…I gave it to her only to sprint after her later…fortunately she didn’t hurt herself; I submitted a summary of my research and explained how there were no honors classes at my school in Switzerland (otherwise my GPA –> 4.75ish)
Teacher Recommendation: one said I was one of the best students ever and the other said i was <i>the</i> best. :]
Counselor Rec: “a most remarkable young woman”
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A</p>
<p><b>Other</b>
Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
Intended Major: Physics
State: CA
School Type: Public, but top 100 schools in country
Ethnicity: white
Gender: F
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): um, living abroad</p>
<p><b>Reflection</b>
Strengths: math & science; sophistication; well-roundedness :]
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Cultural stuff, well-roundedness
Weaknesses: NO community service, stupid 750 on the SAT (I only took it once and the curve was INSANE.)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Living abroad on top of having the grades etc.; and having 2 x-chromosomes and applying for physics</p>
<ul>
<li>Accepted to College of Arts & Sciences :] first choice woot woot.</li>
</ul>
<p>**Accepted@CALS: **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 800
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2400
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 770 Bio-M, 710 Chem (lol), 670 Latin (…)
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable): N/A
[<em>] ACT (if applicable): N/A
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Calc BC 5, Physics C 5s, Chem 5, CompAB 5, Euro 4, EngLit 4, UsH 4
[<em>] GPA unweighted: My school uses a weird non-4.00 scale
[</em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): N/A
[<em>] Academic Awards: National AP Scholar, Nat’l Merit Finalist
[</em>] Important ECs: Varsity sports, band, orchestra, does tutoring count? math team, etc
[li] Job Experience: Spent the summer working in an physics lab</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good?
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: No idea, never saw it (UsH teacher)
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: Ditto (AP physics teacher)
[</em>] Additional Rec: None
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, I think (counselor really likes me)
[</em>] Hook (if any): None</p>
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Massachusetts
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Standarized tests, rigorous classes, really showed my passion for animals/desire to get into vet school in my essay (hence, CALS is my top choice :))
[</em>] Weaknesses: Little community service, low GPA
[/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted to AAP. From New Zealand. Applied for aid. Wo0t</p>
<p>Couldn’t help but notice… almost everyone posting was accepted. Not much fun posting the rejection stats. My son was among them. I was surprised by the rejection knowing a student in his high school class ahead of him that got in, but… that’s the way it goes sometimes. I will say his scores were a bit lower than most (but not all) of those who posted here. </p>
<p>And the teacher essays… how can one really know what was written?</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>sometimes teachers will let you see what they wrote…</p>
<p>but a student would only ask a teacher he knew was awesome…i.e. you wouldnt ask your gym teacher or home economics for one…</p>
<p>My son’s stats:</p>
<p>Decision & College: Waitlisted - Engineering</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 770
[</em>] SAT Math: 720
[<em>] SAT Writing: 690
[</em>] SAT Total: 2180
[<em>] SAT II: Lit 730, MathII 770, Physics 760
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable):
[<em>] ACT (if applicable): 35
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: APMEH 4, AP Calc AB 5, AP Physics 5, AP Comp 4, APUSH, AP Lit, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, AP Music Theory
[<em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.3
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 3.7
[<em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1
[</em>] Academic Awards: NMF, merit scholarship to private school, AP Scholar with Honor, Brown Book Award, school/subject awards</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: about an engineering book I’d read and Cornell projects that connect to it.
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: very good, I’m told
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2:very good, I’m told
[</em>] Additional Rec: piano teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec:very good, I’m told
[</em>] Hook (if any):</p>
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: midwest
[</em>] School Type: private
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: no
[li] Important ECs: nat’l and int’l piano, state cycling and skating</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: got a C in Chem this year.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Guess it’s MIT and $60,000 of debt…</p>
<p>Rejected… Engineering. </p>
<p>800 M, 680 CR, 760 W (2240)
33 ACT (36 M, 34 R, 32 E, 28 S)
4.27 GPA, Top 5%, 8 APs
Only mediocre ECs though. </p>
<p>Waitlisted at Penn. Heading to Pitt Honors… for free.</p>
<p>**Accepted at College of Human Ecology: **
Major: Biology and Society</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 780
[</em>] SAT Math: 730
[<em>] SAT Writing: 780
[</em>] SAT Total: 2290
[<em>] SAT II: 750 Biology, 710 Chemistry, 710 Literature
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable):
[<em>] ACT (if applicable):
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: World History (4), Biology (4), European History (5), US History (5), Calc BC (5) AB (5), Literature (5)
[<em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 4.327
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 3.833
[<em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): top 5%
[</em>] Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, 4 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards (golds and silvers), various art awards, World Piano Competition semifinalist, finalist for National Speech and Debate Tournament, various Science Olympiad awards, MUN best delegation…</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (President), Speech Team (Captain), Science Olympiad (Secretary), Model UN, freshmen mentor, and elementary school mentor
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Artist on commission, Piano TA
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Special Olympics
[</em>] Summer Activities: Internship at state u Cancer Research Institute
[<em>] Essays: about my passion for volunteering, including Special Olympics
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: good?
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t see it
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: midwest
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: ORM
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: Nope
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Nope
[li] Important ECs: Special Olympics? i also organized a huge fundraiser for my school that donated thousands of toys to a children’s hospital :)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: I was really surprised, actually! I didn’t have all the requirements (Math SAT II) for the college and when a Cornell representative called my home I felt that I didn’t give a very enthusiastic impression…</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:<br>
Also accepted at Wash U in St. Louis, UCLA, UC-Berkeley; Waitlisted: Duke; Rejected: UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown :(((</p>