<h1>lookslikeimnotgoingtotexas</h1>
<p>Decision: Accepted (With a Trustee Distinguished Scholarship of $86,000 paid over 4 years) </p>
<p>Stats:
College/Major Applied To: Econ
Fee Waiver Used?: N
SAT I (by section): 2240 highest score (800CR/750Writing/690Math)
SAT IIs: 730 on Math Level 2, 700 on English Literature
GPA, Weighted/Unweighted/UC: GPA is really weird at my school
Rank: Top 5% of ~300
APs (including this year’s): Not offered
IBs (including this year’s): Not offered
Senior Yr Courseload: Commerce (Accounting and Business Studied), Math (integral Calculus included) and Economics
Number of Apps from Your School: 3-4
Other stats (Awards, etc.): 1. 3xBest Delegate (1xinternational)
2. School awards</p>
<p>Subjective:
ECs listed on app: MUN (Secretary General), Business and Economics Club (Chief Editor), Student Council (Prefect), Community Service; Week in the foothills of the Himalayas
Job/Work Experience: Month-long internship at a venture capital fund. Only high school intern to ever work there.
Essays (subject and responses): Poured me heart and soul into the buggers. They’d better be good!
Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Research paper examining contemporary trends in private equity, venture capital and angel/seed investing in emerging markets (post '08) for a renowned entrepreneur and his firm.</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: India
School Type: Medium sized private
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $300,000+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Full paying international, possibly?
Strengths: Essay, class rank, EC’s, Research
Weaknesses: Grades were mighty hard to understand
Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: Haven’t the faintest clue why they’d take a dork like me, but hell I’m happy.
Other Factors: The Indian applicant pool is both massive, and extremely competitive.
Where were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted to: WUSTL (Olin), Claremont McKenna, UCLA, UNC Chapel Hill (EA), UCSD, UCI, UCD, UCSC (Regents Scholar), Brandeis, Fordham (Dean’s Scholar)
Waitlisted: UVa, UChicago
Rejected: Northwestern, Columbia (ED) </p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Wow! This is truly a pleasant surprise, was 100% sure I’d get rejected. It’s 4:30 am and I’m currently sleepless, so please excuse any mistakes in my stats. To those who were accepted, congratulations! To the souls who were wait listed, may the odds be ever in your favor and for those who were rejected, never fear. These lines always cheer me up:
Theirs not to make reply
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die</p>
<p>Be like the light brigade. Do not fear, do not despair, simply keep calm and carry on (but, like, don’t charge an entire army without thinking about it first 
) </p>
<p>@Mlolo98</p>
<p>Congrats Stanfordmania! It looks like you had a lot of cross admits with my son, also an Econ major.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. 2210 SAT, 3.91 UW GPA, 4.67 W GPA, loads of other stuff. Hopefully the other schools pan out…</p>
<p>GOT IN!!!</p>
<p>Son accepted to Rice!</p>
<p>Waitlisted… I don’t know how to feel? </p>
<p>I’m going to make a stats thread for regular decision, so it’s easier for prospective students to see without having to go through 37 pages of conversations lol</p>
<p>is esther not working for anyone else?</p>
<p>not working for me</p>
<p>still working, but i cant see any financial aid info. Will they send it later?</p>
<p>Never mind. Admitted. He will be declining - so should open one spot! </p>
<p>how did you find out financial aid info, did they just update it?</p>
<p>Waitlisted…Oh well, expected as much</p>
<p>Rejected
SAT I (breakdown): Did not send Math800, English 720, Writing 740
ACT: 35 (36 english, science) 35 math
SAT II: 790 math2 , 780 chemistry, 730 physics
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Weighted GPA: 4.3
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): not available
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH 5, Chemistry 5 Ap Calc AB 5
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, Calc 2 at UNCC (A), AP Physics, AP Micro/MAcro, honors english, Honors spanish 3, ( CHinese private tutor), Honors Politics, Religion
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None, YCT</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Chinese studies and travels, NHS, CHinese Club president, Speech and debate,
Job/Work Experience: Private tutor
Volunteer/Community service:tutor and religion teacher
Summer Activities: travel to china on scholarship
Essays: Excellent,
Teacher Recommendation: One from UNCC professor excellent, HS teachers no idea
Counselor Rec: no idea
Additional Rec:
State: North Carolina
School Type : Parochial
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Skipped 9th grade ( 3 years of high school)</p>
<p>Reflection: Son was deferred from princeton, applied to many reach schools, Parents are very excited to have UNC as an option
Strengths:
Weaknesses: GPA one C several B’s
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Strength of Essays and honest interest in learning, plus only 3 years of high school</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (With a Trustee Distinguished Scholarship of $86,000 paid over 4 years)</p>
<p>Stats:
College/Major Applied To: Engineering (but did not see major in letter??)
Fee Waiver Used?: N
SAT I (by section): 2310 highest score (800CR/750 Math/760 writing)
SAT IIs: 770 on Math Level 2, 800 on Chem, 800 WH, 700 Physics (don’t know why we sent)
GPA, Weighted/Unweighted/UC: 108.3 weighted from top public HS in Austin
Rank: Top 5% (29 out of 705 but did not disclose)
APs (including this year’s): Chem, Comp Sci, Eng Lang, Physics B, US H, Hum Geo, Psych, WH, Eng Lit, Calc BC, Econ
IBs (including this year’s): Not offered
Senior Yr Courseload: AP Eng, Calc BC, AP Phys C, AP Macro, Comp Sci 2, Government, Mentorship
Number of Apps from Your School: ?
Other stats (Awards, etc.): 1. Natl Merit Commended
2. AP Scholar with Distinction 3. Came in Second in Business Plan Competition</p>
<p>Subjective:
ECs listed on app: Captain of Football Team, MVP, TYE Entrepreneurship Competition award winner; Foreign Exchange program to Korea, Student Council, Community Service; Team Captain and Ambassador for Relay for Life for 4 years; Mobile Loaves and Fishes;
Job/Work Experience: Self Employed summer house sitting job; Worked with autistic child over summer.
Essays (subject and responses): Good I think…About a totally nerdy hobby - Plane Spotting but I really love it so it was genuine; also talked a lot about football - another love.
Hook (None that I can think of): </p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: TX
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: $200,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nada
Strengths: Essay, class rank, EC’s,
Weaknesses: Being from Texas
Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: Think I was accepted because I have strong stats and am a football player with other interests (unusual combo, maybe)
Other Factors: visited, took a tour, visited the engineering school and did an interview, all in the same day.
Where were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted to: UT - Eng.Honors, Tex A&M, USC Viterbi - Presidential scholar, Santa Clara - Provost Scholar, Notre Dame.
Waiting: Columbia (got likely letter for Football) and Vandy
Rejected: not yet</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: very surprised…heard that it was tough for Texans and from my high school with incredible kids. Would love to walk on to the football team but academics are important to me. Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>Use this … <a href=“http://www.esther.rice.edu”>www.esther.rice.edu</a>
click “login to esther”</p>
<p>you’ll need your student ID number and password.</p>
<p>We found it there.
If we went the other way and used the email/password to get in - then we saw the admission decision.</p>
<p>Only way he could get both …but it worked. </p>
<p>ACCEPTED! what a great day to be alive :)</p>
<p>Admitted. but in Esther it says no financial aid… do you think this is right or is it updating/pending? $54k/yr is a lot… :-S </p>
<p>@stanfordmania & @yoamogatos – congrats to you and your kids. significant overlap with my kid who is also an Econ major & of Asian indian origin</p>