Waitlisted! Very sad because it was my dream school 
They haven’t accepted a single person from their waitlist for 3 straight years I think… Congratulations to everyone who got in!
Accepted! w/ a 15k research scholarship thingy. White, female, West Coast.
Stats (giving ranges):
SAT – 1550-1600, subject tests (three) 750-800.
GPA: 4.0 UW, took the hardest classes I could
EC: highly ranked in a sport. Started a bunch of clubs at my schools. Tutored a lot, and worked 30 hrs/wk since 10th grade summer (4 hrs/wk in school).
Recs – I think this is what got me in, tbh. I also had a really good interview, so that probably helped.
Other schools:
Accepted to MIT/Brown/Cornell/Tufts/WashU/all the UCs and a bunch of other schools
Rejected from Yale
WL at Harvard
If you don’t mind me asking, what research scholarship are you talking about? I could not find anything online.
Applied RD in Fall
Accepted
4.5 GPA
35 ACT
800 Subject Test
ECs: Community service, varsity sports, leadership
FA docs: Received dates changed from original dates in Fall to February date
International student from Nigeria here
Accepted with basically a full ride
accepted!!! with the King Scholarship. I got rejected from each one of the 20 schools I applied except for Dartmouth!!! international applicants that really need financial aid: apply to Dartmouth!
I am posting this to help future applicants. Some weeks ago I received the following email:
xAlthough the Admissions Committee is still deliberating, the Financial Aid Office is currently reviewing Class of 2024 documents. We want to ensure that when candidates are selected for admission, we will have sufficient information on file to make a financial aid decision. […]"
I send the ISFAA and they forgot to waive the CSS. Ok. But the strange thing is that none of my friends that had missing documentation received this email too. A friend of mine found a thread from 2013 on CC with exactly this same email. They were doing a correlation between this email and admission. All of them were either admitted or waitlisted. So I begin to found it strange. 2 weeks ago, I received the same email because a “signed custodial parent tax income statement” appeared on my portal. My friend got the same email due to the same cause. less than 2 weeks ago I received a personalized email asking me about a specific information that is on my ISFAA. in the same day, I got an email about interview. My friend got the same email from the same person (fun fact: we had the same interviewer before). We told her that we already had interviews, so it did not happen, but we couldn’t stop thinking about why would Dartmouth care about interview two weeks before the decision date. I have not sent signed copies of my parents tax income, just the tax income. I thought they would ask me that but they didn’t. Well, me and my friend are now recipients of the King Scholarship and will happily attend Dartmouth for the next 4 years.
This generic email that I quoted before is indeed a red flag of admission.
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DON’T freak out about stats!!!
My SAT was 1460 (790M and 670 R&W), had a 780 on Math II and 700 on Physics. Applied to engineering physics and arts majors. My TOEFL was 106.
I had some national scientific medals, but nothing major.
EC: my first one was founding a girls club on gender equality and sex education at my school, then painting watercolor, an event on the women’s day at my school, some tutoring projects for math and science + YYGS + Latin American Leadership Academy.
GPA: I don’t actually have a GPA. my grade point was 8.1 on a scale of 0-10. I was the 4th in a class of 39. I was part of a special class called Olympic Class in one of the best schools of my state.
Recs: I consider them to be really good. Asked a chemistry teacher (my lower STEM subject grades) and a linguistic teacher. They talked a lot about my leadership traits, my relation to my peers and also academics.
Other schools: got denied by Bates, Swarthmore, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Conn College, Lehigh, Williams, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Harvard, Yale, and Vassar. Got waitlisted by Rhodes, Grinnell, Hamilton, Bryn Mawr, Yale-NUS, and Tufts. I am an international student and needed a full ride, so that’s probably the reason of many rejections or waitlists in this list.
Dates of my FA documents changed to the begging of March (3/4) and then to the middle (3/14).
I don’t think the date change means a guaranteed admission. My FA docs changed to early March even though I sent them much earlier, but in the end, I was wait listed.
Hi @anna114141 ! Congratulations on getting in. I was also accepted from Nigeria with basically a full ride too. Could you join the official Facebook group so we can connect?
I think that we are in very different times with Covid-19, so I wouldn’t lose hope! Waitlisted brings much more hope than a rejection.
@Profff really, that’s great! Unfortunately, I’m not on Facebook. Is there any other way we could talk?
You weren’t rejected. Very likely they prep the FA docs for the waitlist too, so the FA offer can be part of an offer of admission off the waitlist.
What were your FA docs’ original received dates? Did you file any FA docs in Jan or Feb?
Accepted!
Black Female from NYC
SAT 1420 (700 math, 720 reading)
SAT II: Lit- 700 World History - 610
Rank: 2
4.0 unweighted GPA
English Major
Amazing essays and recommendations
ECs:
Editor-in-chief of newspaper since soph. year
President of National Honor Society for 2 Yrs (In NHS since soph)
President of the Student Government (Public Relations Director, 11th Grade President, SG President)
Founded my school’s Black Student Union (2 Yrs)
VP of STEM Club (2 yrs)
Model UN (4 years)
400+ Volunteering hours
Organized service trips through NHS
Tutored kids in English, History, Physics, Algebra 2, Trig & Calc
Color Guard
Varsity Swim for 2 years
Varsity Track for 1
Participated in this summer entrepreneurship program, designed a prosthetic and a prosthetic startup & then won the contest at the end
I got into Boston College, Colgate, Franklin & Marshall, Ithaca, Northwestern (Medill School of Journalism), Syracuse (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications), Washington University in St.Louis (WashU), Wheaton, and Tufts, Wesleyan, Bucknell, Cornell, UPenn, and Dartmouth, and Columbia, Brown
Waitlisted: Harvard & Yale
NYU comes out today, so we’ll find out.
Any other questions, happy to answer!
Accepted!
White/Native American Female from Georgia
Applied Regular Decision
Biomedical Engineering Major
ACT: 34
SAT: N/A
SAT II: Lit- 710, Bio M- 700
Rank: 1
4.0 unweighted GPA
Took a bunch of IB classes (full IB diploma candidate)
ECs:
Hospital Volunteer (2 years)
Junior Class President
Theater (actor and volunteer, 6+ years)
Environmental Club (co-founder and co-president, 2 years)
Soccer Team Manager (3 years)
Literary Magazine (head of promotions, 4 years)
Food Bank Volunteer (2 years)
Cross Country (1 year)
Member of a special, science oriented after school program junior year
Honors/Awards:
Honors Societies (National, Science, Thespian, French, Art)
State Best Actor award for a one act play
Some other college awards/recognitions given to high school students
Essays:
Pretty strong imo, very personal and I spent a lot of time on them lol
Recs:
Also were probably pretty good? I’m really close to both the teachers I ask (chem/psych and english)
Interview:
Had an interview and it went pretty well??? I’m unsure how big a role it played
Other Schools-
Accepted: Yale, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, UNC Chapel Hill, Georgia Tech, University of Georgia
Waitlisted: None
Denied: None
@PlatinumPisces are you going to Dartmouth?
@Gogreen19 Oh man this is very late lol, I didn’t have notifications on. But, I’m not 100% sure where I’m going. Right now I think it’s between Dartmouth and two other schools, and I really love three all of them for different reasons. So, we’ll see! I guess I still have a week or so to decide.
Accepted! Very late but I figure this may help next year’s applicants.
White/Iranian Female from Northern California
Applied Regular Decision
Political Science Major
ACT: 34 (superscore 35)
SAT: N/A
SAT II: Lit- 740, US History- 760, Math 2- 740
Rank: 1, valedictorian
4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.65 weighted
ECs:
Summer at social services organization, helping with census outreach
District Attorney campaign intern (2 years)
Elections ambassador for my HS (1 year)
Mock trial attorney (4 years)
Started a start-up related to the environment (1 year)
Parent tour panelist for my hs (4 years)
Started a hygeine drive to donate toiletries and other items for local homeless
Lotss of tutoring (4 years)
Girls golf (3 years)
Volleyball (1 year)
Honors/Awards:
Outstanding Performance awards for Mock trial (3)
Certificate of Excellence in ~10 classes, some department awards
Most Outstanding Student of my middle school (included in the extra info section of common app)
Essays:
Very strong, all of them have a political/legislative bent
Recs:
I know one was really good because I read it (APUSH teacher), I think the other (Calc AB/BC teacher) was probably quite good as well. My peer recommendation was absolutely phenomenal and I think it had a large role in getting me in. My best friend happens to be an amazing writer.
Interview:
It went well, about 2 hours. I’m pretty chatty and personable
Other Schools-
Accepted: Fordham, UCD, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, UCB (waitlisted then accepted), Amherst, Tufts
Waitlisted: Boston College, Georgetown
Denied: Stanford, Yale
I hope this is helpful for future '25s! Good luck!
Hey! I was just wondering if you ever got accepted to Dartmouth since you did bound. Do bounders have a more likely chance of acceptance? Thanks!