<p>My school doesn’t weight GPA either, but we only have one valedictorian.
I’m ranked fourth and I have the highest possible non-4.0 GPA, so I assume the three people above me have 4.0’s. They’re ranked in alphabetical order. I hope it’s just a coincidence.</p>
<p>I guess I was one of them. Near 4.0, 2340 SAT, top 10 or so in piano in Cali, and USAMO qualifier. Doesn’t help that I had bad essays, not the best relations with teachers (I suck at being a teacher’s pet), and am not the most articulate and charismatic person (though I try my best). Didn’t get into HYSM, and only Ivy I got into was Cornell. Ended up at Pomona and proud to be a student there!</p>
<p>My GPA was apparently fourth in my class, with the three likely people ahead of me going to Stanford, MIT, and Princeton.</p>
<p>LOL literally half my school. We had ~35 people for first in the class; the whole school in general is pretty unorthodox.</p>
<p>I go to a large public school in a mostly Asian immigrant community. I only personally know like a tenth of my class (disadvantage of having a class of 900), but out of my 15 or so “close” friends in school, I think the average is somewhere around 2250 SAT and 10 AP classes. So yeah, I guess CCer’s are pretty much the only people I know. Though in my defense, I didn’t even start to think about college until the end of my junior year.</p>
<p>My school has like 2~ people go to each Ivy every year. So far, based on early decision, I’ve heard of one Princeton acceptance, one Brown, one UPenn, one MIT, and one Amherst (yours truly). Also a couple of deferrals from Harvard, Yale, and I assume Stanford and Caltech. Welcome to my world. :P</p>
<p>Our school… half of the student body for class of 2013 were over 4.0 Weighted GPA - our school follows the 4.0 scale.</p>
<p>Thanks God I botched up my Freshman grade. Now my class rank percentile is 29%, even with 12 AP/college courses total with 5’s in five APs–except for those I’m taking this year + college courses–and 5 Honors. My UW is 3.8 and Weighted is 4.37. Can you imagine?</p>
<p>But again, our class is also the most competitive class our school has ever seen, with 10% of our class getting into Ivies and sub-Ivies during ED process already! Of the 133 students, 2 Harvards, 2 Stanfords, 3 MIT, 2 Cornell, Dartmouth, 2 CMC, Brown, 2 JHU, UChi, Williams, etc… You name it…</p>
<p>Plus, we got the dumbest honors too… Had I known Drama, Foods, Accounting, or even Advanced Piano counted as 5.0 credit–the same as AP–while College courses like Advanced Calc or Diff. Eq. - that are way beyond AP level btw - are 4.0 credit… Argh hate this so much</p>
<p>P.S. Rank is weighted btw</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1369015-uc-berkeley.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1369015-uc-berkeley.html</a></p>
<p>I know this guy. In the thread, he didn’t mention that he took the Calculus BC test in 7th grade and got a 5 on it.</p>
<p>Half the people here must be full of it otherwise I got into college as some kind of miracle or maybe a sick joke. My boyfriend got a 35 on the act, 4.0 uwGPA, won various math competitions in the Midwest, is an eagle scout and was in things like Badger Boys and national honors society. I thought he was going to get into MIT or caltech no problem. </p>
<p>Aaaaaand then I joined CC.</p>
<p>I go to a mid-sized public school in Vancouver. For the context, getting into a Canadian university is very easy. Just get solid A’s in four or so “advanced” courses (still much easier than AP’s) and you’re pretty much guaranteed a spot in UBC, UT, or McGill even without any notable extracurricular activity. My school doesn’t even offer any AP’s, let alone Honors courses. And the students here spend most of their time studying “their butts off” for daily quizzes and unit tests.
So when the students here hear about my stats (2340, 3 800’s, 5 5’s, 4.0, decent EC’s, etc.) they seriously ask for my autograph. They think I’ll definitely make it into “Harvard or some other Ivy school” and become a professor or doctor or lawyer or whatever in the future. When I told one of my friends that I got rejected from Stanford SCEA, she was like, “Really? I didn’t see that coming. I thought you were the best in our school.” I had a hard time convincing her that I’ll probably be rejected by most of the univs I am applying to (and have applied to), and that it is perfectly normal for no one in the graduating class to be accepted by a HYPSMC/Ivy.
I apologize, I had a lot to say. But it’s good to see that I am not the only one frustrated by non-CCers’ (in my case, non-US applicants’) ignorance of the college admissions process.</p>
<p>By the way, I did know a CC guy. In fact, he was my brother’s best friend. He moved to California in Grade 10 and still managed to get a 2380, 4.0 GPA, 5’s on ~10 AP’s and pretty stellar extracurriculars. As naive as I was, I thought he’d get into Harvard or something. So did my brother, my parents, his friends, and everyone else. But guess what, he didn’t get into ANY because he only applied to 7 or so top universities (HYPSMC and UPenn, I believe) without any safeties. In the end, though, he moved back to Korea and immediately got accepted into the best medical program which accepted only ONE international applicant from the whole darn world.
The moral of the story is: 1) apply to safeties, and 2) spend time on those essays. That being said, I’ll stop writing here and go finish up the rest of my applications.</p>
<p>Wow I wish my school only offered 4 AP’s we have 24 AP’s and are CC people end up taking around 22 this guy took 23 and self studied the other. I thought I had a chance till I got on CC it’s incredible how they do it. Since I’m a freshman I hope to be like that but not merely as stuck up and naive, but I guess they have the right too. My school is way low-income full of minorities but the top 50 are usually super hardworking. From QB we broke the record with the most acceptances for a school we had 6 all having 4.0. Then 14 got uga as a safety and then 1 stanford 2 northwesterns and you know some still haven’t gotten told yay or nay. Then my friends sister graduated 10’ and is in Harvard was Valedictorian. My friend is a freshman just like me,and guess what!!! she wants to be Valedictorian and is incredibly smart. Well there goes my chances.</p>
<p>I do, the salutatorian of my school but she’s an opportunist and a racist so I personally don’t think she deserves acceptance at such schools. She was deferred from Princeton. I now have no hope lol.</p>
<p>I definitely do not know anyone who fits the CC bill. i have a 4.0 GPA, fairly solid extracurriculars, I played a varsity sport all four years in high school (Tennis, for those of you who are wondering.), but my rank is not great. Standardized test scores could be ten fold better, but I can do nothing about that now. So to answer your question, I am ridiculously scared of being rejected by any school, and I do not really know anyone is not afraid of being rejected by any college/university, let alone Harvard.</p>
<p>Yeah I know people.</p>
<p>My friend, 4.0 UW:
fresh: 4.0
soph: 4.0
junior: 5.0
senior: 4.83
SAT: 2390
Life Coach</p>
<p>Stanford '16. Amazing EC’s though, don’t want to give it away for his privacy. </p>
<p>Another friend with 4.0 UW is going to Duke, and another girl with 4.0 is now at MIT. Extremely rigorous school though.</p>
<p>There’s definitely people with the classic CC stats and overachieving but also a lot of ignorance. People think just because you get pretty good grades you can get into Harvard even without any ECs.</p>
<p>I don’t know anyone with the kind of SAT scores and the amount of AP classes obtained by some of the CCers. Of course, I come from an economically depressed area and a small, yet high achieving, public school, so that may affect things slightly :). I’m currently the number one student in my class with 191 on the PSATs and that ever famous 4.0 GPA. My dream is to get into Stanford, but, without a significant amount of luck, my chances look pretty dim. Ah well, one can always hope.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, yes. Too many - about a quarter of my class. I go to a really competitive, cut throat public school.</p>
<p>I’m gonna puke. I’ve been told and know this on one level - the Ivies, Most Selectives, have three perfect applicants AT LEAST for every seat. but to read your stats and hear your rejection, is sobering, really, really sobering.</p>
<p>My kid better not bother to apply and just finish at the local landgrant school where he already has 45 Dual Credits - pulled him out of the lousy school district for fulltime college in home school status at 15. he aced what is considered B/C calc, one year of it, over teh summer with A’s, that is 30 weeks of math in 13- one week of AB BC overlap. and no graphing calculator allowed at the local UNR engineering school either which they do allow in the AP classes and exam.</p>
<p>his ACT math is 34 and Math level II is 750. doesn’t matter, he wants humanities, IR, History, Econ social science, law degree and be alobbyistiin NY or DC. but without a presitgious undergrad school the above aint gonna happen.</p>
<p>now he’s burnt out, slacked in his Ap chinese class and may get a C. not going anywhere with a C. My son’s an Eagle Scout, but didn’t bother to do much volunteering or extra curriculars outside of ROTC last semester at the college. told him he better work for pay since we’re poor and that will suffice for a top school , but oh no, he played on Youtube and Facebook…instead, is doing his winter ski instructor job however…kicking and screaming. I think he needs a year off …habitat for humanity or something. he can’t compete with most of you and so many of you stellar kids aren’t getting in.</p>
<p>what does it say about him that mommy does CC, not him? sorry to whine to you all.</p>
<p>I’ll bet you live somewhere in NJ. I know people like you all exist. hats off to all of you.</p>
<p>I have one particular person in mind from my grade. But my class is swarming with students with top marks and all, even if they aren’t curing cancer over the weekends.</p>
<p>I don’t know a single person who is like the people on CC, its really strange now that I think about it…</p>