For future seniors with 2200 SATs, here are some admissions results

Applying to College
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<p>For my admissions decisions scroll down.</p>

<p>Admissions profile:
White male from Texas
Applied for either chemical engineering or chemistry
31/617 rank (top 5%), 3.98 gpa, 95 unweighted avg., 99 weighted avg.
2180 (760m,670cr,750wr)
33 ACT
800 Math2, 700 Physics, 670 Chemistry
I played basketball 2 years before financial hardship and crippling debt forced me to get a job my junior year, where I worked 16 hours a week in the school year and 32 in the summer. (conman my mom dated ran up tens of thousands in credit card debt)
I am a teacher's aide for my physics teacher (not really sure that helps, but I think it shows my interest in STEM)
I am a big time participant in my school's Young Republicans
I was in debate for a year
I qualified for regionals in an academic competition (current issues)
I did a lot of on and off work for a local real estate company moving furniture.
About 40 hours Comm. Service
Mu Alpha Theta, NHS, and 1 of 2 nm commended at my school (probably helped my recs since it's so rare where I go to school)
I've taken 4 AP tests (5,5,5,4) and most rigorous schedule possible
I'm taking 7 AP classes this year (2 maths, 2 sci)
My essays are about my quirkiness and about the leadership role that I play within my own family since my dad has been out of the picture for 7 years. I highlight the family struggles that I have been through and how these struggles have made me into a mature adult, who is willing to fight for the people he loves and the things he cares about.
My common app essay is about how I connect with the homeless man who lives outside my grocery store, even when others snub their noses at him</p>

<p>So far I've been accepted at the following schools:
UT-Austin (biomedical engineering)
Rochester (14k merit award per year)
Boston College
Boston University (didn't apply for honors or merit)
Alabama (full tuition scholarship +2500 per year)
Kentucky (10k a year scholarship
Santa Clara (20k a year scholarship)
NYU Poly (25k a year scholarship)</p>

<p>I've been waitlisted at the following:
Wesleyan
WUSTL</p>

<p>I've been rejected at the following:
Rice (was deferred and then rejected in RD)
Chicago (was deferred EA)</p>

<p>I was deferred from the following EA:
Tulane
Rice
Notre Dame
Chicago</p>

<p>I'm still waiting to hear from:
Cornell
Brown
Harvard
Middlebury
NYU
USC
Tufts
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Thought that posting my experience would help!</p>

<p>PS: I've decided to attend UT Austin since my FA covers tuition and they will take all my AP credits towards requirements</p>

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<p>Congratulations on your outstanding accomplishments. Personally, I think you made the right decision. The acceptance of AP credits is important in shortening the time and money you spend getting your undergraduate degree. With your obvious abilities you will likely go on to grad school as well so getting their faster/cheaper is essential.</p>

<p>Now if apartment rents in Austin weren’t so sky high, it would be even better. Where you stay will be important. Many of the West Campus/North Campus apartments are not conducive to study. An unfortunate number of freshman and sophomores relish being away from home for the first time but forgot why they are away.</p>

<p>Good luck to you.</p>

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<p>I’m staying at the Castilian</p>

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<p>*Waitlisted at Tulane
*Denied at Vanderbilt </p>

<p>Showed no interest and wrote no essays for each</p>

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<p>Accepted to engineering at Tufts
Accepted to Arts&Sciences at USC</p>

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<p>Denied at Cornell and Harvard and Brown</p>

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<p>Accepted at NYU</p>

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<p>Congratulations!</p>

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<p>Congrats! Thanks for the post btw, I’ve got similar stats so it’s nice to see where I might get in.</p>

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<p>2190 to Yale. :] Numbers really are not everything.
Congrats wavylays! I’m a fellow Texan - Austin is the only city that would keep me here.</p>

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<p>“Numbers really are not everything.”</p>

<p>Of course not. There is a thing called “hook”.</p>

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<p>Just for full discretion, I’m actually going to be attending USC…
lol</p>

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<p>Accepted to MIDDLEBURY!!!</p>

<p>SCREW USC, I am going to Vermont</p>

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<p>Undecided much??.^^^. Haha…congrats…</p>

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<p>Nope… I was planning on go to USC…
I thought I had no chance at getting into Middlebury!
MIDDLEBURY HERE I COME</p>

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<p>waitlisted at Notre Dame</p>

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<p>Can we bring back this thread? I have a 2200 SAT.</p>

<p>I’ve applied to Brown, Stanford (5x legacy), Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Rice, WUSTL, Scripps/Pitzer, Kenyon, Whitman, Grinnell, Carleton. So far I’ve been rejected at WUSTL.</p>