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Accepted! Mathematics Major
28 ACT (28E, 27M, 25R, 32S)
1210 SAT (570M, 640R, 18E)
3.98 W/3.76 UW
Marching Band - Clarinet Section Leader (9-12)
GMEA District 1 Honor Band (10-12)
ASU Winterfest Clinic Band (12)
Math Team - Vice President (10-12)
Young Democrats (11-12)
Beta Club (9-12)
Academic Team (9-11)
INTERACT Club (11-12)
Compassion Christian Production Arts Team (9-10)
@theoneandonlydavid1
What major? and Congrats
Mathematics
Accepted! Mechanical Engineering Major
International Student from Romania, Male, Asian (Korean)
IB Predicted 44, 7 Math HL, 7 Physics HL, 7 Chemistry HL, 7 Economics HL, 6 English L&L SL, 7 French B SL
SAT: 800 & 740 (M & RW)
SAT II: Math 2 800, Chemistry 800, Physics 790
Made a Mathematics Website Project
Leader of Service Group
Leader of TEDx - initiator
FTC Robotics Romania National Judge’s Award (5th Place)
Math CEESA Tournament 1rst Place
Captain of Varsity Softball Team
Leader and Creator of Rock Band
Tutor for Peer Tutoring
… (many more)
…
Decision: Accepted
Intended Major: BME
State (if domestic applicant): OH
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown):1580 (780 RW, 800 M)
ACT : 35
SAT II: Math 800, BioM 800, Chem 800.
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): 11 APs (5 5’s and rest not taken yet)
Senior Year Course Load: 6 APs
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing National. USABO semifinalist, AIME/ARML, Piano audition awards, NMSF and other state level awards…
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Science Olympiad, Math Team, Piano performance
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Summer Activities: None mentioned
Essays: I just re read them and I think they were good but not great.
Teacher Recommendation: Not sure
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: None
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: too much for financial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Personal life circumstances/unexpected events? none
Reflection:
Strengths: Scores and GPA
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: I tried to concentrate my essay on my everyday life not competitions.
Weaknesses: weak volunteer works.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I have no idea, it’s crazy.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Rejected by stanford
Accepted BME. I can link stats if you guys want
@theoneandonlydavid1 out of curiosity, what race are you?
@firebird9969 please do
Decision: Accepted for Summer 2018
Intended Major: Architecture
State (if domestic applicant): GA
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown): n/a
ACT : 32.25 ss (35, 29, 34, 31)
SAT II: n/a
Unweighted GPA: 3.75 (extremely rigorous private school)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: my school offers very few APs, but I’m taking 3 of the highest level courses (AP Statistics, Economics, Advanced Spanish Lit & Film), 1 honors (Biology 2H), and 1 regular (American Literature). Also doing internship with sustainability director at achool. Haven’t ever taken Calculus, other than Precalculus last year.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Piano, Varsity/JV basketball (JV captain two years), model UN, spread science club, peer tutoring, lots of community service hours, + more
Job/Work Experience: babysitting
Summer Activities: Brown University precollege program
Essays: Common app- 8/10, supplements- 6-7/10
Teacher Recommendation: haven’t read any of them but my guesses are 1st- 10/10. 2nd- 7/10.
Counselor Rec: 8-9/10
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: None
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: small private
Ethnicity: biracial- taiwanese and white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: >200-300k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): not really but I guess being female helps for tech
Personal life circumstances/unexpected events? none
Reflection:
Strengths: not sure, essays/recs maybe?
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: don’t know
Weaknesses: gpa not super high, nor test scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I really don’t know, I was really surprised!!
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted to Tulane’s honors program, UGA
Where else you applied: WashU, Northeastern, NYU, Boston U, Brown, McGill, and a couple more
Decision: Accepted!
Intended Major: International Affairs
State (if domestic applicant): GA
SAT: 1540
Unweighted GPA: 3.7ish? 93 on 100 scale
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): 8 APs
Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Little involvement in school, but lots of activities at church and community services
Job/Work Experience: Waitress during summer/Summer camp intern
Summer Activities: Nothing major
Essays: Probably why I got in
Teacher Recommendation: Think they were pretty good
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Decision: Accepted
Intended Major: Environmental Engineering
State (if domestic applicant): New York
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown):N/A
ACT : 35 (35 E, 35 M, 33 R, 35 S)
SAT II: Didn’t send
Unweighted GPA: 96.12/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 APES 5 Lang 5 World History 5 Psychology 4 Chem 4 Calculus AB 3 Physics 1
Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs and some independent study classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Trained on the folk harp for 12 years now. Have played at notable art galleries and venues within my area. Have done approximately 60 solo professional Jobs
- Founded a state recognized non-profit and have a partnership with the University of Rochester to perform science shows at inner city, low-income schools, with the idea of supplementing their science curriculum with hands-on learning. We have received grant money for this as well. We've performed at 4 schools now.
-Speech and Debate (9-12): Captain: State Qualifier 3X, as well as Qualifications to National Tournaments (NCFL and NSDA once each)…
-JETS team (10-12) National qualifier, captain next year.
-Habitat for humanity (9-12): president
-Environmental Club (pres next year): 3 years- Started Envirothon (what im gonna focus on for the rest of senior year lol)
-Conducted Research at RIT in environmental toxicology field, currently working on paper (2nd author), presented research at multiple poster symposiums. Also assisted professor in research for a report on how to market refurbished/recycled materials to the public; report presented to the United Nations International resource panel
Job/Work Experience:harp, worked at a resturant
Volunteer/Community service:harp (I play in a group with 7 other harps and we’ve played at like every nursing home, we’ve done 70 shows),
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App: 8/10 – wrote about how I aspired to be like this old famous irish harper and how I took after him as being a minstrel and ‘traveling’ to various jobs I had acquired. I thought it was pretty clever.
Why GA Tech 6/10 -Reading back over it, I don’t think it was that great. I sound like a little kid. I talked about how I wanted to build ‘roads’ between humans
Supp: 9/10 - wrote about how I couldn’t dance at all, yet went to formal anyways. Pretty clever and funny I thought.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 7/10 – My APES teacher, who inspired my love for environmental science and sustainability. I’m the TA for the class and president of her club. I imagine it’s pretty good.
Counselor Rec: 8/10 – We’re both environmentalists in an otherwise extremely Trump-loving school so we hit it off really well. Said he could write me an ‘outstanding’ recommendation.
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Personal life circumstances/unexpected events? none
Reflection:
Strengths: Extracurricular stuff. Not one-dimensional
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Just tried to seem human I guess
Weaknesses: Low math grades. I thought they would keep me out to be honest. Also I don’t think I’m a good fit for GA Tech; to give you some perspective I applied to Oberlin and Brown…
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:T Probably the Extracirriculars and everything else about me checked out…
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: First College desicion, so I’m 1/1. I applied to Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Oberlin, Tufts, Northeastern, and a couple safeties
Final Comments: This is cool, but I’m probably not gonna go. Only really applied as an indicator school and my parents wanted me to. I don’t have the passion for math though for engineering, so I’ll most likely pass.
Congrats to everyone accepted!
Decision: Accepted
Intended Major: Biology
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown):
ACT : 35
SAT II: Math 780, Chem 780.
Unweighted GPA: 94.5
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
AP (place score in parenthesis): 7 APs
Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing major
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): independent research, chamber ensemble, volunteering app, ski racer, varsity tennis.
Job/Work Experience: University Lab
Summer Activities:
Essays: pretty fine
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good i guess
Counselor Rec: Don’t know
Additional Rec: N/A
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: no
School Type: small private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
Reflection:
Strengths: Scores, GPA, research
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: my lab experience
Weaknesses: no major awards?
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: deferred by Cornell
ignore!
Deferred Engineering
1550 (800 Math) SAT
3.80 uw / 4.28 w
Decision: Accepted!
Intended Major: Business Administration
State (if domestic applicant): Georgia
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown): 1530 (730 in Verbal, 800 in Math)
ACT :
SAT II: Math II: 700, World History: 630.
Unweighted GPA: 3.92
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2
AP (place score in parenthesis): 9 APs
Senior Year Course Load: 4 Dual Enrolled Classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Various clubs and leadership positions. Started a business.
Job/Work Experience: Peer Tutor
Summer Activities: Various summer programs at Stanford, Columbia
Essays: Okay
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read it
Additional Rec: N/A
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: public
Ethnicity: African-American
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: middle-class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM and first-gen
Reflection:
Strengths: Scores, GPA, APs
What you tried to focus on in your application - love for business and tutoring
Weaknesses: SAT II’s, no major awards
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Hooks and scores
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: deferred by Harvard
Go Yellow Jackets!
Decision: Accepted!!!
Intended Major: Computer Science
State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina
Country (if international applicant):
SAT I (breakdown): 1440 (720 in Verbal, 720 in Math)
ACT : 30
SAT II: Didn’t send
Unweighted GPA: 3.96
Weighted GPA: 4.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/396
AP (place score in parenthesis): 10 APs
Senior Year Course Load: AP Compsci, AP Physics 2, AP Lit, AP Stats, H. Orch
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 300+ volunteer hours, Model UN, Speech and Debate, Battle of the Books, member of orchestras (President of Math Club, Lead Programmer of FTC team, Founder of string quartet, Varsity Tennis Team Captain)
Job/Work Experience: Maker Mentor, Academic Tutor at Kumon
Summer Activities: 2 online classes, NC Governor’s School for Natsci
Essays: Great
Teacher Recommendation: Very good
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read it
Additional Rec: N/A
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Middle-class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection:
Strengths: GPA, APs, EC’s (lots and lots), and recs
What you tried to focus on in your application - My love for computer science and leadership ability
Weaknesses: SAT I
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Essays were very unique, female
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Rejected from MIT
Decision: Non Legacy Conditional Transfer (guaranteed fall 2019 admission upon meeting x requirements)
Intended Major: Literature Media Communications (Liberal Arts)
State (if domestic applicant): GA
SAT(new): 1330, 670 math, 660 reading
ACT : 33
Unweighted GPA: 3.694
Weighted GPA: 3.89
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ?? probably top 25%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Env sci (4), Hum. Geo (4), Stat (3), Physics 1 (3), US. Hist (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Lang, AP Calc AB, Pre-ap Econ/gov, Chamber Orch, AP French
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): lol I got scholar athlete once
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): member of orch (also section leader), member of nehs, member of nshs, member of french honor, member of jv tennis 9-11 (was not the worst by far just not varsity material)
Job/Work Experience: Camp counselor during summer
Summer Activities: n/a
Essays: com app essay: outstanding, why ga tech: outstanding, secondary tech essay: meh
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read
Counselor Rec: didn’t read
Additional Rec: n/a
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): n/a
Reflection:
Strengths: Writing skills
What you tried to focus on in your application - Personal growth, holistic view of the world, showing off my writing skills tbh
Weaknesses: SAT score…oof
Why you think you were /given conditional transfer: I applied to a lit based major, and really tried to showcase my writing skills. Decent ACT and ok gpa, did not take as many AP’s before 11-12th grade, so maybe they said “she has potential but meeting these requirements will prove she belongs at tech”
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted to Clemson, very confident Emory and KSU will accept
Posting son’s results:
Rejected Mechanical Engineering
OOS
3.95 UW GPA
35 ACT/1550 SAT
IB diploma
Normal Awards: DAR Good Citizen, NMSF
Extracurriculars:
Eagle Scout
Captain of varsity sports team
Part-time job related to major
President of school club related to major
Lots of community service related to major and the outdoors
Where else accepted/denied:
Accepted: CO School of Mines, UMich Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin Mechanical Engineering
Denied: Stanford