<p>I'm slightly surprised. Oxy is a competitive school, but I didn't think it was "that" competitive. It wasn't my first choice, but it was one of the colleges that I have been interested in for a pretty long time. My interviewer was sort of cold, maybe.</p>
<p>My Stats:
Gender: Female
Location: Southeast
School: Private prep school
GPA: 3.4 (unweighted)- that's pretty low I guess, but my school offers more rigorous courses than most publics
SAT: 1390 (far better verbal than math)
Extracurriculars: Editor of school paper, editor of literary magazine, piano, violin, swimming, volunteer at church, Amnesty International, mulit-cultural club (and those are ACTIVE memberships, not cheap space-filler to look impressive on college apps)
APs: Only three: foreign language, English and Euro His.
Interview at Oxy: Yes
Teacher Recs: foreign language teacher and English teacher (got straight A's all year in both their classes)</p>
<p>I dunno. Maybe my essay wasn't that good. </p>
<p>Anyway, congrats to those who were accepted! I'll probably end up in Los Angeles anyway, because I got accepted to USC. :)</p>
<p>Peals-05. Congratulations on your acceptance to USC. I'm sure your four years in Los Angeles will be wonderful!</p>
<p>Perhaps it's just my perception, but it seems that this has been an unusually difficult year for college acceptances. My D was accepted at Occidental, but was waitlisted at three near-Ivys. That was a bit of a surprise, since her stats would have put her in the top quarter of their freshman classes just three years ago. Her GC warned her that this year would be difficult, but D didn't put much stock in the comment since "That's what GC's always say." Maybe the GC was right.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at Occidental my first choice since I spent the night on campus this past fall- I got admitted to Pitzer today, and if I don't hear back from Occidental soon looks like I'm heading out there- only 35 miles away haha</p>
<p>I'm in the same situation: Waitlisted at Oxy, accepted to Pitzer. </p>
<p>Being a Sage Hen isn't bad-- Occidental is a really great school, but Pitzer's great too (you get the added advantage of cross-registering to other Claremonts, such as top "Hidden Ivies" like Claremont McKenna and especially Pomona). </p>
<p>Congrats about the Oxy acceptance-- I really underrated the competitiveness of Occidental. On another thread, another Oxy '09 admit said that this year, out of 5100 applicants, Oxy only accepted 430. That's incredible.</p>