Guess my admission outcomes (14 schools)!

Applying to College
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<p>Want to see how good you are at predicting admission? I’ve heard back from all of my schools and I want to see who can come closest to guessing my outcomes. Let's see how good CC's advice is...</p>

<p>I applied to (sort of grouped in tiers):
Carleton
Grinnell
Mount Holyoke
Oberlin
Smith
Wellesley</p>

<p>Beloit
Kalamazoo
Knox
Lake Forest</p>

<p>Antioch (OH)
Chatham
Guilford
Wells</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 UW 4.1 W
Did not take the hardest courseload. Never tried an honors science. Only 2 years of honors math.
Upward trend: 9- 3.5 10- 3.6 11- 3.9 12- 3.9
One C in honors math, first semester 10th grade.
3 years of Chinese
5 College courses in English/Social Studies</p>

<p>ACT: 24 only took once. Never took SAT, the conversion charts estimate about 1110/1600 for SAT.</p>

<p>I’m a Black female from Minnesota.</p>

<p>Essays: Main Common App essay was great. My Why? Essays for supplements were okay</p>

<p>Recs: Phenomenal!!!</p>

<p>EC’s:
Gay-Straight Alliance (President)
Literary Magazine (Copy-Editor)
Athletes Committed to Educating Students (Treasurer)
Speech (11,12)
Band (9-11)
Chamber Orchestra (11)
Jazz Lab (11)
NHS (10-12)
Student Council (9,10)
3 Summer Journalism classes
There are a few more, but nothing impressive.</p>

<p>Work: Wrote articles for Minneapolis paper. 300+ hours babysitting.</p>

<p>I’ll answer whatever else you guys want to know! I’ll probably bump this a couple times before I share the results. I’ll tell anyone if they are right.</p>

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<p>um... no thanks.</p>

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<p>rejected from all.
The reason:
Gay-Straight Alliance (President) </p>

<p>looooooool</p>

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<p>coll4me: what's that supposed to mean?</p>

<p>i was the president of the GSA at my high school, too. (before i transferred. :()</p>

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<p>Gay people are bizzarre.</p>

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<p>And here I am just wishing we had GSA around here.</p>

<p>you're odd, coll4me</p>

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<p>This is tough to do. The LAC's are harder to predict than national universities because they look more at the whole person than just the standard academic measures. You have a strong gpa but it is hard to judge just how strong without the rank info. The real difficulty is the SAT score. It is in the lower 25% range for all of the top schools and not that much much better for most of the others. The thread is really a referendum on how much specific LAC's care about SAT/ACT scores, and how much does being an URM help.</p>

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<p>In at all 2nd and 3rd tier schools</p>

<p>Carleton - waitlist
Grinnell - accept
Mount Holyoke - accept
Oberlin - waitlist
Smith - accept
Wellesley - reject</p>

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<p>rejected all</p>

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<p>50% SAT Ranges</p>

<p>Carleton 1280-1460
Grinnell 1250-1440
Mount Holyoke 1190-1370
Oberlin 1240-1450
Smith 1170-1370
Wellesley 1250-1440</p>

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<p>"rejected from all.
The reason:
Gay-Straight Alliance (President)</p>

<p>looooooool"</p>

<p>Screw you.</p>

<p>Anyway, to the topic creator, I think you'll get into most of them, although I won't predict.</p>

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<p>if she were not black, would she even have had a shot at any of these schools? I don't think I need to answer that question...</p>

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<p>austinj - at the first high school i went to, the GSA had just started during my freshman year. when i transferred to a new school junior year, the GSA hadn't been started yet. (it started this year.)</p>

<p>so it doesn't seem like they've been popular until recently. maybe you can try to get one started in your school?</p>

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<p>any more guesses?</p>

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<p>I'll say you got into ALL of them.</p>

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<p>"maybe you can try to get one started in your school?"</p>

<p>LOL...I'd be bounced out of the county on my ear. I live in East TN. :p</p>

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<p>flutterbyhigh - how close did we come?</p>

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<p>Carleton - Reject
Grinnell - Reject
Mount Holyoke - Accept
Oberlin - Accept
Smith - Accept
Wellesley - Accept</p>

<p>Beloit - Accept
Kalamazoo - Accept
Knox - Accept
Lake Forest - Reject</p>

<p>Antioch (OH) - Accept
Chatham - Accept
Guilford - Accept
Wells - Accept</p>

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<p>my guess is you got accepted at all? ok, tell us already.</p>

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<p>ranger=moron.... maybe racist?
yes, i know all people who oppose affirmative action are not racist, but could you be any more acerbic and.... assholic? </p>

<p>i don't think so.</p>