*Ivy/selective school RD Results 2014 Comparison Summary*

[spectravoid]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Michigan, UChicago, UCLA, USC, UCB, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, NYU-Stern, Rutgers, Cornell
• WAIT-LISTED: Stanford
• REJECTED: Georgetown, UPenn, Duke [after deferral], Fordham…</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Vanderbilt or Northwestern</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2320 [1520/1600]
• SAT II: 800/760/780/760
• GPA: Where an A- is a 3.7, ~3.65, rank is 18/520
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3
• Ethnicity/Gender: Indian [from India]
• State or Country (if international): NJ</p>

[javrie]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: UPenn, Dartmouth (likely), Northwestern, Wash. U in St. Louis
• WAIT-LISTED:
• REJECTED: Yale (deferred SCEA) , Brown</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: UPenn or Dartmouth</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: N/A ACT: 32, 33 Superscored
• SAT II: 650 Lit, 680 Bio/E (not good, I know)
• GPA: 3.91
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3
• Ethnicity/Gender: African American Female
• State or Country (if international): Washington D.C.</p>

<p>Comments: Its going to be a really tough choice between UPenn and Dartmouth. Really happy to be choosing between those two though.</p>

[mediopollito]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Northwestern, UNC-Chapel Hill, Oberlin, Georgetown
• WAIT-LISTED: None
• REJECTED: Columbia :(</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Northwestern</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 1940
• SAT II: 730/720/700 (MathI/Lit/MathII)
• GPA: 3.95 UW
• EC: 5
• Ethnicity/Gender: Chinese Female
• State or Country (if international): North Carolina</p>

<p>Comments: Really wanted to attend Columbia, but Essays/Recs/Grades/ECs can’t make up for bad test scores for the Ivies. They can however compensate for low test scores in other top schools, as I’m an example (and I’m an ORM too). </p>

<p>Best wishes, everyone!</p>

[eeedits]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS:

• ACCEPTED: Stanford (REA), Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Yale
• WAIT-LISTED: None
• REJECTED: None</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Harvard</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2390 e/12
• SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Chem, 780 USH
• GPA: 3.99 UW
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4
• Ethnicity/Gender: Multiracial / Female
• State or Country (if international): California</p>

<p>Comments:
I’m a little bit shocked/quite thrilled I managed to get into HYPSM, especially after reading about all the stellar people on these threads. Crazy luck.</p>

[Pictor]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS </p>

<ul>
<li>ACCEPTED: Yale, Brown, Williams, Columbia (bunch of LAC’s such as Vassar, Bates, etc…)</li>
<li>WAIT-LISTED: none</li>
<li>REJECTED: none</li>
</ul>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Yale University</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 1940
• SAT II: 750 and 620
• GPA: 9.8/10.0
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): A LOT OF ART
• Ethnicity/Gender: White male
• State or Country (if international) Finland</p>

[Yuliyabars]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke
• WAIT-LISTED: Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Amherst
• REJECTED: Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Torn among Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Columbia!!!</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 800 Math, 710 Writing, 640 Critical Reading
• SAT II: 700 US, 710 Math II, 650 Literature
• GPA: 5.00 from 5.00
• Ethnicity/Gender: Russian(have never been to any English-speaking country)/Female
• State or Country (if international): Russia</p>

<p>Comments: I am in total frustration! Don’t know what to choose!</p>

[bbforever]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS</p>

<ul>
<li>ACCEPTED: UCSD, UCBerkeley, UCLA</li>
<li>WAIT-LISTED: Johns Hopkins, Duke, WASHU, Princeton, UPenn</li>
<li>REJECTED: Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Northwestern</li>
</ul>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: UC Berkeley</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2140
• SAT II: mathiic: 800 korean with listening: 790 bio M: 690
• GPA: UW: 4.00
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4 (music for 12 years)
• Ethnicity/Gender: asian female
• State or Country (if international) CA</p>

[Feliz]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED:UNC-Chapel Hill, Bowdoin, Vanderbilt & WashU
• WAIT-LISTED: MIT, Columbia, Tufts
• REJECTED: Princeton, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, UVA & Notre Dame :(</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Vanderbilt, WashU or Bowdoin</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I:2080, 650 CR, 760 M, 670 W
• SAT II:760 M2, 710 chem, 710 Spanish
• GPA: 3.97
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant):4
• Ethnicity/Gender: Female - Latin America</p>

[chair2]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: yale (defer -> accept), harvard, columbia, uchicago, cornell, washu (and a splattering of LACs including swarthmore, pomona, etc)
• WAIT-LISTED: none
• REJECTED: stanford, princeton, brown, upenn</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: yale</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2350 (780cr / 770m / 800w / 12e)
• SAT II: 800 mathII, 790 bio-e, 720 ush
• GPA: 3.83/4.00 (eight semester B’s)
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4.5with lots of depth, leadership, and int’l/nat’l recognition
• Ethnicity/Gender: east asian
• State or Country (if international): midwest, usa</p>

<p>Comments: good luck to everyone!</p>

[Funkyhamster]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: UChicago ($5k University Scholarship), Duke, Cornell
• WAIT-LISTED: UVA
• REJECTED: Harvard, Princeton, Penn</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Duke</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2350 (800CR, 750M, 800W)
• SAT II: 800 Bio-M, 800 Math II, 800 Lit
• GPA: 4.0 UW, around 4.8 W
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): Science Bowl team captain, Model UN club president, avid jazz saxophone player, and other less significant stuff
• Ethnicity/Gender: Multiracial, M
• State or Country (if international) NC</p>

<p>Comments: I’m thrilled to have some great options at the end of this whole process. I’m surprised that I got waitlisted at UVA yet accepted by UChicago and Cornell, but hey, I’m not complaining.</p>

[chenkai37]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Carnegie Mellon, NYUAD
• WAIT-LISTED: Harvard Uchicago
• REJECTED: Upenn, Columbia, Stanford, MIT</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Princeton or NYUAD</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I:2310, 770 CR, 800 M, 740 W
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 USH, 720 Physics
• GPA:4.0uw, 4.7w
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3
• Ethnicity/Gender: chinese american
• State or Country (if international) Pennsylvania</p>

[b5a4toolow]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS

• ACCEPTED: Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins
• WAIT-LISTED:
• REJECTED: Princeton, Stanford</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Brown</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2380
• SAT II: 800 Physics, 790 Math II, 780 USH
• GPA: 4.6
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 2… Yeah…
• Ethnicity/Gender: White Male
• State or Country (if international): Southern CA</p>

<p>Comments: Good essays maybe?</p>

[prettycake]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS

• ACCEPTED: UChicago (uhm, NYU Stern & BC CSOM Honors as well, I suppose)
• WAIT-LISTED: Amherst, Swarthmore
• REJECTED: Columbia, Brown</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: UChicago or UTexas Business Honors </p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2350
• SAT II: 800 Math IIc, 760 English Literature, 710 Spanish
• GPA: 3.92/4.0 UW; 5.4/6.0 W; top 5%
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3-4 (pretty average honestly)
• Ethnicity/Gender: Asian female…
• State or Country (if international): TX</p>

<p>Comments: It still hasn’t really hit me about Columbia. Every single day I look up Facebook profiles of Columbia students I know (creepy, I know) and read the admissions threads to figure out where I went wrong. Amherst hurts pretty badly too; at least for Columbia I have the possibility of pursuing graduate studies. Also going to a Vampire Weekend concert made me even more wistful and sad…</p>

[LeonAle]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS

• ACCEPTED: Brown, Cornell
• WAIT-LISTED: None
• REJECTED: Stanford, Dartmouth</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Brown</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2230, 770 CR, 660 M, 800 W
• SAT II: 740 Bio-M, 730 World History, 790 Spanish with Listening
• GPA: 3.96 uw (4.6 w)
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3+
• Ethnicity/Gender: Hispanic Male
• State or Country (if international)</p>

<p>Comments: I can’t believe I’ve made it this far. Congrats to everyone!</p>

[sugarbowls]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Georgetown SFS
• WAIT-LISTED: None
• REJECTED: None (I only applied to 5 schools as I got into 1 EA)</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Not sure yet :-/</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2330
• SAT II: 800 World History, 800 US History, 740 Math II
• GPA: A-A+ average.
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4?
• Ethnicity/Gender: Indian-Filipino American citizen / Male
• State or Country (if international): American citizen (CA), grew up in Asia</p>

<p>Comments:

• I think I had excellent essays and they probably gave me an edge
• I’m very happy with the extracurricular activities I participate in and those also probably gave me an edge.</p>

[silverturtle]

<p>Great thread.</p>

[King_CCM]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Northwestern, Berkeley, Michigan and UCLA (all OOS)
• WAIT-LISTED: Vanderbilt, Rice
• REJECTED: Cornell, Duke, Stanford</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Northwestern, unless I win that full ride scholarship from University of Pittsburgh, in which case I’d still have to consider carefully.</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2210
• SAT II: 740 Lit, 680 Math II (Ouch)
• GPA: 3.98 unweighted, 4.73 weighted
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4+
• Ethnicity/Gender: Asian American / Male
• State or Country (if international): Kansas</p>

<p>Comments:

• Screwing up my SATII’s really came back to haunt me, haha.
• I think lots of leadership and dedication to my ECs, including a wide variety helped.
• Luckily, the schools I wasn’t accepted at were ones I was only mildly interested in, I’m pumped about Northwestern though!</p>

[apple1984]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: UChicago
• WAIT-LISTED: Caltech
• REJECTED: MIT</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: UChicago</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2340 (740M, 800CR, 800W)
• SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 780 US History
• GPA: 4.38
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 2-3
• Ethnicity/Gender: White / Male
• State or Country (if international): Ohio</p>

<p>Comments: I only applied to four schools, which was an ill-informed decision in hindsight. UChicago is a great school and I think it fits me well, but it’s somewhat unsettling not to have other options. Quite frankly, I’m hoping to get into Caltech, but I realize my chances are slim at best.</p>

[Hehrhee]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):

• ACCEPTED: Penn, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon
• WAIT-LISTED: Columbia, Brown
• REJECTED:MIT</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: PENN!!!</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2150 (790M, 690W, 670R)
• SAT II: 2370: 800 Bio/E, 790 Math II, 780 Physics
• GPA: 3.9999 (One A-) =/
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4 (Youth Symphony for 8 years and lots of community service
• Ethnicity/Gender: Asian Male (Korean)
• State or Country (if international): WA</p>

<p>Comments: Congratulations to everyone on your college acceptance! Really happy about being accepted into Penn! SATIs haunted me with my application process but hey I can’t complain!</p>

[mifune]

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS:

• ACCEPTED: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Chicago (EA)
• WAIT-LISTED: Pennsylvania
• REJECTED: N/A</p>

<p>LIKELY TO ATTEND: Harvard</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

• SAT I: 2400 (800 CR, 800 M, 800 W – MC80 E11)
• SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Biology – M, 800 Math II, 800 US History, 780 Literature
• GPA: 4.26 (4.33 – A+, 4.0 – A) – Will decrease to about a 4.21 since I am content with merely maintaining averages of 94 (the straight-A threshold) in my classes (I project that I will have 6 A’s and 1 A+ this semester)
• EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): These are in descending order of involvement

[ul]
[<em>]Aikido (Japanese martial art; Associate instructor)
[</em>]Classical Piano (Performance)
[<em>]Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals (Water Conservation)
[</em>]Mathematics/AP Physics/AP Chemistry/Biology Tutor
[<em>]NHS (Peer Tutoring Supervisor)
[</em>]Key Club
[li]American Cancer Society[/ul][/li]- Ethnicity/Gender: Not disclosed (Caucasian); Male

• State or Country (if international) Minnesota (extensive moving, however)</p>

<p>Comments: </p>

<p>Below is fairly representative of all my decisions posts with the exception of the interview reflection and prospective major:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064505506-post59.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1064505506-post59.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;