*Ivy/selective school RD Results 2015 Comparison Summary*

Applying to College
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<p>Most people applied to multiple Ivies and top schools. It would be interesting to compare RD decision results from these schools in one place. To avoid redundancy, I'm creating this new thread. You may also add the following to your post under the "Official RD Results" by school.</p>

<p>Template:</p>

<p>ADMISSION RESULTS (List only the Ivies, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, and other top schools):
- ACCEPTED:
- WAIT-LISTED:
- REJECTED:</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND:</p>

<p>KEY STATS:
- SAT I:
- SAT II:
- GPA:
- EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant):
- Ethnicity/Gender:
- State or Country (if international)</p>

<p>Comments: </p>

<p>(Add Link to your detailed posting under "Official RD Decisions" by school, if you created one.)</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: Columbia, University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins, University of Virginia
  • WAIT-LISTED: Swarthmore, Georgetown, Stanford, Brown
  • REJECTED: Princeton, Yale, Duke, Upenn</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: UVA (Echols Scholar)</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I: 2200 (700, 770, 730)
  • SAT II: 800 Math II, 740 US History, 750 Literature
  • GPA: 4.0 UW, 5.56 W, Valedictorian
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4 I guess (a lot of soccer)
  • Ethnicity/Gender: White Male
  • State or Country (if international): MD</p>

<p>Comments: Best of luck to everyone; don’t be upset about the schools that you didn’t get into, be excited about those you did.</p>

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<p>Congratulations on your results! However, others have had this idea before you. There is a topic in the Chances forum in which people have posted their results going back to 2006, and it has 1400+ responses. While it is not exclusive to “top schools,” many of the respondents applied to one or more of the schools on your list. Here is that topic:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/215577-can-more-graduated-seniors-do-actual-results-threads.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/215577-can-more-graduated-seniors-do-actual-results-threads.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>lllllll, while this has been done before, that big results thread is just way too big. Every post is dozens of lines long, and this thread would be better for those of us interested in a quick summary for the schools that we’re more interested in.</p>

<ul>
<li>ACCEPTED: UVa (Echols), NYU, Duke</li>
<li>WAIT-LISTED: none</li>
<li>REJECTED: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell</li>
</ul>

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

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I: 2400
  • SAT II: Math II - 800, Physics - 800, Chinese - 790
  • GPA: 3.8UW/4.5W
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3-4
  • Ethnicity/Gender: Asian male
  • State or Country (if international): Colorado</p>

<p>Comments: Yeah, getting 8 rejections from the Ivies in one day didn’t feel too great. I’m planning on going into finance, so the decision between the three schools I got into was actually pretty tough, but I went with Duke in the end for its prestige (and basketball, of course). My chance thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1057282-chance-worried-ivy-hopeful.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1057282-chance-worried-ivy-hopeful.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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

<ul>
<li><p>ACCEPTED: Chicago, Rice, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Georgetown</p></li>
<li><p>WAIT-LISTED/ REJECTED: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Penn, Dartmouth, Columbia and Duke</p></li>
</ul>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: Chicago</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I: 2380 (800-780-800-12) Single Sitting
  • SAT II: 800-800-780
  • GPA: 3.96
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant):3.5-4
  • Ethnicity/Gender: Asain Male
  • State: Midwest</p>
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<p>omicon why would you go to duke for finance if they dont have a business undergrad school.</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: UPenn, Dartmouth, Brown, UC berkeley, UCLA, Vanderbilt
  • WAIT-LISTED: Duke, WUSTL
  • REJECTED: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: UPenn!- my favorite!!, when the process started</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • ACT:35
  • SAT II: Math 800, Bio 790, Chem 740
  • GPA:3.9UW/4.5W
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 5 for sure
  • Ethnicity/Gender: Asian Indian
  • State or Country (if international) West Coast</p>

<p>Comments: </p>

<p>I am so glad it is over. My top colleges were Penn and Harvard. I am so happy to have gotten into one. I mean, Penn has a fricken’ cricket team!!! So excited!!</p>

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<p>^What are your EC’s?</p>

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<p>No Asians at Harvard. No surprises.</p>

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<p>Collegebound, that’s part of what made the decision kind of tough. However, I don’t plan on going into management/consulting or any of the careers where an undergrad business degree would be all that relevant or useful. I’m looking specifically to go into investment banking, and Duke is considered a “target” school on Wall Street, meaning that the banks heavily recruit on campus. UVa is a touch below Duke in terms of recruitment (and the Echols program really didn’t attract me all that much), and NYU is not as prestigious (and there’s a ton of competition from all the rest of the Sternies). I’ll be doing an econ/math double major which at Duke will get me farther than UVa business or Stern.</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: Caltech, UChicago
  • WAIT-LISTED: Stanford
  • REJECTED: Harvard, Princeton</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: Caltech</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I: 2370 (800M/800CR/770W)
  • SAT II: 800 Physics, 790 US History, 790 Math IIC, 780 Chemistry
  • GPA: 3.86 UW
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 4
  • Ethnicity/Gender: White/Male
  • State or Country (if international): Ohio</p>
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<p>^what were your EC’s?</p>

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<p>@addy</p>

<p>President of Model UN (Many Awards), Varsity Soccer and Baseball, Editor of School Newspaper, USPHO Semifinalist, PhysicsBowl Region Winner, Research each summer, Number of top 10 finishes in JETS, Built Websites for local organizations and school clubs, tutored in french/math/science, worked at a fitness center, other local math competitions, officer of my school’s political action committee, and member of student council /president of class twice.</p>

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<p>Wow…aha you guys have some incredible resumes, no wonder I got eight waitlists and rejections.</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: Dartmouth, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Wash U<br>
  • WAIT-LISTED: Georgetown, Tufts
  • REJECTED: Brown, UPenn, Harvard, Amherst</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: Dartmouth!</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I:2200 (690 cr, 710 math, 800 writing)/ 34 ACT
  • SAT II:770 ush, 720 bio
  • GPA: 3.7ish uw
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 5
  • Ethnicity/Gender: white/female
  • State or Country (if international) OH</p>

<p>Comments:
This website was helpful during the process so I thought I would add my profile : )</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: UChicago, Northwestern, Swarthmore, URochester
  • WAIT-LISTED: Pomona
  • REJECTED: HYPS, Brown, Columbia, CalTech, Williams</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: Swarthmore</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I:2350 Single Sitting
  • SAT II:800 M II, 780 Lit
  • GPA: 3.9ish uw
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3
  • Ethnicity/Gender: white/female
  • State or Country (if international) OR</p>

<p>Comments:
Happy with the choices!</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: Duke (lucky me)
  • WAIT-LISTED: Northwestern, WashU, Amherst
  • REJECTED: Penn Wharton, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Pomona</p>

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

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I: 2310 single sitting, 2330 superscore (CR 730 M 800 W 800)
  • SAT II: 800 MathII 780 Physics
  • GPA: 3.9/4.0
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3-3.5
  • Ethnicity/Gender: Male
  • State or Country (if international): Canada</p>

<p>Comments: </p>

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<p>I never thought it’d turn out THIS bad.</p>

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<p>mathematicism</p>

<p>“I never thought it’d turn out THIS bad.”</p>

<p>Asian male + International is not a good combination.</p>

<p>You did better than my friend who got rejected/waitlisted from every selective college with 2350+ 4.0GPA multiple 800s on SAT II. He will be attending a state university this fall.</p>

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<p>Of the selective schools I applied to:</p>

<ul>
<li>ACCEPTED: Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Cornell, Stanford</li>
<li>WAITLISTED: Princeton</li>
<li>REJECTED: MIT (deferred EA)</li>
</ul>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: Stanford</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT: 2210 (760 Math, 720 CR, 730 Writing), 35 ACT
  • SAT II: 800 Math II, 770 Physics
  • GPA: 3.89 UW / 4.67 W
  • EC’s: 2
  • Ethnicity / Gender: White / Male
  • State or Country (if applicable): Michigan</p>

<p>Comments: Wish I applied to UPenn and Caltech. I wasn’t expecting the results I got and had felt like the Stanford / Princeton / MIT apps were definite rejects.</p>

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

  • ACCEPTED: Stanford, UChicago, Columbia, Williams
  • WAIT-LISTED: Pomona, Amherst
  • REJECTED: HYP</p>

<p>CHOSE TO ATTEND: Stanford</p>

<p>KEY STATS:

  • SAT I: 2360
  • SAT II: 770, 800, 800
  • GPA: 3.9x UW, 4.5+ W
  • EC (scale of 1-5, 5 being most significant): 3
  • Ethnicity/Gender: White female
  • State or Country (if international): CA</p>

<p>Comments: Pretty happy with the way things turned out! :)</p>