Kenyon College Class of 2019 RD Results

Decision: Accepted

Objective:

[list]
[] ACT: 33
[
] SAT II: 730 (math 2)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8 I think (IB student)
[
] IB scores: Predicted: 37/45 Math HL 6, English HL 6, History HL 6, Business SL 6, Spanish SL 6, Biology SL 5, TOK/EE 2

[] School Type: Private USA (IB international school)
[
] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: F[/li]
I hope this helps future applicants :smile:
Tips: Work hard on your grades, essays, etc. Visit and interview, don’t stress!

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2200 (didn’t send)
ACT: 34
SAT II: didn’t take
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 1-5%, guessing
AP (place score in parenthesis): school doesn’t offer AP, took all honors available tho. took AP tests on my own, got a 4 on Enviro. Sci and 4 on Calc AB but didn’t send either (IDK WHY)
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: honors geology, dual credit Writing 121, health (lol), advanced stats, literary criticism
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): won multiple science olympiad gold medals at the state competition, other than that my school doesn’t give out awards or anything. I won some full ride study abroad scholarships though

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-attended semester school on a full scholarship soph year
-varsity XC (captain senior year), Green Club (president senior year), SciOly (leader junior year) (won 3 first place awards and 1 second place award @ state competition), MUN
-leader of school’s field studies trip
Job/Work Experience: none really, except for unpaid internships
Volunteer/Community service:
-interned for national org for 1 year
-interned for a different national org for 1 year
-interned at hospital over summer, 70 hours
-did various volunteering, around 120 hours total
Summer Activities:
-all my internships were over the summer
-this past summer I studied abroad on a program that I won a full scholarship for (also got accepted to another full scholarship for another study abroad program, but had to choose one since they were at the same time)
Essay: common app essay was pretty strong, I’d say 9/10
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read, but I think they were v good, 9/10 or 10/10
Counselor Rec: 9/10 at least. i know him very well
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a

Other:

State (if domestic applicant): western US
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: super small, public, but seems private. 250 kids total
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: higher than average
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): come from a v big family, into environmental stuff, won a bunch of scholarships, been described as very “down to earth”

Reflection:

Strengths: GPA, ACT, essay, recs, extracurriculars, submitted app way before deadline
Weaknesses: senior course load, didn’t show much interest, no subject tests, white avg. female, I HVAE NO IDEA
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I HAVE NO IDEA
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
american: WAITLISTED
tufts: WAITLISTED
colby: ACCEPTED
northeastern: ACCEPTED w/ full tuition scholarship !!!
clark; ACCEPTED
carthage: ACCEPTED
unc chapel hill: ACCEPTED
new college of florida: ACCEPTED
macalester: ACCEPTED
colorado college: ACCEPTED
UO: ACCEPTED
UVermont: ACCEPTED
wheaton: ACCEPTED
U of st andrews: ACCEPTED joint program w/ William and Mary

still waiting to hear from Brown and Dartmouth, yikes, prob won’t get in

General Comments: wish I had demonstrated more interest. i was hoping to get a hefty scholarship from Kenyon, feel pretty dejected that I got waitlisted :frowning:

Daughter from California Accepted. (2150 SAT, 4.0, Sandia Math Award winner, Track and Field and Cross Country - State in both).

But won’t be attending because of better offers (no merit money from Kenyon) from schools with bigger endowments. Sad, because Kenyon is a great beautiful school.

Also got in: Franklin and Marshall, Oberlin, Whitman, Wooster, Occidental.
Waitlisted: Vassar, Wesleyan
Rejected: Pomona, Pitzer.

FWIW, last year Kenyon had over two thousand students on their waitlist and only accepted 38 of them. If you were waitlisted, my advice is to forget about Kenyon.