<p>heres the link for the dartmouth source. considering the source, i’m assuming this is extremely accurate. i can’t find the UVA one, but it’s directly from their dean i think. </p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com:</a> ‘Likely letters’ sent to relieve college tensions](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2005/02/24/news/likely]TheDartmouth.com:”>http://thedartmouth.com/2005/02/24/news/likely)</p>
<p>I got one :D…is anyone else so relieved that their grades started suffering? I got Vanderbilt as well.</p>
<p>Acha2012, I got one and I live in Illinois.</p>
<p>My son also got one. We live in Belgium.</p>
<p>Columbia sent a printed likely letter and a big blue book in the mail that we received today.</p>
<p>Choose One:
Decision:Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (2nd sitting) 750CR/780M/770W
[</em>] ACT: Did not take
[<em>] SAT II: 770 Math 2, 790 USH, 800 French, 740 Chem
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 UW
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):2/~700
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geo (5), World Hist (5), Macroecon (5), US Gov (5), Eng Lang (5), French Lang (5), Euro Hist (5), USH (5), Eng Lit (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): SL Mathematics (6), SL Soc/Cultural Anthro (5)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB HL Contemp Hist, IB HL Chem, IB HL French, IB HL English, TOK, AP BC Calc
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none really, National AP Scholar, National Achievement Finalist?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity and Club Swimming (not a recruit though lololol), Model UN (all four years,treasurer 11,12), Geography Club (all four years and more! President 11,12), Student Gov (10,11,12 secretary), NHS, SHS, FHS…I think that’s it?
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked at a clothing store summer of 10th grade
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Local hospital summer of 10th grade, language exchange blog moderator, head tutor for elementary school french club, project I started in 10th grade to provide arts classes to homeless children (we received a grant for it!) I think all in all 500-600 hours.
[<em>] Summer Activities:Summer before 10/swam, relaxed, read etc Summer before 11/started program mentioned above, volunteered in hospital, had job, swam etc etc Summer before 12/went to summer program (that I will not identify because I don’t want this to be TOO identifying…except you can probably figure it out through some sleuthing anyway…)
[</em>] Essays: Common App Essay was about an experience visiting my “home” (where my parents are from…again not gonna say where cause it’s a dead giveaway) country and how it’s shaped my goals. Short answer about ‘events’ was about a poetry slam I attended (I’m still too shy to try it but I appreciate the reality of the topics often discussed in slam poetry). Short answer about favorite class was about Anthropology (even though I applied to Fu, lol!). Why Columbia and Fu, I talked about how much I loved how Fu believes in socially engaged engineers etc.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’ve seen one of them, very nice and personal, we had a great! The other I’m sure was very positive 
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I think it was very good- she said she had a lot to say 
[<em>] Additional Rec: I submitted evaluations from the summer program- they were overall positive and consistent with each other.
[</em>] Interview: Good- I guess average it wasn’t too long, and I don’t think we bonded, but nonetheless, good
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FLO-RIDA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Large Public Magnet
[</em>] Ethnicity: African [American]
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: I still don’t think this is relevant buuuut 75-150k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): “URM” particularly in STEM, I guess. Summer program performance? I don’t know.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Essays, recs etc, I think my personal qualities really came through my app and I guess they liked my personality? haha. I think my scores are fairly strong, maybe my diverse academic interests (eng, science, soc science)
[<em>] Weaknesses: Just another high school student dreaming big, ya know? No major awards, no ONE thing I’m amazing at.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m a good student, and I think I’m a nice person? I’m well rounded, maybe?
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ACCEPTED- MIT, UChicago, UM, UF LIKELY LETTERS FROM Columbia, Harvard[/li][/ul]**General Comments:I’m very happy and super excited! Although the challenge of making a choice is starting to freak me out, I’m still elated by the acceptances, and THIS likely letter, which I didn’t expect to get, let alone the first one **</p>
<p>I ALREADY KNOW WHERE YOU WERE LAST SUMMER, KNITSWIM <em>v</em></p>
<p>How it would feel to be knitswim… can’t even imagine it. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>hicontrastpanda: ;D
mdross95: I’m sure you will get into great schools as well!! :)</p>