**MAC Official RD Decision Thread!**

<p>Sishu, I am actually shocked that you were rejected. But how old are you? Why Macalester sent you a letter explaining that their lawyers wouldn't let them take me for insurance/liability reasons.</p>

<p>I'm accepted but I can't get the HTML to work!</p>

<p>I'm 15. They said if I waited a year and reapplied, they were pretty sure they'd accept me. But I got into my first choice, so I'll be going there next year.</p>

<p>Wow...you are only 15 and are studying Linear Algebra, South American Literature and Hispanic Romantic Literature/Don Juan. That is amazing. Do you mind to share which college are you going next year?</p>

<p>So in like 2043, when I hear about someone who won the Nobel Prize, it might be sishu7?</p>

<p>Lol.....he seems like a prodigy</p>

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<p>You really think it'll take that long?</p>

<p>I am an international student but I still have not gotten my desicion!
And I live in US! This is really annoying.</p>

<p>you're not alone!! I'm so on edge, I bet my blood pressure is thru the roof</p>

<p>My top choice--where I'll be going--is the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.</p>

<p>I'd love to win a Nobel Prize someday, and it's fine with me if it takes a long time for me to do so. That's quite an accomplishment at any age!</p>

<p>P.S. I'm a girl. (I noticed some "he's" floating around.)</p>

<p>Congratulation!, if I were you, I would go to Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering too. It is free after all. You have amazing stats. It is very unfortunate that Macalester did not accept you.</p>

<p>Good luck next 4 years!</p>

<p>BTW, we need more female Nobel prize Laureates too. :)</p>

<p>Sishu, Congrats on Olin. It is a terrific place and a HUGE honor to be accepted. Their grads have been really making waves! (P.S. The dorms are wonderful!)</p>

<p>Yes, I know the dorms are wonderful. I'm super-excited to go there. Besides engineering, it seems I'll be learning exciting things like unicycling, juggling, and fire poi. Everyone I met at Candidates' Weekend was incredible... I'm just crazy-excited!</p>

<p>t1388: I'll get to work on that last bit. Both female engineers and female Nobel prize Laureates are in short supply. I'll try to add one to each of those figure. No promises on the latter though; it's a pretty tall order.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): M 750 CR 750 W 740 (1500/2240, took once, probably could have done way better (was sick in the middle of AP week/hell week for drama performance) but didn't want to waste any more money xD)
[</em>] ACT: 35 overall, 36 math/science, I think 35 reading and 34 writing (33 with essay, or something like that...)
[<em>] SAT II: Bio 780 US History 770 Math II 750
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.77
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): probably top 15% in terms of GPA, but many of those above me took far easier and far fewer classes than I did
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): USH, both Econ 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Spanish Lit, AP Euro (I know it's a sophomore class in most places but it's the hardest AP at my school because of the teachers...), English 12 (no AP english), International Human Rights, Creative Writing (that was fun ^^)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, nominated to apply for Presidential scholar, Presidential gold award for community service, another award at school for 'civil service'
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[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Current Events club (cohead 2 years), STAND, Improv group, lots of theatre/voice (a handful of major/supporting roles), Science bowl, a couple of thirds/JV sports (I hate running...)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: just turned 16 in the fall, so basically various oddjobs - babysitting, tutoring (only occasionally for pay, though...), working at school bookstore, etc. Also did unpaid internship with local politician for 2 weeks.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: about 600 hours total - spanish tutoring, volunteering as a camp counselor, girl scout activities/badge workshops, teaching CCD
[<em>] Summer Activities: see above, also two programs at two different Ivy league universities, one of which was for credit.
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were fairly good and genuine. My commonapp one was about teaching CCD, but teaching tolerance instead of indoctrination, etc.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: all 3 were very good from what I know
[</em>] Counselor Rec: also excellent from what I know
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: n/a (too far away, no time, no money... =) )
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Other*[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yup, and received a great package (They didn't even know that my dad was unemployed....). Thank you, Mac!
[</em>] Intended Major: Econ/PoliSci or something along those lines
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: very competitive private boarding school. We're not Exeter but we're up there.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Danish-Irish American (yes, /white/, but I don't really identify with that...)
[<em>] Gender: Female.
[</em>] Income Bracket: Somewhere in the broad umbrella of middle class, though for reasons I've mentioned before it's a bit hard to pin down where exactly
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My dad's from another country?
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Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: I'm not sure. I think I'm pretty well balanced overall.
[<em>] Weaknesses: I probably should have taken more APs, but it's hard b/c our school won't allow you to take more than 2 a year unless you beg and plead. (And it's with very good reason that they make that rule...)
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I'm going to be frank: my stats are above average for the school, I have grades, ecs, essays and recs to complement that, and there's no glaring reason for me to be rejected (as in, no suspensions, crimes, etc).
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General Comments:* I received an early acceptance letter, so this is kind of late in coming. Anyway, congrats to all of you who got in! Mac was labeled a likely for me, but it is my favorite likely and the financial aid package has made it all the more attractive so we'll see ^^
Sishu, I'm really sorry about that... I feel especially bad because I'm only a year older than you are. They should really tell people about that so they don't waste time. Anyway, congrats on Olin (that's a really big accomplishment in my book) and good luck! (College at 15? Holy carp!)</p>

<p>"My dad's from another country?"
"Ethnicity: Danish-Irish American (yes, /white/, but I don't really identify with that...)"</p>

<p>haha, Danish and Irish are such white heritages. haha, I'm sorry, but that just made me chuckle. ;). </p>

<p>Also, all of our dads are from another country (well, I guess not necessarily dads) unless they are Native American, like mine :D! </p>

<p>hahaha, that was great. And I also liked the fact that you think that a 1500 is "bad" and you could have done "way better". </p>

<p>Florida University. ;) I kid.</p>

<p>Yay! Another young'un!!!! The letter the sent me said clearly that 16 was their limit, so it makes sense that they'd accept you. It looks like you're quite accomplished!</p>

<p>It probably also didn't help that my birthday was really recently and I was 14 when they reviewed my app...</p>

<p>sishu7, it's amazing that you were 14 when you applied to college. that makes me feel OLD (i'm 19! ;))</p>

<p>Why the hell would you apply to college at 14 without researching/asking to see what a school's "cut-off" age is? I'm sorry, but that's just a waste of time and money.</p>

<p>dpattzlover, I doubt that information is easy to access, it's such a rare case...I mean, the school itself probably had to seek legal advice or something because why else wouldn't they have rejected her application from the start?</p>

<p>and yeah saaammie I feel really old now too, I had to delay college for various reasons so I'm 21....but I graduated high school at 16...so it's weird to have experienced both sides of the issue!</p>

<p>Lol, I know. I'm practically glow in the dark as it is =)</p>

<p>And, yeah, I guess you're right on that dpattz. But what I meant is that my dad was born and raised in a different country (they asked something about that on the app I think?). I guess that could be interesting...? I dunno.</p>

<p>Thanks sishu! I'm still floored that you're mature enough to be heading off to college at 15... /I/ still feel too young! lol.</p>