DD accepted!
Midd often takes up to a few dozen kids off the waitlist-that’s how my oldest DS got in!
DD Accepted!
ACT 34
GPA 97 unweighted, full IB curriculum with 2 years of physics(HL) plus BC Calc
Great ECs-also unrecruited athlete(well, she tried but not offered any support-will try walk-on)
Great letters
Double Legacy(2 brothers)
Accepted Midd, Hamilton, Smith(STRIDE), Bates
Waitlist at Amherst
Deferred ED-1 at Bowdoin with a “tip” and then rejected RD(scoundrels)
Good luck all-remember, you don’t have only 1 school you can thrive at!
Waiting for Ivy day, and that “respectful” snail mail letter from Haverford, and then we’ll see!
Midd is definitely the “sentimental favorite”, plus we already know all the good restaurants!
That’s encouraging. Any idea how many typically are put on the Midd waitlist?
Congrats to you DD and good luck with the remaining schools!
It means you’ve been accepted as a “Feb”. You would begin at Midd in February along with @100 others
Ah, you are a Feb-so was my oldest-it’s still really fun and an awesome opportunity. Because so many students go abroad in the spring, Midd accepts about 100 students to start then. They go out of their way to make it really special. In fact, tears filled my eyes when we drove in that cold, snowy February and I saw the assembled students, waving and cheering to welcome my DS and his compatriots. He made a lot of very close friends who are still his besties 9 years later.
Congrats!
As for the wait list, you can google “common data set” and look, but last year was 21, 2016 was 7 and 2015 was 33. They usually end up with about 500 students accepting the wait list.
I’m thrilled that my daughter was accepted! She has been VERY fortunate so far to get accepted to Midd, Bowdoin, Colgate (Alumni Scholar), Kenyon, Gettysburg (with merit), and Oxy (with merit). WL at Williams and Bates. Denied at Pomona. Waiting on Wes, Dartmouth and Tufts. Well, @OldbatesieDoc, we can now watch to see what our daughters decide! No matter what happpens with the last three I believe there are two horses coming down the stretch-- Bowdoin and Middlebury! She can’t go wrong and I’m just so proud, and frankly relieved. Best of luck to all!
Rejected
Rejected…
Yet another waitlist omg
Accepted! I was so shocked
4.1 W 3.8 UW 30 ACT mediocre ECs
Driving force was probably my god-tier hooks and strong essays/LOR
Rejected! Asian Male, 9-10th grade in TX, 11-12th grade in IL
Our school has a weird GPA system, but I have gotten A’s in every class in HS except Differential Equations (2nd semester Jr year)
SAT I: 1570 (770 english, 800 math)
SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 800 US History, 790 Chem
AP:
9th grade: Human Geo (5)
10th grade: Calc BC (5), Chem(5), Psychology(5), World History(5), Seminar(4)
11th grade: Chinese(5), Language and Composition(5), Physics 1(5), US History(5)
Senior Course Load: AP Comp Sci, AP Physics C (EM and Mechanics), AP Economics (micro and macro), Choir, Linear Algebra, AP Literature and Composition
ECs:
9th-10th grade ECs (Texas)
Piano: Placed at many state-wide competitions and won an International Competition + $1500
Voice: All-State Men’s Choir member (9th grade), All-State Mixed Choir Member (1st Chair, 10th grade)
Lots of service in church: taught 2nd grade choir, led worship for 1st-5th grade, helped teach kindergarten sunday school
Choir Section Leader
Varsity Swim Team member
Founder of Math Club
VP of Free Thinkers Club
Taught piano
11th grade ECs (Illinois)
Piano: Placed at many national competitions and represented USA at one of the biggest international competitions in the world…prepped 1.5 hrs of music for it r i p
Voice: Finalist in the Schmidt National Voice Competition, Illinois All-State Choir Member (1st Chair)
Math: Placed at ICTM State Math Competition, AIME Qualifier
MUN Participant
Taught piano for free
Picked up bodybuilding as a hobby :))
You never know with college admissions!
Other results: Accepted Northwestern Dual Degree, waitlisted Bowdoin
Congrats to everyone! Good luck and Godspeed!
@bonusoceans what is a god-tier hook?
^^^
Absolutely not!
Walking on water.
Waitlisted Middlebury and Wellesley, still waiting for others. Have some good options.
D18 still had Middlebury out as an app. She loved it during Spring Break last year, and then it fell off during the fall. She still applied, and got WL. We are not too fussed bc she is going to another highly ranked LAC on a full ride.
Waitlisted, GPA: 4.36 W 3.87 UW, 1570 SAT
more like yield protected
^^^ @pianoswim