<p>My son was admitted - very excited. 2280 SAT / 35 ACT, 790/760 SAT IIs, salutatorian in small public school, very high GPA (not sure exactly), fantastic recs, interesting and real extracurriculars for all four years, dual citizen, interested in the world. </p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Sat: 2250 (800 Math, 730 CR, 720 Writing)
Sat II: Math II 800, Chem 800</p>
<p>Unweighted/Weighted GPA: 4.0/5.08
Unweighted/Weighted Rank 1/11</p>
<p>APs: 5 junior year, 4 senior year</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Soccer: Team captain, 3 years varsity, All-Conference, state participant
Track: Captain, 4 years varsity, All-Conference, State participant, All-State Academic
Quiz Bowl: 2 years varsity, State participant
Volunteering: I help Spanish speaking students in math
Science Olympiad: 3 years varsity, 4th in state (individually)</p>
<p>Awards: National Spanish Exam Gold: Levels I,II,III <—Midd focuses so much on language, this must’ve helped
NHS
Sociedad Honoraria Híspanica</p>
<p>Background: White, Male, Minnesota Public School, Dual Citizen FWIW</p>
<p>Advice: Do what you want to do in High School. If you are intrinsically motivated, love learning, and are intellectually curious, then you will do fine and end up in a school that you belong at. Middlebury happened to align with my interests (Geography, Spanish, and Mathematics), and that’s why I think got in. </p>
<p>A friend of mine got admitted 1760 SAT…i am so happy for him</p>
<p>Accepted!!! 
With basically a full-ride nonetheless. </p>
<p>Sat: 1810 (I don’t think I purposefully sent this in, but it was on my transcript)
Sat II: Pretty damn bad. Also didn’t send in.</p>
<p>ACT: 31 superscored (34 english, 34 reading, 24 math [dont make fun of me, lol], 29 science)</p>
<p>Unweighted/Weighted GPA: 3.74/4.7
Rank: 21/278 or something like that</p>
<p>APs: 4 before senior year. Environmental Science: 2, AP World History: 2, AP English: 4, AP Psych: 4. Taking 6 more this year.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Captain of Mock Trial (not sure they knew this), National Honor Society, Drama Club financial coordinator, book club, culture club, etc.</p>
<p>Recs: One pretty standard one, another very good one</p>
<p>Jobs: Worked since I was 14 at grocery store to help support family </p>
<p>Volunteering: 100+ hours. </p>
<p>Interested Majors: International Relations, Japanese</p>
<p>Special Activities: I was sponsored as an ambassador the summer of my junior year to study animation in Japan. Can’t remember if I mentioned this within my essays, I most likely did. </p>
<p>Awards: Citizenship Award, Outstanding in Creative Writing, 2nd place in county-wide writing/speech competition, AP English Award, Mock Trial MVP Award, Senior Advanced Studies Laureate Diploma. </p>
<p>Also, not sure they knew this, but Horatio Alger Scholar and Questbridge Finalist.</p>
<p>Weaknesses: white, female, low standardized test scores, not exactly a superb ranking, literally no family income which might play a factor in acceptance</p>
<p>Strengths: compelling essays, lots of personal hardships. I had a pretty great interview as well; I think she might’ve written a really convincing report </p>
<p>FYI: I was rejected from Bowdoin, Davidson, and waitlisted at carleton, so this was a pleasant surprise :)</p>
<p>@McJayM–what was your friend’s hook to getting in?</p>
<p>Accepted for Feb! I am still so very shocked… My test scores are horrible.
Rank: 17/260
WGPA: 4.28
SAT Scores: 1730 (590, 560, 560)
Environmental extracurricular activities</p>
<p>1422 accepted including 327 ED. 8196 applicants 17.3% admit rate, targeting 575 September admissions and 85 Febs</p>
<p>My best friend got in here! Congrats to all who were accepted!</p>
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<p>ACT: 34
GPA: ~3.95 unweighted
APs: 5 in Euro History</p>
<p>EC’s: pretty good to very good</p>
<p>I’m so happy to be accepted, though this process is unbelievably random! I look to seeing all you guys on campus next year!</p>
<p>Got accepted into Bowdoin as well! Will be visiting both campuses to decide!</p>
<p>SAT: 2120 (700,710,710)
GPA: 3.55 unweighted
AP tests: (5) Euro, (5) Music Theory, (4) Chemistry
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Yeah…academics aren’t really my strong suit, but I had a good interview and a ton of EC’s. Heavily music-based.</p>
<p>Now just crossing my fingers for the luck to continue! Hopefully, I’ll hear good things from Amherst, Vassar, etc.</p>
<p>@Dad22D He didn’t have any hooks…he had a good high school transcript and Good essays and Recommendations…but again, everyone who applies there has these credentials, I am just happy he got in :)</p>
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<p>An applicant who is admitted with a 1760 SAT has a hook. Did he submit his SAT I score? Or did he use the ACT or SAT IIs? </p>
<p>No…I dont know about SAT IIs</p>
<p>Flat out rejected
2310 SAT (800 M 760 CR 750 W)
800 Math II 780 US History 760 Latin
5 AP 5’s thus far, 5 this year
~3.8 uw/4.25 w at a very tough school with a rigorous courseload
national merit finalist, latin awards, nhs
newspaper editor, vp of enviro club, treasurer of young dems, theater, and a lot of volunteering (including leadership) and academic summer camps/study abroad
the interview was really, really good
my common app essay was great, and i thought the supplement was good
all of my recs should have been fantastic </p>
<p>Honestly, I was really surprised by my rejection. I had gotten into Bowdoin the night before, so it didn’t hurt too much. Bowdoin was probably my top choice all along, but I would’ve visited Midd. I’ve since committed to Bowdoin and am really happy, but am disappointed I didn’t have Midd as an option. It seems to me my only flaw was that I showed almost zero interest besides the interview. Apparently they also really dislike my high school, but I guess I’ll never know for sure. Congrats to all who’ve been admitted, good luck to those who have been waitlisted, and those who were rejected will have other great options.</p>
<p>Why are many of you applying to Bowdoin? Just curious :)</p>
<p>Son was admitted.
SAT 2300
Math II 800, Physics 770
GPA 4.0 UW 4.6 W
He was waitlisted at Bowdoin so was very happy to have gotten into Middlebury.</p>
<p>@tommynine9 there wasn’t a supplement…</p>
<p>By supplement I meant the “optional” tell us about yourself prompt. Figured it wasn’t really optional and would show interest. </p>
<p>Sent in my deposit!</p>