Not a Chance, but a GAME: Guess Where I Got In (Accepted, Wait-listed, Rejected) - I'll post results

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Hey guys. I’ve been a CC member for a while, and one of the most helpful things has NOT been chance threads, BUT results threads. So after spending a portion of my high school time looking at results, I want to help out too. There was a thread like this one posted last year and it seemed like a good idea, so give it a go!

I applied to:
Boston College
Bowdoin
Brown
Cornell
Columbia
Dartmouth
Georgetown
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
Loyola Maryland
NYU
Princeton
U Miami
U Penn
Yale

Yeah. It is a lot of schools and was a lot of work. Some of my results have come back, and others are coming tomorrow, so I’d like for you to predict/guess whether I was ACCEPTED, WAITLISTED, or REJECTED. Don’t be nice. Tell me what you really think. You get 1 point for each correct guess, and the person with the most points wins! I’ll eventually post results, most likely a few days after my last result comes out.

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take
ACT: Composite- 34 (Math- 32, Reading- 35, Science- 35, Writing- 35, Essay- 10)
SAT II: 800 Spanish, 700 Physics, 700 USH

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75 (this is really high in my school)
Weighted GPA (out of 5.2): 5.1
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 1%

AP (place score in parenthesis):
English Lang- 5
European History- 5
Psych- 5
US History- 5
Physics I- 4
World History- 4
Computer Science- 3
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A

Graduated with AA degree in Physics from local community college
Graduated with AA degree in government and politics from my high school’s pilot college curriculum

Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics II, AP Calculus AB, AP English Lit, AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Spanish
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Recognition Program, AP Scholar with Distinction, qualified for national triathlon championships (idk if these count as major awards)

Subjective:

Extracurriculars: Founder and president of a cycling club, former president of math club and reading club, currently a board member in green club, philosophy club, model un, college advisement club, FBLA; several published works in local newspaper and school magazine; academic work on Kazakhstan’s oil involvement; heavily involved in sports, especially triathlon (qualified for nationals but couldn’t afford to go), also cycling, cross country, and track

Job/Work Experience: Uber representative; Aeropostale; started my own online distribution company on eBay and Amazon, which at its peak was grossing tens of thousands of dollars a month and earned me top-rated seller awards on many platforms; started a tutoring business and hired several classmates to work for me

Volunteer/Community service: Involved in local government; tutoring; volunteering in marathons, homeless shelters, etc; Spanish translator working on several big projects; co-founder of an international petition movement called “Bring justice to Cecil the lion” which had over 1.5 million supporters

Summer Activities: Volunteering in homeless shelter in Colombia were my family lives; biology and environmental research in the Colombian rainforests; internship with the dean of my local community college; summer camp counselor; lifeguard; DJing

Essays: Lots of essays, I’m not an amazing writer, but I think I expressed my well; I think I showed them a lot about my mindset and personality. Most of them were easygoing and lighthearted
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read any of them. Physics, English Lang, and Gov/Econ teachers that are all known to write good recs
Counselor Rec: Didn’t read; I’m sure it’s good, but I don’t think it’s exceptional. She didn’t know me very well, but well enough. You never know…
Additional Rec: Dean of a local community college at which I was an intern
Interview: All of them went well. I think my best ones were with Brown and Columbia, and my worst with Georgetown (we were at a Starbucks so I had a difficult time hearing her lol)

Other:

State (if domestic applicant): FL
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Race(s) (White, AA, AI/AN, Asian, NH/PI): White, father is Middle-Eastern and mother is Colombian; dual German citizenship
Hispanic (Y/N): Hispanic
Gender: M
Income Bracket: Extremely low
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, low income

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Boston College–ACCEPTED
Bowdoin–ACCEPTED
Brown–ACCEPTED
Cornell–ACCEPTED
Columbia–WAITLISTED
Dartmouth–WAITLISTED
Georgetown–ACCEPTED
Harvard–WAITLISTED
Johns Hopkins–ACCEPTED
Loyola Maryland–ACCEPTED
NYU–ACCEPTED
Princeton–REJECTED
U Miami–ACCEPTED
U Penn–ACCEPTED
Yale–REJECTED

This was really arbitrary…you were strong enough to get Accepted at each of these schools, but many are lottery schools that candidates as good as you are still sometimes get Rejected or WL. I struggled mostly with Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton…and thought a bit about Johns Hopkins.

Bottom line: if you told as good a story as your accomplishments indicate you could be viable anywhere with your numbers, your activities and your hooks. Your Cecil the Lion petition story is good (nice data to back it up) and your online distribution company story sounds like it could be a great one. What, no Stanford?

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Boston College A
Bowdoin A
Brown A
Cornell A
Columbia W
Dartmouth A
Georgetown A
Harvard R
Johns Hopkins W
Loyola Maryland A
NYU A
Princeton R
U Miami A
U Penn W
Yale A

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Boston College A
Bowdoin A
Brown A
Cornell A
Columbia W
Dartmouth W
Georgetown A
Harvard R
Johns Hopkins W
Loyola Maryland R
NYU A
Princeton R
U Miami A
U Penn A
Yale A

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@mayorshinn nah it didn’t really appeal to me

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Anyone else care to answer? I’m really nervous for Ivy Day, help a brotha out

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Boston College–ACCEPTED
Bowdoin–ACCEPTED
Brown–ACCEPTED
Cornell–ACCEPTED
Columbia–WAITLISTED
Dartmouth–ACCEPTED
Georgetown–ACCEPTED
Harvard–REJECTED
Johns Hopkins–ACCEPTED
Loyola Maryland–ACCEPTED
NYU–ACCEPTED
Princeton–REJECTED
U Miami–ACCEPTED
U Penn–ACCEPTED
Yale–WAITLISTED

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Boston College (Accepted)
Bowdoin (Accepted)
Brown (Accepted)
Cornell (Accepted)
Columbia (Accepted)
Dartmouth (Accepted)
Georgetown (Accepted)
Harvard (Waitlisted)
Johns Hopkins (Accepted)
Loyola Maryland (Accepted)
NYU (Accepted)
Princeton (Waitlisted)
U Miami (Accepted)
U Penn (Accepted)
Yale (Accepted)

Yale, Harvard, and Princeton really made me think. Your accomplishments were great, but it was really the low-income and URM status that pushed me to put accepted/waitlisted on those schools.

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Accept everywhere, wait list Harvard, reject Brown

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You will have an AA in Physics by the time you graduate but you currently taking introductory level physics (AP Physics = into physics) and Calc AB as a senior? How does that work?

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@collegemom3717 the community college that I graduated from has loose requirements. I just needed to take physics pre-recs to be counted as a physics major

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Boston College - A
Bowdoin - W
Brown - W
Cornell - A
Columbia - R
Dartmouth - A
Georgetown - A
Harvard - W
Johns Hopkins - R
Loyola Maryland - A
NYU - A
Princeton - R
U Miami - A
U Penn - A
Yale - R

let us know what your results were, OP!

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Waiting for those results :slight_smile:

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I’ve never been more disappointed. I hope I serve as an example for applicants to come; I obviously did something wrong and hope none of you will fall in the same trap, whatever it was. Anyways

REJECTED: Every Ivy League, Bowdoin, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown
WAITLISTED: None
ACCEPTED: NYU, BC, UM, Loyola

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I’ll definitely be looking to transfer to an Ivy. Hopefully I can get my act together by then LOL

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you still got into really good schools

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You got into really good schools. It’s really hard to be denied, but those are lottery schools. No one can expect to get in.
Are your choices -nyu, B C, um -affordable ? Do you have a preference ?
Time to go on college visits !

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Every acceptance gave me a full ride, I’m leaning towards BC as of now. I’d be interested in transferring to another school, Yale specifically has a great program related to my major that BC doesn’t have. Is transferring a possibility?

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What attracts you to BC… especially since it doesn’t have the major you’re thinking of?
… although it’s refreshing to hear of a youth who’s no taken in by the NYU mystique.