Official Admissions Decisions

<p>oh god, REJECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wooooooooo wutever i knew it was coming.</p>

<p>I was waitlisted also...to the above poster that said they waitlist candidates they know will be accepted, tell that to the adcoms at Yale and Harvard who thought otherwise..</p>

<p>SAT 1470
SATII 800/760/750
GPA 4. unweighted
rank 1/282</p>

<p>mich, white guy</p>

<p>hook: winner of nat'l essay contest (Holocaust Remembrance Project)</p>

<p>does anyone know stats of people getting in from waitlist?</p>

<p>Decision: WAITLISTED (College)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1440</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/700/690</li>
<li>GPA: 3.84</li>
<li>Rank: ?</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Didn't read </li>
<li>Hook (if any): Piano</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: low test scores</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: Did not have an interview.</p>

<p>Decision: WAITLISTED (College)</p>

<p>Stats: 1500 (they never got my new SATs)
SAT 2s: 800, 780, 720
GPA: 3.92
Rank: W 1/313, UW 11/313</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>*Essays: excellent
*Teacher recs: excellent
* Couselor rec: didn't read
* Hook-foreign language. I speak french, spanish, and study arabic</p>

<p>Location:
*State: md
*School: Public
*ethnicity: white
*gender: female
*strength/weakness: ?
*why: no interview? I got waitlisted at gtown also but got into harvard</p>

<p>Why are there so many waitlists here?
Waitlisted
1460
760/690/640(writing) and a 690 in Span
3.65
17/242
Essays:Good, I guess
Recs: Great
Counselor: she doesn't even know I go there
Hook: I thought it was being from rural NC, guess not
Public HS
White male</p>

<p>How many waitlists are there at the College?</p>

<p>DECISION : REJECTED
i was an ed deferee.. wasnt really expecting to get in ...</p>

<p>Decision: Rejected.... originially deferred</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1510</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 770,780,770</li>
<li>GPA: 4.1</li>
<li>Rank: no rank</li>
<li>Other stats: National Merit Finalist, Ap scholar with Distinction, other stuff</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: really good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I'm very involved in music and science</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: San Diego</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: I have lots of leadership and depth in lots of ecs/ my grades aren't high enough probably</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: grades</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: OH YEAH, MY INTERVIEWER F**<em>ING SUCKED!!!!!!! She was a total b</em>tch and told me I should hope to get deferred so that I wouldn't have to go to Columbia</p>

<p>I just wish they had gotten this over with back in December</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted to Fu</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1560</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 790/770/760</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0ish</li>
<li>Rank: 8th out of 400 something</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: I thought it was good </li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Probably Pretty Good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: I'm not sure, I was the only National Merit this year so I stood out</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I lift weights alot maybe</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: PA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Indian (Bengali)</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: hmmmm</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: Dunno</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: Who else is going to SEAS open house???</p>

<p>Decision: waitlisted (College)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1410</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800, 790, 680</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 uw</li>
<li>Rank: 1/232</li>
<li>Other stats: 4 AP US History</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: I thought they were pretty good. one was about a mission trip, not sure if that helped or not.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Both really good - not amazing.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Don't know.</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Sent in a piano CD...but that's not really a hook.</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: WA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: allstate trumpet, piano awards, lots of leadership, church involvement. kinda low SATs, not many APs at my school</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Not sure - I guess there's nothing on my app that would get me rejected for sure, but nothing that really stands out. I thought I would be rejected for sure after being rejected from Georgetown and waitlisted at Northwestern...</li>
</ul>

<p>Anyone know how many people get waitlisted? Is there any chance at all of getting in now?</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted (College)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1600</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/800/800/780</li>
<li>GPA: 4.4</li>
<li>Rank: 1 of 461 </li>
<li>Other stats: 5s on 5 AP test</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: good enough for other ivys =)</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: very nice</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: didn't read</li>
<li>Hook (if any): choir and environmental activism</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Probably didn't show enough interest.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: Did not interview.</p>

<p>WAITLISTED!!!!! WHOOO!!!! </p>

<p>I'm actually thrilled since I was expecting such bad news after being rejected from Harvard earlier today. So this is the best news I've had all day.</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted (College)</p>

<p>Stats: 1500
SAT 2s: 800, 720, 720
GPA: 96.8 and dropping
Rank: 3 out of 128 (dropped to 4)</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>*Essays: unique
*Teacher recs: I assume pretty good (?)
* Couselor rec: don't know.... she called me her "Renaissance child"
* Hook- no clue</p>

<p>Location:
*State: NY
*School: Public
*ethnicity: Asian
*gender: female
*strength/weakness: Well, my senior year grades have been horrible.
*why: Is it because I sent in my application all piecemeal, partly online and partly FedExed, got my recs in late, and didn't submit the optional essay?</p>

<p>Whatever, I'm really glad it's not a flat-out rejection. Hehehehe. :)</p>

<p>accepted FU :)</p>

<p>good luck to rest of you!</p>

<p>Is the letter that we send to accept a place, is that the same letter that is the supplemental brief page, or another?</p>

<p>Well....</p>

<p>I got accepted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>Woo Hoo!!!</p>

<p>So now for me its between Dartmouth, Columbia and Duke....</p>

<p>Decision: WAITLISTED (College)
Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: Above 1500</li>
<li>SAT IIs: All 760 or better</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 UW 5.0 W</li>
<li>Rank: 1/400</li>
<li>Other stats: Physics Rotary Award, Health Rotary Award, Top Japanese Award, IB Math SL 7, Unofficial World Record Rubik's Cube Speed/Blindfold solving</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: I thought they could have been better</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: The teachers I asked were the ones that knew me best</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Best possible</li>
<li>Hook (if any): First generation</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Oregon</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: Grades, scores Weakness: ECs, Essays</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No idea...</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: </p>

<p>This is interesting!</p>

<p>umm .. before you read this post I hope you understand that SAT scores is not the single most important factor for decisions. With that in mind..
SAT: 1320 (740 M 580V)
Rank: 2 out of 620
GPA: 6.054
Have and am taking total of 13 AP classes passed all but one, some 3's here and there.
3 college classes: A, A, and B</p>

<p>Essays: Heartfelt, describes family situation and many obstacles overcome by both myself and my family. (they both work night shifts and have irregular schedules)
Teacher Recs: I only saw one, but they both said they couldn't contain how much they liked having me as a student, and the one I read rated me one of the highest in his 35 years career.</p>

<p>Community Service hours: over 1200 hrs in tutoring (chemistry and math), helping in pre schools and elementary schools, teacher aide in swimming classes, project to save driver's educational cars for highschools in county .. and a lot of normal com. service through Anchor and NHS .</p>

<p>hook: Siemens Westinghouse Semi finalist for my research project in chemistry</p>

<p>other awards in Math and a few in Mu Alpha Theta, Engineering,and SECME,Anchor, regionally and Nationally..
EC's Mu Alpha Theta, SECME (pres), Engineering(VP), Anchor, NHS</p>

<p>School Type: Public</p>

<p>I was Accepted!</p>

<p>so you got in??</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1550- 750 V, 800 M
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 LIT, 780 W, 750 IC
[<em>] GPA: 3.9 uw, 4.6 w
[</em>] Rank: 9/233
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Great
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Amazing, one sent personal letter to Dean of Admissions
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great, counselor's first year but we hit it off
[<em>] Hook (if any): Filmmaking and production work. Including international film grant from PBS and work on feature documentaries.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: VA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Weaknesses: Thought I wouldn't stand out enough, Strengths: ECs, Independent Study, Recs.
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Mixed artsyness with good academics. [/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Had a great visit.</p>