<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (John Jay Scholar)</p>
<p>SAT: 1560
SAT II: 800, 790, 790, 780, 770, 770
GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1/400
5, 5, 5</p>
<p>Essay: GREAT
Recs: I assume great
Hook: Community Service</p>
<p>State = CT
School = Public
Gender = Male
Ethnicity = White</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1520 (780v, 740m)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 770, 710, 670</li>
<li>GPA: 90ish out of 99</li>
<li>Rank: N/A</li>
<li>Other stats: 5- U.S. History</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: Decent</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: don't know</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: don't know</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Leadership (student body pres.), work experience (mortgage company), SATI (1520)</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: CT
* School Type: Private
* Ethnicity: Chinese American
* Gender: Male
* major strength/weakness: No extremely impressive hooks, SATIIs
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Not enough demonstrated interest? Overall tough competition this year in the RD pool?</p>
<p>Other Factors:
Waitlisted: Dartmouth, Columbia, Georgetown (McDonough), NYU (Stern)
Accepted: Penn (Wharton), Carnegie Mellon (Tepper), BC (Carroll Honors), UConn (Scholarship)
Rejected: Cornell, Yale</p>
<p>All I really care about is Penn! I'm ecstatic!</p>
<p>how come u applied to Columbia and Yale then?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: Didn't take them</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 760,700,640</li>
<li>ACT: 33</li>
<li>GPA: 3.90 UW</li>
<li>Rank: top 10%</li>
<li>Other stats: nope</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: pretty interesting, i was kind of drunk most of the time, pretty funny.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: great!</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: i didn't see it but i've never met the guy</li>
<li>Hook (if any): spent a lot of time out of the ****ry, good at journalism, and i did everything at my school </li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: IA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White/Iranian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: I wasn't very good in school but I did a lot of pretty good things outside of it.</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted: a serious mistake on their part.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: i had a pretty good interview, the lady loved herself, great at cross country</p>
<p>anyone else notice supertouch's censor? I got a kick out of that</p>
<p>what was he trying to say?</p>
<p>He wanted to say country, but mispelled it. Very Hamlet...</p>
<p>LoL. Darmani.</p>
<p>. : TESTING : .</p>
<p>****ry</p>
<p>LMAO</p>
<p>Hahaha thats amazing</p>
<p>**
Accepted (SEAS, Likely Letter, C. Prescott Davis Scholar)
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I or ACT: 800M/750V
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math IIC 790 World History 780 Biology M/Chemistry/Physics 750 Writing
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: Top 5% of 190
[</em>]APs / other stats: 5's on Calculus BC, Physics B, Chemistry, US History, Psychology...taking 7 more this year
[/ul]Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[<em>] State math and science awards, managing/layout editor of newspaper, captain of math/science teams, other stuff....
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Pretty good, I think.<br>
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Very good...had one teacher for three years (Columbia grad), known him for four...other from teacher something along the lines of "among best in career"
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Awesome
[<em>]Hook: SHP?
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): Westchester, NY
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White Male
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: Math, newspaper?
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: w007[/li][/ul]Any other comments: No comments.</p>
<p>Decision: REJECTED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:1460
[</em>] SAT IIs:760, 690, 630
[<em>] GPA:4.4 w
[</em>] Rank:5%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:ok
[<em>] Teacher Recs:exc
[</em>] Counselor Rec:great
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:MA
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity:white
[<em>] Gender:male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:music
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Know Im kind of late...</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (College)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1560 800V, 760M</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/800/770</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 uw, 4.64 w</li>
<li>Rank: ~10/420</li>
<li>Other stats: 5 AP Bio, AP World, 4 on AP Language, AP NSL</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: OK</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One really good, one pretty good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Don't know</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Journalism, working at Smithsonian Museum</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: MD</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: scores/ECs </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I was probably solid in writing and science </li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>Decision: REJECTED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1540 (740 m, 800 v)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800, 790, 760, 730
[<em>] GPA: 3.97
[</em>] Rank: 2/502
[<em>] Other stats: AP exams: 5, 5, 5, 5, 4(subscore 5)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Really the best I could do in explaining who I was - about music, driving, and friends
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I have to assume very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: (I read it) Excellent
[<em>] Hook (if any): Captain of soccer team, president of literary magazine, summer college courses for creative writing, worked in a restaurant for four years
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CT
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Strengths - essay, writing ability
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No idea[/li][/ul]Other Factors: Off to either Stanford or Princeton!</p>
<p>the sandman...my hook is journalism too...what do you plan to major in?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (College)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1310 640V, 670M</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 640, 670, 580</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 uw, </li>
<li>Rank: 10% of 217</li>
<li>Other stats: 2 AP World, 2 AP US</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: counselor sed what commone to write about my topic, writing</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: englis teacher quoted all these papers i wrote for him and talked bout me being dedicated to my activities, didnt see the other</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Don't know</li>
<li>Hook (if any): minority?</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country:NY</li>
<li>School Type: pRIVATE</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Puerto Rican</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: ECs </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I was probably solid in writing and science, minority?</li>
</ul>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1580 (800V, 780M)
SAT IIs:800 Math IIC, 800 Bio M, 800 Writing, 800 Physics
GPA: 3.99
Rank: estimated 1/58
Other stats: AP Bio - 5, AP English Lang and Lit - 5, semifinalist bio olympiad, nat'l merit finalist, presidential scholar nominee, several state and national awards in classical languages</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: very good (overcoming adversity, passions, etc.)
Teacher Recs: no clue, but they all like me
Counselor Rec: excellent
Hook (if any):jazz CD of original compositions with scores, background (born in Belarus), glowing outside rec</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CT
School Type: private
Ethnicity: caucasian
Gender:female</p>
<p>major strength/weakness: strengths - woman w/ interest in science (genetics, physics), overcoming adversity and religious/ethnic discrimination (part of essay), jazz piano composer, leadership in several activities, diverse balanced ECs and community service, speak Russian and retain cultural ties, summer courses in philosphy.
weaknesses - no research, not too many non-academic awards, not incredibly strong community service and only a few leadership roles, no national recognition for outstanding talents, no sports </p>
<p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: see above, wonderful interview probably helped, and i made sure to highlight my strengths on the app and to make myself stand out thru essays
Other Factors: had article published about me in the regional newspaper which i sent in, also kept sending updates on new accomplishments and awards along the way... </p>
<p>question - does anyone know anything about the Rabi science prgrm? that is -has had experience w/ it. the program sounds great and i just wanted to get opinions on what i should do (rabi science at columbia, MIT, or yale?)</p>