Official Brown University Class of 2015 RD Results

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[noparse]Decision: Waitlisted[/noparse]
[noparse]Decision: Rejected[/noparse]</p>

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<p>NOTE: Please avoid posting in this thread before decision day.</p>

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<p>As decisions come in, post your results here.</p>

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<p>in! WOW .</p>

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<p>Congratulations to everyone who has been accepted! :D</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 650M, 630CR, 620W
[</em>] SAT II: 650 Math I, 710 USH, 550 Lit
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 to 3.9 - ish.
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): USH 4
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Economics, AP Statistics, Health, Economics, Participation in Government, and a few other classes
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I had one but I wasn’t sure if it was major…
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Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Vice President and Co-Founder of Economics Club, Soup Kitchen Service, Food Pantry Service, Youth and Government, STEM program at NYU, School Morning Sports Club, Took College Classes at a local college, School Tutor
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: A lot.
[</em>] Essays: Truly heartfelt and passionate. It’s literally a miracle from God that it came out so well.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I had a stack, but I had one from my USH teacher and my past science teacher. Both were glowing i’m sure (although I didn’t see them).
[</em>] Counselor Rec: From my school’s principal.
[<em>] Interview: I only had interviews for the ivy league schools.
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Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): New York
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Does it matter?
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: <– 14000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):My passion for my future career. Overcoming adversity in order to reach my goals. [/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: God. Also I have good work ethic, and I really put in my all to finish this process.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Probably my SAT score. I could have gotten higher though and I plan to retake it (just to have the satisfaction of getting a 2000+ score).<br>
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: God.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li]Accepted: Brown University, New York University, The University of Virginia, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Boston University, Connecticut College, Davidson College (Presidential Scholarship), Stonybrook (Presidential Scholarship), Albany (Presidential Scholarship), Buffalo, Binghamton, Brooklyn College (Presidential Scholarship), 4 other CUNY Colleges
Waitlisted: Nowhere - Columbia
Rejected - Nowhere - Yale, Cornell[/ul]</p>

<p>WAITING ON HARVARD AND PRINCETON!</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (CR 740, M 800, W 760, Essay 12) one sitting
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): 35 (E 35, M 36, R 34, Sci 35, Essay 10, Eng&Writing 33) one sitting
[<em>] SAT II: Bio M 800, Chem 800, Physics 800, Math II 800, Chinese 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (96.xx out of 100.00)
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 101.67 (out of 100.00)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/837
[<em>] AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (5), BC Calc (5), AB subscore (5), APUSH (5), Eng Lang (5), World (5)
[</em>] IB (place score in parentheses): none
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov’t, AP Macroecon, AP Microecon, AP Eng Lit, AP Chemistry, AP Comp Sci A
[</em>] Number of other RD applicants in your school: I think like 5 or so, but they’re all with lower objective stats.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul][/li]Science Olympiad medals (9 regionals, 2 states), Rochester University Bausch & Lomb Honorary Science Award, NYC Metro Math Fair Bronze Medal, USABO semi-finalist, USNCO semi-finalist, 14th ranked fastest Rubik’s Speedcuber in New York State</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Science Olympiad (Engineering & Biology Group Leader), Columbia University Medical Center research internship (helped publish a scientific paper), Rubik’s Cube Club at school (founder & president), Calculus Challenge Team (2nd in country last year), Calculus Tutoring (all tutees got a 5), Jazz Band (lead alto saxophone & president), Webmaster of SciOly and Sci Dept website.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[li] Volunteer/Community service:[/ul][/li]Columbia University internship for one year (Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics professional laboratory work)
Surgical Center (observed and helped with >200 surgeries)
Library
Senior Center</p>

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<p>Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Common App: Rubik’s cube & how it impacted my personality and way I approach and solve problems; original & creative; 10+[/li][</em>] Supplement (Influential Person): APUSH teacher taught me how to write and really led me to challenge myself and see what I can accomplish; 9
[<em>] Other:[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: 5 pages. SHE LOVES ME. from AP Bio teacher <3. basically tells almost everything about me through my activities (likes and dislikes, sense of humor, maturity (O_O), etc.) 10+[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: 1 page. AP World teacher, like a mom to me. Rec is pretty run-of-the-mill, though. 7?
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Saw afterwards, sort of a laundry list. 5
[</em>] Additional Rec: Wrote it myself and got AP English teacher to sign it. Attests to outstanding writing talent and insight to reading literature (mostly true). 9
[<em>] Interview: Went to a young guy’s apartment for the interview. Typical questions, nothing weird. Asked me a bit about why I want PLME. Spent the last 45 minutes talking about politics in Taiwan and whether or not I think it will ever rejoin with mainland China (my opinion was a drop-dead no).
[</em>] Art Supplement:[/list]
NO. there are more than enough people out there more talented than I am at violin, piano, and alto sax, combined. I am in jazz band though :)</p>

<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] Date Submitted App: 3-4 days before deadline? O_O
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY (NEW YORK CITY HOLLAHHH!)
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: LARGE PUBLIC (4000+ students)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (■■■)
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: not important here.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul]
Rubik’s cube - 15 second solves; sent a video of a 13.76-sec solve on a CD with my counselor’s rec and transcript and such. Hope they had fun with it :slight_smile: Great essay writing (?) I’ve been told I have a way with words, apparently HAHAHAS.</p>

<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: grades (spanish aside), rank, SAT IIs (I BEASTED ALL OF THEM YO!), Rubik’s cube! >:) MUAHAHAHA
[</em>] Weaknesses: Asian, public school isn’t magnet or specialized (quite the opposite actually…), but doesn’t downright suck, either. It’s pretty moderate in terms of grades and smartness of people in general.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rubik’s cube? O_O I don’t know how many applicants have sub-15 averages -shrugs- SAT II grades were definitely a plus (haven’t seen another CCer with 5 800s yet :p)
[</em>] What would you have done differently?:[/ul]
not much, really. maybe I should’ve paid more attention in my Spanish classes so my grades wouldn’t have been too terrible there HAHAHAS. might’ve gotten valedictorian too LOL :p</p>

<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc:
Oh wells hahas, I’m not too destroyed. Princeton, UPenn, Yale, and Cornell took me so it’s okay. A Spanish girl ranked 4th from my school got in though -shrugs- good for her :slight_smile:
CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE WHO GOT ACCEPTED! to the WLs and Rs - IT’S OKAY!</p>

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<p>Denied</p>

<p>Not using format i just wanna let ppl know my stats cause imo there are not enough ppl in CC that post rejections:</p>

<p>3.46 gpa ( includes senior year)
2050 SAT
Peruvian , born and raised. ( citizen)
Eagle Scout</p>

<p>No from Penn , Yes from Carnegie.</p>

<p>Congrats to everyone who got accepted!!</p>

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<p>rofl just looking at your stats and seeing that yellow waitlist…i should get some sort of super rejection</p>

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<p>Where did you guys get your decisions? I cannot login to the website where I used to check my application status etc.</p>

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<p>finishmydrink, it would be silly to retake the SATs. Now you’ve been accepted, they are essentially meaningless. If you want a test to work toward, take the GRE or the MCAT depending on what you’d like to do following school. </p>

<p>I promise you (not in a mean way either), no one will care about your SATs from this moment on (unless FA hasn’t been decided. It usually helps with merit awards).</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740 M 700 CR 680 W
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Math II 750 Chem 740 U.S
[</em>] Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US (5) Bio (5) Chem (5) English Lang (5)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Honors English, Honors Japan Seminar, AP Stats, AP Calc AB, AP Physics, AP Spanish, Jazz Band
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Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): GSA (President thing), MUN (Head Chair), Theater (Stage manager for big musical thing)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Lifeguard, Bus monitor (Our school is far away and so I watch over the little ones)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Fundraising for Room to Read.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Mildly insignificant pay-to-play science-related things
[<em>] Essays: My common app was about looking for truth and I referenced a play I saw over the summer. My supplement was about tracking swine flu. I also did the science supplement.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: AP Chem and Spanish teachers, they seemed very heartfelt and personal.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: My counselor and I are pretty tight, so I think it was cool.
[</em>] Interview: I didn’t think it was so great, my interviewer seemed pretty negative…
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Other[ul]
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): Japan, but a U.S citizen.
[</em>] School Type: Private, international
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female
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Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: I think my essays were really personal and thoughtful, and my recs I think were good. But I guess you can never really know
[</em>] Weaknesses: Maybe my scores? Interview? I guess nothing was too weak.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t think there’s anyway to know for sure…[/ul][/li]General Comments:
OH MY GOSH I’M SO HAPPY!!! BEST DAY EVER!!!</p>

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<p>From the above few decisions, I can only say it’s good to be an URM, and crappy to be Asian.</p>

<p>Asian 2300 = URM 1900</p>

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<p>I’m looking forward to seeing all of my future classmates at brown!</p>

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<p>Thats the way its always been. don’t even start it up again
I think all of us asians already know this
Being a ORM minority male is the “worst” you can be when applying to ivies. Unfortunate, but true</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>objective:
sat i (breakdown):
act: 35
sat ii (if submitted):
unweighted gpa (out of 4.0): My school does gpa’s really weird so its a 97.17/100 unweighted)
rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Valedictorian
ap (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5)
ib (place score in parenthesis):
senior year course load: AP Calc AB, AP Music Theory, AP Gov and Politics, AP English Lit, Honors French 5, Marching/Concert Band
major awards (usamo, intel etc.):Questbridge Finalist, Harvard Book Award</p>

<p>subjective:
extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate Team (4 years, VP for 2), Band (Marching/Symphonic/Jazz, 4 years, President for 1), National Novel Writing Month (2 years), Student Council (3 years), Math Team (3 years), probably others I’m forgetting
job/work experience: various tutoring jobs all four years, blogger for anti-tobacco website junior year
volunteer/community service: volunteer at local library since 7th grade, various other things, a few hundred hours
essays: good I think
teacher recommendation: really really amazing
counselor rec: unsure
additional rec: N/A
interview:N/A</p>

<p>other
applied for financial aid?: yes
intended major: Political Science and Psychology
state (if domestic applicant): MA
country (if international applicant):
school type: Public
ethnicity: White
gender: Female
income bracket: ~40,000
hooks (urm, first generation college, research, etc.): First Generation College, Questbridge Finalist</p>

<p>reflection
strengths: Grades/Test Scores/Extracurriculars/Recs
weaknesses: possibly my interview? I thought it went well but my interviewer was a little informal, it was weird.
why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no clue, not enough spaces for me I guess</p>

<p>general comments:</p>

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<p>We had a 6:00 time but I was able to get in just now. It’s a no for a 2140 with a 4.1 weighted.</p>

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<p>I probably won’t take the SAT’s. And it’s not about being a “URM”, other than my scores, I had a great app and a kickass interview.</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t submit
[</em>] ACT: 34 (English: 36, Reading: 36, Math: 34, Science: 34)
[<em>] SAT II: Literature 740, Math I 670
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (4.55 weighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/428
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP European History 4 (Didn’t send)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): I’m in IB, but we don’t take our exams until May.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB English IV HL, IB Latin IV SL, Theory of Knowledge, IB History of the Americas II HL, IB Visual Arts II SL A, IB Mathematics II SL, and IB Biology IV HL
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar, Gold, silver, and cum laude on National Latin Exam
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Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Bowling (captain), National Art Honor Society (secretary), Beta Club, National Honor Society, Model UN, Mu Alpha Theta, International Club, Junior Classical League, and Latin Honor Society
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Nursery care provider at my church (none really)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Habitat for Humanity, Civitan, March for Dimes, Shelby Farms Park Conservatory
[<em>] Summer Activities: Attended Governor’s School for the Humanities, a free 4-week college program at the University of Tennessee.
[</em>] Essays: My Common App essay was about my history as a book-lover and how reading has helped me to cope with my father’s death as well as become my own person. Short answers were generic. Additional essay was about how I fell in love with art, but it was not very well-written or very relevant to my application.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Got recs from my two favorite teachers (who both seem to love me) and the coordinator of the IB program at my school, who has known me since middle school. I assume they were very good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: The IB counselor at our school knows us all very personally, which is such a gift. I assume it was good.
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: It went really well! It was more of a conversation than an interview. I got to say a lot about my accomplishments in high school as well as learn about the alumnus’ time at the school.
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Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TN
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Low income
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Not that I’m aware of.[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Nothing in particular stood out. My scores were within the right range though.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Essays. I think with really good essays, I could’ve had a shot at getting in.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ^
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Northwestern, Rhodes, and two back-ups. Wait-listed at WashU and Tulane.[/ul]
General Comments: I’m pretty glad I got rejected so I didn’t have to make a decision between Northwestern (my top choice) and Brown. Congrats to all who got in!</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 730 Reading, 700 Math, 690 Writing
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Literature, 660 Math I, 630 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I don’t know… I only know my weighted GPA… 4.7074
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4th
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Government- 3, European History- 3, American History- 3
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Math SL- 6
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Spanish V SL, IB Visual Arts HL, IB Physics SL, Theory of Knowledge, IB English HL, IB Twentieth Century World Topics HL, AP Calculus BC
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I’ve only gotten local awards… Virginia Pilot Scholastic Achievement Awards and Granby Award for Academic Excellence
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Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society, National Art Honor Society, WEB Dubois Honor Society, Spanish Honor Society, Yummy Tummy Club (a cooking club), Gay Straight Alliance, Global Activist Club, Debate, Young Democrats, Operation Smile, Philippine United Student Organization
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: In my extracurriculars, plus church stuff
[<em>] Summer Activities: Going to the Philippines, summer volunteering
[</em>] Essays: I don’t even remember
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both one page recommendations… :frowning:
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t get to see it… she doesn’t know me well though
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: Lasted for about an hour and it was through the phone… went pretty well and I clicked with the interviewer
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Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): VA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[<em>] School Type: public school with IB program
[</em>] Ethnicity: Filipino
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 60000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nothing? :([/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Even though I don’t remember, my essays were pretty good… plus my extracurriculars… and my GPA and courses.
[<em>] Weaknesses: My test scores
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I suck? There were over 31000 applicants?
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to: George Mason University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, American University, George Washington University, Elizabethtown College, waiting on Amherst College[/ul][/li]General Comments: I’m gonna apply again next year as a transfer… I’m not giving up!</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: didn’t send
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 690 Math II 730 Bio M
[</em>]GPA : 4.0, 4.7 (W)
[<em>] Rank: N/A (top 5%)
[</em>] AP: Gov (4) Human Geo (5) Bio (5) Calc BC (5) Lang (4)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc 3/ Dif EQ hon, AP Spanish Lang, AP Chem, AP Lit, Anatomy Hon, Art
[</em>] Major Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction…</p>

<p>[/ul] Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: varsity soccer (9-12, captain x2),varsity swimming (9-11), varsity cross country (12), NHS (10-12), SHS (11-12), LINK (freshman mentoring, 11-12), StuCo Treasurer (12), club soccer (9-11)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: lifeguard and swim instructor (summer 9-12)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: peer tutoring, elementary carnival, canned food drive, random school activities (200+ hr total)
[</em>] Summer Activities: summer@brown-intro to med- 11th, lifeguarding, sports
[<em>] Essays: unique but could’ve been better
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read but from spanish teacher (had for 3 yr) and math (had for 2), so should’ve been strong
[<em>] Counselor Rec: knew well from LINK, should’ve been great!
[</em>] Interview: alum, went pretty well</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State: CO
[</em>] School Type: charter, college prep
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>]Income Bracket: applied for aid
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: gpa, course load, act score
[</em>] Weaknesses: community service, leadership positions
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: luck, gpa/course load, s@b maybe
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted- CU Boulder, CO Mines, Univ. of Denver, NAU, Colgate, Cornell COE, Lehigh, Bowdoin, Syracuse, waitlisted: Wash U, Bucknell, rejected: Dartmouth
[/ul]</p>

<p>General Comments: Pretty happy! Don’t think I am going to go because FA package wasn’t great and I have full tuition at Lehigh. Congrats to all accepted!</p>