[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 2270 superscored
[ *]SAT II: Math 2 800, Bio 760, Chem 750
[ *]ACT: 35 composite
[ *]GPA: 3.89/4
[ *]Rank: 5/563
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Calc BC (5), Environmental Science (5), English Lang (5), Macroeconomics (5), Biology (4), US History (4), Government (4)
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: solid imo
[ *]Teacher Recs: good imo. Teachers liked me.
[ *]Counselor Rec: idk
[ *]Supplementary Material: ok i guess
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): really good at debate
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: TX
[ *]High School Type: Public
[ *]Ethnicity: Asian
[ *]Gender Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Debate Captain, SNHS VP, Acdec Captain, UIL Captain, NBC, NHS, private tutor
[ *]Awards: Debate state and nationals, 5th place state in science, world quest placings, national merit, nat ap scholar, prob more debate stuff
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list] I felt like I would get rejected and I ended up getting deferred. I guess I’ll wait and see now
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: nope
[]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Physics
[]ACT: 36
[]GPA: 5.233/6.0 weighted, 4.0 uw
[]Rank: 3/653 but not officially reported by school
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): all 5s on 10 APs, 2-time AIME qualifier
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: loved them
[]Teacher Recs: I’m extremely close to them and they’re also my competition sponsors, so probably really good
[]Counselor Rec: probably pretty good
[]Supplementary Material: MIT’s MITES Summer Program evaluations
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): supplementary evaluations
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Florida
[]High School Type: Large public
[]Ethnicity: Hispanic
[]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: President of a volunteer tutoring company (hundreds of community service hours), Pres of Mu Alpha Theta, VP of SNHS, Stud Co Senate, violist for 7 years, volunteer at nearby church, middle school MathCounts coach, bit of Debate, a few edX and college classes
[]Awards:lots of Mu Alpha Theta regional/state awards, 10th nationally in Envirothon, Science Bowl, awards in college-hosted math/science competitions, National Merit Semifinalist (perfect score), National Hispanic Scholar, AP National Scholar, some other miscellaneous community service/school/competition awards
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Essays and recs are crucial, so make sure your voice and personality really shine through those Congrats to all those admitted! [/ul]
[]Essays: Great (Spent a lot of time on perfecting these! :/)
[]Teacher Recs: Stellar
[]Counselor Rec: Stellar
[]Supplementary Material: 2 Research Papers, Maker Portfolio
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Not Applicable
Personal
[]Location: Bangalore, India
[]High School Type: Private
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: Male
Other
[]Extracurriculars: Debate, Indian Music, International Science Journal Editor, Marathon Running
[]Awards: National Scholarships, International Research Publication/Conferences, AP Scholar w/ Distinction
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: My Principal mentioned that I was one of the top 15 students he’d encountered in his 20 years teaching career across 2 countries. I guess that didn’t help. Don’t be ambitious with EA. Apply ED to Cornell, Columbia, or Brown and get in. Getting deferred is tough.
[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 1540 {790 Math, 750 English}
[ *]SAT II: 790 Physics, 800 Math II, 800 Bio M
[ *]ACT: Composite: 36 {36 Reading, 36 Math, 36 Writing, 35
[ *]GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.4 W
[ *]Rank: N/A
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
AP BC Caclulus
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
Common App Essay: My inability to understand my father’s perspective as a Vietnamese refugee from the Vietnam war, but through engineering and science, a common interest, I was able to establish a relationship with a father I had resented for most of my life
For the “fun” essay, I wrote about how my sister and I enjoy going to museums to make fun of the absurdity of Modern Art, but how through that, I find my own way to understand it
Other than that, my essays were normal. I’d rate them 8/10.
[ *]Teacher Recs: 7/10 for both, they didn’t know me very well, but I gave them a lot of info
[ *]Counselor Rec: 8/10
[ *]Supplementary Material: Resume with abstract for research project
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Presented at American Geophysical Union for work in Astrophysics at Lockheed Martin, project hosted on official Lockheed Martin Website, cited for use of project in several papers
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Bay Area
[ *]High School Type: Public
[ *]Ethnicity: Asian (Vietnamese)
[ *]Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:
4 year Taekwondo captain, semi-finalist at US Open International Championship
6 Year Teacher’s aide at summer school, received gold presidential award
Qualified for AIME under AMC 12 (AMC score: 109.5, AIME score: 7)
Scored top 10% internationally for High School Math Modeling Contest
Research lead for team that placed 1st place at state, placed top ten nationally TEAMS science and engineering competition
Paid engineering intern at Lockheed Martin
Unpaid software intern at Start up company called “Sitelettes”
President of School foreign policy newspaper
4 year tutor for school’s peer tutoring system, over 200 hours
Treasurer of school Toastmasters club
[ *]Awards: Included in EC
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2370
[]SAT II: Math 2, Chemistry, Physics, U.S. History - 800
[]ACT: Didn’t take it.
[]GPA: 4.91 weighted, 4.0 unweighted
[]Rank: School doesn’t do ranks
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AMC 12 117, AIME 6, 5 on AP Statistics, Physics 1, Calculus BC, Physics C (both), Chemistry, English Language, Spanish Language, U.S. History.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I think they were pretty good.
[]Teacher Recs: Probably nice. My rec teachers are really good.
[]Counselor Rec: Probably good.
[]Supplementary Material: Submitted a research paper I worked on over the summer.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Math club (president), Science Olympiad, chess.
[]Awards: Whole bunch of SciOly medals. Math Prize for Girls honorable mention. Chess trophies.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Whew.
[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: New 1550, Old 2280, 800 math on both
[ *]GPA: 4.73 W
[ *]Rank: NA
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 on Chem, Calc AB, Lang, APUSH, World, Microecon, NSL, Psych, 4 on Macro
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: Some pretty good, some not great
[ *]Teacher Recs: STEM was amazing, Humanities decent
[ *]Counselor Rec: Don’t really know, prob pretty good
[ *]Supplementary Material:
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I wish I had a nobel prize
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: Suburban DC
[ *]High School Type: Public
[ *]Ethnicity: White
[ *]Gender Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Club Swim, clubs pretty much every day during lunch, work as swim coach on weekends
[ *]Awards: Scholar Athlete every year for swim, NMS (Semi)Finalist, whatever the AP award for all those is (Natl AP Scholar I think)
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Didn’t reallyyy wanna get in, couldn’t stand only 200 freshman, but wanted to see if I was good enough. Only one student from my school got in, and we’re a real high achieving school
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 1550 {800 Math, 750 English}
[]SAT II: 780 Chem, 800 Math II, 800 Bio M
[]ACT: Composite: 36 {36 Reading, 36 Math, 36 Writing, 35)
[]GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.4 W
[]Rank: Top 1%
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): IB Diploma Candidate; AP Calc BC (5), AP Chemistry (5), AP Physics I (4), AP US History (5), AP European History (5), AP Biology (5), AP Environmental Science (5), AP English Literature (5), AP English Language (5), IB Biology SL (7), IB Environmental Systems and Society (7), AIME Qualifier
College Courses: Organic Chemistry (A)
Currently taking Differential Equations and Calculus III at local University
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I’d rate them 7/10 overall. I liked some over the others but nothing exceptional.
[]Teacher Recs: 10/10 for all of them. My teachers loved me.
[]Counselor Rec: 6/10? I haven’t really talked to her before this year.
[]Supplementary Material: Resume with abstract for research project
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): lol none except for research?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars:
Captain of Astronaut’s Challenge Team (2 years); won first at state engineering challenge
Mu Alpha Theta: Vice President; Calculus coach
Science Fair: First place at regionals; third place at states (Researched how to predict cancer cells’ sensitivity to chemotherapeutic drugs)
NHS: 2 years (Volunteer work every month)
LEO Club: 3 years; Treasurer; volunteer work (raise money for various organizations)
AIME Qualifier and went to Math Prize for Girls at MIT
Selected for a pretty selective research program (got a really solid rec letter from this program)
Volunteer at local hospital: 10 hours a week, primarily working at the Oncology Clinic
National English Honors Society: 3 years; secretary; editor of Schools’ literary magazine and leader of Cinematography subclub
National AP Scholar
[]Awards: Some flute, research, and math/science awards but nothing big
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
[ *]SAT: 800 Verbal, 760 Math
[ *]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 physics
[ *]ACT: never took
[ *]GPA: 4.0 UW
[ *]Rank: 1
[ *]Other Tests:
AP Physics 1 (5)
AP Physics 2 (5)
AP Calculus BC (5)
AP Chem (5)
AP Statistics (5)
AP Macro (5)
AP Micro (5)
AP Spanish (5)
AP Physics C Mechanics (5)
AP Physics C Electricity and Magnetism (5)
[ *]Essays: I thought they were strong
[ *]Teacher Recs: I am certain the two teachers gave me the highest recommendation possible
[ *]Counselor Rec: Glowing recommendation
[ *]Hook: none
[ *]Location: CA
[ *]High School Type: Private
[ *]Ethnicity: Asian
[ *]Gender: Female
[ *]Extracurriculars: Over 1,000 hours of research in a lab, competitive piano, competitive tennis, founded two city-wide clubs for public speaking and chess, worked over 200 hours as a high school tutor to raise money for charity
[ *]Awards: National AP Scholar, NM Scholarship
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]
Congrats to those who got in. Best of luck to those who did not. We will all be fine elsewhere.
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 1570 (800 Math, 770 English)
[]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 780 Physics
[]ACT: 35
[]GPA: 4.0 UW (Taking all weighted classes offered at my High School)
[]Rank: 1/160
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5’s on AP Calc BC, AP US History, and AP Biology (only AP’s offered before Senior year at my HS)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Very strong. Talked about the experience of developing my own Physics theorem and emphasized a desire to work in research.
[]Teacher Recs: Very strong. I have a very good relationship with my Physics teacher who gave me an incredible recommendation.
[]Counselor Rec: Fairly Strong
[]Supplementary Material: Submitted a Physics theorem that I conceptualized and wrote on my own in regard to projectiles with special consideration of gravity.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Father went to Caltech for his undergrad, but Caltech doesn’t have any actual legacy program.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: California
[]High School Type: Small town public
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Odyssey of the Mind (9 years, World Finalist 3 times, State Champion twice), Competitive Pokémon TCG (11 years, 9th in the world in 2013), Competitive Gaming (Top 10 US in World of Warcraft), President of Engineering Club, Vice-President of STEAM Club, President of POTUS Club, PUMA Karate (8 years)
[]Awards: 1st place Inland Empire Science Fair in Physics (competed in California State Science Fair), 1st place in numerous speech contests, Hope of America Award in 2013
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I come from a very small High School that only offers 7 AP classes. In addition to taking all of these, I’m taking 3 more AP classes on my own this year. I think that not only taking every rigorous class my school offers but also seeking out even more helped a lot. I also conceptualized and wrote my own Physics theorem that I submitted with my application, which probably helped a lot as well.[/ul]
Congrats to all those admitted! [/ul]