<p>The Ivy’s likely saw your high test scores and low GPA and decided you were a very bright kid who didn’t work hard enough in your courses at CEGEP/high school. You may have put too much time into your EC’s. The Ivy’s get enough applications from kids you are perfect in everything.</p>
<p>Accepted:
McGill - Anatomy and Cell Biology
UofT - Life Science @ Trin
Queens - Sciences</p>
<p>Rejected:
Ivy league (minus Cornell as I didn’t apply there)
MIT</p>
<p>Waiting:
Mac Health Sci
Mcgill - Immunology and Microbiology
HKU - MBBS and dental surgery (most likely won’t get them anyway)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 730 CR, 770 M, 730 W
ACT: Did not take
SAT II (if submitted): 800 Math II, 780 Chem, 730 Physics, 640 French (ahah)
GPA: 91 cumulative (school translates to 4.0)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/369
AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
IB (place score in parenthesis): 7 Math SL, 6 French SL (May 2009). Predicted 41/45
Senior Year Course Load: Full IB + 1 extra course
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing.</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Teaching for disabled children to swim (volunteer instructor), French club (leader), environmental club, hospital work (submitted reports to city of toronto), french immersion program in quebec, dragonboat paddler and probably some stuff I’m missing.
Job/Work Experience: Tutoring
Volunteer/Community service: Mixed in with the ECs listed up top
Essays: My research mentor liked them.
Teacher Recommendation: Never saw
Counselor Rec: Said it was one of the best she ever written.
Additional Rec: Research mentor (a prof at Mac).
Interview: All but Yale, Columbia and Dartmouth. I think they liked me.</p>
<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: undecided/economics (depended on the school).
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Canada
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (didn’t declare)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 70-90K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Research under two profs? Submitted abstract as additional information.</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: Refs? (I don’t know anymore)
Weaknesses: Scores and nothing that made me stand out enough
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Probably didn’t come through as passionate enough or something was glaringly wrong with my app.
General Comments: It has been a fun ride guys. I’m most likely heading off to McGill unless Mac offers me Health Sci.</p>
<p>wow, this is dumb…such good applicants getting rejected. i’m pretty depressed now, like if you guys didn’t get in i have like no chance</p>
<p>dont give up vigs!!</p>
<p>Don’t give up. Might just be my school (we have yet to send someone to an ivy or top 20 school in the last 7 years) - our salutatorian didn’t in anywhere (WL at Harvard though). She had a 2340 and three 800 SAT IIs. =/</p>
<p>Accepted:
UChicago
Duke
Tufts
Wesleyan
McGill, Western, Queens</p>
<p>Rejected:
Brown, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
WashU</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2190
SAT II (if submitted): 720 Lit, 730 Math I
GPA: 93%
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 11/250
AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: 9 courses, all U courses, all subject areas…
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Editor-in-chief of yearbook, varsity sports (basketball, track, rugby, cross country), student council, a couple of other clubs
Job/Work Experience: swim instructor
Volunteer/Community service: nothing major
Essays: strongest component of my application. in my opinion, my essays are responsible for my acceptances
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t see, but both teachers know me very very well, so I’m assuming they were great
Counselor Rec: also didn’t see, but same situation as teachers
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: I only had interviews for Chicago, Brown and Tufts. All seemed to have gone really well</p>
<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: no
Intended Major: english
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Canada
School Type: private
Ethnicity: caucasian
Gender: female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: essays for sure, possibly recommendations
Weaknesses: no major awards, no “wow” factor
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: definitely the strength of my essays
General Comments: I’m extremely happy with my acceptances. My first choice was Brown, but I honestly cannot complain and I am really excited about my choices. Congrats to everyone else who got in. To future Canadian applicants - though the extra work of applying to the US can at times seem daunting and not worth it, in the end it really pays off. Good luck!</p>
<p>Accepted
UBC
UToronto SG
McMaster
Western
UCLA
UCSB
UCD</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1740 (600,600, 540)
ACT:
SAT II: …its bad
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0) or the %: 3.75 uw 4.1 w
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 3%
AP (place score in parenthesis): 3,3
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: calculus ap, bio ap, english cp, physiology, government cp, econ, desktop publishing,
Major Awards: Honor Guard, Honor Roll, Poet distinction
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Tennis, Health Occupation Students Association, CSF, Soccer, Peers Research Program
Job/Work Experience:
Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at Library for ~2 years
Summer Activities:
Essays:
Teacher Recommendation: they were really good
Counselor Rec: didnt read it
Additional Rec: really good
Interview:
Other
State (if domestic applicant): california
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: public, competitive
Ethnicity: african american
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): eh…i guess minority
Reflection
Strengths: Transcript, EC
Weaknesses: SAT! it was rushed…and i wont even go into it…i did retake it for validation and did WAY better, but by then couldnt send it cause it was too late.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: grades, essay
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: didnt get into cal…eh or hyps…lol waitlisted at darthmouth though
General Comments: i actually attended ucla for a quarter then decided to transfer.i applied for readmission, got in, then applied to a bunch of canadian schools cause im canadian and so on</p>
<p>Accepted by Amherst, Bowdoin, Carleton College (MN), Reed.
Rejected by Caltech, Chicago, Harvey Mudd, MIT, Princeton, Swarthmore, Yale.</p>
<p>SAT: 800CR 750M 790W 800MathII 800WorldHist 770Physics
average: 95/100
AP: 6 5s</p>
<p>ECs: music (local city’s youth symphony, in-demand instrument); Model UN; debating; robotics; assorted math/science contests; creative writing of many kinds (NaNoWriMo!)
Financial aid requested: yes
essays: I thought they were excellent
teacher recs: unconditionally the best student they have ever had, in all cases</p>
<p>That’s about as detailed as I feel like being.</p>
<p>I felt like, with the possible exception of Caltech, I was at least close to being accepted everywhere I applied. Being a financially needy international applicant hurt my chances substantially for most schools I applied to. Ah well. As the baritone says in a John Adams opera, “and yet we must still seize the hour, and seize the day.” Rejection letters are a major cause for ego deflation, but I still have some very good options to choose from.</p>
<p>^man, but Yale and Princeton are need-blind…i would guess that you should’ve gotten a waitlist at least. You have unreal SAT and SAT II and Aps and average.</p>
<p>But yea, you have an awesome choice from lib. arts schools!</p>
<p>“Don’t give up. Might just be my school (we have yet to send someone to an ivy or top 20 school in the last 7 years) - our salutatorian didn’t in anywhere (WL at Harvard though). She had a 2340 and three 800 SAT IIs. =/”</p>
<p>Awwwww dark, I thought you’d get in a few for sure…><
But if you go to Toronto or Mcgill, maybe I’ll join you next year or something. xD</p>
<p>The schools sending ppl to ivy thing, I’m kinda scared about that. According to my gc, we haven’t sent anyone in the last 4~5 years that she knows of…it seems like once ivys start taking students from a school, they continue to do so. = =
I know a couple from last year went to NYU and stuff, but I feel like that’s just a waste of money = =
I hope with me applying for fin aid and stuff, I can at least get into some LACs, even though Brown is what I’m aiming for. T-T</p>
<p>Congratulations to this year’s Canadian applicants! Even if there may have been some disappointment related to the rejections by HYP, keep in mind that this was THE most competitive year for admissions (record low acceptance rates) at those schools – and remember, that does not diminish any of your academic or extracurricular accomplishments or character/personal qualities in any way. You are not automatically “less of a person” if you didn’t get an acceptance from an Ivy League school. You are all a group of highly talented individuals in my book, and I wish you all the best wherever you go. :)</p>
<p>^agreed. when its so tough for US kids to get in, its that much tougher for us. </p>
<p>and about the schools sending kids to Ivies, is it true? once you get a kid a year going to an Ivy for a couple years, do Ivys start favouring some schools over others?? I think our school is sending a girl to an Ivy this year, so i’m getting a tiny bit excited because I thiink I might be the only one in my graduating class next year applying to an Ivy…lol, so like no competition from my own school at least.</p>
<p>uh, no. schools sending kids to ivy just means that the ivies recognize that the school is not a crappy gongshow. it does not mean that theres a quota for the school.</p>
<p>^yea, I didn’t mean it that way. I meant, would you just have a tiny, tiny bit of an advantage, since your school sent a kid to an Ivy the year before?</p>
<p>I realize that they won’t start randomly admitting more kids from my school, but I just wanted to know if it was any sort of advantage.</p>
<p>^I know for sure that ivies favor two types of schools: (very established) private and magnet public schools, where 5 or even 10+ kids go to ivies plus a year, and suburban schools where virtually no one applied to ivies before. The second type is favored because the acceptance of a first-year applicant encourages many more applications in subsequential years. The reason that first applicants from a school seem to have a difficult time getting in is because they too often underestimate the competitiveness and lack guidance to the admissions process.</p>
<p>k, my school’s considered a magnet public and we send off around 3 students to ivies each year out of 120 kids. This year’s theres just me though. it really depends on the class.</p>
<p>Yes, schools like UCC in Toronto send multiple students to IB and they are not necessarily smarter than the top students at our school… that school, however, has a long, well-built history of good connections with Ivy Leagues.</p>
<p>
I am in a small city near Toronto (size = that of Hamilton) and I am not sure whether it counts as “suburban”. Three years ago one guy was accepted by Princeton without any FA so he went to U of Waterloo and got an average of 98%+ in his first year. This year only one girl applied to ivies (I am not sure about those atheletes though) and got rejected almost everywhere. I have no knowledgeble guidance counsellors to help me at all. They probably think that Stanford is an ivy. So I wonder whether our school fits the description.</p>
<p>^lmao, that’'s like my school. I say Ivy League they say…“what’s that?” </p>
<p>Stanford, Rice, Emory, Etc. are all no name schools to my friends. Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, etc…no one knows what they are. They only know Harvard, Yale (some actually dont even know what that is) and Uof Michigan (everyone is huge fans here since we border on Michigan)</p>
<p>I am now officially going to attend Yale in the fall. They finished my financial aid package today and it’s going to cost a quarter of what it would have been for me to go to a Canadian university with residence lol.</p>