<p>rejected - only applied because it was free though so i’m okay :-)</p>
<p>Just a note: On my stats on the previous page, I forgot to delete and place what I did in the Essay section (I just copied the template from someone above). My essay was about how Beethoven’s music has influenced me.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
[ul]SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (800CR, 790M, 800W - 10E)
[<em>]SAT I superscore (breakdown): only took it once
[</em>]SAT II: 790 Chemistry, 790 US History, 740 Spanish (reading)
[<em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.80ish?
[</em>]Weighted GPA: 4.25
[<em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>]AP (place score in parentheses): 5s on Chemistry, Biology, US History, and English Lang.
[<em>]Senior Year Course Load: AP U.S. Gov’t., AP Spanish Lang., Orchestra, AP English Lit., AP Calc BC, AP Physics B
[</em>]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None. Some sort of AP Scholar thing, and a Brandeis Book Award.[/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:
[ul]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Debate team (co-captain and -founder), Literary magazine (co-editor), Jazz band (principal bassist lol), NHS and Tri-M and other random stuff
[<em>]Job/Work Experience: I work at a local hotel on the banquet staff.
[</em>]Volunteer/Community service: Absolutely ZERO indicated on Common App.
[<em>]Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):
[</em>]Essays: Common App essays were great, I thought. Writing has always been one of my strong suits. Carleton Supplement essay was fine too, I guess.
[<em>]Teacher Recommendation #1: Amazing. This teacher has given em some downright-terrifying compliments. She basically deifies me haha.
[</em>]Teacher Recommendation #2: Probably quite good as well, albeit less fervent.
Counselor Rec: I would imagine this was decent. I know my counselor pretty well from red-tape stuff when I was starting the debate team.
[<em>]Additional: Rec: N/A
[</em>]Interview: None. I probably should have at least tried to set one up; I didn’t show much interest in the school at all lol.
[li]Art Supplement: Sent in recordings of me playing classical upright bass and also a link to my flickr portfolio.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other:</p>
<p><a href=“if%20domestic%20applicant”>list</a>: Connecticut
[<em>]Country (if international applicant): USA
[</em>]School Type: Decent public
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: male
[<em>]Income Bracket: middle class (complicated)
[</em>]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A[/list]</p>
<p>Reflection:</p>
<p>[ul]Strengths: Test scores, essays, teacher recs.
[<em>]Weaknesses: Total lack of community service, weak extracurriculars.
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My academics were strong. I didn’t visit or interview, so I was expecting a waitlist, but I’m delighted to be offered a place at Carleton!
[li]Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at UChicago (EA), UConn (EA), Northeastern (EA); Waitlisted at Rice; Waiting on a plethora of schools.[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments: Carleton gave me a really, really good financial aid package, so it definitely has moved upward on my list! I’ll visit over April vacation.</p>
<p>WoW! I found a big fat envelope in my mail box 
:)</p>
<p>Yea! Just got the Carleton Accepted Packet in the mail today!</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I : CR 740, M 800, W 740
ACT: 35
SAT II: 800 Physics, 800 Math 2, 780 Spanish</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 unweighted, 4.71 weighted
Rank: 1 / 302
AP: National AP Scholar, 11 AP exams (9 fives, 2 fours)</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: AP English and full schedule at local state university
Major Awards: National Merit Finalist, Siemens AP Math/Science for TN, Nat’l AP Scholar, NHS, Statewide music awards, etc</p>
<p>Extracurriculars : Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow, Senior Patrol Leader, many other BSA things, Lots of music --three youth orchestras, midstate bands, varsity swim team four years, etc
Job/Work Experience: started math tutoring business in 7th grade, tutor many HS kids regularly
Volunteer/Community service: ESL tutoring of Kindergartners 2 years, 1 yr mentor/tutor middle school immigrant boy, BSA service
Summer Activities: Michigan Math and Science Scholars, Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, Governor’s School (music). </p>
<p>Essays: so-so I thought
Teacher Recommendation: assume were good
Counselor Rec: assume was good
Additional Rec: Gov School music prof
Interview: Yes, on campus. Went well, I thought.</p>
<p>State: Tennessee
School Type: Public, suburban
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: upper middle class
Hooks : maybe region? from TN, Music, Natl Merit, Siemens award</p>
<p>Strengths: scores, grades, rank, extracurriculars, tons of APs with high scores
Weaknesses: ?
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: see above
Where else were you accepted: Amherst, Brown, Columbia in NY, Dartmouth, Grinnell, Macalester, Pomona, Vanderbilt (with full merit scholarship), Williams.
Still waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Yale.</p>
<p>Carleton is my number 1. But… their need aid is way less than some others, and that does matter (not to mention the full ride at Vandy that could be hard to say NO to).</p>
<p>hi everyone,</p>
<p>if you know, did any international student receive a package from the college?
As I know, last year carleton notified students that their packages were sent and that they could track it. If anyinternational student is not contacted by anyone from carleton, does it mean that he/she is rejected? However, there is no email sent yet.</p>
<p>Azer1993 email them and ask them to email you your decision too. As it would take ages for you to receive your decision via snail mail.</p>
<p>waitlisted :/</p>
<p>Me too Titan.
IT HURTS!</p>
<p>It won’t let me edit my post, but I (kgkendall) posted my stats above, and I forgot to add that I am an AP Scholar and placed in the Silver Medal division of the National Spanish Exam my first three years of high school. Also, I got waitlisted at Pitzer today.</p>
<p>Rme123 Are you an international too? If so, how did you find out about your decision?
Btw, I think it’s weekend and no one will respond to my question until monaday. Anyway, thank you for your suggestion.</p>
<p>LOL! I got an answer to my email in a jiffy. Yes I am an international. I sent them that emai. Soon after they told me to check my portal!</p>
<p>Don’t know if it was a response to my email or if it was sent earlier.
Check your portal & if it’s not there send them an email.</p>
<p>yeah, I checked that portal, but nothing has been put on it. Unfortunately, I think I will most likely be rejected or waitlisted, because of requesting a lot of financial aid.</p>
<p>Yeah. I requested for a huge amount of aid too.</p>
<p>@RME123, you emailed them and they told you to look at your status page? the one with all the received documents? Seriously? I don’t see any button with the decision :/</p>
<p>Yes seriously!
There’s a status update hyperlink on my page.</p>
<p>& idk if they sent their email as a reply or if it was meant to be sent to me anyway, but I received that email minutes after I sent the email to them.</p>
<p>There is no hyperlink on my page lol.</p>
<p>Try emailing them I guess.</p>
<p>I don’t have any links with status updates. And when I emailed them earlier this week, they said they will not be emailing people with the decisions earlier than 29-30 March. And if I don’t receive my decision then, I should e-mail them.</p>
<p>The fact that you can and a lot of people can see the decision online just doesn’t speak to me of good things. I had same feeling when I was reading about Smith sending its decisions. And - what do you know? - I was denied.</p>
<p>Crap 
I rrrreally liked Carleton.</p>