***Official Carnegie Mellon University 2016 RD Results***

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<p>Copy, paste, and good luck!</p>

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

<p>Objective:[ul]</p>

<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recommendation:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Additional Rec:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Country (if international applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Strengths:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments:[/noparse]

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<p>when are these even released?</p>

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<p>The first wave of decisions are mailed March 23 and the results are posted online on the “Where am I in the process” page on March 27, which is about the time the acceptance packages should reach homes, depending on how close you live to Pittsburgh. I live near NYC, so if I get accepted, I should get my decision on March 25 or 26 (if part of the first wave of acceptances)</p>

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<p>WOAH RELLE? how do u kno?
MADDD EXCIIITED.</p>

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<p>Cornellite95, check the CMU admissions Facebook page. It has contact status updates about this :)</p>

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<p>The fat book reached me before the online status changed as I recall.</p>

<p>I still have my fat book :)</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

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<p>I received a letter from CMU particularly the Reduced Income Guide & Form… </p>

<p>Since decisions have been mailed already and are supposed to be posted tonight, does this mean a possible acceptance ??? (:</p>

<p>Gah, I just can’t wait to check in the morning!</p>

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<p>Guess I should just copy/paste into the official RD forum (already posted in the other one)</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted to Tepper and HSS</p>

<p>Stats:

  • SAT:2280 (740 Math, 760 English, 780 Writing)
  • SAT IIs: Literature: 740, Chemistry: 760, Math I: 780
  • ACT: 34
  • GPA: 4.904/4.000 weighted, 3.95/4.00 unweighted
  • Rank: 6/425
  • Competitions/Prizes: National Merit Finalist, National Honors Society, High School Science Team (3 hrs/week), #1 Nationally Ranked High School Soccer Team and #5 Nationally Ranked Club Soccer Team (15 hrs/week, 10 months/year)
  • Other stats:</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Essays: Strong, but not incredible, though the grammar was perfect and I consider myself fairly articulate. I wrote on morals in today’s society and my strong conscience.
  • CMU Supplement: Pretty generic; I wrote a simple essay on why I wanted to go into business and how CM would help me with this. It was pretty much a cut-and-paste from an essay I had written for all of the schools to which I applied, but it was strong and well-written.
  • Teacher Recs: One was phenomenal, from my 10th grade business teacher who had me for two classes that year. The other–I have no idea. I have reason to suspect that it was either a very lackadaisical “eh” essay or one that could have hurt me in admissions.
  • Counselor Rec: Very good, but not sure how much weight this carries.
  • Hook (if any): From the South, also tons of support from the soccer coach at CM. I think that this was the main thing that pushed me through. I would have liked to post this earlier, but was told not to say anything until admissions officially came out.</p>

<p>Location/Person:

  • State or Country: SC
  • School Type: Large Public
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Gender: Male
  • Application (ED/RD?): RD</p>

<p>Other Factors: Never visited campus, did an interview, showed much interest to the admissions department, but was still accepted. I would recommend doing all of this, though, because the school does take these things into great consideration when making decisions.</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted (CIT)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 730 math, 800 reading, 780 writing
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Physics, 800 Math II
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on: AP World Hist, US Hist, Calc AB, Gov, English Lang
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 7 on HL Phys, 7 on SL math, some other oens. 38/45 overall on diploma (did it a year early)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: College classes, AP classes, Internship
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Robotics team won local FIRST robotics regional and Chairman’s Award. Nat’l Merit Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): LOTS of activity on robotics team. (Team Treasurer, Senior Build Officer). Spent over 1000 hours on this team over past 3.5 years.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Intern at University of Washington Neurobotics Lab
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: I demonstrate robots at local science fairs; helped to create 5 FLL robotics teams, helped run a robotics summer camp to promote science/tech education in my community.
[</em>] Summer Activities:
[<em>] Essays: eh.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: One that I bet was pretty good, another that I’m not sure of (only knew me a few months before writing it). I got another rec from my research mentor at the lab I intern at.
No interview</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): WA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[li] Gender: Male</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Weak essays. I wrote my CIT essay in about three hours.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to University of Washington, Georgia Tech. Rejected at MIT and Caltech.</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>Too lazy to change the format.</p>

<p>Accepted (SCS)
Accepted (MCS Math)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2360 (790 CR/800 M/770 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 800x3 Math 2, Physics, Chem, 780 US Hist, 770 Bio M
[<em>]GPA: 3.91 UW (Bs in 10th grade chem, 11th grade English, AP English, AP Japanese)
[</em>]Rank: school doesn’t rank, but top 9% according to UCs
[<em>]AMC: 93 AMC 12, 102 AMC 10
[</em>]AP: Calc BC, Chem, CS A, Lang, Music, Phy B, Phy C (both), Psych, Stats, US Hist (all 5 except Music and E&M). Planned: Bio, Lit, Japanese, Econ (both), E&M retake.
[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Decent
[</em>]Teacher Recs: probably decent
[<em>]Counselor Rec: probably decent
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Research mentor rec
[li]Hook (recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: California
[</em>]High School Type: Very competitive public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: Male
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Math/science competitions - USAMTS, JETS-TEAMS (now TSA-TEAMS) varsity captain, FIRST Tech Challenge, etc. Astrophysics research. Admin of school web portal and wiki. Co-president of Computer Science Club. Piano. AwesomeMath Summer Program. CTY.
[</em>]Awards: NACLO Invitational qualifier, USAMTS Honorable Mention, National Merit Finalist, National AP Scholar
[/ul]</p>

<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Scores
[</em>] Weaknesses: Everything else
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My hard work, and a bit of luck.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: MIT reject; Caltech waitlist; UCLA, UIUC, UCSD, UCI, Cal Poly accept
[/ul]General Comments: CMU SCS is my first (realistic) choice, so I’m really excited about this! :smiley: Congrats to those accepted, hoping for the best for those waitlisted, and my condolences to those rejected. Good luck to everyone!</p>

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<p>Son got waitlisted, Tepper and HSS. Not sure what to think about that, had expected acceptance or denial, but not waitlist.</p>

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<p>For Tepper, I was waitlisted</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1256342-chance-me-wharton-harvard-columbia-etc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1256342-chance-me-wharton-harvard-columbia-etc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>stats are there.</p>

<p>I’m honestly surprised.</p>

<p>I got into Rice, Babson, Case Western, UChicago, Preferred Admission to Ross at UMich, UVA out of state, Wash U, and Rice.</p>

<p>I didn’t know Tepper was so hard to get into. I guess I was arrogant, but I basically thought I was in. Oh well, plenty of good choices and still waiting for the big ones.</p>

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<p>Rejected… both HSS and MCS -_-
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE ELSE!</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Did not send
[</em>] ACT: 34 ACT (35 Math, 34 Reading, 34 English, 31 Science)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 770 Chem
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10% no ranking
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem (5), US History (4), English Lang (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Calc BC, Organic Chem, Anatomy, Spanish at County College
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): High school swim team (captain), elite swim club (captain), spanish honors society (treasurer), key club (secretary/ grade rep), non profit organization (director of public relations / event coordinator), Diversity Club (Vice President), Newspaper, Science Honors society, National Honors society, Student liaison to town board of health (only one selected)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Lifeguard, Assisstant Swim Coach
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Countless hours at habitat for Humanity, soup kitchen, done missions trips at Haiti and Dominican Republic
[<em>] Summer Activities: Lifeguard
[</em>] Essays: Alright
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good, from someone who went to CMU
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Generic
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: She loved me haha</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Not relevant
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Extracirricular
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not really sure
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Vanderbilt today!</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to all those who got in. I am not upset at all, did not plan on going there, but everyone who was accepted you guys deserved it!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted H&SS</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):2320 800R/800W/720M
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II:760 Math2 770 USHistory
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):15/200ish
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):Bio, USHistory, Calc AB, Eng Language, all 5s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:Jazz and Concert band, choir, hispanic lit, AP Gov, AP Eng, AP Enviro, Advanced Chem
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF, some AP Scholar Thing
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Cross Country, went to state three years with the team, captain. Pretty good but not really recruitable. Definitely going to keep running, though.</p>

<p>Band, I’ve done pretty much every band thing available. Jazz, concert, pep, marching. First trumpet, drum major. All-state for three years. No audition</p>

<p>A few others, not super important though</p>

<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Yard Work over the summer
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Random stuff… decent amount of hours though
[<em>] Summer Activities: bit of work. running/marching band
[</em>] Essays: My common app was really neat. I wrote about all the different things I can see myself doing in the future. The smaller ec one was about finding excellence, in xc and band. The supplement was kind of rambly, all over the place. Mentioned Daniel Wilson, who first got me really interested in CMU.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’d assume good. Didn’t read.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Cookie-Cutter.
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: Went really well, had a very nice interviewer who took full advantage of all CMU had to offer (travel abroad, double major across colleges, etc etc) so we had lots to talk about</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Washington State
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public, rural
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Income Bracket: upper middle class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): rural? I wrote the additional common app essay about growing up in a small town</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Common app essay. test scores. applying to the “easy” college
[</em>] Weaknesses: rambly “why CMU” essay, lowest grades in history and english… and I applied to the humanities and social studies school lol
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: test scores
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: rejected UChicago, waitlisted Pomona, accepted Willamette and LAke Forest. Waiting on Brown, Harvey Mudd, and Reed.[/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 750CR 800M 640W
[</em>] ACT: 30E 33M 34R 36S
[<em>] SAT II: 790MII 780Chem 780USHistory
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB, US history, European History, Government 5s Chemistry 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 5 APs, 3 College enrollment
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 3 ECs, leadership in all three
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: one summer
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays: great essays
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: mediocre
[</em>] Counselor Rec: mediocre
[<em>] Additional Rec: mediocre
[</em>] Interview: none</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): South Carolina
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Average Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT I and Essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT IIs
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m Indian and I didn’t match up to other Indians
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Maryland and Clemson</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted (H&SS)
Decision: Waitlisted (SCS)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: CR-710/M-740/W-800
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: Math II-800; Chemistry-770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[<em>] Rank: never asked, but probably top 4 or 5
[</em>] AP: USH (4), Calc AB (5), Chem (5), English Lang (5)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Bio, AP Psych, AP Calc, AP English, Wind Ensemble
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Marching band (4 years, 2 section leader), Tri-M (4 yrs, current
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: local pizza shop from Sept. to present.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[</em>] Summer Activities:
[<em>] Essays:
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation:
[<em>] Counselor Rec:
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type:
[</em>] Ethnicity:
[<em>] Gender:
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths:
[</em>] Weaknesses:
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted ~ H&SS</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2340 (800 Math, 800 Writing, 740 Critical Reading)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Math Level 2, 720 Chemistry
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry, Computer Science, Calculus AB, Statistics, Literature
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Stats, AP Lit, Hon. Physics, and various other nonessential electives
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended, State Awards for Science
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mostly political stuff
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: See above
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: See above
[</em>] Summer Activities: Columbia Summer Programs, Political Internships
[<em>] Essays: Pretty good, felt solid with the Carnegie Supp
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>] Additional Rec: Great, from a politician I interned with
[li] Interview: Didn’t have one</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Korean-American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $200k+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Absolutely None</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Test Scores, Extracurricular Activities
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test Scores and ECs
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted Michigan, Waitlisted at Bowdoin, WUSTL, Wesleyan, Rejected at Chicago and Pomona</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments: </p>

<p>College admissions is a crapshoot so you’re going to want to pick schools that are fairly formulaic in admissions. Also, don’t be like me and have super high test scores with a decent but not amazing GPA. Have the total package. Trust me, it helps.</p>

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<p>Waitlisted for SCS and MCS.
I didn’t really show any interest at all, so I’m kind of surprised I wasn’t rejected.</p>