<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2150 (Reading:640,Math:800,Writing:710)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Korean w/ Listening:800, Math IIC:750
[<em>] GPA: 3.9W/3.77UW
[</em>] Rank: Top 5% out of 680
[li] Other stats: 10 APs 4 Junior yr,6 Senior yr/TOEFL iBT:112/120</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Decent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Amazing.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Amazing.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Came from Korea 4 years ago... #2 WCG 2002 in VA for StarCraft BroodWar... im not a geek... just have that korean blood... and yes that had to be an amazing hook.</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia
[</em>] School Type: Competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: 100% Korean
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Got into William and Mary and rejected from UPenn/Cornell/JHU/Duke...atleast i got into UVA. woot. **
**General Comments: Pretty sure i did this thing wrong but its ok im kinda retarded...nvm i didnt mess up.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2030
SAT IIs: Math IIC:800 Bio: 720 Physics: 800
GPA: 4.3/4.6 (W)
Rank: No ranking
Other stats: Taking IB, TOEFL CBT: 277</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: I think they are from fine to good
Teacher Recs: Amazing.
Counselor Rec: Amazing.
Hook (if any): Came from Korea 4 years ago</p>
<p>[ b]Location/Person:**
State or Country: New York
School Type: Competitive private
Ethnicity: 100% Korean
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other Factors:Got into JHU, Cornell, UVA, and probably NYU</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:2150 Math: 640 Verbal: 730 Writing: 780
[</em>] SAT IIs:US History: 620; Literature: 780
[<em>] GPA: 4.17 ish
[</em>] Rank: not sure since semester - top 5% at beginning of year
[li] Other stats: IB, took summer course at william and mary</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: pretty good.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 1 really good, 1 ok
[<em>] Counselor Rec:never read it.
[</em>] Hook (if any): i have lots of leadership positions and i'm active in the community</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:VA
[</em>] School Type: Public, but I'm in IB
[<em>] Ethnicity:white.
[</em>] Gender: female.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:NHS Secretary, SNHS president, SCA Service Committee Chair (organize monthly service projects), President of church youth advisory board for 2 consecutive years, representative from my region to the catholic diocese, Model UN treasurer, Tae Kwon Do Black Belt and instructor, TKD State Champ a few years ago, gone on several mission trips including Haiti and Jamaica...</p>
<p>General Comments: I was a bit worried about admissions here because my grades started to drop this year - i had 2 Cs on my midyear report.</p>
<p>**Echols:N
**Rodman:N
[ b]In State
[ b]How Applied: RD</p>
<p>Stats
SAT: 680 v, 570 m, 640 w
SAT IIs: 730 history, 680 literature
GPA: 4.25
Rank: 5/330
Other stats:</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: not good enough apparently
Teacher Recs: not good enough apparently
Counselor Rec: not good enough apparently
Hook (if any): see above
Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
State or Country: va
School Type: rural, terrible and usually sends 1 person to uva per year
Ethnicity: 1/4 asian, white mainly
Gender: female</p>
<p>Other Factors: a big fat SUspension on my record. idk i mean i guess i thought being the president of like every club at our school, captain and four year letterman for a bunch of sports and an overall leader in my school would be advantageous.
[ b]General Comments:[ /b] My only complaint is that i feel as if things would have been different had i not gotten in trouble last year. Obviously that's entirely my fault, so that's my bigger complaint: i failed. It's like 17 years of doing everything right was completely overshadowed by doing one thing wrong. But enough of the sob story.... lesson to all: don't screw up or it will haunt you for the rest of your life. </p>
<p>Echols: N
Rodman: N
Out of State (NY)
How Applied: Considered ED... eventually decided on regular at CAS.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2210 (800 CR 610 M 800 W)
SAT IIs: 800 US History 760 Lit 800 World History 720 Bio-M
GPA: 95.5 uw
Rank: 9/105
Activities: Student body president, four years of golf, founded Junior Statesmen chapter, four years of theatre, distinguished in academic trivia, four years as a primary writer for school newspaper.
Other stats: 5s on AP US History and Biology... all my school offered up to this year. Right now I'm doing Macro/Micro, English Lit (taking the Language exam too), European History, and self-studying World History and US Government/Politics (for the latter I took a semester at Georgetown over the summer... got an A)</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Definitely some of my better ones.
Teacher Recs: One good, one great, one (from my professor whom I had at Georgetown for Junior Statesmen Summer School) absolutely incredible... he said the only way to tell me apart from a Ph.D. is that I will be "exuberant rather than prematurely cynical."
Counselor Rec: Excellent.
Hook (if any): Aside from that one rec, not really.</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Western NY
School Type: Very small public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other Factors: I visited over the summer.... campus took my breath away.</p>
<p>General Comments: Extremely excited..... I'm only the second person to be accepted at UVA in my high school's history (a dismal one it is). I'll definitely be considering Mr. Jefferson's University pretty strongly.... have to check out Hopkins, and see if good news arrives from U of Chicago. Best of luck and congratulations to all!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT:2140 Math: 700 Verbal: 700 Writing: 740
SAT IIs:US History: 680; math IIc: 690
GPA: 3.45 uw ish
Rank: like 150/900 or something like that
Other stats: national hispanic scholar, national merit commended scholar; 8 ap courses and a ton of lame honors courses; ap bio-4, ap us history 5, ap eng lang/comp-4</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: very good
Teacher Recs: i had one teacher who retired write it, virginia never got it, so he faxed it again to them like a week ago. but it was good
Counselor Rec: didn't read it but i'm sure great
Hook (if any): i'm hispanic, i played tennis nationally, i did debate nationally (top 50 in the nation), great writer</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: florida
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: hispanic/asian
Gender: male</p>
<p>Other Factors: i used to play tennis nationally when i was younger but gave it up to concentrate on school and debate. i traveled heavily in debate for 4 years and got a top 50 national ranking. i also transferred from the best prep school in my area to the best public school in my area after the 3rd quarter of my junior year (my old prep school just got 5 kids into harvard out of a class of like 115)</p>
<p>General Comments: i'm really excited. i was accepted at uf, penn state honors business, william and mary, university of michigan-ann arbor with a 20k scholarship, and uva and waitlisted at cornell. uva was my first true college love, so maybe i'll end up here.</p>
<p>ArThriTiC_kr - HAHAHA, I'm a big StarCraft fan too, although from your ranking I'd say you'd make short work of me. Out of curiosity, what's your species of choice (I'm a Protoss man)?</p>
<p>Echols: N
Rodman: N
How Applied: RD, got likely letter</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I: 2050
SAT IIs: 630, 600, 780
ACT: N/A
GPA: 3.8 UW
Rank: 26/320
Other stats: idk?
Subjective:
Essays: Some of the best ones I've written
Teacher Recs: Good
Counselor Rec: Good
Hook (if any): Graphic designer, classical bengali dancer
Location/Person:
State or Country: Virginia, USA!
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian, but didn't put it on app
Gender: Female
Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: Design, definitely, and awards
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Essays.. for favorite natural phenomenon essay I talked about childbirth</p>
<p>Echols: No **
*Rodman: No *
*Out Of State *
**How Applied:RD
{College Of Arts and Sciences} Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2090 (Math:690 CR: 700 Wr: 700)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math IIC:750 Physics: 730 US History:700
[<em>] GPA: about a 95 unweighted
[</em>] Rank: 17 out of 619
[li] Other stats: AP exams: 5 on pysch, 5 on US Hist, 4 on Eng lang and comp, 3 on physics B</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: My essays were legit, the one i took from the common app (the free response) was ona the best things ive ever wrtitten.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: one was great said everything u could about me one was aight.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: It was great said a lot of good things about me.
[</em>] Hook (if any): none at all im white no alum oos</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New York
[</em>] School Type: Very big (and academically very good) public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:none?? General Comments:yesss got into ona my top choices</p>
<p>aplacefortruth-
No, I was actually not Rodman, which to me makes my acceptance even more surprising. If you take out all the URM/Legacy/ Recruited Athlete/Rodmans in the OOS applicant pool... I'd think kids like me would have a less than 10% chance. Anyway I'm just very glad and excited. Accepted today at ND by the way so I'll choose between ND/tOSU/and UVa.</p>
<p>*Echols: Not to my knowledge *
*Rodman: Not to my knowledge *
*In State *
*Deferred ED, Accepted RD *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 700 Math, 640 Reading, 680 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 690 Math IIC, 690 Chem
[<em>] GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.0 W
[</em>] Rank: ~top 10% at least
[li] APs: 4 Chem, 4 Eng Lang, 4 US Hist; taking 4 APs senior year</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: More like "minibiographies." LOL
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Very nice!
[<em>] Counselor Rec: The best, most likely.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Co-started a lit mag club in 10th grade and a creative writing class in 11th grade.</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NOVA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: No sports, no jobs, plenty extracurriculars and community service. General Comments: I cried for hours when I was deferred in December and (literally) kept saying I had no more future. ^_^ Congratulations to all accepted! If you weren't, this is not the end of the world. Believe me, I know (read my first general comment).</p>
<p>[ b]Echols: No [ /b]
[ b]Rodman: No [ /b]
[ b]In State[ /b]
[ b]How Applied: RD [ /b]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 790 Writing, 730 Verbal, 590 Math
[ *] SAT IIs: 700 Lit, 710 US History, 600 Math
[ *] GPA: 3.7 UW, weighted still being fixed by guidance
[ *] Rank: top 4%
[ *] Other stats: Specialty Center at school; I represent one of the eight Superintendent Regions to the Virginia State Board of Education; was secretary and vice president of the student government at school, now serve as president; Authored the first draft of the constitution for the county student government; Was sent last year to the Hague International Model United Nations in the Hague, Netherlands, for a week (main submitter, debater), then served as a student ambassador in Germany the next week; Won a few composition contests; Secretary of the Commonwealth at Boys' State; All-State chorus last year; Ranked third baritone in state at Virginia Honors Choir this year</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Thought they were pretty good
[ *] Teacher Recs: Told they were the best they've written
[ *] Counselor Rec: Same as above
[ *] Hook (if any): I sent in a string quartet I recently composed as well as a three-act play I wrote this past fall. A healthy amount of leadership may have helped as well and perhaps being a minority.</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Virginia
[ *] School Type: Fairly large school--moderate, not magnet or spectacular but great students
[ *] Ethnicity: African-American
[ *] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Other Factors:** Hm, think I may have listed those above. Perhaps I should've put them here, ha.[
[ b]General Comments:** I'm very happy with my acceptance and will most likely attend Mr. Jefferson's University. To those not offered admission, do not worry, there is a place for everyone, and with each place comes new and exciting opportunities. Where you go, where we all go, we will grow into better and stronger people. Have a great rest of the year, guys!</p>
<p>...and it also seems I can't post with HTML, ha.</p>
<p>Echols: No **
*Rodman: No *
**oos PA
*How Applied: RD *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 700 Writing, 730 Verbal, 760 Math
[</em>] SAT IIs: 700 Lit, 710 US History, 780 Math2
[<em>] GPA: 94.2 UW, my weighted is on a weird system so i wont bother
[</em>] Rank: top 6%
[<em>] Other stats: A fair amount of ECs, 2 varsity sports, student council, debate, a couple honor societies, etc
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: must have been good i guess
[<em>] Teacher Recs: written by 2 very strong writers
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably pretty good
[<em>] Hook (if any): Not much of anything really, well rounded if that counts[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: PA
[<em>] School Type: Public, not huge not small
[</em>] Ethnicity: caucasian
[li] Gender: Male</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: eh not really anything exciting** General Comments: It comes down to UVA and UNC, congrats to all accepted</p>
<p>Echols: Yes!
Rodman: No, I'm not into engineering.
In-state
Regular Decision</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 2260 (730 Math, 740 Verbal, 790 Writing)
[ *] SAT IIs: 750 Molecular Biology, 750 US History, 740 Math IIC
[ *] GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.85 weighted
[ *] Rank: 6 out of approximately 500
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Good and creative, sort of quirky. I'm sure they got a kick out of my "favorite word" essay.
[ *] Teacher Recs: Didn't read, but probably glowing
[ *] Counselor Rec: Enthusiastic, but with many spelling errors (haha)
[ *] ECs: President of 2 school clubs, school newspaper, classical piano (12 years), gallery educator at science museum, Interact Club, NHS, Beta, etc.
[ *] Hook (if any): Uhhh, Virginia resident? Biology and Journalism interests? I have no idea.
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Virginia
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Off-white (LOL)
[ *] Gender: Female
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] No interview, not a legacy
[ b]General Comments:[ /b] Yay! I was really happy to have received Echols because it's apparently quite good :-) Are any of the other Echols scholars going up this Friday? If so, I hope to see you there!</p>
<p>Echols: N [ /b]
**Rodman: N [ /b]
**In State [ /b]
**How Applied: ED [ /b]</p>
<p>**Stats:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] SAT: 660-CR, 710-M, 680-M
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math IC-740, Chem-660
[<em>] GPA:3.88 UW, 3.96 W (school is stingy about weightage impossible to get above 4.15)
[</em>] Rank: 12/320
[li] Other stats: IB Diploma </p>[/li]
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] Essays: Worked very hard, got parents,teachers, friends to peer edit and add suggestions--id say great
[</em>] Teacher Recs: had her for 2 years she loved me
[<em>] Counselor Rec: i guess she likes me but i have no clue
[</em>] Hook (if any): leadership, 5 honor societies, comm service</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[<em>] State or Country: FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA
[</em>] School Type: Small public school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian (Asian)
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>