<p>Stats:
SAT: Didn't submit
ACT: 31
SAT Subject Tests: Didn't submit
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.97w, 28/365
APs / other stats: 3 APs this year
Major awards/ECs: Science Olympiad (President and awards including 1st in state in Astronomy), Environmental Club (Co-President), Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief), Math League, NHS</p>
<p>Also: Independent Research with a Physics professor all of last summer (and he wrote me a rec)</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: Good
Teacher Recs: ? I think good
Counselor Rec: ???
Interview: none
Hook (if any): Physics research? I don't know.</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): NJ
Ethnicity & Gender: White Male
Major strength/weakness: Grades were small weakness
Your thoughts on your decision: I still have to hear from Johns Hopkins and Brown (though I'm expecting rejections), and Lehigh is my school after those. So, there is a good chance I will end up at Lehigh. I'm excited!</p>
<p>idlaunva, maybe you didn't get in because the admissions staff thought you sounded like an egotistical jackass just based on your application. I dunno, just a thought (because that's the impression I get).</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-720 V-780 W-760
ACT: -
SAT Subject Tests: bio (m) - 720, history 750
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.305 3/379
APs / other stats: so far, 5 in bio, 4 in composition and history, taking calculus, spanish and literature now
Major awards/ECs: band, winterguard, odyssey of the mind, varsity softball. a plethora of jumbled stuff. national merit scholar, ap scholar, all those things</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: bleh
Teacher Recs: one amazing, one fair
Counselor Rec: dont know
Interview: didnt have one
Hook (if any): naaah</p>
<p>Personal: - </p>
<p>Location (State or Country): jersey
Ethnicity & Gender: white/ female
Major strength/weakness: great grades and completely involved in too many extracurriculars. I really tried to show that academics were natural and i dedicated to become an actual person.
Your thoughts on your decision: i got 10,000 a year and honors program, im psyched!
Any other comments: whooot</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: didn't submit
ACT:31
SAT Subject Tests: didn't submit
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 9/437
APs / other stats: None offered at school
Major awards/ECs: National latin exam silver medal... Awards for community service...</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: I wrote about three sentences for "Why lehigh" because yeah that was a dumb decision to not put time into it. haha oops
Teacher Recs: they made my mom cry...in a good way
Counselor Rec: excellent (3 pages long)
Interview: nope
Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): Ct
Ethnicity & Gender: White/Native American
Major strength/weakness: Grades(Never got a b), Internationally ranked fencer/ Nationally ranked.
Your thoughts on your decision: Well, yeah I'm an idiot... probably shouldn't have been lazy on the essay.
Any other comments:</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: Didn't get sent (1940)
ACT: 34
SAT Subject Tests: Didn't get sent (800 Math II and 740 Bio)
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.7UW, 15% out of around 300
APs / other stats: 4 in AP Gov, taking Calc AB and Bio this year
Major awards/ECs: The usual list</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): Vermont
Ethnicity & Gender: White Male
Major strength/weakness: Strong at Math, not so strong at Language
Your thoughts on your decision: What a day! Came w/ acceptances to Lafayette, Union and U of Rochester
Any other comments: Good luck to everyone else</p>
<p>Decision: waitlisted (not accepting spot on waitlist)</p>
<p>SATs: 770cr, 700m, 720 w
SATII: 730 M2, 670 chem
GPA: 3.8 uw<br>
RANK: top 10% NY public school</p>
<p>subjective:
Essays: wrote good essay about visiting lehigh campus which is why im surprisedi got waitlisted.
recommendations were good, very personal.
Hooks: none</p>
<p>i thought id be accepted easilly. it seems lots of qualified ppl are waitlisted. i already got into some top schools so i dont really care. but, congrats to those who got in!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted College of Business and Economics</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-740 V-680 W-650
SAT Subject Tests: MathII-800 US History-720 Physics-700
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.95/4.3 W ~3.8/4.0 UW (class rank not reported)
APs / other stats: Taking 5 APs this year along with an honors course. Will have completed 9 AP tests by end of senior year. Midyear was straight A's in 5 APs and an Honors.
Major awards/ECs: Nothing really big.</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): mid-atlantic
Ethnicity & Gender: Asian Male
Major strength/weakness: Lack of interest.
Your thoughts on your decision: I kind of expected it, I should've shown more interest.
Any other comments: Might accept a spot on the waitlist. Though I think I'm set on NYU-stern, which I was accepted to a few days back. Congrats to all that made it!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-780 V-670 W-690
ACT: n/a
SAT Subject Tests: Math II: 770, US History: 700
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.95 UW, 4.58 W, Top 5%
APs / other stats: like 5 taken, 3 this year
Major awards/ECs: Varsity Basketball (Captain), SGA Vice President, NHS, and some more</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: Maybe rushed, but good content
Teacher Recs: Real Good
Counselor Rec: Pretty Good I think
Interview: n/a
Hook (if any): Four of my great uncles graduated from Lehigh in 1951, not a huge legacy but a cool story</p>
<p>Personal</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): Maryland
Ethnicity & Gender: White Male
Major strength/weakness: hmm
Your thoughts on your decision: Excited cause I got the dean's scholarship
Any other comments: Now it just comes down to deciding where I wanna go</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-590 V-590 W-600
ACT: 23
SAT Subject Tests: Math II: 690, Spanish: 410
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.84 UW, 5.84 W, Top 1%
APs / other stats: Taken 3 AP Courses, and currently taking AP Cal BC, taken IB Chemistry and IB Matehmatics SL exams and received scores of 5 on both
Major awards/ECs: National Ventures Scholar, Perfect Attendance (k-12), President of Church Youth Department, visisting nursing home, church youth choir, started tutoring program at school</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: Great
Teacher Recs: Great
Counselor Rec: Not sure
Interview: n/a
Hook (if any): URM, had a wonderful email conversation with Dean of Admissions</p>
<p>Personal</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): Florida
Ethnicity & Gender: African American Male
Major strength/weakness: Grades, essays/SAT scores</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Stats:
SAT: M-790 V-700 W-640
ACT: 33
SAT Subject Tests: Bio-760 Math I-720
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.63 unweighted 3.92 weighted, unranked but maybe top 20th percentile?
APs / other stats: AP Bio-5 Taking AP calc AB now
Major awards/ECs: NHS, Varsity Football, Nat'l merit</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: Hopefully better than the 8 I got on the SAT writing section...
Teacher Recs: IDK, they dont let you see em...
Counselor Rec: snuck a peek, it was solid
Interview: Didnt happen
Hook (if any): Who needs a hook when you're an upper-middleclass white boy</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): CT
Ethnicity & Gender: White guy
Major strength/weakness: SATs
Your thoughts on your decision: Sweet....
Any other comments: woo.</p>
<p>Decision: WAIT LISTED
Stats:
SAT: M-710 V-700 W-650
ACT: 32
SAT Subject Tests: Math I: 700, Chem: 700, BioE: 700, BioM:780
GPA, Class Rank/Size: ~93 Top 15%
APs / other stats: Taken 2 AP Courses (bio:5, us2ap:4), and currently taking 3 (psych, chem, physics)
Major awards/ECs: ridiculous amount of volunteering hrs (hospital, soccer/bball coach), SGA, Eco Club Treasurer, Fencing Captain..many others...</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: Cant imagine having written anything better, but who am i to judge my own work
Teacher Recs: idk..not allowed to read them
Counselor Rec: ^^
Interview: n/a
Hook (if any): ...</p>
<p>Personal</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): NJ
Ethnicity & Gender: Indian (Asian) Male
Major strength/weakness: Strength: A pretty solid all around student, SAT's...Weaknesses: "A pretty solid all around student" (nothing that distinguishing about me), one of the most popular places to apply in my school..3 got accepted the rest of us got waitlisted.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: didn't send
ACT: 31
SAT Subject Tests: didn't send
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.7(something) unweighted, 4.2 weighted, top 15%
APs / other stats: my school doesn't offer many APs, i had one last year and three this year
Major awards/ECs: tons of dancing awards (national dancer of the year, etc), science club pres, doctors of tomorrow pres, nhs, ccd teacher, altar server, over 400 community service hours, ......</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: i don't even remember
Teacher Recs: good
Counselor Rec: good
Interview: none
Hook (if any): i thought all of my dancing would be.. approx. 30 hrs a week plus hundreds of awards... but i guess not =</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): florida
Ethnicity & Gender: white upper class female
Major strength/weakness: strength: ECs? weakness: class rank? idk
Your thoughts on your decision: ehh idk.. i guess i had my hopes up.. i applied to jhu ED and got deferred so i did EDII at vandy and got rejected and i think lehigh was my next choice and i didn't get in here either.. buttttt i'll probably take a spot on the waitlist because i suppose it can't hurt!
Any other comments: congratulations to all of you that got in!! =]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1900 (m660 v640 w600)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II 600, Math I 630, Lit 510
[<em>] GPA: 3.8w
[</em>] Rank: none
[<em>] Other stats: APUS 4
[</em>] EC's: Varsity swimming captain, varsity tennis captain, orchestra
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Very good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: one decent, one real good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: decent
[</em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CT
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: ECs, Essays
[</em>] special skills/abilities: none
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: diddnt send...
ACT: 31
SAT Subject Tests: chem 690, us hist 610, lit 550
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.4 Weighted...5/216
APs / other stats: Chem, Modern euro, American, Stats...i went to a summer scholars pprogam last summer at Washington U. in St. Louis
Major awards/ECs: 5 Varsity Letters, went to Buckeye Boys State, Mock trial, Student Gov., NHS, </p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: i thought they were great, reflected on my experiences at buckeye boys state
Teacher Recs: good, i dont really know what to say about them...
Counselor Rec: good
Interview: none, wish i did have one though
Hook (if any):</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): ohio
Ethnicity & Gender: Male, did not put ethnicity down on my app, so it diddnt matter
Major strengths: essays/ recs...weaknesses: SAT II's? mid year report this year was kinda bad in comparison to my overall transcript
Your thoughts on your decision: im pretty happy....im glad i got in</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-800 V-710 W-680 (12 essay)
ACT: ---
SAT Subject Tests: mathI-720, mathII-680, and UShist which was low and I totally forgot what I had.. it was under 700 though.
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.65UW, 4.5W... top 11% out of ~420
APs / other stats: US hist, world hist, english lang, english lit, calculusAB, comp sci A, psychology, french
Major awards/ECs: I have a lot of local/state art awards, worked for natl science foundation, cultural club (more important than it appears), volunteered as art teacher to elementary school kids, etc.. around 100 volunteer hours total</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: ok. i liked my common app essay but my lehigh essay was just so-so.
Teacher Recs: great
Counselor Rec: ok. generic template thing.
Interview: nope, visited campus though
Hook (if any): female in computer science?</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): kentucky
Ethnicity & Gender: chinese, female
Major strength/weakness: i never know what to put here
Etc: awesome! i liked the campus when i visited over the summer. then i found about its diversity (or rather lack of).. was kind of disappointed..</p>
<p>grats everyone who got in :)
not pleased with financial aid.. i prolly wont be attending cos fin aid is a huge factor for me ):</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to engineering, but rejected from integrated business/engineering program</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-690 V-630 W-740
ACT: 29
SAT Subject Tests: 680 math 1, 640 bio
GPA, Class Rank/Size: ~3.65UW, no rank
APs / other stats: AP clac, stat, lit, bio
Major awards/ECs: varsity hockey captain, varsity xc captain, varsity track all-star</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: i'd say my common app ones were excellent.. lehigh ones weren't anything special but not bad
Teacher Recs: one very good, one i don't know
Counselor Rec: no idea
Interview: yes, went well (the only school i interviewed at that the interviewee wasn't a load)
Hook (if any): i said i'd play club hockey? (probably doesn't matter). </p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): MA
Ethnicity & Gender: white male
Major strength/weakness:
Your thoughts on your decision: i wasn't surprised but i wasn't expecting it either.<br>
Any other comments: i'm probably not going here (too expensive) but it's a nice school.. amazing campus, nice people, great academics, and great parties. i wish i could go to college for the rest of my life so i could go to lehigh as well.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to school of engineering w/ $28,000 Grant for 2007/2008</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: M-630 V-670 W-660
ACT: Don't remember, didn't send
SAT Subject Tests: Didn't take em
GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.89, top 9% of class when I applied (no rank)
APs / other stats: APUSH- 3, in 2 AP's now.
Major awards/ECs: University of Rochester Young Leaders Award, National merit scholarship semi-finalist, lot of cross country/track individual and team honors.</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Essays: Didn't write much for the Lehigh short answer, guess it was sufficient though. My common app one was pretty good though. I wrote it about Herb Brooks and how his story has inspired me.
Teacher Recs: Dunno, only read one, seemed fine.
Counselor Rec: Didn't read it.
Interview: no interview
Hook (if any): I've taken a lot of engineering courses, maybe the cross country thing too.</p>
<p>Personal:</p>
<p>Location (State or Country): NY
Ethnicity & Gender: White, male
Major strength/weakness: not sure, SATs aren't strong.
Your thoughts on your decision: Surprised, even more surprised @ how much money I got (although I'm sure a lot of that has to do w/ financial need)
Any other comments: I'm deciding between Lehigh and Delaware. I am talking to the coaches at both. Probably going to visit both in the next month and then make my choice.</p>