<p>No, it's a whole page.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED...2110 SAT (yea..), 4.6 gpa weighted, extremELY GOOD ESSAYs and EXTracurrics..that's what got me in. wow.</p>
<p>*Decision: Accepted *
*Admitted School: Trinity *
Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT/ACT: 2340 - 770CR, 800M, 770W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 2340 - 800 Math I, 800 Math II, 740 English Lit
[<em>] Grades: 10 A</em>s GCSE, 5 As A-Level
[<em>] Rank: 1/125 (informal)
[</em>] Leadership Positions: School council, newspaper, deputy head boy
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Not overly pleased with them. Didn't write a 'why Duke' one.<br>
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[</em>] Hooks (if any): TASP
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: England, US Citizen
[</em>] School Type: Competitive British State
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Statements:[ul]
[<em>] Other Factors: This face. Have you seen this face?
[</em>] Why do you think you were accepted/rejected?: Stats, TASP, this face
[li] General Comments: Well, it's funny. I am very unlikely to go here, having already been accepted to Williams, which is higher on my list. That is what I told myself up to about an hour and a half ago. At that time, however, I signed into something called 'The D' - a web portal that, as far as I can tell, was designed explicitly to cause a heart attack. Between its ominous countdown, its absurd loading times, and its constant disconnections, my mindest gradually devolved from that of sanguine apathy to that of mortal terror. What if this university doesn't accept me?! No! NO! I couldn't be a Blue Devil if I wanted to... and... now that I think about it... I couldn't imagine wanting anything more! Long story short, at the moment I am oddly intrigued by Duke University. I also hate those pricks. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!! W000000t</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 740 Mathematics, 690 Critical Reading and 720 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 750 Math I, 760 Math II, 760 Physics
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] GPA: N/A
[<em>] Rank: 1/180
[</em>] Other stats: N/A</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Poor - I am a physicist
[</em>] Teacher Recs: OK - Kind of rushed (my fault)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>] Hook (if any): Top 3 in NZ Science Exams, Robertson Scholar (NZ spot)</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Zealand
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Kiwi
[</em>] Gender: Male</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Too lazy to list
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Robertson Scholars interview here in NZ and my Science exam result
[*] Other thoughts: Can't wait to become a Blue Devil![/ul]</p>
<p>yeah!!!!!!!!I got accepted!!
I'm in school right now so I'll post my stats later...
I'm so blessed! Thank you God :)</p>
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<p>rejected................</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted at Pratt</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2310 (800 M, 800 W, 710 CR)
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] SAT IIs: 780, 760, 740, 720
[</em>] GPA (uw/w): 3.9/4.45
[<em>] Rank: 3/430
[</em>] Other stats: 14 aps by grad.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: decent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: nothing special
[</em>] Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type: very mediocre public
[<em>] Ethnicity: male
[</em>] Gender: indian </p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors/Hook?:
ECs: tutoring, work, volunteering, karate, debate</p>
<p>General Comments: CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WHO GOT IN!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED TO PRATT</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT:
SAT IIs:
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.98 u.w.
Rank: unranked
Other stats: 3 on ap lit 4 on apush</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: My why duke one was the best essay i wrote
Teacher Recs: I think they where pretty good
Counselor Rec: I think it was okay but idk, she was new this year so it might've been kindof generic
Hook (if any): i do a lot of stuff.</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Il
School Type: public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: m</p>
<p>Other Factors:
Extracurriculars:I'm going to break this up a bit...
Sports: 4 year golf team, 2 letters (we're 5 time state champs), 4 years varsity swimming w/ letters, team captain for 2, state qualifier for 2, 3 year tennis player
Music:private piano lessons 12 years, trumpet for 6, marching band and concert band all 4 years of high school, competitive jazz band first trumpet second year now, and district jazz band member 2 years
Other: debate team junior year with some awards, WYSE team 3 years varsity for 2, math team for 4 years state participant, co-editor of brome and beyond school lit. production. red cross blood donor, relay for life team captain, and some other volunteer stuff.</p>
<p>Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: My why I wanted to go to duke essay was extremely strong and heartfealt. and I think one of my teacher recommendations was really good judging by a USC one he did for me.
Other thoughts: I'm just ecstatic right now.</p>
<p>and How I got waitlisted at UNC. oh well, Duke's better in almost every way anyways.</p>
<p>GO DUUUUUKE!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted from Pratt</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2340 (780 across the board)
[</em>] SAT IIs:760 Math II, 760 US History, 720 Physics
[<em>] ACT:None
[</em>] GPA:3.93 UW, 4.4 W
[<em>] Rank:Top 1%
[</em>] Other stats:National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:Pretty Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 1 was great, other was probably OK
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably OK
[</em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:Texas
[</em>] School Type:Competitive Public
[<em>] Ethnicity:Caucasian
[</em>] Gender:White
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[<em>] Extracurriculars:Lots of Church stuff, Some schools clubs, only a couple minor leadership positions, several school awards,piano, track team, no research or any crazy math competitions
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted:ECs aren't that great, I guess my great stats couldn't bump me up enough to get me into the accepted pile. Plus Pratt is pretty self selective so I dunno if i should have applied to Trinity even though the acceptance rate is lower.
[*] Other thoughts:Oh well. I dunno if I'll send that card in or not cause I got into Rice.</p>
<p>I am so sad, i was rejected........gunna try and appeal though.........I really got my hopes up way too high (33, 2210, 3.74 UW, 4.45 W)</p>
<p>Congrats to those accepted!! :)</p>
<p>checking... here goes nothing...</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! (and so happy)</p>
<p>STATS:
2nd-gen Asian-American female
Small, upper-middle class, public, suburban, predominantly white school in the northeast. Sends a few grads to top places every year.</p>
<p>W GPA = 4.6 (9-12), UW = 3.92</p>
<p>APs: World, US, Bio. </p>
<br>
<p>This year: Physics, BC Calc, Chem, Eng, European history. (8 APs is the highest number taken at my school generally, with very few doing so.)</p>
<br>
<p>SAT: M 800, R 760, W 760 (1x)
SAT IIs: Physics 770, Bio 750, Math2C 800, World History 790</p>
<p>Class rank - none at my school; at least in top 5%.</p>
<p>Major ECs: </p>
<br>
<p>Classical piano (since age 5; am submitting a CD) varsity soccer (11, I quit this year to focus on school and apps) varsity softball (10-12) Asian Student Union (officer) Vice President of the school chorus as well as 3-year member of Concert Choir, the chorus's audition-only subgroup Co-captain of computer science team math team other random stuff (above are only the long-term commitment things that I've been doing). Spent this summer at a paid internship in a biotech company researching Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease Last summer took an intense course in Java programming language at Harvard for 8 wks</p>
<br>
<p>Major awards: Bausch & Lomb honorary science award, College of the Holy Cross book award, awards in history and latin, Scholar Athlete, High Honor Roll Scholar Athlete, etc.</p>
<p>Teacher recs: should be good. My history teacher gave me the department award last year and my chemistry teacher is infatuated with me.</p>
<p>Essay: was pretty good I thought; the opening was definitely a "hook"/attention-grabber; however I wrote the entire thing in a few days during December vaca and wasn't 100% happy with it.</p>
<p>FinAid: Applied, haven't checked the website yet to see if there's any info.</p>
<p>All in all: This is my first college acceptance (was deferred EA from Stanford; waitlisted at WashU) and so I'm so relieved! Thanks to all those who've posted on CC over the years and helped us applicants out, and good luck to all those who are waiting!</p>
<p>Rejected, not surprised really.</p>
<p>ehhh, I think my page changed or I am stupid. Does anyone's login home say this? I can't find the application status page.</p>
<p>Congratulations, XXXXX!</p>
<p>We share your happiness, and we welcome you to Duke. Now the real fun begins: it's time to create your public profile, look at other students' profiles, post to our message boards, and meet students who are also headed to Duke.</p>
<p>rejected.... :( oh well I wasn't going to go to Duke anyway !!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to Trinity</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2270 (780M, 770W, 720CR)
SAT II: US History 740, Math II 740
GPA: 3.72 UW, 4.6-ish Weighted
Rank: 10/400
Other: AP Scholar with Honor</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Didn't write "Why Duke." Common App essay was basically about why I wanted to go to college.. simple enough!
Teacher Recs: One was great, one was atleast pretty good.
Counselor Rec: Awesome, we're pals.
Hook: I don't think I have one. My brother passed away at the start of this year so I've had to cope with that, but I don't know if that's really a hook.</p>
<p>Location:
Non-competitive public school in NC. White female majoring in Biochemistry.</p>
<p>Special Stuff:
My extracurriculars are pretty lame, but I'm taking a lot of APs. 4 last year, 6 this year. I'm on the Academic team and I'm president of Spanish Club though!</p>
<p>I'm going to have to reject the offer though, unfortunately. I can't pay for Duke!</p>
<p>Well I am in</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 680CR, 800M, 690W = 2170
* SAT IIs: 740 Math II, 800 Biology M, 800 Chemistry
* ACT: didn't take
* GPA: 5.0 on a 5.0 scale
* Rank: 1/108
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: All excellent, very personal, I have a very emotional writing style
* Teacher Recs: Didn't see, but I was told that they were amazing!
* Counselor Rec: Same thing
* Hook (if any): Many,many olympiads, candidate for the International Chemistry Olympiad,International Astronomy Olympiad, European Science Olympiad + the fact that I come from Estonia which has a population of about 1,3 million and I don't know for sure but I doubt that there have been any other accepted candidates from Estonia
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Estonia
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: M
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Science clubs, drama and poetry competitions, school and local choir, school newspaper etc.
* Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: The overall picture was good I guess, because my test scores weren't excellent for that matter
* Other thoughts: I just can't believe it
</code></pre>
<p>Waitlisted, can someone explain to me why?
Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2310 superscore(800CR, 780M, 730W), 2250 one sitting
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 760 Chem, 720 Lit
[<em>] ACT: 36 superscore, 35 one sitting
[</em>] GPA: 3.93 uw, 4.25 w
[<em>] Rank: 1/640
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Unique, though long winded. My Why Duke essay was pretty generic
[</em>] Interview: Absolutely stellar
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good, but they sounded a bit generic
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I don't think he put much effort in it
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Iowa
[<em>] School Type: Sort of big public, rarely sends to Ivy League calbur
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian. Was this my fatal flaw?
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars:Varsity tennis, Theater (with Awards), NHS 2nd VP, Placed in a State Math Contest, a bunch of little volunteering things, Went to a poor country and built a library and ran a summer camp and taught a load of english classes.
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/rejected/waitlisted: Was it my recs? I thought I was a shoe in. Too many asians?
[</em>] Other thoughts: Does anyone see anything that would take me out of the running?</p>
<p>I'm pretty ****ed right now, but congrats to everyone who did get accepted!</p>