Official Class of 2012 RD Thread

<p>Here we go. The formatting is</p>

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Accepted
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Rejected
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Deferred
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<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT:
[ *]SAT II:
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA:
[ *]Rank:
[ *]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB)
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
[ *]Teacher Recs:
[ *]Counselor Rec:
[ *]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
[ *]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location:
[ *]High School Type:
[ *]Ethnicity:
[ *]Gender
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no)[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars:
[ *]Awards:
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list]</p>

<p>Remember to get rid of the spaces when you enter your stats. A sample:

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Accepted
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2400 (800/800/800)
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry, 800 Bio-M, 800 US History, 800 Spanish
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 100.00
[<em>]Rank:1/2,000
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) See Below
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Perfect
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Best of Career
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Best of Career
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) Winner of Intel STS, 1st place in Siemens Competition, ISEF Grand Prize Winner, Artwork hanging in MoMA, NY Times Bestselling Author
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please): Cured Cancer, Proved Riemann Hypothesis, Captain of 3 Varsity Teams, CEO of Fortune 500 Company [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: 11-space
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: M
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no): N[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: See Above
[</em>]Awards: 4 Gold Medals at IMO, IPho, IBO, and IChO, Nobel Prize, Fields Medal
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul][/li]This is the best day of my life!!!</p>

<p>I forgot to include a place for intended major but if possible, please post what you would like to study. Good luck everyone. I look forward to meeting my new classmates!!!</p>

<p>well about 3 more hours…</p>

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Wait Listed
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: M-780 CR-790 W-760
[</em>]SAT II: Math2-800, Grm+Lst.-800, Chem-790, USH-740
[<em>]ACT:n/a
[</em>]GPA:4.164
[<em>]Rank:top 10 students
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chem-5, APUSH-5, AMC-100.5, AIME-4, semifinalist USABO
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: they were decent, they were all about things I really care about
[</em>]Teacher Recs: spoke highly of me, one extremely well writte, one was ok
[<em>]Counselor Rec: love her. she did a great job.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)-nope
[<em>]Hook: not really [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MA
[<em>]High School Type: solid public
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yes[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: 4 yr varsity swim, science team, theater, peer counseling, work
[</em>]Awards: a bunch of things around the school for academics/athletics, science olympiad state champ in 3 events
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:dang, i guess i can kiss my chance at BME goodbye…[/ul]</p>

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Wait-Listed
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: CR 770/M 740/W 780
[</em>]SAT II: 760 MII, 720 Lit, 740 USH
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.99
[li]Rank: Top 5</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good, honestly. They were my best this year.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) I wish [/ul]</p>

<p>Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location:Philly
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>]Gender: M
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: (yes)[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Decent/Medium
[</em>]Awards: NMF, Lots of school awards
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Just start your essays earlier, etc. [/li][/ul]</p>

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Waitlisted
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 600 writing, 730 reading, 670 maths
[</em>]SAT II: 740 WH, 710 Bio E, 660 Latin
[<em>]ACT: -
[</em>]GPA: -
[<em>]Rank: school does not rank
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: very bad, I am an international not used to essay writing
[</em>]Teacher Recs: very down to earth, very Dutch, not as enthusiastic as Americans normally write
[<em>]Counselor Rec: ok
[</em>]Supplementary Material: thesis
[<em>]Hook: can’t think of one
[</em>]Location: The Netherlands
[<em>]High School Type: Gymnasium (Dutch High School)
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yes
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: teamleader of study trip to Uganda and awareness-raising project on African development, tennis coach, student newspaper, percussionist
[</em>]Awards:-
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: How can I get of the waitlist?[/ul]</p>

<p>you guys already found out? I still haven’t gotten that damn email yet!</p>

<p>So did you guys get the e-mail or did you do the financial aid trick?</p>

<p>i was waiting for the stanford one and this one popped up lol
accepted :smiley:
anyone know how the BME works?</p>

<p>Waitlisted.</p>

<p>Now I regret not applying ED even more than I did before.</p>

<p>Accepted… which I wasn’t looking for cuz I’m going BME and I planned on going Duke. This makes it harder</p>

<p>Waitlisted - I, too, found out while waiting for Stanford :)</p>

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Waitlist
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2380
[</em>]SAT II: mid 700s
[<em>]ACT: 36
[</em>]GPA: 3.8 uw
[<em>]Rank: top 5%
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) five 5s and one 3, AIME 4
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: recycled Chicago essay…decent, but they could probably tell it wasn’t written for the “community” prompt
[</em>]Teacher Recs: dunno.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: dunno.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: nope
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: midwestern 'burb
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yep [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Council, NHS, Science Olympiad, Mock Trial, some leadership in NHS and SO
[</em>]Awards: NM, local stuff.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: eh. I thought I could make it through the admissions process with no WLs, just rejections and acceptances. I can deal with a rejection, but the uncertainty of a waitlist? meh. [/ul]</p>

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Accepted: Math
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 M 660 Cr 670 Wr
[</em>]SAT II: 800 M2 680 Chem 780 M1
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA:97.3
[<em>]Rank:3
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB):AMC 12 91.5 AP Calc AB (no BC at my school) 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Good, Supplement essay really mathy
[</em>]Teacher Recs:Good, I guess
[<em>]Counselor Rec:Good, I guess
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Maine
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity:Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) Yes[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:Math Team (good number of awards) 3 Season athlete 7 as varsity
[</em>]Awards:Calc, Chem, Bio Awards (Highest GPA) USAMTS Honorable mention
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]</p>

<p>Accepted!!! Yay!</p>

<p>Accepted!!!. very excited i’ll post my stats later</p>

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Wait-Listed
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2140 (760CR/720M/660W)
[</em>]SAT II: 780 Lit, 790 Math II, 730 USH
[<em>]ACT: 34
[</em>]GPA: 3.84 ish
[<em>]Rank: around 15% or a bit below
[</em>]Other Tests: 4 on both APUSH and AP Eng Lang
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Not especially good, but not horrible
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Not sure what to compare them to (read one, and it was good, but don’t know how good); neither was bad though.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: at least okay; my counselor knew enough about me to write more than a generic letter, and I know it was a positive rec, but I don’t know how it would compare to others
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook: none [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: small town outside of Ann Arbor, MI
[<em>]High School Type: public with about 1200 or so students
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes[/ul] b]Other**[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Violin, Destination Imagination, Quiz Bowl, World Cultures Club, co/assistant managed a 5th grade DI group this year
[</em>]Awards: Nothing extraordinary
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Disappointed that I didn’t get in, but at least I didn’t get rejected; I’m going to try to send in new material, etc. Hopefully a supplemental/new essay (my Chicago one that I wrote after I sent in the common app) if that’s allowed, plus a statement of continued interest, etc. Hopefully this means I still have a chance at some of my other reach schools.[/ul]</p>

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Accepted for Econ
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Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:2190
[</em>]SAT II:720, 700
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA:3.9uw
[<em>]Rank:
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: i think good
[<em>]Teacher Recs:?
[</em>]Counselor Rec:he said it was good
[<em>]Hook:location?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location:NV
[<em>]High School Type:private catholic
[</em>]Ethnicity:hispanic and white
[<em>]Gender
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: yes
[/ul]Other[ul]
[li]Extracurriculars:music[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>accepted haha
SAT 2310</p>

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Waitlisted
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<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:
[</em>]SAT II: 750 both chem & math 2
[<em>]ACT: 33
[</em>]GPA: 3.99 UW
[<em>]Rank: top 10%
[</em>]Other Tests: APs
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Strong, I thought…
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Didn’t read
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none
[<em>]Hook: none
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Utah
[<em>]High School Type: Public
[</em>]Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>]Gender: F
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: lotsss.
[</em>]Awards: NCTE nomination, many art show awards, AP scholar w/distinction, a few other minor ones
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Wasn’t expecting wait list. :([/li][/ul]</p>