<p>wow i was hoping this thread would be filled with good news ..o man...columbia cornell brown tomorrow....lots of tears to come.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: I scored a 1920 my junior year, my first time taking it. The coaches said they could work better with me if I got a higher score to move into the 3rd band on the academic index. I took it again and got a 2090. The breakdown was 750 writing, 750 critical reading and 590 for math.
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 US History, 700 World History, 580 Chemistry. I suck at chem...and math/science in general. I only ever did well in biology.
[<em>] GPA: 91.2/100
[</em>] Rank: Unweighted 110/447.
[<em>] Other stats: I got a 29 on the ACT. I took all honors and AP classes, so the unweighted ranks at my school killed me. I got a 5 on the AP Us History exam, 4 on the English. I'll take the government one this year.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Apparently very, very good. Everyone I've showed it to(including a few staff at Williams and Amherst) said it was fantastic.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Very good. Most of my teachers thought well of me.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty good. My counselor thinks well of me.
[<em>] Hook (if any): I'm a minority(black, of Jamaican and St. Vincentian descent). I'm also a recruited athlete.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Upstate New York
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Afro-Caribbean(Jamaican and St. Vincentian).
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Intended Major: Probably something business related. Maybe economics?
[li] major strength/weakness: I suck at math and most sciences save for biology and earth science. On the other hand, I think I'm as good as anybody when it comes to language. [/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>I'm a recruited athlete. I played runningback and d-line in highschool but I'm going to Dartmouth as a fullback. I visited every Ivy except for Cornell, Columbia and Penn over the summer. I also visited most of the NESCAC schools("Little Ivies"). I was recruited by Carnegie Mellon, St. Lawrence, RPI, Brown, Amherst, Williams, Bowdoin, Colby, Wesleyan, and Middlebury as well as Dartmouth. Yale pretty much ignored me, while Penn and Princeton sent a few generic e-mails. I have a lot of legacy at Harvard(my uncle is associate VP and his daughter attended as well), but wasn't recruited too heavily by them either. I committed to Dartmouth way back in September. It was an easy decision. I changed my app to ED and that was it.</p>
<p>Denied. I am so mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>gotta love it</p>
<p>I'm posting this for my son, who is too excited to post.
[ size=+1][ color=#228B22][ b]Decision: _accepted![ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:730 730 740, ACT 35
[ *] SAT IIs:Math 2 790 US History 750
[ *] GPA:4.04
[ *] Rank:15/415
[ *] Other stats:8 APs, mostly 5's, 3 4's, 5 more this year
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]He started a nonprofit to fund camp scholarships, two club presidents, awards in Model UN & Youth & Gov
[ *] Essays:I thought they were good, one was amazing
[ *] Teacher Recs: Hopefully good, and he sent in 2 extra
[ *] Counselor Rec:Good we think, didn't read
[ *] Hook (if any):None
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:NJ
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity:white
[ *] Gender:male
[ *] Intended Major:environmental engineering
[ *] major strength/weakness:Pretty well rounded - but we all know it is really the luck of the draw!
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>
<p>this is so depressing....</p>
<p>hopefully columbia's ed thread will be more exciting.
good luck to everyone who got deferred. hopefully you guys will get in during the RD round</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2200: 730 CR 720 M 750 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 Lit 760 USH
[<em>] GPA: 4.4 out of 4.5 <----Why I'm getting in nowhere
[</em>] Rank: School doesn't, but top 10%
[<em>] Other stats: ACT 34, 5s on AP English Lang, US, and Euro, and a 4 on psych
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I'm a writer, so I guess they were good, but not good enough.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One was great, the other I have no idea about.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: We're close, I would assume good.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Well, everyone does research these days.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NY
[<em>] School Type: Competitive Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Intended Major: Political Science
[li] major strength/weakness: I don't know. I won NCTE and a few other writing awards, do research and debate, but whatever. I also got a C+ in AP Math junior year, so there you go.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: Things happen for a reason. I just hope I don't get absolutely slaughtered in RD everywhere.</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[li] SAT:2270, math 790 writing 770 cr 710</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT IIs: 800 math level II, 760 chem, 710 bio</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: 33 composite</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP's: 5 on biology, 5 on chemistry, 4 on english language</p>[/li]
<p>[li] GPA:4.46 weighted</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank:n/a</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Other stats:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul][ b]Subjective:**[ul]</p>
<p>[li] Essays: my teachers all liked them</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recs: prob good</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec: prob good</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hook (if any):i'm hispanic</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul][ b]Location/Person:**[ul]</p>
<p>[li] State or Country:nj</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: public</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity:hispanic</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender:male</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Intended Major:undecided</p>[/li]
<p>[li] major strength/weakness:science/math are strengths</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>wow this is scary...people with so strong stats get deferred...I'm no longer have a good feeling about penn ED anymore T_T</p>
<p>Me neither, Soy...</p>
<p>Deferred :(</p>
<p>I don't even know how to feel.
I'm worrying about my RD schools now :/</p>
<p>denied????</p>
<p>i don't know about dmouth, but penn takes half of their class early, so penn EDs, don't freak out just yet.</p>
<p>Accepted
White Male Legacy from SC
34 ACT
800,780 Sat IIs</p>
<p>I can't believe how many people with strong stats were deferred, but then I guess that just shows that stats aren't everything.</p>
<p>wow...so many applicants with strong stats...so many of them deferred.
i'm scared.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>GPA: 3.74 (unweighted)
SAT: 2340
SAT II: 770 US History, 740 Biology
Class Rank: None, top 10%
Weaknesses: GPA, Not standing out enough from regular Dartmouth applicants
Other: I sent in a strong theater supplement, which apparently didn't help much. I'm also an Eagle Scout, Managing Editor of school newspaper, musician, VP of Model UN, organize community service trips at school</p>
<p>I think I've seen about 3-4 applicants here deferred with standardized testing above Dartmouth's 75% for ACT or SAT. They really aren't.</p>
<p>Same here Sail640. Looking at my regular list with a lot of reservation. Then again, my best friend was deferred columbia last year and then accepted harvard</p>