<p>Im going to call admissions during lunch. Ill let you guys know.</p>
<p>Argh, when I try to access the website, all it says is “Error: Applicant Data can’t be retrieved” or some garbage like that. What’s going onnnn :((((</p>
<p>Okay for those who havn’t yet received their decision. On their facebook page, admissions says that our letters were most likely sent on friday and that our decisions will be online after midnight. </p>
<p>Hopefully the physical letters will arrive before then.</p>
<p>Hey I just checked and I can access my decision now… Accepted!! :)</p>
<p>rejected lol i should have applied to more than just CIT. at least I have UVa though</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to Tepper!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 790 CR, 740 M, 750 W (Total 2280)
[</em>] ACT: Nil.
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Literature, 780 Math.
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t provide.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/467
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): None.
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): English HL (7), Econs HL (7), Maths HL (6), Chemistry SL (7), Spanish Ab initio (7), Visual Arts SL (6). Total 43 points.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: My whole school does IB, but my subject combination was pretty hard.
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Certificate of Distinction (Honours Day).</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School newspaper (Editor-in-Chief), Created my own fashion line for a charity fashion show, Tennis club, Drama club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned at a local women’s boutique for 3 years during the holidays, Worked a full-time job as a Curriculum Planner and English Trainer at an education agency.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Very solid, with a focus on helping underprivileged children.
[</em>] Summer Activities:
[<em>] Essays: I was really proud of my CMU essay. Showed that I was willing to try new things but that I was very focussed on my career and knew exactly what I wanted out of my undergrad education.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Very good, but probably generic.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good I suppose.
[</em>] Additional Rec: None.
[li] Interview: None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Singapore
[<em>] School Type: Private, EXTREMELY competitive.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: > $200,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None. Sigh.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: IB and SAT scores, self-initiative in ECs.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Erm. Essays not horribly creative.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test scores?
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at UCLA, NYU Stern, UVA and LSE, UCL, Kings etc in the UK. Waitlisted at UChicago. Rejected at UC Berkeley. Waiting for Columbia and Cornell.
[/ul]General Comments:
I was expecting a rejection, so I was really surprised. I probably wont be coming here though, so I hope someone on the waitlist who really wants the spot gets in 
Congratulations to those who got in, and to those who didnt, chin up, you’ll get into the school thats right for you in the end!</p>
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<p>Glad you got in. Welcome to CMU. :)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to Tepper
Decision: Waitlisted SCS</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 680CR 800M 750W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800M2 800Chem
[<em>] GPA:4.09
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[li] Other stats:</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[ *] State or Country: VA
[ *] School Type:Magnet
[ *] Ethnicity:Asian
[ *] Gender:Male</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to SCS</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 680 CR, 770 M, 730 W (2180)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 M2, 760 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 Unweighted
[</em>] Rank: 1 out of 407
[<em>] Other stats: University of WA GPA: 4.0 (I took one class)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: My CMU essay was probably the strongest of all my essays - really emphasized my love of comp sci + love of working with passionate people
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Very good/positive I would assume
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Strong
[<em>] Hook (if any): I can’t think of a particular one that would really stand out
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: WA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: National Merit Finalist, Select Soccer captain, Varsity Soccer captain, 10 AP classes, already taken two comp sci classes (one at Univ. of WA)
General Comments: Super excited to get in, got rejected by Stanford and MIT and waitlisted at Harvey Mudd. Now it all comes down to the financial aid package to determine whether or not I can attend</p>
<p>Does your financial aid package come with your decision in the mail?</p>
<p>@arteest90-Yay, another SCSer! (SCS seems to be waitlisting everyone this time around)The letter in the mail said financial aid info should be available within a few days, online and in the mail.</p>
<p>accepted to MCS & HSS from central new jersey! still haven’t gotten my letter in the mail yet though…</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted to CIT</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2240 (750 CR, 780 M, 710 W)
[</em>] SAT II: 770 Chem, 760 Math II, 760 USH, 670 Physics
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): not reported
[</em>] Weighted GPA: 4.5/5.4 (highest is 5)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/361
[</em>] AP (place score in parentheses): AP English Lang (5), AP Chem (5), APUSH (5), AP Comp Sci A (3)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP English Lit, AP Bio, AP Gov, AP Stats, Latin 4
[</em>] Number of other RD applicants in your school: 3
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):
- FIRST Robotics (Team HYPER 69)(Head Programmer) (Perennial top 3 in competition, spent 600 hours or so in last 3 years for it)
- Science Olympiad (Co-Founder)
- Swimming (MVP of a meet, varsity letter)
- Academic Decathlon (Captain)(6th in states)
- MOON (Math team, president)(Top in division)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Self-employed tutoring service
[li] Volunteer/Community service: NHS[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best):[ul]
[<em>] Essays (Include Subjects):[list]
[li] Common App: Compared early life to struggle in robotics and overcoming both (Great)[/li][</em>] Supplement: Talked about seeing myself at CMU and all the change I could make (Great)
[<em>] Other:[/ul]
[li] Teacher Recommendation #1: Awesome[/li][</em>] Teacher Recommendation #2: Truly Amazing
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>] Interview: Good, seemed very nice and informative, and also exciting[/list]</p>
<p>Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 60k-75k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First-gen college student[/ul]</p>
<p>Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT’s, EC’s
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea, thought I had a great shot at getting in
[</em>] What would you have done differently?: Tried to get better grades[/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc: Congrats to all the acceptees and good luck to the other waitlisteds and rejectees</p>
<p>This isn’t exactly the same format, but it’ll suffice.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to HSS
Decision: Waitlisted to TSB</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): M:770 CR:630 W:650
[</em>] ACT: 31 (Math:35 English:31 Science:30 Reading:30)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Chemistry:770 Math II:760
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 (4.17 weighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10% (Done decile with extremely competitive school with about 250 students total in my year, and actual known percent is around top 5%)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (4) US History (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology (A-), Honors Band (A), Honors Physics (A-), Honors English (A-), Wellness (A, but B- first quarter haha), AP Spanish 5 (B+, A- first quarter), AP Calculus BC (B+, B first quarter, hardest class at my high school, 50% of the class all got into MIT and I have one of the higher grades), Contemporary Issues (A)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NHS
[/ul]Subjective:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Spanish Club (Founder and President), Jazz Band (Lead Trumpet player), Chemistry Club (Founder and President), Tri-M (Honors Music Society), National Honors Society, Jefferson Forum (community service club), Peer Mentor Core Group (organizes school wide group), all male a capella group, school musicals every year (always getting decent parts to leads)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at a law office in summer of 2010, camp counselor, babysitting
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 1 Summer as Camp Counselor, 4 hours every week at an animal shelter, several hours from community service club (overall hours totaling 600+ and counting)
[*] Essays: Pretty good, written about my Trumpet and how I worked my way to 1st position my freshman year (although clich</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=green][ b]Decision:Accepted to CIT ED [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:2120
[ *] SAT IIs: Math 2 740 Physics 750
[ *] GPA:3.89 (UW)
[ *] Rank: 46/312
[ *] Other stats: 5 AP classes Sophomore and Junior Year, 5 AP classes Senior year
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Common app one was good, but the supp. wasn’t that amazing.
[ *] Teacher Recs:2 really good teachers(Math,English)
[ *] Counselor Rec:I have no idea
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Washington(Moved from Korea in 2006)
[ *] School Type:Public
[ *] Ethnicity:Asian
[ *] Gender:Male
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
Extra Curricular Activities: Wrestling(captain,4 year varsity), Lots of Volunteering, band(drum major),
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted to CIT</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown):2400 (one sitting)
ACT:N/A
SAT II: 780 (Biology E), 790 (Chemistry), 800 (Math II)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/542
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 (Calc BC), 5 (English Language), 5 (World History)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C (Mechanics/Electricity), AP French, AP English Language, AP Chemistry, AP Statistics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar, 3rd and 10th place finishes in national business combinations (might not be major)</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Karate (Third Degree Blackbelt, Longtime instructor, all sorts of leadership positions)
FBLA (Secretary as Junior, VP as Senior, top ten twice in national competitions)
French Honors Society (Treasurer as Senior)
Science Honors Society (VP)
NHS
Mathletes
French Exchange Program
Job/Work Experience:Instructor at my karate school
Volunteer/Community service: Weekly volunteer at a retirement home, organized a bunch of fundraisers at my karate school
Summer Activities: CTY three summers, French Exchange program, national business competition
Essays: My Common App essay was either really good or really bad depending who read it- i showed my growth at my karate school</p>
<p>My CMU-specific essay was pretty standard.</p>
<p>Teacher Recommendation:
Physics Teacher- 10/10, didn’t read it but he loves me
Calc Teacher- 8/10, always asked me to help students, wrote my letter even though she is retired
Counselor Rec: 5/10, i never talked to her, but i’m sure she made it as good as she could
Additional Rec:
Interview:N/A</p>
<p>Other
State (if domestic applicant): PA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type:Public
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Male
Income Bracket:~100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Nope</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: SAT/GPA, Leadership
Weaknesses:lack of research, common app essay?
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted:My stats definitely helped.
Where else were you accepted/rejected/waitlisted:
Rejected: Stanford REA, Waitlisted: WUSTL, Accepted: Northeastern, Northwestern
General Comments: Not my top choice, but it’s nice to be accepted. It’s a great school.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED TO SCS AND CIT.
I figured this would help. I’m a pretty good example of someone who is most valuable because of extracurriculars and what I bring to the table that isnt strictly academics.</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ACT: 33. Math 34, Writing 35, Reading 31, Science 32
[ *] SAT IIs: math ii 690, lit 690
[ *] GPA: 3.85 uw, 4.45 w
[ *] Rank: top 10 %
[ *] Other stats: 3 b’s in high school. All rest a’s
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Awesome
[ *] Teacher Recs: Awesome
[ *] Counselor Rec: Awesome
[ *] Hook (if any): RESEARCH! I’m at the end of a two-year independent research study on optimizing the effects of music on mathematical development in children. Huge thing.
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: FL
[ *] School Type: Private
[ *] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[ *] Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Speech and Debate ranked top 30 in country, finalist at Yale invitational, top 11 in state. Etc.
Student council secretary two years
Theatre, 5 shows throughout school
Multiple misc leadership positions
Founding member of an all-male a cappella group and webmaster</p>
<p>ACCEPTED to MCS! Didn’t think I’d get in! WOOH!</p>
<p>**Decision: Denied SCS **
**Decision: Waitlisted CIT **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:n/a
[</em>] SAT IIs: MII:800,Physics:740
[<em>] ACT: Comp:34, E35, M32 (high 34), R35, S35
[</em>] GPA:W4.45, U~3.7
[<em>] Rank:18 of about 400
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:Good I believe
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Did not read but by my tech and math teachers, each whom I have had for four years.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: not sure
[</em>] Hook (if any): Technology Student Association, State President, CADD experience
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Colorado
[</em>] School Type: Medium Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments: I was very surprised that I was waitlisted for CIT. Much of my experience is related to mechanical engineering and design.</p>
<p>**Decision: Waitlisted SCS **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 750 CR, 650 Math, 630 CR
[</em>] SAT IIs: 670 MII 750 Eng
[<em>] GPA: 4.11
[</em>] Rank: 28/470
[<em>] Other stats: 4 AP Phys, 4 AP USH, Taking AP Calc, Chem, Both Lang & Lit, Econ and Gov
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: According to everyone who’s read my essays, the best college essay I wrote.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Very Good
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: Rural, Public, Not a lot of college attendees.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Boy’s State Representative
General Comments:
I’m amazed.</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted to Tepper! **
** Objective: [ul]
[<em>]SAT I (breakdown): 760 CR, 770 M, 730 W
[</em>]SAT II: 760 Math II, 730 USH, 730 Bio M
[<em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>]Weighted GPA: 4.6
[<em>]Rank: 2/615
[</em>]AP (place score in parentheses): US History (5) Bio (5) English Lang (5) Bio (5) Photo (4)
[<em>]Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Physics, AP English Lit, AP US Gov, H Economics, AP Photo, Concert and Marching Band
[</em>]Number of other applicants in your school: 5+ (at least 1 accepted)
[li]Major Awards: 3rd/7,000 nationwide in Westpoint Bridge Design Contest, 1st in County Science Fair, Semifinalist in Stanford Global Innovation Tournament</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul] Subjective: **[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Band (Section Leader of FH and Trumpets), Science Club (President), Junior Statesman of America (VP), National Honor Society (Officer), Students for Solar Schools (Officer), Business Majors
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: Founded and own a tutoring company, 45 HS employees, $12,000+ total income, 15 schools, I do PR, financing, management, etc
[li]Volunteer/Community service: Founded and organized a volunteer tutoring organization for disadvantaged elem. schools in our area.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]**Writing (Write a brief description and Rate Quality on 1-10 Scale; 10 as Best): ** [ul]
[<em>]Essays (Include Subjects):
[</em>]Activity Short Essay: straightforward. About my tutoring company
[<em>]Essay (Personal):Pretty good, about my climb of Mt. Whitney
[</em>]Teacher Recommendation #1: didn’t read, good?
[<em>]Teacher Recommendation #2: didn’t read, good?
[</em>]Counselor Rec: didn’t read, good?</p>
<p>[/ul] ** Other **[ul]
[<em>]Which school did you apply to?: Tepper
[</em>]What did you choose as your major: Business
[<em>]State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>]School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: M
[li]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul] Reflection
Why you think you were accepted: Unique application, business owner, leadership,
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations, etc:
Congrats to everyone else who got accepted!</p>