Official Class of 2015 Decision Thread!

Colleges and Universities A-Z Colgate University
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<p>I noticed we don't have a decision thread on this board. Stole this from kazala on the Midd board, though I know it is pretty much used everywhere on this site ; )</p>

<p>Template (remember to remove spaces):</p>

<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[ *] Intended Major:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): M 650 CR 730 W 740
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: Math II: 710 Lit: 680
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95ish
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): None available at my school
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Ethics, American Literature, Calculus I Dual Credit, Calculus II Dual Credit, Biology I Dual Credit, Composition Dual Credit, Communications Dual Credit, PC Apps Dual Credit, Excel Spreadsheets Dual Credit, US History, Pastels
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Scholar Athlete
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): JV Soccer 1 year, Varsity Soccer 3 years (Captain 2), JV Basketball 2 years (Captain 1 year), Varsity Basketball 2 years, JV Softball 3 years (Captain 2 years), Track 1 year, Indoor Soccer 8 years, Student Council 2 years (Rep 2 years, Secretary 1 year), Student Leadership Team member 1 year
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Tutoring
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Hospital volunteer, various “service weeks” at my school
[<em>] Summer Activities: Statistics course at community college, nothing special
[</em>] Essays: Mehh. I regret my choice of topic. It could have been so much better!
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great! 2 teachers have known and taught me since I was 11, the other teacher was my spanish teacher for 2 years and senior project mentor
[</em>] Counselor Rec: excellent
[<em>] Additional Rec: None
[</em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, and got a great award! My mom is literally ecstatic about this after seeing Northeastern’s expected contribution from us (it was going to be about half her salary out of pocket)
[</em>] Intended Major: Biology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NH
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Teeeeny tiny private christian school (9 in graduating class)
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~$65.000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: CR, W, and ACT scores. Lots of extracurriculars,
[<em>] Weaknesses: M score, No APs, small and unrecognizable school
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I am just so happy that I got in! I think it was the fact that I pushed to get the highest course offerings at my school, though a lot were not offered.
[/ul]General Comments: Really excited! Most likely attending. I’ve been waitlisted by BC and rejected by Midd in the last 15 hours =/ Both schools were not that great of a fit for me though. However, it has prepared me for the impending rejection from Dartmouth =P It brought me down a few pegs, but it’s good to sometimes get told “Hey, you aren’t the best thing to ever walk this earth!” (Not that I thought that =P! But rejection can do a girl good, and bring me back down to earth. Colgate is going to be a wonderful fit for me, and i’ll be visiting the 10th-11th!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 710 CR - 690 M - 800 W
[</em>] ACT: None
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Spanish w/ Listening - 740 US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rankings
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History - 3
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro, AP Psych, AP Spanish, AP English Lit, Calc H
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Crew. All. The. Time.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at country club under general manager
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Built houses in guatemala over junior winter break
[</em>] Summer Activities: Chill
[<em>] Essays: Solid
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Probably good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: He didn’t even know me lolz.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Nope
[li] Interview: Nope</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah
[</em>] Intended Major: Really can’t even remember
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: White / Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 120,000+
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Half URM?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Solid essays and good SAT score, community service experiences
[</em>] Weaknesses: Could’ve had more ECs I suppose
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: All around amazing human being[/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): M 690, CR 570, W 720 = 1980
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: Chinese w/ Listening 790, Math II 730, Biology - E 650
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.28
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4), Environmental Science (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Statistics, Molecular Biology, Chinese III, AP Calculus AB, English IV
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tons including volunteer work in South Africa and badminton
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned twice
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: a lot, around 160 hours last year
[<em>] Summer Activities: Volunteering in South Africa
[</em>] Essays: Hardship growing up and overcoming these challenges
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Very good (I hope)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably good
[<em>] Additional Rec: good
[</em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Environmental Studies
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: Low income
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation, single parent household, low income.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Story and background
[<em>] Weaknesses:GPA, Test Scores, didn’t show a lot of interest
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Definitely my story and overcoming challenges and hardship in my life!
[/ul]General Comments:
Yesterday was a great day! I got into Colgate, Carleton, Hamilton, and Whitman on the same day. Colgate was very generous with financial aid and I am very happy to be accepted! Colgate is my first choice so there is a big possibility that I will attend. Congrats on all of the acceptances and good luck to those on the waitlist!</p>

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<p>Pick one:
Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 710 M, 690 CR, 720 W (2120)
[</em>] ACT: definitely didnt submit this lol
[<em>] SAT II: 680 Math Level II, 670 US History, 670 Spanish
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 , 90/100
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): school doesn’t offer APs, but am taking Calculus BC and Spanish Language in May
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 1st Semester (Calculus II, Calc Based Physics, Literature and Identity, Anthropology, Spanish 5) 2nd Semester (Calc II, Calc Based Physics, Theatre of Revolt, Economics, Spanish 5)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Spanish Exam (gold, silver, and bronze medals), National Spanish Honors Society, National Latin Exam (Cum Laude)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Service Club (co head), Varsity Tennis, Varsity Badminton, Spring Musical
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Waitress 2 summers
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 2 hours every week for service club, 50 hours during Spring Break Habitat trip
[</em>] Summer Activities: biked across Europe crossing Alps and Pyrenees junior year summer, waitressed 2 other summers
[<em>] Essays: wrote about biking across europe (common app) and baking bread with my grandma (colgate)
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: solid, i think
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview: n/a</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: nope
[</em>] Intended Major: undecided…
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Maryland
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: private quaker school
[</em>] Ethnicity: white caucasian
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket: don’t know?
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): application that “told a story”</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ list]
[<em>] Strengths: rigor of course load, unique extra curriculars, common app essay
[</em>] Weaknesses: junior year grades
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: good essays and hard classes[/li][/list][ b]General Comments:** i’m pretty excited, i got accepted into 7/8 schools i applied to so it’s decision time! i think it’s down to colgate, hamilton, BC, or colby!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2250 - 710 math, 740 writing, 800 reading
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: 690 math II, 700 lit, 710 chem, 720 bio - m, 790 us history
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): bio (4), chem (4), us history (5), english lang (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: ap physics, ap economics, ap english lit, ap latin, ap calc-ab, ap gov & pol.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ap scholar with honor, trinity college book award, simsbury scholars award (top 5 % gpa)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): varsity football, varsity mens volleyball (captain), mock trial, model un (vice president), student council, dodgeball, off-season lifting program
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 years of summer job at eye doctor’s office
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: lot of church stuff, previous interning at eye doctors, helping out with special olympics, countless other random ones all the time
[<em>] Summer Activities: working, training for preseason, volunteering
[</em>] Essays: pretty damn good if i can say so myself
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: didnt see them but i was pretty close to both of the teachers and they wrote me really good letters for other things in the past so im assuming they were great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: decent
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah
[</em>] Intended Major: political science & econ
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: as white as they come
[<em>] Gender: the dominant one, jk - male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 80k - 90k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation American although my Mom did graduate college in Poland
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: taking all the hardest classes and excelling in them, my essays were legit
[<em>] Weaknesses: freshman year started off rough with relatively low gpa and almost no extracurriculars, maybe sats?
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: im a boss, who wouldnt want me?
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to boston college honors, bucknell, colby, uconn honors and special law program, notre dame, providence honors, university of virginia, and villanova honors. rejected ed from penn. waiting on cornell, dartmouth, duke, hillsdale, georgetown, holy cross, trinity, tufts, and yale[/li][/ul]General Comments:
probs not going sorry. colgate’s still chill though</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR (680), Math (680), Writing (640), Combined (2000)
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: Biology M (740), US History (750)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5), Chemistry (3), Euro (4), Lang (4), Statistics (5), US History (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc AB, Lit, Physics C, Macro Economics, US Government (all AP), and an independent study helping ESL teacher
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Chinese club (president/founder), speech/debate, varsity swimming, various other clubs
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 250+ hours at a hospital
[<em>] Summer Activities: college art program
[</em>] Essays: obscure
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent “In all my years of teaching…” etc.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Counselor’s recommendation was excellent as well.
[li] Interview: none[/li][/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CO
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Medium-sized Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>]Income Bracket: 40k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): adversity? (one of my parents is disabled)[/li][/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Strengths: EC’s and grades
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT’s and I should have done more acitivities relating to my interests
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Not sure, since I’m really surprised but it was probably because I am a minority and/or because of geographic residence.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Also accepted to Vassar, DU, American. Waitlisted at Rice, Bowdoin, Northwestern, UVA, Vanderbilt, WashU. Rejected from Brown, UChicago.
[/ul]General Comments: I was really happy to get accepted to Colgate but I will most likely attend Vassar. I still have to think about the waitlist schools as well. Congratulations to those who have been accepted. To those who were denied, I’m sure you’ll find a school you’ll be happy at and that fits you.</p>

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<p>Waitlisted</p>

<p>ACT: 31
GPA: 3.85</p>

<p>Not accepting the spot, will be attending Emory University instead.</p>