OFFICIAL Colby Class of 2015 RD Results Thread!

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<p>**Decision: Waitlisted **</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[li]SAT I (breakdown): CR(580-■■■■■■■■), WR(660), Maths(740)</p>[/li]
<p>[li]ACT: Didn’t give.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]SAT II: maths 2 730, physics 710.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): We have no GPA’s</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/85.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]AP (place score in parenthesis): Did O and A levels. 10A’s in O levels, and mostly A’s in internal exams. A levels had A in maths, economics B, Physics and Chemistry C’s.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]IB (place score in parenthesis):</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Senior Year Course Load:</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing special. only a regional award for best dancer.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): dance, acting, tennis.</p>

<p>[li]Job/Work Experience: none.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Volunteer/Community service: with WWF</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Summer Activities: Absolutely nothing.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Essays: The fact that despite of my weak sat scores, below par A level grades, and a lot of request for aid, I still made their waiting list meant that my essays were great. General feedback was that my common app essay was good. Also My why colby was a little more specific I thought.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Teacher Recommendation: They were great. One was a Killer.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Counselor Rec: Good</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Additional Rec: Didn’t have one.</p>[/li]
<p>[li]Interview: no.</p>[/li]
<p>[list]Other[list]
[li]Applied for Financial Aid?: A lot of it.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Intended Major: engineering</p>[/li]
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Country (if international applicant): pakistan</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: private</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: asian</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: M</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket: let it be.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none[/li][/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Strengths: essays and myself.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses: sat scores. A level grades. and income I suppose.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li][/ul][ b]General Comments:** I am still happy I made their waiting list. I was rejected two places before, so for once I thought I am not going to get anywhere. Atleast they didn’t reject me. So all is good. Congratulations to all those who got in.</p>

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<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): CR: 690 M: 710 W: 700 (best score) total 2100
[ *] ACT: not taken
[ *] SAT II: Chinese: 780, Biology (Molecular): 740
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): Unknown, I’m guessing somewhere like a 3.5
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Unknown
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): None taken
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): Predicted Grad: 38
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: IB Courses:
[ *] Major Awards: None, school honors</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Too many to list: basketball team, plays, musicals, debate team, mun, track and field etc
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Worked in an architecture firm for a summer
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: 150+ hours of service, community work, going abroad to to community work
[ *] Summer Activities: Summer school, went to Cambridge,
[ *] Essays: Pretty well written, some grammatical mistakes, overall pessimistic tone
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Very good
[ *] Counselor Rec: I’m not certain, but i’m pretty sure it was good
[ *] Additional Rec: None
[ *] Interview: No Interview</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[ *] Intended Major: none in particular, i don’t think i listed
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): none
[ *] Country (if international applicant): Hong Kong
[ *] School Type: International
[ *] Ethnicity: Mixed, Chinese Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Male
[ *] Income Bracket: No idea
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): No clue</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: Honestly I don’t think I have any, my essay was pretty good though.
[ *] Weaknesses: For the supplement I wrote like a sentence (because I didn’t understand the instructions). I also had a kind of low sat, gpa wasn’t great, made grammatical mistakes on my application essay</p>

<p>[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]
I don’t know if I’ll go, but I’m happy to be in</p>

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

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Math: 700 CR: 7300 W: 710
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: US 700 Math II 680 (with a dead calc…uggghh) and Lit 750
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.15 (I dont know unweighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): neither is given but most like top %10 out of a class of 63
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History 5, APUSH 5, Chem 4, English Language 5
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Euro, AP English Lit, HO Calc, HO SPanish 4, HO Biology, Theology, HO Photo Portfolio
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Foreign Language National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, History and Theology Awards at my School, Cornelian Merit Scholarship at my school, Colgate Book Award, New jersey Scholars Program Attendee (very prestigious 5 week summer program in NJ for rising seniors, very hard to be accepted into).
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Volleyball starting Freshman Year (captain Jr. and Sr. year), Cello (President of Chamber Orchestra), Forensics/Speech (president), Tae Kwon Do black belt (Class Leader), Photography, Soup Kitchen (Youth Council for the Soup Kitchen), Church Volunteer: Altar Server, Eucharistic Minister, and Peer Minister, Litmag, Dance
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Babysitter with Active business with repeats and referrals , Hostess at local Restaurants on Sundays
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Soup Kitchen regular
[</em>] Summer Activities: Volunteer Work, Georgetown Program, Medicine program, NJSP (summer after Junior Year)
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: History
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] School Type: Private (catholic All Girls…BLEHH)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White (PALE :smiley: )
[</em>] Gender:Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Upper Class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): errrrrr
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Leadership. Interview, Essay, Recs. I consider myself to be very personable.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT IIs and GPA (it is out of 4.5)</p>

<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision:Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown) - 2020 Math: 720 CR: 660 W: 640
SAT II: BIO M 680, Maths 2 710
IB (place score in parenthesis): HL BIO (6), HL CHEM (6), HL MATH (6), SL ENG (5), SL PSYCH (6), SPANISH AB (5)</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing really - if counted, colours and colours with distinction for badminton, seasac and acsis champions</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Senior Badminton team, senior basketball team, school newspaper, latin american dance, mentoring middleschoolers, tabitha, promoting animal welfare, service, video and documentary, round sqaure conference. </p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Tuition to grade 10 maths student. doctor shadowing. </p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: drama service, tabitha, promoting animal welfare, care for dogs, street kids home and an orphanage </p>

<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, a lot actually.
Intended Major: Double - neuroscience and biology
Country (if international applicant): Singapore
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Bangladeshi
Gender:Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none.</p>

<p>Reflection
Strengths: interview and essay
Weaknesses: grades
General Comments:
I honestly have no idea how I am admitted especially after looking at all the other stats of those admitted. but congrats and i am very very excited :)</p>

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<p>I never thought I’d ever do one of these. They are quite dehumanizing and are not helpful, as it depends to a large extent on your school. If your school has naviance, it’s 10x more accurate than anything else.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>[ul]
[li] ACT: 30</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: None</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.63 Weighted 4.63</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: Hard to describe. AP Art, AP Bio, Small [/li]school global studies interdisciplinary program (eng, hist, hist),
independent study</p>

<p>[li] Major Awards: None, except Sociedad Honoraria.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Weird club that has out-there excursions and speakers (lead organizer), another weird club with out-there approach to health (leader), literary magazine (Art editor), GSA, orchestra outside of school, great visual arts experience + portfolio</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: some babysitting + tiny bit of teaching music</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service: Pretty much none. Might do some later this sem.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities: summer school for 2 years, 5 weeks art school for 1 year. orchestra camp.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: Common app ones great, colby done at last minute, but passable.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recommendation: Two outstanding recs from history and english.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec: Some positive things that counselor learned from my adviser, but mostly technical.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Additional Rec: one from visual arts teacher, also good.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview: Nope.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]</p>

<p>[li] Applied for Financial Aid?: No</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Intended Major: I said visual arts, but I have no clue.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant): IL</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: Really great public school.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: white</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: female</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket: upper class</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nope.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]</p>

<p>[<em>] Strengths: good writer, good at argumentation, taken over 6 years
of history and science during high school, good leader (reliable).
[</em>] Weaknesses: Forever a B- math student. Kinda disorganized, miss deadlines, not detail-oriented.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Slightly higher GPA than my school’s Colby average, great recs, and my social studies program is very similar to Colby. [/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>

<p>Overall, as happy as I am to be accepted at Colby, and as likely as it is I will attend, I never showed any interest in the school. I never visited, didn’t interview, didn’t email the representative for anything, never talked to anyone about it, and applied at the very last minute. Didn’t expect to be accepted at all, but I was.</p>

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<p>@butterfly2015 wow, you get 7300 on the SAT Critical Reading. That’s amazing. Extra credit questions?</p>

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<p>[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: waitlisted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 ( 680 CR 800 Math 800Writing- 12 essay)
[ *] SAT II: 800 Maths I, 800 MAths II, 770 chem, 750 Physics
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): >3.9
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 3%
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: most rigorous
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): many I think
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): strong leadership
[ *] Job/Work Experience: quite many
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:some
[ *] Summer Activities: quite many
[ *] Essays: It is okay I guess
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: both good
[ *] Counselor Rec: good and quite specific
[ *] Additional Rec: none
[ *] Interview: none
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: YES, NEED LOTS OF MONEY
[ *] Intended Major: International Relations/ Econs
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant): Asian
[ *] School Type: One public one independent
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Income Bracket: super low
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: dunno, everything is so so
[ *] Weaknesses: fin aid.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Im just not that outstanding and ask for a lot of money
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] The chances of waitlistees are really slim, so goodluck :). I love the friendliness of Colby though</p>

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