**OFFICIAL Columbia University RD Decisions - Class of 2014!**

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<p>Pick one:</p>

<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted*[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected*[/color][/size]</p>

<p>^Remember to remove the spaces!</p>

<p>Copy and paste:</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* 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.):
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
* Job/Work Experience:
* Volunteer/Community service:
* Summer Activities:
* Essays:
* Teacher Recommendation:
* Counselor Rec:
* Additional Rec:
* Interview:
</code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant):
* Country (if international applicant):
* School Type:
* Ethnicity:
* Gender:
* Income Bracket:
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
</code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths:
* Weaknesses:
* Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
* Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
</code></pre>

<p>General Comments:</p>

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<p>good luck everyone :slight_smile: and please only post when decisions come out!</p>

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<p>Can we get this stickied?</p>

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<p>Hello there, College Confidential. I filled out the objective parts for those of you who like to crunch numbers and such; I will return in a few hours to fill out the rest. I will respond to any questions [except chance requests].</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted w/ Likely [SEAS]</p>

<p>Objective:

  • SAT I: 800M 800CR 770WR (8 Essay)
  • SAT II: 800M2 800LIT 790PHYS
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): CalcBC, CalcAB, CSA, CSAB, USGov, PhysCE, PhysCM, WorldHist: 5; EngLang: 4
  • Senior Year Course Load:
    AP: Bio, EngLit, EnvSci, SpanLang, Stats, USH
    GT: Advanced Object-Oriented Design</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
  • Job/Work Experience: None
  • Volunteer/Community service: Little [Will elaborate later]
  • Summer Activities: Personal programming projects elaborated upon in the additional information attachment.
  • Essay: Excellent. My teacher asked me to submit it to the county’s literary competition.
  • Teacher Recommendation: First: Unseen; Second: Read [Will elaborate later]
  • Counselor Rec: Unseen
  • Additional Rec: None
  • Interview: Went well, will elaborate later.</p>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State: MD</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: ~$100,000 </li>
<li>Hooks: None</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection

  • Strengths: Essay, Interview
  • Weaknesses:
  • Why you think you were accepted: Essay, recommendations.</p>

<p>Accepted: CMU [SCS], UMD [Banneker-Key], Rose-Hulman
WL: JHU
Rejected: MIT, Stanford</p>

<p>I’ll have some tips that I gleaned from my conversation with the interviewer and other parts, but here’s a bit of miscellanea for now:</p>

<p>You will not necessarily get rejected if you don’t conform to the requested essay length. I attached an essay of over 1000 words where they requested 250-500.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>(Not just a likely, I didn’t get a likely, I got in, and UPS delivered it about 2 hours ago)</p>

<p>I just got it in the Mail via UPS!!! :D:D:D:D:D
I’ll update this later with stats waiting on other april 1sts.</p>

<p>Goodluck to everyone!</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED! :slight_smile: :)</p>

<p>I’ll post stats later. CC just died.</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED! :slight_smile: :)</p>

<p>I’ll post stats later. CC just died.</p>

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<p>Rejected. Expected, but I still had hope. Very upset on many levels.</p>

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<p>Waitlisted :frowning:
SEAS</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected SEAS</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): T:2240 - C:720 - M:800 - W - 720 (took 3x)
[</em>] ACT: 33 (E:34 - M:36 - R:28 - S:25)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II - 770 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75 :frowning:
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 22/421
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 2/3/3/3/4/5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): X
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Hard
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): meh
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: good
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: meh
[<em>] Summer Activities: good
[</em>] Essays: Thought it was pretty awsome/origional
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: meh
[</em>] Counselor Rec: meh
[<em>] Additional Rec: Research Professor
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): ID
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Geographic Location?[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: lol not much
[li] Weaknesses: meh applicant[/li][/ul]</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED!
Along with Princeton, Penn, and Cornell!</p>

<p>What is the Academic Success Program at Columbia???</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2080- 800 V, 610M, 6870W</li>
<li>ACT: 32</li>
<li>SAT II: 630 Bio/E, 790 Lit</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6/ 4.4</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 47/390</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis):</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): SL physics(4), SL spanish (5), SL math, HL history, english, and bio</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: see above</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): bunch of national 4-H awards, nationals for debate, nationals for mock trial, bunch of state stuff </li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4-H, mock trial, debate, etc etc.</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: two summer jobs, one during school year</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: trained a therapy dog, bunch of other less original stuff</li>
<li>Summer Activities: WORK, county and state fair, conferenes, etc.</li>
<li>Essays: crap. Decent crap, but i sort of blew them off till the very end and didn’t try very hard…definitely regretting that now</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: One AMAZING, one ok-ish</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: dunno, but im thinking awful</li>
<li>Additional Rec:</li>
<li>Interview: didnt have one</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): CO</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type: public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: native hawaiian</li>
<li>Gender: F</li>
<li>Income Bracket: 60,000</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): native hawaiian? I think columbia actually counts it as a URM</li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: I am BEYOND THRILLED to be waitlisted. I was expecting outright rejection, since im not the most competitive applicant academically and my essays weren’t very good. I have a feeling that my URM-ish status may have helped, and i now plan to put forth massive amounts of effort at expressing my love and devotion to the school in my waitlist letter. SO EXCITED! :D</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected (CC)</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2400

  • ACT: 34
  • SAT II: 800 Math II, 740 US History, 640 Physics
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/254
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 Calc AB, 5 USH, 4 Physics B, 4 English Lang
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP US Gov, AP Calc BC, AP English Lit, Chem (regular), Office User Specialist, etc. Most rigorous at school
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/Honor, NMSF. Nothing really
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Reviver/President of French Club, Student Council Rep, PR Officer for FCCLA, Knowledge Bowl (team had better finish than almost any other year ever, but didn’t qualify for state :frowning: ), math tutoring, NHS

  • Job/Work Experience: None, other than helping my dad with furniture delivery and things (not paid).
  • Volunteer/Community service: Family-themed event nights at local elementary school, a couple annual mock car crashes, sporadic translation services for Korean residents
  • Summer Activities: Nothing college-oriented, ha.
  • Essays: Pretty excellent. The strongest component of my app in my opinion.
  • Teacher Recommendation: Read one of the two. All kind of good stuff, but a little generic.
  • Counselor Rec: Glowing, from what I hear.
  • Additional Rec: N/A
  • Interview: Went real smooth, the guy happened to be Korean too haha.
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): WA, but…

  • Country (if international applicant): …considered international from South Korea (non-citizen).
  • School Type: Medium-sized public, not all that great
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: M
  • Income Bracket: Qualify for full aid.
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen college, QuestBridge finalist (=low-income)
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: Numbers (except Physics score), pretty well-rounded, interesting essay.

  • Weaknesses: Not exceptionally exceptional, international from Korea asking for financial aid
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Those weakness up there, as well as the competition.
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected HYP, Penn, Columbia, Williams, and UChicago; waitlisted Dartmouth and Carleton; accepted UWashington and UPortland (safeties).
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments: Congrats to all accepted students, I’m sure you were all truly deserving of it!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (CR:800 M:680 W:800)
[</em>] SAT II: Lit: 710 Chem: 710
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Lit, AP Gov, AP Calc, Japanese 7/8, choir
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): drama, 4 choirs
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: retail, two years
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: State Youth Council, NHS, Link Crew
[</em>] Summer Activities: Lab work at a local community college, Boys State
[<em>] Essays: I liked them :slight_smile: Common app was really personal, while the others were more lighthearted.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both were nice, but very different. One talked more about my personality, attitude, and interactions with people, while the other talked about my academic achievements.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Really sweet. Placed my achievements in the context of my school and talked about my work ethic.
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): WA
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $50,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Stanford, University of Chicago[/ul][/li]General Comments: This is so incredible! Congrats to all!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2390
ACT: 36
SAT II: 800MII, 800 Bio, 800 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
AP (place score in parenthesis): Five 5s
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: 10 APS
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc): USAMO, USABO, NFL Nationals, Intel, Siemens, National Merit Semifinalist (at the time).
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech and Debate (President), NHS (President), Student Council (President), Class President, Tennis (Captain), Beta Chi Pi (President), Mu Alpha Theta (President), Key Club (President)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: A lot. Building homes in Louisiana, nursing home work, hospital work, teaching English, Big Brother/Big Sisters, Circle of Concern.
Summer Activities: Research, Girls State, math camps, FUN (??) :slight_smile:
**Essays: **
Teacher Recommendation: Probably excellent. Actually, definitely excellent, seeing as how I got in.
Counselor Rec: Ditto.
Additional Rec: Research mentor.
Interview: Great
Other
State (if domestic applicant): MO
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Good public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: High
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None?
Reflection
Strengths: Major awards/stats
Weaknesses: Essays (didn’t spend as much time as I should have)
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Who really knows? Do what you love.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Stanford (rejected), Duke (waitlisted), accepted to Dartmouth, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, UPenn, Williams, Amherst, Oxford, Emory, Vanderbilt, UChicago, WashU, Northwestern, Georgetown, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Cal Tech, MIT, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Oxford, Tufts, Boston University.
General Comments: Good Luck!!</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2280 (800 CR, 690 M, 790 W)

  • ACT:
  • SAT II: 780 Spanish, 760 Math II, 740 Lit, 700 Physics
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.76 UW
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~30/100
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), AP Spanish Language (5)
  • IB (place score in parenthesis):
  • Senior Year Course Load: AP CS, AP Calc AB, AP Physics C, Chinese English
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lots and lots and lots of ballet, some other stuff

  • Job/Work Experience: none
  • Volunteer/Community service: Tutoring at an elementary school
  • Summer Activities: Ballet, summer science/engineering program
  • Essays: Common app was good, supplement = AWFUL
  • Teacher Recommendation: should have been really good
  • Counselor Rec: ok, i assume
  • Additional Rec:
  • Interview: Good, but very casual
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* State (if domestic applicant): CA

  • Country (if international applicant):
  • School Type: Competitive, well-known private
  • Ethnicity: white
  • Gender: F
  • Income Bracket: High
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: SAT scores for the most part, grades after freshman year

  • Weaknesses: RANK like no other, Math SAT score
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: NO idea, but I am thrilled!
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: In at Case Western, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Smith, CMU, JHU, waitlisted Princeton, rejected Swarthmore/UCLA
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments: Very excited!! I thought I had no chance!</p>

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<p>Anonymous93, you’re great! I’m surprised you got rejected by stanford, but your harvard acceptance definitely makes up it! Congrats!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740CR, 750M, 710W
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: 740BiologyM, 700USH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/500
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Psychology (5), USH (4), Human Geography (4), English Language (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP US Gov, AP Macroeconomics, AP Bio, AP Lit, Forensics, Internship
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction, National Achievement Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): HOSA (president, treasurer), Mu Alpha Theta (Vice President), NHS, Research after school, Track
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:20 hours a week tutoring at inner-city youth center since 9th grade (2000+ hours), Church nursery (only about 2 hours a week)
[<em>] Summer Activities: Research at local university, NIH STEP-UP program (another research program)
[</em>] Essays: One about my environment and how it shapes. Extra essay about my research program and the lessons it taught me
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent. Included detail information about the poverty of our school, lack of resources, and how I had to self-study for most AP exams even though I had a teacher
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: Went well.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Inner-city public
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: <$50,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Extracurriculars (tutoring and research which I was heavily involved in)
[<em>] Weaknesses: Not a lot of leadership skills
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I will not even attempt to figure that out
[*] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: : Accepted at UF, UMiami, Williams (Tyng), Amherst (early write), Dartmouth (likely), Princeton, Yale, Harvard. Was not waitlisted or rejected.[/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280, 800 Math, 780 Reading, 700 Writing
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 French with Listening, 780 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (It’s really more like a 95-96%)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/620ish
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), World History (5), Stat (5), Calc AB (5) Chem (5), US History (4), Calc BC (5), Enviro (5), Studio Art (4), Physics (4), Euro (skipped), English Lang (skipped), French Lang (5), Micro (skipped), Macro (skipped), Psych (5), English Lit (currently taking), French Lit (currently taking), Art History (currently taking, will definitely skip)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP French Lit, Linear Algebra (college), AP Art History, Mole Bio (college), Chem (college).
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Did well at Intel, never really got past AIME. Won essay contests, MVP awards for sports, published science research etc.</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis - 2nd singles freshman year, and continued as 1st singles throughout high school. Named MVP, Captain, won state awards, etc. (I think I may have been recruited but I didn’t want to pursue tennis in college at the D1 level). Class President all four years. Editor in Chief of award-winning school literary magazine for 2 years. Established school Hispanic club, president and founder.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned at NYC science labs for four years and had work published professionally. Interned at the New Yorker for a month (I have a family friend :P)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[</em>] Summer Activities: Internships
[<em>] Essays: No Idea. I liked them! :stuck_out_tongue:
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: No idea, but they like me! :stuck_out_tongue:
[li] Counselor Rec: No idea, but he likes me! :P</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview: It went well.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 50k-100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM. Legacy to Princeton and Tufts.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Scores, extracurriculars, my personality, and my hooks.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Not exactly sure, but no one’s perfect.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, MIT, Barnard, Johns Hopkins BME. Waitlisted: Tufts [/li][/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted- CC</p>

<p>Copy and paste:</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 660CR 720M 680W </li>
<li>ACT: 34E 34M 27R 33S</li>
<li>SAT II: 740 Physics, 710 Math II, 710 USH</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): USH-5, Chem-3, Physics B-4, Stats-4, Will take Physics C, Calc BC, Bio, English Lang., Macro.</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): Not Offered</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Physics C, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calc BC, AP English Lang., Advanced Video Production, Band</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nope. AP Scholar with Honor?</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Unique stuff. I do a lot of music and film ECs that I spend a lot of time on. Leadership positions in 4 clubs. Co-founded a club.</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Summer and sometimes during the year.</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: A lot through my ECs.</li>
<li>Summer Activities: Reading more than most people read in their lifetime. Working. Learning Calculus (was going to take multivariable through EPGY, but decided not to)</li>
<li>Essays: My main essay was the best thing I’ve ever written. Unfortunately I wrote it at the last second and couldn’t use it for other schools, which caused my numerous rejections. </li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: 3 Amazing</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Awesome</li>
<li>Additional Rec: From a music teacher I’ve known since 6th grade.</li>
<li>Interview: Didn’t have one.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): NY (about an hour away from NYC)</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant): </li>
<li>School Type: Average public. Usually sends one or two to an ivy every year. </li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: 100,000</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I’m not sure if this is considered legacy, but my grandfather went to med school there?</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: Definitely my essay. </li>
<li>Weaknesses: I suck at standardized testing. </li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essay was amazing and it showed a lot about myself and really got to the mystery behind my desire to study physics. </li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at Boston U, RPI, Northeastern. Waitlisted at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon. Rejected everywhere else- MIT, Stanford, Chicago, Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Yale, Brown, Penn, Cornell. </li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: I am SO happy I didn’t get rejected. I have been rejected so many times in the past week, I could not take this one. Columbia is my 2nd choice, and 1 of the 2 schools I genuinely loved. As of 5:30, I took a spot on the waitlist and I will be revisiting Columbia and doing everything I possibly can to get a spot. This is really my last hope, because I really don’t want to go to BU and I love this school so much. I’m expecting yield to go way down this year for every school, so to anyone else who was waitlisted- we really do have a chance! To anyone who was rejected, take a look at my list of rejections. Trust me, I know how you feel, and it really sucks. But what we all need to remember in this whole crazy process is that we are the ones who have the motivation to join this site, apply to these schools, and do everything we can to succeed. We are the reason that schools like Columbia are so competitive, and as long as we don’t change, we will succeed, no matter where we are. Congratulations to everyone who was accepted! Hopefully, I will eventually join the class of 2014!!</p>