<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 710 CR, 800 M, 710 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 790 Biology
[<em>] ACT: 34 (32E, 35M, 35R, 32S, 11 Essay) Superscored
[</em>] APs: 5 Biology, 5 Chemistry, 5 Statistics, 4 American, 4 European
[<em>] IBs: 7 Math SL
[</em>] GPA: 102.2
[<em>] Rank: 14/520
[</em>] Other stats (AMC/AIME/USAMO, PhO, ChO, etc): Intel and Siemens Semifinalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Science Research (2 summers), 3 years Varisty lax, Peer tutoring, various community service activities (more than 100 hours per year)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None (Research was not paid )
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App - strong; Amherst Essay - very strong - received an email from an admissions officer saying she loved how my essay made her feel my passion for science.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Very strong (I know, it’s impossible to tell what that means. Sorry)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Very strong
[</em>] Hook (if any, such as RSI or URM): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: LI, NY
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, usually send 5-6 to Ivy Leagues every year. Only other one has gotten into Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore in the past 5 years though.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Well I got an early write acceptance about 3 weeks ago and was absolutely floored when I got it. Congrats to all the students who got in. To all those who didn’t, I know that you are going to do excellent no matter where you go. Just the fact that you’re on CC to try to learn what you can do to improve is a testament to your perseverance and commitment to academics which will serve you well in the future. To future applicants looking at this thread for a reference, don’t be intimidated by any of these stats for anyone who posted. Colleges look beyond the stats to find out who you are. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>one of the cons of living in fl ~ i have yet to receive any letters from the NE LACs
although i was accepted to midd yesterday
i was really surprised, though, because i was WL at wes
admissions are so unpredictable this year
here’s to keeping my fingers crossed</p>
<p>theGame: Those numbers that I gave to you are correct, though, it didn’t mention that they accepted 1200 students. But, yes, 7600+ applicants applied.</p>
<p>ahh i am so nervous. i haven’t received the letter yet, but tomorrow will prabably be the day. i’ve gotten into some schools (Northwestern UofC and some other LACs) and rejected by others (Yale and MIT) so i don’t know where i stand at all. i didnt think i would be this nervous, but knowing it is in the post office just a few blocks away is making me crazed. i am bracing myself for the worst and hoping for the best…</p>
<p>^I think that’s a pretty good way of looking at it, Hlover! I know it’s hard, but try to relax. You’ve already gotten into some really great schools as it is! Congrats! I wish you all the best :)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800CR/760M/740W - 2300
[</em>] SAT II: 800Bio-E/780USH/710Lit - 2290
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 of 573
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 17 APs, mostly 4’s and 5’s
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 13AP’s, 3 dual enrollment, 2 honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Some prestigious leadership/humanitarian/math awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President of NHS, Junior Civitan, Science Club. Commander of school AFJROTC (cadet colonel). Statistics team captain. Tons of science involvement. Senior Council, etc.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tons of community service, but only 105~ hours on transcript (I hate the idea of reporting hours)
[<em>] Summer Activities: College classes, Boys State, Academy leadership seminars, and others
[</em>] Essays: My commonapp essay was decent and my Amherst essay was solid
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One was fantastic, no idea about the other
[</em>] Counselor Rec: She loves me, but she can’t write for the life of her</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[</em>] School Type: Average, large, public. Mean SAT is 480~ for every section.
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000~ (middle class)
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: EC passion, awards, and reccomendations.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Essay (rushed) and my freshman year grades.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred//waitlisted/rejected: I must not have been what the AdComs were looking for, but it does seem like a lot of students were waitlisted.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Waitlisted at both Amherst and Williams…</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section):
Writing: 800
Critical Reading: 720
Math: 780
[</em>] SAT IIs:
U.S. History: 730
Lit: 760
World History: 760
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] APs: n/a
[<em>] IBs:Testing in May- on track for full diplom
[</em>] GPA:3.99
[<em>] Rank:7
[</em>] Awards listed on application: National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award, Best Attorney (in state) in Mock Trial, National Merit Finalist</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app:Mock Trial (7th, 5th, 10th, and 2nd at state over 4 years, plus Best Attorney at regional and state competitions senior year), Quiz Bowl, National Honor Society (VP), Junior Civitan, Soccer, Model UN
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App was great, spent a lot of time on it revising, etc. The supplement wasn’t as thought out, but apparently it was good enough.
[<em>] Teacher Recs:One good, one excellent.
[</em>] Counselor Rec:Can’t have been too bad.
[<em>] Applied on:Late December
[</em>] Hook (if any):</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Indiana
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Large, typical urban public school, though a very small and high achieving section of IB students
[<em>] Ethnicity:White
[</em>] Gender:Male
[/ul]General Comments:
Super excited. Visiting again in mid-April. Financial Aid kind of sucked, especially in comparison to other schools I got into, but oh well.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2210 (680 CR, 770 M, 760 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 690 Bio E, 690 MIIC, 630 Lit.
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA: 3.95 UW
[<em>] Rank: 2 of 415
[</em>] Other stats: AP: Eng Lang - 5, Human Geo - 5, Cal AB - 5, US His - 3, World His -3, taking 5 AP tests this year
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Pretty good, pretty personalized, showed a lot of motivation and potential
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One very good, one decent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Who knows, I get a new counselor every year
[</em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: TX
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: hispanic, white
[</em>] Gender:male
[<em>] Intended Major: undecided
[</em>] major strength/weakness: not sure. my subject tests were probably a major weakness
[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:2340 (800 CR, 790 M, 750 W)
[ *] SAT IIs: Math 2 (800), Lit (800), French w/ Listening (790)
[ *] ACT: 36
[ *] GPA: 4.0 UW
[ *] Rank: 1/182
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Fairly strong. Put in a lot of work on the one about traveling to Mexico to work with sea turtle conservation biologists for a week.
[ *] Teacher Recs: One pretty good, one VERY strong.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Probably good? She knows me well.
[ *] Hook (if any):Umm…youngest person ever appointed to a commission in my city?
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:Idaho
[ *] School Type:Public-not bad, but not terribly competetive
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender:Female
[ *] Intended Major: French or Comp Lit
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strenght-passionate involvement and a lot of balance, Weakness-I have sometimes chosen not to take the most competetive course load (but this is to facilitate my strength, so…)</p>
<p>It was very nice to get the letter, especially today of all days… I’m home sick and may have appendicitis. But hey, I got into Amherst!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 34
[</em>] SAT II: 780 US History, 750 Physics, 740 Literature
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5,5,5
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Toughest possible, 4 APs, the rest Honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing of note.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Very involved in politics/water conservation out here in Colorado. Have authored and passed legislation, work in the state capitol, and held high leadership positions on the McCain/RNC 2008 campaign. Other stuff like Mock Trial, Class President, etc.
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good I thought
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[<em>] Additional Rec: From a friend in the Colorado House of Representatives
[</em>] Interview: Went very well</p>
<p>[/ul]Other [ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):** Colorado! **
[li] School Type: Medium Private[/li][</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Pretty unique ECs I guess. Nothing else.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul] Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, stats
[</em>] Weaknesses: Couple of Bs first Trimester senior year, but brought up to As by second trimester. Thought essay was just alright.
[li] Why you think you were waitlisted: Who knows. Cause they like purple.[/li][/ul]General Comments: I don’t really care, have gotten into Duke and Georgetown, waiting on Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, and Penn. Will probably take my name off the list anyway - never really wanted to go to Amherst.</p>
<p>I applied to Amherst regular decision and live in Illinois. I have received nothing in the mail yet and am wondering when to expect something. Should I be worried? Has anyone else from Illinois gotten anything yet?</p>
<p>sat: cr 800 m670 w 730
sat II us history 780 eng lit 740 latin 610
act:35
class rank 3/35
gpa u3.9 w4.1</p>
<p>ec… tons: a sport every season (varsity xc and track captain), Key Club, musicals, piano. tons of service including a counselor at an MDA camp and 2 mission trips to Belize.</p>
<p>essay… i thought both my common and amherst were awesome (didn’t spend too much time on them… probably a problem)
recs. this is where i was screwed. my counselor does not like me at all.
state: OH
school : very small Catholic</p>
<p>pshan730, a neighbor’s daughter never heard anything form Amherst and she had to call. It turned out she never got her acceptance letter. </p>
<p>I have a question. Is there any student here who got accepted to Diversity Weekend and did NOT get accepted? My child went to Diversity Weekend, I thought the material said 90% if the people invited get accepted, my child submitted additional grades that were the best they ever got, and were denied admissions. </p>
<p>Is there any parent who can comment?</p>
<p>This is particularly sad since my child found out via email all the people they met that weekend got admitted. </p>
<p>Wow, that’s pretty brutal. I was under the impression, just from reading the forum here, that if you were invited to Diversity Week you already were in. I know this must be a tough time for your kid, but I’m sure everything will work out for the best in the end.</p>
<p>dirtyjeans, are you referring those who attended DIVOH in September and October? For last years admission cycle, D knew of students she attended with that were not admitted.</p>
<p>lol turns out my dad got the package today and hid it because he wanted to surprise me </p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED! </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2280
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math 800, Bio 780, USH 720
[<em>] ACT: 36
[</em>] GPA: 4.5ish W, 3.9ish UW
[<em>] Rank: Top 3%
[</em>] Other stats: Brown Book Award Nominee, NMS Finalist, several in-school awards and Scholastic Bowl awards, NCTE writing competition nominee, AP Scholar with Distinction, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I loved my common app essay and I thought the quote response went very well too! Writing is a strength so I’m sure they were well-received.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Both were pretty good, I’m assuming (didn’t get to see them…)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: She told me it was outstanding.
[</em>] Hook (if any): None that I know of.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Illinois
[</em>] School Type: Very large public school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Intended Major: No idea!
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Grades aren’t exactly perfect
[/ul]Other Factors: I’d say my strength was violin - I sent in a CD and had my teacher of eight years write me a great letter (focused on our really fun teacher-student relationship as well as my experiences with music) and I have participated in CD recordings, lots of concerts and performance groups, and an international tour so I think that was the strongest part of the app. </p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in! And good luck to everyone else. :)</p>
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