OFFICIAL DECISIONS - Barnard 2014

<p>I’m on facebook too! My real name is Rashmi Borah</p>

<p>Decision:ACCEPTED</p>

<p>SAT: math 660, writing 750, reading 800
SAT II: math 1 640, lit 780</p>

<p>gpa: 3.78 UW (my school is extremely intense, so I don’t know what that would be weighted)</p>

<p>EC
15 years of serious ballet training.
I currently dance 18 hours a week.</p>

<p>I’ve also been a tour guide for my school for the past three years.</p>

<p>–I want to take a gap year though so I can dance full time for a year. So now I have to send in my request.</p>

<p>Decision:ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Sooooo excited. It hasn’t sunk in yet… but OH MY GOODNESS. Best feeling in the world. Congrats too all who made it!!</p>

<p>Sunnysundays!! yeahh we can be friends now!!! :D</p>

<p>GerfTheSmurf- YES LET"S BE FRIENDS! facebook meeee! jordana rachel :))) CONGRATS DUDE!</p>

<p>gerf! request me, gloria noel</p>

<p>I’m on facebook. Everyone request me my name is brittany binderoff. I’m also on the actual page</p>

<p>REQUEST ME! I am uncreative and therefore my name is Adele Zhang.
I’m also on the barnard page and the 2014 group.</p>

<p>REQUEST ME!! (if i haven’t already stalked you down XD)
I wrote a trillion times on the 2014 EARLY DECISION BARNARD WOMEN thread and am part of the Barnard page and 2014 group.</p>

<p>I’m Soyeon Kim!</p>

<p>Peaches! Did you go to SIS?</p>

<p>I did MUN there and I met a couple of pretty cool people. Janice and Pearl I think went there. </p>

<p>Did you do MUN? Are you gonna join the Columbia Team?</p>

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR: 760, W: 700: M: 750<br>
Superscore: 2210
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math I1: 730 US History: 750
[<em>] ACT: Didn’t take
[</em>] APs: BC Calc - 4 US History - 5
[<em>] GPA: 3.6 at extremely hard school - I think only one person has a 4.0 this year. Very tough courseload this year.
[</em>] Rank: No ranking
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: 4 years Newspaper, 2 years Editor, 3 years equestrian and softball, Head of Community Service club, 3 years Tour Guide and Student Activities Club. Didn’t list (stupid!) but most of my volunteer work revolved around children helping children; empowerment of unprivileged through better education, not just charity. Hope I got that across.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Worked for parents
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses):
Common App: Wrote about confronting my genes - nature vs. nurture
Supplement: It came so naturally - Barnard was my favorite supplement. Really loved what I wrote, and so did counselor. In a separate supplement, I wrote about my favorite books movies, artwork, media, etc.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Never saw them, but they were good enough to get me in.
Perk: External rec from Barnard professor from PCP
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Whatever
[<em>] Applied on: ED
[</em>] Hook (if any): Legacy
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul] Vermont
[<em>] State or Country: USA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private
[li] Ethnicity: Asian[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc: WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN. Wow this doesn’t feel real. I’m finally going to Barnard. I am so excited about the post-acceptance things to acknowledge that I got in; - stocking up on Barnard paraphernalia during winter break, joining Facebook threads, NOT having to get rid of all the Barnard catalogs I’ve accumulated in my room, etc. </p>

<p>CONGRATS TO THE REST, and chin up for the deferrals!</p>

<p>Congrats to all you soon-to-be Barnard women! I am so proud of you all!!! And, Kiwi, I logged in just to see if you’d heard. So happy for you!!!</p>

<p>I still haven’t heard…nothing came in the mail.
is something wrong?</p>

<p>Oh, guys, congratulations! I’m so happy for you all.</p>

<p>Cheers!</p>

<p>I’M IN SEE YOU GALS NEXT YEAR!!
oh and facebook me- Caroline Brown!</p>

<p>Hahahahaha, oh, I’m in pain. I was deferred from UChicago early this afternoon. What a joke. This is what a sucky GPA will do you to, gals. If you take anything away from this, keep your GPA above a 3.75!</p>

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

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (by section):670 CR/620M/770CW/10 Essay
[ *] SAT IIs:600 Lit/ 690 US History
[ *] ACT: 30
[ *] APs: 4 US history/ 3 Eng Lang
[ *] IBs:
[ *] GPA: 3.93 uw
[ *] Rank: my school doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app: editor-in-Chief high school paper (also lots of other positions in previous years); Photography; Cross Country & Track (state finals in both); Community Service Leadership positions in all four years; volunteer at children’s hospital for three years; several other lesser ones
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Orange Cup (a frozen yogurt store) for six months;
[ *] Essays (subject and responses): Common App - strong, wrote about how I worry and how it wastes energy & time, discussed better ways to deal with worrying; “Why Barnard” - art history strengths, small supportive community but with academic rigor; “Daily Routine” - why I slice berries and cucumber for my water every morning; “Fictional Character” - Am</p>

<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): Reading- 630 Math- 630 Writing- 670
[</em>] SAT IIs: US History 670 Lit- 690
[<em>] GPA: 5.1/6 (An A)
[</em>] Rank: We don’t rank
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ list]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Editir in Chief of the Newspaper, President for 2 years of the Environmental club, Tower captain of the bell tower, Head Female Tour guide, 3rds Girls Lacrosse
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Dental Internship
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common app- How being a tour guide helped me cope with the loss of my mother, and living on my own. Why Barnard- I wanted to be in control of my future, and I identified with the strong women there. Issue- I talked about environmental issues in CT<br>
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Amazing
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I was told it was the best one my counselor had ever seen
[<em>] Applied on: Oct 26th
[</em>] Hook (if any): First generation, Bell ringer
[/list][ b]Location/Person:
[ list]
[<em>] State or Country: CT
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private boarding school
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender:
[/list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:** Congratulations to everyone who got in! I’m so proud to be able to call myself a Barnard girl!!</p>

<p>aww wej :frowning: I was deferred from UChicago to. They don’t know what they’re missing by not accepting you. I really hope you get into Barnard RD though!</p>

<p>I got in and was too excited to post stats so here you go!</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section): CR: 630, W: 660 : M: 670
Superscore: 1960 (my region is ACT focused, btw)
SAT IIs: Math II: 590 Lit: 540 Bio E: 530
ACT: 30
GPA: 4.4 weighted (idk my uw)
Rank: I was number 8 at the end of last year.
Other stats:
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: 4 years of theater, lots of community service, traveled to Ghana for a comm. serv. project, took a class at Cornell University (ended with a B+), 1 year of choir, 2 years of art, NHS, Schuler Scholar Program
Job/Work Experience: none
Essays (subject and responses):
Common App: wrote about my group of close knit friends and our diversity - it was a lot better than Im making it sound
Supplement: I loved their supplement :slight_smile: For the fictional character I wrote about Matilda, for the issue I talked about this program my school is doing where they buy all the freshmen laptops (we’re a really poor public school), daily routine - listening to my ipod before bed to calm the chaos of the day
Teacher Recs: Umm didn’t see them, but I’m guessing good.
Perk: I’m in a scholarship program so my counselor knows me really well and talked to the office a lot.
Counselor Rec: Awesome! I assume…
Applied on: ED
Hook (if any): 1st generation college student, from the Midwest (only 9% i think from there)
Location/Person:
Illinois
State or Country: USA
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, lots of students (around 1500), history of gangs
Ethnicity: caucasian
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:
Congratulations everyone who got accepted :smiley: I cannot wait. It is going to be such an amazing four years. It still hasn’t sunk in… feels like a dream!! :)</p>