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<p>Yes, very much. I know that feeling well.</p>
<p>codeblue87, you're an inspiration to anyone who has received a "C" semester grade!</p>
<p>mangopeachie-</p>
<p>I'll see you at Prefrosh then! To make quotes, I believe you use a "quote" tag. You would type "quote" without the quotes inside brackets with a beginning and ending tag (i.e. with a /).</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED WITH AXLINE!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2320 (790 M, 760 CR, 770 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIc, 760 USH, 730 Phys.
[<em>] GPA: 98.125 w
[</em>] Rank: 18/330
[<em>] Other stats: Research awards, including national finalist @ Siemens and top 10 @ STS
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were pretty good. I was writing so many essays then, maybe I got the hang of it! Both really helped demonstrate my passion for astronomy.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: I would imagine they were as good as I could have wanted, but I didn't see them (though I heard about them). One was from my science research teacher, one from my English teacher, and one was from my research mentor. The people I picked really like me, so...
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Same.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Research. I definitely demonstrated my passion for astronomy, and backed it up with demonstrated success in research that's going to really impact the field.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NY (Long Island)
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Jewish
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Major Strength/Weakness: Research. I showed a real passion, what I really love, and pursued it, and that's all you really can do in high school.
[li] Why You Think You Were Accepted/Rejected/Waitlisted: Because Caltech likes people who truly love science? :) That's all I can speculate upon.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: Not sure what to say. Congrats to everyone who got in, this is quite spectacular!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS!
How did you find out about Axline?</p>
<p>And by the way, the Axline letter came in the acceptance package--right above the letter of actual acceptance, so it was essentially "Congratulations! You are an Axline scholar!" and then "Congratulations! You're in!", which amused me :) Sorry to disappoint some of you...</p>
<p>How many are given in total? 15-20? I know of three right now, but I should hear more soon.</p>
<p>GuitarManARS, congratulations on Axline, you are totally amazing :).</p>
<p>mjoe -- What school are you from? I went to Dunbar and then TAMS.</p>
<p>What is axline?</p>
<p><em>tackle-hugs Adam</em></p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS!!!</p>
<p>guess Caltech could tell how amazing you are.</p>
<p>*Decision: Accepted!!! *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:V560M800W710 V660M790W720
[</em>] SAT IIs: Physics 790 Math LVL 2 800 Chemistry 800
[<em>] GPA:not so sure, about 3.8 to 3.9
[</em>] Rank: 45 or something, not in the front
[<em>] Other stats:Science Olympiad National Second Place
Bunch of other SciOly awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:Pretty good I guess
[<em>] Teacher Recs:EXTREMELY GOOOOOOOD
[</em>] Counselor Rec:not so sure, not bad, she likes me
[<em>] Hook (if any):I've only been here for 2 years or so
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:Media, PA
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:Asian/Chinese
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:strong in sciences, weak in social studies, and language arts(English)
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: The recs were awesome, they all mentioned my plight, which is the fact that the first year I was here, I wasn't allowed to take lvl1 classes, which pulled down my GPA and rank.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Not so much, just happy XD</p>
<p>*Decision: Accepted *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2080 (770M 620CR 700W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800M2c 770M1c 800Ph 700Ch
[<em>] GPA: 9.64/10
[</em>] Rank: 3rd in last 3 years, 1st in this year
[li] Other stats: Bronze Medal at IPhO2005, winner of various physics contests/olympiads.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Pretty Good?
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Very good?
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Very Good
[</em>] Hook (if any): IPhO Medalist, Essay about a Caltech related topic, tried hard to show my passion in science.</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] Region: Eastern Europe
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Romanian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Physics / Bad Critical Reading
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Passion seen clearly in application.
[/ul]Other Factors:
Mmm... perhaps people from this my area are highly underrepresented at Caltech</p>
<p>alleya--Texas Academy? Do you know Desh or Evan? If so, tell them Adam Solomon says hi :) lol</p>
<p>Kim--<em>laughs</em> thanks. <em>nurses tackle wound</em> Oh and um, we're still waiting on yours :p Not like it matters anyway <em>cough cough</em> MIT <em>cough cough</em></p>
<p>But Caltech is so much better. There'll be a post on that later.</p>
<p>ANY PAKISTANI/INDIAN OUT THERE WHOSE RECEVIED AN ADMIT PACKAGE ???
HELP NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got rejected from MIT on Saturday....... and Caletch is now my only hope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>alleya - i went to north crowley. my sister went to TAMS, then Stanford. you most likely know her. last name runyan.</p>
<p>Ben--It may very well be, I'm just a very selfish person, hence my pushing her towards MIT. :)</p>
<p>[ b]Decision: Accepted**</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800CR/800M/780W and 690CR/760M/800W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math IIc 800 Chem
[<em>] GPA: 4.31W
[</em>] APs: 5s on AP Chem/Euro/English Literature
[<em>] Rank: Top 3/38
[</em>] Other stats: Job with Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I usually hate my essays, although I kind of liked my "Why Caltech" essay. It was kinda sychophantic, though.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Don't know. Didn't read them.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: He doesn't know me that well, but probably at least decent.
[</em>] Supplemental Recs: A rec from a Brown neuroscience prof saying I was one of the best HS students he'd taught, and a rec from my employer at George Mason.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Programming experience? Passion? who knows
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: OH
[<em>] School Type: Small, "Independent"
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: I never really knew about any of these national science things until I started applying.
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: because the admissions people liked me, i guess[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Adam -- are you any closer to deciding or are you going to wait for H?</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800 math, 730 reading, 650 writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 math IIC, 800 physics, 800 biology E, 650 french
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 unweighted. I dunno what my weighted GPA is... I took all IB classes, but I took orchestra after school (unweighted class), so it dropped my GPA a little bit.
[</em>] Rank: 1 unweighted obviously, 10-20 weighted out of about 800-900 kids?
[<em>] Other stats: AIME qualifier, attended Computer Science Camp at the University of Central Florida for two summers.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: "Why caltech" was about feynman and how he inspired me, (because he really did when i read his autobio "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman." The other one I wrote about my passion for music. The picture thing I did of a fractal vortex I made in Java, with me playing a grand piano superimposed on top of it.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Pretty good I'm sure. Both teachers knew me very well and one was the professor from the summer camp (as well as the Theory of Knowledge (philosophy) class and the Higher Level IB Math class at my school, both of which I took/am in).
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No idea. I didn't know my counselor very well.
[<em>] Hook (if any): I sent a Computer Science Extended Essay about Primality Testing comparing several different algorithms and their practicality.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: FL
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:
Strengths:
violin, piano, and organ
tennis
was concertmaster of school orchestra
organist at my church as a job
quiz bowl
english, math, science, national honor society</p>
<p>Weakness:
Kryptonite... haha... i don't know!!! lol... i didn't make it to USAMO i suppose...
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: luck[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
I got rejected from MIT. Make what you want of that, I really don't care. I think that a lot of it really does boil down to luck. My friend told me that there's a girl she knows that got into MIT but got waitlisted by Caltech.
Oh well...</p>
<p>Anyway, I threw aside all work for the day and now I'm just listening to the Beach Boys.
I wish they all could be California girrrrrrls.....</p>