Official Decisions Thread

[mradio]

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1430 - 650 V, 780 M</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 660 US Hist, 720 W, 740 IIC</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9 uw, 4.6 w</li>
<li>Rank: 1/248</li>
<li>APs: 4 US Hist, 4 Stats, 3 Euro Hist</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: very good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: How should I know?</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Great</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Russian origin + fluency, leadership?</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: NC</li>
<li>School Type: Public (~40% go to 4-year schools)</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Weaknesses: SATII US Hist scores Strengths: ECs, leadership, interest in social sciences</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: genuine interest in PPE, luck?</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<p>visited, great interview, location</p>

<p>Other Results: Stanford (deferred EA)--pending
Princeton--pending
Dartmouth--accepted
Brown--waitlisted
Cornell--accepted
UNC--accepted (full ride)</p>

[athlonmj]

<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1550 ( 800m | 750v)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 iic/800 chem/780 writing
[<em>] GPA: 3.9 UW/4.6 W<br>
[</em>] Rank:4/440
[<em>] Other stats: 6 ap tests taken (five 5s and one 4)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: pretty bad, wrote them the night they were due
[<em>] Teacher Recs: no idea
[</em>] Counselor Rec: no idea
[<em>] Hook (if any): nasa sharp? dunno
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Illinois
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: decent scores/grades. bad essays
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: i did my app the night it was due and submitted at 11:58. i applied to M&T/wharton.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>Congrats to everyone who was admitted. You guys are awesome. For me, it looks like it's gonna be Yale!</p>

[neobez]

<p>hehe, not a bad fallback eh? Congrats on Yale athlon.</p>

[y00nsk]

<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 1560 ( 760m | 800v)
* SAT IIs: 800 iic/800 bio/760 writing
* GPA: 4.3W (dont know UW)
* Rank:2/100
* Other stats: AP Bio - 5; AP calc AB - 3
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: Thought they were pretty good. Ppl told me they were good
* Teacher Recs: no idea
* Counselor Rec: no idea
* Hook (if any): none
</code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: NJ
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: Male
* major strength/weakness: showed passion in my ECs, good essay/didn't visit school and undecided major
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: either becuz they thought I wasn't interested in the school or becuz i put undecided as my major. Either that, or i have no idea
</code></pre>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<p>also got rejected from dartmouth, columbia, penn, brown. got accepted to cornell.</p>

[coffeecake13]

<p>Decision: Wait-Listed</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1500 ( 780m | 720v)
SAT IIs: 740 Writing / 780 US History / 790 Math IIC / 780 Chinese
GPA: 3.9 UW
Rank: 40/367
Other stats: Compara Gov - 5, US Gov - 4, Calc BC/AB - 3/3, US History - 5
Subjective:
Essays: ehhh...okay, I worked my butt off for them.
Teacher Recs: no idea
Counselor Rec: no idea
Hook (if any): none
Location/Person:
State or Country: Utah
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
major strength/weakness: dunno/a string of bad grades junior year
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: my junior grades were awful, also applied to the most competitive school
Other Factors: Er...none.</p>

[proud2bherdad]

<p>Daughter was rejected. Unfortunately
for all you guys, cause she is HOT.
Definitely would have beautified the
campus. The good news is that some
of you guys may still have a chance
with her. She is going up the road
to Bryn Mawr. Probably see you at
some parties. Don't be intimidated
by her beauty.</p>

[College_hopeful]

<p>Decision: REJECTED</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1480 (700V 780M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 2C, 740 Writing, 730 USHist
[<em>] GPA: ~3.9 uw, not sure exact though
[</em>] Rank: top 5% out of 250
[<em>] Other stats: Nat'l Merit Finalist, 4 Golds on Nat'l Latin Exam
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: not good enough I guess, I thought they were good and my short ones were creative!
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[<em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: VT
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] major strength/weakness: strength in recs and ECs, weakness in the fact that I'm white and have no real hook to make me stand out. Plus someone got in ED from my school.
[li] why you think you were rejected: I'm not sure. I was interested in studying at Penn and I thought I made that very clear during my essays and my interview which went very well.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I might be down the road at Swarthmore and have 2 good friends who are attending Penn for sure in the fall so I might be at campus a lot after all.</p>

[Heathcliff]

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1390 (670m/720v)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 660wr/730ic/630mbio
[<em>] GPA: 3.67 uw/ 5.5w (highschool) 3.95 (college)
[</em>] Rank: 3/57
[<em>] Other stats: AP Scholar, received AA degree
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I know my other essays were really good, but I didn't really like my why penn essay.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: They were all really good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: This one was GREAT. She just let me see it a few days ago.
[<em>] Hook (if any): African American
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Florida
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: African American
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Strength: My academics..... Weakness: test scores....
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:Probably because of my previous experience in a college environment...as well as all that other stuff (ECs and essays)[/li][/ul]Other Factors: I am soooo happy I got in! I will definitely go if all my finances are in order.</p>

[lilchnsgrl]

<p>Decision: Accepted (SEAS)</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1500 (700m/800v)
SAT IIs: 680wr/700ic/720chem/800chinese
APs: 5 CalcAB/4 Chem/5 US History (taking 4 AP courses this year: CalcBC, Stats, Bio and CompSci)
GPA: 3.75 uw/4.03 w
Rank: top 10% (my school doesn't rank)
Other stats: AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, National Latin Exam - Silver Medalist
Subjective:
Essays: I don't think they were really good or anything because I am not a good writer. I just focused on my strengths: Computers and Chinese
Teacher Recs: Overall ok I guess, I have a decent relationship with my teachers but we aren't close or anything
Counselor Rec: I think this is probably pretty good because I work on the guidance website so she likes me alot
Hook (if any): girl in engineering, summer university level computer courses, work in chinese community
Location/Person:
State or Country: Delaware
School Type: Charter (I think it counts as Public)
Ethnicity: Chinese American
Gender: Female
major strength/weakness: Strength: Academics Weakness: EC's (not really much inside school, more stuff outside of school)
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: summer university computer courses, leadership/volunteering in chinese community (I hosted the local chinese festival), fencing club?</p>

[GhaleonQ]

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

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] GPA: 3.85
[</em>] Rank: 19/457
[li] Tests: 34 ACT, 800 Writing, 750 Math II, 700 US History[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Great, but not fantastic
[</em>] Teacher recommendations: They said they were good
[li] Counselor recommendation: Fantastic[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Wisconsin
[</em>] School Type: non-competitive public
[<em>] Major strength/weakness: original extracurriculars; ACT; small town
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: To be honest, I couldn't tell you. I won't try to guess.[/ul]</p>

[calidan]

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

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] GPA:3.8 UW
[</em>] Rank:n/a
[li] Else:1410 SAT (710 M, 700 V), 800 French, 760 Writing, 700 Math IC[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective: My essays were all very good, and I believe that my application portrayed me very well.</p>

<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:California, USA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Major strength/weakness: not most</em> rigorous courseload, ECs could have been better. However, I am very strong in languages, and have an extensive history in French (my prosepctive major).
[li] Why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: I really don't know why. I was hoping for at least the waiting list. :([/li][/ul]
**Other Factors:* Alll of my teacher/counselor recommendations were wonderful. I also sent in a CD of me playing the piano as well as an additional essay.</p>

<p>Congrats (and condolences) to everyone else! You'll all have a great time at Penn or wherever you end up! :o</p>

<p>If anyone's wondering...
-Brown: rejected
-Penn: rejected
-Dartmouth: rejected
-Georgetown: accepted
-UCLA: rejected
-Berkeley: accepted (Spring)</p>

[no_cookie]

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1580</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800, 780, 770, 760</li>
<li>GPA: 98.3</li>
<li>Rank: 1 or 2 out of 60ish</li>
<li>Other stats: editor-in-chief of paper, long piano resume, NCTE writing award</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: coherent. i think my autobiography one may have caught their eye.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: supposedly good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: supposedly good</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Showed intense interest in their school of communication, which is not as well-known as the others.</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Maryland</li>
<li>School Type: tiny private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Korean</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: EC's, award, and major are cohesive and linked. Weakness: no stellar EC's.</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Random luck. Reading over the stats of rejectees in here, I'm both amazed and grateful.</li>
</ul>

[ichi02]

<p>Rejected :( (wharton)</p>

<p>deferred ED.... </p>

<p>:(</p>

[twl007]

<p>Thanks for the complement aab123 even though I am far from it. It's just a little disheartening knowing that the only school i've been accepted to so far was the one that legally had to accept me (top 10% in texas).</p>

<p>Here's what has happened so far for me:
UT Austin: Accepted into business school and Plan II lib arts honors (waiting to hear back from business honors)
Washington U St. Louis: Waitlisted
Penn: Rejected
U Chicago: Don't know yet
Rice: Don't know yet</p>

<p>Another thing that might have hurt me is the fact that i've only taken 3 years of spanish when four are recommended. The foreign language department at my school is awful.</p>

<p>My dad came into my room a couple minutes after I got my decision and he seemed more dissappointed then I was. It was pretty funny. He kept saying, you know, it's alright for you to be angry or sad and show some emotion. Then I told him that I guess I just don't care enough after 3 months of waiting. It was just nice to get some sort of closure. So yes, I'm dissappointed, but nearly as much as I thought I would be 3 months ago.</p>

[IvyH2O]

<p>Accepted!!! (College)</p>

[afaforce]

<p>AHH!!!!!! brocky, me too!
Decision: Accepted!! (Wharton)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: lol this is like the sixth time i've had to post this stuf 1490
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780, 720, 720
[<em>] GPA: 3.91
[</em>] Rank: n/a in school, but top 1-2% i'm pretty sure
[<em>] Other stats: AP Psych/Lang- 5's, USHistory- 4, nj key club state board, pres of french honor society, pres of chinese school student council, vp of music honor society, concertmistress of school orch
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: different. the new one that i submitted, anyway. the old one sucked. (i was deferred)
[<em>] Teacher Recs: um, dunno. didn't read
[</em>] Counselor Rec: dunno. couldn't read this either.
[<em>] Hook (if any): absolutely none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NJ
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] major strength/weakness: i dunno. math isn't my forte, actually. lib. arts stuff is..
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: must've been something in the letter i sent them after deferral, or the new essay, or the additional recommendation[/li][/ul]Other Factors: i don't know. didn't even get an interview, was very disappointed about that. but wow. i cannot believe this. i'm still stunned/shocked/surprised. gosh. and i got into another ivy, toooo. .totally, totally unexpected. wow i'm so happy. lol XP</p>

[snowfaerie311]

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1420 (700 M, 720 V)
SAT IIs: 710 (Math IIC), 730 (Spanish Language), 750 (US History), 750 (Writing)
GPA: 3.9 uw, 4.5 w
Rank: weighted: 3/171, uw: 4/171 (we're weighting next semester)
Other stats: AP US History: 5, AP English Language: 5, AP Spanish Language: 4, 3 more APs this year</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: wrote one about how much i loved writing, my english teacher loved it and it really felt like it came from the heart so prolly good, wrote the other about water polo, i thought it was really good and got good reviews
Teacher Recs: one from my english teacher this year, one from my current AP gov teacher...they both seem to like me so prolly good
Counselor Rec: good?
Hook (if any): National Merit Semi-Finalist, National Hispanic Scholar (i think the race thing really helped), 2 foreign languages, 2 Varsity sports (year-round water polo), lots of political involvement, </p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: California
School Type: private, all-girls, Catholic
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Other Factors:
JSA club sec and then VP, state cabinet member last year, mock-trial lawyer, NHS, CSF, Hispanic club, NCTE Writing Award, many school awards, Lit Mag Editor in Chief (won national award), Newspaper editor, TV Station producer, volunteering as teen conflict mediator, worked on campaign of local state assemblyman, went to Northwestern's NHSI Journalism program last summer, Girl Scouts</p>

<p>General Comments:
after looking at all of these stats from both the acceptees and deferees, and all that, im fine that i didnt get in, ive got lots of great choices and im sure ill end up where i belong</p>

<p>college admissions is definitely very strange hehe good luck to all and congrats to those of you who got into ur first choice :-D</p>

<p>other places:
brown - rejected
yale - accepted
wash st louis - accepted
gtown SFS - accepted EA
USC - accepted
UCLA - accepted
Northwestern - accepted</p>

[Anzanar]

<p>Decision: Deferred ED/ACCEPTED RD!</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1400</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 680 Physics, 660 Writing, math I forget</li>
<li>GPA: 3.3 UW 5.3 W</li>
<li>Rank: 51/450</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Awesome</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Just ok, not great</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Good</li>
<li>Hook: Third Generation Legacy</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: PA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: Extracurriculars, Essay, Weakness: Grades, Community Service</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Lots of follow up annoyances after being deferred ED :) And great 1st semester grades really cinched it</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: </p>

<p>Great interview</p>

[BullMooseandSqrl]

<p>Decision: Waitllllllllisted</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 750v, 740m</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 730 Physics, 760 Writing, 760 math</li>
<li>GPA: 3.86 UW 4.7 W</li>
<li>Rank: no</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: my absolutely best essay</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: alright i think</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: very good i think</li>
<li>Hook: uber-multilingual/awesome/sexy/lived in 3 countries</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: md</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: snowwhite</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: i put in too much time into my application. 4 wasted hours wasted on penn's app...compare to 20 minutes on a brown acceptance, an hour-long georgetown, a 15 minute north carolina. about 6 hours on a deferral on at stanford... 4 hours on a rejection to duke. Is this a trend i see?</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:
My interviewer freaked me out but supposedly hes just weird and it wasnt me</p>

[pmpacrmb]

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (Wharton)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1410 (ACT:32)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 740, 720, 690</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9-ish</li>
<li>Rank: don't rank</li>
<li>Other stats: yearbook editor, red cross club president, violin stuff, volunteering stuff</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: different</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: good, i guess</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good, i guess</li>
<li>Hook (if any): </li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Hawaii</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: chinese</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: lower SAT scores</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: random luck. but there were a lot of people at my school who were accepted into penn college and wharton. nearly everyone who applied, around 10+, were accepted</li>
</ul>