Official Decisions Thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (College)
Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1390 </li>
<li>SAT IIs: 740, 680, 620</li>
<li>GPA: None provided</li>
<li>Rank: don't rank</li>
<li>Other stats: National level musician, national level stage crew/technical type work</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: Standard, bland,</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Typical understated Brit recs</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Very good</li>
<li>Hook: Music & Crew? </li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Bristol, England</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Low SAT Writing (620)</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No idea. "Interesting" admissions record to say the least - Penn, Cornell, Harvard, Vassar accepted, Yale & Georgetown rejected.</li>
</ul>

42

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

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1530 (800V)
SAT IIs: 800 writing, 790 math 2c, 790 world hist.
GPA: 3.96uw
Rank: 2/490
Other stats: 5 5's on ap tests</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: great, esp. "very short answer" and "why penn"
Teacher Recs: one good/personal, one great
Counselor Rec: glowing, affectionate
Hook (if any): high level of interest, lots of political activism, update letter w/ newspaper article written by me, plus 10 new accomplishments</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: socal
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: Male
major strength/weakness: weakness: no interview, lots of applicants from my school, strength: scores, grades, essays
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: see strengths
Other Factors:</p>

43

<p>I applied for the dual degree program in Computer and Cognitive Science, but it just says I was accepted as a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, so I'm not sure what that means.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1440 (720 M, 720 V)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 US Hist, 760 Bio, 760 World Hist, and a bunch of others
[<em>] ACT: 32 (34 E, 32 M, 34 R, 27 S)
[</em>] GPA: 97.89 unweighted
[<em>] Rank: My school doesn't rank, but my guess is 3 or 4 out of 334
[</em>] AP Stuff:
AP European History, 05/2003, 5
AP Biology, 05/2004, 5
AP Chemistry, 05/2004, 5
AP Computer Science A, 05/2004, 5
AP American History, 05/2004, 5
AP English Language and Composition, 05/2004, 4
AP Calculus BC, 05/2005, N/A
AP Computer Science AB, 05/2005, N/A
AP Physics B, 05/2005, N/A
AP US Government and Politics, 05/2005, N/A
AP Comparative Government and Politics, 05/2005, N/A
AP English Literature, 05/2005, N/A
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Ok, I suppose. Probably nothing special compared to others.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Not sure, waived my right to see it
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Ditto
[</em>] Interview: Went pretty well, but it was one of my first interviews, so I was a little unexperienced
[<em>] Hook (if any): If I had a hook, it'd be research - I was a semifinalist in Siemens Westinghouse and Intel STS, amongst other things. Also, I'm a president of 3 different clubs in my school, including National Honor Society.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type: Suburban Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Probably because of my grades, research, and extracurriculars, but you never know what they're thinking when it comes to college admissions.
[/ul]</p>

44

<p>grats to everyone who got in, especially ed kids</p>

45

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!! (College)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1500 (730M, 770V)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 710Lit, 720MI, 770W </li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 UW 4.85 W </li>
<li>Rank: 9/692</li>
<li>Other stats: AFS Exchange Student to the Czech Republic for 2004-2005 schoolyear (with merit scholarship), Girl Scout Gold Award, piano lessons for 13 years, flute lessons for 8 years (but I'm not great at either), 5 on AP Psych, can't remember the rest right now.</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: OMG, they were terrible. Especially the "Why Penn?" one. I thought that alone would have kept me out.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Didn't read them, but one was from a French teacher I've known for 4 years, another from my English teacher who is known to write great recs.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Don't want to know.</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Maybe being an exchange student? I can speak some Czech, LOL...</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Pennsylvania</li>
<li>School Type: Large public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: Grades,
Weakness: School-sponsored EC's (no offices, but I missed my senior year), some of my SAT II's could have been better</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Let's just say this was a HUGE surprise...</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: </p>

<p>I didn't get an interview. Penn seems to really like my school, because they already accepted 3 people (I think) ED, and they probably accepted a few more RD.</p>

<p>Other schools:
Yale (rejected), Harvard (rejected), NYU Stern (accepted!!!), Pitt Honors (accepted), Edinburgh (accepted)</p>

46

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

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 760M 760V
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 CHEM 790 IIC 750 WRIT
[<em>] GPA: N/A
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>] Other stats: GCSE 8A</em> 1A, A-Level 4A
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>] Hook (if any): International Award in Economics
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: UAE
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: All around academic achievement/No outstanding extra-curricula achievement
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
[/ul]Other Factors:</p>

47

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

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1520 m750/v770</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 770/740/700</li>
<li>GPA: N/A, my grades are anything from C's to A's.</li>
<li>Rank: N/A. </li>
<li>Other stats: some leadership, some arts/music stuff, some community service, AP Calc AB---5</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: hmm. not original but they were honest. about my mixed feelings towards my dad.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: the best part of my app without a doubt</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: she probably gave me a good push</li>
<li>Hook (if any): lots of living-overseas experience...bah i can't think of any.</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Tokyo, Japan</li>
<li>School Type: Parochial</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian (Korean)</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: recommendations/grades</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: </li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<p>Interviews went well. After mine was "officially" done, I hung around with the other interviewers at a round table in starbucks and we chatted about everything --- oh and one of the guys had a korean daughter-in-law! harhar.</p>

48

<p>inuendo - you from the UK?</p>

49

<p>4 of my friends from school got in and maybe more I haven't talked to everyone who applied. One of my friends got rejected he applied to wharton.</p>

<p>The guys who got in had 1540, 1470, 1310 and 1300. The guy who got rejected had a 1300.</p>

50

<p>Decision: Rejected College
Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1480 770V/710M</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 730/720/720</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9 UW 4.4 W</li>
<li>Rank: 6/124</li>
<li>Other stats: Lots of leadership positions. All-County track athlete</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: I thought they were really good... guess not</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Definitely very good, read them both</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Excellent, also read this</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I guess nothing... I really tried to focus on my obsession with running, but to no avail</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Northern NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Big weakness was that I'm a white, suburban male from the Northeast.<br></li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: White, suburban male from the Northeast with good stats but no strong hook.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<p>This really kills me. I thought that I had a good shot at Penn, and it was my #2 school. The day brought equally good news with rejections at Harvard and Brown, and a rejection from Georgetown on Monday. Awaiting my Princeton rejection either today or tomorrow. I now have to choose between my 6th and 7th choices, Boston College and Villanova... :(</p>

51

<p>Oh, and by the way, I HATE how admissions is controlled by factors that I can't control, such as my ethnicity, location, upbringing, the school I attened, etc. Everything was stacked against me and I could do nothing about it. Anyone else feel the same way?</p>

52

<p>Rejected!!!!</p>

53

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

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1490 (710V/780M)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 760/750/750</li>
<li>GPA: 3.96 UW, 4.05 W</li>
<li>Rank: 5/36 (unofficially) - top 20%</li>
<li>Other stats: </li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: REALLY good - probably what got me in</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One excellent one, on pretty good one</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: No idea, ok i guess</li>
<li>Hook (if any): First generation</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: Ohio</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: extracurriculars Weakness:rank</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No idea, but i'm SO HAPPY!</li>
</ul>

54

<p>What do you mean by first generation?</p>

55

<p>Decision: Accepted SEAS</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:1530
[</em>] SAT IIs:2380+800
[<em>] GPA:4.56
[</em>] Rank:~4/150
[<em>] Other stats: Decent EC's, nothing outstanding
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:Fine to Good
[<em>] Teacher Recs:Fine
[</em>] Counselor Rec:Fine
[<em>] Hook (if any):Its engineering.. and i went to a cool summer program.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:NJ
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:White
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:Strength is academic stats (SATS, GPA) weakness is EC.. nothing outstanding
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:Its engineering, its not too hard to get in.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>

56

<p>ACCEPTED!</p>

<p>ED Deferree that's posted my stats a bazillion times already, sorry.</p>

<p>woot.</p>

57

<p>**Decision: Accepted!!! (College)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1500 (770 V, 730 M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 USH, 750 Writing, 700 Math IIC
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 UW, ~4.5 W
[</em>] Rank: 1/150
[<em>] Other stats: started a peer tutoring program, lots of awards and leadership in FBLA, tons of community involvement
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: one I loved, the other eh
[<em>] Teacher Recs: really good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: really good
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Florida
[<em>] School Type: parochial
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] major strength/weakness: good ec's, really good teacher recs
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: all-around good student, I guess[/li][/ul]Other Factors:** the interview was the best I had out of all of my interviews, my interviewer really got a good sense of who I am</p>

58

<p>nick04- i think UAE is UNited Arab Emirates.</p>

59

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

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1540</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/780/730</li>
<li>GPA: 3.92 UW</li>
<li>Rank: 11/313 (UW), 1/313 (W)</li>
<li>Other stats: National Merit Scholar, MD dist. scholar</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: why penn-awesome, about your self-pretty good, huntsman-short</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: french-awesome, math-well, hes a math teacher for a reason :)</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: I can't say</li>
<li>Hook (if any):language (arabic), lots of shown interest</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: md</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: ?</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: lots of shown interest, great interview, met w/ head of program, unusual interest language(im not a native speaker)</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:
Current list: accepted: penn, harvard, nyu, umich, indiana
waitlisted: gtown, columbia
still pending: princeton</p>

<p>as i told my friend, now im really gonna have to think and choose! i thought that part was over...lol</p>

60

<p>Decision: Rejected
Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1450</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 740/740/750</li>
<li>GPA: 4.5612W</li>
<li>Rank: Top 5% of ~450</li>
<li>Other stats: 4's on 3 AP tests, NCTE Achievement in Writing Winner</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: OK. I liked my Why Penn one.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Didn't read</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: OK, considering he didn't really know me</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Don't know</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian/Caucasian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: I'm modest.</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: SO PRINCETON WOULD ACCEPT ME INSTEAD!!!</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors: None.</p>

<p>I was a tad disappointed at the time, but getting into Princeton made me feel a whole lot better and reminded me how fickle the ivies can be and how everyone ends up happy in the end anyway.</p>