<p>Only 45 minutes left guys… Good luck to all</p>
<p>Good luck to all</p>
<p>This is by far the worst part of the wait. Best wishes to everyone!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 math, 730 writing, 670 reading 2200 super
[</em>] ACT: didn’t take
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 math 1
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language (4) Us history (3) Calc BC (4) AB subscore (5)<br>
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: honors french, english, ap macro ap stats ap Physics B ap gap
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 2 french awards for excellence in french
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Investment club (president) Treasurer of class, mentored a struggling kid junior, senior year, Captain of indoor Track team, didn’t put on transcript because I didn’t know yet.<br>
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Busboy, started a landscaping business
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Rebuild together, probably a total of 50 hours put together all of my hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: work (busboy)
[</em>] Essays: good, definitely not a weak point of my app
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Idk
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Rushed, but he’s good and knows me well, said it would be an easy rec to write.
[<em>] Additional Rec: just 2 teachers and 1 counselor
[</em>] Interview: nop
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[</em>] Intended Major: Business
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): nop
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] Income Bracket:100,000 plus
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Recruited to Track
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Recruited, SAT, extracurriculars
[<em>] Weaknesses: less than some in community service, not very academic essays, kinda quirky… maybe my recs were bad, gpa below average.<br>
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Recruited, sats
[/ul]General Comments: don’t worry if you didn’t get in guys.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Basic stats,
SAT I: 770M 660CR 640W (2070)
ACT: 31
UW GPA: 3.98 WGPA: 4.45
Rank: top 15%
AP: Lang (4) CalcAB (4) APUSH (5) Chem (5) APES (4) Psych (5) (currently in CalcBC, Lit, and APHug)</p>
<p>So stoked to be joining you guys this next year!</p>
<p>Accepted! :)</p>
<p>Accepted!! Congratulations to everyone else and if an acceptance doesn’t come your way, no worries. What is meant to be, will be!!</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision:Accepted**[/color][/size]</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2080
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II:
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 13/257
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), US History (4), English Lit (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lang, AP Macroeconomics, AP Comp Politics, AP Government, Intl Relations, Hon Precal, AP Physics B
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: full-time job each summer
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays:
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[list]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[</em>] Intended Major:
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type:
[</em>] Ethnicity:
[<em>] Gender:
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/li][ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted HOLY CRAP</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): nada
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: 720 bio ecology
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.78 weighted
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): none
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): none sent but took APUSH last year
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): none
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load (and first quarter grades):</p>
<p>Humanities: A
AP Studio Art: A-
AP Statistics: B
AP Biology: B+
Calculus: B</p>
<p>[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):</p>
<p>Common app activities:
[list]
[<em>] Spend 10-14 hours a week during the school year watching over my younger brother (8 years old), Dad is away on business most of the time (this is first on my common app, it’s a huge time commitment)
[</em>] Varsity Track and Field: Javelin Throw, one of the top three throwers on the team
[li] Future Doctors of America (Co-Founder/Co-President): 12 </p>[/li]
<p>We help students learn more about the medical field, gather volunteer/internship opportunities, work together with the school’s red cross club for fundraisers and the 5k, and bring in guest speakers to help educate everyone about the lifestyle of being a doctor)
-Helped organize our school’s first and second 5k. Raised $8,000 total towards the red cross.
[<em>] Shadowed Vadim Pisarenko, M.D, at Westchester Plastic Surgery. 640 hours, 160 hours each summer. Letter of rec from him
[</em>] Mobile Apps Development: 10, 11, 12 (President 11 and 12): Gathers communities centered around application design and game design, also makes our school more tech friendly in classrooms
[<em>] Created/own/run a fitness forum with 150 members/4000+ total posts (and growing! @ Fitlit.boards.net). I took an initiative after a forum I was a member on was forced to shut down, so I formed my own community so people can still be able to get feedback about their decisions, training, etc.
[</em>] Run a youtube channel with videos of my training and advice for other people going through with a similar injury. (thebigtortuga - YouTube).
[<em>] All School Musical: 10, 11, 12 (House manger this year. Helped organize/manage school show )
[</em>] Recreational artist/photographer/musician/architect, here’s my portfolio (some guitar playing is my most recently uploaded vid):
<a href=“ART SUPPLEMENT - YouTube”>ART SUPPLEMENT - YouTube;
[li] Japanese student exchange program member 2012. Taught English to Japanese Students.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Rest of my activities on my transcript: (all of my school activities from common app are also on my transcript, just didn’t list them) </p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>]: Track and Field (Varsity 2 years): 9,11,12
[</em>] Winter Track: 9
[<em>] Cross country: 10
[</em>] Wrestling: 10
[<em>] Science League Competitor(Biology 1/Physics 1/Biology 2): 9, 11, 12
[</em>] GSA: 9,10,11,12
[<em>] TSA (Technology Student Association): 10,11
[</em>] Japan Club: 9,10
[li] Art Club/Portfolio Club: 9,10[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 640 hours surgeon shadow
[<em>] Summer Activities: NJIT Architecture camp, full scholarship
[</em>] Essays: Amazing
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Probably awesome
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No idea
[<em>] Additional Rec: Amazing
[</em>] Interview: None
[/list]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Human Biology and Business
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public, 1300 kids roughly
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Doesn’t matter for application. But probably 500k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Recruited for track
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Everything except GPA
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: My essays, interest, extra curriculars, track coach
[/ul]General Comments: OMG WHAT THE HELLLLLLLLL</p>
<p>HOLY CRAP!!! I GOT IN. I’ll fill out the breakdown thing later. CONGRATS TYLER AND EVERYONE ELSE!!!</p>
<p>justin i just liked your fb status lol</p>
<p>Accepted!!! Congrats everyone</p>
<p>I love everyone :)</p>
<p>Accepted 
Its just such a relief ahhhh</p>
<p>I love everyone too haha, this is crazy.</p>
<p>P.s im just realizing how many comments were on this thread before decisions were actually made hahaha. 10 pages in and there you find the acceptances hahaha. Congrats everyone</p>
<p>I am rejected…</p>
<p>@Bai0816 - i’m sorry man, i hope the rest of your college search goes well.</p>
<p>@justinb Thank you…I don’t know why…at first I only apply to Emory College, and then Oxford sent email to me to ask whether consider oxford too…I reply yes and change the status …but I don’t see any results from Oxford today… What happened…</p>
<p>Is anyone else having trouble getting on the Emory 2018 facebook group? It says I’m added into it, but then it won’t let me actually look at the group or anyone in it.</p>
<p>Sorry buddy, wish i could tell you. Dont give up though, keep fighting and hopefully you will be happy with where you get accepted :)</p>