<p>Financial aid will come in your packet by snail mail.</p>
<p>anybody still waiting?</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 740 CR 730 M 790 W = 2260
[</em>] SAT II: 780 Math II 740 Chem 700 Math I 660 Spanish 650 W History
[<em>] Unweighted GPA: 3.65; 4.2 w
[</em>] Rank: 15/324 (19/324 on mid-year report)
[<em>] AP: Human Geo (3) W History (4) Spanish Lang (3) Chem (4) English Lang (5) Euro History (5) Macroecon (5) Microecon (4) Spanish Lit (3)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP US History, AP US Gov, AP English Lit, Academic Decathlon, Debate, Drama
[<em>] Major Awards: National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): a lot. long list follows…
Academic Decathlon (10-12):
-Captain (11-12)
-States 2008 (emailed them with update)
–Top scoring student in state (broke standing record)
–team state champions (broke standing record)
–Individually ranked 3rd scholastic in country going into nationals
–10 subject medals
–team superquiz champions
-Nationals 2007 (11)
–Individual overall Gold Medal
–Team overall runners up (D III)
–Top team scorer
–Individual subject medals: Essay (Silver), Economics (Bronze)
-States 2007 (11)
–Highest overall individual scorer
–Highest Scholastic individual scorer
–Team State Champions
–Individual subject medals in all 10 subjects
–Team Super Quiz champions
-Nationals 2006 (10)
–Individual overall Silver Medal
–Team National Champions (D III)
–Individual subject medals: Art (Bronze)
-States 2006 (10)
–Highest Scholastic individual scorer
–Team State Champions
–Individual subject medals in 6 events
–Team Super Quiz Champions
Debate (9-12):
-President 11-12
-Secretary 10
-Highest NFL Degree: special distinction
-Team: 4th in state for 3 straight years
-about 35 individual medals i won’t bore you with
World Scholar’s Cup (11-12):
-1 of 7 Americans to make US All Star team 11
-2nd place team at Int’l finals 11
-1st place team in debate showcase 11
-editing tests/guides for official competition; possibly proctoring/juding official competitions 12
President of Model UN, National Honors Society; ran cross country 9-12
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Writing/beta-testing for DemiDec, an AD company (~700 hrs); Cashier at local pizzeria (~75 hrs)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: translating spanish-english at local fee health clinic (~180 hrs)
[<em>] Essays: two of the best i’ve ever written, i think.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: one was from AD coach/history teacher, really good; other from spanish teacher/NHS advisor, probably ok
[<em>] Counselor Rec: no idea
[</em>] Interview: not outstanding, but alright
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State: UT
[</em>] School Type: public, second-best in state (hasn’t sent a student to an ivy in 4 or 5 years)
[<em>] Ethnicity: cracker
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100-125k
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[</em>] Strengths: ECs (especially AD), essays, probably the state i live in
[<em>] Weaknesses: grades, rank
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: grades, my frined (same school) who also applied (and got in) who is amazing</p>
<p>I am. Rejected by Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Amherst, UPenn, and Columbia. My chances look great here!</p>
<p>waiting here too. i tried logging in to admitted students site, however, and could not. so im not expecting much.</p>
<p>I’m still waiting!</p>
<p>Anyone else having trouble logging in? S has a code and last name, but neither are working…</p>
<p>I’m still waiting as well…</p>
<p>Rejected. Only thought is my interview was sort of bad. That, and 27000 other smart people applied haha.</p>
<p>Make sure to check your bulk mail/spam box too, because I had some stuff from other colleges in there :)</p>
<p>still waiting…</p>
<p>Nothing there, but gmail dumps stuff after 30 days…</p>
<p>still waiting.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>ahhh!!! freaking out can’t believe it</p>
<p>stats later</p>
<p>Did you request the email and send a test email by the 28th Counting Down?</p>
<p>Waiting too. D:</p>
<p>Accepted!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ list]
SAT: Math 730 Reading 660 Writing 690
SAT II: Math IIC 720 Biology E 720 US History 700
ACT: N/A
GPA: 4.0 UW 6.367W
Rank: 2/550
Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) APUSH 4 Calculus AB 5 Biology 5 English Language 5
Essays: i thought that they were really sincere and touching, about how my trainable mentally handicapped classmates inspire me
Teacher Recs: good, i think? didn’t read them
Counselor Rec: awesome
Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides)
Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please) [ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
expanded a local reading tutoring program to my home elementary school (started the new chapter from scratch-3rd yr of operation), Best Buddies President, job coach for 2yrs, UF SSTP one summer, yr-long extensive research abstract about work at Bascom palmer, won 1st place in regional science fair, going to ISEF, 1st generation american, national achievement scholar
Location:Florida
High School Type:Public Magnet
Ethnicity:Black
Gender: Female
Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no)[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list] Yes, but $0
Extracurriculars:see “Hook”, swim team one yr, science national honor society co-president
Awards: National Achievement scholar, 1st place regional science fair (12th), various school awards (best chem, english student)
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/list]</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):n/a
[</em>] ACT: 35 comp (34 E, 36M, 34 R, 36 Science)
[<em>] SAT II: 2400 MathII/PHY/CHEM
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1/200
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):5 BIO/LANG/CALC BC
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 8 classes, maxed on APS/Honors
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st/2000 teams in the stock market game, yielded 97% in 10 weeks by trading over 47 stocks, Science O Champ in 3 events
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (4 years Varsity Track, Captain), (3 Years Varsity Football, Captain), (Science Olympiad, Captain), (Spanish Club, Founder), NHS, State Powerlifting Champ
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 3 Jobs from 8th-10th grade before founding an online retail company with $3,500 which now has over $400,000 in sales
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Over 200 hrs
[<em>] Summer Activities: Various Jobs, Took Classes at Community College
[</em>] Essays: Took me over 5 months
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Best Student Ever
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Best Student Ever
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: Over 2 hours, obviously went well
[/ul]Other[ul]: Recruited for Track/Fball before a sport’s injury
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Mid-West
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: Middle
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Started with $0 at 14 working at an auto factory, made over 100k in 4 years through business/stocks.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Good with stocks..
[<em>] Weaknesses: i really don’t know
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:…
[/ul]General Comments: someone please tell me what went wrong, rejected everywhere.</p>
<p>If you can’t log in, you were waitlisted or rejected</p>