<p>8 rejections, 3 acceptances, and 2 waitlists so far. I know I remember reading someone was interested in calculating the CC acceptance rate, so here you go.</p>
<p>I’ve a slightly bizarre question. I’ve been told that the vast majority of rejections are sent out at approximately five; I have yet to receive my e-mailed decision. If I may ask, then did those who were added to the waitlist receive their notifications at somewhere around seven? How about those who were rejected? I’m aware that timestamps are present, but these indicate your time of posting - the two, then, don’t necessarily correlate.</p>
<p>I was just wondering if anyone could provide me with further information. I’d be immensely grateful, as I and another friend of mine really feel like we’re waiting for Godot.</p>
<p>^I haven’t gotten an email either. My waitlisted friend received her email very shortly after 5:00.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>OBJECTIVE</p>
<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown): 2340 second sitting (800 W, 790 CR, 750 M)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: Latin = 770, Math II = 770</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.21 unweighted (A- = 3.67, A+ = 4.33)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank, but I’m in Cum Laude (within 10%)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP English Language and Writing (5)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Latin, AP BC Calculus, AP English Language, Auditioned Jazz/Rock Band, AP US History, Independent Study in Molecular Biology (1 on 1 with my teacher, almost like Williams’ tutorials)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Latin Awards (Golds and a silver), Cum Laude; various local, state, national debate trophies, various school awards</p>[/li]
<p>SUBJECTIVE:</p>
<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Auditioned Jazz/Rock Band (3 years); Astronomy club (2 years, founder/president), Auditioned, nationally recognized a cappella group (1); pit band in musicals (1); Editor of school newspaper (1); non-auditioned a cappella group (2); Varsity Science Olympiad (2); JV and Varsity debate (2); Advisory leader in community service (only offered 1 year); liaison to national charity in junior year; Habitat for Humanity ReStore (2)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: 7 weeks (summer) in major university biology lab doing research, outreach research program in astronomy sponsored by JPL (published in major astronomical journal)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service: raised about $15k for school WISER, Stop Hunger Now, Amnesty International; organized service project for the junior class, raised $4,000, H for H ReStore</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities (fresh, soph, jun): Debate camp, biology research, astronomy research</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: </p>[/li]
<p>Common app = VERY PERSONAL - wrote about overcoming illness and how it motivated me</p>
<p>OTHER:</p>
<p>[li] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes, will apply</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Intended major?: biology, classics, astronomy</p>[/li]
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant): NC</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: independent</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: white</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: M</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket: 100k</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): NONE</p>[/li]
<p>REFLECTION:</p>
<p>[li] Strengths: GPA, SAT scores, science and music extracurriculars</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses: SCHEDULE. It is very hard to get into AP courses in my school - that’s why I don’t have many before my senior year.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted = Columbia (likely), Duke, Williams (Early Write), Vanderbilt, Berkeley, Cal Poly, Pomona, UNC /// Waitlisted = Yale (deferred too), WashU. Only waiting on Stanford!</p>[/li]
<p>Congratulations to the accepted!</p>
<p>STILL NO EMAIL? 
Btw, I was rejected at all the other ivies so I am not expecting good news at the moment.</p>
<p>Don’t worry - I’ve known individuals to be accepted into Harvard and to, unfortunately, lack luck elsewhere. We must all keep our chins up for the moment. I too am struggling to avoid vivisecting myself, but motivation is a must!</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR 790 M 720 W
[</em>] ACT: 35 (36,35,35,35)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Spanish, 800 Math II, 780 Literature, 760 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/168
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 APUSH
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Best available (which isn’t that great, in the interest of full disclosure)
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ffffft. I live in Podunk, middle-of-nowhere. I hadn’t even heard of those things until I found this site.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Math Club (president), Quiz Bowl (captain), Academic Decathlon (captain), V/JV track and field, class officer, National Honors Society (VP), SkillsUSA (this club is stupid - don’t ever join)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Detasseling seed corn for 4 summers, grocery store 15 hours/week
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Translator on mission to El Salvador, church service team for 8 years
[</em>] Summer Activities: Working in the cornfields mostly.
[<em>] Essays: Common app was pretty good. I didn’t do the additional one.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Pretty generic. None of the teachers at my school know how to right a really good recommendation letter. I got 5 of them, and sent the “best” 2.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Didn’t bother.
[li] Interview: Okay, this guy was a high-powered lawyer, and he asked me a veritable colon-load of politically charged questions. He spent most of the interview explaining his take and not listening to mine. On top of that, he not only leaned to the right-hand side of the teeter-totter, but kind of fell in the surrounding mud. Anyway, definitely my worst interview.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Nebraska
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Cruddy public. Surrounded on 3 sides by cornfields.
[</em>] Ethnicity: White as a snowball.
[<em>] Gender: XY
[</em>] Income Bracket: 120K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Not sure, maybe the fact that I’m from Nebraska? It’s a stretch.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Interview, extracurriculars.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I haven’t been focused on college admissions since I exited the womb, like others I’ve seen here. I applied to Harvard mostly for the novelty, not because I thought I stood a hamburger’s chance at a Weight Watcher’s meeting.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Washington and Lee University, with Johnson scholarship covering full tuition, room, and board. (attending)
Case Western Reserve University with 30K/year merit scholarship
University of Tulsa with full tuition, room, and board.
Truman State University with full tuition, room, and board.</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
As you can see, I applied mostly to colleges where I had a chance graduating debt-free. At Harvard, I would have been expected to contribute $35,000/year and that’s just not worth it, especially since I plan to go to medical school. Anyway, congratulations to those accepted and I hope you enjoy your 4 years.</p>
<p>Harvard snail mailed decisions this AM to those who opted for it on the common app…like I did…I want something to frame, good or bad! You had two options, email or snail mail…</p>
<p>DeepSea, check your common app…you probably checked letter in the mail option…I expect mine tomorrow being on the East coast.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that the letter-in-the-mail option was just another item (i.e., that one would still receive the e-mailed notification).</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (R:770, W:750, M:750)
[</em>] ACT: did not take
[<em>] SAT II: Chem: 710, USHistory: 750
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank, but i think 25ish/310
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH: 5, AP Lang: 5, AP World Hist.: 5, AP Bio: 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Art history, Theology (required), AP Literature, AP Calc AB, AP Physics, AP Envi-Sci
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Merit, Honors Society, and some other stuff
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Chess coach, fluent in italian, Tae Kwon Do (student of the year 2009,'10,'11 at my studio, 2nd degree black), varsity lacrosse captain for two years, marine biology research at a local aquarium (presented findings to professors at UCLA, UC Berk, USC, Tufts, Princeton, and some other schools), RNAi genetics research, piano (9 years, submitted music supplement), guitar (6 years), church usher and teen leader for confirmation classes, founder of the current events club and pre-med clubs at school… and some other stuff but im not in the mood to try to remember
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: summer camp counselor since 8th grade
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 1250 hours of community service, i got the presidential service award
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were good, guess not
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: they were my favorite teachers, one of them told me I am one of his brightest students he’s had in years so I assume the recs were good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: counselors at my school dont really get to know us, but i assume it was okay
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: didnt have one</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: private, catholic (jesuit)
[</em>] Ethnicity: puerto rican
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 40K-60K
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first generation</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: sat’s are average, i guess URM and first generation is good, activities i thought was pretty good and unique
[</em>] Weaknesses: i dont know
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: not unique enough? not quite sure other than the fact that its harvard. i guess i didnt deserve it.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: waitlisted: brown yale, rejected: duke, dartmouth, accepted: BC (full ride), USC (full ride), Villanova (full ride). [/li] Im also still waiting on Georgetown</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: congrats to everyone who got in. its quite the accomplishment and you should be proud! to my fellow rejectees, dont fret, im sure we will all end up somewhere good.</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten an email … checked my Common App, and I told them to notify me by email. My email’s been confirmed, too. I wonder what’s up.</p>
<p>Not many people have gotten an e-mail. Check on <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1261783-official-harvard-rd-2016-applicants-discussion-thread-39.html#post14117445[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/1261783-official-harvard-rd-2016-applicants-discussion-thread-39.html#post14117445</a></p>
<p>I may have posted on here before and said I was rejected. Ignore that…</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): First: 2060 (CR690, M660, W710, E 11) Second: 2230 (CR710, M790, W730, E 10)
[</em>] ACT: First: 32 (E29/M30/R33/S36/E10) Second: 34 (E36/M33/R36/S31/E11)
[<em>] SAT II: 720 Math I, 710 Bio M
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0. 104.218 weighted on 100 pt scale.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/262
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History - 3 (10th grade)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): All being taken in May
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Band, IB Eng A1 HL, IB Bio SL, IB Span B HL, IB Math SL, IB ToK, IB HoA HL, IB Music SL, IB Mentoring, Economics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Scholar and National Merit Commended (first in my school in A WHILE). Gates Finalist. Being cool.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Drumline and all percussion endeavors in the Band (also going to state for a snare solo and was second chair percussion in my district honor band)), (Mu Alpha Theta Founder and President), History Club, Model UN, NHS, Interact Club
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Some with family business
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 935 hours of CAS in IB
[<em>] Summer Activities: Duke TiP from 2007 - 2010, Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) in 2011, Dartmouth Bound in 2011
[</em>] Essays: Loved the first one. About my father and unique circumstances. Very bold and emotional in my eyes. Other essays were all strong imo, but I definitely preferred some over others.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I didn’t see them, but my bio teacher felt bad when I got deferred from Yale because she said she was too strict on my common one. I dunno how that’ll go…
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No clue in the slightest.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Biology: Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[</em>] School Type: Inner-city Public in an underfunded and “Academically Unacceptable” (according to TEA) campus
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic, roots from Mexico
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Under the cutoff for full aid.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First in a TRUE college (Dad dropped out and mom has a license but not a degree)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Writing, scores relative to location, doing as much as I can in my school, summer programs.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Lack of EC and leadership positions
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied:
[</em>] Where else you were accepted/waitlisted/denied:</p>
<p>Accepted: Columbia (likely), Cornell (early writeish), Dartmouth (likely), Williams (early write), Bowdoin (early write), Amherst (early write), MIT, Rice, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara (Honors), UC Santa Cruz (Honors), Northwestern, Boston U (Honors), Hofstra (Honors), UTexas, Texas A&M, Fordham (likely), Simpson, St. Johns, Iowa State, Drexel, Houston Baptist, three local private schools, 3 non-flagship state schools
Waitlisted: Harvard, Princeton, Brown, WUSTL
Rejected: Yale (deferred SCEA)</p>
<p>[/ul]**General Comments: **
I’m lost.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2340 CR - 800; M - 740; W - 800, one sitting only
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: Biology: 770; US History: 800; Latin Vergil: 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1% (first or second in a class of approx 200)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US Hist (5); English Lang and Comp (5); Latin (5); Bio (5); Calc BC (sr yr); Physics C Mechanics (sr yr); English Lit (sr yr); US Govt (sr yr)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics C, AP English Lit, AP US Govt, Latin VI, Greek IV, Theology, Java (1 semester), Digital Photography (1 semester), Independent Study - Indian Philosophy
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, Multiple National Latin and Greek Exam Golds and equivalent, Howard Hughes Medical Institute lecture participant, presented paper at conference on radical secularism at University of Notre Dame, Science Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Quiz Bowl/It’s Academic (Captain); National Honor Society (VP), Brown Belt Karate (instructor), tutor to URM children at local elementary school, primary Latin tutor in school, DeMatha Leadership Institute, classical piano, juggling, unicycling
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Various
[<em>] Summer Activities: Mostly just picking up new languages.
[</em>] Essays: Astonishing. Brought tears to the eyes of readers.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Outstanding.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Outstanding.
[<em>] Additional Rec: HS principal wrote that he’d never had better student academically, or as a person.
[</em>] Interview: Very good, lot of fun.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MD
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private all-boys Catholic
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: scores, GPA, recommendations, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: extracurriculars
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Johns Hopkins, UVA, Univ of MD; Waitlisted: WUSTL; Rejected: Yale, Princeton; No decision yet: Notre Dame</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 800 US History, 800 Math II, 790 US Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95 UW
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/200
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on 3 exams
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Very difficult
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Congressional Award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Captain of two sports teams, student body president, four year class representative, Editor in Chief of my school’s political journal. My passion is increasing the number of women in politics, so have worked for the White House Project and Emily’s List
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: See above
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: See above
[<em>] Summer Activities: Interned for Nancy Pelosi, Interned for Barbara Boxer the other one
[</em>] Essays: Superb
[li] Teacher Recommendation: Phenomenal </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Harvard, Yale, Stanford (likely letter), Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD[/li]Rejected: Nowhere- wow!</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
I’m going to Princeton!</p>
<p>did everyone find out via email?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown):
• ACT: 35
• SAT II: 2400 (800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry)
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5), Chemistry (5), Calc BC (5),
Physics C Mechanics (5), Physics C (5), Statistics (5)
• IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
• Senior Year Course Load: A Level maximum load (General Paper, Project Work, Economics, Math, Chemistry, Physics)
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Olympiads, National Talent Scholarship
Subjective:
• Extracurricular (place leadership in parenthesis): World Robot Olympiad Bronze Medal, Tennis, Electronic Key Board
• Summer Activities: 3 Summer programs
• Essays:Excellent
• Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
• Counselor Rec: Excellent
• Additional Rec: Excellent
Other
• Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
• Intended Major: Bioscience/Bioengineering
• Job/Work Experience: None
• Volunteer/Community service: enough
Other
• State (if domestic applicant):
• Country (if international applicant): India
• School Type: Independent
• Ethnicity: Indian
• Gender: Male
Reflection
• Strengths: Strong EC & Counselor Rec, decent stat & grade.
• Weaknesses: International - Asian
• Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Stanford, Princeton, Duke, UIUC, Michigan, GTech
Wailisted: Caltech, Yale
Rejected: MIT</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): NA
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 790 Bio M
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/119
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5), this year Gov, Psych, Calc, English (My school doesn’t offer many APs, my rigor has been hardest possible, all honors, throughout the four years)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, 1 Self-Study AP, the rest either honors or required
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity XC, Track, Indoor Track and Tennis. Relay for Life. Math Tutor. Student Senate President.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Summer Internship at MI house of reps.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: about 100 varied total hours
[</em>] Essays: Excellent
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read, should have been good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read, should have been excellent
[li] Interview: Went well, he told me he thought I would get in. So much for that haha XD</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MI
[</em>] School Type: Private (Catholic)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $250,000+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Academics (Rank, GPA, Test Scores, Rigor) and Essay
[</em>] Weaknesses: ECs, ECs, and ECs
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ECs. My one semi-excuse for weak ECs was I moved from CT to MI halfway through high school (start of junior year), so it was nearly impossible to get leadership positions as a junior, the time when most applicants acquire them.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>
<pre><code> [li] Accepted: Boston College (Honors), University of Michigan (Honors and Ross Preferred Admission), Emory University[/li]
[li] Waitlisted: Duke[/li]</code></pre>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Not surprised haha, I knew my ECs would kill me. Although, the primary reason I applied wasn’t because I desperately wanted to go or thought I would be a good fit, it was for the hell of it haha, so to hell with it! But seriously, CONGRATULATIONS to everyone accepted and everyone else will end up at a school they love too. Good luck to all!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (690 CR)
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 730 Bio, 700 USH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10% (otherwise DNR)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): None (school uses honors in lieu of AP)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Most demanding
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School newspaper (editor in chief), Robotics (captain), Diplomacy club (president), Mock Trial, Tennis
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Summer lab research at UPenn
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Hospital volunteer, TA at local sunday school
[</em>] Summer Activities: Above mentioned hospital volunteer, travel, above mentioned lab research
[<em>] Essays: Outstanding
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Outstanding
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Outstanding
[</em>] Additional Rec: Solid
[li] Interview: Went decently well</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Foreign born immigrant (but at age 2)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Teacher recs, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: ECs
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Strengths, maybe the “hook” helped
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: </p>
<p>Accepted: UPenn, Cornell, Brown, Johns Hopkins, WashU, PSU (Schreyer Honors), Pitt (Honors)
Waitlisted: Harvard, UChicago, CMU (CS)
Rejected: Princeton, Yale</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Probably going to be attending UPenn, and I’ll take a shot at my #1 choice Harvard’s waitlist. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted (Deferred SCEA)</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2400 (first and only sitting)
[</em>] SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 780 US History, 740 French
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/600ish
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s on 13 exams
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 6 AP classes
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mock Trial, Music, Orchestra
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Private Violin Teacher, Tutor
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tutor at school, Church choir musician
[<em>] Summer Activities: None, really
[</em>] Essays: I wrote an essay about puzzles. It got me into Princeton, but it probably wasn’t as well received at Harvard.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should have been good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Should have been good as well
[<em>] Additional Rec: Was definitely good
[</em>] Interview: Well, my interviewer (a professor) was an hour late to the interview; he apparently stayed to talk to students after class for an entire hour. He was also sort of pretentious, but I enjoyed his stories about Harvard.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] School Type: Large public, almost 3000 kids
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian-American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~$100K
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None.</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Academics, Objective Numbers, Recommendations
[</em>] Weaknesses: Dearth of major awards or activities, Essays
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays weren’t too well-liked. Given the extra-limited number of opportunities to shine in Harvard’s application, I probably made a tactical error in the subject of my supplemental essay.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p>
<p>Accepted: Princeton, UCLA, Pomona College, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, USC (Southern California), Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech.</p>
<p>Waiting: Stanford</p>
<p>Waitlist: Claremont McKenna, Harvard</p>
<p>Rejected: Caltech</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments: Congratulations to those accepted! I’ll be waiting for any change in status via the waitlist!</p>