<p>caitlyn,
my EFC as determined by FAFSA was about 15,000 higher than what Haverford determined. I got a substantially greater amount of grant aid as a result, however, what I got does not cover what my family really can afford to fork out considering I have two younger sisters in 11th and 9th grade. Overall, the financial aid office was extremely helpful while my parents and I figured out the numbers. I am confident that Haverford will help make attendance financially managable for everyone who gets in.</p>
<p>pFNMCp,
did you do a campus interview or an alumni interview? If you meant washington state, I was wondering who you interviewed with.</p>
<p>thank you so much jmussa! i hope it all works out for you :)</p>
<p>Thankfully it did! I hope that I am able to win some of the scholarships I've applied for to minimize my work in the next 10 years :)
But I want to go to Haverford more than anything and I am willing to make the sacrifice.</p>
<p>Best of luck as you wait!</p>
<p>Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2250
[</em>]SAT II: 750 french, 730 US
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: i think between a 3.5 and a 3.6
[<em>]Rank: n/a
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 US history, 5 French lang, 5 French lit, 5 English, 4 Music Theory (aural subscore: 5)
[/ul]
[ b]Subjective*[list]
[<em>]Essays: 1 about my "oddness" and composing music... meant to be funny. i think it worked.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: i didnt read it
[<em>]Counselor Rec: didnt read it
[</em>]Supplementary Material: sent in a CD of my music
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): "composer". i wrote a musical and produced it at my school, i also wrote a few symphonies for the orchestra to be played this spring as well as a CD of folk music
**Personal*[list]
[</em>]Location: DC
[<em>]High School Type: private
[</em>]Ethnicity: white
[<em>]Gender: F
[</em>]Extracurriculars: editor in chief of newspaper, cappies lead critic, lead in the past several plays, president of a cappella group and non selective group, head of vestry, play piano guitar bass mandolin and ukelele, and writes for creative writing groups
[<em>]Awards: national society of arts and letters award for excellence in creative writing, music, and drama; drama award at school; writing award at school; various french prizes regionally; AP scholar with distinction
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list] i screamed when i read it! the admissions counselor sent me a personal letter asking me to come, and i am completely honored. my gpa is pretty low for the school, so i hope that this shows that really gpa is not all that counts. good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Do you know when we'll be notified about financial aid?</p>
<p>
[quote]
pFNMCp,
did you do a campus interview or an alumni interview? If you meant washington state, I was wondering who you interviewed with.
[/quote]
On-campus interview a year ago, with a senior who worked in the admissions office.
It was pretty awful.</p>
<p>Accepted - 2300</p>
<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 700 CR 670 M 630 W
Total: 2000
[</em>]SAT II: 750 US History 660 MII 660 Literature
[<em>]ACT: Did not take
[</em>]GPA: 3.9
[<em>]Rank: 1/89
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH (4)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: My Honor Code essay was decent, but I loved my Common App Essay
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Very Strong
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Very Strong
[</em>]Supplementary Material: I'm in a low-income outreach program where my mentor also sent a recommendation.
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: CA
[</em>]High School Type: Charter; Part of 1st Graduating Class
[<em>]Ethnicity: Asian (Vietnamese)
[</em>]Gender: M
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: Y</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:
Travel Club - President & Founder
Gay-Straight Alliance - President & Founder
Summer Search - Mentee
[</em>]Awards:
AFS Intercultural Ambassador
Summer Student Student
Student of the Year</p>
<p>[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul][/li]I am very excited and happy to be accepted into Haverford! It was a school I was worried whether I would get in. To all those who were waitlisted or rejected, there is a school out there for you too! :D</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2100 // 770 CR // 640 Math // 700 Writing // 12 Essay
[</em>]SAT II: 730 Eng. Lit // 760 US History // 800 Hebrew
[<em>]ACT: 32
[</em>]GPA: 4.0 UW, 5.4 W
[<em>]Rank: 4/110
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
AP US History: 5
AP Art History: 5
AP Eng. Lang: 5
AP Eng. Lit: 5
AP Music Theory: 5
AP Stat: 4
AP Psych: 4
AP Bio: 2
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Great
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Great
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Great
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Music recording
[<em>]Hook: Award-Winning classical/jazz musician, fluent in Hebrew and Yiddish [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Deep South
[<em>]High School Type: Public magnet (must audition to get in)
[</em>]Ethnicity: Middle-Eastern
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: N[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Tons
[</em>]Awards: Tons
[<em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: F</em>** [/ul]</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2370 (800 R, 770 M, 800 W)
SAT II: 2390 (800 Chem, 800 Math II, 790 Spanish)
GPA: 4.1/4.3 UW, 5.7/6.0 W
Rank: 1/350-ish
Other Tests: 5's on 6 AP's, IB Diploma Candidate</p>
<p>Subjective
Essays: My common app essay was about geocaching, and my Honor Code one was a dialogue with my conscience about making an ethical decision
Teacher Recs: Presumably good, but I never saw them
Counselor Rec: Also presumably good
Supplementary Material: None
Hook: Possibly IB? Beyond that, no idea</p>
<p>Personal
Location: Northwestern NJ
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Applied for Financial Aid: Y</p>
<p>Other
Extracurriculars: Debate, Boy Scouts, Choir, Geocaching, NHS, a few other clubs
Awards: Eagle Scout, some debate awards, two National Latin Exam perfect papers
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I'm honored to have been accepted, especially given the amazing credentials of those who were waitlisted and rejected. Congratulations to everyone who got in; perhaps I'll be seeing you in the fall!</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT:730M 780CR 690W
[</em>]SAT II: 750Chem 730Phy
[<em>]ACT:did not take
[</em>]GPA: school doesn't do GPA
[<em>]Rank:7/app.300
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 8As,1B in O'levels;3As,2Bs in AS levels
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays:Haverford Essay was too pedantic, can't really say about commonapp essays as nobody besides me read them
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Awesome
[<em>]Counselor Rec:Good but slightly generic
[</em>]Supplementary Material:huh?
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):3 Nobel prizes,one each in the fields of econ, medicine and physics(and yes ppl, that was my lame attempt at humor)
[/ul]Personal[ul]:
[</em>]Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
[<em>]High School Type: Large private school, highly regarded
[</em>]Ethnicity:Asian
[<em>]Gender:M
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[list]
[<em>]Extracurriculars:Mostly to do with sports and community service
[</em>]Awards:None that would have turned the tables in my favor
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:Being an international, asking for financial aid is what killed me. The e-mail explicitly stated that I would have been accepted if I were financially independent</p>
<p>I know I slightly messed up the formatting but can't really bother editing.
Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>I'm an international student who got accepted by Haverford. Actually not quite familiar with this school. I'm also accepted by UVa. Which one do you guys think is better, considering the value, tuition, location and reputation...Thanks!</p>
<p>Decision: (Rejected)
SAT CR: 670
SAT Math: 740
SAT Writing: 730
SAT Total:2140
SAT II: Literature- 710, Math I- 770
ACT: 33
AP/IB taken/scores: US Hist (4), Psych (5), Gov't (5), English Lang (5)
GPA weighted: 3.71
GPA unweighted: 4.46
Rank or % estimate: 90/860
Essays: good, I though
Teacher Recs: good
Counselor Rec: great
Interview: none...
Hook (if any): idk, I had many obstacles to overcome...Questbridge non-finalist
State or Country: Illinois
School Type: Large Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: F
Legacy: no
Recruited Athlete & Sport: no
Important ECs: synchronized swimming, political activist club, Best Buddies
Other Factors: "international" because have no citizenship
General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I'm really confused..</p>
<p>*Decision: WAITLISTED *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR 780, Math 730 Writing 720
[</em>] SAT IIs: US Hist 640, Math 700, Lit 760
[<em>] APs: Lang 4, Stats 5, taking 3 this year
[</em>] GPA: 4.3/3.9
[li] Rank: 2</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Volunteer Work, Paid Internship/Educational Program, lots of academic ECs, NHS Pres
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship Program Paid
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Books I read, I write well I think, Haverford one written quickly probably not excellent
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Urban public school?</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NJ
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Urban public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
So I got all the types of decisions today and yesterday, woooah. This worried me but then I got an envelope for another selective school and felt better, I guess you can never tell with admissons.</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>Super excited</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 770 M, 800 CR, 730 W (2300)
SAT II: Math 2 800, physics 790,, Chemistry (710) add up to 2300
Unweighted GPA 3.77 weight 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Unranked large urban high school 3000
AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 5's USH, physics B , Calc BC, Chem. 1 4 lang and comp
1 2 in cpm sci a
Senior Year Course Load: linear alg/ diff eq, ap bio, ap lit, ap gov, ap econ, drwaing, ap stat
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
national merit commended, ap scholar with dist, csf,
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Econ club (founder vp) research assistant at lab (10 hrs per week) doing pretty cool stuff
Volunteer/Community service: 6 hours a week
Summer Activities: Summer arch program at wash u, worked on farm in greece
Essays: Pretty good, wrote an essay relating the summer program at wash u and experience working at a greek farm, Discussed sustianability, Both essays short and long were well received.
Honor code essay wrote in 3 hours, compared honor code to constitution and and the affect of the internet and file sharing and moral qualms.
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good both teachers volunteered- one called me blessed by the muses.
the other teacher was also really excited to discuss my physics project.
Counselor Rec:should be good prob generic since had to write 300 of them, however i submitted a detailed description of myself
Additional Rec: none
Interview: none
State (if domestic applicant): ca
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: M
Income Bracket: upper middle applied for fin aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Greek immigrant background, though not poor at all father is an academic, however still has novelty factor and gave me a perspective on life i communicated fairly well.ki9</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (690CR, 780M, 710W, 10E)
[</em>] ACT: 34 (34E, 35M, 34R, 33S, 10E)
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Math2, 770 World History, 660 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 / 247
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s: World Hist, Statistics, Psychology (self studied), Comp Gov (self studied) 4’s: Eng Lang, Physics B, Euro Hist. 2009 AP Exams: Calc BC (self studying BC), Econ (self studying both), Bio, US Hist, Eng Lit
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Band, AP Calc AB, Spanish 3, AP Lit, AP Biology, APUSH (online)
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None really. Just AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band (Clarinet Section Leader, OBDA Select Band, Hawaii Honor Band twice, 7 years), Marching Band (Clarinet Section Leader, Hawaii All State Marching Band, Marched Rose Parade twice: 2006 and 2009), Mu Alpha Theta (Co-President senior year), Academic WorldQuest (Founder and Team Captain of the 4th/65 place team in Hawaii), NHS, Interact
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Just NHS and Interact
[</em>] Summer Activities: Summer classes, band camp, I moved between my Soph and Junior years.<br>
[<em>] Essays: Decent I guess. Nothing amazing.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: One said I was best student of career, other was good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t read; probably good
[</em>] Additional Rec: None
[<em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah, but probably not getting any
[<em>] Intended Major: Undecided
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Hawaii
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Half White, Half Filipino
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Navy brat..not like that’s even a hook lol.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: ACT, Rank, AP scores, location
[</em>] Weaknesses: Extracurriculars, volunteer work, summers, essays
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Solid academics; Location diversity[/li][/ul]General Comments: Congratz Class of 2013 =]</p>
<p>for S:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800cr, 740m, 760w = 2300 total
[</em>] SAT II: Math 2: 800
World: 800
Physics: 800
Chem: 790
US History: 790
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 98.32
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank; anecdotally #1 out of 63
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC: 5
Chem: 5
Eng Lang.: 5 (self-studied)
World: 5 (self-studied)
USH: 5 (self-studied)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Hardest available: Multivariable Calc, AP Physics C, etc ...
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel Semi-Finalist, Stockholm Junior Water Prize – State Champ, #7 in nation, Moody’s Mega Math Challenge winner, AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (Secretary General), Investment Club (co-founder), Academic Team (Captain), NHS (President)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Congressional internship, quantum computing mentorship
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: USY (co-president)
[<em>] Summer Activities: CTY 4 years, Harvard SSP (Edward Fein Fellowship)
[</em>] Essays: Doesn’t everyone think their essays are great?
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Alleged to be very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: see above
[<em>] Additional Rec: Harvard TA
[</em>] Interview: Very good
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
[</em>] Intended Major: International Relations
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] School Type: public magnet (top 10 in the country)
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: M
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None of the “classics”[/li][/ul]Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: Typical hard-working, well-rounded kid</p>
<p>What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Challenge of coming from a pre-engineering academy strong in math and science, yet personally having great interest in the social sciences</p>
<p>Weaknesses: Not an athlete, not a musician, would not be recruited for any such niches</p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Just a strong overall app</p>
<p>I’m an international student who got an excellent fin aid package so I’m very excited. See you all there!</p>