<p>D Rejected.</p>
<p>Waitlisted.
Well, better than what I expected it to be…</p>
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<p>10char</p>
<p>I don’t know what to say. I was very happy coz I got into Duke and Duke took in like 6% of the applicants this year. And I was hoping for good stuff from the Ivies tomorrow. And then, freakin JHU rejects me today and I am freakin scared about Princeton and Cornell tomorrow :(</p>
<p>Wow! I didn’t even know decisions came out today!!
But I got accepted!!! I was SOOOO HAPPY AND EXCITED!!!
I seriously didn’t expect to get in…</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT II: MATH 800 / US HIS 800 / Bio 700
SAT Verbal: 740
SAT Math: 700
SAT Writing: 680 ESSAY = 11
SAT Total: 2120 (one sitting)
AP/IB taken/scores: 5 US History AP/ 5 Biology AP. Took Honors classes starting 9th grade. Students are discouraged from taking APs before Junior Year and from taking more than two double period APs a year (Currentlly taking AP Chem and Calc now) </p>
<p>GPA weighted: 4.25
GPA unweighted: 3.72
Rank or % estimate: School does not rank</p>
<p>Subjective
Hook (if any): URM </p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: DC
School Type: Rigorous private school. Many attending Ivies
Ethnicity: AA
Gender: Male
Legacy Yes/No: NO
Recruited Yes/No:
Important ECs: Many…many but these are the most important in-depth major ones: Classical Violin since 4, City/Community Orchestra, Quiz Science Bowl type stuff, lots of community service–tutoring inner city children in mathematics and reading. Won Humanities/Service award for Study Abroad (Renaissance) 2 weeks this past summer…</p>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:</p>
<p>I believe he was accepted for his very thorough consistent record. Extremely well rounded with solid/high standardized tests. But unique as well. Few AA males on US quiz and science bowl teams–even fewer playing classical violin for 12 years. Also only 1 B on transcript in 4 years (mostly A-s, lots of As and B+s) at a well-known challenging school. Passion and dedication to a small group of ECs for 4-10 years. And lots of community service while working every summer since 9th grade (camp counselor at Math and Day Camps) and 20+ a week this (senior)school year… Think two things helped seal the deal: Essay on how he realized that he rather pursue medicine than attending Juillard. And Pre-Cal Honors teacher rec (11th grade teacher)…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280, 800 Math, 780 Reading, 700 Writing
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 750 French with Listening, 780 World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (It’s really more like a 95-96%)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/620ish
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), World History (5), Stat (5), Calc AB (5) Chem (5), US History (4), Calc BC (5), Enviro (5), Studio Art (4), Physics (4), Euro (skipped), English Lang (skipped), French Lang (5), Micro (skipped), Macro (skipped), Psych (5), English Lit (currently taking), French Lit (currently taking), Art History (currently taking, will definitely skip)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP French Lit, Linear Algebra (college), AP Art History, Mole Bio (college), Chem (college).
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Did well at Intel, never really got past AIME. Won essay contests, MVP awards for sports, published science research etc.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Tennis - 2nd singles freshman year, and continued as 1st singles throughout high school. Named MVP, Captain, won state awards, etc. (I think I may have been recruited but I didn’t want to pursue tennis in college at the D1 level). Class President all four years. Editor in Chief of award-winning school literary magazine for 2 years. Established school Hispanic club, president and founder.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned at NYC science labs for four years and had work published professionally. Interned at the New Yorker for a month (I have a family friend :P)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:
[</em>] Summer Activities: Internships
[<em>] Essays: No Idea. I liked them! 
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: No idea, but they like me!
[li] Counselor Rec: No idea, but he likes me! :P</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview: It went well.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 50k-100k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM. Legacy to Princeton and Tufts.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Scores, extracurriculars, my personality, and my hooks.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Not exactly sure, but no one’s perfect.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, MIT, Barnard, Johns Hopkins BME. Waitlisted: Tufts [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>congrats to everyone admitted!</p>
<p>I estimate an 18% acceptance rate, using approx a 35% yield, 1200 spots, 3400 acceptances and 18500 apps…knowing jhu accepted too many last year …had to put up frosh across charles st.</p>
<p>OMG!!!</p>
<p>rushandcrush</p>
<p>Are you crazy!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):CR 800, M 770, W 690 (Super score, I also have a math score of 630 and a writing score of 640)
[</em>] SAT II (if submitted):French w/ listening 670, Math II 740, Chem 660, lit 740, US history 710, Biology E 720,
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):4.0(on initial app.) 3.89 (on mid-term report)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):1/1 (I’m home schooled)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):Biology (5), APUSH (3), World history (4)
[</em>] Dual enrollment (classes taken @ a local college/ community college while in high school) Gen Chem I (A), Comp II (A), Gem Chem II (A), Intro to American Politics (A), Karate (A), Interdisciplinary course (A), College Physics I (A), Calc I (A), Honors World Lit. (B), constitutional Issues (A), College Physics II, Intro. to Sociology, General Psychology, Statistics.
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load:College Physics I (A), Calc I (A), Honors World Lit. (B), constitutional Issues (A), College Physics II, Intro. to Sociology, General Psychology, Statistics, AP French (not planning to take the test)
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, National French Exam laureat national, Honors Scholarship @ Community College
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Mariner girl scout program (troop president and vice president, troop rep, regional student president), FIRST Robotics, Dance (Irish), Phi Theta Kappa Honor society, Les Voyagers @ Concordia Language Villages
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:Life guard (1 summer and into the school year)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service:Aide @ girl scout camp (3 summers), LOWC,
[</em>] Essays:Everyone who read it really liked it. It was about overcoming dificulties, never giving up and how even the tiniest contribution can win the day. I told the story of a strenuous canoe race where I came I last but our team won the over all competition by 1 point.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:# Should be good one teacher just knew me from class, but I sit in the front and always answer question. The other has been tutoring me in French for four years and knows me really well and she said she would write me a good rec.
[</em>] Counselor Rec:I’m home schooled it was written by my parents.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?:Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: premed/chemistry/psychology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):MO
[</em>] School Type: Home Schooled
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Income Bracket: IDK (Our EFC was about $40,000)
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Dual enrollment and EC, I really focused on one thing didn’t just dabble
[</em>] Weaknesses:SAT writing score, no real outside grades until my junior year (colleges don’t really care what grade your mom gives you.)
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t know. [/li][/ul]General Comments: Congrats to those who got in, good luck to everyone as we all try to decide where we want to go.</p>
<p>Just in case any one was wondering I got in the University of Missouri-Columbia, Truman State University, University of Washington-Seattle, Case Western Reserve, Vanderbilt and Washington University in St. Louis. I was wait listed at Wellesley and rejected at Northwestern and Cornell.</p>
<p>**Decision: WAITLISTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): took ACT instead
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT IIs: 780 US History, 650 Literature, 640 Math Lv. 1
[</em>] APs: 5 US History, 4 English Language, 4 Macroeconomics
[<em>] GPA: 85/100
[</em>] Rank: does not rank
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: founded summer program at Middle School, founded quiz bowl team, founded political discussion group, business manager/staff writer of school newspaper
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: catering company staffer
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Wrote Common App essay on my strained relationship with family and books; wrote supplement on Milton Friedman’s “Capitalism and Freedom”
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Homeroom advisor/3 year Spanish teacher= amazing, 2 year history teacher= amazing
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Amazing
[</em>] Applied on: regular
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MD
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private preparatory, very difficult, much grade deflation
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: </p>
<p>Honestly, Hopkins is much too close to home (and especially my school) for me to see myself going there.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone accepted! Does anyone have any stats (a link is preferred) as to where Hopkins grads go for med school? Thanks!</p>
<p>Yeah I’d like that too. Pre-pro advising told me they usually send 8-18 students to JHU Med School though.</p>
<p>The most represented students at JHU Med went to JHU Undergrad.</p>
<p>Do you have a link to a website or some other source that breaks all this down in a detailed manner?</p>
<p>The number on JHU med seems about right 8-18 UGs. My year , it was 15, but that was practically pleistocene era…they also had the 2-5 program back then…here’s some anecdotal stuff…my friend’s son was JHU BME class of 2009, and got into JHU med with a 3.6…usually they demand 3.8-9s, so it looks like they do let a decent number in. Better figures at Columbia med, I dont remember the link but a couple of years ago, there were 11 JHU undergrads there, compared with 11 from Hahvard, and only 3 from Cornell. Hopkins premed is awesome.you can’t go wrong there if you’re premed …yeah, it’s about time everyone stops looking back , and start looking forward…</p>
<p>Son accepted via the back door. Returning as visiting student Summer Session again. Dad happy. Next up, visiting undergrad once he clears his schedule at home university.</p>