<p>myblsflhrt: How did you get waitlisted?!
I don’t know what Tufts Syndrome is so I can’t say and good luck with columbia!</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] SAT I (by section): CR - 800, M - 800, WR - 770 (2370)
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II - 800, Physics - 800, Chemistry - 800
[<em>] APs: 7 5’s
[</em>] GPA: No idea… probably 4.6 or so?
[li] Rank: Top 5%</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Viola (principal violist in multiple orchestras), Piano (ABRSM Grade 8 with Distinction, currently working on DipABRSM), Science Olympiad (regional, state, and national awards), other math/science competitions, PA Governor’s School in Science, musical and other community service, other (too lazy to look)
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App was good, supplements okay
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One good (math teacher who has known me for 2 years and likes me a lot), another not so great (senior year history teacher)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably decent
[<em>] Applied early and deferred? N
[</em>] Hook (if any): College level honors math and physics at prestigious university (with grades of B+ and A- respectively)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Competitive public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Duh? =P[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:
I hope Barnard isn’t practicing Tufts Syndrome… I’m happy (now I don’t care much about getting accepted to Columbia) but to be honest I was hoping to be accepted to more selective places. But maybe that won’t happen, since I’ve already been waitlisted by MIT, so I think I shall be satisfied and relax a bit for April 1 =)</p>
<p>What state are you in?!</p>
<p>OK, you caught me. I was actually trying to conceal my location, so I (stupidly) specified a governor’s school that doesn’t exist =( I’m so sorry! I just like to be careful… Sorry again.</p>
<p>Oh, no, I didn’t even see the governors school thing. I wast just curious.</p>
<p>But ARE you in PA?</p>
<p>And don’t worry - state specification is nothing. Honestly.</p>
<p>Haha, I guess it doesn’t matter… I’m just paranoid. And no, I’m not in PA. Er… out of curiosity, why were you curious about my state? =P</p>
<p>physicshobo:</p>
<p>MIT is not a good barometer for reach admissions. they are really stupid some time. know a situation where a top kid from a top prepschool applied early to mit, got wait listed.</p>
<p>in regular, he got harvard, pton, duke,penn,yale,stanford and mit. he went to harvard.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send
ACT: 33
SAT II: 740 Physics and 770 Math Level II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.89
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 20%? I’m not really sure since my school doesn’t do any sort of ranking system.
AP (place score in parenthesis): none
IB (place score in parenthesis): IB English
IB History
IB Physics
IB Biology
IB Higher Level Mathematics
IB Music
IB Spanish
I don’t have scores yet… I’ll get those this August!
Senior Year Course Load: IB English
IB History
IB Physics
IB Biology
IB Higher Level Mathematics
IB Music
IB Spanish
TOK
Honors Orchestra
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none =( just a few small awards
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Forensics (Board Member)
NHS (Board Member)
SHS <a href=“Board%20Member”>Spanish Honors Society</a>
String Quartet (Director)
My County’s Youth Orchestra (Principal Chair for 2nd Violins)
Church Volunteer (Sunday School Teacher)
Piano/Violin Performer (as in I take lessons and play in concerts)
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: already in EC section (at church and at school through NHS)
Summer Activities: Music Camps, Science Camps, College Visits (lol if you consider that an activity)
Essays: good, but looking back, could have been better
Teacher Recommendation: one good and one superb
Counselor Rec: good
Additional Rec: didn’t have one
Interview: great. Exactly 30mins but it ended because she had to leave for an appointment.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yup
Intended Major: Physics
State (if domestic applicant): MI
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: hmmm… I wonder =P
Income Bracket: less than 100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none that I can think of
Reflection[list][<em>] Strengths: ECs, recommendations, intense course load and maybe test scores?[</em>] Weaknesses: gpa (had a couple Bs) and essays (I’m not really a good writer)[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because of my strengths =)</p>[/li]
<p>I AM SO EXCITED! Barnard’s definitely my top choice as of right now =D</p>
<p>waitlisted…disappointed beyond belief. wej, did you hear yet?!</p>
<p>Will someone please tell me what tufts syndrom is?</p>
<p>Tufts syndrome is the name people have come up with for the idea that some schools will reject some applicants because they are too well qualified and would end up going to one of the Ivies. Somehow Tufts got the rep for being the school that everyone goes to that could not get into the top tier schools…</p>
<p>I absolutely do not think Barnard would use that tactic. They are out to get the brightest, most diverse and stimulating class possible, I am sure. I do believe they are rather unique in that the adcom does seem to take a more broad-based approach to reviewing and considering their applicants (looking well beyond numbers on standardized tests or even GPAs). So they might take a student that, for example, has started a successful business over one that has scores that are a bit higher.</p>
<p>That does NOT mean they will not accept someone because they think they will just go to a better school any way. Big difference, IMO.</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] SAT I (by section): CR- 680, M- 710, W- 770 (2160)
[</em>] SAT IIs: US History- 680, Math I- 680
[<em>] APs: APUSH- 4, AP Lit- 4 and currently taking Calc BC, Euro, and Lang
[</em>] GPA: 94/100
[<em>] Rank: 32/360ish
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Theatre, Dance, Singing, Tennis, Volunteering
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Started a summer theatre camp, worked for various other theatre companies, paid for being in certain shows/ performances
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Commonapp essay- growing up living in Cohousing and how that has affected me, Tradition- going camping, Character from a Book- Laila from A Thousand Splendid Suns, Issue- homelessness
[<em>] Teacher Recs: AP lit and AP history teachers, probably average
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Really good
[<em>] Applied early and deferred? N
[</em>] Hook (if any): Got a B in a undergraduate class I took at Harvard University, worked on the set of a TV show in New York City last summer, started my own low cost theatre camp for people in my city
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MA
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Urban public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: F
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:
Accepted- UMass, Oberlin, NYU, McGill
Waitlisted- Vassar, Haverford, Wesleyan, and… American!?! hahaha
Rejected- Swarthmore</p>
<p>Waiting on- Brown, Harvard, Yale, Princeton</p>
<p>Also I didn’t have an interview.</p>
<p>@physicshobo</p>
<p>To see how far acceptances have gone state-wise. It’s fair if you want to just specify coast or region only, though I do think you’re being super paranoid. Whatever works though.</p>
<p>@iamthinking</p>
<p>Not yet, though I’m prepared for a rejection on Monday. ED took two three days to get to me (deferred, obviously), so I suspect it’ll be bad news this time around too. I’m very depressed right now.</p>
<p>wej, don’t lose hope yet! And if Barnard doesn’t work out for you, I’m more than confident that you’ll be spectacular anywhere. I’m crossing my fingers hard for you :]</p>
<p>East coast then. I’m sorry you haven’t gotten your decision yet! Let’s hope big envelopes take longer! =)</p>
<p>I agree with churchmusicmom that Barnard is looking for the best of its applicant pool – or, rather, “best fit”. I do think that they might engage in some second guessing if they get apps that seem to telegraph that the student is more interested in Columbia and a likely admit there. They probably want to avoid cross-admits with Columbia if possible and they are probably are pretty good at spotting the characteristics of apps from students who just see Barnard as their backup plan for Columbia. </p>
<p>I do think that test scores are the least significant part of the application, assuming they are “in range”. (And the “range” that is o.k. is the full range that is accepted each year). My d. was accepted with bottom-range scores, but in hindsight I don’t think it was a close call. It was the rest of the application that counted. </p>
<p>When students who have very high stats are turned away, it’s because the Barnard admissions committee did not get the sense that those students would be a good fit at Barnard, not because there is anything wrong with their applications. The “fit” part is particularly important because of Barnard’s unique atmosphere – it is a place where a student who is a poor fit can get very unhappy, very fast. </p>
<p>I don’t think its really possible to know all that goes into the decision, but if you want to get some sense of a pattern, I would suggest focusing on the subjective factors.</p>
<p>I’m in Southern California - and I still haven’t gotten anything yet. :(</p>
<p>It generally takes 2-3 days for priority mail to reach all areas of the country – rural areas could take even longer. Saturday delivery is iffy. Basically if the packets went out in the mail late Thursday afternoon, they should reach everyone in the continental US in Monday’s mail, Tuesday at the latest. (Though there is always the potential of a late arriving packet due to damage or mistake in transit). </p>
<p>Anyway… just my 2 cents on the way the US postal system works. Geographical distance from the point of origin is not the only factor, because mail gets routed through major processing centers. So a person who lives in a far-flung urban area may get the package sooner than someone in a suburban or rural area nearer to NY, but with more “stops” along the way for the mail to reach them.</p>
<p>As Calmom said, you cannot just look at the distance you live from Barnard and figure there is any kind of direct relationship to when you will get your notice of admission status. In fact I recall over the years hearing of several who got theirs days later than the majority here on CC. Hang in there!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section):cr 800 m 790 w 800 (overall: 2390)
SAT IIs: lit 750 math II 720 world history 740
ACT:
APs: world 5, us 5, lang 5 comp sci 3
IBs:
GPA:3.6 uw, 3.9 w (I had 2 C+s in my high school career but took all aps/honors)
Rank: top 10% of my class
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: model un president, debate team co-caption, newspaper managing editor, track & field, started my own online magazine, yeah… a ton.
Job/Work Experience: Worked in Science Research Lab, intern at gov’t co.
Essays (subject and responses): common app about my dad’s death earlier this year, short answers were well-written but nothing remarkable
Teacher Recs: excellent
Counselor Rec: excellent
Applied early and deferred? no
Hook (if any): none. my cousin went there which i mentioned.
Location/Person:
State or Country: northern virginia
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): competitive public in NoVa
Ethnicity: indian “other”
Gender: f
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:
SO HAPPY. I’d really like to get to know you accepted people! If you’re waitlisted or outright rejected, one thing I’ve learned is everything happens for a reason. Don’t let randomized college admissions determine what you think about yourself. (I got rejected from my state school the weekend before.) You’ll do great wherever you decide to go!</p>