<p>Rejected.</p>
<p>I’m devastated.</p>
<p>Did you get your letter or were you just not able to login?</p>
<p>I feel kind of bad… I basically did use Barnard as a backup plan for Columbia… Oh well. Hopefully (if I get into Princeton, Columbia, or off MIT’s waitlist) someone who deserves/wants to go more than I do will get my spot…</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I (by section):cr 690 m 670 w 740 (overall: 2100)
SAT IIs: us 670 math 1 660
ACT: n/a
APs: us 4 language and comp 5
IBs:
GPA:3.7/4.0
Rank: 10/560
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: model congress secretary, national honor society secretary, chamber orchestra, future business leaders of america, science olympiad, tennis, community orchestra, watershed volunteer, hospital volunteer, museum volunteer, church volunteer
Job/Work Experience: have held a steady job for three summers
Essays (subject and responses): common app was about discovering history and life while on vacation. Supplements were really personal and fun
Teacher Recs: haven’t seen them
Counselor Rec: my regular counselor is not smart so it probably wasn’t great, but I had someone else write one and it was spectacular
Applied early and deferred? nope
Hook (if any): none
Location/Person: ?
State or Country: pennsylvania
School Type, Average Stats of School: school is pretty crappy, a lot of inner-city kids moving out. A few go to good colleges each year.
Ethnicity: white
Gender: this isn’t even a question with Barnard…
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:
Absolutely ecstatic! I live within 2 hours of the city and didn’t get my letter until today, so I was sure I got rejected. I’ve been waitlisted to sooo many schools and had a minor freak-out over the weekend. As I was crying to this boy, he kept saying I still had a shot but I figured I was rejected already. I was already planning my trip to Memphis to a school and I found out I got into Barnard, my #1 school! I’m thrilled beyond belief! I’m so excited to meet everyone =]</p>
<p>Accepted! But I’m deferring a year.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!!!</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): math:760 writing:740 reading:750
SAT II: chemistry:780, chinese:760, math2:730, USHistory:700
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): my school doesn’t do a 4.0 scale. I have an average of 87.12, and the average GPA from people in my school who got accepted into Barnard is 87.something
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no idea sorry. not top 10% though.
AP (place score in parenthesis): Both Englishes(4), Chemistry(5), US History(4), CalcAB(5)
Senior Year Course Load: Advanced Physics(prepares you for the AP C Mechanics exam), Applied Math 2 (goes beyond Calc BC), Latin 3, a lot of amazing electives
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, Silver Presidential Volunteer Service Award</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Drama(14 productions total), Choir/Voice lessons (Madrigals), Community Service, GSA (Head)
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: 250+ hours with a nonprofit exchange program, 2 weeks at an orphanage in Shanghai
Summer Activities: Community Service, World Science Festival, Entrepreneur’s Class, Finland Exchange funded by the Finnish Parliament, orphanage in Shanghai
Essays: moral decision I had to make with my host family in Finland. It’s pretty decent, but would’ve been better if there hadn’t been the 600 word limit.
Teacher Recommendation: Both pretty amazing.
Counselor Rec: Pretty->very good. She’s my dorm head too so she knows me pretty well.
Additional Rec: None submitted
Interview: I thought it went pretty well.</p>
<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Philosophy
State (if domestic applicant): Massachusetts
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: small boarding school
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Well off enough to not need financial aid. My parents won’t tell me anything beyond that.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Lived in Shanghai for the second half of freshman year, attended a British international school there</p>
<p>Reflection
Strengths: international experience, very good preparation because of the insane academics in my school, huge upward trend in grades, grades reliable in the sense that Barnard knows my school really well, good but not amazing extracurriculars
Weaknesses: pretty mediocre sophomore year because of adjusting to a new school, freshman grades don’t really mean too much because of the switch to a British system, an Asian with my SAT scores kind of throws me into the pile of “oh look another Asian”.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Barnard likes me YAYYY!!
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Edinburgh(acceptanced), Georgetown(accepted), Boston College (accepted), Vanderbilt (accepted) UChicago (waitlisted), Northwestern (waitlisted), Middlebury (waitlisted), Columbia (deferred ED), Duke (rejected)
The rest of my list: Brown, Harvard, Tufts
General Comments: I’m seriously considering Barnard over Georgetown because I felt like I belonged at Barnard on tour.</p>
<p>@sjogren What are you doing during your gap year? I’m currently a junior & I’m thinking about doing a gap year after senior yr, especially if I don’t get into one of my top college choices.</p>
<p>@wej ;T__T;
I’ve never talked to you or anything but I know how much you wanted to get in 
I really hope you end up loving whichever college you decide to go to… best wishes!</p>
<p>@soshi: I’m doing a Rotary Youth Exchange to Brazil. A lot of people that I’ve talked to that have done a gap year really seem to enjoy it and benefit from it too. They say it’s kind of a time to reevaluate your life (pardon the cliche :)). What are you thinking about doing?</p>
<p>I got waitlisted…duh…</p>
<p>same as soshi, I hope you will get into a great school, wej</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]SAT I (breakdown): 680 CR / 650 M / 690 W / Total: 2020
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]SAT II: 600 U.S. History / 660 Lit
[<em>]Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75/4.0
[</em>]Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 25/130
[<em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): U.S. History (3)
[</em>]IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>]Senior Year Course Load: Pretty rigorous, it’s about half APs and then half not even honors, with the exception of one honors class.
[</em>]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Achievement Scholarship: Outstanding Participant[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Newspaper (editor-in-chief); tech crew (head of props); mock trial (vice-president); youth group (peer minister); ITS (“motivator/mascot” - it’s pretty much a BS position honestly); National Honor Society
[<em>]Job/Work Experience: Worked as a cashier at a flower shop, babysitter
[</em>]Volunteer/Community service: Every Sunday I waitress at a local nursing home during their lunch period, and during the summer I participate in the food drives of a local church.
[<em>]Summer Activities: Host family for a foreign exchange girl from France, NSLC, Summer at Columbia, and uh…I went to Ocean City a lot. Nothing too impressive honestly.
[</em>]Essays: I reread them after I got deferred EA, and I realized just how sloppy and weak they were. Really disliked them, but oh well!
[<em>]Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read any recommendations, but one of the them I know had to be good, she loves me. The other one I’m not too sure about, but I’m sure it was good too.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Very good, again, he loves me.
[<em>]Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>]Interview: It went very well, we clicked. =][/ul]
Other[ul]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>]Intended Major: Psychology
[</em>]State (if domestic applicant): MD
[<em>]Country (if international applicant): N/A
[</em>]School Type: Parochial
[<em>]Ethnicity: Black (technically half-white/half-black, but I just put down African American)
[</em>]Gender: Female
[<em>]Income Bracket: Eh, not too high, not too low.
[</em>]Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM[/ul]
Reflection[ul]Strengths: Leadership and volunteer stuff? URM? Maybe even recs?!? I really couldn’t tell you.
[<em>]Weaknesses: Scores, GPA, rank, and essays.
[</em>]Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essays weren’t the best and my scores and numbers are too low.[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments: Congrats to those admitted and good luck to those waitlisted! =]</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>
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<p>Well, that’s the best illustration of “Tufts syndrome” that I’ve ever seen. ;)</p>
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<p>Haha oh well! I probably wouldn’t have gone either way… I’m stuck between Barnard, JHU, and Princeton right now. Not sure which one I want to go to…</p>
<p>Well, even if you opt for Princeton or JHU in the end… I think its pretty cool that you are seriously considering Barnard but are turning Columbia down. (and Yale, and Harvard). </p>
<p>I have to say that you’ve got really great options. Take your time this month to weigh them carefully. (Although of course you are in the situation where you can’t really go wrong with any choice you make).</p>
<p>rushandcrush what are you thinking of studying?</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul][<em>] SAT I (by section): 2220 (720 CR 710 M 790 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 780 Literature, 760 Chemistry
[<em>] ACT: 33 (31 M 32 S 33 R 34 E)
[</em>] APs: All 5s: World History, U.S. Government, English Language, Chemistry
[<em>] IBs: None
[</em>] GPA: 3.8 unweighted
[<em>] Rank: 10 of about 450
[</em>] Other stats: National Merit Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Piano lessons for 9 years, French exchange (host and guest), national honor society volunteering/organizing, volunteering at a nursing home 2 summers, leadership camp, science camp, book club 3 years, debate team 2 years. I also mentioned the Classic Films Club I co-founded and am VP of in my interview.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Babysitting 5 years
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): leadership camp experience changing my outlook on life (I was being sincere, but I don’t know if it actually came off that way.)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I read the one from my Ancient Greek teacher…very, very flattering. I got the other from a math teacher who wrote a nice recommendation for me for a summer program; so I’d guess it was good as well.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: He doesn’t know me well, but quite possibly pretended he did.
[</em>] Applied early and deferred? Nope
[<em>] Hook (if any): Underrepresented region (Midwest)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Missouri
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, most go to community or technical college
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Well, it’s a women’s college…[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations/Scholarships,etc:
I was expecting to get in, since my test scores were well above their averages, my gpa was about average, and i’m from an underrepresented region (only 8% from midwest and southwest combined.)<br>
I was deferred EA at MIT then rejected RA. Also accepted to Penn State Honors College , McGill University, and some crappy backups.</p>
<p>An article about this years’ class in the Columbia Spectator:</p>
<p>[Barnard</a> admissions rate drops to 26.5 percent](<a href=“http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/04/05/barnard-admissions-rate-drops-265-percent]Barnard”>Barnard admissions rate drops to 26.5 percent)</p>
<p>Way to go, ladies!</p>
<p>Uh oh… that’s not good news for me, assuming that the trend continues. Haha but yeah, congrats to everyone!</p>