<p>I Got In Omg!!!</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected
Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fee Waiver Used?: No</li>
<li>SAT I (by section): CR: 740 W:760 M:800</li>
<li>SAT IIs: Math II: 800, U.S. Hist: 770 Math I: 760</li>
<li>GPA: 3.94 UW</li>
<li>Rank: Top 10</li>
<li>ACT: did not take</li>
<li>APs/IBs: Taken 7, 4 or 5 on all.</li>
<li>Senior Yr Courseload: Pretty tough</li>
<li>Number of Apps from Your School: several</li>
<li>Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction.</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>ECs listed on app: varsity tennis, varsity swimming, track and field, vice-president of club, competed in an international chess competition.</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Work at a local YMCA for about 10 hrs per week.</li>
<li>Essays (subject and responses): Good and unique</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Good, nothing special</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Good, nothing special</li>
<li>Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Did not get one</li>
<li>Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): None</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: WA</li>
<li>School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Decent public </li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: Middle</li>
<li>Strengths: Sports, academics.</li>
<li>Weaknesses: ECs, recs?</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Because I'm too average I guess.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Continues a string of bad luck. 0/4 so far this week.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?:
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 1940 total (I hate the SAT more than a senator loves bribes)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 660 (Literature), 670 (Math II), 700 (U.S History)
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.98 UW (one 89 percent screwed me)
[<em>] Rank:24/440 (the kids above me take the easiest classes just so they can say they have a 4.0)
[</em>] ACT:30
[<em>] APs (including this year's): School only offers three; U.S History (4), AP Physics B, and AP Lit
[</em>] IBs (including this year's:
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload:4 highschool classes (2 AP's mentioned above) and 4 community college courses
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: just me
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Will be graduating from the community college next month with three associate degrees
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Mostly good. There weren't many, but they showed passion
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): This was the place that I worked my ass off for. I spent my Christmas Eve perfecting my roommate response.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Mediocre (If you aren't addicted to a drug, she could care less)
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): none
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): My college degrees, and the fact that I am a first generation immigrant?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: ID
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): God-awful public school in "urban" Idaho. (we can't use the bathrooms any more because there were too many drug deals and gang activities taking place in them)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Whitey
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle-class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen immigrant
[<em>] Strengths: I work my ass off on anything not called SAT
[</em>] Weaknesses: I don't have nearly as many academic opportunities as most other kids that applied to Stanford (I don't think my school has ever had a national winner in anything)
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Pity?[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I was expecting a rejection after being shunned by my top two colleges, but was ecstatic at the fact that I have a great opportunity to attend one of the world's best schools.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No.
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 1760 (630 CR, 590 W, 540 M)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 680 Eco Bio, 680 Mol Bio, 670 World History, 650 USH, 600 Math II, 550 Lit
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.00 uw, 4.58 w
[<em>] Rank: 2/236, salutatorian
[</em>] APs (including this year's): World History (4), Bio (4), Lit (TBA), Calc AB (TBA)
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Chinese 5/6 (Independent Study), Chemistry (no honors/AP), Drawing (UC req), AP Calc AB, AP Lit, Econ (no AP/honors)
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: ~5-10?
[li] Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Honor Society Member; High Honor Roll Student; National Honor Roll Member; California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition for Balboa JROTC Battalion Commander; University of San Francisco School of Law Street Law Completion Certificate; California Mock Trial San Francisco County Championship Team; Various JROTC awards such as the Superior Cadet Award, National Sojourners Award, and the Scottish Rites Award[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Mock trial (10-12): Varsity Trial Attorney, Varsity Team Captain, City/County Champs; Army JROTC (9-11): Battalion Commander, Battalion Trainings and Operations Officer; Newspaper (9-10): Opinions Page Editor/Regular Contributor; Political Science Club (10): Member.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Summer clerkship at Munger, Tolles & Olson with attorneys and paralegals.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Experience in the law, passion for law academy/law, quirky roommate essay, bland why stanford essay
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Law academy teachers wrote about in-class behavior and extracurricular involvement; felt was really strong
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Wrote about my extracurricular involvement, behavior in-class, and my most rigorous courseload taken.
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Lots of interest in law (law academy, law classes, mock trial, etc.)
[/ul]</p>
<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Rarely sends grads to top schools
[<em>] Ethnicity: Taiwanese
[</em>] Gender: Dude
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle-class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Extensive law interest? Good leadership in JROTC?
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT
[li] Why you think you were denied: SAT[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Oh well, I was a long shot here anyway.</p>
<p>DD accepted - single sitting 2400, 36, 800 on 4 SAT subjects, 4.0 unweighted, many APs, good not earth shaking APs. Mostly I think she liked the essay prompts and the application just came together really nicely. The application made her really interested in Stanford. We will be heading out there to see it.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 800CR, 740M, 730W
[<em>] SAT IIs: 770Lit, 700Math2, 670Japanese
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.96uw, 4.6w
[<em>] Rank: 5/657-ish
[</em>] ACT: 34
[<em>] APs (including this year's): Calc BC
[</em>] IBs (including this year's: IB Euro, IB Precalc, IB Math HL, IB Contemporary World, IB ToK, IB Physics SL, IB Spanish 4, IB English 11, IB English 12, may be something else I don't remember. xD
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 4IBs, 1 Honors, the rest stuff that colleges consider worthless.
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 8
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Japanese Club (President), Key Club (President), Anime Club (VP), Archery
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Taught English in Japan
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Uh...apparently not fantastic. xD See the essays thread for my responses.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Amazing, one teacher loves me and the other said it was the best rec he'd given in his career.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good, but not as personal as I'd like.
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): N/A
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Teaching English in Japan, being obsessed with Japanese despite being a white person. Lol.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CO, usa.
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): I don't know, but we don't send many to high-caliber universities.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000-150,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[<em>] Strengths: Good recs, good writer
[</em>] Weaknesses: Imperfect gpa and scores, not enough ECs
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I didn't list all of my ECs, because I took "main," literally. I also didn't take a science class this year because of scheduling issues. And a lack of ECs.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
I think I pretty much covered it.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
It was my first choice, so this sucks. Though I feel worse about the time my teachers wasted on writing recs and well-wishing. xP</p>
<p>Ah well. Off to wherever accepts me and I feel like going to...:D</p>
<p>Well, this year's been a mixed bag--this isn't nearly as bad as SCEA. Congrats to all those accepted and good luck to all those waitlisted (if you accepted a place)! </p>
<p>To those who didn't get in, rest assured that you'll flourish wherever you go, whether at Harvard or at Podunk State. Remember not to take this as anything personal; far too many get bogged down in that, and it's neither practical nor wise. Good luck in your future endeavors, whatever they may be. =)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* Fee Waiver Used?: No
* SAT I (by section): 710 M/730 CR/800 W
* SAT IIs: 770 US History, 750 Literature, 730 Math I
* GPA: Roughly 4.0
* Rank: 4/270
* ACT: N/A
* APs (including this year's):
* IBs (including this year's: n/a
* Senior Yr Courseload: AP Phys B, AP Eng Lit, AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Govt, AP Calc
* Number of Apps from Your School: 3
* Other stats (Awards, etc.): International Oratorical Contest winner, 2 time county debate champ, cofounder of Sony Sponsored organization, founder of MUN etc.
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* ECs listed on app:MicroboticsEngineering.org, Debate, Mock Trial, MUN, etc.
* Job/Work Experience: n/a
* Essays (subject and responses): One about my passion for econ and another about my passion for oratory
* Teacher Recs: Stellar
* Counselor Rec: Told it was Stellar
* Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Very good vibe
* Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Cofounder of Sony Sponsored Organization
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: NY
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Very low avg SAT, competitive within about top 5% only
* Ethnicity: African American
* Gender: Male
* Income Bracket: Middle class
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc): URM
* Strengths: My essays, EC's, and recs
* Weaknesses: Nothing glaring?
* Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Obviously URM status helped, but after seeing that URM's with similar stats got denied, I think it was the depth of my EC's and how i presented myself in the essays that really pulled me through.
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: <em>Pumps fist</em></p>
<p>I Didn't Get My Letter Yet! :(</p>
<p>Funny thing is, I did all of my essays and short answers the day the app was due. STILL can't believe I got in.</p>
<p>rejected, it was expected though. waitlist at Georgetown hurts more than this for some reason, probably because my academic superstar friends were rejected here too. congrats to those who got in!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver: Yes
[</em>] SAT I: M 790 C 690 W 800
[<em>] SAT II: Math2 800 Phys 800 BioE 740
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: Not Reported. [3.9 by the way]
[<em>] Rank: Top 2. Prize for 1st place, but numerically tied. This was clearly communicated
[</em>] Advanced Proficiency [CAPE] [Grade I]: Caribbean Studies, Communication Studies, Spanish Language and Literature, Physics, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
[<em>] A-Levels [Cambridge] [Grade A]: Further Mathematics
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: As Above; Spanish was self-taught
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): Bronze Medal APMO 2007; Gold Medals nationally [math olympiad] 2005-2007; A long, boring list of other stuff [they're important, just not friendly to tierd hands.]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Accomplished and maniacal Choir, Autism volunteering, Math teaching/tutoring/training/home-brewed research
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Math Teacher, Tutor and Trainer. Year off.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses):
[Long] First Noble Truth of Buddhism: Life is Suffering
[CommAppShort] I Am A Mathematician At Heart: Evidence that will hold up in court
[Roommate] I'm Gonna Hug You Eventually + Why. 1 Short Paragraph. Very Worrying.
[Intellect] Continuous Extensions to Differentiation. Paradox and Surprize.
[Why Stanford] Very Specific. Excerpt:
"I am not one-dimensional. Neither is Stanford."
[Books] Problems and Theorems in Analysis Volume II, 1001 Lessons in Supersymmetry, BBC Collected Transcripts of Richard Feynman
[Somewhere] It was made obvious on my app that almost every book I've read was free e-book.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I read one. Extremely strong and specific.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: HOD reported on my performance as a teacher. Bitingly austere, but positive.
[</em>] Hook : National Scholarship. APM Olympiad medal in a poor-performing country.
[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: See Left.
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School : Religious Board. Publicly assisted.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indo-Caribbean Not Communicated.
[</em>] Gender: None. Not Communicated.
[<em>] Sex: Male.
[</em>] Income Bracket: Paycheck to Paycheck
[<em>] Hooks : Autistic, first generation college
*[li] Strengths: "Plyable Enthusiasm" [In addition to 2 strong extracurriculars and 4 suits of academics, I have a bunch of awards from short but concentrated efforts in unrelated areas like poetry, chess, monopoly, social work etc] *[/li][</em>] Weaknesses: Same as Strength. Took 2 years of Spanish Lit in 1 self-taught year and confused the texts. Got 0 on a final exam for writing on a text in the other unit. Communicated to Stanford.
[*] Why you think you were accepted: Scholarship allowed me to not apply for Financial Aid. If I had to, I would have almost definitely been rejected.</p>
<p>accepted!!</p>
<p>Kyledavid: Mixed bag? Are you in or not? I'm sorry if I missed it elsewhere.</p>
<p>accepted!!!!</p>
<p>Sheed...???</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: N
[</em>] SAT I (by section): R740, M800, W800
[<em>] SAT IIs: Math II 800, Chinese 800, Physics 800, World History 800
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.0/4.8
[<em>] Rank: 2/329
[</em>] ACT: 35 (E34, R36, M35, S33)
[<em>] APs (including this year's): Physics B (5), Physics C Mech (5), Physics C E&M (5), American History (5), European History (5), Chemistry (5), Calculus BC (5), Statistics (5), American Government, Biology, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, World History.
[</em>] IBs (including this year's): N/A
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP American Gov., AP Bio., AP Economics, English IV, Spanish III, AP World History.
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 1
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): USAMO Qualifier (10th grade), some other national math awards, National Merit Scholarship Winner, Siemens Award for Adv. Placement, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Quiz Bowl (Captain), Mu Alpha Theta (President, VP, re-founder), Engineering Club (VP^2),
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 summer internships in medical research (with pay)
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): forgot... maybe thats why i didnt get in :)
[<em>] Teacher Recs: math teacher talked about leadership and euro/econ/world teacher talked about my writing, improvements, work ethic, etc.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: i read it and forgot about it.
[<em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): going through katrina, coming to US 4 years ago, USAMO, going to school in a state whose education syste ==> strong struggle story, id say.
[/ul]Location/Person:[list]
[</em>] State or Country: Louisiana
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): average high school, pubilc
[</em>] Ethnicity: chinese
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: i can go to stanford for free, let's just say.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: i really cant imagine myself going to stanford, and i guess my application showed that indirectly.</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
better htan i expected.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?:yes
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 730 CR 710 W 570 M (omg i knowww)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 590 lit 600 bio m 610 math 730 WH 800 spanish (living proof that test scores arent everything)
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.0 uw school doesnt weigh
[<em>] Rank: 1 (about 8 ppl share this rank)
[</em>] ACT: not taken
[<em>] APs (including this year's): none offered at my school
[</em>] IBs (including this year's: none
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: toughest available
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: none. 0. ever.
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): none really
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: 9 years of classical guitar, mostly music stuff, soccer, nhs, nothing too weird or amazing
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 1 year working at a surf shop and babysitting
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses):i thought the common app one was decent. supplement essays were kinda weird and i didnt think were too great. they had a few spelling errors too
[<em>] Teacher Recs: ok
[</em>] Counselor Rec: she doesnt speak english so god knows
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): n/a
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): puerto rican. poor puerto rican from a school that has never sent a kid to a school like stanford. no one really knows what stanford is here.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:PUERTO RICO
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): catholic private, not very academically challenging
[<em>] Ethnicity: Puerto Rican
[</em>] Gender:female
[<em>] Income Bracket: < 15 k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): above mentioned
[<em>] Strengths: location, being the first from my school/town/zip code get mildly decent sat scores and to apply
[</em>] Weaknesses: math scores, no awards whatsoever
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: omg i have no idea. really good luck. the school profile my counselor sent in made it look quite awesome that i could get a 730 in reading i guess but thats about it.[/li][/ul]Other Factors: none i can think of</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: omggg this is so amazinggggg. congratss to everyone!!! my condolences to those who didnt make it, im sure we'll all b happy and succesful no matter where we end up.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 800M, 730W, 720CR
[<em>] SAT IIs: 790 Math II, 730 Chem, 700 Lit, 650 Spanish
[</em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.0 uw, 4.3 w
[<em>] Rank: 1/209
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] APs (including this year's): 10
[</em>] IBs (including this year's: Not Offered
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: 5APs, Orchestra, Choir, and Calc II correspondence
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: Only me, that I know of
[<em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Varsity Swimming, Student Body President, Orchestra, Choir, Link Crew, Academic Challenge
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Hostess, Waitress, Computer Programming Consultant
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Computer Programming, thought it was decent
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I didn't read it
[<em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): No interview
[</em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Erm... none?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Wyoming
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, ~900 students, a few to top schools every year
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: >100,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, location
[<em>] Strengths: Classes, grades, etc.
[</em>] Weaknesses: essays
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: URM[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Yay</p>
<p>karagon7: what I mean is, there seems to be neither more acceptances nor rejections nor waitlists; all three seem common, so it's a mixed bag. SCEA was practically a blood bath.</p>