Official RD Decision Thread

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2310
[</em>] SAT IIs: Bio: 800 Math IIC: 710
[<em>] GPA: its complicated
[</em>] Rank: top 1 percent
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Seriously took me months to finish
[<em>] Teacher Recs: glowing, I read them
[</em>] Counselor Rec: not sure
[<em>] Hook (if any): capitain of a varsity sport, newspaper, etc
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: CA
[<em>] School Type: very competetive private
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Intended Major: probably business related
[li] major strength/weakness: not good enough :( I have no idea[/li][/ul]Other Factors: got into columbia. dartmouth was a first choice though. I guess I will have to wait a few weeks and hope I get into my dream off the waitlist</p>

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<p>josh:</p>

<p>way to go, dude! </p>

<p>I've traveled north of the Brooks Range several times, and I know you'll bring a perspective that no one in the Lower 48 can ever understand.</p>

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<p>Decision: REJECTED...crap</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 2230(800M, 730V,700W)
* SAT IIs:800Math IIC, 800 Physic, 730USHist
* GPA:3.6?(very competitive small private high school)
* Rank: N/A
* Other stats: AP European Hist 4; AP Physics C-Mechanic 5; AP US Hist 4; AP Calulus BC 5
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: very good
* Teacher Recs:donnu
* Counselor Rec:Great
* Hook (if any):N/A
</code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country:MI
* School Type:Private
* Ethnicity:Asian
* Gender:male
* Intended Major:Engineering
* major strength/weakness: fluent in 3 languages(japanese, korean, English), not very good GPA(I almost failed French last year)
</code></pre>

<p>Other Factors:
some martial arts, piano, got top 10 in state math competiton 3 years in a row, international student, some research experiences at University of Michigan</p>

<p>well..I got rejected from all IVY leagues that I applied.. but I still got in Duke and Washu.. so whatever...</p>

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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 700 M 630 V
[</em>] SAT IIs: 640 - Math II, 650 -Physics
[<em>] GPA: 3.8 U/W
[</em>] Rank: 15/300
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:Great
[<em>] Teacher Recs:Great
[</em>] Counselor Rec:Great
[<em>] Hook (if any):Hispanic
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:FL
[<em>] School Type:Parochial
[</em>] Ethnicity:hispanic
[<em>] Gender:m
[</em>] Intended Major:ece
[li] major strength/weakness:[/li][/ul]Other Factors:**</p>

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<p>REJECTED!</p>

<p>too lazy to put up stats.
they're somewhere on the duke forum.
yea this was a total reach for me.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2370 (780M, 790V, 800W)
SAT IIs: 780 770 720
GPA: 4.23 W
Rank: 39/940
Other stats: lots of APs, etc
Subjective:[/]
Essays: Good
Teacher Recs: don't know, i think good
Counselor Rec: don't know, i think good
Hook (if any):
**Location/Person:
State or Country: Texas
School Type: Competitive Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Other Factors:[list][*] Extracurriculars: Lots of leadership, NHS president, cool job, debate, musical theater, Nat Merit Scholar</p>

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<p>i really don't love that a hook is ethnicity...reverse discrimination i think the two words say enough. i know many people termed minorities that live much better than i do and don't do as much or have the same stats, and got accepted at my dream schools. seriously being white is the new disadvantage. and if someone comes on and calls me racist or something, i won't even respond because that would be ridiculous. i love my friends, it's awesome they got accepted, but it doesn't mean it feels good over here</p>

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<p>
[quote]

Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 700 M 630 V
SAT IIs: 640 - Math II, 650 -Physics
GPA: 3.8 U/W
Rank: 15/300

[/quote]

Nickv360, you give me new hope, i have a horribly low Verbal score (600 :(), and i was looking at the decision and just saying to myself, wow, no one has low 600s in verbal. Thanks for the post
PS: I know you are minority and stuff... but still, gives me new hope :D
Congrads</p>

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<p>Thanks Sybbie, I just wanted to let you know that all of the information that you post here has helped me so much (sure it has helped others to). You are always here giving people advice and information just wanted to let you know it really has helped.</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT:2330 (800M, 800CR, 730 WR)
SAT IIs: (800,730, 700)
GPA: 3.63 / 4.03 (3.80 / 4.43 for 10-12 though)
Rank: 60/702 (19/702 for 10-12 though)
Other stats: Big time fundrasing, raised $14,000 thru 3 major fundraisers.</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: decent
Teacher Recs: top few of career ish
Counselor Rec: mediocre...big class
Hook (if any): Sent them Econ work I did that econ professor said was publishable & far more advanced than that of any undergrad she ever taught at USC, NYU, etc. But I didn't send this until Mar 9 (I wasn't done until then), so maybe they didn't get to it - or they did and rejected me anyway.</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: CA, USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: M</p>

<p>Other Factors:
General Comments: Congratulations everybody! Good luck to the rest of schools you're waiting for.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT:2190 (650M, 770CR, 770 WR) (Combined w/old SAT math score)
SAT IIs: (800,770,690)
GPA: 3.80 Unweighted (9-12)
Rank: 24/550 (9-12)</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: Pretty good
Teacher Recs: Pretty good
Counselor Rec: Probably decent
Hook (if any): Um, not really sure
Location/Person: Los Angeles
State or Country: Calfornia
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Chinese/Taiwanese
Gender: M</p>

<p>Other Factors: Leadership positions in school, Editor of a youth page in a Chinese newspaper
General Comments: I'm pretty excited about getting into Dartmouth, but I'll definitely still consider UCLA and UC Berkeley. Sigh. I don't know if I should go to a college near home (LA) or a college on the east coast. Anyway, congratulations everyone!</p>

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<p>Reject, stats are on cc somewhere</p>

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<p>Decision:Accepted!
Stats:
SAT:1850; 640V; 640M; 570W
SAT IIs:640(bio), 570(Math iic)
GPA:5.5W; 4.0
Rank:1/122
Other stats:4.0 from local community college taking courses since freshman year. Also, studied at three other colleges including Oxford.(Not a transfer student)
Subjective:
Essays:Amazing! I worked on it for about 3 months. It talked about my struggle to recieve an education, while pulling myself out of the ghettos of Phildelphia. Als,o wrote an essay about my experience with a person whom had trecher collins and how that inflenced me to become a surgeon. It was 5 pages but got me in none the less.
Teacher Recs:Very Good not fantastic or anything but I have strong relationships with my teachers and it showed in their recs.
Counselor Rec:Amazing! I made it my mission in 9th grade to talk to my counsler at least once a day. We have an extreamly strong realtionship which def. came out in her rec.
Hook (if any):From the projects...
Location/Person:
State or Country:Philadelphia
School Type:Public
Ethnicity:African-American
Gender:Male
Other Factors: Highly active! Three Varsity sports since 9th grade, Captin of two, all public in one. President of three school clubs. PSTV (local tv station) reporter. Have interviewed top gov. officials. Insane list of other activities, Basically no sleep. Have studied at places like Oxford on full scholarship.
General Comments: Surprised that I got in but attribute it to my killer essays and Interview(the interviewer now comes to church with me)</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2320
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790, 740
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 unweighted
[</em>] Rank: 1/360-ish
[<em>] Other stats: president of three clubs, VP of one last year, foreign language and art awards, National Merit finalist, AP scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: decent
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn't see them, but probably pretty good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably very good
[<em>] Hook (if any): legacy
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Minnesota
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Intended Major: studio art, history, or anthro (maybe a double-major w/ German or Russian)
[li] major strength/weakness: art and languages/didn't take an AP science course this year[/li][/ul]Other Comments: YAY!!</p>

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<p>*Decision:ACCEPTED *</p>

<p>my stats are a bit different since i'm an international, but here they come:
Stats:
Fee Waiver Used?: No
* SAT I (by section): Cr 800, m 720 wr 680 (2200) one sitting
* SAT IIs: Latin 770 Math 2 760 bio m 730
* GPA 8.7/10 in the netherlands this is extremely high
* Rank:1/116
* Senior Yr Courseload: Most rigorous, 10 courses of which 5 different languages (dutch, english, german, french and latin)
* Number of Apps from Your School: NONE, first ever to get into and ivy leage! And i got into 4!!</p>

<p>Other stats: </p>

<p>Subjective:
* ECs listed on app: Student council president, student representative in school board, Theater course of 6 houres a week for three years at local college, photography, tutoring, debating team, tennis
* Job/Work Experience: tutoring, amnesty international 8 hours/week
* Essays (subject and responses): common about why I love learning
foreign languages, how I discovered my love and how I use my skills, I believe it was very good. Supplement about my passion for Photography, also good.They were both very personal and me!
* Teacher Recs: Haven't read them but I think they were very good and one of the top few of my career stuff (they told me some parts), they all know me very well
* Counselor Rec: very good, also top of career and she knows me very well as well
* Interview (feel and general location):wasn't offered one!
* Hook (if any): 5 languages and 800cr as an international? I sent in a good photography portfolio as well</p>

<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: The Netherlands
* School Type, Public, one of the best in my country and very comprehensive
* Ethnicity: White
* Income Bracket: <50.000
* Gender: Female
* Strengths/Weaknesses: languages, very heavy course load, good photography portfolio and good recommendations and essays/ very low GPA compared to american students and no outstanding Ec's and jobs</p>

<p>Why you think you were accepted:I dont know, i had the most amazing luck!</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:Congratulations to all of you!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>and YALE 2010 HERE I COME!!!!</p>

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<p>hey, a great big hug and hearty congrats to all who are accepted!</p>

<p>Come liven up the Dartmouth college '10 forum.. :)</p>

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<p>aww...congrats all you new greenies. I remember this time last year...good times. Live it up. Now you have to figure out if you are actually going. lol. Having the school choose you is a lot easier than having to choose the school.</p>

<p>Congrats and Good Luck!</p>

<p>KB</p>

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<p>Decision: waitlist</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 2130
SAT IIs: 800/780/760
GPA:4.0
Rank:1/900
Other stats: 12 ap's
Subjective:
Essays: I thought were good
Teacher Recs: awesome
Counselor Rec: ?
Hook (if any): fishing, tennis, traveling
Location/Person:
State or Country: IL
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
Other Factors: lots of ec's
General Comments: I have been either rejected or waitlested by all the ivy schools I have applied to so far</p>

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<p>*Decision: Rejected *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 770CR 620M (ouch) 800W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 750 US History, 740 Lit
[<em>] GPA:95/100
[</em>] Rank:~20/~800
[<em>] Other stats: Great E.C.s
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I've been told it was excellent
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Most likely excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably mediocre due to large class size
[<em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New Hampshire
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Intended Major: English, with pre-med
[li] major strength/weakness: Math SAT score was a major weakness. Being from New Hampshire probably was too, as just about every smart kid in my school applies to Dartmouth. [/li][/ul]Other Factors:** Oh well. I expected it. It was my first choice though. But hey, I got into Williams (early write). :) The only person to get into Dartmouth from my school is really amazing with stellar awards, stats and E.C.'s, so I don't feel too bad. </p>

<p>Well, congrats to those who got in!</p>

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<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2300 (790 M, 770 CR, 740 W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Chem, 800 Math IIC, 780 US History
[<em>] GPA: 3.99 UW, 4.55 W
[</em>] Rank: 2/380
[<em>] Other stats: 5s on 4 AP tests, qualified for national chem olympiad test last year, did lots of stuff with law
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I enjoyed writing it
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Didn't Read, but I think they were good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn't read, but I assume good
[<em>] Hook (if any): Not exactly sure
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: TN
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Intended Major: Chemistry, Math, or History
[li] major strength/weakness: No real national recognition, no research[/li][/ul]Other Factors: Happy to get in! I'll probably end up here next year!</p>