Official RD Decisions Thread

<p>Decision: Accepted (MSB)</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT:1410</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 740, 720, 690</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9 -ish uw</li>
<li>Rank: no rank</li>
<li>Other stats: </li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: unusual</li>
<li>Hook (if any): quite a few leadership things, </li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: hawaii</li>
<li>School Type: private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Chinese</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: not really sure, interesting essay?</li>
</ul>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted SFS (deferred EA)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 1470</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 790,700,700</li>
<li>GPA: 4.6W, 3.8 UW</li>
<li>Rank: no rank, but top 5%</li>
<li>Other stats: National merit Finalist</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Essays: pretty good, one about meeting people from England and one about illiteracy</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: didn't read them</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: didn't read that either</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Can't think of anything</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<ul>
<li>State or Country: IL</li>
<li>School Type: parochial</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
</ul>

<p>Other Factors:</p>

<ul>
<li>I was really ****ed about this at first because Georgetown has been my numer one, but I found out that I've been accepted at Cornell and Johns Hopkins, and JHU gave me a huge scholarship, so I think I might end up there. Not sure if I'm going to keep my name on the waitlist, because even if I did get in, there would be no scholarship like at JHU.</li>
</ul>

<p>lol, I didn't know that p***ed was going to get starred, haha. Let's say I was really "mad."</p>

<p>ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1530
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 IIC/790 phy/710/670/660 writing
[<em>] GPA: 3.96
[</em>] Rank: ~4% (no official rank)
[<em>] Other stats: Aps: 5/5/5/5/4/4/
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Essays: Average[/li][</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[</em>] Hook (if any): not sure.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: VA
[</em>] School Type: Public very competitive
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] major strength/weakness: hardest courseload possible (11 APs), fairly well rounded, Good School ECs with 4 president terms, but no sports and lack of substantial awards and research.
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Contacts
[/ul]Other Factors: Family member in faculty</p>

<p>I was waitlisted at MSB with SATI: 780 v, 740 m. SATII: 770 writing, 710 U.S. History, 670 Math IC. I take the hardest course schedule available (4 AP's this year. I got a 5 on the AP U.S. History exam last year) I am President of the Student Body and have worked in the sales support department of a reputable mortgage company for the past two summers. I also have some other EC's I am too lazy to list. Anyways, MSB waitlisted me and I dont understand why. Luckily, I was accepted into Wharton and will be attending Penn this fall.</p>

<p>Accepted SFS (still in shock)</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT 1520 (235 PSAT)
SAT IIs : 800 English Lit 770 Writing 800 Spanish 720 Math IC 740 US History 710 Bio 690 Chem 680 Physics (I know I'm crazy for taking so many, by the way)
GPA: 3.64 UW
Rank: no official rank
APs: 4 US History 5 Euro History 5 English Lit</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: A bit out there, pretty philisophical, but overall rather good
Teacher recs: Great to Excellent
Counselor rec: Best there is (this lady is amazing)
Hook: Big into Spanish, did the exchange program (thus SFS)</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State: NJ
School: Private-Jesuit
Ethnicity: Irish/Slovak
Gender: Male
Major Strenghts/Weaknesses: Great Interview (guy told me), dad went to GU Law and aunt went to the College, I test really well and write fairly good essays, but after all that my GPA is only so-so, so wow am I happy to be here</p>

<p>what do you mean by 800V 6600VV i mean, what were your sats?</p>

<p>Accepted SFS
Stats:
SAT: 1480 (790V, 690M)
SAT IIs : 800 writing, 800 lit, 660 latin
GPA: 3.77...dunno if it's weighted or not
Rank: school doesn't rank
APs: 4 AB Calc, 4 Micro, this year i'm taking Macro and Bio (it's so few b/c my school offers only 8 APs, all of which are math or science APs and which you're lucky if you can take two a year)</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: wrote my main essay about being a street musician in central park, wrote my SFS essay about my experiences in Ethiopia, wrote my "most important EC" essay about volunteering for a political campaign
Teacher recs: got recs from my Lit teacher and my Latin teacher...dunno what they said
Counselor rec: no idea
Hook: not really sure</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State: NJ
School: Public Magnet
Ethnicity: mixed (Ethiopian/Korean)...checked off the African-American box since the application said you're only allowed to put down ONE race
Gender: Male
Major Strenghts/Weaknesses: great interview, i'm a URM, my testing/grades are decent, i portrayed myself as an international-minded kind of guy...i think my liabilities were that Latin SATII score and less-than-stellar performance in math/science courses</p>

<p>Waitlisted- College</p>

<p>SAT- Bad? 1290
SatII- Bad as Well- 1700 combined! (yeah... I Know!)
GPA- 3.7 UW
15/450
School- Highly underperforming
Essays- THEY ROCKED!!!! Moving I tell you
Recomendations- counselor didnt even know my name</p>

<p>Tell Me... do i have to be at the bottom of that waiting list or what? Oh well, I suppose they saw through my apathy to study for SATS and I proved to them that GU was swell. Hmmm?</p>

<p>All international who havent received anything yet, Just do as I did...Call the admissions office and they'll tell you by phone. As simple as that.</p>

<p>It just occured to me that I never posted in here. So...here goes...</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED! (College)</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT: 1440
* SAT IIs: 750/740/740
* GPA: 3.96 UW, 4.3 W
* Rank: 2/140sh
* Other stats: APs: 5/5, 33 ACT
</code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Essays: I liked them a lot. So did most other people. They showed who I am.
* Teacher Recs: Amazing
* Counselor Rec: Excellent, just not unique
* Hook (if any): ?
</code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: CO
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian
* Gender: F
* major strength/weakness: hardest courseload possible, well rounded, amazing ECs and a lot of awards. but i suck at math!
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted: My app showed who I am, I had decent scores and good grades, and a lot of ECs that showed initiative and character
</code></pre>

<p>Other Factors:</p>