Official Regular Decision Results Thread - Class of 2011

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<p>Rolling decisions are starting to come out for CALS, ILR, and the Hotel School, and in a month everyone will have their result! Post your decision here!</p>

<p>Please use the following format. REMEMBER TO REMOVE ALL SPACES BETWEEN THE BRACKETS (ex. The space should be deleted between the bracket and s in [ size=+2], etc.) ALSO REMEMBER TO REMOVE ALL SPACE BETWEEN [ *]</p>

<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size] OR
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Wait Listed[ /b][ /color][ /size] OR
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] College/Major Applied To:
[ *] Fee Waiver Used?:
[ *] SAT I (by section):
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] ACT:
[ *] APs (including this year's):
[ *] IBs (including this year's:
[ *] Senior Yr Courseload:
[ *] Number of Apps from Your School:
[ *] Other stats (Awards, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app:
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Essays (subject and responses):
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location):
[ *] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b]</p>

<p>Please try and keep this thread for decisions only, and let's try and minimize the amount of clutter.</p>

<p>Thanks to Stupak from the Yale board for his format! Yale 2011 rules!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] College/Major Applied To: CALS/Entomology
[</em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 770CR/800M/780W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Bio-M/800 Latin/770 Math IC
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 99.6 W/~97.5 UW
[</em>] Rank: 3/325
[<em>] APs (including this year's): 5s in Latin Lit/English Lang/US History/Environmental. Taking Latin Vergil/Spanish/Calc BC/Physics B/English Lang/Psych
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: APs above plus French 2
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: A TON. Maybe 30-40
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): A bunch of Science Olympiad medals including 4 for entomology (my major). Yale book award, American Mensa, Columbia Science Honors Program, National Merit Finalist, bunch of meaningless awards from school, AIME school champion, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad, Gay Straight Alliance, Campus Congress, Math Team, Columbia SHP, Drama stuff...
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Teaching classes for autistic people/volunteering at environmental education camps
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): One about how i deal with the social stigma of my father hunting, anecdotal. One about my experience with entomology recreationally and for science olympiad.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One great, the teacher and I are good friends, I took 2 of her classes, was her lab asst, volunteered with her over the summer, did scioly with her for four years... The other good i suppose, the teacher seems to like me but i never really impressed her.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, she said she tried hard.
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): I denied the information session.
[<em>] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Is being a white male from westchester a hook? I'm fairly qualified in entomology, which is a pretty rare major with few applicants anyway.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Westchester, NY
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, good quality
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
[<em>] Strengths: SATs, grades, essays, ECs, recs
[</em>] Weaknesses: Uh...
[li] Why you think you were accepted/wait listed/denied: I have a fair bit of experience in a rare major, good SATs/grades. [/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Best of luck to all of you! I'm excited to overnight!</p>

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<p>Congrats. I look forward to seeing the ILR results. :)</p>