<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2140 770 M 710 V 670W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 IIC 730 Chem 690 USH
[<em>] GPA: 3.8 ish
[</em>] Rank: 3 ish /270
[<em>] Other stats: 5's on mac/micro ECON, Calc AB, USH. 4 on Eng Comp, 3 on chem self study
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: one amazing/indepth told everything about my involvement in robotics, one generic "glowing"
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good explained why i had Bs and how i added to campus
[<em>] Hook (if any): Robotics,
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Cali
[<em>] School Type: Suburban
[</em>] Ethnicity: South Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Robotics, Swim team, rocketry team founder, guitar club founder, rocketry class teacher, robotics teacher, own 3d animation business
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: Probably recs and essays ... grades/SAT sucked
[</em>] Other thoughts: AWESOME ... I'm either going to Stanford or MIT</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[li] SAT: 2140 M-740 R-730 W-670[/li][li] SAT IIs:USHistory-740 Chemistry-770 MathIIC-680[/li][li] GPA: **3.98[/li][li] **Rank: **9/229[/li][li] **ACT: **31 [/li][li] **Other stats: Took 5 APs up to this point, 4 on four of them, 3 on one. This may have looked bad... was totally expecting at least 5's on three of them.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Essays: Hella Risky... I did them entirely on my own so maybe some errors, but people have told me they were "good" risks. If you want to see my risky essays, PM me or email me. I used one of them as a newspaper article for my school paper, and everybody loved it. But I have a feeling these may have flopped... ;o[/li][li] Teacher Recs: Probably Excellent - my teachers love me and one says I'm one of the brightest he's ever taught = good sign for rec[/li][li] Counselor Rec: Probably very good -- I hope she mentioned I have the hardest schedule in senior class... would be rank 1 with weighted ;o[/li][li] Hook (if any): Very involved in church, leading everything - serving in National Presbyterian General Assembly this summer as Youth Delegate.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[li] State or Country: Oregon[/li][li] School Type: Public[/li][li] Ethnicity: Korean[/li][li]** Gender:** Male</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Senior class president, senate president, tennis captain, model UN president, praise leader, bible study leader, Presby. GA delegate, newspaper editor, bowling team, tutor, NHS, soccer, ... yeah... General Comments: Meh... my test scores could be better -- I was scoring 800's on practice Math SATI's and IIC's but couldn't pull it on test day. Oh well. Also took the ACT with 2 hours of prep total... could have easily pulled that to a 33-34, I think. Oh well. On to wait for Princeton, but if that's rejection, I'll go UPenn, which is pretty sweet still ;D</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2290; M760 R770 W760
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800(MathIIC) 800(Physics)
[<em>] GPA: 4.2ish
[</em>] Rank:15-25ish out of 400some
[<em>] Other stats: 5's on both AP Calcs and both AP Phys C's, also have taken Calc 3 and Differential Eqn's @ communinty college night courses
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Freakin great.. for the picture one I sent in a frame from a lightsaber fight movie I made (full Lucas-quality effects..good stuff)
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Great (1 <3 my teachers)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: CA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: M
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[*] Extracurriculars: not too many; theatre, debate, NHS.. I also build and experiment on my own - I've built lots of electronic trinkets (tesla coils, EM Gauss cannons, etc) and collected data[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2200; 770 Math, 710 Reading, 720 Writing
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 Math 2, 750 US History, 730 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 3.98 UW, 4.21 W
[</em>] Rank: 3/87
[li] Other stats: 4's on USH, Euro History, Art History. 3 on English Language[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Bad, kind of last minute
[</em>] Teacher Recs: 3 really good ones
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[</em>] Hook (if any): MITES Summer Program
[/ul]</p>
<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: California
[</em>] School Type: Charter (competitive and well-recognized); School to support first generation, low-income students
[<em>] Ethnicity: Vietnamese
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]</p>
<p>Other Factors:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Robotics(HEAVILY involved), trumpet, piano, a lot of other things
[</em>] Why I think I was rejected: I had gotten deferred from MIT that day, so I was scrambling to get the essays done. I pretty much got my MIT essay, and added a sentence about a picture in it... Obvious that I was unsuccessful.
[li] Other thoughts: Bah, it's either MIT, Cornell, or Olin for me. I'm actually kind of shocked that I wasn't waitlisted, but oh well.<br>[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Waitlisted...will post stats later...When will I find out the result!?</p>
<p>I don't want to keep other universities I've been accepted in on a hold and miss their deadlines. When will Stanford inform me of their decision!?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:2090 (760M, 680R, 650W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790MII, 700Phys, 640Chem
[<em>] GPA: 3.5
[</em>] Rank: 70s-80s/360
[<em>] Other stats: 31 on ACT, Heavy Senior Courseload
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Decent but rushed
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Strong
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Average
[<em>] Hook (if any): Paid Physics Research for 6 weeks at UIowa last summer, and other ECs
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Iowa
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: 2 Weeks in Costa Rica, Science Club Officer, Physics Research, NHS, Honor Roll, Academic Letter, etc.
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: GPA and Essays could have been better
[</em>] Other thoughts: Didn't really think I would get in anyway. I'd rather go with Stanford for Grad school.
[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 740V 680M 720W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 US Hist 750 Lit 690 French 670 Math
[<em>] GPA: 4.67W / 3.69UW
[</em>] Rank: 58/1075
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: wrote about being the quiet one.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: good good! one from a professor at cornell.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: extracurricular based, mostly.
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Florida
[<em>] School Type: Public (and huge! 5000 kids)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars:
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: the hispanic thing.. definitely..
[</em>] Other thoughts: I'm feeling pretty lucky here.</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Michigan
* School Type: Large public
* Ethnicity: South Asian
* Gender: Male
</code></pre>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: Spelling Bee (heavily involved/awards), NHS VP, hundreds of hours of volunteering, and some others.
* Why I think I was rejected: Not sure. I even sent an update/intent letter to them. Strong activities/interest in spelling, unusual, etc. Not enough for them apparently. I think my grades and SAT IIs and rank kept me out. It's all right; God meant for me to be somewhere else.
* Other thoughts: Good luck to those waitlisted and congrats to those accepted. To those rejected, it is truly Stanford's loss not yours. You have many other schools who would love to have you.
</code></pre>
<p>Please post the the Acceptance / Reject / Waitist letter from
Stanford ( of course with your "name" removed . I would be be interesting to see the wordings.</p>
<p>On behalf of the Office of Undergraduate Admission, it gives me very special pleasure to offer you admission to Stanfords Class of 2010. You have every reason to be proud of your accomplishments, and we are honored to invite you to join the Stanford community. A hearty congratulations to you!</p>
<p>In the coming days you will be receiving a packet of information about your admission to Stanford, including your official letter of admission. Among the materials in your packet, you will find an invitation to visit campus for Admit Weekend 2006 (April 20-22), a three-day program that will introduce you to the intellectual vibrancy and dynamic campus life that define Stanford. We hope you will be able to join us for these festivities so that we may have the opportunity to celebrate your admission with you in person.</p>
<p>While you wait for your packet to arrive, you can learn more about Admit Weekend and Stanford in general by visiting our admitted student website, <a href="http://admit.stanford.edu%5B/url%5D">http://admit.stanford.edu</a>, that was developed by current Stanford students just for you.</p>
<p>We once again extend our congratulations on your admission to Stanford and look forward to welcoming you to the Stanford family!</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2300 (800M, 770CR, 730W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 IIC, 790 Chem, 780 US Hist
[<em>] GPA: 4.0
[</em>] Rank:3/433
[<em>] Other stats:5- Chem, Eng Lang; 4- US Hist; NMF
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: lot of time
[<em>] Teacher Recs: great
[</em>] Counselor Rec:eh
[<em>] Hook (if any): slight legacy: (Dad master's degree)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: TX
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I think I got waitlisted to ease the legacy ties. I thought I had a decent shot and I got accepted to Rice today. Anyone know approximately how many students are placed on the waitlist each year? Are we talking thousands?</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: they got the best ones I wrote</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: top few of career type, but i think others may have better</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: fairly generic (large class)</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Strong social EC's ($14k worth of fundraising) & strong academic EC's (econ professor wrote that it was more advanced than any college student she ever taught at community college, USC, & NYU).</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Thoughts: rejected at Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, & Duke yesterday. Accepted UChicago and Stanford today - I AM STUNNED! Congratulations to everyone, and best of luck to you all wherever you end up.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 770M 640CR 610W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 750IC 800 phys 800 french
[<em>] GPA: N/A
[</em>] Rank: 1/60
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I can't really judge them because I have no comparison point... but probably good!
[<em>] Teacher Recs: very good (math), very good (english), exelent (electrical engineering)
[</em>] Counselor Rec: very good
[<em>] Hook (if any): two summers of research at MIT (electronic design then Computer Vision)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: live in Mexico City, born in Russia
[<em>] School Type: French Lycee (private)
[</em>] Ethnicity: Jewish
[<em>] Gender: male
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: mountaineering, programming, some electronic design projects,
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: Research at MIT, great recomendation from my electronics teacher, fluent in Russian, Spanish, French and English, and I guess they just liked me!
[</em>] Other thoughts: Congratulations to everybody! [/ul]</p>
<p>Now I have a hard choice to make.... Computer Science at MIT or Stanford?</p>
<p>We have just completed our review of this year's applications for admission to Stanford, and we would like to offer you a place on our waiting list. Although we cannot offer you admission at this time, I want to assure you that any student we place on our waiting list is someone who has shown great promise, whom we would like to be able to admit if space becomes available.</p>
<p>Historically, the number of students we have admitted from the waiting list has ranged from none to nearly 100. In only our third year of Single-Choice Early Action, we do not know precisely the number of students admitted early who will choose to enroll at Stanford, making it difficult for us to predict how many of our waitlisted students will ultimately be offered admission. Typically, though, we do fill the final spots in our class through the waiting list, and we anticipate doing the same this year. You also may be interested to know that we do not rank students on our waiting list. When we find we can make additional offers of admission, we review all the applicants on the waiting list again.</p>
<p>In the coming days, you will receive your official waitlist offer as well as all the materials necessary to accept a place on our waiting list. I hope this letter will answer your detailed questions about the waiting list process at Stanford. If you have further questions after you have reviewed these materials, please feel welcome to contact our office.</p>
<p>With best wishes,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Admission and Financial Aid</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: Yes
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2210 (790M, 690V, 730W)
[<em>] SAT IIs: 790IIC, 750Chem
[</em>] ACT: 33 (35M, 31R, 33E, 34S, 11Essay)
[<em>] APs: 4 5's, 2 3's
[</em>] IBs: N/A
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.28W, 3.93UW
[</em>] Rank: 3/450ish
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Quite hefty
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: over 10!
[<em>] Other stats: PROMYS
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Several clubs
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): I thought they were okay
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Generic
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location): Stanford doesn't offer any
[</em>] Hook (if any): First generation
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: AK
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Income Bracket: Low
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks: None
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: Weak SAT scores and long essay.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: See above.
[/ul] Other Factors: General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I took this pretty well. I won't be accepted a spot on the waitlist, so good luck to all of those that are waitlisted. Congrats to those who got in! Condolences to those who were rejected! Everything will work out in the end :)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: Nope
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2190 - 790 Math, 690CR, 710W
[<em>] SAT IIs: 780 Math IIC, 730 Chem
[</em>] ACT: Nope
[<em>] APs: Didn't submit them to Stanford (They were pretty bad haha)
[</em>] IBs: Nope
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.0UW (94.49)
[</em>] Rank: 10/194
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Jr and Sr year combined, nearly all college and AP level, no lunch
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: Good question, oh, at least 1
[<em>] Other stats: National Commended Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app:
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at Taiwanese semiconductor design company
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Picture essay: Two old people sitting in a park looking at the new Taiwan rising from amongst the temples. Other essays: I remember the one about describing an experience I wrote about the dinner I was eating as I was writing as my experience.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Fine I guess, had an awesome extracurricular Rec though
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably useless, councelor was a dolt.
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location): Didn't have one
[</em>] Hook (if any): Lone white exchange student in Taiwan working at an electronics company.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New York (Currently in Taipei, TW though)
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, normal I guess
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Income Bracket: Personally? 0
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks: From before "Lone white exchange student in Taiwan working at an electronics company."
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: Graduated 2 years early, took Calculus in 10th grade from Stanford, generally very accelerated, but my scores could be better I guess (my APs that I took and submitted sucked)
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Good question
[/ul] Other Factors: Don't think so, my last letter from my #1 school General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Still hasn't hit me yet...</p>