<p>Since no one else has made this thread yet, and apparently decisions have been mailed, I figured I'd post a template. Just delete the spaces inside the brackets and fill in all your info. Good luck to everybody!</p>
<p>OH MY GOD, I GOT IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! too excited/elated to post stats right now. but i got deferred and i thought i was done for!!!! how could this happen?????? AHHHHHHHH good luck, everyone else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul][ *]SAT: Math 660, CR 650, Writing 660 (1970 Total)
[ *]SAT II: MathII 690, USHistory 680, Literature 660
[ *]ACT: Didn't take
[ *]GPA: Um... my school doesn't calculate unweighted GPA, but I'm going to say it's between a 3.6 and 3.7 out of a 4.0.
[ *]Rank:1/387
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 10 AP/IB classes taken altogether...
AP Euro History - 3
AP Music Theory - 2
AP US History - 4
AP English Lang - 4
AP Government
AP English Literature
IB Math Methods I and II (AB)
IB Music
IB Physics</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective
[ul][ ]Essays: I'm consider myself a really good essay writer, so I'd have to say they're were the best part of my Swat application. They were both really personal and were probably one of the biggest factors that got me in. Only my family and one teacher has read a couple of them... no one saw my Why Swat essay except me. I don't really want to post here what they were about.
[ *]Teacher Recs: I'm a borderline workaholic, and I'm really friendly so I think my teachers probably had nice things to say.
[ *]Counselor Rec: I've had my counselor for all 4 years, and she's helped me through both school-related and non school-related issues. We have a really good relationship.
[ *]Supplementary Material: I talked about my Why Swat essay above...
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM, Nobel Prize for Being Awesome (haha just kidding)
[/ul]Personal*
[ul][ ]Location: Virginia
[ *]High School Type: Public
[ *]Ethnicity: African American
[ *]Gender: Female
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
[/ul]Other*
[ul][ *]Extracurriculars:
Marching Band 9, 10, 11, 12, Color Guard Captain
Orchestra 9, 10, 11, 12, First Chair Violinist
Debate Team 10, 11, 12
Student Council 9, 10, 11
Literary Magazine 11, 12
Key Club 10
A couple jobs... one was volunteer at a local opera theatre and one was for money during the summer at a local business...
Past two summers were spent taking classes at Barnard and Brown summer programs.
[ *]Awards: National Achievement Scholar, I won a local scholarship a couple years back... and I put that I went to Metrofinals for debate, and was got into the District Orchestra one year.
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Um.. All I can say is that I worked my butt off, and no one can tell me differently, so as far as I'm concerned, I got what I wanted after a lot of sweat and tears, and I let them know, basically. Good luck to everyone else and I hope this helps someone...
[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 CR, 650 M, 710 W
[</em>]SAT II: 780 World History, 710 US History, 780 Literature
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 99.1 (out of 100, weighted)
[<em>]Rank: school does not rank
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APs: US History-5, World History-5</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Common app one was very good, about rearranging my family life to accomodate my stepfather; Why Swarthmore was unique, honest, but not my best work, I have to admit
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I assume they were excellent; from two teachers I've known for a few years and have close relationships with both
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Unusually friendly/close with counselor, so I assume good
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none other than the Swat supplement
[li]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none really</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: New York
[</em>]High School Type: small, semi-competitive public high school, in the suburbs
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Female
[li]Applied for Financial Aid: Yes</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: mostly centered around literary and theater activities; unique Shakespeare theater group
[</em>]Awards: state literary award, other I can't remember
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] Congrats to all accepted!</p>
<p>Waitlisted Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2280
[</em>]SAT II: 770, 740, 710 (math, chem, US History)
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 4.0
[<em>]IB: Full IB, hardest possible curriculum + 2 languages (plus an Independent Study)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Very solid
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Same as above
[</em>]Counselor Rec: And again
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I'm white [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Mid Atlantic
[<em>]High School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: White!
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Eagle Scout. 2x Varsity sports, community service, worked a job doing computer programming
[</em>]Awards: Multiple, nothing spectacular
[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2260 Math: 800 Verbal: 800 Writing: 660
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Bio, 760 US History, 720 Math I
[<em>]GPA: 3.9...something
[</em>]Rank: 1/260ish
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH - 5, AP Bio - 5, AP Eng. Lang. 5
Currently taking AP Calculus BC, AP Physics B, AP English Lit/Comp, AP Spanish (the only AP offered at my school I didn't take was AP World History -but I'm taking a course at Williams College on Chinese Culture...)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Excellent Common AP essay about theater (the opinion of a Williams admissions officer), and my Why Swarthmore? essay was very earnest and heart-felt
[<em>]Teacher Recs: one good, the other I haven't seen
[</em>]Counselor Rec: probably good -my guidance counselor loves me, but I don't know if he's the most compelling writer
[<em>]Supplementary Material:
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): If anything, raising $7000 very quickly for disaster relief for our Nicaraguan Sister City [/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: VT
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars: Many leading roles drama/musical theater, singing -made New Englands and VT All-State Choir, president of + hundreds of hours volunteer hours with community service club, track & field (jav. and pole vault), recycling club, 40hr/week job in a Williams College computer lab over the summer
[<em>]Awards: NHS, Spanish Honors Society, Tri-Honor Athlete (honor role + 3 varsity sports), invited to HOBY national convention, a community service book award from St. Michael's College, National Merit Finalist, Presidential Scholar Nominee, Elks Club Most Valuable Student Finalist
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I would give my early acceptance to Williams and Middlebury and my left pinky to go here. I know everything's a crapshoot at these elite schools, but I thought I had a really good chance -especially from my interviewer's quote: "Wow, you sound like the perfect fit for Swarthmore." Bleeeyeck.[/ul]</p>
<p>My first waitlist/rejection :( I think Swarthmore figured out I didn't really have any intention of attending...</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 800 750 740 -- 2290
[</em>]SAT II: 790 780 740
[<em>]ACT: NA
[</em>]GPA: 3.8
[<em>]Rank: School DNR
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Five 5's and a 4 on junior year AP exams
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Great common app essay, Why Swarthmore was like 4 sentences.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Did not read.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Did not read.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: NA.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Virginia.
[<em>]High School Type: Private, sends most grads to top schools.
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: A lot, but with one main focus.
[</em>]Awards: A lot.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: My CGC told me I'd definitely be waitlisted, but if I changed my mind and wanted to go, I should just send them a letter saying that if I was accepted off the waitlist I would attend. [/ul]</p>
<p>Rejected Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2400 on the 1st try
[</em>]SAT II: three 800s
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 4.6w
[<em>]Rank: 4/316
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP bio, calc ab, eng lang, ush, chem: 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: alright.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: great
[</em>]Supplementary Material: yes, research stuff
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):none [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: nj
[<em>]High School Type: public
[</em>]Ethnicity: asian
[<em>]Gender: f
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: sci club prez, spanish honor society vp, columbia shp, miscellaneous volunteering stuff, varsity swimming mip, nhs
[</em>]Awards: nat'l merit, presidential scholars, ap scholar w/ d, several sci awards at state-level
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: no[/ul]</p>
<p>Rejected Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2280 (750 CR, 760 M, 770 W)
[</em>]SAT II: 710 Chem, 740 Math II, 790 World History
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]GPA: 3.85 UW
[<em>]Rank: School doesn't rank
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5's on all AP's: World History, US Government, Chemistry, and English Language
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I thought they were alright. Who knows?
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Never saw them.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Never saw.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Sent in a recommendation from the director of the theatre program I'm involved in in the summers.
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MD
[<em>]High School Type: Public, very good
[</em>]Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: No [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Lots of theatre, some mock trial, co-founded improv troupe at school, plenty of violin
[</em>]Awards: National Merit Finalist
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Eh, I kinda expected it. I got into a whole bunch of other good LACs, got some merit aid at a few... I'll probably be going to one of them. I really, really liked Swarthmore, but I have some other very nice options. Oh well. [/ul]</p>
<p>I never thought I'd fill one of these out, but here goes:</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2310 (even breakdown)
[</em>]SAT II: Math II: 800; World History: 800; Physics: 800; Literature: 800
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 4.0/4.0 UW
[<em>]Rank: 1/~450
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP Chemistry: 5; AP Physics B: 5; AP Calculus BC: 5 (AB subscore: 5); AP World History: 5; AP Macroeconomics: 5; AP Microeconomics: 5 (taking 6 more this year)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: I loved them. They were superficially entertaining, but had a deeper, more important message about who I am.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: They called me some things that really inflated my ego :). Both are teachers I've spent time with on trips and they know me quite well.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Useless. She doesn't spend time with us (students applying to American schools), so she just repeated everything on my transcript and resume and embellished with adjectives
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Nada
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: Foreign
[<em>]High School Type: Highly competitive public (sends top 5% to ivies)
[</em>]Ethnicity: Not important since I'm an international.
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Decent I guess? (CC Summary: president of 4 clubs (founded two). Chairperson of a bunch of stuff. Recognized in the media for my work/ met politicians as a result of it. Play obscure instrument--televised performances, etc.)
[</em>]Awards: A crapload of stuff that's not really important.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: If you're an international from a country with lots of applicants applying, don't apply for a full ride :(.[/ul]</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul][<em>]SAT II: 700 Math 2, 760 USHistory, 730 Bio M
[</em>]ACT: 33 (30 Math & Science, 35 Reading & English)
[<em>]GPA: 4.17 W
[</em>]Rank: unranked
[<em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) 5's on CompSci AB and US History, 3's on [</em>]Latin: Virgil and Music Theory[/ul]</p>
<p>Subjective
[ul][<em>]Essays: I thought my common app essay was good, if long
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I'd imagine very positive, though I haven't read them
[<em>]Counselor Rec: same as above
[</em>]Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) I sent in a violin recording, as well as the abstract of a research project I did on Saturn that won 4th place at ISEF
[<em>]Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please)[/ul] Personal
[ul][</em>]Location: California
[<em>]High School Type: Private
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) yes[/ul] Other
[ul][<em>]Extracurriculars: programming projects (including one used widely by my school), various orchestras
[</em>]Awards: 4th place at ISEF
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Wait-listed at MIT, Haverford, Johns Hopkins and now Swarthmore. Ughh.[/ul]</p>
<pre><code>* SAT: 2400 on the 1st try
* SAT II: three 800s
* ACT: n/a
* GPA: 4.6w
* Rank: 4/316
* Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP bio, calc ab, eng lang, ush, chem: 5
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: alright.
* Teacher Recs: good
* Counselor Rec: great
* Supplementary Material: yes, research stuff
* Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):none
</code></pre>
<p>Personal</p>
<pre><code>* Location: nj
* High School Type: public
* Ethnicity: asian
* Gender: f
* Applied for Financial Aid: Y
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars: sci club prez, spanish honor society vp, columbia shp, miscellaneous volunteering stuff, varsity swimming mip, nhs
* Awards: nat'l merit, presidential scholars, ap scholar w/ d, several sci awards at state-level
* Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: no
</code></pre>
<p>***. Maybe you got rejected because they figured you'll get into some place better.</p>
<p>Stats.
[ *]SAT: 2350 CR:800 Math:780 writing:770
[ *]SAT II: 730 720 700 (I know. SAT II scores sucked -_-)
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA: W: 4.5-4.7 ish?? W: dunno :-(
[ *]Rank: doesn't rank. top 5%
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):AP U.S.: 5 AP Calc: 5 AP Physics B: 4 AP English: 5</p>
<p>[ *]Essays: commonapp: well, pretty impossible to make judgments on own essay:-P but very personal, frank, and funny (maybe?) one on a genetic disorder that I have. Why Swarthmore: I guess also personal and heartfelt.
I definitely didn't put in as much effort as I should have. I was so sick of essays and ready for Christmas break that I proof-read them like once and happily sent them on their way.
[ *]Teacher Recs: did not see. but were probably excellent if not AMAZING.
[ *]Counselor Rec: meh. pretty generic. our school's HUGE, so I've never even met my counselor. oops.
[ *]Supplementary Material:piano recording of self.
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none. except Nobel prize of course. psssh. :-P
[ *]Location:Pennsylvania
[ *]High School Type:highly competitive big public high school.
[ *]Ethnicity:Asian
[ *]Gender: F
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid: Y
[ *]Extracurriculars:Honors Society, JCL, Treasurer of art club, founder of book club (haha) Orchestra, piano, MUN and MEU, Linguistics Olympiad, Zclub, Key club, student-organized strings quartet etc etc (as in other activities I listed but didn't care about)
[ *]Awards:a lot of awards from piano competitions, accepted to Governor's school for the arts, summa cum laude on National Latin Exams (3 times), many bothersome awards (student of the month and others basically akin to "teacher's pet" awards) throughout high school career etc etc.
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: was expecting to get waitlisted, so I'm not very surprised but slightly disappointed.
am expecting a buttload of rejection letters to come flying through the mail.
:-PPP but CONGRATS to those who got accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2070 (760 math, 660 writing, 650 cr)
SAT II: 740 Math 2, 780 Chem, 700 Bio
GPA: 100.04 ish
Rank: 5/320ish
Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) 4's on chem, world, and american
Taking 6 APs this year</p>
<p>Subjective
Essays: i thought they were good... common app was about my love for medicine and italian language. The Why Swat essay was very honest
Teacher Recs: Should have been amazing... Ive known one of the teachers forever
Counselor Rec: good
Supplementary Material: (research abstracts, music recordings, art slides) I sent in my research abstract on the Pathogensis of Cystic Fibrosis with regards to TLR4 and DUOX1 gene expressions. I worked on the project for the past two summers in a neonatology lab and I was a Siemen's Westinghouse semi-finalist
Hook: (recruited athlete, cured cancer- only major ones that actually would have made a difference, please)</p>
<p>Personal
Location: NY
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: F
Applied for Financial Aid: (just yes or no) no</p>
<p>Other
Extracurriculars: President of the Italian HS, SADD treasurer, Peer tutor, Varsity Tennis, Varsity Badminton, Girl scouts for 13 years, bunch of honor societies etc...
Awards: Westinghouse semifinalist, Girl scout gold award (I thought it was cool... I ran a science day for about 50 young girls in my community), poetry out loud regional finalist, 1st place italian poetry recitation, tennis mvp, tennis conference champ, badminton 2nd in county doubles team etc...
Interview: Amazingg... i had cookies and tea at her house =]
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I really fell in love with swat after visiting, so this one really hurt =[ Best of luck to everyone still waiting for decisions!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2390 (790/800/800)
[</em>]SAT II: 780/740/700
[<em>]ACT: N/A
[</em>]GPA: 102.2 (weighted,don't know to what that converts)
[<em>]Rank: 1/about 400
[</em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Calculus BC: 5, American Gov't: 5, English Lang/Comp: 5. Currently taking German, Statistics, Physics B, European History, English Lit/Comp.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Thought they were pretty good; I'm told I'm a very good writer.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Teachers I've known for multiple years and who seem to really like me, I didn't actually see the recs.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Pretty much same as above, I've known the GC for all 4 years and we have a good relationship, didn't see the rec.
[</em>]Supplementary Material: None
[<em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: PA (about 1.5 hours from the campus)
[<em>]High School Type: Public, ranked one of top 505 in the country by one of those list/rank/survey things, I forget which one.
[</em>]Ethnicity: White
[<em>]Gender: Male
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: Y
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: editor of school paper for a couple years, quiz bowl, sound crew on school theater productions, delegate to Church of the Brethren Annual Conference, active in church
[</em>]Awards: Local stuff, nothing brilliant
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: This is my first rejection (5 acceptances) so I'm just generally annoyed at them. Sure I knew this was a possibility but I'm still not happy with it.[/ul]</p>
<p>
[quote]
...judging by the other stats on here, i'd say many ppl have experienced "tufts syndrome" or "washu syndrome" w/ swarthmore
[/quote]
</p>
<p>Stats aren't the end and all be all. You aren't going to get accepted to Swarthmore with a four-sentence "Why Swat?" essay unless it's four remarkable sentences.</p>