<p>OMG OMG OMG my daughter was accepted!!!</p>
<p>I got in- thank you so much tufts!</p>
<p>D applied RD and Tufts is such an amazing place. I am thrilled for all of you who have a wonderful new place to call home. Hope we are just as fortunate in a few months. And… as others have said–for those deferred or rejected as the saying goes “In the end everything will be ok, and if it is not ok then it is not the end!” It all works out in the end, so make your mark wherever you find yourself!</p>
<p>Well done everyone! I’m too scared to check! Fearing the big bold ‘denied’ on the web page</p>
<p>Congrats to all who have got in so far.</p>
<p>I GOT IN!!! 
YAY! congrats to everyone who has gotten in!!!</p>
<p>Accepted!! Thank you Tufts. Now I can start studying for my electronics test :D</p>
<p>Congratulations once again to every new Jumbo! I am thrilled to have been accepted as well; you guys really seem like amazing people, can’t wait to see you all (in almost a year 
)! To those who were unfortunately not, I believe like someone else already said *you will go where you are meant to be, don’t lose hope.</p>
<p>I GOT IN!!! Congrats to everyone!! I STILL can’t stop crying!</p>
<p>There are now upper school classes at my school tomorrow, as it’s a visiting day for parents with children in the lower and middle schools, and I’m actually gutted that I won’t be going into school tomorrow.</p>
<p>I wanted to announce my Tufts acceptance by wearing my Tufts sweatshirt to school.</p>
<p>Yes it can wait until Monday, but still, I want to let everyone know ASAP!</p>
<p>CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU ALL ON THE HILL i am still walking on air.</p>
<p>I got rejected, friends, it’s been a pleasure! (I’m particularly happy for theNDhopeful, he/she has wanted this BAD for a while, congrats!!)
Congrats to all you jumbos!</p>
<p>So happy for everyone</p>
<p>Can those of you who got in post some stats for us ED II hopefuls? :)</p>
<ul>
<li>GPA: both unweighted and weighted</li>
<li>SAT/ACT scores</li>
<li>SAT II scores</li>
<li>how strong ECs were</li>
<li>how strong essays were</li>
</ul>
<p>Very much appreciated and congrats to all who were accepted!!</p>
<p>Sure thing Sophia. Just got in. :)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.85 (UW) and 4.2 (W)</p>
<p>ACT: 34 </p>
<p>SAT II: 800 Chemistry and 770 Literature</p>
<p>EC’s: I was recruited as an athlete, so that was my main extracurricular. I also had a lot of community service.</p>
<p>Essays: My essays were okay, but I’ve never been a very good writer. I wrote about a passion for astronomy. </p>
<p>I also interviewed.</p>
<p>I’ll see you guys on the hill!</p>
<p>Thanks Packster! And congrats again :)</p>
<p>Logged on through the school library and found out that I was rejected… I am still crying and crying my eyes out right now and can’t help it. I should have prepared better for this…
But there’s a small part of me that knows there will be other options. I will not be going to my top choice, but hopefully I’ll be happy elsewhere. That’s all that matters to me. </p>
<p>Anyway, my stats:</p>
<p>GPA (weakness): 3.76 UW, 3.96 W (including summer courses)</p>
<p>SAT I: 2130 total
760 M
690 CR
680 W</p>
<p>SAT II:
Bio (E) 780
Math I 720
Math II 720</p>
<p>ACT: 32 total
35 for math, don’t recall the other sub-scores</p>
<p>Lots of community service (about 500 hours), school activities, a couple internships, and a current paid job position.
I thought I wrote decent essays. I wrote about my responsibilities to my older sister who is mentally and physically impaired, my love of gardening and astronomy, and coming of age. I also mentioned that my parents divorced and I had to move and transfer schools. The changing state of affairs in my family affected my grades, and I probably didn’t explain that well enough. I don’t know… But it’s time to move on…</p>
<p>My friend:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: N/A
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 1%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang (4) Calc BC (4) Physics B (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc 3, AP Chem, AP Psych, German 5, Wind Ensemble, Creative Writing
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Cross Country Captain, Jazz Band, Theatre, Pit Orchestra, Track
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Gamestop and Farmer’s Market
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Local food pantry (20hrs), Mission trips
[<em>] Summer Activities: CC, Mission trips, hanging with his bro (me)
[</em>] Essays: Great
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Unknown
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Unknown
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: Went well.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Civil Engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): WI
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Sheesh idk
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[</em>] Strengths: Grades, Essays, EC’s
[<em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: Fit for Tufts
[</em>] Weaknesses: ACT?
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good fit for the school, awesome person
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Nowhere!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!!</p>
<p>UW GPA: 3.76
W GPA: 4.30
ACT: 31</p>
<p>Pretty solid extracurriculars, but MY ESSAYS GOT ME IN. I was so sure I’d get denied because of my ACT score, but I’m telling you, if it isn’t the essays…</p>
<p>Thank you bananers! I’m really upset you didn’t get in, I was rooting for you. But I know you will find an exceptional place and make Tufts embarrassed not to have accepted you.</p>
<p>Le sigh. I was deferred. Really thought my essays were something special. I thought I was going out on a limb by talking about a very close connection with a parent, and I guess it didn’t pay off exactly how I thought it would. Others I thought were solid, one was sort of poking fun at myself.
I feel like Homer Simpson in that episode where he goes through the 4 (or is it 5?) stages of grief in just about 4 seconds. A really funny episode in hindsight nevertheless.
A lot of people went up to me today and went in for the congratulatory hug…Unbeknownst to them, I was deferred. Don’t know how I’ll deal with the second wave of people asking me for the “big news”. It’s just all so embarrassing, and about as confidential as College Confidential (read: not very confidential in the least.)</p>
<p>But enough about me – congrats to all of you bright folk on your acceptances. You all are superstars and truly deserve nothing but the best. To all who were deferred, I know how you feel. It sucks, it really, really sucks.</p>