<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!!
SAT: 2220 (Math: 800, Writing: 750, Critical Reading: 670)
AP: AP Biology - 5
SAT II: Math Level 2 - 770, Biology - 760
Senior Course Load: AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics and other honors courses
Hooks: 1st Degree Black Belt, Graduating 2 Years Early</p>
<p>@rocket</p>
<p>Thanks for your support. We will try to make contact with the admin counselor to understand better what happened and how many people were affected.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted 
</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 32
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7ish
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP calculus, AP English, physics, economics, government, financial technology, band
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching band (president), Cross country, track, math and science team, finance team (captain), youth group (president)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 part time jobs
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: various church things, local park environment projects
[<em>] Summer Activities: Nothing much, just half marathons and work
[</em>] Essays: filled out the personal app, so didn’t write any
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I don’t remember if they wanted one, but it was good if I sent one
[</em>] Counselor Rec: She says good things, but is an awful writer O.o
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Oh yeah
[</em>] Intended Major: Physics, biology (premed)
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): MS
[</em>] School Type: Smallish public school
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: pretty low. like >40000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen college
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: ECs, test scores?
[</em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: In the application I filled out, there wasn’t much room for making it unique, so yeah…
[<em>] Weaknesses: Personal app had no personality. Applied for fin aid
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Don’t really know I thought I would get in, but I guess not…
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Ole miss (honors), Southern Miss (honors) - both full rides with merit scholarships[/li]Waitlisted - Tulane, WashU
Rejected: Vanderbilt (ED)</p>
<p>Also waitlisted.</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>2270 sat, 4.0 Unweighted gpa, ranked #2/435 national merit finalist, captain of tennis team, won tennis ditricts last year, vp of spanish national honor society, vp of environmental club, captain of academic games, hundreds of hours of community service…</p>
<p>I applied using the personal application so as far as I recall I didn’t write an essay or put much effort into the application.</p>
<p>Not to be arrogant but I’m a little confused as to why I didn’t get in. I feel like I was pretty qualified all around and my academic stats are above tulanes average. I guess I didn’t show a whole lot of interest, so maybe that’s why?</p>
<p>I had an SAT score of 2020 and I had high Ap test scores as well as a bunch of good ECs. I filled out the priority application because my Guidance counselor recommended it and with my GPA of 3.89 combined with my test scores I thought I had a decent shot of getting in. I did fill out the Why Tulane? Section though I can’t remember what I put for my other personal statement. Does anyone know whether or not I have a shot at being accepted off the waiting list? How big is the waiting list this year?</p>
<p>spinzthatwinz - You are probably right that if you didn’t show interest that is likely the reason, but I think it is becoming clear that Tulane is just about full and now is in the position of having to wait and see what happens in April. You have an AMAZING record and so will obviously get into some really great schools. History shows that more likely than not, based on your record and the fact that you didn’t show much interest, you will go somewhere else. But, if Tulane took every student like you this year (as they did last year and wound up with about 180 students over target, which diminished to about 130 by move in time) and got too many actually enrolling again, it would be bad. As was talked about before, Tulane is actually trying to keep this class at about 150-175 less than last year’s. Put that all together, and you get a highly qualified student such as yourself waitlisted. You certainly should not take it as anything more than that.</p>
<p>Best of luck wherever you end up! I am sure it will be somewhere equally wonderful.</p>
<p>mmockingbird - no idea how big the waitlist is, but if Tulane is your top choice, you must let your counselor know this. If you already said that in your app, reaffirm it with them. It will be a tough year to get in from the wait list, IMO.</p>
<p>waitlisted: not totally surprised
1870 sat
3.9 W</p>
<p>@spinzthatwinz I think I had the same problem. I’m not as qualified as you are, but I fit well into the middle 50% for sure, and I thought I would get in. I guess this personal application business was a bad idea. So far I’ve been rejected or waitlisted at all of my top choices :/</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Tulane, a little sad considering my #2 choice.</p>
<p>Stats:
1980
GPA: 3.8 W
attended a nationally ranked top 25 HS in WA
LOTS extracurriculars</p>
<p>SAT: 1850
ACT: 30
Unweighted GPA: 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.02
4 APs
Major Extracurriculars
Many service and sports awards
Several teacher and personal recs
Personal application</p>
<p>Awarded $15,000/year academic scholarship</p>
<p>Accepted with scholarships to all of my 6 safety schools. This is my first target acceptance. No rejections yet (I know they are coming). </p>
<p>I’m really surprised I got in and got money after seeing all the people waitlisted here.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR 780, M 720, W 760
[</em>] ACT: NA
[<em>] SAT II: MathII 710, Bio-E 720, Physics 720
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t unweight and I’m too lazy to figure it out, so 4.38 weighted
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): NA
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), Lang. & Comp (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): NA
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Lit, Calc BC, Honors Engineering, Chinese, Comp. Sci.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): shotput and discus (captain, State Sectional qualifier); art and literary magazine (editor in chief), Science League, Science NHS, NHS
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: lifeguard, page at library
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: writing center peer tutor
[<em>] Summer Activities: lifeguarding, BU summer session (took two college course - A- in geology, A in statistics)
[</em>] Essays: Used my commonapp essay about how I found a “religion” in math and physics
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: fine I would assume?
[</em>] Counselor Rec: fine
[<em>] Additional Rec: NA
[</em>] Interview: none
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[</em>] Intended Major: undecided engineering
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket: upper middle class
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): anti-hook - being Asian
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: ?
[<em>] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: To be honest I can’t remember.
[</em>] Weaknesses: That I was bland enough that I don’t even remember what I wrote.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I showed no real interest in the school. I’m actually quite happy that I wasn’t accepted because it shows that Tulane was paying enough attention to realize that I had never visited, asked for information, or anything at all really. Also, quite a few people from my school were already accepted EA.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to UMich, Georgia Tech, Case Western (most likely attending), Stevens Institute of Tech, and UChicago. Waiting for Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins still.
[/ul]</p>
<p>It’s also kinda weird but I did apply EA, but something glitched and I was switched to RD. I contacted the office to be moved back to EA, which never happened, and by that point I realized I only really applied because Tulane has EA. I figured it was fate and gave up on it.</p>
<p>imeaniguess: It does sound like fate, lol. In any case, you are in some really fine engineering schools, so very best of luck. What great choices to have already, and I bet you get into 2 out of 3 of the remaining ones.</p>
<p>BTW, at Tulane being Asian is not an anti-hook, because Tulane does not have nearly as high an Asian percentage as most of the schools you mention. I think you had it right, you just didn’t show any interest so they waitlisted you.</p>
<p>fallenchemist: Haha, thanks for letting me know about the Asian anti-hook business. It really goes to show how rash I was in applying… </p>
<p>If it matters to anyone, I took myself off the waitlist. Good luck to everyone :]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 math, 800 reading, 680 writing
[</em>] ACT: 33 composite
[<em>] SAT II: 720 Biology, 800 Math II, 750 Literature
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.979
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12 out of 563
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Testing in AP Microeconomics and AP Comparative Gov’t and Politics this May
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 6 in History SL, 6 in Psychology SL. Testing in Math HL, Bio HL, French SL, and English HL this May.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: TOK II, Math HL, Bio HL, English HL, AP/IB French, AP Comp Gov’t and Pol., AP Micro,
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (Committee member), Student Council, Peer Mediation, Peer Tutoring, Dance
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: AMC Theatres (1 year)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: About 150 hours from peer tutoring, my local library and various local nursing homes.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Ballet summer intensives (enrolled by audition) for 3 summers
[<em>] Essays: Pretty strong
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I didn’t read it… but my counselor is an idiot and almost didn’t send my transcripts in. I wouldn’t assume her rec letter was very good.
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Nebraska
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: >200,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Geographic diversity</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Probably my essays, though ym test scores weren’t too bad.
[</em>] Weaknesses: My extra-curriculars were acceptable, but not outstanding.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m not too surprised- I’ve got good academics and I’m a legacy.
[</em>] What other schools have you been accepted to/plan on going?
[/ul]
University of Chicago (accepted)
University of Michigan (accepted)
University of Virginia (received a likely letter on Monday)
Yale University
Harvard University
UC Berkeley
Vanderbilt University
Columbia University
General Comments: U of M is my safety. I’d really be happy to go there (especially if I got a scholarship), but I’m holding out for some other schools.</p>
<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):n/a
[ *] ACT:25. 26 super score
[ *] SAT II:n/a
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.83
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10%
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): n/a taking… ap art, ap psych, ap stats
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: ap psych, anatomy, family living, international relations, ap art, chorus, yoga, ap stats, reading writing producing media
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): hebrew honor society, varsity letters in tennis, academic award, leadership award, scholar award.
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): varsity tennis, key club (secretary) , giant buddies (vice-president), israeli dance, israeli interest group
[ *] Job/Work Experience [ *] Volunteer/Community service: CIT at summer camp, tutor, plan activities for day care center
[ *] Summer Activities: CIT at overnight camp
[ *] Essays: good
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: good
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] Additional Rec: good
[ *] Interview: n/a
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[ *] Intended Major: business and art
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): il
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: caucasian
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Income Bracket: 200,000 +
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: grades, volunteer work
[ *] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: ART! volunteer work, sports
[ *] Weaknesses: TEST SCORES.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted because legacy, hardworker
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted to illinois, delaware, denver, maryland, indiana</p>
<p>waitlisted…kinda shocked but already took my name off the list. no tulane for me :(</p>
<p>ACT: 33
GPA UW: 3.85
Rank: Top 1.5% of class
Public High school on West Coast
6 APs
over 5+ leadership positions
300+ volunteer hours
About 5-6 Awards (regional, local)
Excellent Rec</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who made it!</p>
<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):n/a
[ *] ACT:28
[ *] SAT II: USH 700 AND 650 LIT
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20 of 54
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): apush (5), psych (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: ap spanish, ap lit, ap gov, ap comparative gov, fine arts survey, earth science H, atomic age theory, dual enrollment college algebra
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): all state speech team and stuff like that blah
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): speech prez, Indian assoc youth leader
[ *] Job/Work Experience [ *] Volunteer/Community service: over 100+ hrs of volunteering</p>
<p>[ *] Summer Activities: sppech nats, speed reading class, business camp, business internships
[ *] Essays: good
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: great!
[ *] Counselor Rec: good
[ *] Additional Rec: good
[ *] Interview: n/a
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: no
[ *] Intended Major: business
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: public
[ *] Ethnicity: asain
[ *] Gender: female
[ *] Income Bracket: 200,000 +
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: essays?
[ *] What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: love of business and love of tulane
[ *] Weaknesses: TEST SCORES
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: was deferred then accepted because i showed A LOTTTT of interest
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: ut austin, loyola univ of new orleans</p>
<p>My D applied with the free application (which was the only reason she applied). We felt that she had nothing to lose and we know that Tulane is a good school albeit far from where we live in New England. She was rejected and then later received an email advising that she was on the waiting list.</p>
<ol>
<li>great kid (Okay, I am biased)</li>
<li>Verbal 720 Math 640 Writing 700 = 2060</li>
<li>4 APs as a Junior including English Comp, Am History, Envi Sci and Latin</li>
<li>Taking 4 APs as a senior</li>
<li>Independent Study Wrote a play and will Produce/Direct it (to be perfomed in April at School)</li>
<li>Capt of Speech and Debate team</li>
<li>President of Social Justice Club</li>
<li>Select Choir</li>
<li>Excellent Essay</li>
</ol>
<p>She will most likely ignore the waiting list.</p>