<p>For the sake of comparison (and letting us RD Transfer kids know if we have a fighting shot) post whatever you are comfortable with out of the following! Thanks a lot guys and best of luck no matter where you end up.</p>
<p>**Admissions Decision:</p>
<p>Hometown:
Current Year:
Name of Current College/Approx. Ranking:
College GPA:
Level of College Courseload:
HS GPA:
HS Rank:
SAT/ACT:
SAT II:
AP:
College Extra Curriculars:
HS Extra Curriculars:
Race/Ethnicity:
Religion:
Gender:
Opinion of your essays:
Recommendation writers:
Opinion of your Rec's:
Disciplines of Interest:
Other Places you applied and results (if made):
Where you are in the decision making process:
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor (had to lighten the mood):
Other Comments:</p>
<p>current year: freshman
college gpa: 3.94/4.00
college curriculum: as rigorous as my college allows
hs gpa: 3.5ish unweighted
hs rank: no rank, cutthroat public
act: 33
ap exams: lots of 5's and 4's
college ecs: haha nope, unless you count reading
essays: arbitrarily, I'd say 7/10
recs: i had 5 total recs (including dean and hs counselor), all good
also applied: cornell (pending), washu (pending), northwestern (pending), uiuc (admitted)
ice cream: pistachio ftw
comments: goddamnit, i don't have the patience for another month of waiting. also, i was rejected last year for freshman admissions. i guess i'm now going to be competing with all you RN kids</p>
<p>1.good thought caillebotte, include whether you applied previously and the decision of the adcom then too as well if you are cool with posting it.</p>
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<li><p>pistachio is gross. i always get excited because it sort of looks liek mint chocolate chip.. but its not.</p></li>
<li><p>haha yeah we have to compete with all you deferred kids now too (dang), i didnt know they deferred transfers. whatever. good man luck hope things work for out.</p></li>
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<p>any1 considering staying at their current school?</p>
<p>^ I didn't know they deferred transfers either until I saw my status. It was a tiny letter so I assumed I was rejected before reading it --but apparently not (yet).</p>
<p>I think Chicago is hesitating because of my HS gpa; I took rigorous classes but received many B's and the occasional C. </p>
<p>Good luck to you as well falcon. You should open your mind to pistachio</p>
<p>yeah i worry about the same thing having only one semester at college in which iv done substantially better than in hs, maybe applying a year later would have been better but couldnt wait haha</p>
<p>current year: sophomore
college gpa: 3.91/4.00
college curriculum: honors program, math/stats major, chinese minor
hs gpa: 4.0 unweighted
hs rank: 2/291
ap exams: 5's and 4's
college ecs: club tennis, foreign culture group
essays: pretty good i thought...
recs: solid
also applied: harvard (...), brown (pending), columbia (pending), stanford (pending rejection), emory (pending)
ice cream: mint chocolate chip
comments: so much for applying EA haha</p>
<p>Current School: Top 15 USNews University
Current Year: Freshman
High School GPA: 3.8
College GPA: 3.8
SAT/ACT Scores: 33 ACT
SAT II Scores: -
Essays: Really, really good.
Recs: Really, really good.
Significant ECs: designated to be part of university scholarship program, started a non-profit, sit on multiple non-profit executive boards, selected to be in a prestigious fellowship program, top BB investment banking internship (only freshman in the world to be selected for the group -- yes, it's true), lots of volunteer service, published writer</p>
<p>Applied to: Chicago, Columbia, Northwestern, Penn (Wharton), Yale, Stanford
Accepted: Chicago
Pending: Columbia, Northwestern, Penn (Wharton), Yale, Stanford</p>
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started a non-profit, sit on multiple non-profit executive boards, selected to be in a prestigious fellowship program, top BB investment banking internship (only freshman in the world to be selected for the group -- yes, it's true)