<p>Yep, me too! Only one Ivy (Brown), but I’m waiting on Northwestern and JHU as well.</p>
<p>I’m kind of scared, but I figure that once I learn to dress for it I should be fine. A friend of mine is a freshman at Brown this year, and when she came home for winter she was walking around in tank tops. I like the east coast a lot. I have family in MA, so I’ve been there close to winter (November and March). The amount of snow that they have upstate in NY is intimidating, though!</p>
<p>Edit: also waiting on Berkeley, but I’d rather go out of state.</p>
<p>I applied to seven Ivies. <em>blush</em> I really shouldn’t have, but whatever. Brown’s sort of my dream school, but I like to think I’m pragmatic and would be happy anywhere. Also applied to Northwestern but am expecting a rejection (I looked over my Why NU essay again today, and it sucked).</p>
<p>The East Coast is absolutely gorgeous, especially MA/New England. As far as NY goes, we have friends who lived in Buffalo and were SO happy to move back to the Bay Area… Apparently the winters were just brutal. I’m sure we’ll get used to it though - and my mom bought me a down jacket for Christmas, lol.</p>
<p>I’m still waiting on UCLA - but like you, I’d much rather go out of state.</p>
<p>Oh, wow! That’s got to add up to a lot of schools. I started out at 11 and got it down to 8. I don’t think I could have done any more applications; December was bad enough with the ones I chose.</p>
<p>Yeah, as far as the three I’m hoping for, I’m not really expecting anything. 82% of Hopkins applicants get rejected, and it’s got the highest acceptance rate of the three. I’ve kind of accepted that at some point it’s just luck. I REALLY like Northwestern, though.</p>
<p>Good luck! UCLA is Friday, right? I heard they got 90,000 applicants this year. 0.o And I hope you get good news next Thursday–I can’t imagine getting seven responses on the same day. I’ve got two that day and I’m still nervous.</p>
<p>I wish I had been more sensible! My list started at 10-11ish and just kept growing. Apparently I have no self-control… I applied to something like 18 in total. <em>facepalm</em> I’ve decided I’ll be happy if I get just one acceptance on Thursday - it’d cancel out all the rejections, lol. And yeah, LA is Friday. I’m not too attached to it but wouldn’t mind going there if that’s what it came down to, you know?</p>
<p>One of my good friends is a sophomore at Hopkins and LOVES it. She’s in their all-girls a cappella group and is having a wonderful time overall. I like Northwestern as well - the people I met when I visited were really nice. Here’s hoping you get good news too! At least you know your stats are great, and you’ve got UR under your belt :)</p>
<p>I just called and according o the admissions person decisions have not been sent to regular decision date candidates. Expect to hear by letter first and email to internationals. I know many of you have heard so I have no idea where she got this info, but there it is.</p>
<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown): 1840</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: N/A</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: 740 U.S. History. 690 Literature.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8ish. I’m not exactly sure.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school does not rank at all. I definitely at least top 10% maybe top 5%. They don’t tell us. </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: I took 5 IB classes and I’m an IB Diploma Candidate. </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):Nothing really unless you count National Achievement Outstanding Participant. I also placed at my Regional Science Fair and go some Varsity Letters.</p>[/li]
<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Book Club(Vice President then President), Marching Band(Section Leader), Lacrosse(Captain), Mock Trial, It’s Academic. I’m in some honor societies and I have officer roles in three of them. This is just a very general list of my activities. I don’t want to go into explicit detail.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: I tutor elementary children every Saturday and I’m a mentor for Freshmen at my high school.
[</em>] Summer Activities: I attended Governor’s school and I did some lacrosse leagues.
[<em>] Essays: They were fairly decent. I thought about it for a long time.<br>
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: They should be good. I asked teachers who taught me junior year and were in charge of extracurriculars I’m in.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: It was pretty good. My counselor knows me fairly well.
[</em>] Additional Rec:
[li] Interview: My interviewer was pretty nice and I thought it was a decent interview. </p>[/li]
<p>Other
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes.
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): VA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public school.
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American.
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 70000-80000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, Geographic Diversity(No one from my school applies here). </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: URM, Geographic Diversity, GPA, extracurricualrs.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT scores.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly I have no idea. I thought I’d get rejected because of the SAT’s but I’m happy about it. [/li][/ul]General Comments: I just want to say that even if your SAT’s are not with their average range or you don’t have the perfect extracurriculars, still apply. I did and they even gave me some merit aid as well. You never know what will happpen!</p>
<p>I was accepted a week or so ago and only today did my portal change. It now says: “A decision has been made on your application. You will receive a notification letter in the mail.”</p>
I’m sure we’ll get used to it though - and my mom bought me a down jacket for Christmas, lol.</p>