<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:NA
[</em>] SAT IIs:NA
[<em>] ACT:34
[</em>] GPA:4.0 UW, 5.86/6.0W
[<em>] Rank:3/560
[</em>] Other stats:AP Lang (5), AP US History (5)</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: very good...my teacher actually put a quote from my paper up on his board and its been there the entire year
[</em>] Teacher Recs: excellent, 3 in all (that same teacher was one of them)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: ok, good rec, but my counselor's a ditz
[</em>] Hook (if any):nope</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:IL
[</em>] School Type: public, pop 2500, not very competetive (only a handful make it to a top university)
[<em>] Ethnicity:white
[</em>] Gender:F
[<em>] major strengths: ACT score, essay, numerous leadership positions (in clubs, sports, and music)
[</em>] major weakness: no SAT II's, nothing to make me stand out
[<em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I'm well rounded?
[</em>] going to attend? not sure...its btwn here and northwestern, but both school's financial aid sucked so I might not be able to go to either one :(</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:
good interview, we got along well</p>
<p>Stats:[ list]
[<em>] SAT: 710 CR, 670 M, 700 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 710 Lit, 680 Math II
[<em>] ACT: 32 Composite
[</em>] GPA: 4.5
[<em>] Rank: 18/661
[</em>] Other stats:
[/list]Subjective:[ list]
[<em>] Essays: Made People Cry
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Did not see
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Did not see
[</em>] Hook (if any): None
[/list]Location/Person:[ list]
[<em>] State or Country: PA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] major strength/weakness:
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: :) IDK
[li] going to attend? One of my top choices!!![/li][/list]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted School of Art and Sciences</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 2270, 770 M, 700 CR, 800 W</li>
<li>SAT IIs: math 2: 800, USH: 750, Physics 730</li>
<li>ACT: 33</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9 UW</li>
<li>Rank: 9 of 714</li>
<li>Other stats: 5s on Ap PHY, Gov, Econ, US history, Lang
Now taking very rigorous schedule </li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: a big time portrait of my life, talked about obstacles i had to overcome</li>
<li><p>E/C's: Tennis 5 yrs outside 3 years school team
Research volunteer for 8 months
Hospital Volunteer
Duke Tip
NYLF
Math Team , Math honor society, key club, NHS, Science honor society</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recs: ok</p></li>
<li><p>Counselor Rec: nice</p></li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): Location/Person: absolutely none </p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: GA</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Large public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: Asian</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: F
*</p></li>
<li><p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Test scores, rank, interview?</p></li>
<li><p>going to attend? maybe</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:
Most rigorous courseload, i had a good interview</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul][<em>] SAT:2320 super'd (800 CR, 720 M, 800 WR)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740 Lit, 770 Math II C
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] GPA: N/A
[<em>] Rank: N/A
[</em>] Other stats: National Merit Finalist[/ul] Subjective:
[ul][<em>] Essays: About meeting my idol and sucking at the piano in front of him. I thought it was funny.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Probably pretty okay.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: She's my girl, we ball til we bawl like tears.
[</em>] Hook (if any): nope.[/ul] Location/Person:
[ul][<em>] State or Country: CT.
[</em>] School Type: Really intense private.
[<em>] Ethnicity: White.
[</em>] Gender: Male.
[<em>] major strength/weakness: I'm really weird (I play varsity football and sing and do musical theatre and play the piano.)
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Who the hell knows? I got rejected at UVA and Duke and UNC so this is weird.
[li] going to attend? Maybe![/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>WOOOO!!!!!!!! Congrats everyone who got big letters already!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2160
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800, 690
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] GPA: 3.4 UW / 3.9 W
[<em>] Rank: 20%
[</em>] Other stats: ?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Okay
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Dunno
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Dunno
[</em>] Hook (if any): uhhh
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: GA
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: asian
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: low GPA
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: low GPA
[li] going to attend? I might if I get accepted.[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>I'm pleasantly surprised, I thought I'd be outright rejected. Being waitlisted actually gives me some hope! :)</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 770 M, 800 CR, 730 W (2300)
SAT II: Math 2 800, physics 790,, Chemistry (710) add up to 2300
Unweighted GPA 3.77 weight 4.25
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Unranked large urban high school 3000
AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 5's USH, physics B , Calc BC, Chem. 1 4 lang and comp
1 2
Senior Year Course Load: linear alg/ diff eq, ap bio, ap lit, ap gov, ap econ, drwaing, ap stat
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
national merit commended, ap scholar with dist, csf, no real awards from my e.c's
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Econ club (founder vp) research assistant at lab (10 hrs per week) doing pretty cool stuff
Volunteer/Community service: 6 hours a week
Summer Activities: Summer arch program at wash u, worked on farm in greece
Essays: Pretty good, wrote an essay relating the summer program at wash u and expeirence working at a greek farm, Discussed sustianability, Both essays short and long were well recieved.
I described the program I wanted to do in civil engineering in depth.
Teacher Recommendation: pretty good both teachers volunteered- one called me blessed by the muses.
the other teacher was also really excited to discuss my physics project.
Counselor Rec:should be good prob generic since had to write 300 of them, however i submitted a detailed description of myself
Additional Rec: none
Interview: no
State (if domestic applicant): ca
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: M
Income Bracket: upper middle applied for fin aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Greek immigrant background, though not poor at all father is an academic, however still has novelty factor and gave me a perspective on life i communicated fairly well. Also civil engineering program at vandy is small</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 720m 700cr 650w (2070)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 Math level 2 690 Literature
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] GPA: 3.9
[<em>] Rank: 20ish/199
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good I hope
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good I hope
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good I hope
[</em>] Hook (if any): My own community service program
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Ohio
[</em>] School Type: Private Catholic
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: I'm a dude
[<em>] major strength/weakness: My extra-curriculars
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: GPA and perhaps SATs
[li] going to attend? Can't say really, can I?[/li][/ul]Other Factors: </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2380 (780 cr)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 mathII/800 chem/740 lit
[<em>] ACT:
[</em>] GPA: 4
[<em>] Rank: 2-3?
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: pretty alright! only the common app one, which everyone seemed to like.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: not supar i don't think
[<em>] Counselor Rec: kind of knows me. who knows.
[</em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MD
[</em>] School Type: public, class of ~300. i rarely hear of anyone getting into good schools.
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: hmmmm, being the stereotypical high sat/gpa guy.
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: see above
[li] going to attend? probably not, so here's to all of you waitlist hopefuls :) [/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: Common app: mediocre at best
* Teacher Recs: good, not great
* Counselor Rec: very good
* Hook (if any): good ol' white boy from texas
</code></pre>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: Austin TEXAS!
* School Type: large competitive public (29 nmf's in my class)
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Male
* major strength/weakness: Bad essays, GPA and legendary letter of rec from a PhD who I have worked for for a year
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: GPA and Boss's letter of rec, eagle scout, nmf
* going to attend? mehbeh
</code></pre>
<p>I am actaully suprised at RobertGonzales waitlist...I have the same stats almost, 40 points higher on the sats, and a higher gpa, 3.8 unweighted, but our rank is the same, and we are both asians, so hopeuflly i don't get rejected outright, but with my luck, I probably will.....Fml.....</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: (superscored) Math 800; Reading 670; Writing 660; Essay 9; Total 2130
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math II 800; Biology 710; Chemistry 660
[<em>] ACT: (superscored) Math 35; Science 34; English 32; Reading 33; Essay 10
[</em>] GPA: weighted 4.6613; unweighted 4.00
[<em>] Rank: 1/290
[</em>] Other stats: took 4 AP tests (in 3 AP classes this year) Calculus 5; Biology 4; English Lang 4; APUSH 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: good, but not great
[</em>] Teacher Recs: fair but not spectacular
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didn't read
[</em>] Hook (if any): none that I know of
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Tennessee
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] major strength/weakness: none
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Vandy likes my school
[li] going to attend? probably not, so good luck to all of you guys who got waitlisted![/li][/ul]Other Factors:
no interview</p>