<p>Wow, college admissions are very unpredictable.</p>
<p>yeah my hopes are practically at 0…accepted to n’western, colgate, and haverford, but waitlist from bowdoin, georgetown, and pomona…</p>
<p>Northwestern is great! You should be happy 
I’d be happy and…this college admissions really is unpredictable…I’d have thought Northwestern was harder than Pomona/Georgetown etc in terms of admittance rate.</p>
<p>axc: I got into Bowdoin but I got waitlisted at Northwestern. For applicants who are well qualified but not completely superhuman, college admissions are so random.</p>
<p>I got early writes from both Bowdoin and Swarthmore, but a waitlist from Middlebury…so anything could happen. College admissions is a crapshoot even for the qualified group of applicants.</p>
<p>axc, most people would trade places with you any day</p>
<p>Northwestern, Colgate and Haverford are great great schools…</p>
<p>I expect to be denied by Williams, as I was by Pomona, Northwestern, Rice and Stanford. Admitted to UChicago, so it really does not matter as that is where I will go.</p>
<p>It will be hilarious if I get in Williams, considering what the person who wrote Haverford’s letter said to me back.</p>
<p>Don’t leave us hanging. What did the person say?</p>
<p>Rejected</p>
<p>Copied and pasted from another thread…sorry if formatting is weird. “—” means removed for anonymity</p>
<p>Numbers and Numbers:</p>
<p>SAT M: 800
SAT V: 740
SAT W: 800
SAT C: 2340</p>
<p>SAT Math II: 770
SAT Chemistry: 800
SAT Literature: 720</p>
<p>Class Rank: ~1-2/35
Small, Private School: rarely sends anyone to Ivy’s / any good schools
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: White
Geography: Midwest - Ohio
GPA U: 3.95 / 4.00
GPA W: 4.41 / 5.00
*No honors past 8th or 9th grade, hence low weighted GPA
Commonapp essay: About submitting a position paper to the Ohio Congress and receiving an offer of co-sponsorship of a bill
Activity essay: About my long-held interest in photography, an exhibition I have up, and the success of sales
Recs: Should be pretty great
AP U.S. History: 4
AP Literature: 4
AP Calculus AB: 5
AP Calculus BC: 5
AP Psychology: 5
AP Chemistry: 5
AP Statistics: 5</p>
<p>Senior Coursework:
AP Environmental Science
AP Composition
AP Government
AP Physics C - Mechanics
Linear Algebra / Differential Equations
Performance Ensemble Band</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:</p>
<p>National Science Olympiad (10, 11, 12) <— SCIENCE COMPETITION
-No officers; Founding member; Regional medalist; State medalist</p>
<p>Environmental Club (11, 12) <— ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM CLUB
-Prepared position paper for Ohio legislature; Presented at International Conference; Founding Member</p>
<p>National Beta Club (9, 10, 11, 12) <— SERVICE CLUB
-Treasurer, President</p>
<p>Varsity Jazz Band (9, 10, 11, 12) <— HIGH SCHOOL’S JAZZ BAND
-First Trombone; Approx. 15 concerts/yr</p>
<p>International Thespian Society (9, 10, 11, 12) <— DRAMA SOCIETY
-Approx. 8 productions/yr; Sound and light design and operation, Honor Bar)</p>
<p>Mock Trial team (9, 10, 11, 12) <— MOOT COURT
-No officers; Founding member, Outstanding Attorney, Student of the year)</p>
<p>A bunch of other crap…</p>
<p>Awards and Distinctions:
National Merit Semifinalist
AP Scholar with Distinction
AIME Participant and School Winner
International Thespian Society Honor Bar Award (Highest level of distinction)
Front page article in — for photography exhibition
Completion of the Suzuki method of Piano Instruction
Ohio Mathematics League Certificate of Merit for Superior Achievement (9, 10)
— Scholar Award (9, 10, 11, 12; School-awarded merit-based $500 scholarship)
Bunch of Departmental Awards at School…</p>
<p>Science Olympiad awards:
TONS OF REGIONAL MEDALS
State Competition - 12th place team overall (11)
State Competition Personal Medals - 5th place Chemistry Lab (11)</p>
<p>Non-Scholastic Education:
Junior Statesmen of America Symposium, Columbus, OH
National Youth Leadership Forum on Law, Washington, D.C.
Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference, Washington, D.C.
— Environmental Conference, New York City, NY</p>
<p>Service Activities:
Peer tutor in: Algebra II, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, AP Statistics (Fall 2009)
Volunteer staff for Vacation Bible School, (Summers 2003-2009)
— Mission Trip, —, OH (Summer 2008)
Mission Trip, — School, Honduras, C.A. (October 2009)
Total volunteer hours throughout high school: 550</p>
<p>I MADE ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
=D
Hahah, sorry I’m too excited. :D</p>
<p>wow, an international from INDIA asking for aid accepted to Williams! That’s extremely impressive (and just a bit lucky)!!
I saw you over on the Wellesley thread and thought I’d say hi and congrats, dancer!</p>
<p>Thank you soooooooooooo much. =D
I’m so excited. Yes, the aid probably made a difference at Wellesley which is a great school. But, Williams, if not for anything except for the fact that it is coed, wins me over. :)</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown, highest): 630cr, 730m, 680w = 2010 total</li>
<li>SAT II: Math 2: 800 Bio E: 800 French: 760</li>
<li>ACT: English: 25 Math: 36 Reading: 29 Science: 31 Composite: 30</li>
<li>Weighted GPA (out of 6.0): 4.9 (4=R, 5=H, 6=AP)</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/400s</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis):
11th: Bio (5), Chem (5), Phys B (5), Stats (5)
12th: Psych, US GVT, Lit & Comp, Env. Sci, Calc BC,</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: the above APs + Anatomy & Physiology Honors + student assistant + Dual enrollment (Calc 2, elementary Spanish 1 & 2)</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
In Vietnam: French regional bronze medal, French city 1st place,
In USA: AP Scholar with Honor, USABO semifinalist, student of the month.</li>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (recruiting director-recruited a handful of members), NHS, French club (declined acceptance to French Honor Society for transportation issue), volunteer in pharmacy department at city hospital (praised by the manager there) - 6 months ~ 150hrs, tutor friends in bio, french, and physics.</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:
- Essay (QuestBridge): my dream of becoming an oncologist framed by my loss of grandfather + how my past prepared me for my future personally and academically + my first experiences with French.
- Teacher Recs: one from my bio teacher: supposedly excellent (her friend who edited the essay said she would like to adopt me if my parents don’t mind), and one from my US GVT teacher: great but not uniquely stellar.
- Counselor Rec: no idea
- Job/Work Experience: none
- Summer Activities: Dual enrollment (Macro- & micro-econ, Freshmen comp 1, Calc 1, Bio of human sex; pretty intense, i know)
- Interview: none</p>
<p>Other
- Applied for Financial Aid?: Y
- Intended Major: Double major in French and Molecular Bio
- State (if domestic applicant): FL
- School Type: public EST (not to be found in US’s top, I’m not in EST though)
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Gender: M
- Hooks: (legal) immigrant, (supposedly) underrepresented minority (Vietnamese, though Asian), QuestBridge finalist, low-income?!!, quadrilingual,…</p>
<p>Reflection: My teacher expected a lot from me and I did not fail them (completely), but my counselor said being an Asian would hinder my application (she was right for other schools I applied to, but not for Williams).
I could not have further French education, for my school did not have enough students signing up for AP French. However, I would continue it at Williams –> I am now worried b/c I heard of Williams’s not-so-good Romance language department.</p>