<p>me too @drdelicious…im assuming we didn’t get in. it would make sense for them to send accepts first, waitlists second, rejections last. so here’s to a brighter future!</p>
<p>Yay for UChicago. I’ll hopefully see you there!</p>
<p>anyone get an email the last five-ten minutes and get an accept?</p>
<p>rejected.</p>
<p>Sending good thoughts to those who haven’t heard!</p>
<p>Thanks abbjdutton! This is unnerving though, I hope they didn’t go in order…</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2240 single sitting (720 CR, 770 M, 750 W)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 770 Math II, 670 U.S. History, 660 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98 UW, 4.69 W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/387
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (5), Stat (4), Gov (4), USH (4), Psych (3), Euro (3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Psych SL (6)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB Physics SL, IB History of the Americas HL, IB English HL, IB Psych HL, IB Spanish 4, IB Theory of Knowledge, AP Calc BC (hardest possible course load)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS, NHHS, MAT, math team (captain), varsity cross country (co-captain), varsity track
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Unpaid intern on a congressional campaign
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Habitat for Humanity, coordinated IB service projects, 300+ hours volunteering abroad in India, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Peru, volunteer at local road races/track meets.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Yale Ivy Scholars
[</em>] Essays: CA: Topic seemed kinda hit or miss so I guess it was decent, 7/10
Supplement: Thought it was one of my best, 8.5/10
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One that I read was very good but not extraordinary, assuming other was the same.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably decent, nothing special.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>]Income Bracket: 120K
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Essays (I guess), rank, SAT, volunteerism
[<em>] Weaknesses: AP and SAT II scores, no demonstrated interest
[</em>] Why you think you were waitlisted: Scores? And my luck is starting to run out.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: WashU, Carleton, University of Rochester, University of Florida, McGill[/li]Waitlisted: UChicago
[/ul]General Comments:
Williams is an awesome school, so my hopes weren’t that high to begin with. That, and I’m preparing to come back down to earth after getting really lucky with WashU. Congrats to everyone who got in and good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>Rejected… 2340/790/790.</p>
<p>Welp, at least I got into Duke.</p>
<p>Well, they did… Rejected</p>
<p>2240, 800, 700, 4.0
Intl. asking for fin. aid…</p>
<p>Rejected…
I’m so sad, it was my first choice…
Congrats to those who got in.</p>
<p>** Decision:
Accepted**</p>
<p>College and Program: Biology.
Objective:[ list]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take.
[</em>] ACT: 31 (stop judging me I know you are)
[<em>] SAT II: 700 on Bio and World History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9 uw/4.5 w
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is
unavailable): Top 10%.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Lang [5], World History [5], Calc, Chem, USH [5], Euro, Enviro, Lit, Psych, Stats and Bio
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Last six APs listed above.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None.
[/list][ b]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in
parenthesis): Stuff and things.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Some.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Surviving.
[</em>] Essays: Okay.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Yes.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also, yes.
[<em>] Additional Rec: None.
[</em>] Interview: No.
[<em>] Supplementary Material(if any): Noooooooooooone.
[/ul][ b]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public magnet nationally ranked yay.
[<em>] Ethnicity: African American (like, an actual descendant of slaves just saying)
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket(specify if applied for
FA): >10k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college,
etc.): URM, poor, SO POOR OMG
[/ul][ b]Reflection**[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Nothing.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Scores, some grades, mostly scores.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: Pity.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: Waitlisted at Duke and U of Chi, accepted to Cornell (likely) and Amherst (early write).
[/ul][ b]General Comments:**
Happy I suppose. This is a very lovely school!</p>
<p>Rejected. Six straight rejections for an average Asian applicant. Meh!</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>SAT - 2190
GPA - 4.75 w, 4.0 uw
Good mix of ECs</p>
<p>Other schools: Accepted: UConn (honors), Providence (honors with 80% off), Fairfield (Magis Scholar), Colby (Presidential Scholar), Bentley (Trustee Scholar), Holy Cross, Villanova (Presidential Scholar - full ride)</p>
<p>Waitlisted: UChicago and now Williams</p>
<p>Not disappointed with this result. Williams is an amazing school and congrats to all who got in! I declined my spot on the wait list since I’m pretty much settled on going to Villanova next year:) I wish everyone the best of luck with the remainder of their decisions!</p>
<p>ah, rejected. damn, tomorrow’s gonna blow too.</p>
<p>Decision:
Waitlisted
Objective:
[* ] SAT I (breakdown): 2250 (720 M, 730 CR, 800 W)
[* ] ACT: 31 - didn’t report
[* ] SAT II: 740 Math2, 700 US history, 700 Chemistry
[* ] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87
[* ] Rank (percentile if rank is
unavailable): Top 5% (my school ranks in 5 percentiles)
[* ] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry (3), US History (4), European History (5)
[* ] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[* ] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit/Lang, AP US Gov, AP Comparative Gov, AP Physics B, AP Calc AB, Econ honors, Yearbook, and Theology
[* ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
National Merit finalist, if that counts. Nothing major.
[ /list][ b]Subjective:**
[list]
[* ] Extracurriculars (place leadership in
parenthesis):
NHS (Chairman of a service project)
Model UN (President last year, Secretary this year)
Academic Quiz team (starter, found new competitions to attend)
Key Club (President, lots of new things)
Creative writing club (founder/President)
Varsity Lacrosse (co-captain)
[* ] Job/Work Experience: I work about 10 hours/week at a part-time job
[* ] Volunteer/Community service: tons! Over 450 hours at a science museum (I want to major in physics) , lots of working with special populations
[* ] Summer Activities: Duke TIP one summer, nothing else
[* ] Essays: Common App essay was pretty good, but my Williams one was just okay.
[* ] Teacher Recommendation: the one from my English teacher was fantastic, I’ve gotten to know her really well because I had her sophomore year and this year for yearbook and AP English, and she’s the moderator of Creative Writing Club. The other was probably okay too. I didn’t get to read it, but it was from my math teacher that I’ve known since freshman year (also Academic team advisor)
[* ] Counselor Rec: probably pretty good
[* ] Additional Rec: n/a
[* ] Interview: n/a
[* ] Supplementary Material(if any): n/a
Other:
[* ] State (if domestic applicant):FL
[* ] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[* ] School Type: Parochial
[* ] Ethnicity: Caucasian, but I haven’t reported it on anything since 7th grade
[* ] Gender: Female
[* ] Income Bracket(specify if applied for
FA): probably 200k+
[* ] Hooks (URM, first generation college,
etc.): none
[ /list][ b]Reflection**
[list]
[* ] Strengths: recommendations, Test scores?, schedule rigor
[* ] Weaknesses: essay, grades
[* ] Why you think you were accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: I didn’t really show a lot of interest in the school. Now I wish I did
[* ] Where else were you accepted/
waitlisted/rejected: Rejected at MIT, Waitlisted at Williams and Vassar, Accepted to Boston University and Washington and Lee University.</p>
<p>** Decision: Rejected**</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 790 CR 690 M 800 W
[</em>] ACT: 33, did not send
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Chem 790 US History 750 Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.85, 4.77W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5-10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): All 5s, Chem, USH, Lang, Euro, Psych, HumanGeo
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: All APs, Physics CEM, World History, Calc BC, English Lit, US/Comp Gov, Macro/Microecon
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar with Distinction
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Exchange program (president), Latin club (president), Varsity Debate, Honor Society, Peer Mentor, Peer Tutoring
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Self-employed private tutor
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 2000+ hours over five years at a community center, Head Intern
[<em>] Summer Activities: Summer camp head counselor, exchange program, travelling
[</em>] Essays: CA was about the exchange program. Williams was about traveling to the Maldives.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Should be good. Maybe 8/10 on one, haven’t seen the other
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Better than most. We’re friendly
[<em>] Additional Rec: Nope
[</em>] Interview: Nope
[<em>] Supplementary Material(if any): Que?
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[</em>] School Type: Large public magnet
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket(specify if applied for FA): 120k, yes for FA
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Academics, Scores, Commitment to ECs and Volunteering
[</em>] Weaknesses: Lack of ECs, Ethnicity, Essays could’ve been better
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t know anymore. With so many rejections now finished, I’m starting to wonder whether it’s me as an applicant that’s lacking something vital rather than the school’s selectiveness.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accept: UCD, SD, LA, William and Mary. Rejected: UChicago, Yale-NUS, WUSTL, Northwestern, and now, Williams.
[/ul]General Comments:
I’ve been embittered by the whole college admissions process. I think there’s something inherently wrong with me as an applicant rather than the college being selective itself. What did I do wrong? Was it something I could’ve fixed?</p>
<p>** Decision:Rejected**</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 ish
SAT: Upper mid 2100s
SAT II: 730 Lit 800M
Race: Yellow 
Recommendations: Probably the best part of the app, one of them said I would be receiving her best one ever.</p>
<p>General Comments:
Not that surprising. After all, I’m just another Asian kid. I just know I’m going to get slaughtered by Ivy day tomorrow. People often say, “Do your best and God will do the rest”, but that’s all bogus anyways, especially in college admissions. It’s literally a crapshoot at times. I’m just fortunate that my low match is also one of my favorite places, and I probably would have preferred it over Williams if they gave me a bit of money.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in. Williams is incredible. To those who don’t, well, I’m sure you don’t need to be lucky to do great things ;)</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!!</p>
<p>ACT: 34 composite (36 English, 35 reading, 33math, 31 science, 6 writing)</p>
<p>Gpa: 4.0 UW, 4.5 W(taking every weighted class available)</p>
<p>Sat2’s: I have a 740 in lit, and a 770 in bio</p>
<p>Essays: my essays are strong.</p>
<p>Recs: these are pretty good too.</p>
<p>Extra-curricular: varsity track 4 years, varsity cross country, founder and president 4-h club, surfrider president, best buddies, peer leader, mock trial club Vice President.</p>
<p>Work: internship with a solar energy company, and with a federal judge. Tutor.</p>
<p>More: white, female, middle class, non-legacy.</p>
<p>Career interest and major: going into environmental biology, planning to be a college professor.</p>
<p>Hooks: will be walking on the track teams.</p>
<p>Faults: sat2s, act writing</p>
<p>community service!!
I have over 150 hours from doing mission trips to the Navajo reservation in Arizona (where we painted houses and ran a summer camp), and from creating and running a drive to collect soccer uniforms to send to impoverished children in Mozambique, Haiti, and South Korea.</p>
<p>My dear…
Stop it. Don’t ever think that. </p>
<p>There are too many variables to consider, and self doubt doesn’t do a thing to help. These colleges are hedging on their best bets; it’s inevitable that they will make some mistakes.</p>
<p>You sound motivated. And that’s what’s important.</p>
<p>As a fellow Chinese girl (with MUCH lower test scores, mind you), I think I share a connection. Sure, my family isn’t as rich. But they have tiger-parent instincts.</p>
<p>Truth be told, I feel a bit guilty being in this pool of stereotyped asians. Everyone either has perfect test scores and/or have one a state competition. Me? I only have some art to show for my efforts. My parents have been harping on me consistently to study for my tests, and I even failed at that. </p>
<p>In fact, they’ve printed out my ACT scores and kept them in a plastic cover to show to my little brother (who is 9. I took the ACT 4 times, with a 33 the 3rd time being my best). I’m awful at test taking, as my records show. Took both Lit & Math II 3 times, doing my best with an atrocious 690 the second time for both being my highest. That’s ~70 and ~50 percentile, respectively.</p>
<p>Might post full stats later, if anyone is curious.
(Haha I’m not fooling myself–I don’t think anyone is.)</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at WUSTL, UChicago, and now Williams. I am completely certain I’ll get rejected or waitlisted for the schools replying back tomorrow. I also got rejected from the Yale-NUS program, but that’s not surprising. It was more like “meh, might as well click on the button”.</p>
<p>Now to go study for my Chem test and pass out. I got 3 hours of sleep the night before just for shiggles. Yeah, I do a lot of idiotic things. It happens.</p>
<p>Good luck, wherever you go.</p>
<p>Edit: wow. 2 replies in the time it took for me to write my essay xD Jello, my skin is pretty much the same color. As I said above, it’s like being a failed asian. And congrats Trackstar! That’s great to hear :)</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[</em>] ACT: 32 (35 E, 29 M, 34 R, 31 S, 10 Essay)
[<em>] SAT II: 730 US History, 710 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/75
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): two 4s, two 2s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Lit, AP Bio, College-credit Poli Sci, Govt / Econ
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): School Awards for Community Service / Academics, American Legion Scholastic Award, American Legion Oratorical Contest 3rd Place (District Level)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- Soccer (JV / Varsity) [4 years]
- Lacrosse (JV / Varsity) [4 years]
- JROTC (Officer) [4 years]
- Academic Team (Co-Leader) [2 years]
- Rifle Team [1 year]
- JR Honor Society (President) [1 year]
- NHS (President) [3 years]
[li] Job/Work Experience: N/A [/li][</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 60 various hours. Created a service project.
[<em>] Summer Activities: HOBY Ambassador
[</em>] Essays: Common App - 8/10 Williams Essay - 6/10
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see, probably average
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see, probably average
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Economics
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): USA
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: $100,000 - $120,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Sadly none</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Rank and GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: Everything else
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Too mediocre of an applicant, nothing stands out[/li][/ul]General Comments: Congrats to everyone accepted! Ivy day tomorrow is going to be rough.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT:2110 (CR 740 M 620 W 750)
SAT II: US History 670 and Literature 740
ACT: 30
GPA: 100.52
Rank: 23/463
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): APUSH 4, Gov 3, IB Spanish SL 6, IB Math Studies 7
Subjective
Essays: I thought they were very good. Kind of quirky. I really let my personality be known when I wrote them.
Teacher Recs: Written by two of my favorite teachers whose classes I’ve done well in so, I think they were great.
Counselor Rec: Probably superficial, she doesn’t know us personally.
Supplementary Material: Nothing.
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):Hispanic female? Maybe?
Location: Texas
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Female
Other
Extracurriculars: Oh boy. A lot. Tons of volunteer hours, NHS, 4 years of dance team, Dance team captain. A few other things.
Awards: National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholar
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
I really think being in IB helped a lot.</p>
<p>Accepted:
-University of Texas at Austin in their Liberal Arts Honors program.
-Amherst College
-Saint Mary’s College
-St. Edward’s
-University of Notre Dame
-Williams College</p>
<p>Waitlisted
-Rice University</p>
<p>Waiting
-Harvard
-Columbia
-Princeton
-Vanderbilt</p>