Official Yale 2013 RD Results Thread

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<p>For some reason, my code cannot work
so here goes nothing</p>

<p>ACCEPTED</p>

<p>SAT: M800 W800 CR720
SATII: Bio790 MII740 Spanish720<br>
AP: Bio4 Calc5 USHist5 English5.
Will take Gov, Chem and Calc2
NO IB :frowning:
GPA: 3.97UW Rank 2/200+
Major Awards: Prez Volunteer Service Award for two years.
National Honor Society</p>

<p>ECS
Lots of community service 350hrs
Tutor
National Honor Society
Africans Club in school. Made it after a bitter day and it turned out well.
Leader in few others. </p>

<p>SUMMER:
Research at Columbia, NYU. Got recs.
Interview was a blast. Spoke about NYC, Nigeria, oil, gold, diamonds, Yale, Harvard, The Game, Handsome Dan, and the value of women in society.
Essays were three weeks of sleeping and writing then sleeping and writing. Nobody went over them. </p>

<h1>1 was a compilation of taxi cab rides I have had. Several NYC taxis, one in Arizona, Chicago, and some others in east coast.</h1>

<h1>2 was how a reflection on how I have gotten a life. How I cannot make sense when I am contributing in class, how I have come from making a Yale resume to loving my ECs, and what it would feel like to live in the worst conditions. It was a movie trailer and you need to capture the essay.</h1>

<p>I did not see recs. I think they were good. </p>

<p>URM. No legacy.
Nigerian
Female
Public “ghetto” school.
New York
Hooks: I learned on my own all the time. School helped a little.</p>

<p>Strength: Essays. I think that is what got my application on their radar.
Weakness: Took the SAT like three times. Took subj tst on separate occasions.
Applied to Yale and SUNY Bing. GOD IS ALIVE!!!</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR, 790 M, 730 W

  • SAT II: 790 math 2, 790 chem, 750 US History
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/400
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem (5), APUSH (5)
  • IB (place score in parenthesis):
  • Senior Year Course Load: Calc BC, Bio, Eng Lit, Chinese, U.S. Gov, Psych
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None, just minor ones
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Knowledge Bowl (Capt), NHS (Pres), Food Bank Club (CoFounder/CoLeader), piano for church

  • Job/Work Experience: None
  • Volunteer/Community service: Library Work
  • Summer Activities: Governor School
  • Essays: I thought they were good. A bit abstract.
  • Teacher Recommendation: Very good and good
  • Counselor Rec: a bit of a laundry list but full of praise
  • Additional Rec:
  • Interview: I thought it went well
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes

  • Intended Major: Chem
  • State (if domestic applicant): South
  • Country (if international applicant):
  • School Type: Not competitive, Public
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Male
  • Income Bracket: >100k
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: Perhaps motivation which can be seen by self-studying AP/ concurrent enrollment in local college

  • Weaknesses: Asian, no awards, guess they disliked my essays
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments: Congrats to all of you!</p>

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<p>Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Reading: 760
[</em>] SAT Math: 770
[<em>] SAT Writing: 800
[</em>] SAT Total: 2330
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Physics 800 Math 2 760 US History 750 Chemistry
[</em>] TOEFL (if applicable): Nay
[<em>] ACT (if applicable): Nay
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: This year: AP Bio, AP Calc BC, AP Euro Hist, AP English Lang, AP English Lit. Last year: AP French Lang (5), AP US History (5), AP Macroeconomics (4), AP Microeconomics (4)
[<em>] GPA weighted (if applicable): 103.3 – 4.0
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 96.2 – 3.91
[<em>] Rank or % estimate (if applicable): 1 out of 770
[</em>] Academic Awards: National Merit Finalist, Presidential Scholars Candidate, AP Scholar with Distinction, Xerox Award, Junior Achievement Titan Business Competition State Champ, Tri-State Math League Top 3 Award</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I like my essays a lot. Main commonapp one about professional wrestling, another about family heritage, and a third about my research interests and where I want to take them.
[</em>] Teacher Rec #1: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[<em>] Teacher Rec #2: I didn’t read it. I assume it was good.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Two research mentor recommendation letters from MIT Nuclear Engineering and Harvard SEAS professors. The MIT one was phenomenal. I didn’t read the Harvard one.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I didn’t read it. I assume it was crappy. I go to a massive school, and I barely know her, although we are on really friendly terms and I provided her with ample material for any sort of rec letter.
[</em>] Hook (if any): Research is most definitely my hook.</p>

<p>[/ul]Location:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New Hampshire
[</em>] School Type: Private (Realistically, it’s public though)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Legacy: Wustl, Harvard Legacy
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: Nay
I wish. Anyone wanna hook me up with a ping pong coach? :stuck_out_tongue:
[<em>] Important ECs: Microfluidics summer research internship @ Harvard SEAS, Nuclear Engineering summer research internship @ MIT, Hospital Volunteer, Varsity Math Team Captain, Solo & Orchestral Violin, Granite State Challenge/Quiz Bowl Team, and Greater Manchester Red Cross. On resume: Obama for America volunteer, Community Alliance for Teen Safety Youth Board, and local State rep candidate’s campaign manager.
[</em>] Work experience: Freelance PHP Programmer/Website developer</p>

<p>[/ul]Other Factors: A sweltering degree of awesomeness? I sent in my research abstracts, two mentor recs, a resume, presidential scholars candidate update, etc. Loads of supplementary material for them to judge. I have also self-taught myself around 7 programming languages and am fluent in French, proficient in German.</p>

<p>Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/waitlisted/offered guaranteed transfer: Waitlisted by Harvard & Accepted by Yale, Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Dartmouth, UChicago, Brown, Cornell, Tufts, BU, and WPI.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Good luck to everybody in college! Any future applicants reading this, feel free to PM me or email me with any questions or for advice.</p>

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<p>^ You’re a nice guy, but I hate you.
:D</p>

<p>Just thought I’d add that, haha.</p>

<p>Williams>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Yale!</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted
Stats:</p>

<pre><code>* Fee Waiver Used?: No

  • SAT I (by section): 2340 – 800 CR, 790 M, 750 W
  • SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 800 Biology, 790 US History
  • GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.00 UW, 4.72 W
  • Rank: 1/660ish
  • ACT:
  • APs (including this year’s):
    Calculus AB 5
    English Language 5
    Spanish Language 5
    Computer Science A 5
    Computer Science AB 5
    Biology 5
    US History 5
    World History 5
  • IBs (including this year’s:
  • Senior Yr Courseload: 7 AP courses
  • Number of Apps from Your School: ~3-4 SCEA
  • Other stats (Awards, etc.): USABO Semifinalist, World Scholar’s Cup National Finals top 3 (won’t list exact for obvious reasons, sorry), National Merit Semifinalist, National AP Scholar, Log1 Math Contest top 3 (see above) Region III (Southern USA), 1st place in an FBLA competitive event at the State Leadership Conference, FBLA National Leadership Conference attendee and Institute for Leaders graduate, 2 local awards from programming competitions, Mu Alpha Theta Most Outstanding Member
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: Mu Alpha Theta President, FBLA Area Reporter/Historian, FBLA Vice President, FBLA Treasurer (before I became VP), Science Honor Society Founder and Vice President, Computer Science Club Treasurer, Varsity Tennis, World Scholar’s Cup, Local Darfur refugee fund raiser organizer

  • Job/Work Experience:
  • Essays (subject and responses): I thought they were kind of quirky/interesting, but who knows?
  • Teacher Recs: probably pretty good
  • Counselor Rec: average (counselors don’t really make much of an effort to get students into top schools)
  • Interview (feel, interviewer and general location):
  • Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): ethnicity = anti-hook
    </code></pre>

<p>Location/Person:</p>

<pre><code>* State or Country: TX

  • School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, sends ~15 kids to top privates every year
  • Ethnicity: ORM
  • Gender: M
  • Income Bracket: Upper-middle
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ethnicity = anti-hook
  • Strengths: No clue
  • Weaknesses: Nothing outstanding
  • Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Just nothing outstanding in the Yale admissions pool.
  • Where else were you accepted/wait-listed/rejected:
    Accepted: Duke (likely), Rice (likely, merit $), Cornell, CMU (merit $), Northwestern (MMSS), NYU Stern, UT BHP
    Waitlisted: UPenn Wharton, Columbia, Brown
    Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford (deferred first), MIT
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Meh.</p>

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<p>Rejected!</p>

<p>I’m over it now.</p>

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<p>Any idea whether they are still taking in people from the wait-list or is the class full?</p>

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<p>class is full</p>

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<p>The admissions dean did send an email to approximately 50 waitlistees informing them that they would remain on the list until late June – but it warned them not to get their hopes up.</p>