Official Yale Class of 2016 RD Results Thread

entomom · March 17, 2012, 2:16am

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[quote]
[noparse]
Decision: Accepted
Decision: Waitlisted
Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]

[li] SAT I (breakdown):[/li]
[li] ACT:[/li]
[li] SAT II:[/li]
[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):[/li]
[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):[/li]
[li] AP (place score in parenthesis):[/li]
[li] IB (place score in parenthesis):[/li]
[li] Senior Year Course Load:[/li]
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]

[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):[/li]
[li] Job/Work Experience:[/li]
[li] Volunteer/Community service:[/li]
[li] Summer Activities:[/li]
[li] Essays:[/li]
[li] Teacher Recommendation:[/li]
[li] Counselor Rec:[/li]
[li] Additional Rec:[/li]
[li] Interview:[/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]

[li] State (if domestic applicant):[/li]
[li] Country (if international applicant):[/li]
[li] School Type:[/li]
[li] Ethnicity:[/li]
[li] Gender:[/li]
[li] Income Bracket:[/li]
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]

[li] Strengths:[/li]
[li] Weaknesses:[/li]
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li]
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li]
[/ul]General Comments:[/noparse]

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entomom · March 17, 2012, 2:16am

This thread will be opened the day of RD decisions.

entomom · March 29, 2012, 3:37pm

Again, please post only Results here, there is a Discussion thread for comments, questions, etc.

Good luck to all!

Purpender · March 29, 2012, 5:14pm

Choose One:
Decision: Deferred SCEA -> Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2240 (CR: 780 M: 760 W: 700 E: 10)
[] ACT: 34 (did not submit)
[] SAT II: 780 Math II, 770 Chem, 800 US History
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/450
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5), World History (5), Psychology (5), Chemistry (5), Music Theory (5), Calc AB (5), APUSH (5), English Language (5)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: All AP / Most Rigorous (AP Bio, AP Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Micro, AP US Gov, AP Physics, Band VI
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None other than National AP Scholar / School awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Band (Drum Major, 2 years), Clarinet, Piano, Composition (submitted Arts Supplement), Jazz Band, National Honor Society (Leadership Board past two years), Mu Alpha Theta (Vice President), Odyssey of the Mind (8 years, world finals three times).
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community service: Around 300 hours, hospital, church, etc. small things
[] Summer Activities: FSU Summer Band Camp, volunteering, stuff for school Band
[] Essays: Common App 9/10, Yale Supp: 10/10 (I am very pleased with what I wrote)
[] Teacher Recommendation: One of them I read and it was stellar quote: “The best thing I’ve ever written about a student in 26 years of teaching,” the other one I didn’t read but the teacher really likes me
[] Counselor Rec: Probably good (large public school), counselor barely knows me
[] Additional Rec: None
[] Interview: Not Contacted
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Large Public
[] Ethnicity: W
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: 120k-140k
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: ECs, Essays
[] Weaknesses: Sat I Scores, No Hook… etc
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No hook
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li]Accepted: Dartmouth, Penn, Duke (Likely Letter), Emory
Waiting on: Harvard, Brown, Stanford
Rejected: Princeton, Yale
[/ul]

General Comments:
Looking back on my essays, they weren’t as good as they could have been (esp. the “why yale” essay". Glad this process is over. Grats to the admits!

moonman676 · March 29, 2012, 5:24pm

Rejected!!

pinkcoconut · March 29, 2012, 5:50pm

Rejected - stats can be seen in other posts.

Not upset, got accepted by Columbia, which has always been my top Ivy!

MYOMOO · March 29, 2012, 5:52pm

deferred then waitlisted… :(:(

cloudless33 · March 29, 2012, 6:07pm

Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (800 CR/790 M/730 W)
[] ACT:
[] SAT II: 800 Literature, 800 Physics, 800 Math II
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (5), Calculus BC, Physics C, English, Biology, European History, Psychology
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, AP Physics C, AP English, AP Biology, AP European History, AP Psychology, concert band, linguistics independent study
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Math Team (co-captain), iGEM (founder and leader), trumpet, piano, Hebrew High School, FIRST robotics
[] Job/Work Experience: physics internship at local college
[] Volunteer/Community service:
[] Summer Activities: SSEP, SciTech
[] Essays: I liked them a lot, and I think they were creative and said a lot about me. Common app was about my love of fantasy and science fiction, Yale supplemental was about finding a robin’s egg in my backyard when I was five.
[] Teacher Recommendation: Bio teacher and English teacher – both should have been great.
[] Counselor Rec: Also good.
[] Additional Rec:
[] Interview: Went quite well.

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: public
[] Ethnicity: white
[] Gender: female
[] Income Bracket:
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: essays
[] Weaknesses: math grades, no stellar ECs
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Probably legacy and essays, like I said above. It helps.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Brown, UChicago (EA). Rejected: MIT. Still waiting on Harvard.

[/ul]General Comments:
Who cares! :)

lolToasty · March 29, 2012, 6:24pm

Decision: Deferred to Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): First: 2060 (CR690, M660, W710, E 11) Second: 2230 (CR710, M790, W730, E 10)
[] ACT: First: 32 (E29/M30/R33/S36/E10) Second: 34 (E36/M33/R36/S31/E11)
[] SAT II: 720 Math I, 710 Bio M
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0. 104.218 weighted on 100 pt scale.
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/262
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History - 3 (10th grade)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): All being taken in May
[] Senior Year Course Load: Band, IB Eng A1 HL, IB Bio SL, IB Span B HL, IB Math SL, IB ToK, IB HoA HL, IB Music SL, IB Mentoring, Economics
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Scholar and National Merit Commended (first in my school in A WHILE). Gates Finalist. Being cool.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Drumline and all percussion endeavors in the Band (also going to state for a snare solo and was second chair percussion in my district honor band)), (Mu Alpha Theta Founder and President), History Club, Model UN, NHS, Interact Club
[] Job/Work Experience: Some with family business
[] Volunteer/Community service: 935 hours of CAS in IB
[] Summer Activities: Duke TiP from 2007 - 2010, Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) in 2011, Dartmouth Bound in 2011
[] Essays: Loved the first one. About my father and unique circumstances. Very bold and emotional in my eyes. Other essays were all strong imo, but I definitely preferred some over others.
[] Teacher Recommendation: I didn’t see them, but my bio teacher felt bad when I got deferred from Yale because she said she was too strict on my common one. I dunno how that’ll go…
[] Counselor Rec: No clue in the slightest.
[] Additional Rec: N/A
[] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] Intended Major: Biology: Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental
[] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[] School Type: Inner-city Public in an underfunded and “Academically Unacceptable” (according to TEA) campus
[] Ethnicity: Hispanic, roots from Mexico
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: Under the cutoff for full aid.
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First in a TRUE college (Dad dropped out and mom has a license but not a degree)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Writing, scores relative to location, doing as much as I can in my school, summer programs.
[] Weaknesses: Lack of EC and leadership positions
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/denied:
[] Where else you were accepted/waitlisted/denied:

Accepted: Columbia (likely), Cornell (early writeish), Dartmouth (likely), Williams (early write), Bowdoin (early write), Amherst (early write), MIT, Rice, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara (Honors), UC Santa Cruz (Honors), Northwestern, Boston U (Honors), Hofstra (Honors), UTexas, Texas A&M, Fordham (likely), Simpson, St. Johns, Iowa State, Drexel, Houston Baptist.
Waitlisted: Princeton, WUSTL
Rejected: Yale (deferred SCEA)

[/ul]**General Comments: **
This sucks, but oh well. It’s all good I guess.

sunshine02 · March 29, 2012, 6:27pm

Decision: Accepted!

Will post stats later!!!

modest423 · March 29, 2012, 6:37pm

Decision: Accepted (likely)

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (800 CR, 760 M, 790 W)
[] ACT: 36 (36 E, 36 M, 36 R, 36 S)
[] SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Math I, 800 Chemistry, 800 Biology E, 770 US History, 770 Literature, 750 French, 740 Latin
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/360
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus BC (5), Latin (5), Physics B (5), Chemistry (5), US History (5), English Lang (5), Biology (5), French (5), Environmental Science (5), Human Geography (5), Macroeconomics (5), US Gov (5), Psychology (5)
[] Senior Year Course Load: Post-AP French Literature, AP Comp Gov, Linear Algebra, AP English Literature, AP Physics C, AP European History, AP Art History, Post-AP Latin
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Various Olympiad/AMC/AIME awards, National Merit Finalist, National AP Scholar, various scholarships, leadership awards, volunteer awards, etc.

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Tennis (1st Singles 4 years, team captain 3 years), Varsity Boys Lacrosse (4 years, captain 2 years), Varsity Boys Soccer (4 years, co-captain 2 years), US Senate Page Program, Varsity Debate (4 years, qualified to Tournament of Champions twice, NFL Nationals three times, CFL Nationals 4 times), Mock Trial captain, Literary Magazine contributor and assistant editor, Violinist (local youth orchestra)
[] Job/Work Experience: Interned at state governor’s office for 2 summers, Interned at an attorney’s office, Worked at local ice cream store for four years
[] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteered at local nursing home since I was 9, reading to them, bringing my pet dog, taking care of them, playing music for them, talking to them, etc.
[] Summer Activities: Debate camp, volunteering, interning, reading, working, etc.
[] Essays: Excellent
[] Teacher Recommendation: Best in career.
[] Counselor Rec: Best in career.
[] Additional Rec: From state governor, wonderful comments.
[li] Interview: Good[/li][/ul]

Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[]Income Bracket: 75,000-100,000
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Grades, awards, testing, rank, extracurriculars, essays.
[] Weaknesses: Essays were a bit specific so they could have been a hit or miss.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m surprised and so happy.[/ul][/li]
Accepted to[ul]
[] MIT
[] Northwestern HPME
[] UChicago
[] WashU
[] Rice
[] Yale (likely)
[] Princeton
[] Harvard
[] Tufts
[] Penn (Wharton)
[li] JHU BME[/ul][/li]
Waitlisted by [ul]
[li]Columbia[/li][/ul]

**Waiting on ** [ul]
[*] Stanford[/ul]

chessysmom · March 29, 2012, 6:48pm

Pick one:
Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[] ACT: 32 – one sitting, junior year
[] SAT II: 790 (Lit), 730 (Bio), 710 (USH)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20th percentile
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio 4, USH 4
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Govt, AP Calc AB, Honors Physics, Honors Latin IV
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Merit Scholar[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President, Latin Club; Manager, Theater Costume Department (4 years); Water Polo Team Manager
[] Job/Work Experience: Swim instructor (four summers), Lifeguard
[] Volunteer/Community service: 150 hours in Pediatrics at hospital, other misc stuff
[] Essays: Good
[] Teacher Recommendation: Great
[] Counselor Rec: Good
[] Additional Rec: N/A
[] Interview: Great – I loved my interviewer

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Intended Major(s): Bio/anthro (pre-med)
[] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Private, all-girls Catholic
[] Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican-American)
[] Gender: F
[] Income bracket (if applicable): That middle ground where we don’t qualify for FA but really can’t afford $60k+/year
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM

[/ul]Reflection[list]
[] Strengths: Nothing outstanding, just a solid student
[] Weaknesses: See above

Accepted: Tufts, Wesleyan, Fordham (full-tuition scholarship), Villanova, Loyola Chicago ($14k scholarship)
W/L: None
Rejected: Yale, Duke, USC
Waiting: Amherst, Georgetown

alexcuad · March 29, 2012, 6:51pm

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown):Not even worth mentioning <2000
[] ACT: 31 Composite
[] SAT II: Math 2 (690), Spanish (800)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/197
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Spanish Language (5), Human Geography (5)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): Will take French HL this year.
[] Senior Year Course Load: IB English, IB History of the Americas, IB Environmental Systems and Societies, IB Mathematics (Calc AB), IB French VI, Studio Photography, Journalism, IB TOK
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Rotary Youth Leadership Award[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Interact Club (Vice President, District Governor)
NHS
French HS
Student Senate
Play(ed) Varsity Football
[] Job/Work Experience:
Worked at a Restaurant, then Retail
[] Volunteer/Community service:
Counselor at a Nature Camp for Elem. school
Coach Intramural Middle School Basketball
Counselor at Rotary Youth Leadership Award
Total, about 1000 hours in the past two years
[] Other Activities:
Spent Junior Year abroad in Italy as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student
[] Essays: About my experience in Italy, and discovering an interest in Philosophy. I’d say it was pretty good.

[] Teacher Recommendation: From French teacher, really genuine, though almost childish (she used Comic Sans font).
[] Counselor Rec: Decent
[] Additional Rec: From English teacher, not bad.
[] Interview: excellent … went two hours longer than expected

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): Colorado
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Medium-sized Public
[] Ethnicity: Hispanic, but White
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket:$40k-$50k
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, parents did not graduate college[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths:High involvement, year abroad, grades
[] Weaknesses: ACT, SAT
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:I must have seemed like an interesting person to have around campus, but not quite academically there …
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted Colorado College, Bowdoin, Colby, Princeton; rejected at Dartmouth
[/ul]General Comments:
Indecisive on whether I should stay on the waitlist or not … Princeton is great, and Harvard has yet to reply.

rock_amp_roll · March 29, 2012, 6:58pm

Deferred => Accrpted!!

tridpq · March 29, 2012, 7:06pm

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (800 CR, 800 M, 720 W)
[] ACT:
[] SAT II: 2400 (800 Math II, 800 Physics, 800 Chemistry)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.90
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): My school doesn’t rank, but I think my counselor put my rank as “1/900”.
[] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: A Level maximum load (General Paper, Project Work, Economics, Math, Chemistry, Physics)
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Top 10 in national math olympiad, top in national programming competition.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Science and Math Council (Deputy President), High school YMCA (IT Director), Multimedia Club (President), Tech Council, Guitar Ensemble, Math Club.
[] Job/Work Experience: None
[] Volunteer/Community service: 1000+ hours of Community Service
[] Summer Activities: Nothing much
[] Essays: I liked my Common Apps essay, though my counselor said it’s “decent”. Didn’t spend that much time on Yale supplement.
[] Teacher Recommendation: didn’t get to read, but I think one was very good and one so so.
[] Counselor Rec: Excellent. She loves me.
[] Additional Rec: None
[] Interview: It went pretty well, though that’s what happens to most interviews.

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant):
[] Country (if international applicant): Vietnam (but spent 4 years of high school in Singapore)
[] School Type: Public / Independent
[] Ethnicity: Vietnamese
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: below $10,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Strong EC & Counselor Rec, decent stat & grade.
[] Weaknesses: Cookie-cutter Asian
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t know, honestly. College admission is way random.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Princeton, Brown, Cornell
Wailisted: MIT, UChicago, Columbia, Yale
Rejected: Penn (Wharton)

[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to those who were accepted :)

jake1313 · March 29, 2012, 7:18pm

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (790M, 800CR, 800W - 10E)
[] SAT II: Spanish (w/o listening) - 740, Chemistry - 790, U.S. History - 790
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8ish?
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5s on Biology, Chemistry, U.S. History, and English Language
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP U.S. Gov’t., AP Spanish Language, Orchestra, AP English Lit., AP Calculus BC
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None. Some sort of Brandeis Book Award, and an AP Scholar thing.[/li]
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate team (co-captain and -founder), Literary magazine (co-editor), Jazz band (principal bassist lol), NHS and Tri-M and other random stuff
[] Job/Work Experience: I work at a local hotel on the banquet staff.
[] Volunteer/Community service: Absolutely ZERO indicated on the common app.
[] Summer Activities: Chilling with friends, reading, work, etc.
[] Essays: I thought they were great, probably my best asset. Wrote about people I work with for the common app.
[] Teacher Recommendation: First one was probably amazing, because this teacher like deifies me. The second one was probably also quite good. Didn’t read either.
[] Counselor Rec: Assuming this was also good; I know my counselor fairly well from doing debate red-tape permission-slip junk in the guidance office.
[] Additional Rec: N/A
[li] Interview: Very awk. Interviewer talked incessantly and repeated himself a lot. Really, really boring haha.[/li]
[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[] Country (if international applicant): USA
[] School Type: decent public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: M
[] Income Bracket: complicated
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: test scores, essays
[] Weaknesses: extracurriculars
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not sure, really. I will probably pursue it though!
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted - UConn (EA), Northeastern (EA), UChicago (EA), Carleton, Columbia!!; Waitlisted - Rice, Yale; Rejected - Brown; Waiting on Harvard and Amherst.

[/ul]General Comments: Oh well, congrats to those who were admitted! I’m probably headed to Columbia unless Harvard or Amherst accepts me, or if I get off the Yale waitlist!

seasmart · March 29, 2012, 7:28pm

Decision: Defered → Accepted

Ill post stats later!

qcassidy · March 29, 2012, 8:17pm

Decision: Rejected

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): did not report
[] ACT: 34
[] SAT II: 730 Spanish, 720 Literature
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.84
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school does not rank
[] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load:
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[] Job/Work Experience:
[] Volunteer/Community service: started a nonprofit humanitarian project for Zimbabwean children and orphans
[] Summer Activities:
[] Essays: average
[] Teacher Recommendation: great
[] Counselor Rec: great
[] Additional Rec:
[] Interview: awesome

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): IN
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: private Catholic
[] Ethnicity: white
[] Gender: m
[] Income Bracket: upper
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: test scores, unique ECs, lots of leadership on XC team and in student council
[] Weaknesses: no hooks really…also, I wasn’t very confident with my essays
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I thought I was a qualified applicant but didn’t have a strong enough “wow” factor I guess. There are just so many people that are just as impressive of an applicant as I am that I just wasn’t able to stand out from the masses. Im confident that everything happens for a reason, though, so I know that the right Noice has been made.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’ve been waitlisted at Bowdoin, accepted at BC and rejected at Dartmouth.

[/ul]General Comments: I’m really proud of everyone who got in today. It must be an amazing feeling. It’s just something fate didn’t have in store for me I guess, and I’ve come to terms with that. I really do wish the best of luck to all you accepted applicants if you end up matriculating…and make sure you know how lucky you are! ;)

snipersas · March 29, 2012, 8:25pm

deferred -> rejected here.

314159265 · March 29, 2012, 8:32pm

Decision: Accepted

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2400 (first and only sitting)
[] SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 780 US History, 740 French
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/600ish
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s on 13 exams
[] Senior Year Course Load: 6 AP classes
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mock Trial, Music, Orchestra
[] Job/Work Experience: Private Violin Teacher, Tutor
[] Volunteer/Community service: Tutor at school, Church choir musician
[] Summer Activities: None, really
[] Essays: Wrote about how the world is being flooded with too much information and how we need people to ask the big questions, etc.
[] Teacher Recommendation: Should have been good
[] Counselor Rec: Should have also been good
[] Additional Rec: Should have been good as well
[] Interview: None

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): California
[] School Type: Large public (close to 3000 students)
[] Ethnicity: Asian-American
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: ~$100K
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Academics, Objective Numbers, Recommendations
[] Weaknesses: Dearth of major awards or activities
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good essay, I guess. That probably was the deciding factor everywhere I applied.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

Accepted: Princeton, UCLA, Pomona College, UC Irvine, UC Berkeley, USC (Southern California), Harvey Mudd, Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech.

Waiting: Harvard (Deferred EA), Stanford

Waitlist: Claremont McKenna

Rejected: Caltech

[/ul]General Comments: Congratulations to all those admitted! To those who weren’t, don’t be sad. What one admissions committee saw in your application doesn’t change a single thing about the person you are. I’m sure you’ll all end up somewhere great!

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