Pomona Stats/Decisions Thread for the Class of 2019

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<p>Hello everyone, I just got matched to Pomona through the QuestBridge program. I used stats threads in the past to help understand my chances of being admitted, so I thought it would be nice to continue this.</p>

<p>Good luck to the ED1 folks and be sure to join the FB 2019 group when you find out! Someone has already created it.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted :) :) :)
Program: QuestBridge National College Match</p>

<p>Objective-
SAT 1: 2180 SAT (720 R 720 M 740 W)
SAT Subject Tests: 750 Physics, 730 US History, 770 Math II
ACT: Did not take
GPA: 3.93/4 UW, 4.5 W
Rank: 2/235 W, 7/235 UW
AP: US History (5), English Language (5), Comp. Government (5), Chemistry (5)
IB: Did not take
Senior Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Physics 1, AP Biology, AP Macro, AP English Lit, AP Spanish Lang, Yearbook, Sociology Honors
Major Awards: QuestBridge Finalist, National Merit Semifinalist, QuestBridge College Prep Scholar, Principal's Award, Distinguished Student in AP Chemistry/Honors Physics/Precalculus</p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars: Hiphop Dance Team Leader, National Honor Society, Participation in Summer Research Program (MITES), Academic Decathlon, Peer-to-Peer Tutor at my school
Job: Managed family business after school
Essays: I poured my heart out on them
Teacher Recs: Considered among the best students they've ever had, so I think they were very good!
Counselor Rec: Had a three hour meeting to make sure that the counselor rec aligned with my application, so it should have been great as well.
Applied through: QuestBridge National College Match.
Hooks: Low income, first generation, research, underrepresented minority
Interview: Did not have one</p>

<p>Location-
State: Won't list since it's pretty to isolate QB Matched students since there are only 13 of us
School Type: Public School
Ethnicity: Same as state
Gender: Same as state</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I cried when I found out I was matched to Pomona. I'm absolutely enthusiastic to attend such a wonderful school- especially with the generous QuestBridge scholarship. I'm so excited for all of you! Eagerly awaiting more members of the Pomona Class of 2019.</p>

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<p>Congratulations! :slight_smile:
I’m waiting for my result. Hope it’s a good one.</p>

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<p>Thank you! Wishing you all of the best :)</p>

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<p>Decision: ** Rejected **
Program: Early Decision 1</p>

<p>Objective
SAT 1: 2370 (Superscore: M 800, CR 780, W 790), 2350 (Single: M 800, CR 760, W 790), took it twice (junior 2210 and senior 2350)
SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry 740, Math II 800, Biology M 800
ACT: Did not take
GPA: 3.86/4 UW, 4.02/4 W (all six of my Bs were from freshman year, straight As afterwards)
Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP: Spanish Lang (5), Biology (5)
IB: School doesn’t offer
Senior Course Load: AP Economics, AP English Lit, AP BC Calculus, AP Spanish Lit, Advanced Journalism, AP Physics C
Major Awards: National Spanish Exam Gold Medal Levels 3 and 4, National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society, World Language Department Award, NSPA Pacemaker Award (awarded to newspaper, not individual)</p>

<p>Subjective
Extracurriculars: Young Scholars Program at UC Davis (selective research summer program), LGBT teen-counseling group, Co-President of Spanish Club, VP of healthcare-related club, 300 hours of community service at blood center and hospital, Board Member of community service club, Photo Editor in school newspaper, Piano
Job: Was a dental intern at a dentistry
Essays: Talked about being gay on Common App essay, supplemental essay about my views on science (~2000 words and had a very obvious typo)
Teacher Recs: Submitted three, not allowed to read them, but my teachers all love me. One was a Pomona alumnus.
Counselor Rec: Large school with overworked counseling, so don’t really know
Applied through: Early Decision 1
Hooks: Sent a science research supplement through Slideroom with an evaluation from the grad student I worked with, being gay may have helped with diversity…
Interview: Don’t think it went well since I feel like the interviewer didn’t really get to know me (was an hour long though, and I provided a paper copy of my resume)</p>

<p>Location
State: CA
School Type: Large Public School (a little less than 2000 kids)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I feel like I should’ve focused more on my passion in Spanish. They requested my quarter grades, and my quarter grades included my attendance (which was pretty poor). I’m an Asian male who wants to be a doctor, so I’m totally breaking the mold and flouting society’s stereotypes.</p>

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<p>pomona must be out of their mind…so sorry for you and I’m sure good things will come for your other schools</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected
Program: Early Decision 1</p>

<p>Objective
SAT 1: 2280 (730CR, 800M, 750WR)
SAT Subject Tests: Chemistry 760, Math II 790, US History 740
ACT: Did not take
GPA: 3.64/4 UW (one of the hardest private schools in the country)
Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP: Eng Lang (5), Chem (5), Spanish (4), US History (4)
IB: School doesn’t offer
Major Awards: Ap Scholar w Honor, National Meric Commended</p>

<p>Subjective
Extracurriculars: not great, not bad
Essays: Common App essay was the best thing I’ve ever written, freedom was definitely solid
Teacher Recs: Decent
Counselor Rec: probably really good
Applied through: Early Decision 1
Hooks: solid art portfolio
Interview: A little awkward – not terrible</p>

<p>Location:
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: GPA probably held me back, congrats to everyone who got in, really tough to get in</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>SAT 1: (self-reported but not sent) 2250 (760 CR, 770 M, 720 W)
SAT Subject Tests: (self-reported but not sent) 770 Chem, 800 World History
ACT: 35 Composite (33 English, 35 Math, 36 Science, 36 Reading–11 on essay but who even cares)
GPA: 3.79/4 UW, 4.17 W
Rank: Unranked, top decile
AP: US History (5), English Language (4), World History (4), Chemistry (5), AP Calc BC (4, AB subscore 5), Biology (5)
IB: –
Senior Course Load: AP Gov + AP Econ (quarter each course) , AP Physics 1, AP English Lit, Journalism, Creative Writing, College Apps Seminar
Major Awards: National Merit Scholarship Commended, Academic team Freshman MVP, AP Scholar with Distinction (I know it doesn’t mean much shhhhhh), Newspaper publication won 6th best in show </p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars: Academic team for 4 years, NHS, Editor of humor section of the newspaper
Job: Paid summer intern at mom’s pharmaceutical company; basis of science supplement into protein analysis
Essays: Common App- Explaining my weird, split love for both science and reading
Supplement (freedom prompt)- About how I asked a girl out and got rejected but conquered my insecurites
Teacher Recs: History and biology teachers, also happened to be my academic team coaches, so I’ve known them for two/three years.
Counselor Rec: I know him pretty well, but I’m just one of like 500 he has so…
Applied through: CommonApp
Hooks: Interest in science and literature, science research supplement, I think I write <em>okay</em>, half-Asian diversity (really grasping at straws here)
Interview: Had a good and fun conversation about all kinds of things. I don’t really know what to say. </p>

<p>Location-
State: CA
School Type: Public School
Ethnicity: Asian/White
Gender: Male</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: It’s hard to say what I could have done better to get in (more extracurriculars, tried harder to not get that B in AP Bio/Algebra 2-Trig), but all in all, I don’t regret any of my choices. I probably should have explained more the impact of the activities I did, but it absolutely killed me to spend so many words on a brag-fest and those weird topics above are what I have to show. Oh well. </p>

<p>Plus side: At least I don’t have to deal with people telling me that I’m totally able to get in to Pomona (like my dad 2 hours ago) in an attempt to make me feel better. Now the joke’s on them! Right? Right?</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected
Program: Early Decision 1</p>

<p>Objective
SAT 1: 1940 (640 R 690 M 610 W)
SAT Subject Tests: Math II 760, Biology M 750, US History 650
ACT: 34 (32 E 32 M 34 R 36 S)
GPA: 3.95/4 UW, 4.24/5 W (2 B’s Freshman year)
Rank: 22/592
AP: Biology (4), English Language and Composition (3), US History (5), Calculus AB (5)
IB: Offered, not taken.
Senior Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Calculus BC, AP Spanish Lit, AP Physics 1, AP Chemistry, Orchestra
Major Awards: AP Scholar with Honors</p>

<p>Subjective
Extracurriculars: California Scholarship Federation (4 years, President), Key Club (4 years, VP), School Orchestra (4 years, Captain), Hospital Volunteer (4 months), Youth Symphony (4 years, Principal 2nd Violinist), Science Olympiad (1 year), Bio Olympiad (2 years), Relay for Life (4 years, Team Captain)
Job:
Essays: CA: How my mom’s diagnosis with breast cancer made me realize that I wanted to go into oncology. Supplement: Related freedom to being able to learn about cultures, friends, etc.
Teacher Recs: Math (Precalc and Calculus AB) and AP Biology teachers: on really good terms with both – so probably good letters. School Board president: really good, talked about how I was one of the most committed students he’s seen.
Applied through: Early Decision 1
Hooks: Not sure if this is a hook…I study at Honnold Library (on Pomona’s campus) every week, fell in love with campus at a young age. Father used to work to the consortium.
Interview: It went alright. Talked about orchestra, Key Club and CSF. I have/had a hard time making eye contact with people, not sure if that was a strike against me. </p>

<p>Location
State: Claremont, CA
School Type: Medium-Large Public School (a little over 2000 kids)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: just cry. </p>

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<p>Can somebody tell me why my portal hasn’t updated? Where exactly did you find the information? Did you get an email?</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred
Program: Pomona College ED1</p>

<p>Objective-
SAT 1: 2190 SAT (680 R 800 M 710 W) 3 sets in total
SAT Subject Tests: 800 Math II 780 Chemistry
ACT: Did not take
GPA: I’m in a British school so I don’t have GPA. Mid-term and final grades are either A* or A.
Rank: School doesn’t rank.
AP: I’ll just put AS-Levels here. A’s for AS Chemistry, Economics and Physics. (A is the highest possible in AS-Level) Took A2-Level in junior year and got A*.
IB: Did not take
Senior Course Load: English, A Level Further Math, A2 econ, physics, chem. Self-learning AP art history.
Major Awards: Gold prizes in two international math competitions. 2nd prize in National environmental essay competition. Best Delegate in two MUN conferences.
Other stats: TOEFL: highest one set:111. highest in parts: 29R 28L 27S 29W; GPA 4.0 at Duke Summer College</p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars: Independent research on local traditional medicines, including lab and field work (submitted my final research paper as science supplement); drawing for 10 years (submitted portfolio); president of school art club, organizing school illustration competitions and stuff; founder of school applied chemistry club; draw botanical illustrations; Volunteering at hospital (about 250 hrs ); Cooking and writing recipes; Duke Summer College (with credits, rec and a transcript.); Non-credit courses at Princeton.
Job: Worked at bakery as summer job for one month. (But I forgot to put it on my Common App!)
Essays: I actually wrote two more essays for Pomona because Pomona requires an artist’s statement and a research statement from me. So I wrote 4 essays in total. I spent weeks on them and I think they’re awesome!
Teacher Recs: I guess they’re good?
Counselor Rec: My counselor really likes me so I guess it’s great.<br>
Applied through: ED1
Hooks: First generation, research paper, portfolio, essays, extra recs from my project supervisor and summer college prof.
Interview: Went pretty well I think.</p>

<p>Location-
State/country: China
School Type: Idk?
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I was sort of expecting a deferral. I think the weakness is pretty obvious: the SAT scores are just not good enough. Anyway, I will send extra scores and materials and try to make it in RD. And congratulations to those admitted in ED 1! You guys are absolutely amazing!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted
Program: Pomona College ED1</p>

<p>Objective-
SAT 1: Did not take
SAT Subject Tests: Chinese with Listening (750), Biology E (650), Math 2 (760) whoops didn’t study
ACT: 33 (English- 35, Math- 33, Reading- 34, Science- 31)
GPA: 3.89 UW, school does not weight grades
Rank: School doesn’t rank.
AP: AP Chinese (4), AP Environmental Science (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP US History (5), AP Spanish (5)
IB: Do not have
Senior Course Load: AP Calculus BC, Principles of Engineering, AP Literature, AP Economics/Government, Physics Honors, TA for Spanish
Major Awards: Part of Scholastic Championship Team in CCS, Individual League and Division winner/finalist in tennis all 4 years of high school, Varsity tennis for 4 years (played either #1 or #2 spot), Captain senior year, 3-time MVP, Team League and Division winners all 4 years, 2-time CCS Individuals semifinalist, 3rd place in doubles at NorCal Sectionals, AP Scholar with Distinction, Commitment to Character Award for Responsibility, Triple-Impact Competitor Scholarship Winner
Other stats: played tennis since I was 7, played competitively since i was 9, play both the USTA circuit and high school tennis</p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars: tennis tennis tennis and more tennis (tournaments basically every weekend), Ballkid at Bank of the West Classic for 7 years (serve as captain as well), part of Norcal Junior Player Council
Job: Worked as a tennis coach and camp counselor for 2 summers and a spring break.
Essays: My Common App was good but I had writer’s block for my supplemental for 3 months so it wasn’t that good
Teacher Recs: Both were good from teachers that know me really well (had them both for 2 years in honors/accelerated/AP classes and TAing for one of them) although one of them spelled my name wrong which was weird
Counselor Rec: Pretty generic I would guess since I didn’t know who wrote mine.
Applied through: ED1
Hooks: Recruited athlete
Interview: It was alright although I was very awkward</p>

<p>Location-
State/country: California
School Type: Pretty tough public high school
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I was super scared that I wasn’t going to make it even though I was recruited because I knew my stats weren’t that good compared to a lot of applicants. I’m really happy that I was able to be accepted and I’m super excited for the upcoming school year!! Good luck to the rest of you!</p>

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<p>Decision: Deferred
Program: Pomona College ED1</p>

<p>Objective-
SAT 1: 2320 SAT (800 R 800 M 720 W)
SAT Subject Tests: 730 Math II 740 Literature 740 US History 690 Physics
ACT: Did not take
GPA: 3.88 UW/ 4.46 W
AP: Human Geography 5 US History 5 Calc AB 5 Physics B 4 English Lang. 4
Senior Course Load: AP Gov/Macro, AP English Lit, AP Spanish, AP Calc BC, Honors Advanced Art, Japanese 3
Major Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, Undergrad Award in History, Local poetry contest honorable mention, Swim team student-athlete honorary award</p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars: Year-round swimmer, High School swimmer, volunteer swim coach in Summers, Environmental Club, Debate Club, Writer’s Club, Film Club, ELD Student Connection program member, Non-credit courses at ATDP @ UCB and Pre-college @ Brown.
Job: dog walker for elderly neighbors
Essays: I thought they were pretty good
Teacher Recs: My teachers love me
Counselor Rec: counselor loves me.
Applied through: ED1
Hooks: (Somewhat) recruited athlete
Interview: Went pretty well, I think.</p>

<p>Location-
State/country: Northern California
School Type: Middle-sized public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: male</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: Disappointed, what can I say?</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted
Program: Early Decision 1</p>

<p>Objective
SAT 1: n/a
SAT Subject Tests:n/a
ACT: 31
GPA: 4.0W
Rank: 23/301
AP: English, APUSH, World History, (4) Psych (5)
IB: School doesn’t offer
Senior Course Load: AP English Lit, AP BC Calculus, Stats AP
Major Awards: QB College Prep, National Achievement, Student of the Month(5), </p>

<p>Subjective
Extracurriculars: swimming and water polo, a lot of stuff that would be hard to type, SAAST at Upenn
Job: Panera bread and local library
Essays: lots of honesty and triumphant sob story )
Teacher Recs: 2 wonderful teachers that are very fond of me
Counselor Rec: …he got it there.
Applied through: Early Decision 1
Hooks: URM in StEM, low income,
Interview: Great person, we chatted naturally and fluently. It was more like a conversation than an interview. </p>

<p>Location
State: Illinois
School Type: Medium catholic 1200kids
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: CC scares those of us who aren’t presidential scholars with 2400 SAT, but I just tried my hardest. Congrats to new sage hens and congrats to those who will go on to other beautiful institutions</p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected
Program: Early Decision 1</p>

<p>Objective
ACT: 34
GPA: 3.8/4.5 UW; 4.25 W
Rank: School doesn’t rank
AP: World History (5), AB Calc (5), Lang and Comp (5), Comp Sci (3)
Senior Course Load: AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, AP Gov Pol, AP Stats, AP Physics 1, Mandarin 5H, Symphonic Orchestra</p>

<p>Subjective
Extracurriculars: Eagle Scout, which amounts to hundreds of hours of community service, not to mention the countless hours spent actually earning the ranks; Varsity Track/XC for 4 years on ultra-successful team and now a captain for all 3 seasons as a senior, Coached youth basketball teams, Some other I can’t remember off the top of my head but not as impactful as the first two
Job: Worked for a tutoring company and the local running store
Essays: Very original, well-written. I thought it would stand out.
Teacher Recs: Submitted two, but wasn’t allowed to read them. The teachers liked me, but I certainly wasn’t their favorite ever or anything.
Counselor Rec: Who knows, I’m in a large public school and most counselors are incompetent
Applied through: Early Decision 1
Hooks: I don’t know, I grew up in a well-off, predominately white community so I thought the Eagle Scout thing was a solid selling point
Interview: Killed it, the kid really got me</p>

<p>Location
State: CT
School Type: Large Public School
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I honestly don’t know. I was recruited to run and felt I was qualified without any sort of help. The only major flaw to my application that I can think of is my GPA, but it’s so damn hard to balance all-state level athletics, a job, Boy Scouts, and school work and still get the absolute best grades. Sorry if I sound super whiney, but I’m just really disappointed. </p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>**Objective: **
SAT I (breakdown): 2340 (800 R, 740 M, 800 W)
ACT: Did not take
SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Math 2, 770 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 UW
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5/587
AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus BC (5), Chemistry (5), Statistics (5), APUSH (5), World History (5)
Senior Year Course Load: Calculus III, AP Biology, Physics Honors, AP Gov/Econ, AP Psychology, AP Lit
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSF, Mock Trial Outstanding Advocate (State competition), National Forensic League Academic All American</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mock Trial (Pres), Speech & Debate (VP), local city youth council (VP); 2x qualified to debate Nationals, qualified to TOC, finalist at many local tournaments
Job/Work Experience: Administrative assistant at Tutoring company
Volunteer/Community service: some, not a huge amount
Summer Activities: attended debate camps but didn’t really discuss that in the application
Essays: Did the Critical Inquiry essay
Teacher Recommendation: assume they were good
Counselor Rec: assume it was good
Additional Rec: got a recommendation from the supervisor of the city youth council
Interview: Interviewed on campus in October; interview went well</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): AZ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Med/large public that sends some students to top schools
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>

<p>Reflection:
Strengths: Strong GPA, test scores, class rank
Weaknesses: nothing unusual about her
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: tried hard to demonstrate interest/enthusiasm, visited junior year, visited again and interviewed on campus senior year, met with local rep at her high school, kept in touch with local rep
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: N/A - ED1</p>

<p>General Comments: D is very happy and so are mom and dad; best wishes to everyone as you go through this stressful process</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>Objective-</p>

<p>ACT: 33, took once, can’t remember breakdown.
GPA: 3.9 UW 4.23 W
Rank: my school doesn’t rank
AP: US History (4), Latin (5), World History (4)
IB: Did not take
Senior Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Macro, AP English Lit, AP Environmental Science, Psychology, diversity and inclusivity leadership class
Major Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, Headmaster’s Honors, prestigious ‘book award’ at my school</p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars: Competitive rockclimber, founded an affinity-group style club for atheist/agnostic students and faculty, member of diversity and inclusivity leadership group, which I helped advance from a club to a leadership position (for example, on the same level as student government), piano for 10 years, volunteer counselor at a camp for kids with special needs (summer of 9th and 10th)
Job: Worked on staff at the special needs camp summers of 11th and 12th, about a 50hr/week commitment for the entire summer.
Essays: I thought they reflected everything about myself that I felt represented a Pomona student. Common App essay- I try to set myself up for constructive failure, risk taking, etc outside of school (provided examples), and now at Pomona I want to push myself to fail in the classroom. Supplement Essay-critical inquiry, a class focused on the development of our brains vs. the development of current technology. Other essays- explained my coming to terms with diversity work as someone who is white and privileged, and also my rationale behind refusing tutors and taking hard classes for the sake of curiosity and excitement.
Teacher Recs: 3 teacher recs, but they all represented a different part of me. Didn’t read them, but I’m sure they were very accurate and helpful.
Counselor Rec: I had my counselor meet with my boss from the special needs camp, so she was able to talk about that aspect.
Hooks: probably my job? Honestly I’m not sure… I think it’s just that my application showed I was deeply interested in my passions, and I have specific plans for the future and how to use the resources at Pomona.
Interview: REALLY well. I talked a lot about my specific passions, and asked good questions. I had a senior student as an interviewer, so I was able to ask her a lot of student-specific questions. Really casual and I learned a lot. </p>

<p>Location-
State: CA
School Type: small, religious, private college prep school
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I am so lucky to be a member of Pomona class of 2019!!! I honestly am shocked, because while I thought I would be a great fit at Pomona, reading some of the posts on CC had me scared that I didn’t have all the right numbers/ECs/awards to be accepted. I think this truly shows how serious admissions is about looking at the whole student, rather than just at their statistics. </p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (780 R, 800 M, 750 W)
ACT: Did not take
SAT II: 730 Math 2 (long story short, the proctor accidentally shaved off 5 min) 760 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.73 W 4.155
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top decile
AP (place score in parenthesis): Statistics (5), APUSH (5), Gov and Politics (5) European History (5)
Senior Year Course Load: Honors Calc Physics Honors, AP Macro, AP Psychology, AP Lit AP Chinese
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): </p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Life Straw Initiative (Pres), Varsity and Club Soccer for highly ranked teams are the two main ones
Job/Work Experience: Worked for a big data company over the summer and did some work on a project for a fortune 500 client
Volunteer/Community service: went a poor local city and fed lunch to the homeless with the organization Bridges
Summer Activities:
Essays: Did the Critical Inquiry essay and thought it really conveyed a passion of mine
Teacher Recommendation: hopefully pretty decent
Counselor Rec: knew me quite well
Additional Rec: Recommendation from a soccer coach who is also a priest and overall just a super unique perspective on me.
Interview: Alumni Interview (pretty meh)</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): NJ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Med/large public that sends lots of students to top schools
Ethnicity: Caucasian and Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket:
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Recruited for Soccer </p>

<p>Reflection:
Strengths: Soccer, summer job
Weaknesses: Lack of leadership positions and Math II score
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Showed a lot of interest
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Tulane w/ Presidential Scholar award</p>

<p>General Comments: I’m really just ecstatic to be admitted </p>

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<p>Decision: Rejected
Program: Pomona College ED1</p>

<p>Objective-
SAT 1: 2220 CR680 M790 W750(12) superscore (2190 single test)
SAT Subject Tests: Math II 800 Literature 630
ACT: 31
GPA: 3.88 out of 4.17 (my school’s grading system is weird… they said its UW)
Rank: school doesn’t rank.
AP: English Lang and Comp 5, Computer Science 4, Calc BC 4 (AB subscore 5)
IB: not offered
Senior Course Load: AP Eng Lit and Comp, APUSH, AP Stats, AP Psych, PE, gov studies
Major Awards: NFL Regional Outstanding Debater
Other stats: TOEFL 114 single test (R 28, L 28, S 28, W 30)</p>

<p>Subjective-
Extracurriculars:
President of student activity association , manager at school American football team, school major magazine editor, varsity track and field, varsity basketball, local English corner instructor, volunteer at local care center for autistic and Down’s syndrome student (approx. 200-250 hours, during summer), a few major theatre works at school, summer academy at St. John’s College non credit
Job: none
Essays: pretty good, PS on my theatre experience and family conflict, put a lot of effort into the course design supplement (actually created a thorough course design)
Teacher Recs: didn’t read, but they told me they are excellent. from my first year English teacher (who’s also my theatre instructor) and junior year’s AP CS teacher
Counselor Rec: pretty good I guess
Applied through: ED1
Hooks: none? school counselor said Pomona has always liked my school though.
Interview: had an on campus interview with an AO during summer, I think it went really well</p>

<p>Location-
State/country: China
School Type: top public in the area, 200 students applying for studying overseas
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female</p>

<p>General Comments/Reflections/etc.: I think transcript was my main problem, since I did have a lot of Bs in my first year’s 2nd semester, and I applied for cogsci as major despite my weakness in math and science. I love Pomona for basically its everything. I was a little disappointed when I saw the rejection but knew it was coming when I was not requested quarter grades… congratulations to the lucky Sagehens!</p>

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<p>@FranciscoSan‌ @bedside11 @sunshinedoom‌ @alliwannadoiscry‌ @erules4‌ @jojojohuang‌ Did you all get rejected or just deferred? I know that some colleges (like Georgetown) defer all students while others defer some and reject others. What does Pomona do? You all had very promising stats–best of luck to whatever other schools you apply to! :)</p>

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<p>Pomona refers and rejects, even for early decision </p>