<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:2210 800 M 650 V 760 W
[ *] SAT IIs: 800 IIC 780 Biology 750 US History
[ *] GPA: 3.94 UW 4.24 W
[ *] Rank: top 10%
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: generic topic but well written
[ *] Teacher Recs: didn't see
[ *] Counselor Rec: didn't see
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: California
[ *] School Type: Extremely competitive (somewhere among the top 5 public high schools of CA)
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness: well rounded (varsity sports, regular volunteer work, club officer)
[ *] special skills/abilities
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] i guess i was too much of the cookie-cutter type; i'm more shocked than sad that I was denied especially since I received the regents scholar thing for UCSD Bio. Oh well, best of luck to others =)</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2310 (800R, 710M, 800W)
SAT IIs: 800 U.S. History, 710 Biology, 710 World History
GPA: 4.96 W (5.0 point scale)
Rank: 4/300
Other Stats:
Subjective:
Essays: More or less well-written
Teacher Recs: I was well-liked by the two teachers; also, my hs principal wrote an additional rec for me.
Counselor Rec: Really good :)
Hook (if any):
Location/Person:
State or Country: MA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian American/Muslim
Gender: Female
Major Strength/Weakness: I've started a number of large-scale fundraising events in the community, and I received a lot of positive feedback on my essays.
Special Skills/Abilities: I'm quatrilingual (Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, English) and I took Spanish/Latin in school.
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: My interview went really well, and I guess my ECs (I do a lot of community service/Editor-in-Chief of the yearbook) were solid.
Other Factors: I got an A on an IR course I took at Harvard Summer School; otherwise, I have no legacy or faculty connections.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1800
SAT IIs: 680, 600
GPA: 3.87uw 4.8 w
Rank:5/165
Essays: superb
Teacher Recs: superb
Counselor Rec: superb
Hook (if any): State saxophone and tennis player, from a small, rural town in FL
Location/Person:
State or Country: FL
School Type: crappy Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: male
major strength/weakness: Band and Tennis, struggle to succeed at failing school, SAT's too low </p>
<p>Interview: Connected awesomely with woman, she was from a small town in Jersey and went through most of the hard things i went through to succeed</p>
<p>I was deferred ED to Wharton, yet rejected to Mcdonough and waitlisted at Babson,Accepted to Umiami, waiting to hear from Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, NYU, CMU, and UMich</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2220 (740M/740CR/740W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Bio-M, 760 Chem, 720 Math II (ouch)
[<em>] GPA: 90 UW, 104 W
[</em>] Rank: 48/390
[<em>] Other stats: None
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Well written, main essay about how my cousins from India lived with me for almost 2 years (and how it changed me)
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn't read
[<em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Connecticut, USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Indian (Born/raised in CT)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Low rank due to first few semesters, strong upward trend. I also had some very good ECs, showed a lot of interest towards medicine.
[<em>] special skills/abilities: None I can think of
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No doubt my low class rank. Junior and Senior years, my GPA's been awesome, but my first two weren't that great, and they pulled my GPA and rank down dramatically.
[/ul]Other Factors: My interview went well, interviewer said I asked some interesting questions that nobody else has asked him. Self studying for AP Chem exam this year (mentioned it in application and an update letter).</p>
<p>Oh well... I was half expecting it, half not. Hopefully, I'll get into my other schools. Congrats to all the acceptees, and good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>School/Major: Business / International Business</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2100 / 1420 750 M 670 CR 680 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: none
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 unweighted
[</em>] Rank: 15/139
[<em>] Other stats: thats it
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: decent
[<em>] Teacher Recs: unsure
[</em>] Counselor Rec: unsure
[<em>] Hook (if any): could possibly play football or baseball at Gtown
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MD
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: extracurricular and athletics ... rank and sat kinda low
[<em>] special skills/abilities: athletics
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: bad rank and sat
[/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1500 (720V + 780M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 M2, 760 Physics, 690 U.S. History
[<em>] GPA: Hard to say for sure, but ~ 4.3
[</em>] Rank: Highish
[<em>] Other stats: Like to hope I'm more than just stats.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Judging by acceptance, good.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One good, the other don't know.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I try not to be too much of a pest for the counslers for my school has ~600 students per.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Things & Stuff
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: The real Northern California
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White, but not redneck
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: I like to do stuff.
[<em>] special skills/abilities: Aren't we all "special."
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: "They like me, they really like me." How should I know?
[/ul]Other Factors: I like what I do.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2200 / 630 M 800 CR 750 W (Commended Scholar)
SAT IIs: 780 Spanish / 750 English Lit / 740 US History / 680 World History / 640 Math IIC
GPA: 4.1 weighted
Rank: N/A
Other stats: N/A</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Good
Teacher Recs: I didn't read them, but I think they were really enthusiastic
Counselor Rec: I haven't known my college counselor for very long, but I'm pretty sure she wrote me a really good one
Hook (if any): I guess I didn't have any, since I didn't get accepted
Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Caucasian/Hispanic
Gender: Female
Major strength/weakness: I am the co-president of a community service club that I helped start, I've been volunteering every week at a food pantry since 7th grade, I am the senior class community service rep, I placed 5th in the nation on the National Spanish Exam, and I'm a National Hispanic Merit Scholar. On the weakness side, I didn't score highly on the math part of the SAT no matter how hard I studied.
Special skills/abilities: Um, besides what I listed above... I play piano and tennis.<br>
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: My school is pretty prestigious, but for some reason hardly anyone gets accepted to Georgetown. And my class is so tiny that only nine people are in the top 10% GPA-wise, and I'm not one of them.</p>
<p>Other Factors: I visited Georgetown for the first time in tenth grade, and I loved it so much that I bought a mug with its logo on it. I've been drinking out of it every morning ever since, but now I'm going to stop, because I'm really sad about not getting in. I know the disappointment will blow over in a day or two, but right now, it really hurts. But congratulations to everyone who got in; you definitely deserve it!</p>
<p>White/Male/Jesuit Prep School
GPA: 3.93/4.0 weighted
Rank: Do not rank, top 10%-ish
ACT: 33
SAT: 690/710/730
SAT II: Lit 680, Bio E 750, US Hist 780
Recs: Off the wall--two from Georgetown Alumni (including the Pres. of my school who went to SFS for undergrad)
Essays: Best I wrote.
AP's 5 in Bio, English Lang., Comparative Gov., US Hist
Interview: Outta control awesome </p>
<p>EC's: Four years MUN and Varsity Forensics, Exec. Board for both</p>
<p>Legacy Status: Sibling legacy from Georgetown College </p>
<p>Note: I do already go to a Jesuit school where our admit rate for Gtown is probably close to 50%, though not necessarily for SFS. </p>
<p>I am still actually somewhat shocked to have gotten in RD for SFS, basically without much extra effort other than an extraordinary interview and one visit in person with my admissions officer in DC. I'm waiting for Harvarrrrrd Thurs. at this point, where I was deferred from in Dec. in the EA round.</p>
<p>I wonder if these numbers are going to be a factor on the waitlist. If a lot of these people who are accepted attend Ivy's or other elite institutions they may be taking more from the waitlist.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2280: 800W, 710M, 770CR
[</em>] SAT IIs: 790 French, 750 Lit, 770 US hist.
[<em>] GPA:3.93 UW
[</em>] Rank: 1/62
[li] Other stats:National French Contest 1st 2003, National Spanish [/li]Exam 1st 2005</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>] Hook (if any): none; I'm international</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:Missouri
[</em>] School Type: private, Catholic, all-girls
[<em>] Ethnicity: South American (Peruvian)
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] special skills/abilities: I play piano and charango
[</em>] why you think you were accepted: I don't know. I think they liked my essays.
[/ul]</p>
<p>[ b]School/Major:[ /b]: College of Arts and Sciences </p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 600 CR, 640 M, 630 W
[ *] SAT IIs: 650 US History, 650 Math
[ *] GPA: After Junior Year: 4.0 unweighted, 4.38 weighted, 1st Semester Senior Year: 5.0 weighted, 4.0 unweighted
[ *] Rank: 1/60
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays: Really Good About my sister and I, and our struggles with our mother
[ *] Teacher Recs: Really Good, one (additional) from my debate teacher and practically best friend that Ive known for 6 years. Another from a history teacher thats known me for three years, likes me. Another from a math teacher... not as good as the rest.
[ *] Counselor Rec: My counselor is horrible. I did not read the rec, but I dont think shes a complete idiot when writing these letters, especially since Im involved in my school.
[ *] Hook (if any): Im Hispanic, extremely involved in my school and community, and best in my class despite my unimpressive scores.
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: California
[ *] School Type: Small, Non-denominational, Private, K-12
[ *] Ethnicity: Mexican
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] major strength/weakness: Strength school involvement, interview skills. Weakness test scores.<br>
[ *] special skills/abilities: Debate/Speech, LA City Council Award, countless league awards. Studio Art sculpting and oil painting work featured in galleries and museum of tolerance. Soccer: played all my life, on all-star teams.
[ *] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Everything despite my scores stood out enough for them to admit me.
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b] none.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 1940 (600M/640V/700W)
SAT IIs: 800 French, 670 World History and Literature, 590 Spanish
GPA: 4.65 W
Rank: doesnt rank</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: one was very bold, the other very imaginative
Teacher Recs: Good
Counselor Rec: Excellent
Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: NY
School Type: Urban public honors high school
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: M
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Well how many other black foreign language specialists are you going to find?</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2310: 800W, 710M, 800CR, but they refuse to look at my 800W...
SAT IIs: 770 French, 690 Chem (soph year), 690 wrld hist. (soph year)
GPA:3.93 UW
Rank: N/A
Other stats:3 Aps, 2 5s one 4, 4 more this year</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Very good writer
Teacher Recs: Excellent
Counselor Rec: dunno
Hook (if any): none; white middle class male who doesn't play basketball</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country:nowhere represented
School Type: private, Catholic, supposed strong ties to Gtown
Ethnicity: Mr. White
Gender: Male
special skills/abilities: jazz piano, sent a CD
why you think you were waitlisted: I don't know. maybe they didn't like my picture. No... thats impossible</p>
<p>most rigorous courseload, taking a few freshman courses at a reputable Jesuit college on top of high school work. sigh</p>
<p>Im worse than rejected, im dejected. Gtown was my #1 dream school, what I considered a match.</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1890 (680 CR, 600 Math, 610 writing)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: Lit 680, Math IIC 650, World Hist. 650</li>
<li>GPA: 89 / 100, school does not weight</li>
<li>Rank: school does not rank</li>
<li>Other stats: taking University History 100 and English 100</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Essays: good in that I emotionally put myself into them.
1st was about being a short rower, 2nd was about handling hypocripsy, and in the 'Why Georgetown?', I imagined myself as a Georgetown student.</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recs: good</p></li>
<li><p>Counselor Rec: good, but probably impersonal</p></li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): I thought my 3rd essay was a hook...umm...international student with filipino and canadian citizenships.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: BC</li>
<li>School Type: Private Catholic - Christian Brother affiliated, not Jesuit</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Filipino</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
</ul>
<p>*Extracurriculars:Varsity Football, 3-Time National Champion in rowing, volunteer at Jewish care home, Executive Council on student service organization, first place in YWCA Story contest, a bunch of other stuff.</p>
<p>*Other Factors: I think I got rejected because of International status, there were a lot more qualified american and international applicants ahead of me, my SAT's were low, especially math, other factors that I didn't realize.
*ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Unfortunately, I was not able to be a member of the class of 2010. I thought I had some hope when someone else was accepted with an identical SAT score. I guess i feel bummed out because of the 'why georgetown' essay i wrote since I invested a lot of 'me' into it. But I guess this will make my rejection from BROWN (when it comes !) easier to swallow lol. Hahaha who knows ? If I end up at Gonzaga, I may just still have a chance to root for a Jesuit school in March Madness !
Congratulations to everyone who got in, and good luck to the rest !
And for those who did not get in, keep on smiling ! I know that that's what I'm going to do ! :)</p>
<p>School/Major: McDonough School of Business/Business Administration (i plan on changing my intended major...)</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2300 - 740 M, 770 W, 790 V (second try, first try was 2160)
SAT IIs: 740 bio, 720 world history, 710 us history, 700 math IIc
GPA: 94.5% unweighted (i believe it's a 3.78 on a 4.0 scale)
Rank: school doesn't rank</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: great
Teacher Recs: didn't read, but they both really liked me and took the time to learn more personal things about me to add so i'm guessing they were good
Counselor Rec: didn't read, didn't really talk to him much, didn't know him as well, but i've been assured that our counselors do their best to "sell us" to the college adcoms...guess it worked, huh? :)
Hook: ehh...? can't really think of one...</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: NYC, NY
School Type: large (3,000), public, but ridiculously competitive and well-known (also feeder school for many colleges)
Ethnicity: Romanian (White)
Gender: Female
Why do you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred?: my essays were very good, maybe the fact that i'll be the first to go to college in my family, my sat scores were definitely helpful, i'm a female going into business...</p>
<p>Why no mail yet from G-Town?!! From a NY school, a lot of my classmates received their responses already (good and bad). What's going on!??? I hope they sent out most acceptances after rejections. ;-)??????</p>
<p>Stats:[ list]
[<em>] SAT:2110 700 M 690 V 710 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 670 IIC 640 Biology 650 Literature
[<em>] GPA: 4.6 W, not sure of unweight, but prob 3.9ish
[</em>] Rank: top 4%
[<em>] Other stats:
[/list]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: well written, nothing spectacular i guess, but i liked them
[<em>] Teacher Recs: didn't see
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn't see
[<em>] Hook (if any):none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Pennsylvania
[<em>] School Type: competitive public
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] major strength/weakness: sats 2's were def a weekness, had good extracurriculars, though
[<em>] special skills/abilities
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: sat 2's, seems like there've been a lot of biology rejections, must be a hard major to get into
[/ul]Other Factors: oh well, i was expecting this so no big deal, congrats to everyone else!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1430 730v/700m
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 USH, 730 Math1c, 650 Lit
[<em>] GPA: 3.744
[</em>] Rank: 43/314
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Good and well organized, Walsh about Democracy in Central Asia
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Poor
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Impersonal, but good
[<em>] Hook (if any): South Dakotan
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: SD
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: Eagle Scout, well traveled
[<em>] special skills/abilities: Wilderness/survival skills
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Bad rank/average SAT
[/ul]Other Factors:Aaahh it sucks. A lot.</p>