I’m scared to check but I guess i have to
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The same thing happened to us last year. My son took a gap year and regrouped. It’s been better this year. A lot more options this time around but we had to expand. Good luck to your son in his gap year!
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copium. Hard work is n°1 of defining factors, whatever you mean by hooks aren’t what made you loose your spot
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Disagree, doing physics hw and studying to get a 96 on a test that gets curved to a 146 bc all the kids going to mit and Harvard for physics got 50s, then having the grading system not take scores over 100 seems pointless. *8 classes * 4 yrs and I’m trying to go into finance( the 1 field where prestige matters)
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Waitlisted.
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Did you apply to any safeties? That could be any of us here, honestly!
I got 12 rejections and 8 WLs. Got into 6 though(mostly safeties)
Rejected, CS/Biomedical Computation. 1550+ SAT, 3.9+ GPA, 15+ APs, some research/olympiad/humanities ECs. Also submitted a really good music supplement, guess it didn’t work out. However, super happy with my results, but primarily super happy that it’s all over. I feel like a trauma victim after this month.
Final results:
Accepted: UTD, TAMU, Purdue CS, Northeastern, UF, UT Austin CS, UMich CS, UCSD CS, UCLA CS, Yale, Duke
Waitlisted: UIUC, Georgia Tech, Cornell, Northwestern, CMU, Vanderbilt
Rejected: MIT, Caltech (REA defer), Princeton, UCB, Stanford
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I’m curious what gap year program he will do and if he has an accept that he will go to after the gap year or will he reapply next fall?
Curious… so he did a gap year and reapplied? He didn’t have an accept and take the year off?
Yep- he didn’t get in anywhere. Son had a 3.97UW/4.4W - APs, some EC’s. Wants to study Aerospace.
We took a gap year and he didn’t take any classes because he would have been considered a transfer student. He did take one of those online classes through GA Tech. Many other universities offer them too. We also hired a college counselor - someone I knew - who helped us navigate round #2. This time we expanded our scope and added safeties and OOS. Much more favorable response this time. 8 Acceptances/2 Waitlists/3 Rejects. Still, it’s hard on a mama’s heart, and round 2 isn’t any more fun.
Good luck to your son and to you too!
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Son was accepted!
Valedictorian
1560 SAT
3.99 UW, 4.6 W
16 AP/DE
3 sport varsity athlete
Volunteer firefighter
Tutor
Set-up free tutoring program
President of 2 clubs
Medical internships
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He has a great part time job currently working in software development. They pay him well and have even flown him overseas to attend developer conferences. His hope is to continue to work for them during the gap year.
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admission is holistic, they’re building a class, they probably had 1000 applicants with your stats (which are amazing, hope you got into smth great) but they can’t take 2000 students who are the same, it wouldn’t make sense for a class, it needs to be diverse in ways of thinking, background etc
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I disagree. A business cannot survive for long if it doesn’t run as a meritocracy. You need to get the best people you can get within your budgetary constraints. Otherwise your competitors will eat your lunch.
@JamesSP56, I understand your disappointment but nothing is wasted. You’ll find that your hard work and academic success in high school will make you a top student at college - and later, in the workplace.
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But more importantly - time to work on loving a school that you’ve been accepted to. WLs are a very, very long shot. So send off those LOCIs and forget about those schools. If you’re lucky to get off the WL later, consider it a bonus.
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Oh my god I got in
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Which one are you choosing from accepted ones ?
1000 kids with USAMO + perfect AMC? Im not sure you understand
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