<p>the counter-part to the more pessimistic & depressed "The I just totally got rejected thread".</p>
<p>but, yeah. i'm only a junior, but where are the people who got accepted into their DREAM school totally weren't expecting to??? are there any out there? i need hope! :</p>
<p>hopefully this can turn out into a big super-thread. that would be nice :)</p>
<p>p.s. post your stats [which u thought were nothing special] as well : D</p>
<p>Member name: BigWeight
Gender: Male
State or Country: GA
GPA: 3.98/ 4.25
SAT (M:CR:W) or ACT: 2270
SAT II scores: 800, 770, 760, 730
AP scores: 5,4,4,4,3,3 </p>
<p>DUKE
UCHICAGO
UPITT HONORS
UGA HONORS
UNC CHAPEL HILL HONORS (OOS)</p>
<p>Love the thread idea. Too bad I’m a junior too and can’t contribute (yet!)</p>
<p>Bump.</p>
<p>There is a thread for this, and it has been stickied for quite a while now. </p>
<p>Are you high?</p>
<p>BigWeight: <congrats on duke and UofC…tough schools to shake.</p>
<p>uhm, no, i’m not high. but thankkks for asking.</p>
<p>i wasn’t looking for a list of schools people have got accepted into, obviously. i said i’m a junior^^. what i AM looking for is some nice encouragement stories.</p>
<p>so have a nice day ;)</p>
<p>
^^^^
Accepted: Carnegie Mellon (ED), Penn State University Park, Drexel
Rejected: None
Withdraw: Cornell, Bucknell, RIT, WPI, RPI</p>
<p>SAT: Math: 620, Reading: 640, Writing: 590
SATII: MathI: 590, Physics: 550, Literature: 530</p>
<p>Got into my dream school!</p>
<p>UCR, UCI thus far</p>
<p>-GPA 3.75
-SAT I: 1590
-SAT IIs: 770, 590, 510
-APs, two 3’s, one 5, two 2’s, taking one in May
-Extensive ECs, loads of community service,
-I think the essay really worked to my advantage!</p>
<p>SAT: 2220 CR:680 M:780 W:760
key club president and other extracurriculars
Swimming and Tennis Varsity, captain one year
valedictorian
750, 720 math IIC and Bio respectively</p>
<p>Early Action:
Stanford-Fail!</p>
<p>Accepted:
Wash. U in St. Louis
NYU
University of Nevada Reno- Full Scholarship</p>
<p>Waiting on:
Rice U
Upenn
UCLA and UCSD
Columbia U
Johns Hopkins U</p>
<p>SAT: 2190 CR:700 M:780 W:710
Chess club pres, capoeira and other stuffs. Captained some chess teams.</p>
<p>Female (omg lol)
710 Bio M, 710 Chem, 680 Math (I really should have done better)</p>
<p>Early Action:
none</p>
<p>Accepted:
University of South Florida
The College Of New Jersey
Cornell University (!) - CALS (just found out today!)</p>
<p>Waiting on:
Columbia U
Johns Hopkins U
Yale U
UChicago</p>
<p>Here’s my little encouragement story:
I recently got into NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. It’s definitely one of my top choices and because I had to audition to get in, I went through a whole lot of low confidence days where I believed I wasn’t a good enough singer or actress.
With admissions at NYU, the audition/artistic review counts for 50% and academics counts for 50%, which is really scary. One doesn’t outweigh the other. But, my audition went pretty well and I went back to school … back to waiting.
Then, I found out that some of the accepted students would receive invitations to Washington Square in NYC in order to learn more info about the school and meet other admitted students. So every day of last week, I ran home and looked at the mail. Then, on Friday, before math class, I called my dad and nonchalantly asked if there was any mail for me. He said there was a letter there from NYU. At that moment, I tried not to freak out, but then he told me that it said, “Congratulations! Join Us!” on it. So then, I proceeded to run to my Drama teacher and hug her a few times. I told my friends, who didn’t even know I had auditioned (because I kept it a secret, thinking I wasn’t good enough to get in).
Let me say, for the record, that NYU is the only school I auditioned for. All of the colleges that I applied to set me up for a great career in law. But during the application process, I realized that I couldn’t, just couldn’t, apply to NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences and not participate in drama classes. So, on a whim, I decided to audition. It was a longshot (especially when you consider all of the high school seniors that audition at 7 or more musical theatre/drama schools), but I got in. And I’ve never been so excited. </p>
<p>Sorry for the really long post.</p>
<p>Yes! I danced with joy.</p>
<p>Accepted to: Georgetown University</p>
<p>SAT’s: 800 CR, 690 W, 650 M
UW GPA: 3.856
State: ME
First Gen Student</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Don’t be sorry- I’m actually tearing up! Yay!
edit: congrats to simpson, too. awesome school.</p>
<p>aw, awesome job to everybody! 
it’s a good thing u decided to audition, claire :)</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone.</p>
<p>Special congrats to Claire - that’s awesome :)</p>
<p>willhaspassion - ucsd has released admissions decisions.</p>
<p>SAT: 1580
SAT 2: 800, 680
GPA: 3.92
5 APS
Got accepted by uc irvine and uc davis.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.2 UW, 3.45 W
SAT: 1930</p>
<p>Accepted: University of Alabama, Auburn University, University of Georgia, UC Irvine, Bennington, Oxford College
Waitlisted: University of Virginia
Rejected: None</p>
<p>Northwestern (ED), UT Austin and OU (40k scholarship)</p>
<p>SAT: 2100
UW GPA: 3.71
With no SAT II scores or an ACT</p>
<p>Statistically, I don’t think I should have been accepted.</p>
<p>I was extremely surprised when I got a likely letter from Cornell…and very happy afterward. 
Actually, I wasn’t very optimistic on about half of my acceptances.</p>
<p>Accepted: Cornell, Georgia Tech, University of Miami w/ $11,000 scholarship, USC, UT Austin OOS, and Texas A&M
Rejected/Waitlisted: None knock on wood
GPA: 3.95/4.23 after 1st semester
SAT: 720M 630CR 730W
SATII: 720 Chem 680 Math1 >.<
Nothing spectacular in my EC’s: Volunteering, youth leader at church, leadership in a couple of clubs.</p>