<p>Thanks and congrats to you Tizil !!</p>
<p>Just glanced through the decision postings for UChicago and UCLA, and I have to say, admissions are more arbitrary than ever this year. There’s obviously still a positive correlation between stats and probability of acceptance, but I haven’t seen this many outlying acceptances and in UChicago’s case wait-lists in my life (stalking CC since 2009).</p>
<p>People being accepted with scores below 1800 in both schools (non recruits)… I know admissions are supposed to be subjective, but there’s a limit.</p>
<p>gratulations everyone!</p>
<p>Congratulations guys! :D</p>
<p>Congrats shrey!</p>
<p>Did you apply for aid?</p>
<p>And Framed, it is better to have an admission process which is subjective in nature. I can’t imagine what would make you say otherwise. If there are two people, one from a pretty well to do background, and the other is from a very poor background and doesn’t have access to good schools and teachers and scores high, but not as high as the other kid, how do you justify that the kid from well to do background is supposed to be accepted, as your earlier post suggests that you prefer objective instead of subjective admissions…</p>
<p>congrats people! 
UCLA accepted - can u guys PLEASE post your SAT1 (breakdown) and SAT2 scores?
would give the 17’er some rough idea of the accepted people’s stats!!
thankss</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning: 2200 (750 CR, 700 M, 750 W)
Subject tests: 700 Math-II, 780 Physics</p>
<p>Don’t take test scores as the sole benchmark though. I saw people with 2300+ SATs and 800s in the subject tests get rejected/waitlisted in the UCLA forum.</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning: 2180 (730 CR, 740 M, 710W; 11E)
SAT Subject Tests: 800 MathsIIC, 740 Chemistry.</p>
<p>Heed to Ascaris’ last line, the real advantage we have in the admissions process is our full-pay status at UCLA (or for that matter, any public university).</p>
<p>SAT I: 2190 (710CR, 720M, 760W)
SAT IIs: 780 Math 2 (UCs only got my 730 score though), 780 Lit, 790 Phy
TOEFL: 117 (Sent this for some godforsaken reason)</p>
<p>Shrey, you da dude(tte)! Brilliant :D</p>
<p>Btw, someone I know got into every uni he’s applied to so far, including UCLA. He was mostly aiming for Canada, and only applied to a handful of US unis, such as PSU, UMass, etc.</p>
<p>His stats may give you hope (or despair)
SAT I: 1890 (dunno the breakup)
SAT IIs: None
Academic record: 90%+ throughout. Very consistent.
National level swimmer I think.
Essays: just okay :P</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone who’s been accepted!</p>
<p>I’ve been accepted to U Richmond, Wake Forest, U Cincinnati, Fairfield, and Hofstra. Rejected at MIT :(. Waitlisted at Gettysburg C. Waiting for 8 more results!</p>
<p>Good luck to all for the remaining results!</p>
<p>I love how these decisions will not matter at all 6 months from now and it we’ll move on with our lives :)</p>
<p>On an unrelated note:
What a gentleman 
Or a fine lady :p</p>
<p>Ladies and gentlemen,
Congratulations on your admissions so far. May the odds be ever in your favor!</p>
<p>Framed, if I may ask, is your brother leaning towards MIT or Chicago?</p>
<p>Accepted to UCLA waitlisted at Chicago (huge number of wait-lists)</p>
<p>SAT: 2120 (700CR, 710 Math, 710 WR)
SAT2: Math II 780, Lit 760, Biology 800
TOEFL: 115</p>
<p>Forgot to cancel UChicago and UCLA… applied to too many schools.</p>
<p>@canhasphysics, hes leaning towards MIT since he applied for physics.</p>
<p>Ah, brilliant, thank him from us waitlistees. :P</p>
<p>I’m going for Physics, too!</p>
<p>thank you guys for the stats.
since us 17’ers have already started writing the college essays, can you guys please lay down some suggestions and tips and foundation?
i mean, like, should we start the essay with a quote, like a normal-essay we write in school? or should we very formal OR informal? …etc? just like the questions you people had when YOU started writing essays?
Thanks! :)</p>
<p><em>I</em> started writing essays in the last week of Dec, except for the UC essays, which I started writing on Nov 28. :P</p>
<p>But <em>never</em> start with a quote. Or end with one. Steal the show with your own words. Quotes are okay somewhere in between.</p>
<p>Don’t be either very formal or very informal. Let your real personality show through. And don’t try hard for that, either. I think you should focus the least on the tone, and that’s how it’ll come out honest. Focus more on content, and edit more for content and coherence (very important, where I faltered), than for tone.</p>
<p>And NEVER end and essay with something like, “This is how I learned the most important lesson of my life/Hence losing a bike race made me the person I am today/Please take me I love you like no other.”</p>
<p>Congratulations to all for UCLA, UChicago acceptances!</p>