<p>Please post only OFFICIAL decisions (= letter in your hands)!!.</p>
<p>To post your decision:[ul]
[<em>]Download the file linked below, open it in Wordpad, MS Word or whatever you use (but not notepad!), and edit the text in red.
[</em>]Then copy the whole thing, preview your post<a href="Go%20Advanced">/u</a>, and if it appears right, post it.
[/ul]</p>
<p>We'll try to keep this thread clean, i.e. only post decisions here, we can carry any discussion to other threads.</p>
<p>Also, there is a thread to track the geographic movement of the mail, so that onlookers can get an idea of how the mail is moving. After you've posted your decision here, go to that thread and just post your decision and location, possibly the date and time you got it.</p>
<p>Help us help the Class of 2010 applicants!
If you have your decision, POST IT!
If you don't have an ID on CollegeConfidential, please get one and post your decision!</p>
<p>"If you don't have an ID on CollegeConfidential, please get one and post your decision!"
I wasn't planning on ever posting here, so this will probably be my first and last post:</p>
<p>**
Rejected
**
*Domestic *</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1540/800/780/750
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.84 uw
[<em>]APs / other stats: Taking 4 APs
[/ul] Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]All State Band on Horn for two years[/li][</em>]Northeast Senior District for 4 years
[<em>]Gold Key in Scholastic Art Awards (going to be nationally judged)
[</em>]Silver Key in sophomore year
[<em>]School awards: Excellence in Art and Band for four years
[</em>]Middlebury Book Award
[<em>]Qualified for AIME
[</em>]Recognition for MAML
[<em>]Volunteer at Emerson for 200+ hours
[</em>]2nd Place at 2oth Century Music Competition in Plymouth
[<em>]Varsity Tennis for 3 years
[</em>]Won $75 for school art contest
[<em>]Asked by magazine to publish artwork
[</em>]Lifeguard and swim instructor for two years (first aid, CPR, oxygen admin, AED certification)
[<em>]Taking Honors Band, honors art, in NHS, High honor roll
[</em>]Scholarship to Epic Brass Institute and Plymouth Music Camp
[<em>]Horn, piano, academic tutor
[/ul] Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Pretty good
[<em>]Teacher Recs: No idea
[</em>]Counselor Rec: No idea
[<em>]Interview: Didnt have one :(
[</em>]Hook (if any): French horn and art
[/ul] Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): MA
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Asian female
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: math, music, art / lack of interest
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: A major part to the decision was probably my lack of interest (I decided to apply in late December) I didnt have an interview and didnt have time to visit
[/ul] Any other comments: Rejection sucks :(</p>
<p>To MIT10 (how would you say that? "one-oh"? "ten"?): MIT doesn't keep track of visits as far as I can tell - interest isn't a key factor (this isn't Tufts) though the interview is definitely recommended.</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1600/800/770/740
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.41 weighted, no idea what it is unweighted, 2/277
[<em>]APs / other stats: 1 junior year, 3 senior year
[/ul] Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]Math team captain[/li][</em>]Member of a FIRST robotics team
[<em>]Private violin lessons
[</em>]Ocean State Youth Orchestra
[<em>]Southeast Senior District and Senior SEMSBA freshman and sophomore year
[</em>]Brown Book Award
[<em>]Math tutor
[</em>]Harvard SSP
[/ul] Subjective:
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Pretty good.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: I dont know, I didnt read them.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good, but I dont know, because I didnt read it.
[</em>]Interview: Pretty good.
[<em>]Hook (if any):
[/ul] Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): MA
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White/Vietnamese female
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: I thought my essays were pretty creative. / All my ECs are pretty common. Nothing really stands out.
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: I was pretty surprised. I was convinced I was going to be rejected.[/li][/ul] Any other comments: No comments.</p>
<p>Can you share what the rejection letter said qyoute the whole stuff if you like..., i really won't like to open mine till the next year i think..... ;)
gOODLUCK!</p>
<p>me :( guess the decision...dont want to post the whole thing now,(studying for major chem test) will do so later...here's a summary:
SAT I - 790 (M); 780(V)
SAT II - 790 (Writing); 740 (Math IIC); 710 (Physics)
Decent/Good EC's and Essays</p>