<p>Member of Mensa isnt a hook</p>
<p>Thanks for that twist of the knife.</p>
<p>
[quote]
Member of Mensa isnt a hook
[/quote]
Living in Antarctica certainly is.... ?</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1400/800/740/720
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.0, 6/580
[<em>]APs / other stats: my school doesnt offer APs until senior year
[/ul]
Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[li]Yearbook Editor for 3 years[/li][</em>]Won many state and regional competitions for piano and flute, Carnegie Hall, all-state, played piano concerto with a symphony orchestra at 11, etc.
[<em>]Math Team Captain
[</em>]Student Council Treasurer
[<em>]Scholar Athlete varsity lacrosse
[</em>]International Club President
[<em>]Amnesty International Treasurer
[</em>]Chairperson of school Youth-in-Government
[<em>]National Honor Society Induction Committee
[</em>]A lot of volunteer work at local libraries, plays piano for non-profit organizations, etc.
[li]Cancer research volunteer/intern, have several first-author papers published.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Very personal, really good
I think heheh
[</em>]Teacher Recs: never read them, but should be pretty good
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I hope it was good
[</em>]Interview: amazing, the guy called me every week after the interview to make sure I was working on my application
[<em>]Hook (if any): music achievements, research, I wrote my essay on moving to a small town not knowing any English
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): NY
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Asian Female
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: Works hard/English skills :-X
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: I dont know how they accepted me[/li][/ul]
Any other comments: waitlisted by Harvard but rejected from cornell?!? lol</p>
<p>Hit the Edit button below your post... then you can edit it. Do it quick, you have only 15 minutes until that post is locked...</p>
<p>thank you very much!</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I & II or ACT: 1470/790/780/750
[</em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 4.3, school doesnt rank.
[<em>]APs / other stats: APUSH 5; AP Euro 4.
[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Good, I worked on them forever.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Never read them.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Didnt read it.
[<em>]Interview: Was excellent! The best I had this whole college process.
[</em>]Hook (if any): None.
[/ul]
Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): GA
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White Female
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: No hook?
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: Extremely happy, I am pretty sure I am going to attend.
[/ul]</p>
<p>"Living in Antarctica certainly is.... ?"
Thats how colleges are able to say we have students from all 50 states.</p>
<p>"Ethnicity & Gender: White Female
Major strength/weakness: No hook?"</p>
<p>Hahaha.</p>
<p>heh... bryan... i suppose i see your point. i guess i didn't think TOO HARD bout that one... but still. i really am quite a plain, unoriginal white female. I am sure that it is still quite selective for us white females, and i don't know why I was chosen as opposed to the other (i must believe there are in fact others) white females there...</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:1510 ; 800 M/710 V
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II/800 Writing/790 Chemistry
[<em>] GPA: 4.0/4.0 Unweighted
[</em>] Rank: 6/574
[li] Other stats: [/li]-RSI Scholar
-top 3 in Univeristy Interscholastic League (UIL) in Mathematics since 6th grade at both District/State levels
-Intel Semifinalist
-Various state level awards in piano
-National Merit Finalist
-300 Hours in community service at our local soup kitchen
-Spent majority of summer doing research work at the University of Texas at Austin Chemical Engineering Department (I guess this goes hand in hand with Intel, as aforementioned).
-President of NHS; President of Mu Alpha Theta; Vice President of chess club. For NHS I took it upon my own responsibility to seek out and work collaboratively with other local organizations to help solve the homeless problem in our area. I thought this was semi-unique because it showed leadership. </p>
<p>-I took 11 AP classes throughout my high school career, and I received 5s on all the AP tests I have taken so far. </p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I gave it my all in these. I really thought it reflected my natural intellectual curiosity and motivation in academics, a quality that I thought
MIT was looking for.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Very good. Calculus teacher regarded me as "the best student in [her] career."
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Astounding.
[</em>] Hook (if any): None
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Texas
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Indian to be specific)
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] major strength/weakness: Science is my strength.<br>
[</em>] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Weak SAT score; poor rank; not Intel finalist. I was not the type of student MIT was looking for.
[/ul]Other Factors:
Congradulations to everyone who made it. You all truly deserved it. Best wishes to you all.</p>
<p>I guess RSI doesn't guarantee admission to MIT.</p>
<p>nothin can gauantee MIT... juz drastically improve ur chances probably</p>
<p>dmvp29: ur sats are NOT weak, neither is ur rank poor....seriously.. well there is no gaurantee for mit though ur stats look grt but well...
i am sure u got inot other gd colleges... :)</p>
<p>i think he was being sarcastic...</p>
<p>u will be surprised how many ppl think 1510 is poor...</p>
<p>dmVP29: I dunno but there's something wrong going on. You were denied admission to Northwestern, Harvard, Rice and MIT with RSI?</p>
<p>You are bound to get into at least one of those with RSI (which again, does not guarantee admission anywhere but will certainly give you a slight edge), and your stats aren't bad at all.</p>
<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>I agree with h88. There is no way you can be rejected from all those schools if you had RSI. Something is wrong. I would email CEE if I were you.</p>
<p>okay - hoax. . he posted the exact same message on the Yale, Harvard, and Rice boards and apparently he only got into the University of Texas @ Austin - "which is great since I live there so it will be very convenient for me, but I didn't really want to go there."</p>
<p>So you have no research experience? What were you doing in RSI last summer?</p>
<p>From my knowledge, there were only 2 people from TX last year who were Rickoids, and none of them were...indian. It's a lie. The poster claims he is "Ethnicity: Asian (Indian to be specific)"</p>
<p>To be selected into RSI is an accomplishment in itself, it proves that you can get into the top schools in this nation.</p>