The Official RD Smith Class of 2011

<p>Less than 24 hours to go!!! Post when you find out....Good luck everybody!!!</p>

<p>Remove all Spaces</p>

<p>[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] ACT:
[ *] AP/IB taken/scores:
[ *] GPA weighted:
[ *] GPA unweighted:
[ *] Rank or % estimate:</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Legacy Yes/No:
[ *] Recruited Yes/No:
[ *] Important ECs:</p>

<p>[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]</p>

<p>[ b]General Comments/Congratulations/etc:[ /b]</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!</p>

<p>Decision ACCEPTED!</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted! *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 710V, 760M, 780W, 2250
[</em>] SAT II: 770 BioM, 760 Math2
[<em>] ACT: 33 (Didn't Send)
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: Physics C, Calc BC, Bio, Psych, US History (Ap Sch. w/Distinction)
[<em>] GPA weighted: 4.46
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 10%ish</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I worked hard on them, but I am an awful writer.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One outstansing, one good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Impersonal.
[</em>] Hook (if any): ?</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: PA
[</em>] School Type: Top Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female (obviously?)
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Music galore.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: NMF</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Good luck to everyone! We all deserve to get in. Don't fret if you are not accepted; Things turn out the way that they are meant to. Everyone will find their "perfect" school!</p>

<p>Congratulations to ALL of our new Smithies out there!! Are any of you waiting on any other schools, or have you decided that Smith is the school for you?</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: N/A
[</em>] SAT II: Chemistry 640; US History 750
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: European History 5; US History 5; Chemistry 3
[<em>] GPA weighted: 4.0
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 3.8
[li] Rank or % estimate: 6/600+ seniors</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Experience as an first generation kid and immigrant
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good and personal
[<em>] Counselor Rec: N/A
[</em>] Hook (if any): N/A</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: New York City (born in Hong Kong)
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: 6 leadership positions in human rights' related groups and competitive academic teams</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: First-generation college student? And a positive on-campus interview.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
Congrats to those already accepted and sorry to those who were rejected. I know rejection really hurts (I've been rejected so many times...), but it's not the end of the story! There are plently of good schools out there and I'm sure you are bound to get into those. :) Best of luck to all :) </p>

<p>I'm not sure if Smith is the place I'm going, but that will heavily depend on how my financial aid packet for my other schools will look like.</p>

<p>I'm still waiting on Brown, but I have no clue which school I will choose if I get into Brown too!</p>

<p>hooray! looks like smith has chosen some amazing women! as a recent alum, i'd be thrilled to have all of you as part of the "family" of smithies.</p>

<p>*Decision: Accepted *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 670CR, 660W, 640M
[</em>] SAT II: 670 US History, 610 Literature
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: European History, English Language, US History (all 4s) and Chemistry (2)
[<em>] GPA weighted: 3.96
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 3.7
[li] Rank or % estimate: 50/585</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good, nothing spectacular
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Both were positive but one was really great at bringing out aspects of me not apparent elsewhere in my application
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, typical reccomendation. I go to a really large high school so my counselor didn't know much about me
[</em>] Hook (if any): 1st generation</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Northern California
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Hmmm....
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Girl Scout (Gold Award), Mock Trial, Theatre</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Nothing that I can think of.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 710V, 750M, 740W
[</em>] SAT II: 800 MathII, 800 Korean, 700 Physics
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] AP/IB taken/scores: European History 5; English Comp 4
[<em>] GPA weighted: school doesn't weigh
[</em>] GPA unweighted: 3.8
[li] Rank or % estimate: within 10%</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Really good, and I don't usually say my writing is really good, but I had a unique situation and I think this was probably the biggest factor that got me accepted.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: I know one was very good, not really sure about the other one.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, I know the counselor pretty well and we get along well.
[</em>] Hook (if any): nothing really, I'm not a URM or anything..</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: upstate NY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: Leadership roles, Best Buddies, bunch of music stuff...</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Nothing really...</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Congratulations to everyone who got in! I'm not sure if Smith is where I'll be going (that would depend on how much money other schools give me and whatnot) but I would really like to go =)</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted </p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Writing 800, CR:710, Math:700
[</em>]SAT II: World History:780, French: 800, Chemistry: 670
[<em>]ACT:
[</em>]AP/IB taken/scores: World History: 5, French: 4, Calc AB: 4
[<em>]GPA weighted: 4.34
[</em>]GPA unweighted:
[li]Rank or % estimate: 3 in a class of 74</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]*Subjective: *[ul]
[<em>]Essays: very strong, it took lots of tries to find one that i liked but i love the one i used
[</em>]Teacher Recs: wonderful, esp the one from my french teacher
[<em>]Counselor Rec: good- she knows me well enough since its a small school
[</em>]Hook (if any):</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:
[<em>]State or Country: CA (SF bay area)
[</em>]School Type: small private
[<em>]Ethnicity: white
[</em>]Gender: female
[<em>]Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>]Recruited Yes/No: no
[li]Important ECs:[/li]Varsity Tennis: Number one singles, captain
Varsity Track
Hospital volunteer, other community service
regional newspaper teen journalist
nothing is particularly specacular...?</p>

<p>Other Factors:
National Merit Finalist
i didn't interview but i did talk one on one with the admissions rep for my area and i visited</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:
I got a STRIDE, yay! congrats to everyone!</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>

<p>Stats:[list]
[<em>] SAT: 2130 (750 cr, 610 m, 770 w)
[</em>] SAT II: 750 french, 720 fr w/ listening, 690 lit, 640 bio ec
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: US history, 4
[</em>] GPA weighted: 4.27
[li] Rank or % estimate: top 4%</p>[/li]
<p>[list]Subjective:[list]
[<em>] Essays: completely BSed
[</em>] Teacher Recs: stellar
[<em>] Counselor Rec: terrible
[</em>] Hook (if any): none?</p>

<p>[list]Location/Person:[list]
[<em>] State or Country: MA, USA
[</em>] School Type: large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: No
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: No
[li] Important ECs: pretty involved, leadership etc.</p>[/li]
<p>CONGRATS TO EVERYONE!</p>

<p>PS i'm HTML illiterate.. not sure what happened there!</p>

<p>Congratulations all. So far so good. Crossed fingers for TtHT.</p>

<p>good to know i'm not alone! congrats to you too flootloop!</p>

<p>ACCEPTED!</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 690V, 510M, 690W, 1890
SAT II: 700 US, 610 Lit
ACT: Slept in the day I was suppposed to take it, oops
AP/IB taken/scores: Art History 4, World History 4, US History 5, Government 4, Eng. Comp 3 (AP Sch. w/Distinction)
GPA weighted: 4.27
Rank or % estimate: top 3%
Subjective:
Essays: I thought they were creative
Teacher Recs: I have no idea
Counselor Rec: Again, no idea
Hook (if any): Hmm...
Location/Person:
State or Country: CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Legacy Yes/No: Nope, first generation
Recruited Yes/No: Nope
Important ECs: art, political involvment, journalism...
Other Factors: Beats me...</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I'm pumped! This has revived me from my senior slump. Good luck ladies!</p>

<p>I hope I'll be able to go to open campus. I havent made arrangements yet though, and it might be too late. How about you guys?</p>

<p>Accepted! Yeah</p>

<p>I don't think I'll be able to make it open campus, but if the parentals decide that the finances work out, I'm definitely going. I'm pretty sure now that I want to major in engineering. What is everyone planning to study?</p>

<p>Decision: accepted</p>

<p>Stats
SAT:680 CR, 770 M, 780 W
SAT II: 720 Math II, 720 Bio, 730 US history
ACT: didn't take it.
AP/IB taken/scores: 5 on Latin, 5 on US history
GPA weighted: 4.3333
GPA unweighted: 3.687
Rank or % estimate: I'm guessing somewhere above the 50th percentile, but probably not much better than that.</p>

<p>Subjective
Essays:quite good
Teacher Recs:I'm guessing very good
Counselor Rec:no idea
Hook (if any):?</p>

<p>Location/Person
State or Country: California
School Type: private (a very difficult college-prep school)
Ethnicity:White
Gender:female
Legacy Yes/No:no
Recruited Yes/No:no
Important ECs:Guitar, Gay-straight alliance, Junior State of America, some community service stuff, but not really a whole lot of time spent on them (this is probably a weak spot)</p>

<p>Other Factors:I won an award Junior year for best history term paper.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:Congrats to all that got in!! I can't wait to visit again to do an overnight.</p>