<p>Got my letter next monday. Rejected. Going to Penn.</p>
<p>zik...you're from TROY?!?!?!?! </p>
<p>ugh..our school HATES troy...don't get offended lol..we're just jealous of you super-geniuses and the fact that you guys always take 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place at Regionals. I think you guys came in 3rd this year, behind North Hollywood..am I correct? btw...i'm from Hoover..we placed 3rd 3 years ago...i doubt you remember..neways...will i be seeing you this april?</p>
<p>hahaha common reaction, no worries</p>
<p>our troy a team took first this year at regionals....i dont remember a north hollywood or hoover...i'm pretty sure that's a different regional than us, and yeah....i'm planning on going to admit day</p>
<p>oh yea i confused you with arcadia..we meet you guys at states. but your school is infamous all over socal.</p>
<p>neways...see you at admit weekend!</p>
<p>**
Rejected
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I or ACT: 800M/770V
[</em>]SAT II: 800 PHYSICS, 800 MATHIIc, 770 WRITING
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.99 uw, no ranking
[</em>]APs / other stats: AP French, AP Calc BC, AP Chem, AP English Lang all 5s
AP Bio, AP English Lit this year
[/ul]Major awards/ECs:<br>
Theater, Dance, Voice
State and Regional Honors Choir
Fencing local 1st place awards
Mock Trial
[ul]
[<em>]
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: okay, but long one wasnt great (it was the first)
[<em>]Teacher Recs: excellent
[</em>]Counselor Rec: excellent
[<em>]Hook (if any): one years worth of math & science classes taken at a university, including physics series for majors, honors classes and an upper division class (all A or A+ except one B in the upper division physics)
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): California
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White Male
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: weaknesses long essay wasnt great; lack of major awards and leadership positions (small high school didnt have club presidents, etc.); strengths fulfilled what Stanford says they want most rigorous classes showing capability of exceptional academic work, true passion for learning and problem solving
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: shows Stanford has its own ideas, since s was accepted by MIT, Caltech, Princeton, UC Berkeley engineering, Carnegie Mellon SCS, Harvey Mudd, etc. [/li][/ul]Any other comments:</p>
<p>**
Deferred,Rejected
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats: **
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I or ACT: 1480
[</em>]SAT II: 800 math iic, 790 bio, 720 writing
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.9 uw
[</em>]APs / other stats: 5,5,5,4
[/ul]Major awards/ECs*:
[ul]
[<em>] Too Lazy. Obviously doesn't matter.
[/ul][ b]Subjective:*
[ul]
[</em>]Essays:great
[<em>]Teacher Recs:great
[</em>]Counselor Rec:great
[<em>]Hook (if any): first generation college student
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): CA,USA
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Asian Male
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: Being in Berkeley.
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: im not angry... theres four other universities that would love to have me. [/li][/ul]Any other comments: Have fun at Stanford for all the acceptees... I'll either be in Princeton NJ, New Haven CT, or Cambridge MA.</p>
<p>Rejected </p>
<p>international</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT I or ACT: 800v/710m
SAT II: 800 writing, 640 MATHIIc, 620 World History
GPA, Class Rank/Size: no gpa. 1/400
APs / other stats: none - int'l abroad
Major awards/ECs:
scholarship student...pretty selective. 1000 out of 480 000 are picked.
Subjective:
Essays: reasonable not great.
Teacher Recs: good except one was very average.
Counselor Rec: great
Hook (if any): lotsa leadership postitions
Personal:
Location (State or Country): international asia
Ethnicity & Gender: female
Major strength/weakness: weaknesses nothing very spectacular abt me, long essay may have been considered childish.
Your thoughts on your decision: i expected to be rejected.
Any other comments: GO BEARS! :)</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
*Domestic *</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I or ACT: 730M/800V
[</em>]SAT II: 800IIC, 780 Lit, 750W
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.7 at best west coast high school w/ honors classes
[</em>]APs / other stats: 5 on History w/o class, 4 on English language
[/ul]Major awards/ECs[/b [ul]
[li]]: NMS Finalist
Mock Leg. and Model UN
nothing great.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[<em>]Essays: Must have been incredible to get me in.
[</em>]Teacher Recs: Again, must have been fantastic.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: See above.
[</em>]Hook (if any): Had a letter from two established alums
nothing besides that.
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): Seattle
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Male
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: ECs suck
went to great school. Letter and essays must have pushed me over the edge.
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: Stanford was the first school I wrote off
Now I have to decide between this and Penn. Harder than it sounds
[/ul]</p>
<p>when did you get your packet?</p>
<p>Hey knevan, you must go to Lakeside...
I am from the Seattle area and attend a private school on the Eastside</p>
<p>Yeah- thats a tough choice-
Did a lot of people from your school get into Stanford?
I know Amir G and that he got in early... but I was wondering if your school gets bunches in each year?</p>
<p>wow..lot of desis on this board accepted here...thats awesome...are you guys gonna go to the A3C open house at admit weekend if you do go in april?</p>
<p>that's gonna require a plane ticket...</p>
<p>I'm one of the 3 that i know for sure got in RD... Amir got in with someone else ED. we just found out on saturday, though, so I'm sure at least one or two more are coming. typically 4 or 5 people out of our ~140 strong classes end up going, so yeah, we do alright there.</p>
<p>**
Accepted :)
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I or ACT: 800M/780V
[</em>]SAT II: IIC- 790, Writing- 790, Chinese-780, Bio E-720
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: 3.99 unweighted, weighted...not sure 4.7ish, no rank
[</em>]APs/other stats: 5s on BC Calc, Lang, Bio; 4 on Gov; currently taking Chem and Lit
[/ul]Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[<em>] Too lazy to post a good deal here
NIH half day internship through a pretty competitive program in my county
piano for several years
lit mag, NHS, science academy, ballet/tap, etc
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: okay (but perhaps better than ok b/c I got in?), I remeber having a bunch of trouble fitting everything in for the short essays so I ended up pasting really small font typed essays (think 8 times) onto the paper. I was afraid that would look sort of messy/was paranoid that the glue wouldn't stick.<br>
[<em>]Teacher Recs: did not see them, but I think they were decent b/c they got me into several good colleges
[</em>]Counselor Rec: big school
[<em>]Hook (if any): internship
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): MD, USA
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: female, asian
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: uh strength: internship, weakness- procrastination on essays
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: surprised to get the big envelope, unexpected [/li][/ul]Any other comments:
does anyone know how good Stanford is for bio (either research, BME, or premed)?
And congrats to everyone who got in! :) Those magnets are amusing.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I or ACT: 670M/660V 32
* SAT II: IC- 630, Writing- 660, US History - 700
* GPA, Class Rank/Size: 95 uw 97w no rank
* APs/other stats: 4 on AP American
</code></pre>
<p>Major awards/ECs:
National competitor in karate
student government
wrestling, track, cross country</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Essays: good
Teacher Recs: good
Counselor Rec: not sure
Hook (if any): karate
</code></pre>
<p>Personal:</p>
<pre><code>* Location (State or Country): NY, USA
* Ethnicity & Gender: black male
* Major strength/weakness:
* Your thoughts on your decision: omg this is amazing. stanford has been my dream school for so long. Now i have to prove to my parents that I should go there instead of yale
</code></pre>
<p>Any other comments:
I love stanford!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I or ACT: 800M/750V
[</em>]SAT II: 800 Math IIC 790 World History 780 Biology M/Chemistry/Physics 750 Writing
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: Top 5% of 190
[</em>]APs / other stats: 5's on Calculus BC, Physics B, Chemistry, US History, Psychology...taking 7 more this year
[/ul]Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[<em>] State math and science awards, managing/layout editor of newspaper, captain of math/science teams, other stuff....
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Pretty good, I think. One was very creative (I wrote about Risk, the board game!)
[<em>]Teacher Recs: Very good...had one teacher for three years, known him for four...other from teacher something along the lines of "among best in career"
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Awesome
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[<em>]Location (State or Country): Westchester, NY
[</em>]Ethnicity & Gender: White Male
[<em>]Major strength/weakness: Math, newspaper?
[</em>]Your thoughts on your decision: w007, after waitlists at H and P, I'm a happy camper
[/ul]Any other comments: No comments.</p>
<p>accepted.....10 char</p>
<p>**
Accepted
**
Domestic</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]
[<em>]SAT I: 800M/750V
[</em>]SAT II: top three are 800 Bio-M, 790 Chem, 780 Math IIC
[<em>]GPA, Class Rank/Size: school doesn't rank, A-/A average at a competitive private school
[</em>]APs / other stats: AP Scholar, National Merit Finalist, etc.
[/ul]Major awards/ECs:
[ul]
[<em>] Lots of music, such as classical piano, all-state chorus, a cappella, and musicals. Some minor leadership (club president, editor of foreign language magazine), and community service. Lots of academic awards like Rensselaer Math and Science Prize, USABO semifinalist, AATG German Exam High Scorer, etc.
[/ul]Subjective:
[ul]
[</em>]Essays: My long one was OK, but the revised edition that I used on the Common App was much better. The shorter ones were pretty good, nothing spectacular, but not bad.
[<em>]Teacher Recs: One was outstanding, the other I dunno. Probably pretty good.
[</em>]Counselor Rec: Most likely very generic, but good nonetheless.
[<em>]Hook (if any): Lots of music? I dunno. I'm qualified academically but I've seen many academic superstars get rejected. And I'm Asian, so... who knows?
[/ul]Personal:
[ul]
[</em>]Location (State or Country): NJ
[<em>]Ethnicity & Gender: Asian male (Korean)
[</em>]Major strength/weakness: strength is probably music. weaknesses- typical Asian male applicant
[li]Your thoughts on your decision: Like I said before, I'm kinda surprised, but really happy nonetheless.[/li][/ul]Any other comments: Rejected from HYP, and Penn. Got into Cornell and Duke along with Stanford, so I'm in the process of choosing (I'll most likely pick Stanford).</p>
<p>waitlisted</p>
<p>bad scores (1140) good gpa, recs essays
dont know how it happened...</p>
<p>waitlisted.....is there still hope?</p>