Those who applied to Ivy League schools, share your results

Transfer Students
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<p>Ah cutthroat...Anyways- East Asian Studies sounds fantastic. A specific concentration or a general examination of the area? Knowledge in finance and East Asia= lots of opps out there. One of my sisters college house-mates went to ASU for an MBA (he was from France doing an exchange)- he then moved on over to China and got a chaffeur, housing, 70k+ a year job...he loves China. </p>

<p>If you love East Asian Studies as much as I love History and Music- then I understand you completely- you need that inner feeling of enjoyment from what you are researching and plan to continue to study- thank goodness you save yourself from being the 50-something CEO ho wakes up one morning and thinks...what have I been doing with my life?</p>

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<p>Hmm, so much for the thread's stated purpose.
I didn't just apply to Ivy League schools, but if adhering to the thread title, I'll just list them:</p>

<p>Current School: University of California Berkeley
Sophomore/Junior: Sophomore transfer
GPA: 3.95
SAT: 2310/2400
SAT2: 770, 780, 800
ACT: N/A
Rec: Assuming that they were pretty good
ECs: Many state awards in high school, president of clubs, martial arts at Berkeley
Essays: Straightforward, to the point, and honest
Any hook: Dean's Honor List, Regents and Chancellors Scholar, etc. Active in business community at Berkeley and got finalist at a rather large and well-known case competition</p>

<p>Major:
(previously) Operations Research, Business, and Philosophy
(now) Economics, Philosophy/History/Geography/Mathematics</p>

<p>Applied: Yale, Brown, Dartmouth
Accepted: Brown, Dartmouth
Waitlisted: none
Rejected: Yale
Will Attend: Dartmouth</p>

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<p>:o Yale sure loves rejecting. Size-wise Yale would have been the best for me but I ended up accepting a women's college offer. (I hope to retake the SATs - Collegeboard screwed up my earlier SATs). I speak Japanese and I have interest in learning Chinese and Arabic as well so Asian/East Asian Studies rather appeal to me. But I am a Science person so I'll end up majoring in a science subject probably... I was wondering what majors are the best for getting you a well-paying, full of security, and of-course interesting jobs that are available at most places in the world?</p>

<p>Also the 4yr SAT thingy reminded me of something:
4channer1: d(>_<)b
4channer2: How did you get the reverse b? (or something along those lines I forget his exact sentence...)
4channer3: It's called a 'd'</p>

<p>ROFL, stupidity taken to whole new level. Not to mention the 2nd guy used a d himself in his sentence. Funny, but a friend of a friend of mine said he might have asked that too o_o.</p>

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<p>Current School: NYU
Major: Bio
Sophomore/Junior: Soph Transfer
GPA: 3.85
SAT: 2250
SAT2: 800, 720
ACT: N/A
Rec: one decent
ECs: nothing big
Essays: pretty thought-out
Any hook: presidential honors scholar at NYU</p>

<p>Applied: Columbia
Accepted: Columbia
Waitlisted: none
Rejected: none
Will Attend: Columbia</p>

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<p>impressivelll</p>

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<p>Current School: UCLA
Major: Econ/Phil
Sophomore/Junior: Soph Transfer
GPA: 3.76
SAT: 1930
SAT2: 680, 720
ACT: 32
Rec: two excellent
ECs: lax, speech and debate, ASB
Essays: also pretty well thought out
Any hook: none really...</p>

<p>Applied: ivies minus harvard and princeton, williams, amherst, swarthmore, stanford, bowdoin, pomona
Accepted: Penn, Pomona, Williams, Swarthmore
Waitlisted: none
Rejected: Everywhere else
Will Attend: Williams</p>

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<p>Current School: Top 15
Major: Biology
Sophomore/Junior: Soph Transfer (Fall)
GPA: 3.96
SAT: 2310
SAT2: 760, 800, 750
ACT: NA
Rec: four excellent
ECs: model un, mock trial, bio research
Essays: honest, straightforward
Any hook: not sure</p>

<p>Applied: Harvard, Yale, Stanford
Accepted: Harvard (from waitlist)
Waitlisted: Harvard
Rejected: Yale, Stanford
Will Attend: Harvard</p>

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<p>Current School: University of Houston
Major: Economics and Chemistry
Sophomore/Junior: Sophomore (Fall)
GPA:3.54
SAT: 2400
SAT II: 800, 710, 700
Recs: Two professor recs were superb
ECs: IT, econ research, music
Hook: IT?</p>

<p>Applied: Cornell, Northwestern, WashU, University of Texas-Plan II Honors
Accepted: All schools
Waitlisted: N/A
Rejected: N/A
Will Attend: WashU</p>

<p>In hindsight, I wish I had included Dartmouth, Brown and Duke like I originally intended...</p>

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<p>brand_182:</p>

<p>“If one must focus on another poster's grammar, they must not have anything significant to contribute.” </p>

<p>“It follows that if one has something significant to contribute, they will not focus on another poster's grammar.”</p>

<p>“TheWhartonSchool - it's whether, not wheather.”</p>

<p>you’re the biggest hypocrite alive.</p>

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<p>
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you’re the biggest hypocrite alive.

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<p>While you may have caught my hypocrisy by digging up a month old thread (constructive use of time), you have quite the case if you're to prove that I'm the biggest hypocrite alive. I'm sure I've been topped by others such as yourself.</p>

<p>P.S. - you'll notice that I made note of his grammar and then moved on to deconstruct and attack his argument. You might try that sometime.</p>

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<p>dearsiryes, nice sat scores!</p>

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<p>haha, and there's ND freak still patching the wounds from another thread. </p>

<p>I made some posts over there on the Cornell board, why dont you check those out for grammar as well.</p>

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<p>this thread was helpful.. too bad no one else posted in it =&lt;/p>