**Tufts ED II Class of 2020 Applicants Thread**

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A big congratulations to people who were accepted to tufts today!!! And for people who were deferred/rejected, I understand how you feel right now(i got a rejection letter today too). But that one letter shouldn’t define your worth or success because i know you can be successful no matter where you end up at! :slight_smile:

So I’m applying for ED II and was wondering if anyone else is applying too.
Here is my stat! (honestly i’m not expecting an acceptance letter, but who knows these days…)
Is anyone else applying? If so, do you mind sharing your stats??

Ethnicity: Asian (moved to America in 2007)
Residence: Maryland
Income: <$60,000
Gender: F
School Type - Suburban Public (best school in county)
School size - around 1900 students

GPA: 4.4weighted
Rank: top 11%
SAT: 2110 (superscore)
ACT: just took it and probably won’t send it…i totally bombed that
SAT subject test: Math 1(800)
Math 2(800)

PSAT: 214
AP: 5 on AP Calculus AB, 3 on AP English(Lang&Comp), 5 on psychology and 3 on world history

Leadership: -Autism Youth Ambassadors Club (Vice President)
-Empire club (President)

Award: -maintaing 3.5GPA or higher during sports season (Tennis)
-honor roll (9,10,11)
-nominated for All Eastern band (top musicians from the East Coast are chosen)
-County executive award for serving the Korean community
-U.S.Senator (Ben Cardin) award
-County Governor (Larry Hogan) award
-honorable mention in National Spanish Exam
-AP scholar with honor
-national merit commended student

Extracurricular activities:
-National Spanish Honor Society
-Autism Youth Ambassador Club (vice president)
-President of Empire club (make tutorial videos for psychology/math every two weeks)
-Key Club
-Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra (Clarinetist) [Very selective group of musicians from all over the region]

  • BCPS Side-By-Side Orchestra (Clarinetist) [Very selective audition process (top two clarinetists in the county)]
    -BCPS All County Honors Band
    -BCPS All County Honors Orchestra – first chair clarinetist two years in a row
    -Maryland All State Junior/Senior Band [Highly selective audition process (been in it since 7th grade)
    -Hanul-Sori Gayageum Orchestra [Year-round practice and performance at senior centers, Korean festivals, and local churches, teach how to play traditional Korean instruments to people of all ages ]

Volunteer/work experience: (over 300+ hours of service learning hours)
-intern at a rehabilitation center in Korean hospital for the summer
-intern at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for the summer
-set up chairs for orchestras every sundays)
-pot spring tutor (teach Kindergartens every week)

Common app essay: how my autistic sister shaped me
Supplement: I’m halfway done, but I wrote about how coming to America in 4th grade broadened my perspective by seeing the difference between Korea and America for “let your life speak”, my passion for making origamis for “what makes you happy”
Art supplement: a video of me playing a korean traditional instrument

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Hey! Good luck it seems like you have a really good chance at getting in, I just sent in my app yesterday rip I’ll post stats later though, good luck to everyone else too!

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@rhyiel WOW congrats for submitting the app early! I don’t know… I just got deferred from my math school(Northeastern) sigh…
But best of luck to you and everyone else! :slight_smile:

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oh omg I applied to Northeastern too I figured it’d be around a match for me but if you got deferred with those stats im not so confident anymore ha…did you submit your app yet? I submitted all of my materials but I haven’t gotten an email yet with a pin for the app checklist portal I really want to request an interview asap also my stats aren’t that great so I won’t do a full on list, my ACT score is a 31, gpa is a 3.6 unweighted (rest in peace!!) I have two extracurriculars and about 100 or so volunteer hours…I am applying to the school of engineering though and as a female I guess that might give me somewhat of a boost? I’m really in love with tufts academic programs, I want to be a neural engineer and most colleges don’t have majors in it, so I’d just major in computer engineering and cognititve and brain sciences I guess.

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I checked the thread for northeastern and people who have higher stats than I do also got deferred, but some who had lower stats got in!! :o (so you never know!!) ha ha … i still have to work on the supplement lol
you should totally do an interview if you feel confident!! (i’m not requesting one because i feel like i’m gonna get choked up and do really badly since i get nervous easily haha) your ACT score is average for Tufts so it’s fine!! To be honest, my unweighted GPA is 3.5 (rip x100) but since i’ve taken alot of AP’s, it helped to boost my weighted gpa (Tufts uses weighted GPA if your school provides one.) I’m thinking about majoring in biopsychology! I’ve actually thought about majoring in cognitive and brain sciences too, but i’m gonna go with my first choice. Honestly, college admissions are so random you never know if you’re gonna get in, so I’m not sure if both of us could get into Tufts(it’d be really nice if we did get accepted), but definitely good luck!! :slight_smile:

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did you guys get denied from tufts and you’re applying again?! or did I read that wrong…

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@Krose97 we’re applying for ED II hahah

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So I heard it’s much harder to get in ED II than ED I to Tufts. Does anyone have confirmation on that/ is that wrong information? I got rejected from Penn, and Tufts is now my top choice! My supplements are done… so all I have to do is click submit, unless there’s a super low ED 2 acceptance…

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When I read reports from Tufts about last year’s early decision rounds, it appeared that for ED 1, about 530 were accepted from around 1,800 applications. Then, another 70 were accepted in ED 2. The only hitch is that the number for the ED 2 pool was not clear to me. One might suppose that 2 is a bit more difficult than 1 as far as the acceptance rate goes, but that’s just not definite.

Oh, the link to what I had seen was recently posted on another nearby thread:

http://tuftsdaily.com/news/2015/01/20/record-early-decision-pool-marks-continued-pattern-selectivity/

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I’m also worried. Does it mean not so many people apply ed2?

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It doesn’t look like they take many people in EDII. Does anyone know from experience if people get deferred from EDII into RD? It would seem to me that given the application deadlines, the school would know what its RD pool looked like so wouldn’t have to defer – they know whether they’ve got better candidates to fall back on – but logic doesn’t always seem to dictate the practices on this.

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Just submitted EDII app! Who else has applied?

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@chromodynamics i’m applying for ED II too and i have yet to submit my app …
do you mind sharing your stat? and maybe chance me based on my stat above??

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I submitted my ED2 app yesterday! @pastalover0495 If it helps you out, you can go to my profile to see my test scores/gpa/ec’s etc. Hoping for the best but trying not to get too excited as that 70 number really does seem so low…

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Idk what your chances are I dont know your personality well enough to predict. Tufts admission is holistic, so i cant judge u based on just a part of ur info.

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Sorry lol I just couldnt give u a fair guess. Just be patient and apply to a vaeriety of schools that u would like to go to.

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Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2070 - 720 M 730 CR 620 W (Two 2070’s in a row, lol)
ACT (breakdown): 31 (One try, no preparation at all)
SAT II (place score in parentheses):
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Transferred from Massachusetts to California before my junior year, don’t have to report rank
AP (place score in parentheses): Composition (4)
IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP Statistics, AP Economics, AP Photography, Government, Yale Independent Financial Theory and Financial Markets Course, American Literature
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

Subjective:
Extracurriculars + Job Experience (I combined these):
Partner and Director at Machinima - YouTube videos have 4 million views (5 years); Founder and President of Protenus Investment Club; 3 years of trading experience with both stocks and options; Rowing for Top 3 Team (Rower and Head of Video Production); Running (half-marathon through marathons and currently training to be an ultra-marathon runner). 8 gold medals in the pat 6 months, including first overall in my first marathon; Member of Principal’s Advisory Board; Tech Internship at Bouxtie (designed login and create account screens for app and shot the app store video); Cambridge College (gave a speech on the effects of technology on children and society); Three years of summer tech internships doing network installation and coding websites; Photography, modeling, and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Ellsworth Toggery; Taught game design at i2 Tech Camp; 9 years of guitar, 3 years of piano; 2 years of competitive squash; National Honor Society; Redwood Honor Society
Volunteer/Community Service: 45 hours for a community service trip (not much I know)

Essays:
Common App (9.5/10): Had help from a very experienced college counselor and wrote about the transition of culture between Kenya and Massachusetts.
Tufts (8/10): Very specific (hopefully strong :))
Teacher Recommendations: Both were stellar.
Counselor Rec: I assume that this recommendation was very good as well. My counselor was also new at the school when I transferred, and he has been actively involved in many of my extracurricular activites.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A

Other:
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: I listed other (Kenyan, Italian, Indian)
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Top .1%
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Born in Kenya, Will be on the Tufts Marathon Team

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We might hear back in only 16 days!! The waiting is killing me…

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WOAH 16 days?!?!?!
oh god… i gotta brace myself for that rejection letter now…

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@pastalover0495 I FEEL