<p>Stats:
SAT: 2330 / 760 M 800 CR 770 W (NMF)
SAT IIs: 790 World History / 730 Literature / 680 Chemistry / 680 Math I (ancientish)
GPAw: 4.33
Rank: top 3%</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Should have been excellent.
Teacher Recs: Probably glowing.
Counselor Rec: Systematic. Had a resume on hand.
Hook (if any): A strong, compelling and consistent message of interest in the classics (my CommonApp essay was on NJCL)-- the Tufts classics program is marvelous, so I have, I guess, reason to be there.
Location/Person:
State or Country: SC
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Man
Major strength: Test scores. I enjoy taking tests.
Major weakness: Lack of volunteer work and other extracurriculars, and moderate GPA depression, due mostly to several years of home-schooling (until junior year)
Special skills/abilities: I'm not a musician or an athlete, but I did letter in Quiz Bowl and play Scrabble professionally.
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/WL'd!!: Because of my high school guidance department's incompetence in failing to send required materials repeatedly-- not just here, but to Carleton as well. As a result, Tufts only got my fully complete application about a week ago. This probably led to delayed consideration of my application, which in turn made my waitlist much more probable than an outright acceptance. Still, I remain hopeful.</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 700M 690W 680 CR
SAT IIs: 740MathIIC 710Chem
GPA: 3.6UW/4.4W (hardest courses possible)
Rank: 50/450
Other stats: .....? 12 AP's, 32 on the ACT. I did an interview with them.</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Pretty Good
Teacher Recs: Pretty Good, they were from my favorite teachers.
Counselor Rec: Eh.. Let's just say that my Guidance Counselor is similar to the one in Orange County.
Hook (if any): Nothing really.</p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: Florida
School Type: Competitive Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors:
Extracurriculars: President of service club, sec of MUN, chem team, tennis team, captain of several service projects, member of sga board, ultimate frisbee club!!!! (hehe), hundreds of hours of community service... nothing outstanding.
Why I think I was rejected: GPA/SAT. (The usuals... hah.)</p>
<p>Decision:waitlisted
Stats:
* SAT I: 2280 (720M 760CR 800W) National Merit Finalist
* SAT IIs: 710 IIc, 770 US history, 780 lit
* ACT: 34
* GPA: 4.9W, 3.7 UW
* Rank: top 5% out of 400-something
* Other stats: 5 APs so far (5 on language, 5 on calc bc, 4 on us hist, 4 on world hist, 3 in bio - really really bad day), taking 6 more this year, one of two people in my county to be a laureate candidate my junior year...</p>
<p>Subjective:
* Essays: pretty good, nothing stellar
* Teacher Recs: probably good, but not great
* Counselor Rec: really good
* Hook (if any): nothing really...i play four instruments, i did research on and presented a paper about buddhism, quantum physics, and neuroscience in my jr year for my laureate diploma - i sent tufts the abstract</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: fl</li>
<li>School Type: Public </li>
<li>Ethnicity: iranian</li>
<li>Gender: F</li>
<li>Perceived Strengths/Weaknesses: i haven't really done anything...my interview was amazing and the guy said he would really push for me to get in, i visited the campus on three separate occaisons...</li>
</ul>
<p>tufts was my first choice. ironically, i got into washu and nyu, and i didn't even send my transcripts to either of them...</p>
<p>garibaldi, I would simply email them and send them a letter telling them how much you want to go, you're obviously qualified and honestly, you were probably just near the end of a long line of qualified people and there simply weren't enough spots, but I really hope that you get in, plus, you're from Florida, and there's very few of us, lol.</p>
<p>but really, those stats objectively are better than mine, I thought my essays were awesome and revealing of my personality, could that have played trump card?</p>
<p>antarius, that's probably it. i really liked my essays, but i can see that if i were at the end of a long list of qualified people, i just might seem a little bit old and unrefreshing.
i think i'll just go to washu, because (according to us news) it's a better school, and i would have a hard time going to tufts now. i'd probably constantly feel inferior.</p>
<p>I'm not an admissions officer or anything, but you might have been overqualified and therefore fell victim to the Tufts Syndrome. If Tufts was really your first choice, you should have applied ED. I think that would have made you a lock.</p>
<p>[ul]
[<em>] SAT: CR800/W750/M710 (1510/2260)
[</em>] SAT IIs: US Hist, 780; World Hist, 770; Bio - E 720
[<em>] GPA: 96.5 (school does not weight or rank)
[</em>] Other: National Merit Commended; NHS; APS: US Hist 5, Bio 4, Eng Lit 4; taking AP Calc and AP Physics B/C this spring
[<em>] State or Country: Texas
[</em>] School Type: Small Private (Jewish)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Ethnicity: White/Jewish
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Theater; Jazz Flute; Creative Writing - poetry, fantasy stories; heavy involvement in Jewish community, fluent in Hebrew, study of ancient texts; general community service; summer research in biology at the Univ. of Chicago (good ref from a Chicago prof); summer courses at Brown
[</em>]Why I thought I was accepted: My optional essay #4 might have helped. I sent them a 500-word poem describing who I was<br>
[*]General Comments: The night this acceptance came through, I was so flipped out about a string of rejections and waitlists that I barely noticed it. The past few weeks, I've been doing some serious thinking. Now I am trying to decide between Tufts and U Chicago. They are both great schools though very different. I hope my visit tomorrow will help me sort things out.[/ul]</p>