University of Pennsylvania Class of 2011 Official RD Decisions

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
81

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!! Engineering</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1510/2240
ACT: 35
SAT IIs: Math II 780, US History 740, Chem 710
GPA: 4.0 (98.944) unweighted
Rank: 2/375 unweighted
Other stats: 5 on AP Statistics, Chemistry, and US History; graduating with 7 APs</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: they were ok- i liked them
Teacher Recs: didn't read but i think really good- from my math teacher i have had for two years
Counselor Rec: didn't read but should be good- i have known her since elementary school
Hook (if any): i can't think of anything- my team won a national championship?
Location/Person:
State or Country: Georgia
School Type: public
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Other Factors:
EC's:
2 years varsity Cross Country- state champions
4 years horseback riding- captain
Science olympiad- national champions, cocaptain
Beta club treasurer
Key club
other random clubs
same job for 2 years- 10 hours per week</p>

82

<p>Decision &School: ACCEPTED! CAS (econ here I come!! jajaj)</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT- 800v, 740m, 730wr you do the math haha
ACT: nope, too lazy
AP/IB taken/scores: (all IB) Math hl, econ hl, english a2 hl, physics sl, business sl, spanish a1 hl
GPA weighted: 4.30ish
GPA unweighted:
Rank or % estimate: second in class</p>

<p>Subjective:
Essays: wierd ass stuff haha, I basically wrote about how my old converse reflected my personality, turned out really well
Teacher Recs: awesome
Counselor Rec: amazing, the guy and I really get along well
Hook (if any): mmm...I play in a band that ended up 6th in a national band contest, I guess that can be a hook</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: costa rica ( hell yeah!!)
School Type: private
Ethnicity: latino
Gender: male
Legacy Yes/No: No...first one to study undergrad in the states</p>

<p>Important ECs: classic guitar, electric guitar, band, german, knowledege bowl, student government, model united nations</p>

<p>Other Factors: no idea</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I'm way excited about going to penn, specially since one of my best friends got into wharton ED, so how cooler can it get: Ivy league education at an amazing school in a cool city with one of my best friends? (my other best friend also applied, but he hasn't checked his decisions, I'm praying for him to get in too)</p>

83

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84

<p>I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! CORNELL GUYS!!
You guys have been awesome putting up with me all these months.
Where should I go: Cornell or UNC-Chapel Hill? I ruled out Michigan coz the weather sucks and I'd rather have Cornell if I'm going to have freezing temperatures.
ACCEPTED TO CORNELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YIPEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

85

<p>Congrats, dulce. Just remember not to be too snobbish/obnoxious to your future classmates. ;)</p>

86

<p>Philly > Ithaca, mmm</p>

87

<p>NYC > Philly > Ithaca</p>

<p>PWNED</p>

88

<p>Penn > NYC > Philly > Murder Capital of the World > Taiwan > Pat's Blue Ribbon > University of Maryland > XXXX Community College > Harvard > Ithaca > nothing</p>

89

<p>Ithaca > Princeton
Duh Meng.</p>

90

<p>XXXXXX Community College > All.</p>

<p>For servicing the rich businessmen, duh boys.</p>

91

<p>Wait-listed.</p>

<p>**** damn **** ***** ass</p>

<p>I just wanted to see how many of those would get bleeped out :)</p>

<p>EDIT: Hmm...I guess they allow some of them...</p>

92

<p>WAITLISTED!!!</p>

<p>I will most likely be withdrawing from the list, though, so I guess that's good news for the rest of you that were waitlisted as well :) Good luck!!</p>

93

<p>Accepted
I will withdraw soon as well, I might attend Princeton</p>

94

<p>Waitlisted... but accepted at Yale, Brown, and Dartmouth.</p>

<p>NEW HAVEN HERE I COME!</p>

<p>Congrats to my fellow Ivy-leaguers.</p>

95

<p>CAS: Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal: 750
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 710
[</em>] SAT Total: 2260
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math 2 800 Chemistry 760 USH
[</em>] ACT: did not take
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 10 AP classes taken (through senior year) and 5 AP exams taken...not so good scores
[</em>] GPA weighted: school doesn't weight grades
[<em>] GPA unweighted: 3.96
[</em>] Rank or % estimate: 32/388, or top 9%</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: good i guess
[</em>] Teacher Recs: pretty good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: mediocre
[</em>] Hook (if any): none</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: WV
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: asian
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: no
[li] Important ECs: tennis, church youth group</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: school sends ppl to Penn every year even though we in WV.</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc: after the Duke rejection yesterday, my mood went from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs. woooohooo!!!</p>

96

<p>Accepted! Wait...</p>

97

<p>Waitlisted at Wharton...</p>

98

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

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT Verbal:750
[</em>] SAT Math: 800
[<em>] SAT Writing: 700
[</em>] SAT Total: 2250
[<em>] SAT II: 800MII, 770MI, 730FR
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] AP/IB taken/scores: 5 Calc AB, 5 USH, 5 Art Hist, 4 English Comp., 4 World Hist
[</em>] GPA weighted:4.8
[<em>] GPA unweighted:3.97
[</em>] Rank or % estimate:5th/430(?)</p>

<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I talked about my passion for linguistics and playing the harp. I didn't write any of the optional essays. (Shame on me)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: apparently very good, from two math teachers
[<em>] Counselor Rec: probably standard "good kid"
[</em>] Hook (if any):</p>

<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: KY
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Legacy Yes/No: no
[</em>] Recruited Yes/No: no
[li] Important ECs: Harp, 13 years; Cello, 9 years; treasurer of Beta club; treasurer of Young Dems; secretary of a local harp society; French and Chinese lessons</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:</p>

<p>General Comments/Congratulations/etc:</p>

99

<p>Since I got into Yale, I'll use the format used over at their board (too lazy to rewrite another one, lol). Hope you won't mind :)</p>

<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: No
[</em>] SAT I (by section): N/A
[<em>] SAT IIs: Math I 780, Chinese 800, US History 740, French reading 680
[</em>] GPA, Weighed and Unweighed: 4.00 unweighed (all honours and APs throughout highschool)
[<em>] Rank: 1/259
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] APs (including this year's): Psychology (5), English Lit & Lang, Calculus AB, Stats, French lang, Human Geo
[</em>] IBs (including this year's): N/A
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP English Lit & Lang, AP Calculus AB, AP stats, AP French lang, AP human geography, Gr.12 economics
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 0 (I'm in a ghetto school from Canada)
[li] Other stats (Awards, etc.): academic awards at school, Royal Conservatory of Music Gr.8 violin with honours</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Toronto District School Board Student Supercouncil, Reach for the Top (quizbowl), various musical ensembles, Political Affairs Club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: day camp counsellor (summer); court clerk at provincial court (summer co-op)
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): one about overcoming my experience of being bullied after coming to Canada in Gr.5; one about my volunteering work with the developmentally delayed class at my school; both really oriented toward public service and community involvement.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: quite a lot of "best in careers"
[<em>] Counselor Rec: many "best in careers", but the letter had grammar mistakes, lol!
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): no interview
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): lunched with the then Prime Minister of Canada, executive of a 86,000-student (board-wide) student council, currently doing a mentorship at U of Toronto; co-organized a national youth conference; started my own flute choir.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Canada
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Average public high school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: parents not required to pay a cent, so you get the idea
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): minority (wait, I'm Asian, okay I take that back)
[<em>] Strengths: passion in politics and community involvement, very stellar GPA, and an amazing supplementary reference letter from my school's librarian
[</em>] Weaknesses: no one from my school has applied to American universities in the past 3 years, so my teachers didn't really know what to write for the rec letters.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: don't really know</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: can't think of any.
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I never even thought that I'd have a shot at a Ivy League school, so I'm quite happy with being waitlisted. You guys are all amazing and I could've pulled through this hideous admissioin process without your words of advice/encouragement/entertainment. Best of luck to you all, and maybe we'll see each other again soon!</p>

100

<p>DECISION: REJECTED WHARTON</p>

<p>Stats:
Fee Waiver Used?: No
SAT I (by section): 800 CR 770 M 790 W (12 essay)
SAT IIs: 790 Math2C 790 Chinese 760 Physics 770 Lit
GPA, Unweighted: 97.4/100
Rank: 3rd unofficially (but school doesn't give rank)
ACT: 33
APs (including this year's): Calc BC 5, Physics B 5
IBs (including this year's: N/A
Senior Yr Courseload: AP Eng, History, Phy C, Calc III/Discrete Math, AP Stats
Number of Apps from Your School:
Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Finalist, NFAA ARTS Merit Award in Classical Piano, 2 Performing Diplomas from Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM - UK) etc.</p>

<p>Subjective:
ECs listed on app: Piano, Golf (competed on national level for school, not US), Orchestra (several awards in national youth festival, not US)
Job/Work Experience: Tutoring kids in piano, piano for church
Essays (subject and responses): Honest and heartfelt. Guess they didn't think so.
Teacher Recs: one teacher told me he wrote ______ would be stupid if they didn't take me
Counselor Rec: probably pretty good
Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Ok, lukewarm now that I think about it
Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): N/A</p>

<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: IL
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private Catholic, only kids they send to Ivies are URMS and recruited athletes
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100k+
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Strengths: Moved to US midway through junior year. Is this really a strength?
Weaknesses: No leadership?
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Who knows
Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to all who got in where they wanted to. This blows. GO WHARTON C/O 2012</p>