Reminder that admissions counselors also make decisions based on personal character:)
I hope you are very happy wherever you end up!
Rejected
1550 SAT, 770 Math II, 790 Bio E, 3.94 UW, no W.
Excellent ECs, (though I did reuse my supplement and it was really last minute).
At the very minimum, past May 1, usually most waitlist->acceptance happen after the official commit date.
anyone else feel like a lot of people got in this year? I feel like it was higher than a 6.3% acceptance rate which was last years.
Daughter waitlisted:
35 ACT
1530 SAT (790 Math/740 ERW)
800/740/730 (Math II, Chem, Bio SATII)
7 AP’s - 5 5’s, 2 4’s
National Merit Finalist
4.4 W/4.0 UW, rank 1/580
Genetics internship at local Children’s Hospital
Great letters of rec
Strong EC’s
Accepted: Miami (Ohio), UNC Chapel Hill
Deferred: Yale, UMich
Rejected: Northwestern
Waitlisted: Vanderbilt
Waiting: Yale, Duke, UPenn
Question: Which is better, Deferred or Waitlisted?
Your daughter’s stats are similar to my:
ACT 35
SAT Subject Math II 800, Bio M 790
GPA UW 3.95, W 4.5
Rejection - None
Accepted - Georgetown, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD (Regents for UCs), WashU
Waitlisted - Vandy, Swarthmore
Waiting - Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, UC Berkeley
Good luck with tomorrow!
Rejected again! (sighs)
SAT: 1500
GPA - 93.53 on a 100-point scale.
Many ECs…
Deferred means that you applied early, and they are postponing making a final decision on your application until regular decision. As far as waitlist goes, you only hear back if space becomes available in the class and is the result after all final decisions have been made. Hope that helps!
DD Rejected she was not surprised, didn’t have a 1500 which is needed to get looked at further. All good though so long as UMich comes through!!
Accepted!!
SAT 1580
GPA UW 4.0
NMF & Nat. Hispanic Recognition Scholar
Good ECs, pretty good essays
Acceptance is bittersweet tho; fin aid was by far the worst out of every other school I was accepted to so I won’t be able to attend
Do not feel down. College admissions are very unpredictable. A student may have been accepted to Northwestern or rejected from Vanderbilt. A student who may have been rejected from both may be accepted to more prestigious institutions.
Though I do not know you, I can assure the fact you worked diligently and your efforts will show in more prestigious institutions you may have applied to.
@redwag thanks for telling me!
Waitlisted!
Applied to the College of Arts and Science as an English major
OOS (Alabama), white female
34 ACT (composite and super-scored)
4.0 unweighted GPA, 4.436 weighted
9 APs total, with 5s on the four exams I’ve already taken
U.S. Senate Youth Program Delegate, scholar’s bowl captain with some state-level individual awards, National Merit Commended Scholar, Spanish Honor Society President, and involved in singing for four years
I also had a few other regional/state/local awards and leadership positions. My essays were probably okay, same with my letters of rec.
I was probably weakened by my low ACT math score (28!). Plus, I didn’t have a hook/spike.
I’m happy though! Getting waitlisted is so much better than just being rejected. Now I just have to wait and see if I get off the list!
Rejected
1570 SAT super
35 ACT
4.46 WGPA
Good ECs and essays I thought…
RIP me
Waitlisted - Mechanical Engineering
3.99 UW GPA/4.75 W GPA
8 AP classes total (5’s on all three I took last year)
800 Math II, 800 Physics, 760 US History
1580 SAT, 36 ACT (neither superscored)
EC’s:
- Student Body President
- Founder and President of physics tutoring club
- Project Intern at San Francisco mechanical contracting company
- Executive Editor of school newspaper
- President of various other clubs: Speech & Debate, Trivia, Block Society
- rowed crew all four years, ran cross country last two years
- winner of various school and regional leadership/science awards
WHITE MALE
lol “WHITE MALE” join the club fam 
Accepted
Applied RD
White female, no legacy, suburbs of Philadelphia
Small private catholic all girls high school, unranked but I would estimate I’m 2 or 3 in a class of 87
Applied as a political science major
SAT 1550, GPA 100.4 W
Math 2 730, US History 670, Lit 650
8 APs by the time I graduate, all 4s and 5s
ECs: Big one is speech and debate, team president, I’ve done well on the national circuit, and I’m an Academic All American
Others include President of Women in History Club, VP of NHS, Mock Trial, Mathletes, and I’ve done a good amount of community service as well as having a job for most of high school
I didn’t think my supplemental was anything special, I just talked generally about what Speech and Debate means to me. But my common app essay is pretty good I would say
Accepted: Georgetown, Notre Dame, BC, Richmond, Fordham, Pitt
Waitlist: Carnegie Mellon
Rejected: Princeton, UVA
Congratulations to all accepted and best of luck in the decision making process!
Accepted - Computer Science (Engineering)
White Female, Possibly first-gen (parents went to schools outside of the US), Fresh immigrant (five years living in the US, Singapore for four and Poland before that), Permanent Resident, Good but not great public school in IL
4.00 Unweighted, 4.72 Weighted GPA
SAT: 1520 (750 EBRW, 770 Math); Superscore 1540 (750, 790)
SAT IIs: 770 Math II, 750 Physics
AP/Other Rigorous Courses:
9th - Human Geo (5)
10th - World History (5), Computer Science Principles (5), English Lit (4)
11th - United States History (5), Microeconomics (5), Macroeconomics (5), English Lang(5), Computer Science A (5), Calculus BC (5), Physics 1 (4)
12th - Dual Credit Calc 3, Dual Credit Diff Eq, Spanish Language, Seminar (not taking the test, but it was the only English class that was offered to me), European History, Physics C Mech and E/M, and an Independent Study in CS
Extracurriculars:
Founder of club encouraging girls to code with one of my best friends, which now has 20 girls
Two major IOS apps for my school - organizing resources for my high school library (which led me to create my business) and a cash register for our coffee shop run by the CLS (students with disabilities) department
Debate Captain, MUN Captain
Tutor at my school and the local library (teen with the most volunteer hours at the library)
Member of Science Olympiad, Quiz Bowl, Math Team, with some awards throughout the years
Polish school valedictorian
I take American Sign Language in my (limited) free time
Awards:
I am a recent immigrant so with Polish being my first language, I had an article published in Polish in a state paper, and then won an essay contest in Polish
I also have a silver award from the National Spanish Examination
Senior Honor Roll and National AP Scholar
National Merit Finalist
I have the Seal of Biliteracy (should call it Triliteracy at that point) in Spanish, English, and Polish
Essays:
My common app was about the Sims, which I have played since I was five, and that taught me how to read. It was good for my standards, but writing is not my strength.
My supplement was about the club I started and how I dealt with some of the struggles during the process.
Vandy is the first private school I was accepted to, which showed in their great financial aid package. Very happy!
Accepted - Georgia Tech, UIUC, Purdue, Vanderbilt
Waitlisted - Carnegie Mellon
Rejected - MIT
Waiting - Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton (Deferred), NYU, Michigan (Deferred), Northeastern
Waitlisted 
35 ACT
White male in Florida
Really good common app essay and ECs, meh supplement, really good and decent Rec letters mix
Sunbaby That’s why you didn’t get in. Are you really going to say that to someone who got in? Not to mention you probably loaded your common app essay with brags, as you did in your recent post. AOs can read that easily