Accepted! and feeling super happy after being waitlisted at 5 schools already
Accepted! 1530 SAT, 3.93 UW GPA, 4.63 W
Does the decision pop up immediately or no? Just curious before opening it up.
@samp320 Yes it pops right up after you click “View Update”
Waitlisted
rip, got into Haverford, Hamilton, and Bates but not Vassar. Especially confusing given that I didn’t visit or interview for any of those schools and I did for Vassar.
S accepted! Nice way to finish up what has been a couple of weeks full of big ups and downs (he still has Harvard on Thursday, but no one gets into Harvard ?) 1550/4.0UW/4.6W
I GOT ACCEPTED!!!
IMIM S EXCITED
Denied (and not really sad about it)
SAT 1500 (800 math 700 english)
GPA unweighted 4.2 weighted around 3.7ish
CONGRATS TO EVERYONE WHO WAS ACCEPTED I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU ALL!
Share stats, those of you that got accepted, plz!
I got in!!! Now, where is the financial aid information?
@samp320 apparently they’ll be mailing out the financial aid info.
Decision: Accepted
Also accepted into Women’s Leadership Program
Objective:
TEST OPTIONAL
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Weighted GPA: 5.082
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
EXTRAAA: Instead of IB/AP, my school does dual enrollment at a local college. My GPA is high because I will graduate with about 36 college credits. I got As in every college class except 1.
Senior Year Course Load: Physics Honors, Senior Project (like a capstone project), Leadership through the Humanities (Dual, 1st sem), Prob and Stats (Dual, 1st sem), American Government (Dual, 1st sem), Macroeconomics (Dual, 2nd sem), Personal Finance (Dual, 2nd sem), and Interpersonal Communications (Dual, 2nd sem)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): college where I take Dual at Dean’s List for 5 consecutive semesters, Jefferson Awards Foundation’s Certificate of Excellence, Ronald Reagan Student Leader Award, Junior Marshall for Class of 2018, Grant from South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Academic Team (Captain), Recycling Initiative (Founder and Leader), Red Cross Club, college where I take Dual at Honors Program, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, involved in church
Job/Work Experience: 2 summer internships at local Democratic party, art teacher’s assistant
Volunteer/Community service: regular volunteer at an arts center, regular volunteer for church’s community service and mission work, school required 50 per year service hours so I will graduate with 200+ hours
Summer Activities: 2 internships (shown above), church camp/missions, Girls State
Essays (rating 1-10): 8
Recommendations (rating 1-10): 8-9
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: YES pls give me money!
Intended Major: Econ
State (if domestic applicant): SC
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: public charter
Ethnicity: white Hispanic (Colombian parents)
Income Bracket: middle middle-class, enough money for regular expenses but no money for college
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): child of immigrants (but white), I think SC would be underrepresented in North Eastern schools prob (and I’m not from fancy school areas of SC)
Strengths: essays, academic, interview
Weaknesses: SAT (for South Carolina are great, but I can’t compete with Northeastern or West Coast education haha), maybe extracurriculars because none of them are incredibly fancy or nationwide recognizable (but I did the best I could with opportunities I had)
No matter your decision please share your stats
Did you that received acceptances also get email notices with a congratulatory note, or similar?
Accepted
white female from the Northeast
public school
4.32 GPA
1530 Sat
Lit subject test - 770, Spanish w/ Listening - 760
4 APs junior year - Spanish Lang (5) English Lang (5), Chem (4), Calc AB (4)
4 APs this year - Spanish Lit, English Lit, Calc BC, APUSH
NHS member
Lots of ECs w/ leadership positions + lots of volunteering
worked as a journalist covering child gun violence deaths (since parkland)
6 month study abroad in Panama
Accepted - Middlebury, Reed, Lewis and Clark
Waitlisted - Swarthmore, Amherst, Bowdoin, Williams, Pitzer
Awaiting - Brown
Rejected (and not at all disappointed). I will be attending Wellesley College next year!
Accepted ? 31 ACT, 5.104 W, 4.000 UW, 9/530
I was rejected from Swarthmore, so I’m just really thankful for everyone who helped me ?
@galsc01 what’s the Women’s Leadership Program? is that at Vassar?