<p>My mom just found a handwritten letter that was on the floor. It's from my senior interviewer all the way back when I visited Wesleyan in November with their TAP program. Did anyone else get this?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (Early Writes)
SAT CR: 680
SAT Math: 800
SAT Writing: 670
SAT Total:2150
SAT II: Chemistry(600.. Yeah, I know.. :<) MathII(740)
ACT: N/A
AP/IB taken/scores: Biology(took it in my freshman year, got 3), World History(4), U.S. History(3)
GPA weighted: N/A
GPA unweighted: 3.84
Rank or % estimate: 4/462
Essays: I've had many obstacles in my life and honesty was one of the biggest components in my essay.
Teacher Recs: They probably were pretty strong. One from my math coach and the other from the Head of Biotechnology Department at Texas Bioscience Institute
Counselor Rec: Fairly good I think. We talk a lot so he probably was being more personal.
Interview: My interviewer was really cool. We talked for about an 1.5hours. She seemed to like me and was really interested in my volunteering.
Hook (if any): 500hrs of volunteering. Strong in math. Speak three languages. First in the family to go to college.
State or Country: Small city in Texas
School Type: Public, 462 in my class.
Ethnicity: Korean American
Gender: Female
Legacy: n/a
Recruited Athlete & Sport: n/a
Important ECs: Math team captain for 3 years. Project Linus (volunteering club) for 2 years. Church Youth group leader for 2 years, Church choir section leader for 2 years.<br>
Other Factors:Enrolled in the Texas Bioscience Institute for 2 years.
General Comments/Congratulations/etc: I'm so happy to get a full-ride there. Good luck to everybody!!</p>
<p>Decision:ACCEPTED!!!!
SAT: didn't take...
SAT II:USH: 790, Lit: 730
ACT: 32
AP/IB taken/scores: Bio (5), Euro (5), American (5), Calculus (4), Statistics (4 :P)
GPA weighted: not calculated
GPA unweighted: 3.97
Rank or % estimate: 32/355
Essays: (Feelings on Common App): good- wrote about the volunteer work I started this year with two local non-profits, etc.
Teacher Recs: good- My favorite teacher of all time wrote one, and his are always brilliant and very thoughtful.
Counselor Rec:Ugh. My counselor is useless.
Interview: It was lovely, his father and son had also gone there and we talked forever even though he was seventy-ish and I didn't think that we would have much in common.
Hook (if any): volunteer work?
State or Country: Utah
School Type: average public
Ethnicity:white
Gender:female
Legacy:nope
Recruited Athlete & Sport: nope
Important ECs: Dance, Dance teacher, volunteer coordinator, fundraising intern, Pres MUN, Pres Poetry Club, Debate, Envirothon, Academic Olympiad.
Other Factors: Did summer research at a biotech thing on campus in town two summers in a row.
General Comments/Congratulations/etc:Congratulations to everyone! I'm sure that you're all amazing and blow me out of the water... good luck on all your other applications! The best part about this is one of my best friends goes here, so no matter what happens, I get to visit him in April!</p>
<p>ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Numbers</p>
<p>SAT: 2220 (M 720, CR 730, W 770)
ACT: 33 (S 27, R 33, M 33, W 36)
AP: United States History (5)
GPA (non-weighted): 3.9
Rank: 6th percentile</p>
<p>Application</p>
<p>Essay
I felt really good about my common application essay, but less than confident on several of my others. Wesleyan did not require these, so I might say that I feel best about my Wesleyan essay.</p>
<p>Recommendations
Well, I know that at least one teacher was authentic in scope and stylistic character, though I fear the other teacher and my counselor wrote the standard, generic recommendations that do little to impress.</p>
<p>Interview
I did not have an interview with this or any college.</p>
<p>Personal Information</p>
<p>Location: Green Bay, Wisconsin
School Type: Public, suburban/urban mix
Gender/Ethnicity: Male/Caucasian
Legacy: None whatsoever. My parents when to technical school and one got her bachelors degree going to school part-time
Athlete: I jog, but I dont participate in school-related activities.
Extra-Curricular Activities: Head of Political Awareness Club, competitor on Math Team and Social Studies Academic Team
Other Factors: The fact that my family is very poor seems to have no impact; the financial aid package is excellent. I do no volunteering, but I do have a part-time job. I am a National Merit Finalist.
Other Colleges: I qualified for fee waivers, so I applied to eleven schools (Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Pomona, Reed, Stanford, Swarthmore, University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Wesleyan and Yale). I have heard back only from Madison and Wesleyan, both of which accepted me.</p>
<p>GOOD LUCK TO ALL!</p>
<p>I was waitlist at WUSTL so I was super-nervous about Wesleyan. But...</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!
SAT CR: 800
SAT Math: 800
SAT Writing: 790 (dammit, writing's my strong suit! lol)
SAT Total: 2390
SAT II: Math I (740), Math II (780), Lit (720)
ACT: N/A
AP/IB taken/scores: Math/Calc SL (6), Philosophy SL (6), will take one HL in each of the subject areas this year for a total of 6 (only student doing this)
GPA weighted: N/A
GPA unweighted: 3.78 ish
Rank or % estimate: borderline top 5% weighted
Essays: Always wish I could have written them better, but now I feel pretty solid about them
Teacher Recs: Waived rights
Counselor Rec: Waived right
Interview: Was very impressed with my stats, rigor and organization; convinced me to apply to more Ivies. At first I thought he was joking.
Hook (if any): Immigrant and former ESL student who later won numerous state and national writing awards? Then again, maybe none.
State or Country: WA
School Type: PUBLIC and proud of it. Interviewer said he mostly met with private school types (aka Lakeside) so I was very flattered when he spoke well of me. About 600 in class.
Ethnicity: ORM - Chinese
Gender: F
Legacy: No
Recruited Athlete & Sport: No
Important ECs: international issues community service clubs, Yearbook
Other Factors: Awards; teachers like me, talk about me apparently
General Comments/Congratulations/etc: My confidence was and continues to be pretty low going into college admissions. If Wes' goal with sending out earlier acceptances than the Ivies was flattery, they succeeded! lol</p>
<p>Edit to add: CONGRATS TO EVERYONE ELSE!</p>
<p>Ealgian: Congrats! I got my early write on the 17th too. Your stats are amazing. I don't know why WUSTL would waitlist you. But then, no one can predict what may happen during the admission season.</p>
<p>WUSTL pretty much waitlisted everyone. Ever.</p>
<p>Razalman: Really? three ppl from my school district who applied through the ED got accepted. So I thought there weren't so many applicants waitlisted.. hmmm</p>
<p>check the forum on here, lol.</p>
<p>Apparently they waitlist people they don't think would attend if accepted.</p>
<p>Ealgian: Congrats!! Your stats are AMAZING, I can't imagine you not getting in anywhere (but you should pick Wes). If you're in the Seattle area (you probably are, since you mentioned Lakeside), we might know each other or at least have some mutual friends. I used to go to Northwest. Message me if you're so inclined :)</p>
<p>AND about WUSTL:
I heard they only accepted a group the size of their freshman class, and everyone else they'd take in off a waitlist (in order to make sure they end up with the exact right number of students, for financial reasons or something). Seems like a bad idea to me though, because lots of kids, especially ones that get in to other schools, will ask to be taken off the waitlist, so they'll be left with the kids that didn't get in anywhere else...
I mean, it's not my call, but it strikes me as really weird.
There's a girl in my class who was accepted to Yale ED and waitlisted at WashU. Make of that what you will.</p>
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Immigrant and former ESL student who later won numerous state and national writing awards
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<p>Wow.</p>
<p>10char.</p>
<p>I guess I will be hearing from them on the 26th. </p>
<p>Ohhhh boy.</p>
<p>Thanks for your kind comments laceyk, flying<em>pig and neethus. (Edit to add: lol flying</em>pig, I just realized what you meant by "Northwest"! <em>bonks self on head</em>)</p>
<p>I am not too worried about WUSTL. In retrospect, I should not have applied as I was never interested and therefore did not demonstrate interest, which I understand is very important to them. I believe this, combined with the fact that one of my friends is also in full-IB and probably has a 4.0, applied, led to my waitlist. </p>
<p>Should have taken a shot at Williams or Amherst! Oh well. Just nervously awaiting all the other decisions (esp. since I know Grinnell has sent out likely/early letters and I did not get one, but I did get a course catalogue. What's up with that? lol)! :D</p>
<p>Ealgian: I received two application packets from Pomona a few weeks after I submitted my application online. I don't know what's up with that. I was like, "...but... I've already applied!"</p>
<p>Oh, laceyk, how we would love to exchange those wierd packets and catalogues for decisions! :) Good luck with Pomona.</p>
<p>Totally know what you mean by the Lakeside thing, Ealgian. Though I'm probably not one to talk... I also go to a private school in the Seattle area. But we're more like a jock school than anything :/</p>
<p>Just curious, do you go to EWHS? thats the only IB program I'm aware of around here. Congrats on your acceptance!</p>
<p>OH MY GOSH what is with all the Seattle kids popping up everywhere?
Do you go to UPrep, ElaineN8? (Not that I think it's a jock school, but maybe the closest thing to it). I have lots of friends there :)</p>
<p>Thanks elainen. </p>
<p>lol I just make fun of Lakeside because, well, everyone knows about them and, hence, everyone else does, too.</p>
<p>No, I don't go to Edmonds-Woodway. IHS (not Ingraham) is where the shiznit's at! ;) There are about 10 WA schools that do IB, I believe.</p>
<p>@ Mamae My D received an e-mail from the Wes admissions officer handling our area about how good her essay was but has not received an acceptance letter. What has her worried is that another student (val) from her HS was already accepted to Wes. D is number 3 in class and worried that she won't get in..... but then she did get the note about her essay. Also way back before ED she was being recruited by two Wes coaches, one who even said admissions looked over her ap and said it was favorable, but they both dropped contact with her when she told them she could not apply ED for financial reasons.
She is afraid that Wes won't accept 2 from her HS.</p>
<p>nah, I go to AMHS out in Everett. Which isn't really the Seattle-area, but still Puget Sound. Close enough for us to feel inferior to all the dang Lakesiders. I played against them in CYO in middle school... at least we could beat them in sports!</p>