<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2340 (770CR, 790M, 780W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800MII, 800Bio, 730Lit
[<em>] GPA: 4.09
[</em>] Rank: 1/200
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: wrote it in one bout of inspiration..probably my best college essay
[<em>] Teacher Recs: good, though not that personal
[</em>] Counselor Rec: amazing
[<em>] Hook (if any): I'm A JUNIOR[/ul] Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Thailand
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: SE Asian, Thai
[li] Gender: M[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I can't effing believe that I got in!!!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2220
[</em>] SAT IIs: 660 / 680 / 780
[<em>] GPA: 3.98
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>] Other stats: IB Diploma
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Good, a bit abstract
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Waived
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Waived
[<em>] Hook (if any): N/A
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: DE
[<em>] School Type: Quaker
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: School president, National Merit finallist, extensive extracurriculars General Comments: Second waitlist of the day. Sucks. What can you do?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 680 CR, 800 M, 680 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 780 Physics, 700 Literature
[<em>] GPA: 4.31 W/3.98 UW
[</em>] Rank: 9/272
[<em>] Other stats: ACT: 34
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were crap, but everyone I know likes them, so w/e. I didn’t have to do the Williams supplemental essay due to Questbridge.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: My choir director’s was surely amazing, and my APUSH teacher’s is probably good too.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Dunno
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM, MOP.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Ohio
[<em>] School Type: Crappy public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Puerto Rican
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: In the past 10 years, two URMs have been invited to the Math Olympiad Summer Program (MOP). I’m one. Woohoo! I also have a stack of other awards for math and piano. General Comments: Congrats to everyone else admitted, and to all the waitlist/rejectees, you’ll do just fine at some other college!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2230 (730CR, 730M, 770WR)
[</em>] ACT: 33
[<em>] SAT II: 640 Chemistry, 670 French, 680 US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): not ranked
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), Chemistry (3), French (2) horrible I know, U.S. History(3), Biology, English
[li] Senior Year Course Load: most challenging, 2 colleges classes per semester</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): History Club (VP and founding member 11th, president 12th), Varsity Tennis (9th-12th), Varsity Soccer (9th-12th), Varisty Basketball (9th-12th, Captain 12th), county Honors Choir, Quiz Bowl (9th-12th, captain 11th-12th)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: volunteer/intern at local historical society
[</em>] Summer Activities: volunteer, trips abroad
[<em>] Essays: Liked my CommonApp, thought my Williams one was awkward and sucky
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I didnt get to read them but I assume one fantastic, one probably so-so
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I dont know, probably generic because she doesnt know me at all
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Undecided
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] School Type: Private
[<em>] Ethnicity: Puerto Rican
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, few people at my school go to top colleges?
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: EC’s, transcript
[<em>] Weaknesses: Williams essay
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I didn’t show as much interest and my one essay wasn’t really very good
[/ul]General Comments:
Honestly, I expected to be flatout rejected after getting waitlisted by Claremont McKenna last night. So this was a bit of a nice surprise I guess.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2150
[</em>] SAT IIs: Bio-M 780 US 740
[<em>] ACT: 33
[</em>] GPA: 3.85 W
[<em>] Rank: ?
[/ul]**Subjective: **[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: One really great, other ok
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Awesome
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Northern California
[</em>] School Type: Competitive public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (damn)
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]**Other Factors:**Art Club, GSA, Self-studies, Part-time job as tutor, Museum volunteer, 2 theatre volunteers
**General Comments:**Was hoping for a waitlist but this was pretty much expected. Thanks GPA!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2310
[</em>] SAT IIs: WorldHIst: 750, Math : 800, USHIs: 750; Physics: 750
[<em>] GPA: 4.16
[</em>] Rank: top 10
[<em>] Other stats: AP World History:5; AP Calculus BC: 5, AP CAl AB Sub: 5— those three are in 10th grade; AP PHysics C ( mech and E&M): 5&5; AP micro and Macro: 5&5; AP Stats: 5; AP US HIst: 5; AP Eng: 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:
[<em>] Teacher Recs:
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Hook (if any): International??
/list]Location/Person:[list]
[</em>] State or Country: Vn living in DC
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Vn
[li] Gender: F[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: glad to get waitlisted… i thought i was gonna get rejected… i have been having so many rejections lately… cuz i think iam in the hardest pool imaginable
_ International, needs near full aid… only 3 or 5k contribution a year
_ i live in the states, so my ECs are compared to those stellar ones of US students. if i lived in VN my ECs would be considered awesome because there’s no one doing anything there . but in here, my ECs are nothing.
_ i have a twin… and they can’t award 50k a year a couple of twins… especially with economic downturn… i got waitlisted at Bryn Mawr, Franklin and Marshall, and Colby- which aren’t super hard schools… because my twin also applied there… but i got into Colgate and Oberlin with near full aid cuz my twin didn’t apply… we didnt factor the twin effect into the process.</p>
<p>waitlisted… boo
[Stats:
SAT: cr 800 w730 m 670
SAT IIs: us history 780 lit 740 latin 610
GPA: 3.9 / 4.1
ACT: 35
Rank: 3/ 35
Other stats:
Subjective:
Essays: i thought pretty good
Teacher Recs: eh not so great
Counselor Rec: not stellar at all
Hook (if any): none to speak of
Location/Person
State or Country: OH
School Type: small catholic
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Other Factors: lots of ecs and service hours
i’m kinda surprised i got waitlisted i was expecting a rejection</p>
<p>I guess I’ll be the second one to admit rejection…</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Math: 780; Reading: 710; Writing 750; Total 2240
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math Level II: 780; U.S. History: 750
[<em>] GPA: 98.2
[</em>] Rank: 4/125
[<em>] Other stats: APs: Statistics 5, Literature 3, History 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought the Williams-specific essay was one of the better essays that I have writted in my life.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: 3 very good ones
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn’t read it
[<em>] Hook (if any): caucasian, middle class?, guess not…
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Maine
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I got accepted at Colby today so I guess it could have been worse…</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:2030… CR:660, M:660, W:710
[</em>] SAT IIs: fine
[<em>] GPA: 3.66
[</em>] Rank: top 10%
[<em>] Other stats: IB DIPLOMA
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: very good… i was so proud of the supplemental one
[<em>] Teacher Recs: very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good enough
[<em>] Hook (if any): urm
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:IL
[<em>] School Type:public
[</em>] Ethnicity:latino
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]**Other Factors: activist, lots of ec activities etc. **
**General Comments: im fat, poor, and happy. **</p>
<p>Is it really for the future generations that you’re doing this? You’re into college, be happy; don’t perpetuate the attitude that is engendered by these statistics and this site-- it’s not a numbers game.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: CR 720, M 720, W 690
[</em>] SAT IIs: US Hist 660, Math I 680, Math II 640
[<em>] GPA: 4
[</em>] Rank: Top 5 student
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Excellent
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Excellent
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NY
[<em>] School Type: small public k-12
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Significant Extracurriculars:
20 credits at Community College, 16 credits at Bard College, 8 Credits at Vassar College
Leadership positions: Founder of Humanitarian Organization at High School, Captain of Soccer and Volleyball teams. Head referee for Community Soccer League
Sports: Varsity Soccer 4yr./Varsity Volleyball 1yr/ Varsity Basketball 1 yr/ JV Basketball 3 yr/ Varsity Baseball 1yr
Volunteer/Service Work: Habitat for Humanity, Many hours as volunteer in community,
Honors and Awards: National Honor Society, National Merit commended, National Hispanic Scholar, Wells College 21 Century Leadership Award, Boys State Rep, John Hopkins University, Scholarship to Vassar College, University of Albany High Achiever Student of Color award.
Worked: 15 hrs per week.</p>
<p>General Comments: Also applied to Harvard, Amherst and Middlebury</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800CR/760M/740W - 2300
[</em>] SAT II: 800Bio-E/780USH/710Lit - 2290
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 of 573
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 17 APs, mostly 4’s and 5’s
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 13AP’s, 3 dual enrollment, 2 honors
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Some prestigious leadership/humanitarian/math awards</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President of NHS, Junior Civitan, Science Club. Commander of school AFJROTC (cadet colonel). Statistics team captain. Tons of science involvement. Senior Council, etc.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Tons of community service, but only 105~ hours on transcript (I hate the idea of reporting hours)
[<em>] Summer Activities: College classes, Boys State, Academy leadership seminars, and others
[</em>] Essays: My commonapp essay was decent and my Williams essay was solid
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One was fantastic, no idea about the other
[</em>] Counselor Rec: She loves me, but she can’t write for the life of her</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[</em>] School Type: Average, large, public. Mean SAT is 480~ for every section.
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 100,000~ (middle class)
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: EC passion, awards, and reccomendations.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Essay (rushed) and my freshman year grades.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred//waitlisted/rejected: I must not have been what the AdComs were looking for, but it does seem like a lot of students were waitlisted.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: This didn’t come as much of a surprise. I’ve been doubting how well I would fit at Williams, and whether or not I’d be able to afford it. I was accepted to Duke already, and if none of the other schools I applied to work out, I’ll go there. I don’t think I’ll be waiting around on the waitlist for too long. Congrats to those that got in!!</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT: 2240 (680 M, 760 CR, 800 W)
[ *] SAT IIs: French: 800, Lit: 740, Math 2: 720
[ *] GPA: 3.8 UW (school does not weigh)
[ *] Rank: Top 10% (no rankings)
[ *] Other stats: ACT: 34
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs: Quiz bowl (9-12, captain), Debate (10-12, captain), Crew (11-12), Volunteer work at Hebrew school (11-12, 100 hrs)
[ *] Essays: Some of the most heartfelt, meticulous writing I’ve ever put out
[ *] Teacher Recs: I assume they were decent and endorsed me…
[ *] Counselor Rec: Ditto
[ *] Hook (if any): Have written two novels (unpublished), submitted a chapter
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Vermont
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>So far, accepted at Wash U, Williams, Kenyon, Rhodes, Occidental, Hendrix. Waitlisted at Davidson (???). Waiting on Vassar, Vanderbilt, Princeton, and Brown.</p>