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Almost everybody knows all of their college results by now...

List your acceptances, waitlists, and rejections. It is interesting to see how some people with certain credentials are able to get into some school but aren't able to get into another.

Like, I seriously underestimated Cornell and Penn.

Here's mine:

--ACCEPT--
MIT
Columbia
Illinois
Michigan
UCLA
Carnegie-Mellon
Northwestern

--WAITLIST--
Duke
Cornell

--REJECT--
Stanford
Berkeley
Harvard
Brown
Penn

By Harvardmom (Harvardmom) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:41 am: Edit

Daughter has no rejections; accepted to Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, and University of Chicago. Still haven't heard from Stanford. We're very happy she has such great choices!

By Frank (Frank) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:45 am: Edit

wooooow that is amazing...

By Chrisj023 (Chrisj023) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:53 am: Edit

Accept
- Duke
- USC
- UT

Waitlist
- Penn-Wharton
- Yale

Reject
- Stanford

SAT 1510, SAT II - Writing 800, IIC 760, Physics 700. tons of ECs, board of directors at YMCA + volunteer work, Nat. merit scholar, etc.

By Tangclan (Tangclan) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:03 am: Edit

how do you get into MIT and Columbia but not Cornell, Duke and Penn?????

Accept: Duke, Columbia Fu, Cornell, UMich
Reject/Waitlist: Harvard, Yale, Penn, MIT, Stanford

By Kluless (Kluless) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:16 am: Edit

Rejected:
CalTech

Waitlisted:
Harvard

Accepted:
MIT
Stanford
Chicago
Michigan


Who can tell me how to get off the waitlist?
Thanx.

By Hahaha (Hahaha) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:26 am: Edit

Waitlist probably won't work unless you have a VERY good reason to appeal, like specific plans for the summer or some awesome recs and extra awards 'n stuff like that. B the way Harvardmom, that's really impressive.

By Wanksta33 (Wanksta33) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 10:01 am: Edit

Of those schools that accepted you, which is your first choice, Kluless?

By Medprof (Medprof) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 01:21 pm: Edit

Harvardmom, where's your daughter going to attend?

By Caldad (Caldad) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 01:26 pm: Edit

My daughter is very lucky accepted into all the schools that she applied:

Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Penn (Jerome Fisher Program), Northwestern, UCSD (full ride scholarship), USC (Pres. Scholar+Business Scholar), UCLA & UCI(Regents scholar).

It will be challenging for her to decide which one to attend.

Her stats: SAT 1560; SAT II's on 3 subjects combined = 2300.

I found the discussion boards very informative and have benefited from reading the materials. I am amazed by some of the acceptances/ rejections -- subjectively decided by admission officers.

By Bioyuki (Bioyuki) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 02:32 pm: Edit

Accepted:

Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD

Rejected:

Stanford
Wharton
Harvard
Yale
MIT

By Phantesi (Phantesi) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 02:57 pm: Edit

Accepted:
Bloomsburg
Dickinson
Temple
University of Scranton
Wilkes

Rejected:
Cornell
Harvard
99.999999999% sure Princeton also

Now I wish I had applied to some schools that were more in between....good but not Ivy. My stats are:
1380 SAT
770 SATII Writing
690 Math ic
640 Bio-E
My GPA at last marking period was a 99.4 weighted and I'm 10/118 in the class. My EC's aren't anything remarkable, and I don't play sports, but I have great life experience that I was hoping would get me in. Anyway, now I'll be going to a school where at least others will be impressed with my accomplishments so far. I'm not going to even worry about appealing Princeton, which was the only Ivy I was considering the last few weeks. Why would you want to go somewhere that apparently doesn't want you?
That's just my take on the college deal. Congrats to all of you who got in where you wanted to!

By Proudtobemom (Proudtobemom) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 03:11 pm: Edit

Our son was--

Accepted:
Case Western Reserve University
Harvey Mudd
Rose-Hulman
Rennselaer
Thomas Aquinas
UC Berkeley
UC Los Angeles
UC San Diego


Rejected:
Caltech
Olin College

By Benl (Benl) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 03:13 pm: Edit

Rejected at Harvard and MIT, waiting on Princeton. Princeton was by far my best app, but with the rejections so far, I'm cautiously pessimistic.

My stats:

SAT I - 1590
SAT II's - 800, 790, and 750

Ranked 2nd in class, IB diploma student with a predicted 45/45, main EC was running an Internet business. I'm an international (Canadian), which made getting into MIT a lot harder.

By Nocalguy (Nocalguy) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 04:08 pm: Edit

Accepted:
UC-Berkeley
Cornell
UCD
UCSD
Michigan
Illinois

Waitlisted:
Johns HOpkins

Rejected:
UCLA
Stanford
Harvard
Yale
Columbia

By Shrn1 (Shrn1) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 04:26 pm: Edit

accepted:
colgate
colby
uconn honors program
conn college
trinity

waitlisted:
middlebury
tufts
bowdoin
columbia
cornell

rejected:
harvard
yale
dartmouth ED
georgetown
brown
upenn

1480 sat... lots of ec's, great recs, good essays, very disappointed with my results. oh well...

By Ml41588 (Ml41588) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 04:26 pm: Edit

My sister heard from these:
Accepted:
Princeston
Columbia
UMASS
Tufts

Waitlisted:
Harvard

Rejected:
Yale

By Brownhopeful (Brownhopeful) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 05:17 pm: Edit

Here's what I got:

Accepted:
Cornell
Dartmouth
Brown
Georgetown SFS
UC Berkeley
UCLA

Waitlisted:
Yale

Rejected:
Harvard

By Starsistar (Starsistar) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 05:46 pm: Edit

hey shrn1 i know how you feel. i got cornell waitlisted too. maybe you'll get in if you want to. i hope you do.

Accepted
carnegie mellon
university of rochester
umass amherst honors college

waitlisted
cornell

rejekted
harvtard and proud.

waiting
mcgill. i think they're drinking too much molson, eh? but i think i have a good shot at getting in.

By Quarky (Quarky) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 06:02 pm: Edit

14 acceptances, most of which you guys wouldn't pay attention to, but here are somewhat known schools:

ACCEPTED
Illinois Inst of Tech
Tulane
Rose Hulman Inst of Tech
UC Davis
Cal Poly

REJECTED
UC Berkeley

WAIT LIST
Caltech

By Retrospect (Retrospect) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 06:22 pm: Edit

Accepted
Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD

Rejected
Stanford
Yale
Harvard

lol olol

By Blushingclover (Blushingclover) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 07:57 pm: Edit

Accepted
Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
Tulane

Waitlisted
Wellesley
Northwestern

Rejected
Penn (Wharton)

By Lb123 (Lb123) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:02 pm: Edit

Accepted:
Rutgers
Tufts
Brandeis
Boston College
University of Rochester

Rejected:
Columbia
Yale
Brown
Harvard
UPenn

By Erin (Erin) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:22 pm: Edit

Accepted:
UCLA
UC Santa Barbara

Rejected:
Columbia
Stanford
Swarthmore

By Cru (Cru) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 08:23 pm: Edit

International student. Korean
SATI-1360
writing-640
physics-760
Chem-760
math2c-800

uwgpa-3.95
wgpa.4.25

Applied for electrical engineering except for Johns Hopkins(applied biomedical engineering)


Cornell University (accepted)
Johns Hopkins University (accepted)
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (accepted)
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (accepted)
Purdue University (accepted)
GeorgiaTech (rejected)
Rice University (waitlist)
UPENN (waitlist)
Columbia University (rejected)

By Meister122 (Meister122) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:02 pm: Edit

This year has got to be the hardest, most challenging year ever to get into top schools, I've been pretty disappointed with my reasults. I am especially angry at Penn because they sent me a loan application and when I asked the financial aid office what it meant they told me I was in, a statement they later rescinded telling me that they hadn't exactly said that.

Accepted: U of M, NYU
Waitlisted: Cornell, U of Chicago
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Penn, Duke, Georgetown, Stanford, Northwestern
Waiting for: Dartmouth and Princeton (not looking at all promising though)

Stats:
-3.7 unweighted (no wieghting at my school) GPA at very highly competitive public high school (4.0 Junior year and so far this year)
-1410 SAT (760 verbal, 650 math)
-Writing, US History, and Literature SAT IIs all 700, and 680 on Biology
-9 AP's (5 this year) (US History , Euro. History, Lang., Lit., Biology, US Government, French Lang., Microecon.,and Macrecon.)
-4 on US Government and US History exams, 5 on Euro History and Lang, 3 on Comp. Gov. (didn't take class)
-EC's: Founder/President of French Club, Sailing (for nationally competitive yacht club), Student Council (Class Spirit Co-ordinator), Acolyte (Crucifer (team captain) this year), volunteer at Christ Church Antiques Show (assistant to treasurer last year), National Honors Society, tutor in French, Math, and Biology, and secretary for car parts firm

By Caliente (Caliente) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:04 pm: Edit

Was I to ambitious?

International (Latin Am), 720 math 710 verbal
790 iic, 730 physics, 660 writing, 710 french, 800 spanish
91 avg, Ap Calc, Physics, Spanish Lit, 5th out of 80
Great recomendations, Solid essays, NHS, a few national math competitions, not much more
No need for aid

Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Duke, Amherst, Swarthmore
Pending: Dartmouth
Accept: Notre Dame, Oberlin

By Crackcorn (Crackcorn) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:14 pm: Edit

Accepted:

UCLA, Johns Hopkins, UCSD, USC, Cal Poly SLO

Waitlisted:

Columbia, Stanford (Am I the ONLY person here so far who's waitlisted for Stanford? Maybe that improves my chances!)

Rejected:

Berkeley


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By the way, I still haven't received anything in the mail from UCSD. Just an online admission. Has everybody else got their packets already?

By Nimitz (Nimitz) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 09:27 pm: Edit

Accepted:

Case Western Reserve University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rejected:

Purdue University
Georiga Tech

Average GPA, Average SAT scores, could be better if I try.

By Asdf (Asdf) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 10:57 pm: Edit

Accepted:
UIUC

Waitlisted:
WashU

Deffered:
UMich...still need to hear

Rejected:
UChicago
Northwestern
Brown

By Nocalguy (Nocalguy) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 11:01 pm: Edit

Caliente, they are maybe a little bit out of your league. If you had better Ec's you might have a better chance of getting in. I had a similar lack of ECs as you and better test scores (1550 SAT I, 800,800,780 SAT II's) and didn't expect to get into those type of schools. They are just too tough to get into without a hook.

By Bandgeek285 (Bandgeek285) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 11:34 pm: Edit

accepted:
cornell
boston university
northeastern

waitlisted:
boston college

1390 sat [770 math, 620 verbal], 800 math ic, 750 writing, 650 spanish. i had a lot of math/band-related things for ec's and awards, so i think that's what got me into cornell. those are my strengths and my passions, so i tried to get that across in my application. also, i went to a summer program at brown last year [where i took a math course!], so that helped a bit.

i know people who are a lot more well-rounded than i am, with higher sat scores, who didn't get into any ivies or top schools. that just goes to show that colleges probably want to have well-rounded classes, not necessarily well-rounded students. if they can find people who are really into a variety of things, that's what makes their freshman class diverse and interesting. so my suggestion to anyone who has not yet started the college process is to find a few things you like to do, that you're good at, and work hard at them. you'll probably be better off that way, rather than doing multiple activities.

By Caliente (Caliente) on Thursday, April 03, 2003 - 11:56 pm: Edit

I think youre right Nocalguy, I guess I was hoping for someone at cornell to screw up and let me in. Oh well, I got a couple of schools at least, should feel lucky for that.

By I2ale (I2ale) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 06:15 am: Edit

Accepted UMich
Rejected MIT Cornell UT-Austin
Waitlist Carnegie Mellon (My top choice)
No News UW-Madison, UIUC, Purdue

By Lhomme (Lhomme) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 06:35 am: Edit

Dream schools (0/3 Accepted)
UPennn Wharton
Dartmouth
MIT

Target Schools (3/3 Accepted)
Georgetown MSB
Carnegie Mellon SIA & HSS
UMich LSA Honors

Safety Schools (2/2 Accepted)
Boston University - SOM Honors
SUNY Binghampton - SOM Honors

I think I knew where I stood. All it all it wasn't bad. Would have been nice to get into ONE dream school though.

By Gum (Gum) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 06:48 am: Edit

Accepted
Boston college
chapel hill
nyu
penn state
american
syracuse
brandeis

wait listed
babson
boston university
tufts
isnt that totally weird? (for babson and bu?)

By Univofmtalumni (Univofmtalumni) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 11:34 am: Edit

My daughter was accepted to the following:

Carnegie Mellon CSC
Harvey Mudd
Univ of Rochester
Drexel
RPI
Lasalle (Philadelphia)

Rejected:
Princeton

Waitlisted:
Washington U

Her dream school was Carnegie Mellon, so she's elated. SATs: 710v,710m, lots of ECs, Community service, SATIIBio 710 (don't remember the other SATIIs, but they were all 680 - 750).

Problem is..how do you pay $39,900 for a school?

By Calguy (Calguy) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 12:49 pm: Edit

Never mind

By Calguy (Calguy) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 12:52 pm: Edit

accepted

UCSD
UCLA
UC Berkeley
Georgetown SFS
Cornell
Northwestern
Amherst
Williams

rejected

Harvard
Brown
Yale

waitlist

UPenn
Stanford

4.0 UW 1570, 2390 SATIIs, loads of ECs and great recommendations, AIME top 1%. 4 year varsity soccer and captain. #1 in class, good looking, have it all.

It sounds silly to say I am disappointed, but I am
especially when I see less qualified people. I hate to say it but I think it is time for white kids from the suburbs to catch a break.

By Sluggbugg (Sluggbugg) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 01:39 pm: Edit

ACCEPTED --
Univ of Puget Sound (4/yr scholarship)
Lewis & Clark College
Reed College
Univ of Oregon
UC Davis
UC Santa Cruz
Ursinus (4/yr scholarship)
Clark College (4/yr scholarship)

REJECTS --
MIT
Brown
Whittman College

By Acmsubmit (Acmsubmit) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 04:22 pm: Edit

Accepted
MIT
Yale

Wait list
Stanford
Harvey mudd

Rejected
Harvard

Btw I am international and I applied only to these 5 schools.

By Buratino (Buratino) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 05:27 pm: Edit

Hey Guys,
ACCEPT:
Duke, Umich, NYU, Tufts (1st choice), OSU, BU

WAITLIST:
UNC - Chapel Hill

REJECTED:
Northwestern (ED), Upenn

By Cruelfate (Cruelfate) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 08:38 pm: Edit

Accepted:
Emory
Vanderbilt
Carnegie Mellon
Brandeis
University of Miami
George Washington
8yr. leadership in medicine program at Union College/Albany Medical

Wait-Listed:
Cornell
Washington University in St. Louis
Tufts

Rejected:
Harvard
Yale
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown

By Johnnyd (Johnnyd) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 09:08 pm: Edit

post stats guys!

By Lizzie (Lizzie) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 09:16 pm: Edit

Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon IS and SCS
University of Chicago

Waitlist:
Cornell U

Rejected:
MIT
Harvard
Yale

By Mal (Mal) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 09:18 pm: Edit

Hmmm. Let's see.

Accepted:
Caltech (applied EA, was deferred)
Columbia
NYU (haha, never sent in my application fee!)
RPI (waived my fee)
Brown (applied for PLME, rejected)
Yale
UPenn Wharton

Waitlist:
Johns Hopkins (no supplemental forms OR fee, what was I thinking? Not taking a spot)
MIT (last minute essays, no interview, I should have been rejected. Not taking a spot, I'm not a jerk)

Rejected:
The 'vard (no surprise there)
Carnegie Mellon (the hell? lol)

SAT: 1600
Writing and Physics: 800, Math II: 760
I think I'm 4 in a fairly competitive public school
Various extra-curriculars, nothing extraordinary.
Varsity fencer 4 years.
Voted laziest over-achiever in the yearbook, I'm both proud AND ashamed of that. :-(

By Mysticxena (Mysticxena) on Friday, April 04, 2003 - 11:20 pm: Edit

1390 SAT - 680 M, 710 V
Math IC 680, Chemistry 630, Writing 730
Lots of long-term ecs, creative essays, nice recs, awards

REJECTED:
MIT (no surprise there)

WAITLIST:
Cooper Union

Accepted:
Stanford (incredibly surprised about this one)
Carnegie Mellon (SCS + CIT)
Rose Hulman
RIT
SUNY Binghamton

By 1214 (1214) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 12:37 am: Edit

Accepted:
Boston College
Brown
Cornell

Rejected:
NYU
Georgetwon
Harvard
Yale
Columbia

By Soccerfrenzy (Soccerfrenzy) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 12:55 am: Edit

Hello all,

Congrats to all who were accepted to their favorites, and my condolences for those who were denied....I understand your pain!

Accepted:
Harvard
Columbia
UC Berkeley, UCI (Regents')
UCLA

Rejected:
Yale
Stanford

Hoping for:
Princeton, but as another said, am cautiously pessimistic...

By Ibd (Ibd) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 01:03 am: Edit

Archaeology/Poli sci major

rejected: harvard, yale
accepted: University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Macalester
W/L: Columbia

1520 SAT: 800 math, 720 verbal
780 Physics
750 Writing
760 U.S. History

JSA at princeton, teen apprentice at Museum of Contemporary art, debate team, captain of wyse team, re-founder of free burma chicago chapter, Artwork to be exhibited at museum, violin for six years, trumpet, NHS, habitat for humanity (went to west virginia), etc

I'm pretty happy with my admissions except that UPenn only gave me 3500 grant even though my parents aren't rich. According to their website, the average award for families with the salary range similar to mine is 23,000+. I don't know what went wrong. I would like to congratulate everyone on admissions, and even if you got rejected from places, it doesn't change who you are. You don't need to be admitted to your dream college (mine was columbia) to acheive courageous individual action. Aung San Suu Kyi (nobel peace prize laureate) was initially rejected from Oxford! Again, I wish all of you well and hope the best.

By Kluless (Kluless) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 01:03 am: Edit

Wanksta33,
My top choice now is MIT.
I'm interested in engineering so... should I keep waiting for Harvard?

By Wanksta33 (Wanksta33) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 11:36 am: Edit

Just go ahead and stay on the waitlist and hope for the best, I guess. Although I've heard that the two schools are so connected that one can divide up their courses between the two schools.

By Stevethegodly (Stevethegodly) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 11:38 am: Edit

Accepted:
UIUC
UMich
Purdue
Ohio State

Rejected:
MIT
Cornell

By Texas137 (Texas137) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 11:42 am: Edit

I know someone who was admitted to both MIT and Harvard and chose MIT because Harvard has so many required courses that he figured out he would be able to take more Harvard electives as an MIT student than as a Harvard student.

By Chronoshock (Chronoshock) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 12:40 pm: Edit

Accepted:
MIT
Yale
Cornell
Tufts
JHU
Northeastern
UMAss
WL:
Carnegie-Mellon (SCS)
Brown
Rejected:
Harvard
Princeton
Stanford

By Candies114 (Candies114) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 12:44 pm: Edit

Hey everyone....

Accepted to NYU ED... hell yea. Anyone else going there and want to chat? My name is Anna and my sn is cnadies114s or email me at candies114smail.com

By Junho (Junho) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 01:04 pm: Edit

Accept
Emory
Vanderbilt
Carleton
Grinnell
Colgate
Oberlin
Michigan

Waitlisted
Washington University
Haverford
Vassar
UNC

Rejected
Uof Texas
Duke
Columbia
MIT
Chicago
JHU

By X41x (X41x) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 01:20 pm: Edit

ACCEPTED:
UCLA
UCI
UCSD
USC
CAL STATE LONG BEACH

REJECTED:
UC BERKELEY

By Hilsdad (Hilsdad) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 01:55 pm: Edit

Our daughter was accepted 6 for 6-

Harvard - early action
Georgetown- early action
Princeton
Brown
Cornell
Penn

98% sure she's going to Harvard but contemplating Princeton.

1540 SAT1-(800 math)
750,790,800- SAT2
Top 10%
AP Scholar
National Merit Finalist
National Achievement Finalist

By Mzinn (Mzinn) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:11 pm: Edit

Accepted to all the ones I applied to.. yay:

Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
UCI
Cal State Fullerton
______________________________________

SAT1: 1320
SAT2: 730 (writing), 730 (math2c), 750 (bio)
GPA: 3.85 Unweighted, 4.37 Fully Weighted
AP tests: 4 (English), 4 (US History), 5 (Bio)
taking 4 AP classes during senior year.

- track and cross country for 4 years
- letterman, scholar athlete
- treasurer of one club and president of another (was a member of each club for 3 years)
- worked 2 years and did some volunteering

By Akmicrokid2003 (Akmicrokid2003) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:40 pm: Edit

Here is the score:

Accepted:
UW - Honors
Notre Dame - Honors
Georgetown
Duke
Cornell

Wait-list:
Dartmouth
Caltech

Rejected:
Yale

Waiting for: Princeton!!! (ugh...)

By Akmicrokid2003 (Akmicrokid2003) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:45 pm: Edit

Oh by the way, my stats are good, but I don't think you guys realize that this isn't as much of a numbers game as you seem to think. You have to talk the talk and know what you want with these schools. It isn't all about your past, it's about your future as well. The essays should contain references to the people you'd like to work with, projects the university is funding that you would utilize, etc... They want to know you'll dive in and whoop when you get there. It's about the motivation. Sure I told them everything there was to know about my past, but I tried to really present a vision for the future.

By Akmicrokid2003 (Akmicrokid2003) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 02:47 pm: Edit

I also happen to be a non-athletic, affluent white male... Go figure. (Never been on a sports team) I'll answer questions - I won't quote stats, because that's just not what this is about - I really believe that.

By Bhs4life (Bhs4life) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 03:19 pm: Edit

I am a freshmen and georgetown is the school of my dreams. Do you have any suggestions as to what I should do to improve my chances of acceptance. Yes, I am in all honors, high honor roll. I play three sports as well and might enroll to a prestigious private high school next year. Is there anything else I can do or should be doing?

By Thedad (Thedad) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 05:19 pm: Edit

An unusual EC on the side might help. I've got the admissions stats for last year's G'town admissions: they are really sobering. I'll post a few examples the next time I pass through.

By Cookie (Cookie) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 05:27 pm: Edit

I got into NYU Tisch! I'M SO HAPPY!

By Rosarosaef (Rosarosaef) on Saturday, April 05, 2003 - 05:59 pm: Edit

COOKIE THAT'S GREAT!!! GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! GREAT! I AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU! MORE FOR YOU THAN ANYONE ELSE! SOMETIMES, THINGS COME TOGETHER! KEEP WRITING, KID. THERE IS MUSIC IN YOUR PROSE. LET IT SING!!! THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU.

By Redbeard (Redbeard) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 02:55 pm: Edit

Okay, for my son (all to engineering schools)

Cornell (ED) - Rejected

Northwestern - Accepted
UVa - Accepted
Purdue - Accepted
Virginia Tech Honors - Accepted

All this despite the fact I'm a Cornell alum. Go figgur.

By Tenisghs (Tenisghs) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 03:12 pm: Edit

Great job, Cookie!!! Just hope you can afford it. I have to see my financial aid for Northwestern!!!

By Cookie (Cookie) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 04:53 pm: Edit

Thanks guys!

By Cookie (Cookie) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 04:54 pm: Edit

But I'm going to Fordham. Got more money from them.

By Marina (Marina) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 05:55 pm: Edit

Accepted: Berkeley, UCLA, NYU
Rejected: Columbia, Penn, Georgetown

Will anyone going to or contemplating going to Berkeley (esp. out of state) or NYU email me at UniteAni@aol.com? Because I have no clue where I am going.
For whoever wants to go to G-Town, go to Catholic school b.c they are really prejudice against public schools (my school's counselors even say that, which I think means it is really true because there is so much other true stuff they wouldn't say, like that ED really does help your chances). Good luck guys and will someone help me decide where to go? I watched Igby goes down last night to get all psyched up about NY but by the end of the movie I was like NYC sucks and Amanda Peet's legs are really deformed. And then at the end of the movie he gets sick of his family and the city and moves to Cali so I was like what the hell is this some sort of a message?

By Thedad (Thedad) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 07:27 pm: Edit

Regarding Georgetown and alleged prejudice against public school: for the class entering in 2002, the distribution was 9 percent Jesuit, 14 percent other Catholic prep, 48 percent public, 29 percent independent private.

By Tenisghs (Tenisghs) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 08:26 pm: Edit

Good choice, Cookie!

By Crackcorn (Crackcorn) on Sunday, April 06, 2003 - 11:48 pm: Edit

If you go to UCLA, I'll see you there. If I go to UCLA.

JHU v UCLA v UCSD.

Just got a night call at home from Dean of Students at UCSD (Revelle College). Nice to feel wanted! Not that it makes my choice any easier!

By Rosarosaef (Rosarosaef) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 12:34 am: Edit

great school. something to remember: there is fordham university and there is fordham road. you are fordham u. it's easy to be fordham road. sometimes it can even attractive. you need help, kid. every time fordham university smacks you in the face, take it as an act of love (even when it isn't). on fordham road, they will smile, they will entice, they will lie. but on fordham road, no one will ever give a damn about you. fordham university is your future. make the best of it. good luck.

By Newb (Newb) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 01:02 am: Edit

accepted:
UCLA
UCSD
UC Davis
UC Riverside

Rejected:
UC Berkeley
Stanford
NYU
Harvard

Evened out. =P Simply put, a miracle.
SAT1 1210
SAT2 710 Korean, 720 math1c, 600 math2c, 570 writing (O_o)
Berkeley expressed some interest in me to elaborate on my special circumstances (they sent out only 2,000 questionnaires last year), and offered me the CAP program. HAH! I'm attending UCLA. =P

By Medusa2003 (Medusa2003) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 01:30 am: Edit

Accepted:
Grinnell
Macalester
Earlham
Univerity of Arizona
University of Kansas
Truman State

Waitlisted: Washington U.

SAT1 1570
SAT2 780 Molecular Bio
ACT 35
Top 2% of class

By Openg (Openg) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 02:04 am: Edit

Accepted: UTexas, UPenn, Wash U, Case, JHU (BioMed), Northwestern, USC

Waitlisted: Duke

Rejected: Rice

Stats: 1500/790/750/750; 6/410

Great EC's, Recs

By Tsdad (Tsdad) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 10:22 am: Edit

My son was accepted to:

USC (film)
UNC
UVA
Toronto
Virginia Tech
FSU (alternate for film)

Wait listed

William and Mary

Rejected

UCLA

1380, 800, 700, 640, bilingual IB degree from from private international school in DC. Great ECs, which were probably the strength of his application.

By Cookie (Cookie) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 12:47 pm: Edit

Rose, I know what you are talking about. My and former bus driver told me about Fordham, so I'm prepared. Thanks for the advice.

By Cookie (Cookie) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 12:49 pm: Edit

Rose, I know what you are talking about. My frinds and former bus driver told me about Fordham, so I'm prepared. Thanks for the advice.

By Ls85 (Ls85) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:11 pm: Edit

Accepted:
University of Illinois @ Urbana
MIT
Columbia
Yale
Stanford
Duke
Penn (Huntsman)
Northwestern

Rejected:
Harvard

By Wanksta33 (Wanksta33) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:15 pm: Edit

Where are you deciding to go, Ls?

By Laneywalls (Laneywalls) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:17 pm: Edit

Accepted

Yale
Stanford
Georgetown
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UC Irvine

Waitlisted
Harvard
Brown

No rejects

Will attend Yale or Georgetown: major is lingustics.

By L76 (L76) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:29 pm: Edit

The valedictorian at my school was:

Rejected

Harvard
Yale
Columbia

Accepted

UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
UC Davis

His stats:
SAT 1 1520 (770 Verbal/750 Math)
SAT 2 790 Math 2C/800 Writing/640 Literature
GPA 4.00 UNW
Taking the hardest AP & IB courses available
But his EC's were skim: a few academic EC's like CSF and Mathletes, very few, and that is why he was rejected...(not very well-rounded)

By Ls85 (Ls85) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:43 pm: Edit

I'm not sure where to go yet. I'm debating between Yale, Stanford, and Penn. My decision will probably be clearer when I visit those 3 schools this month. Any suggestions?

By Poutingminotaur (Poutingminotaur) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:54 pm: Edit

applied under biomedicalengineering major

accepted:
MIT (im going there!! woohoo!!)
johns hopkins (with bloomberg scholarship)
yale
harvey mudd
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD

waitlisted:
princeton

rejected:
stanford

stats:
SAT-1450
SAT-790, 780, 710, 710, 710
ib candidate
APs-bio 4, euro history 4, us history 5, calc bc 5(taken in sophomore year)
valedictorian of my school (a class of ~500 kids)

lived in a foreign country until 7th grade

very good essays
very good recs
pretty good ecs

By Wanksta33 (Wanksta33) on Monday, April 07, 2003 - 06:56 pm: Edit

Ls85-
I'm not sure...I was accepted to Penn Wharton, and I feel great about it. The campus seems awesome, but the problem appears to be what's beyond it (West Philly = not so great area). Personally, I'd choose Stanford because of the awesome combination of academics, climate, and atmosphere. Good luck wherever you choose to go.

By Ls85 (Ls85) on Tuesday, April 08, 2003 - 06:26 pm: Edit

Wanksta33:
thanks for your input. The reason that I'm considering Penn is because I was accepted under the Huntsman Program, which I'm really interested in. But Yale and Stanford are great schools too, so I'm still very much undecided.

By Sk8ter471 (Sk8ter471) on Thursday, August 07, 2003 - 12:11 am: Edit

I'm currently getting straight A's and will be getting into all honors soon, (i'm going on to 9th grade). I done over 100 hours of community service so far. I want to apply to a good law school. I'm currently planning to apply for stanford. I'll be taking AP's starting 11th grade. I'm gonna take the ones that relate to what i'll be majoring. What kind of EC's should i be taking? Is there any other classes or full time courses i could take to increase the chances of admission? I'm willing to do everything possible to get in.

By Ali6311 (Ali6311) on Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 12:45 am: Edit

I applied to these schools when was transfering from my community college, but I'm now i'm a senior at U of Minn.

accepted
U of Minn.
Marquette
Drake University

rejected:
Purdue
Temple
U of Wis. Madison
U of Iowa

By Ali6311 (Ali6311) on Thursday, November 06, 2003 - 12:53 am: Edit

I would like to know if getting into the ivys as grad is easier as rather than an undergrad

By Godis (Godis) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 08:09 am: Edit

it is harder.

By Bbstlchi (Bbstlchi) on Sunday, January 18, 2004 - 10:40 pm: Edit

accepted nowhere yet!