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Hey fellow adcom ass-kissers (just kidding)
where has everyone gotten accepted to so far?

oh and tell us a bit about yourself, like what got ya in there, just for kicks.

By Crnchycereal (Crnchycereal) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 10:07 pm: Edit

Well, seeing as how one could only know his admission status at a rolling college at this point...but anyway, I'll start.

I got into Rutgers University with a full scholarship...what got me in? Rank (1/220) and SAT score (1550) and thaaaat's about it.

By Abz1986 (Abz1986) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 10:43 pm: Edit

Which rutgers? New Brunswick?

By Studiousvegetar (Studiousvegetar) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 10:53 pm: Edit

I got into U of Michigan, Michigan State and Purude. My major is engineering.

By Jenlikewhoa (Jenlikewhoa) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 11:08 pm: Edit

hey now. im just curious.

By Serdu (Serdu) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 11:16 pm: Edit

I got into UCSB and UCI, UCR, and some others bakc in Sept. I know... nothing to be excited about in particular. But its good to know I'm in SOMEWHERE

By Johnkgh (Johnkgh) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 11:31 pm: Edit

Got into rose-hulman.

By Thaiguy (Thaiguy) on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 11:34 pm: Edit

Got in to Purdue! Werd up! heh, now i just gotta wait for U-Penn to give me their Early Decision

By Miseryxsignals (Miseryxsignals) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 12:15 am: Edit

In at UCI (as is probably all of the California residents here) cuz of ELC (Eligibility in Local Context). Basically anyone in the top 4% gets accepted to some UC (Irvine?).

By Quakerboy2 (Quakerboy2) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 02:09 am: Edit

I got into MIT!
Last year.

1570 SAT (wow, I can barely remember), 2nd 10% in class rank at a competative school, Eagle Scout. I think that's what got me in.

By Freak4korn72 (Freak4korn72) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 06:49 am: Edit

Purdue, Engineering. Yay.
Waiting for Cornell RD (ok long wait)

By Mariellergram (Mariellergram) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 07:23 am: Edit

Tulane, waiting for Cornell ED.

By Qwerasdf (Qwerasdf) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 05:45 pm: Edit

Got a friend at our school who got Stanford about a month ago.

By Crnchycereal (Crnchycereal) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 05:54 pm: Edit

...Got into Stanford a month ago? What the hell are you talking about?

By Jenlikewhoa (Jenlikewhoa) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 07:55 pm: Edit

i just got into mizzou 5 minutes ago. whoo hoo!

By Drfunk (Drfunk) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 08:20 pm: Edit

probably was called by a coach.. is your friend an athlete?

By Congresssenator (Congresssenator) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 09:35 pm: Edit

In at Pitt with full-tuition.

By Jadesark (Jadesark) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 09:49 pm: Edit

Congress. would you mind posting your stats? I applied to Pitt and I'm hoping for good financial aid.

By Congresssenator (Congresssenator) on Friday, November 21, 2003 - 09:59 pm: Edit

I had a 1500 SAT (800M, 700V) and was 8/481 with a 3.91 UW/5.04 W GPA in a very rigorous IB program. Besides the optional essay which I submitted, that's all they saw-- my SAT scores and my transcript.

Good luck!

By Orangeman167 (Orangeman167) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 08:02 pm: Edit

my friend got into stanford last year for fall 2004.........it was for football

By Spiffybrownboy (Spiffybrownboy) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 08:39 pm: Edit

I've applied to 5 so far and one scholars program. Should get some decisions in the coming weeks and I got into the scholars program (at Oberlin). Wish me luck and good luck to all of you!

By Elgorila (Elgorila) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 08:44 pm: Edit

Got into Rutgers here.

By Arv11 (Arv11) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 09:16 pm: Edit

NCChineseDude Alert!

By Whzup44412 (Whzup44412) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 10:55 pm: Edit

In at Pitt will full tuition. Accepted to Pitt Gauranteed Pre-Med program (had to have above 1450 SAT and be in top 1% of class, i believe). I got a 1490 SAT and have a 4.0 UW GPA, and a 4.9 W GPA. Also, I got into the Science college at PSU-University Park

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 08:50 pm: Edit

got into Rose-Hulman

got letter 2day

By Jenlikewhoa (Jenlikewhoa) on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 04:01 pm: Edit

michigan state and purdue... yea!

By Elgorila (Elgorila) on Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - 10:37 pm: Edit

Rutgers on a full ride BTW Just got the package now.

By Labsolute7 (Labsolute7) on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 02:46 pm: Edit

Just got my letter from TULANE (finally!)

Awaiting Emory ED...3 weeks!

By Koori (Koori) on Wednesday, November 26, 2003 - 02:57 pm: Edit

loyola chicago...and some $$$ too!

By Bern700 (Bern700) on Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 06:04 pm: Edit

yey ASU Honors College, full ride. Ok well my safety is out of the way...now have to wait for Penn ED.

By Koori (Koori) on Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 06:20 pm: Edit

got accepted to umichigan LSA yesterday...now i just have to get into their honors program!

By Jenlikewhoa (Jenlikewhoa) on Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 06:47 pm: Edit

koori when did u apply??

By Debaterocks (Debaterocks) on Thursday, November 27, 2003 - 11:47 pm: Edit

i got into marquette (my safety), i will hear back from u mich soon, i applied ED to northwestern, and EA to u of chicago, three other schools as well...hopefully i will have to withdraw them though (in at NU)

what do think of my chances:

Rank 15/225
gpa 3.89
i took all AP's offered at my school (4)
5 college classes
definatly most rigorous sch.
ACT:28
ECs
ice hockey capt (9-12)
baseball capt (9-12)
policy debate with numerous state and national awards (9-12)
BPA with recongition on regional and state level and VP (10-12)
VP of my class (9-11)
VP of student body (12)
volenteer tutor
volenteer at local library
part time job at pizza hut


i know my test scores are low for NU and just a bit above average for in state at u of m but what do u think...anyone?

thanks

By Briteeyez4322 (Briteeyez4322) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 08:35 am: Edit

full ride from Northern Arizona University Honors College.... at least got that safety covered....

By Dohinc (Dohinc) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 08:41 am: Edit

debate, I'd say 90% for Umich, and definitely over 50 for NW, you're right the ACT's a bit low, but your EC's are very good, and with your GPA and rank, you should be a good ED candidate.

By Koori (Koori) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 09:51 am: Edit

jen--i applied to LSA like mid-September, my app was delayed b/c they thought i was missing something (but i wasn't).

By Iceshadow (Iceshadow) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 10:56 am: Edit

when did you people send in your Rutgers app just wondering how long it takes them for them to notify my i just sent it in like last week

By Nitroxideracer (Nitroxideracer) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 12:06 pm: Edit

A friend of mine got into Northwestern ED, but he's got a very impressive rap sheet:

35 ACT
1510 SAT
3.85 GPA w/ ~10 APs and 2 college courses

I'm applying to NU RD and I hope I get in. As for you, debaterocks, i'd say you have a fair shot at gettign in. You have a strong transcipt and that matters a whole lot too.

By Elgorila (Elgorila) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 12:23 pm: Edit

Iceshadow, I got an email two weeks after I applied. Package came a few days later.

By Jenlikewhoa (Jenlikewhoa) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 03:28 pm: Edit

ahh thanks koori. im still waiting on a response. its driving me nuts.

By Linedeacon (Linedeacon) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 07:42 pm: Edit

Into Pitt honors, Elon with good merit money, and should be hearing from PSU anyday. Also applying to Notre Dame and Wake Forest.

By Cfineman (Cfineman) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 07:52 pm: Edit

hey everybody, first post
i got into university of michigan for engineering about a month ago...definitely shat my pants on that one. i applied to stanford ea, finished applying last week to cal, ucla, ucsd, ucd (i'm from ca), harvard, yale, duke, and mit. we'll see where i go.

oh, my stats:
750 sat 1 math
730 sat 1 verbal
770 sat 2 chem
760 sat 2 math 2c
750 sat 2 writing
31 act
ap scholar (3 5's on my ap's junior year)
nat' merit commended
nat' hispanic scholar
3.7 unweighted gpa
3.9 weighted gpa
probably top 10% of 350 (my school doesn't rank)
engineering internship at nasa last summer
good amount of meaningful ec's
mexican-american
6 aps
pretty rigorous course load
aiming for engineering

anybody got some advice, tips, words of encouragement? thanks!

By Highschoolda (Highschoolda) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 07:55 pm: Edit

CSUN. The schools sucks really really bad though LOL

By Muzicgal04 (Muzicgal04) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 08:29 pm: Edit

koori, what are your stats, cuz im thinking of applying there( michigan LSA), but i dont really know my chances (1390 SAT, 33 ACT, 4.1 weighted GPA)

By Cfineman (Cfineman) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 08:37 pm: Edit

bumpity bump bump BUMP!
hahah, jk i keep seeing this "bump" stuff and thought to contribute to the bumpness

now back to the college talk

By Koori (Koori) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 09:06 pm: Edit

muzicgal, you have a very good chance for michigan LSA! what's your GPA unweighted? in terms of ACT/SAT your's is at the top of the pool. i have a 1380/4.0 UW. Just make sure you get it in soon!

By Girl (Girl) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 09:11 pm: Edit

U of Illinois- Urbana
(College of Arts)

Nothing to be to happy about, but the security of going somewhere is pretty darn cool. 1400 SAT and 4.3 weighted, heard on Nov 14. Still anxiously awaiting EA from Dream School... good luck to everybody!

By Royalchk (Royalchk) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 10:03 pm: Edit

Accepted at University of Edinburgh, University of Bristol, and University of East Anglia. Hoping for Cambridge as well.

Any other Americans applying overseas?

By Horseman (Horseman) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 10:22 pm: Edit

Out of state applicants already got notice for admission from University of Michigan? I am awwed.. any one who applied to LSA of U of M, post stats pronto... Thank you

By Mattman (Mattman) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 10:37 pm: Edit

Got into Penn State (University Park campus) and Purdue, aerospace engineering.

By Cfineman (Cfineman) on Friday, November 28, 2003 - 11:39 pm: Edit

wow, looks like not very many people applied to u of m for engineering. maybe i should have researched this earlier, but does anyone know how umich stacks as an engineering school? i cant remember; either the engineering school stinks or the lsa is worse than engineering. cya

By Sprite888 (Sprite888) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:25 am: Edit

question for Royalchk, what is the selectivity of edinburgh and U of dublin? could u make a comparison to american schools?

By Royalchk (Royalchk) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 11:46 am: Edit

Aye, sprite. Edinburgh selects, like all British schools I know of, based on AP and to a lesser extent SAT 2 scores for Americans.

They say they generally offer a place if the grades are 5 in the subject you want to study and mostly 4s and 5s in everything else. As to SAT 2, they are not too specific. They also have some kind of affiliation with Stanford, so I think selectivity is comparable.

The majour difference between applying here and in Britain is that you must declare a subject of concentration when you apply, and I've found that my application was mostly treated by the department I'm applying to. This means that based on volume in one subject area, you can get decisions at different times. (For instance, I applied for pure maths, which has relatively few applicants at any school, so I got 3 out of six decisions within a month of applying.)

I'm afraid I can't say much about Dublin, or American schools really as I'm only applying to one here and have done proportionally less research.

If that's no help, I'm more than willing to answer more questions about it.

By Sillygilly (Sillygilly) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 12:59 pm: Edit

Girl- don't say 'nothing to be excited about' about U of I. First of all, that is an excellent school, and everyone I know who goes there (even the ones that called it a "back up") LOVE it. Second of all, I have a lot of friends this year who would give ANYTHING to go there, so it's unfair of you to put people down like that by saying it's nothing to be excited over.

By Cfineman (Cfineman) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 04:09 pm: Edit

BUMP

By Nmoreno1 (Nmoreno1) on Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 08:15 pm: Edit

I hate when people post a 1400+ score and say "i know, it's crap".

a 1400 is quite good. quit being so humble because we realize that your humbleness is fake. you know your score is great.

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 04:06 pm: Edit

got into Penn State (U. Park) on fri.

so far it's between PSU and Rose-Hulman

and still waiting for UIUC decisions (guy at info. session said 75% of decisions were sent already...)

By Njgrl (Njgrl) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 05:26 pm: Edit

my friend got into Cornell Arts & Sciences last week.. he got a presidential scholarship with $10,000 and 4K merit.. he was in a summer program there for research that selected 6 ppl nationwide

By Almostthere (Almostthere) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:01 pm: Edit

Njgrl

is that even possible for ur friend to get into CU that early - was this some kind of exception?

By Sunshine916 (Sunshine916) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:14 pm: Edit

i thought ivies werent allowed to give merit aid...

By Iamthewalrus (Iamthewalrus) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 06:56 pm: Edit

Accepted to Penn State

Anyone know any information about their merit based aid?

By Peterline (Peterline) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:09 pm: Edit

anyone who got in at penn state, when did you apply? i havnt received anything yet

By Iamthewalrus (Iamthewalrus) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:15 pm: Edit

i applied two weeks ago

i bet their really backed up now so it might take some more time

By Nycneedhelp (Nycneedhelp) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 07:23 pm: Edit

i sent in my crap to my schools guidance office...

on november 10th

By Jaidev63 (Jaidev63) on Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 08:57 pm: Edit

In at UVA Early Decision. If you want to email me or see my pic just click on my profile.

GPA: 3.92 Weighted

SAT: 1540 (M:800, V:740)

AP Courses: 12 Total (including 9 this year)
AP Scores so far: English Lang.-5, US History-5, Comp. Sci-2

Activities:
Chess Club Captain (4 years)
Volunteer (Library and Hospital - 3 years)
Boy Scouts (3 years)
National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
Future Business Leaders of America

By Financelad (Financelad) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 02:04 pm: Edit

well, I got accepted into COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES

I dunno if anyone has heard about it but its supposed to be a good engineering school.. actually you can only study engineering there


BUT I REALLYY want to go to UW or to a UC

By Peterline (Peterline) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 02:12 pm: Edit

really?
i sent my application in online to psu and it was confirmed on Nov 3. whats up with that? one other person applied there from my school and hasnt heard anything yet either.

By Disparat (Disparat) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 03:41 pm: Edit

I got into West Point last month. That's all so far. From reading these boards, it seems like few people apply to the military academies. I wonder why that is.

By Sillygilly (Sillygilly) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:11 pm: Edit

No, a lot of people apply there-- but not the type of people who chat on these boarsd for the most part. Otherwise, why would their acceptance rates be so freakin low? That's definitely an accomplishment. Congrats. Where else did you apply?

By Bluebaron1616 (Bluebaron1616) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:25 pm: Edit

I got accepted into these schools, plz help me choose:

Clown School of North America (required over 1400 SAT! and you need to make the admission offcier laugh like heck!)

Sadaam Hussein's Fedayeen How to Become an Evil Henchman university. (No SATs required, needed good SAT Biology and Chem and Physics scores for obvious WMD reasons.)

Canadian Mounted Police Academy. (They are paying me to go)

American National Riflemen's University (Had to pass a test by shooting down two birds with one bullet. I solved that by sticking two birds together, letting them fly and boom.)

but I'm leaning towards this:

Univeristy for a better tomorrow ruled by fellow anarchist comrades (lol)
(All I needed to do was beat the game Freedom Fighters on HARD.)

By Bluebaron1616 (Bluebaron1616) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:26 pm: Edit

I got accepted into these schools, plz help me choose:

Clown School of North America (required over 1400 SAT! and you need to make the admission offcier laugh like heck!)

Sadaam Hussein's Fedayeen How to Become an Evil Henchman university. (No SAT 1 required, needed good SAT Biology and Chem and Physics scores for obvious WMD reasons.)

Canadian Mounted Police Academy. (They are paying me to go)

American National Riflemen's University (Had to pass a test by shooting down two birds with one bullet. I solved that by sticking two birds together, letting them fly and boom.)

but I'm leaning towards this:

Univeristy for a better tomorrow ruled by fellow anarchist comrades (lol)
(All I needed to do was beat the game Freedom Fighters on HARD.)

By Linedeacon (Linedeacon) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:38 pm: Edit

I know I haven't heard from PSU either. I'm in-state and most of my classmates have not heard either only a few. I applied to Smeal with a 1260 best sitting, maybe Smeal is just taking long i don't know. I applied a long time ago.

By Spiffybrownboy (Spiffybrownboy) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:39 pm: Edit

Clown School of North America, without a doubt. I can see you being successful already.

By Sidis (Sidis) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:55 pm: Edit

Has anyone been accepted in Williams??/

By Devil (Devil) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:38 pm: Edit

"needed good SAT Biology and Chem and Physics scores for obvious WMD reasons"

obvious?? err... where are they?

By Disparat (Disparat) on Monday, December 01, 2003 - 08:13 pm: Edit

I guess that's what I meant Sillygilly. Not too many people around here.

I also applied to the Naval Academy (which I feel pretty confident about getting into as well), Boston University, UCLA (I'm outta state. Delaware to be exact, so I don't know what the chances are there.), University of Delaware, Rensselaer (don't really want to go there, but got a nice scholarship.), and MIT.

I really don't have any first choices; I think I'll be happy wherever I go. The academies big advantage is the price (free. Actually you get paid while you're there. Not a bad deal.)

By Peterline (Peterline) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 11:08 pm: Edit

so, no more dill on those psu letters and dates?