EPTthat even makes me nervous and i am in stanford
College Acceptance Thread '10 - Page 18
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phosphorylation
United States2935 Posts
that even makes me nervous and i am in stanford | ||
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cunninglinguists
United States925 Posts
On March 19 2010 05:12 cunninglinguists wrote: accepted by: UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego deferred from: Pomona College (3rd choice) Brown University (1st choice) waiting to hear back from: Berkeley University Duke University University of Chicago (2nd choice) Northwestern NYU Rice University (4th) Amherst College numbers n shit: 2300 SAT 800, 780, 780 SAT IIs 4.3 GPA debate captain + won/finalist at a bunch of national tournaments 5, 5, 5 AP tests 3 brothers; lots of community service and one job tutoring. was published by 2 books and 2 newspapers. national merit scholarship finalist UCLA - Accepted UC Berkeley - Accepted UCI - Accepted UCSD - Accepted UCD - Accepted Pomona College - Rejected (ridiculous 6% acceptance rate this year vs 16% last year) Duke University - Rejected Northwestern - Waitlisted Amherst College - Waitlisted (no hope for this one. 21 people out of 500 on the waiting list get in =\ ) University of Chicago - Waitlisted NYU - Accepted Boston U - Accepted with $20,000/yr Merit Scholarship money :D Rice - Accepted with $15,800/yr Merit Scholarship money :D Looks like I'll be heading to Rice unless UChig accepts me and offers finanaid. Anyone who goes there can tell me what its like? I'm visiting next month to check it out. Grats to everyone else! | ||
Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
UCLA: Accept UCBerkeley: Accept USC: Accept MIT: Deferred -> Reject Northwestern: Accept Vanderbilt: Accept Washington University in St. Louis: Accept UChicago: Accept Harvard: Reject (I don't do community service~) Princeton: Reject Overall I'm happy  . Not like I put enough effort into HS to get drafted by a top Ivy anyway  | ||
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gngfn
United States1726 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On April 02 2010 09:37 ammeL wrote: How you were rejected from all those places, Chen, I do not know... well, at least that's the proof that college acceptances are heavily arbitrary. 4.37 weighted is pretty bad. It means more Bs than As... | ||
CaucasianAsian
Korea (South)11591 Posts
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TwoToneTerran
United States8841 Posts
On April 02 2010 10:41 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: 4.37 weighted is pretty bad. It means more Bs than As... Depends, some state school systems have different amounts of weight classes. If he only took a few weighted classes then he still had mostly A's. If he did get mostly B's then, given his test scores, most colleges will assume he's incredibly bright and good at tests but only has a moderate ethic when it comes to projects/papers and other non-test scores(which is bad if they favor fields where you publish things or do long-duration experiments). That's why I only got into a top state college with like a 4.6 (aaaah padding my stats with five semesters of french) and 33 on an ACT. (sadly my state is Alabama, but atleast UA has great psych and med schools). | ||
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Chen
United States6344 Posts
On April 02 2010 10:41 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: 4.37 weighted is pretty bad. It means more Bs than As... no it doesnt. i have like 2 B's total. every school does it differently, my school AP's are 4.5, 2 quarters of AP(5.0) and 2 quarters of honors (4.0) there are 3 classes that actually give 5.0's to your GPA, Calc BC, APES, and Physics C cause those are 1/2 year classes. highest GPA ever attained at my school is like a low 4.5 | ||
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ammeL
United States211 Posts
Whatever, Chen, it's all good man, you'll be successful in life. It's not what school you go to, it's what you make of your own education. Plus, Warren Buffet got REJECTED from Harvard and now look? =) | ||
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Itsraiiningpaper
United States25 Posts
other acceptances: dartmouth cornell amherst duke UCLA, UC berk, UCI all with regents scholarship happiest day of my life! | ||
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ammeL
United States211 Posts
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Klogon
MURICA15980 Posts
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Wings
United States999 Posts
On April 02 2010 10:59 Itsraiiningpaper wrote: ahhhhhhhh INTO PRINCETON!!!! other acceptances: dartmouth cornell amherst duke UCLA, UC berk, UCI all with regents scholarship happiest day of my life! hahaha I hope we'll be seeing you in the fall at Pton! congrats! | ||
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Wings
United States999 Posts
On April 02 2010 09:29 Chen wrote: Stanford: Reject Harvard: Reject Yale: Reject MIT: Reject Princeton: Reject Upenn: Reject Brown: Reject Dartmouth: Reject Cornell: Waitlist Berkeley here i come -.- holy shit are u serious? that's ridiculously harsh... unbelievable, they must have not liked your common app essay or sth =( | ||
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Monkeyboi2k3
United States175 Posts
UMaryland CP: Accepted w/ Presidents Scholarhsip Babson: Accepted Georgetown: Rejected UCLA: Rejected JHU: Rejected UVA: Rejected NYU: Waiting -> Not home to check my mail  Cornell: Rejected UPenn: Rejected GW: Accepted | ||
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Saracen
United States5139 Posts
On April 02 2010 12:29 Wings wrote: holy shit are u serious? that's ridiculously harsh... unbelievable, they must have not liked your common app essay or sth =( Are *you* serious? This IS the college admissions process, after all. And there are plenty of people with applications just as good, if not better. And plenty of them get the same results. + Show Spoiler + Not still bitter or anything... | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On April 02 2010 12:39 Saracen wrote: Are *you* serious? This IS the college admissions process, after all. And there are plenty of people with applications just as good, if not better. And plenty of them get the same results. + Show Spoiler + Not still bitter or anything... Haha, so true =P | ||
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Monkeyboi2k3
United States175 Posts
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Mystlord
United States10264 Posts
On April 02 2010 12:46 Monkeyboi2k3 wrote: This year's ivys were bithces, Most of the good students that I know have been shot down by every one of them. Only person who got in to a lot of them, the SMOB of mcps schools :/ I have a friend who is essentially the same as me academically, same extra curriculars as me except he plays tennis and I don't. His only acceptances were UCLA, UCBerkeley, and Northwestern. Waitlisted/Denied at every Ivy, Duke, MIT, etc. This year was so weird in terms of college apps. Every single college is saying "RECORD # OF APPLICATIONS", and the numbers reflect that :/ | ||
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Tyrio
United States3248 Posts
Stanford: Rejected Carnegie Mellon: Wait-listed Georgia Tech: Accepted Numbers: 2380 SAT 800 Math SAT II 730 Physics SAT II 8 AP Tests (6 5s, 2 4s) 5.8/6.0 GPA (3.98/4.00) National Merit Finalist Ton of extracurricular through Math Club/Competitions, placed several times in state competitions A decent amount of community service No jobs though | ||
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