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Well, it's March 24th. Early applicants should have heard from their schools already and the rest of the regular decision applicants should be rolling up within the coming weeks!
For myself (from NJ):
Stanford - Rejected
UC Berkeley - Accepted
UCLA - Accepted
Carnegie Mellon - Waitlisted
University of Illinois Urbana - Accepted
Rutgers - Accepted
4.57 weighted GPA (at the end of my junior year)
2230 SAT
780 SAT2 Bio
800 SAT2 Physics
800 SAT2 Math 2
300+ volunteer hours
summer internships at SIEMENS and Columbia University
research with NJIT professor
programmer on an indie game
AP CS AB, Stat, US history - 5
I applied for computer science at all the schools. Post yours!
Good luck all!
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You got rejected from Stanford?!
As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck 
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On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:You got rejected from Stanford?! As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck
This. Stanford would be so awesome to get into, but if the OP didn't, = /
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Did you have any extracurriculars? 
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nice numbers, I respect people that can do that. I could never ever do that
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Stanford is a huge athletic school, so generally, athletes who are smart get in
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The girl who voiced Jade in Jackie Chan Adventures went to my high school. She got in and went to Stanford.
So I think more than being a smart athlete, you just have to be smart and have some kind of extra edge to get in. Just being smart isn't enough :/
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On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:You got rejected from Stanford?! As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck
Naw they didn't give me a reason but I assume it has something to do with me being Chinese :\
On March 25 2011 07:21 Tiegrr wrote:Did you have any extracurriculars?
Kind of. Extracurricular as in sports..no not really aside from doing varsity swimming for 3 years. I was kind of banking on my indie game programming to get me in but oh well XD
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Did you do any science competitions?
And I always hate these threads because they make me feel insignificant. Good job.
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Accepted:
UC Irvine
UC Santa Cruz
Cal Poly- San Luis Obispo
UCSB
UC Davis
Rejected
UCLA
UCSD
UC Berkeley
USC
Waiting
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OP's stats are ridiculously good lol
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CA10829 Posts
On March 25 2011 07:30 DrivE wrote:
Accepted:
Waiting
UC Berkeley
USC
OP's stats are ridiculously good lol
where do you live? USC acceptances should reach everywhere in the US by tomorrow.
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[QUOTE]On March 25 2011 07:26 b3h47pte wrote:
[QUOTE]On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:
Naw they didn't give me a reason but I assume it has something to do with me being Chinese :\
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Thats the reason.
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On March 25 2011 07:31 LosingID8 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:30 DrivE wrote:
Accepted:
Waiting
UC Berkeley
USC
OP's stats are ridiculously good lol where do you live? USC acceptances should reach everywhere in the US by tomorrow.
I live in San Jose; A bunch of my friends got their decisions in the mail already but for some reason I haven't yet x_x
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Wow, those seemed like some pretty good stats (op) and yet the acceptance decisions look so scary and uncertain.. T__T
My dream school is MIT or Harvard, though their specialties are quite disparate... I definitely want to enter a science field but my options are still open. Anyway, point being that these schools are even more selective ;__;
Good luck dude!!
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On March 25 2011 07:26 b3h47pte wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:You got rejected from Stanford?! As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck Naw they didn't give me a reason but I assume it has something to do with me being Chinese :\ Kind of. Extracurricular as in sports..no not really aside from doing varsity swimming for 3 years. I was kind of banking on my indie game programming to get me in but oh well XD
Being Chinese (or Asian in general, maybe) sucks when it comes to admissions. We rack up good numbers and have a more than solid application, but there are just too many of us =.=
Edit:
Good luck with Berk btw. I heard it's super hard to get in from out of state; mad props if you do. Berk is easily one of the top CS schools, directly comparable to Stanford.
Also, you should be able to get into CMU.
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CA10829 Posts
On March 25 2011 07:37 DrivE wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:31 LosingID8 wrote:On March 25 2011 07:30 DrivE wrote:
Accepted:
Waiting
UC Berkeley
USC
OP's stats are ridiculously good lol where do you live? USC acceptances should reach everywhere in the US by tomorrow. I live in San Jose; A bunch of my friends got their decisions in the mail already but for some reason I haven't yet x_x
not to scare you, but if you don't get the big white envelope tomorrow you may be out of luck for USC. USC sends out their acceptances via priority mail and rejection letters by standard first class mail.
i wish you the best of luck!
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Oh nice Drive. I'm from San Jose too. I got into UCSD, and SJSU, but I am kind of hoping for Berkeley haha. Hope I get in anyways! (as a transfer)
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I would love to attend Grad School in the US.
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On March 25 2011 07:39 Cambium wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:26 b3h47pte wrote:On March 25 2011 07:19 drag_ wrote:You got rejected from Stanford?! As far as I can tell you're pretty much the ideal student, did they give you some reason why or was it just bad luck Naw they didn't give me a reason but I assume it has something to do with me being Chinese :\ On March 25 2011 07:21 Tiegrr wrote:Did you have any extracurriculars? Kind of. Extracurricular as in sports..no not really aside from doing varsity swimming for 3 years. I was kind of banking on my indie game programming to get me in but oh well XD Being Chinese (or Asian in general, maybe) sucks when it comes to admissions. We rack up good numbers and have a more than solid application, but there are just too many of us =.=
I have two white friends who were both around 2300, 790+ on SAT II's, 14-15 5's on APs, and solid extracurriculars (sciency, programmy stuff), who didn't really get into anywhere competitive (MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Penn).
So no, it's just that Stanford is rape hard to get into.
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UC Berkeley student here - keep up your hopes for Berkeley, even if your numbers aren't all that great! I know plenty of friends who got into Berkeley (one even into EECS, which is incredibly competitive) with sub-4.0 GPAs and/or sub-2000 SAT scores. They really care alot about the essay, and they have really strange decisions in the admissions processes. You never know if you'll get in or not.
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