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Stanford - Rejected
UC Berkeley - Accepted (waiting for regents decision)
UCLA - Accepted
UCSD - Accepted (waiting for medical program decision)
UC Davis - Accepted (Regents)
Harvard - Waiting
4.5 weighted GPA (at the end of my junior year)
2340 SAT
780 SAT2 Bio
800 SAT2 US History
800 SAT2 Math 2
AP Bio / Lang / US History / European History - 5's
200+ volunteer hours at local hospital
summer internship for 2 years at NIH in Bethesda, MD
odyssey of the mind
wrote one of my essays about organizing starcraft events
sport - volleyball
ethnicity - chinese
no legacies, first generation college student, california
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On March 25 2011 07:42 HolyArrow wrote:
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.
Damn, I don't feel my essay was very strong :\
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On March 25 2011 07:42 chenchen wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:39 Cambium wrote: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.
For every white friend of yours, I can name at least five (I originally typed ten, but that might be pushing it) Asian friends with equal or better stats, what's your point? I never said it was easy for "white".
This is a well-known issue, called affirmative action.
I don't blame them, diversity is important.
Anyway, this is derailing the thread. Good luck to everyone.
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+ Show Spoiler +On March 25 2011 07:40 LosingID8 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:37 DrivE wrote: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!
haha thanks :D
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On March 25 2011 07:42 chenchen wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:39 Cambium wrote: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.
No, thats false. Schools discriminate against whites and east asians. Thats a verifiable fact.
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You guys try too hard :D
OT: I have friends who got into Stanford/Yale/Columbia. For Stanford he was Columbian and a known genius o.o He took all of the science AP exams and got 5s on all of them --"
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im a senior at illinois champaign. its a great school but i think with your profile you could do much better
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Im a norwegian studying political science, and my university have an awesome program with Berkeley, where i can (if i want) have 1 semester at Berkeley 
I didnt really consider Berkeley, since the only classes I can take over there is social science, and thats not exactly right up my ally of interests. But its close enough to political science, so i can fill the classes into my masters. Might reconsider since alot of ppl here talks highly of Berkeley!
Good luck everyone btw
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Accepted:
UC Riverside
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
cal poly slo
Rejected:
UC San Diego
UC Irvine
I had something like a 4.01 UC GPA and 1980 SAT score
im still depressed over Irvine (irvine was almost like my "dream school")
well I guess im going to riverside
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Is this a applying to transfer thread or the ol' apply right out of high school thread?? Anyways applying this fall!!
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kinda off topic but does anyone know the conversion for US to UK (England) Grades? i always get confused with the american school system, college at 17? (which is supposed to be equivalent to Uni in England) majors and minors etc.
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On March 25 2011 07:49 Condor Hero wrote:
im a senior at illinois champaign. its a great school but i think with your profile you could do much better
Well from my research I found that illinois champaign has a great computer science program right? So although there may be schools that may be "better" in other areas I think illinois is pretty good for comp sci.
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On March 25 2011 07:45 Cambium wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2011 07:42 chenchen wrote:On March 25 2011 07:39 Cambium wrote: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. For every white friend of yours, I can name at least five (I originally typed ten, but that might be pushing it) Asian friends with equal or better stats, what's your point? I never said it was easy for "white". This is a well-known issue, called affirmative action. I don't blame them, diversity is important. Anyway, this is derailing the thread. Good luck to everyone.
So I have a friend who got rejected by yale. He had a 98 GPA, a 2400 on this SAT, he's been principal clarinetist in the local youth orchestra for the past 3 years (I'll finally get a chance next year!), he has 16 5's on APs, he was a finalist in the international clarinet highschool competition, he's on varsity tennis, and he's captain of the math team, and he's the regional champion in chess.
However, he's chinese...so gets rejected by yale and MIT...at least he got into REMS which is awesome!
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Acceptances:
University of Michigan
California Pyrotechnical Institute: San Luis Obispo
Southern Methodist University
UCSB
UCI
Rejected:
Washington University in Saint Louis
UCLA
UCSD
Berkeley
Vanderbilt University
Wesleyan University
Waiting to hear back from:
Cornell University (ACCEPTED!!)
Lehigh University (ACCPTED)
Stats:
4.72 weighted HS GPA (Freshmen through Junior year)
2260 SAT
SAT II:
800 Math II
770 US History
740 English
Captain of Cross Country and Track Team, won state last year.
Leader of 2 clubs on campus.
Leader of church youth group that makes multiple mission trips overseas.
Volunteer at local hospital.
and more.
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Well, I originally went to Lehman College, but since I've decided on a Geography major, I've changed schools and recently have been accepted to Binghamton University. I've already accepted, seeing as my other option was further north in New York State to Buffalo, so yeah. I'm totally excited.
Looking forward to joining their SC2 team, or at least getting to know them!
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Accepted:
UCLA
UCSD (regents)
UC Davis
Rejected:
MIT
Waitlist:
Washington University St. Louis
waiting on berkeley, stanford, and brown...
i have a good GPA and my ACT was pretty good, but i don't know what to expect. my extracurriculars sound okay on paper but who knows TT
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On March 25 2011 07:15 b3h47pte wrote:
I applied for computer science at all the schools. Post yours!
Good luck to everyone :D and good luck with computer science, I'm studying the same subject over here in England (university).
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Accepted: University of Michigan
I'm going there, if anyone else is we should meet up sometime this summer and be best friends <3
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Partly depends on where you are, for some areas (e.g. the whole freaking north-east) Stanford can be the hardest school to get into in the country, Ivys tend to accept more people from the north-east and Stanford accepts more from California and its about at the level of the top Ivys. Also are there other extracurriculars? What you have there is amazing, better than I'll ever do, but at the very top of schools you really have to have something impressive outside of grades and I can't tell from just this how big/important those internships actually are, just to show my point the valedictorian of my school last year who worked unbelievably hard's top school was Penn because of a lack of extracurriculars while the salutatorian's at Yale because of a combination of math, science, music, and sports extracurriculars.
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On March 25 2011 08:06 pikaaarrr :3 wrote:
Accepted:
UCLA
UCSD (regents)
UC Davis
Rejected:
MIT
Waitlist:
Washington University St. Louis
waiting on berkeley, stanford, and brown...
i have a good GPA and my ACT was pretty good, but i don't know what to expect. my extracurriculars sound okay on paper but who knows TT
Hey at least you got into UCSD that's the school that I want to get into. Good luck on Berkeley, Stanford, and brown though!
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