EPTCollege Acceptance Thread '11 - Page 4
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terr13
United States298 Posts
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Alexson
Belarus293 Posts
Harvard Oxford UC Berkeley UCLA UNT Rejected: none  | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:33 Alexson wrote: Accepted Harvard Oxford UC Berkeley UCLA UNT Rejected: none That is beastly. What are your "specs"  | ||
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HudsonK
China172 Posts
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Navi
5286 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:30 Froadac wrote: There is something you aren't telling us. You'd get into washington U if you really had all this leadership stuff, etc. well that's one helluva sassy way to put it lol from what i hear wash u loves to accept a lot of their early application peeps and waitlist / reject a lot of the rest (the people who apply early usually have more motivation to go into wash u etc.) and thus their numbers (for # of students invited / # of students accepted) look really good on paper. kind of a dickish way to mess with the statistics imo | ||
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aristarchus
United States652 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:12 awu25 wrote: I knew someone who was chinese and probably had about the same amount of 5's on APs, valedictorian of our high school, and probably really high SAT. He got into MIT. Your friend should've gotten in, but he probably didn't have a strong essay or something. It's not just because he was chinese I went to MIT, and for a while you were able to get your admissions paperwork from their office and see what they wrote during your admissions process. No guarantees it still works this way, but it's probably similar (and similar at other top schools too). Also, I'm doing this from memory, so the details might not all be exact. They condense your application to a one-page summary. That includes SAT scores, GPA (recalculated by them to standardize). They combine your academics into some sort of overall number score. They then have a series roughly 5 attributes they can check off, to the best of my memory - academics, co-curricular, diversity, interview, and recommendations. Then there is a little box where each of the two or three people who read your whole recommendation can write a couple sentences. That page then goes to the people who actually make the decisions (and presumably borderline people there then get their application looked at again). As far as I was able to tell, you either get the diversity check or you don't, and that's all that matters there (whites and asians don't get it). The academic check is extremely hard to get. I had straight As, 1600 SATs (before it increased), perfect SAT II scores, and 5s on all of my 10 APs, and I didn't get it. (Those things go into the number they calculate - to get the additional check you presumably need to have won the Intel science fair or something.) I got the interview and recommendation checks, as well as the co-curricular one (several major extracurriculars). I got in early, so that (and my number) was apparently enough. Acceptances are kind of random. It's extremely hard. There are a lot of extremely smart people, and they don't care about sports and that sort of stuff (other than the general value of extracurriculars, of course). The admissions committee is not perfect. There are lots of geniuses, but also a couple people who aren't all that smart. There's just only so much you can tell from a college application. They get it right more than they get it wrong, but remember that it's kind of random. Don't take a decision (either way) personally. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:36 Navi wrote: well that's one helluva sassy way to put it lol from what i hear wash u loves to accept a lot of their early application peeps and waitlist / reject a lot of the rest (the people who apply early usually have more motivation to go into wash u etc.) and thus their numbers (for # of students invited / # of students accepted) look really good on paper. kind of a dickish way to mess with the statistics imo Yeah. It came off wrong. I'm just surprised that if the user really ils that perfect that they got rejectged. | ||
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Deadlyhazard
United States1177 Posts
...........or maybe I'm just jealous that I was a high school failure. | ||
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Deucegladlier
United States98 Posts
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. Seems I was one of the lucky ones with like 3.75 gpa and like 1800 SAT scores. | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:38 Deucegladlier wrote: Seems I was one of the lucky ones with like 3.75 gpa and like 1800 SAT scores. What were your extracurriculars. | ||
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Mephiztopheles1
1124 Posts
Accepted: Oxford Cambridge LSE Goldsmiths Rejected: UCL* *Got accepted but never paid the new fee they are asking for applicants so Anyone else going to the UK/London this year? | ||
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Alexson
Belarus293 Posts
I'm just kidding, I wish.. I'm putting lots of work in right now though, in high school, so hopefully I have a chance of getting into an ivy league school. The fact that I'm a foreigner from eastern Europe, and nobody in my family has an education past middle school is a bonus after the hard work. also, English is a bitch, if anyone is willing to help me I will love you forever. | ||
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Vinnesta
Singapore285 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:38 Deadlyhazard wrote: It makes me wonder whether or not people on here are lying. There's no way more than 3/4 of you have above 4.0 GPAs and are all being accepted to Harvard. ...........or maybe I'm just jealous that I was a high school failure. Only those who have such awesome results want to show off in this thread :p | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:39 Alexson wrote: I'm just kidding, I wish.. I'm putting lots of work in right now though, in high school, so hopefully I have a chance of getting into an ivy league school. The fact that I'm a foreigner from eastern Europe, and nobody in my family has an education past middle school is a bonus after the hard work. also, English is a bitch, if anyone is willing to help me I will love you forever. haha. I would be willing to help  I figured you were being sarcastic, but did not wish to be rude. | ||
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Loser777
1931 Posts
SAT: 2310 SAT IIs: 790 US 790 Physics 800 Math II ECs: Mixture of various science clubs, competitions and fairs, marching band for four years, few community service hours (~100) Major Awards: Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist UC Berkeley: Rejected Harvey Mudd College: Rejected MIT: Rejected UC San Diego: Rejected Stanford: Rejected Carnegie Mellon: Waitlisted for SCS and CIT... as good as a rejection UCLA: Accepted UCI: Accepted UCSB: Accepted UCR: Accepted UCD: Accepted USC: Accepted UIUC: Accepted University of Michigan: Accepted University of Texas Austin: Accepted Georgia Institute of Technology: Accepted Cal Poly SLO: Accepted | ||
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Froadac
United States6733 Posts
On March 25 2011 08:41 Loser777 wrote: GPA: 3.80UW -UC GPA was something shitty like 4.00 SAT: 2310 SAT IIs: 790 US 790 Physics 800 Math II ECs: Mixture of various science clubs, competitions and fairs, marching band for four years, few community service hours (~100) Major Awards: Intel Science Talent Search Semifinalist UC Berkeley: Rejected Harvey Mudd College: Rejected MIT: Rejected UC San Diego: Rejected Stanford: Waiting :/ Carnegie Mellon: Waiting :/ UCLA: Accepted UCI: Accepted UCSB: Accepted UCR: Accepted UCD: Accepted USC: Accepted UIUC: Accepted University of Michigan: Accepted University of Texas Austin: Accepted Cal Poly SLO: Accepted Hmmm. Sort of eerily similar. My extracurriculars are probably a bit better, and GPA is probably a hare better, but overall very similar. What major are you wanting to do? | ||
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FabledIntegral
United States9232 Posts
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Perguvious
United States1783 Posts
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1Eris1
United States5797 Posts
Anyways crap, I really need to step it up for next year (<--high school junior) Gogo the fact that I've always been recognized to write good essays? = / | ||
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chenchen
United States1136 Posts
On March 25 2011 07:48 Candide wrote: 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 --" All of the AP science exams are a complete joke =P | ||
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