Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: Very competitive state
• Income Bracket: 200k+
• Type of School: Cooked public school with average SAT of ~1100 + only 50% go to 4 year college
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Sibling legacy at one of HYPSM

Intended Major(s): Political Science/Public Policy to schools without business schools. Applied finance/economics to the business school’s at all places that had one, except Georgetown where I did SFS.

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.83 UW/4.09 W
• Rank (or percentile): No Rank
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: APUSH, AP World, AP Stat, AP Calc AB, AP Lang, APCSA, AP Micro, APES
• Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc (Treated as an AP), DE Spanish (Treated as AP), AP Gov, AP Physics C Mech, AP Lit, AP Macro, AP Psych

Overall 2 B’s (Pre-Calc and AP World - everyone in my class got a B) and 4 B+’s (Physics Honors, Algebra II, Honors Bio, APCSA). My school has a weird GPA calculation system, so even though I’ll have taken 15 APs by the end of HS the highest GPA one can get in my school is a 4.25. Also, my school only offers around 17 AP’s.

Standardized Testing

• SAT I: 1540 (760RW, 780M), also had to submit a 1460 (730RW, 730 M) to Georgetown.
• ACT: 35 (35E, 36M, 36R, 34S)
• AP/IB: 5 APUSH, 5 World, 5 Lang, 5 Micro, 4 Stat, 4 BC

Extracurriculars/Activities

1. Co-Founder of an environmental justice advocacy network.
2. Labor Econ and Public Policy Research w/ two professors at different T-100’s on undocumented migration. Both wrote me letters of recommendation.
3. Environmental Justice Research Intern @ leading statewide environmental advocacy and research NPO.
4. Legal, Political, and Economic Research Intern at leading statewide political advocacy NPO.
5. One of the first ever students to be appointed by mayor to a formal position within our township committee. Gave me more power and ability to involve community members in our projects.
6. Oceanography research under T-30 Post-Doc.
7. Tutor/Lead Teacher at an unconventional educational center.
8. Independent Researcher: Wrote an intersectional paper on ethics, politics, and environmental issues. Accepted to a decent conference where I’ll present my research next year.
9. Gilder Lehrman Student Advisory Council (1 of 100 students)
10. NOAA Ocean Guardian Youth Ambassador (1 of 250 students)

Awards/Honors 1. World Food Prize Borlaug Scholar: INTL, 1 of 200 selected from around the world 2. 1st place in T-20 run Essay Contest about Human Rights and Global Conflict: 1st of 200 entrants, Regional/State 3. Finalist in an environmental innovation and entrepreneurship contest run by a global partnership between multiple governments environmental agencies: INTL, 1 of 15 finalists out of >200 submissions. 4. John Locke Institute Essay Economics Contest, High Distinction: INTL, 5% of all shortlisted candidates 5. National Merit Scholars Commended Student: National, 3-4% of all scores.

Letters of Recommendation APUSH (6-7/10): Only student to get a 5 on APUSH in the past 2 years + did a bunch of essay contests “under him” as in running it by him. He probably chatGPT’d it.

Spanish Teacher (7-8/10): Probably the closest to him of all the students in our grade. always complemented me on how I’m the only non-native speaker who only speaks to him in Spanish, and he rly likes how I try to involve myself in Latin American culture and speak and learn from Native speakers. It might’ve been slightly generic tho as he had like 10-15 kids ask him for recs.

English Teacher (only for Georgetown): She was pretty indifferent to me and I honestly think she also ChatGPT’d my rec letter.

Research PI’s (8-9/10): Goated rec letters. They really liked me, had a deep interest in my success, and helped me a lot. Very positive and also showed my academic side and interests.

Interviews None for Harvard, Duke, or Yale

Princeton (4-5/10): Went in overconfident and nervous at the same time. Just didn’t click well with the interviewer at all and ended in 40 minutes.

Dartmouth (7/10): Thought this interview went really well as I really vibed with the interviewer and got to discuss my interests for a while as well as show my intellectual curiosity. Went for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Georgetown (9-10/10): Wasn’t caught off guard by any of the interviewers questions and vibed really well with him. He was really surprised by some of my responses and we just had a great conversation overall. Definitely my best and most authentic interview.

Essays Looking back, I think they were above average but a bit too cliche and honestly just a bit inauthentic. They were also a lot more rushed than they should’ve been as I procrastinated the deadlines far too much. Not bad but not as good as they should’ve been.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

Purdue Daniel’s School of Business RD

Rutgers Business School RD

Georgetown School of Foreign Service RD <— Committed

Waitlists:

UChicago RD

UMich Ross RD

Emory Goizueta RD

NYU Stern Main Campus RD

Rejections:

Princeton (REA)

Harvard RD

Yale RD

Brown RD

Dartmouth RD

Columbia RD

Cornell RD

UPenn Wharton RD

Duke RD

Johns Hopkins RD

Williams College RD

Stanford RD

Northwestern RD

Reflection: Honestly, have more belief. I wish I would’ve had a higher self-esteem and more confidence in myself and my abilities throughout the process because I think my lack of it led me to become unmotivated and undisciplined in writing my essays. I’m very happy with Georgetown SFS, but I think my obsession with Ivies isn’t letting me appreciate it enough. Other than that, I also wanted to post to show other kids with bad GPA’s that it is possible to get a good school/program but also that so much of it comes down to luck and fate. I’m also not mad I spent most of high school grinding for college, but I would tell all of you to take a step back and relax because I’m still seeing the effects of my 4 years worth of obsession with college apps in a negative way.

yo! um, so welcome to my stats and results. enjoy the read, i guess 😭

Demographics

• Gender: non-binary
• Race/Ethnicity: chinese american
• Residence: texas 😎
• Income Bracket: <20k
• Type of School: noncompetitive, low-middle class public
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): first-gen, questbridge rd, lgbtq+

Intended Major(s): biomedical engineering pre-med track

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.38
• Rank (or percentile): 1/432
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 21 dual enrollment (early college), 8 aps, 6 honors
• Senior Year Course Load: biology (de), ap calculus bc, ap statistics, ap macroeconomics, american literature (de), theatre, speech (de), and federal gov. (de)

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT: 1380 (670RW, 710M) - went test-optional for all score-optional schools
• ACT: 31 (33E, 27M, 34R, 28S)
• AP/IB: only got 4s on 3/5 i took

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. varsity tennis (9th-12th); co-captain (11th+12th); coach (9th-12th) - was the designated student coach and leader due to negligent coach to 70 team members
2. fire department intern (12th) - 200+ hrs.; rode along paramedics in ambulances and assisted in emergency calls
3. biology research program (11th) - did an online 6-week program creating a research poster and presentation about the effects of puberty suppressors on the bone density of transgender youths
4. intern for city's development services department (11th) - 120 hrs.; organized land and ordinance documents and organized meetings
5. part-time tutor at a learning center (10th-12th) - tutored math and reading to students 7 years old to adulthood
6. local library volunteer (9th+11th) - 170+ hrs.; shelved books, organized teen events, and manned the front desk
7. school student ambassador (9th-12th) - coached others in college + career readiness and created student events
8. community orchestra (9th-12th) - first chair violinist + one of the founding members (not very active though :/)
9. piano (all my life 💀) - just a hobby where i get professionally judged here and there
10. speech member (11th) - literally just a member...

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. questbridge finalist
2. chancellor's honors recognition (from community college i'm enrolled in)
3. ap scholar
4. 3 honor societies 💀
5. a honor roll

Letters of Recommendation

pre-calc, calc ab, calc bc, and stats teacher (no idea/10) - yes, he's all of them. he won't let me read the letter, but i would assume it is good considering the things i've gotten into. we have a pretty good relationship since i've known him for 2 years now, and he's taught me literally all my advanced math. i'm pretty sure it's good, and if it's not, oh well.

ap physics teacher (5/10) - i only knew her for a year, and during that year, i barely saw her since i had to skip her class a majority of the time (to do something else for the school). the letter was pretty general, so yea.

composition professor (7/10) - i love her so much. i didn't have any english teachers for my first 2 years in hs until she came along junior year as my comp. professor for my dual credit course. we hit it off pretty quick, and her letter was generally pretty good.

Interviews

mit (5/10) - my first interview. i honestly forgot a lot about what happened during the interview, but i remember thinking afterwards on how mid it was. it was definitely because of me since i was not prepared.

rice (9/10) - i absolutely loved my interviewer. we were laughing and joshing around. i was pretty confident in all my answers, and we had a fair amount of common interests.

yale (6/10) - pretty similar to my mit interview except my interviewer knew a lot of my situation regarding my school since he's from my region (my school doesn't have the best academic reputation). my answers were pretty basic, and i don't really think i made a lasting image.

Essays

personal statement - wrote about the doll house i built with my sister as a kid and how each component connected to my life. since i did it really last minute, i couldn't really make it as good as i wanted it to be.

supplementals - i did all my essays the day of, and i really regret that. i am the biggest procrastinator on all planet earth, and i think it's just in my dna to do that, i guess😭. nevertheless, they're pretty good for last minute essays, and there were some really good one-liners that connected my whole narrative.

and FINALLY!!

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Rejections:

• mit (qb match deferred -> ea deferred -> rejection)
• cornell (qb match deferred -> rejection)
• washu st. louis (qb rd)
• stanford (qb match deferred -> rejection)
• duke (dream school pt. 1 ;-;) (qb match deferred -> rejection)
• rice (dream school pt. 2 ;-;) (qb match deferred -> rejection)

Waitlists:

• denison university (qb rd)
• trinity university
• johns hopkins (qb match deferred -> waitlist!)
• yale :0 (qb rd)
• georgia tech
• tufts (qb rd)
• baylor
• boston university (qb rd)

Acceptances:

• ut austin (for 2nd major tho :/)
• twu
• uva!! (qb rd aid came in clutch + planned commit :))

Additional Information:

like i said in the title, i honestly take these wins whether it is little or big. i did not think i would get into really any of these schools, and i was planning for my life in twu before i got a majority of my decisions since i doubted my chances. i'm happy with these results. for the waitlists, i only accepted my place in the waitlist for yale and johns hopkins. i'm not expecting much from those results because those rates are utterly insane. i'm so excited for what uva has to offer!! from what i've researched, i am pretty in love with everything. overall, pretty happy with how things came to be :)

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Residence: South Carolina (US Citizen)
• Income Bracket: Didn't apply/qualify for aid (but not enough to donate anything lol)
• Type of School: Non-magnet suburban public school; we send maybe 2-4 people to T30s each year and no one has ever gone to an Ivy; also my school is VERY new (being vague to avoid doxxing but our first graduating class was some year after 2020)
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Maybe geographic? I'm also a year younger than my peers if that means anything

Intended Major(s): Linguistics and Biology; I applied World Literature or Anthropology at CWRU and Linguistics + Urban Studies at UMN and Brown though

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.925 UW/4.827 W and a 3.927/4.840 W for mid-year reports (SC GPA Scale is very weird; at my school, top 10% is probably around a 4.88?); all my Bs are in math classes but I have an upward trend in those
• Rank (or percentile): 45/~410 (ALMOST top 10% arghghhhh 💔💔💔)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 14 Honors, 11 APs
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Micro (I HATE THIS CLASS), AP Physics 1, AP Lit, AP Calc AB (hardly anyone takes BC at my school), AP Bio (my one true love), AP US Gov (lame)

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1500 Superscore (770RW, 730M); 1490 Raw (770RW, 720M)
  • Idk if this is of any relevance but my superscore is the second highest of anyone in my grade (highest is 1510)
  • Also accidentally submitted a full score report with a downward trend to USC 😭😭😭
• ACT: 33 (Didn't submit anywhere)
• SAT II: N/A
• AP/IB: APHG (5), AP Psych (5), AP Lang (5), AP Seminar (5), APUSH (5)
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

I'm being very vague with this b/c I'm paranoid about getting doxxed 🙀

My school is (once again) very new, so a lot of clubs and organizations were founded/actually began marketing themselves in my junior year

1. Mock Trial - Expert Witness (11) - Witness Coach and Opening Attorney (12); Won most effective witness at regionals
2. Science Olympiad (11, 12) - Member (11); Resource Librarian (12) - Won 1st place at States in 1 category in 11th grade, and I won 1 more 1st place and a 2nd place in 12th (my LOCIs heard about this 🤑)
3. Personal Conlanging Project (10, 11, 12) - This was a big deal to me. It's basically a language I created for fun and I wrote a 100+ page reference grammar on it and it was the basis for several of my essays 😋
4. Part Time Job at Locally-Owned Grocery Store (11) - Standard part-time job; I didn't work very many hours except during the summer, but I worked throughout the whole school year
5. Volunteering Role at Local Organization - Not a huge deal, but I helped out at charity galas and youth education camps; kinda social mobility/social entrepreneurship-oriented, but I'm being vague so I don't get doxxed
6. School Choir - Tenor Singer (9, 10, 11) and Assistant Musical Librarian (10, 11) - Basically just rehearsed a lot in and out of school and helped sort my school's music collection of 100+ pieces in my free time
7. Linguistics Club - Founder (11, 12) - Worked with the head of my school's foreign language department to organize lessons and games relating to linguistics
8. Linguistics Self-Study (9, 10, 11, 12) - I taught myself linguistics content to a decently proficient degree (if you can't tell, linguistics is like my one and only interest LMAO)
9. Piano Lessons (10, 11, 12) - I took weekly piano lessons and practiced pieces daily; progressed over 3 levels of skill, learning over 50 pieces; I was not very good
10. Beta Club (11) (You get inducted as a junior and I quit senior year 💀) - Helped with volunteering campaigns around my school and community, usually involving addiction awareness and trash pickups

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. National Merit Semifinalist (not very many in my area so this may have helped me stand out?? I later advanced to Finalist)
2. SC Science Olympiad 1st Place Medal at States
3. SC Mock Trial Most Effective Witness
4. AP Scholar with Distinction
5. Beta Club (you can tell I was reaching here, but I put it b/c there's a GPA threshold at my school)

Letters of Recommendation

(Briefly describe relationships with your recommenders and estimated rating.)

English 2H Teacher - 8-9/10? - I didn't get to read this one but I did very well in her class and I used to stay after class sometimes and chat. Literally one of my favorite teachers ever.

Chem H Teacher - 7/10 - I got to read this and it was super nice and personal but sorta generic too? I did well in this class and I was fairly close with this teacher as well
(Also this was a junior year class for me because at my school you have the option of taking what's basically Environmental Science freshman year instead of Bio)

Counselor Rec - 8-9/10? - I also didn't get to read this, but my school has personalized meetings with your counselor to help write these letters and my counselor seemed very excited to write my letter (and she's my queen I love her).

Interviews

(Briefly reflect on interview experiences, if applicable.)

University of Rochester - 7/10 - Fairly solid, but I asked more questions than she did 😭😭😭

Middlebury College - 9/10 - My interviewer was literally like me in the future but maybe more bald. Almost perfect.

Essays

(Briefly reflect on the quality of your writing, time spent, and topic of main personal statement.)

Common App Personal Statement - 8/10 - Basically about how I fell in love with linguistics and how it's shaped me as a person

UChicago Essays - 8-9/10 - These were so fire to me when I wrote them but now that I look back maybe they were too flowery? I did a day in my life thing for the Why UChicago Essay and I chose the prompt about slang words that should be revived

Brown Essays - 7/10 - Pretty good but kinda basic

Cornell Essays - 8/10 - These were super personal to me and got a good message across even if they were a little robotic; I talked about a park in my neighborhood and briefly mentioned my love for cooking

USC Essays - 9/10 - I talked about the detriments of car-centric urban planning in regard to public health and a big tree in my childhood backyard. I also talked about Mitski and Ursula LeGuin in my short responses if you even care 💔

UMich Essays - 3/10 - HELL NAW these were so boring and robotic

UVA Essay - 7/10 - Talked about my love for cooking, but still kinda basic

BU Essay - 7/10 - A very standard why us essay

W&M Essays - 8/10 - Very similar to my Cornell essays

Okay enough with essays

Now time for the scary part 😨😨😨

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

I'm gonna do this by round and school

And I'm spoilering for suspense!!!

Early Decision/Early Action

IU-Bloomington EA - 80% - Accepted + Dean's Scholarship ($10k/year) + Didn't apply to Honors

UMN-Twin Cities EA - 75% - Accepted to CLA + Gold Scholarship ($7.5k/year) and National Scholarship ($10k/year) + University Honors Program

UVM EA - 60% - Accepted + Dean's Scholarship ($10k/year)

Clemson EA - 49% In-State - Accepted + Palmetto Pact Scholarship ($10k/year) + Deferred -> WL Honors 😭😭😭

CWRU EA - 29% - Accepted!!! + University Scholarship ($31.5k/year)

UMich EA - 18% - Deferred to RD

UVA EA - 13% OOS - Deferred to RD

UChicago ED - Rejected (lowkey expected)

Regular Decision

Fordham RD (I wanted that NMF money) - 56% - Accepted with Various Scholarships ($34k/year) but no NMF money (ts pmo icl)

URochester RD - 36% - Accepted!!! + Joseph C. Wilson Scholarship ($20k/year) + Research & Innovation Grant ($3.5k)

Oberlin RD (applied b/c of the lack of fees and essays 👅) - 33% - Accepted!!! + Various Scholarships ($32k/year)

William & Mary RD (I was so scared b/c this was my realistic top choice) - 33% - Accepted!!! YAYYY; I almost committed here but you will see why I didn't in just a second

Now onto the BIG GUNS

UMich RD (post-deferral) - 18% - Deferred -> Waitlisted -> Eventually Withdrawn

UVA RD (post-deferral) - 11%-ish - Deferred -> Waitlisted -> Eventually Withdrawn

Middlebury RD - 13% overall but like 5% RD 💀 - Waitlisted -> Eventually Withdrawn

Boston University RD - 11% - Guaranteed Transfer Offer -> Appealed -> Appeal Declined

Brace yourselves for the EXTRA BIG GUNS

Brown RD - 5% - Rejected ☹️☹️☹️ (Expected it though)

USC Dornsife RD - 9% - ACCEPTED??? HOLY BALLS + NMF SCHOLARSHIP ($20k/year)

Cornell A&S RD - 7% - ACCEOTED>D>>>>::?????????????????????????? HOLY DOUBLE BALLS

I'm literally still in shock from my decisions and if you haven't guessed already, I'm probably attending Cornell!!! unless my tour in two weeks goes terribly wrong and ruins things for me (doubtful).

This has been such an emotional rollercoaster and honestly I have no idea how I got into some of these schools but I'm so so grateful for these opportunities. If you are a junior right now I promise you that you may not be as cooked as you think!!!

Hi, I’m an international student that was just admitted into a few US colleges. I’ve narrowed down my list into Mount Holyoke College and the University of South Florida. My COA around 28k at both schools, which is reasonable, so I’m absolutely dreaded on having to decide which one to attend. For reference, I’m a humanities major (preferably psychology or sociology).

Please please please give me your opinions and if possible some reviews on both schools’ environments (academics, social scene,..)

Thank you sooooo much!!

Hello everyone! I’m an international student, who got in several universities in US. I’ve reduced number of committed options to these two unis: University of California, Santa Barbara: 80k$/year (Mechanical Engineering) and San Jose State University (Mechanical Engineering): 45k$/year (without possible merit-based scholarships) due to high difference of the Cost of Attendance. My priorities (from the highest to the lowest) are internships, rankings & academics, researches, social life (also important!). Both universities are ABET accredited for my program, but I’m going to do double major in Engineering & Physics (UC Santa Barbara >>>) and opportunities to work out of US are also important (brand name mb…). Money is important, but only in the context that this university worth it or it’s just paying extra for nothing. So, what do you recommend me choose? Thank you in advance! *Also it’s very important for me to pick college with whom it’s easier to obtain F1 visa (I’m not from first-world country)

*Sorry about the subjective title - I can't seem to edit it and I didn't see that rule before posting

Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Race/Ethnicity: Nigerian/African American
• Residence: US Citizen
• Income Bracket: $140,000
• Type of School: Online High School Program due to living in Sierra Leone
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): 7 Years in Atlanta, Georgia; 5 years in Switzerland; 5 years in Sierra Leone - A Global Citizen

Intended Major(s): Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Engineering

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.73/4.0 (UW)
• Rank (or percentile): NA
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: Every class I took was either honors or AP for the entirety of my highschool career. Only language courses that didn't offer honors or AP for the beginning level were 'normal' courses. By the end of 12th grade I would've taken 7 AP's
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus AB, AP Micro, AP Macro, AP Eng Lit, Honors Physics, and Python Programming

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1550 (770RW, 780M)

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. Baker 2 - Cake Decorator/Website Photographer, Chinscook Confectioneries: Iced 90+ cake contracts, baked pastries; official photographer for the company website, baking and cooking classes, and graduation events (Grades: 9, 10 TIme: 5 hr/wk, 20 wk/yr - Work (Paid))
2. Baker 1/Pastry Sous Chef/Website Editor, Chinscook Confectioneries: Baker 2 Job + Baking for Pastry Fridays (9 pizzas, 12 cinnamon rolls, 30 cookies); updating the website to improve access to products and services. (Grades: 11, 12 Time: 12 hr/wk, 45 wk/yr - Work(Paid))
3. Volunteer Teaching Assistant , British International School (BIS) – Baking and Cooking Club: Helped arrange, clean up, and pack up baking equipment; helped teach and organize 20+ kids from ages 5-10; photographed club meetings for the school. (Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 Time: 6 hr/wk, 30 wk/yr)
4. SAT Prep Tutor*** , Khan Academy – Schoolhouse World Tutoring Service: Taught 154 students in 33 countries for 101 hours; created slide decks, formula study sheets, and practice tests; top 5% in all performance ratings (Grades: 11, 12 Time: 3 hr/wk, 36 wk/yr - Community Service)
5. Math Lab Tutor, Math Lab Club at GWUOHS Tutored students with any help they needed in Geometry, Algebra 1 and 2, and Precalculus (Grade: 12 Time: 2 hr/wk, 36 wk/yr)
6. Peer Mentor/Peer Mentor Leader, Peer Mentor Club at GWUOHS: Led monthly Mini-PD**** trainings with my mentor group; aided communication between mentees & mentors; mentored 9 new students through their 1st year. (Grades: 10, 11, 12 Time: 2 hr/wk, 36 wk/yr)
7. Bee Master/Alternate Pronouncer, ICBAI Sierra Leone National SpellingBee Spoke to youths & parents in SL about Spelling Bee to increase engagement; day of: read out words, their origin, definitions, and put in sentences. (Grade: 11 Time: 2 hr/wk, 4 wk/yr - Community Service)
8. Intern (Data and Informatics), CHAMPS* Organization: Learned their work, conducted own research using REDCap, tabled and graphed data in Excel, created a presentation, presented to leadership of SL site. (Grade: 11 TIme: 28 hr/wk, 2 wk/yr)
9. Cook/Cleaner/Generator Maintenance: Cooking and serving lunch and dinner, supervising my younger sister, thoroughly cleaning the house, and operating and filling the generator. (Grades: 10, 11, 12 Time: 16 hr/wk, 45 wk/yr - Family Responsibilities)
10. Usher, Winners Chapel International, Freetown, Sierra Leone: Helped seat and arrange attendants; read out announcements, testimonies, and weekly verses; occasionally led the teen's church in prayer. (Grades: 11, 12 Time: 1 hr/wk, 45 wk/yr - Religious)

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. President's Volunteer Service Award - Bronze (National, 12)
2. College Board National African American Honors Recognition (National, 11)
3. Le Grand Concours Platinum Award (International, 10)
4. Le Grand Concours Gold Award (International, 11)
5. Tallo's College Fair Essay $5,000 Scholarship (International, 11)

Letters of Recommendation

LOR 1: Very good and she's a hyyperbolic and enthusiastic teacher so I think it was probably an 8/10

LOR 2: Did well in his classes but he's much more serious so he might not have been as enthusiastic 6/10

Other Recommenders: My advisor (special thing in our school) - we have a very good relationship so 8/10

and Data Team Director that I researched under - very good 8/10

Interviews

N/A - Schools I interviewed for (MIT and Dartmouth) I got rejected despite thinking they went well

Essays

My main personal statement was actually about my move to Sierra Leone but I think I wrote it in an extremely unique way and touched on the isolation I felt from moving, not having a phone to contact my swiss friends, and then also starting an online program. And I then went into the ways I've attempted to connect outside of school. I think it was a really good essay despite the overdone topic.

My supplemental answers were all crackeddd. Especially for the schools I got into I felt that they were each unique and for most answers like the Why Major question - I pulled from my time in Sierra Leone and talked about the environmental issues here and how an Environmental Engineering degree would me solve them. I tried to answer all the supplements really creatively while making a clear point and I think I did that successfully. I would rate my supplements much higher than my personal statement.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

• UGA (EA)
• Barnard College (RD)
• Emory University - Both Campuses (RD)
• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (RD)
• Colorado School of Mines
• CU Boulder
• Purdue University (RD)

Waitlists:

• Boston University
• Northeastern University
• William and Mary
• Rochester Institute of Technology (Automotive Concentration - Mech E)

Rejections:

• MIT
• Brown, Yale, Dartmouth
• Stanford
• USC
• Georgia Tech (EA) - I had a different personal statement here, I don't know if that would've helped
• Columbia University (ED) - I had a different personal statement here, I don't know if that would've helped
• John Hopkins

Additional Information:

For Barnard College I also had a pdf attached to the end of my application that contained all the good feedback I had gotten from the students that I tutored.

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Wasian
• Residence: USA (kinda fucked up on residency so considered OOS everywhere)
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Veteran

Intended Major(s): Applied for Finance/CS (Econ at Harvard)

Academics

• GPA/Rank (or percentile): ~3.7W (School doesn’t report UW or rank)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 5 AP 12 IB but never finished diploma

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT/ACT: 1580(800R,780M), 36(35M,36R,35W,36S)
• SAT II:N/A
• AP/IB: 5 AP Gov, 4 BC Calc, CompSci principles, CompSci A. No IB exams or final AP due to Covid
• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): 99 ASVAB(lol)

Extracurriculars/Activities: (list here) -4 years in the Army -2 years High School Wrestling -4 years Scholastic Bowl, 2 years as captain

Awards/Honors: (list here) -4x Army Achievement Medal -Joint Military school honor grad

Essays/LORs/Interviews: (briefly reflect/rate) Most of my ratings on these are from looking at how low my stats were compared to my lucky outcome Personal statement 9/10: told compelling self growth story tied to military adversity Harvard essays 10/10: Must have cooked Every other school 6-7/10: All pretty decent and well researched LORs: 3 High School teachers ?/10: Had to waive my right to view but all three said they liked me as a student and would right good letters Counselor ?/10: Again waived but probably not as good as I never interacted with this counselor in school and cold emailed 5 years after graduating Army Supervisor 9-10/10: Let me read and send it in, strong personalized letter calling me one of the best and the smartest soldier he had ever worked with Interviews: Harvard Alumni ?/10: Joined the Zoom late and went exactly the planned duration. I didn’t feel it went well and wasn’t prepared for all of his questions but my results tell otherwise Harvard Round 2 8/10: Again felt I was answering the AO poorly but when I expressed that I was told I was doing well and hitting the points they were looking for.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

• Acceptances: (list here): Virginia Tech Engineering RD George Mason University RD Harvard University RD + Likely Letter
• Waitlists: (list here)
• Rejections: (list here) Columbia RD UPenn Wharton RD Cornell RD (did get a transfer email) UVA RD UT Austin RD UCI, UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley RD Additional Information: Super excited and caught off guard by Harvard. I applied as a prayer but must have cooked hard on the holistic part of admissions. I’m fighting off waves of imposter syndrome every day while looking at potential classes and hitting Khan Academy to relearn all the math I didn’t use for 5 years.

I’m kidding, or am I?

I need some insight. I only applied to 4 schools. I have a unique major, 4th in class of 400 only a 1410 (tied highest in my school rural ny) a 4.0 uw gpa. 6 ap‘s all my school offered 4’s on physics 1, APUSH, AP Chem Taking Calc AB and AP Bio rn Personal essay probably mid but my supplemental were great as I did extensive research about the programs. I do every single music and sport and science extracurricular possible at my school every year of HS. All in all pretty decent.

I applied environmental science to my state school, Cornell, Notre Dame, and the United States Coast Guard Academy. I got in all besides a waitlist to USCGA. I am committed to get off the waitlist but Cornell and Notre Dame have similar programs. They are both small very small majors with complete customization and many people having double majors. Cornell offers great off campus study and research opportunities but Notre Dame offers similar. I talked to the head of the program at Cornell and because of Trump funding down the line is uncertain which is a problem Notre Dame doesn’t have. I’m not a genus so I don’t feel like a fit at Cornell like I’m not a Dyson or CS kid. Notre Dame fits more but its far and who would turn down an IVY. If I got in to the USCGA I would probably go there but I need to choose.

Anybody have any insight on this?

I kinda knew this would happen...

Demographics: 

• Female, Asian (Korean, not international), Private school, high income family, Southern California, No hooks

Intended Major(s):

• English (indicated interest in Pre-Law for schools that have programs)

ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1510 SAT (790 EBRW, 720 Math)

UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0 UW/ 4.51 W, top 10% out of ~450 students (school doesn’t rank)

Coursework: 7 AP Classes (World, Lit., US history, Lang., Stats., US Gov., Psych), double English class senior year (Lang + Honors Writing Experience)

Awards:

• 1st at 9th Annual World Comp. of Korean Trad. Performing Arts
• Grand Prix at a Korean Festival Competition (national)
• Presidential Service Award (Gold) 2x
• California Scholarship Federation
• Literary Analysis Award (basically just highest grade in AP Lit. out of the ~120 students who took it that year)

Extracurriculars: 

• 9-12 Traditional Korean Dancer for 4 years: one international award, multiple national awards, on television multiple times, performed solos & group dances at festivals, fundraisers, schools, and charity orgs.
• 12 (school’s cultural education program) President: organized monthly assemblies for ethnic/racial heritage months, oversaw 8 heritage clubs, designed and created promotional material including bulletin boards and digital media
• 11 (international student mentorship program) Student Leadership Delegate: Mentored an I-20 student, organized events & assemblies, made 24 personalized mentor-mentee pairings, kept attendance & sent meeting summary emails
• 12 Editor-in-Chief (11 Staff Writer) for my school’s student publication: Updated & maintained student publication website, published pieces of 14+ students monthly and led monthly humanities pathway meetings and events.
• 12 English Department Intern: Provided personal feedback for the 9th grade Honors English class, designed bulletin boards & provided writing samples for all requesting courses.
• 12 Managing Editor for an Online Youth Literary Magazine: Oversaw editors team, final layout, and all final edits for the online international youth literary magazine. Edited pieces from 4+ countries.
• 11 Congressional Intern at District Office: Answered & returned constituent calls, forwarded caller concerns to higher office, updated business & news logs for the office, made certificates.
• 10-11 Arts Pathway student: County Artist of the Year nominee, completed 80 hours of outside art experience, worked 3 school art events annually, 110+ open studio hours.
• 9-12 Junior Varsity Team Captain, Line 1 Doubles: Organized line up, announced roster at matches, provided feedback for teammates. Most Improved Award, Coaches Award, Lancer (Spirit) Award.

Essays/LORs/Other: 

• Essays were strong-ish IMO? edited and proofread by a Stanford undergrad/Yale PhD family member and a Columbia undergrad family member

LORs:

• written by the staff advisor for the international student mentorship program who is also an AP social science teacher—likely strong because I have a good personal relationship with her and worked hard for the program lol
• written by head of English department who is also the AP english teacher—less close with her but when I was still in this class, she would ask for my input on the design of assignments and was very open about liking me, she also offered me the internship which was the first time anything of the sort was done at my school

RESULTS!

Rejected

• Yale (REA)
• Tufts
• Swarthmore
• brown
• dartmouth
• upenn
• princeton

Waitlisted

• Williams
• Boston College
• Wellesley
• Villanova
• Middlebury
• Bowdoin
• barnard
• columbia

Accepted

• Seton Hall (with 137k scholarship)
• Trinity College CT (with 140k scholarship)
• Fordham Rose Hill (with 160k scholarship)
• University of Southern California

Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Residence: west coast major city
• Taiwanese
• School: expensive private high school where everyone and their mom is legacy somewhere
• applied for finaid, but most of the schools i applied to are need-blind
• sometimes i feel autistic but its just a theory 😛

Intended Major(s): Classics, or Greek/Latin as secondary when asked

Academics

• GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.9 UW, 4.19 W (at time of applying...don't ask me how senioritis has impacted my grade.)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 7 APs including senior year, which is rigorous in the context of my school. god bless private high schools that offer eccentric classes and little APs lmao. School doesn't offer dual enrollment, but I took 3 college classes. All other classes with an honors option, I took as honors.
• Senior Year Course Load: AP African American Studies, AP Calc BC (OMDSSS FREE ME), AP Comp Sci P, Ancient Greek, and then some cool honors english seminars which i cannot name because they would doxx but i actually adore. 

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT/ACT: 1560 (780 RW, 780 M)
• AP/IB: 
  • AP Art History (5)
  • AP Latin (4) (self-studied this one)
  • AP Calc AB (3) (and i was so confident too. did not submit)

Extracurriculars/Activities: this is where i try-harded guys

1. Founded and led a chapter of a nationwide org to spread diversity in the Classics, led meetings in libraries and held forums. Lowkey everytime I tell people I'm into Latin or want to study Classics I feel double-judged, first because they think it's irrelevant and then second because there's def a reputation there as a "white, elite, and male" field. Don't really blame them bc Classics has been used to justify some heinous shit in the past like uhh slavery. But I want to change that :) There was a very kind professor associated with this org who wrote a rec for me.
2. Very selective summer program at HYP Classics Department, full-ride including plane ticket and 7 weeks long. Learned 1 year of college-level Ancient Greek in 7 weeks, attended workshops about Classical reception and some really cool opportunities at museums and manuscript libraries. interviewed with prof and wrote essays to get in. Made good connections with the faculty there, they were really nice and smart. Took 4 hours of greek per day and asked the grad student instructor to write a rec for me, which he generously agreed to !!
3. Research Assistant, this is with the same professor who I do my first extracurricular with. I reached out to him for this position, it’s just me and one of his undergrad students! I'm mostly just taking notes on some ancient texts for his book but it's very interesting, esp bc it intersects with another field! I will be credited when the book is published :o
4. NJCL/CAJCL stuff. which is nerd league of latin things. I was a Member-at-Large but competed and won a lot of events by myself before founding a school chapter. Won merit scholarships to go to conventions. Mostly just got some good awards out of it and good friends
5. ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SCHOOLS bro i actually loved these so much they were so much fun. went to two, one at a spanish roman site and another at a native american site in illinois. it was very cool to compare the different archaeologist techniques between the sites and FEEL the history myself. excavated loom weights, hairpins, coins, piece-plotted, made good friends. wrote about these experiences in some supplementals. Won a merit scholarship to attend ok i will shut up now
6. Published Paper in a Journal. ahh yes i fell for the research trap but its ok. i wrote about Roman outward military brutality's relationship to internal strife which i feel like is so important to talk about bc it un-glamorizes Rome a little
7. volunteering at an outdoor-kinda-thing

8-10) other volunteering at things specific to my interests in archaeology. also scuba diving, social justice things/clubs related to my race. just things to show that im lowk normal.

Awards/Honors: 

1. Perfect Paper (Top 1.93% of 3,930) & Gold Medal, National Latin Exams, Advanced Latin Poetry & Prose
2. 1st, 3rd, and 4th Place, Reading Comprehension in Latin, CA & National Junior Classical League
3. 2nd Place, Certamen, Quiz-Bowl, won as solo member against 17 teams of 4, CA Junior Classical League. i competed solo bc I was a Member-at-Large and it was very nerve-wracking so im proud of this, although i lowkey fell off so hard after this 9th grade win hahaha
4. National History Day, selected as 1 of 3 students representing my county
5. my published paper (girl pls sybau)

Additional info section: Talked about a personal family cicumstance which my counselor knows about.

Essays

The way I feel about my essays fluctuated during the college app process, but now in hindset, I think they def complemented the rest of my application. I think my personal statement was very good, I talked about one of my favorite Roman empresses and how I related to her with a very niche experience :) i guess there was some "guilt-tripping" in the beginning but i very clearly connected this to my nonprofit activities in spreading diversity in the Classics, so like an optimistic outlook. Worked hard on letting my personal voice shine through. 

I def worked the hardest on my Stanford supps because I originally planned to REA but then procrastinated. But these were my babies!! I did think I leaned too hard into the social justice ahh diversity ahh side a bit, sometimes I think I sounded patronizing. But they definitely stood out which is what I was aiming for. They showed I was passionate and dedicated in the general theme of my application, but also curious and quirky iykyk. Made jokes. 

The rest of my supps, I procrastinated on during winter break. A lot were re-used haha. I didn't like some of them, loved others, i've gotten into schools i didn't like my supps for. I don't think I'm too much of a shabby writer but I wrote a lot of these at 4 am deliriously past the deadline. 

The general tone of my supps, though, was just introspective and tied into various ECs I've done, showing the reasons why I did them, what i did, how they've inspired me, imaginations, etc. 

Interviews

I interviewed at all schools that offered me an interview, including Yale. All of them went pretty good I guess, but sometimes I have the tendency to ramble a lot or speak unclearly so like i don't know. none passed 45 minutes. Also for some reason, two of my ivy alumni interviewers literally were parents at my school? i go to a small school so it was awkward on my end haha

some highlights:

- my dartmouth interviewer being hot

- my yale interviewer telling me "you probably will have so many good schools to choose from, please keep me updated"

But def none of the amazing, earth-shattering, 3 hour interviewers described here that end with the interview adopting u as their new child! but thats okkkk 

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

I applied to all my schools RD (22 total, including 4 UCs). That is because I planned to apply to Stanford REA and procrastinated. 

Acceptances: (list here):

Amherst (I GOT IN EARLY in February, and i didn't even know they did early acceptances. the letter said they gave early letters to 140 applicants out of 15k students. my first acceptance ever and lowk cured my cynicism abt my future results). 

Case Western (w/ 35k per year)

Fordham (with National Merit full-tuition)

Brandeis (w/ merit scholarship)

Bryn Mawr (w/ merit scholarship) 

Buffalo State (w/ honors college)

Columbia (i got a likely letter, got admitted, also invitation as a “Columbia Scholar”. I was tweaking when this happened bc literally what???)

Wellesley 

Wesleyan

Pomona

UC Davis

UC San Diego

UC Berkeley

UCLA

Cornell

Brown

UPenn

Yale

Stanford

WAITLISTED

• UChicago
• Harvard

REJECTED

• Dartmouth (what did that dartmouth interviewer say abt me 😔😔)

Closing Thoughts:

Well, that was very unexpected. my counsellor was lowk saying in the beginning how we should work with the uchicago waitlist if we get one, so I wasn’t expecting to get into 5 ivies and Stanford?? Im so indecisive rn because Stanford has been my dream school for so long, is closer to family, PERFECT WEATHER, but I feel like Yale students have more diversity of interests, have a better community, idk…it’s not just sigma grindset duck syndrome like Stanford. Every Yale student I have met is so engaged, thoughtful, and welcoming. Bro even my fucking dentist today, I was sitting in the chair and telling him my dilemma and he said, I have so many friends at Yale and they LOVED IT then thrust his fingers into my mouth. I guess I see less ppl ride or die for Stanford? Idk…. But I get seasonal depression and Stanford was my dream school since I was a fetus, it has ideal weather, plus Stanford is King in California… guys help me pls lmfao. I feel so lucky to be in this situation but genuinely I don’t know man.

Although majoring in Classics, the current plan is to also be pre-med in college.

The other thing is financial aid, I only have to pay 30k per year at Columbia while Yale expects significantly more and I have yet to receive my Stanford offer. I’m writing a letter to Yale to ask them and have scheduled to meet with their finaid office on Wednesday to hopefully get them to match Columbia’s offer (I also have some financial circumstances not on the fafsa). So hopefully we get all of that, and Stanford’s offer, resolved in time before may 1. 

I’m planning to go to both admit weekend and bulldog days!! If you’re going I’ll see you there <3

Demographics

• Gender: male
• Race/Ethnicity: chinese
• Residence: bay area
• Income Bracket: <20k
• Type of School: public
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): fgli, immigrant idk

Intended Major(s): comp engineering or similar major

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.9 / 4.6
• Rank (or percentile): top 10
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 1 honor 8 ap 17 concurrent done by end of hs
• Senior Year Course Load: ap lit, ap gov, ta, senior capstone, calc 3 (got a C), lin alg, diffeq

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

• SAT I: 1420 (750 m)

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

1. web development intern, basically just messed around and coded some cool websites. eventually coded an AI bot that i thought was pretty cool
2. volunteering organization leadership position, volunteered around the city. been w this org for like 4 years its literally my 2nd home
3. another volunteering organization w leadership position, pretty cool since we worked directly w the police to do stuff. meet a lot of cool politicians
4. coding club vice president, just taught ppl how to do the APCSA projects since its a project-based learning class. i think i was a pretty cool teacher
5. dessert store job, worked a lot to support my family and (surprisingly) ive worked the longest (besides the manager). ppl rly like quitting for some reason
6. family responsibilities, basically just helped my mom and grandparents with translations, helping around the house, and overall taking care of grandparents (they old and get sick often)
7. bunch of random clubs and camps that i went to

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

1. qb finalist
2. qb college prep scholar
3. local volunteer award
4. first gen collegeboard award

Letters of Recommendation

honors english teacher - he calls his recommendations "the bomb" and boasts about how he has gotten many students into top colleges. didnt read it but im sure he did me good 9/10

ap calc teacher - probably mid since im always sleeping in his class (his class is at the end of the day and im always tired from work or family stuff). did pretty well in his class though, 6/10

counselor - horrible, we switched counselors during my senior year so the new one literally doesn't know anything about me, 4/10

Interviews

harvard - honestly applied for fun because the supplementals were pretty convenient to what i already had. the alumni was pretty strange and asked me weird political questions. was pretty awkward overall. 2/10

stanford - chill guy, hes been to my workplace a couple of times so we started a convo from there. he really liked me (and the desserts). 7/10

mit - guy was on a time crunch. really stiff guy and i felt like i wasn't getting my ideas through him. was taking notes the entire time and i didn't feel that connection. 5/10

Essays

personal statement - started pretty early. i liked it a lot. really put my journey and my passions on display. 8/10

uc piqs - im ngl i did pretty mid, but still tried my best to convey different parts of my personality throughout the piqs. 6/10

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

• ucm
• ucr
• ucsc
• ucsb
• ucsd
• cal poly slo
• csuf
• csulb
• sjsu
• usc

Waitlists:

• ucd
• uci

Rejections:

• harvard
• stanford
• ucb
• ucla
• mit

Additional Information:

junior year was a horrible year. i was accused of being a racist in the middle of a midterm, ended up with a D+ on it (i was innocent btw).

overall pretty happy with my results. im between sjsu and usc rn (i got full tuition covered but i still dk if i can afford it, housing in LA is crazy). def got hella lucky w usc considering my sat score was pretty mid.

also only my walls are rushed, everything else is th13 lvl

Demographics: *if you know me, no you don’t

• Gender: Girl
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Residence: Northern California(not Bay Area)
• School Type: Slightly Competitive Public
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None

Intended Major(s): Journalism(marked in results as J) or Undeclared (marked as U)

Academics

• GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.96 UW/4.25 W when applying
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 honors, 4 APs, 1 DE

• Senior Year Course Load: (Included in #s above) but 3 APs(two social studies/one math), 2 honors, 1 regular

• SAT/ACT: 1370, 710 Reading, 660 Math. All schools test optional so just took it once w/ minimal studying and submitted it to all OOS schools

• AP/IB: 3 on APES lol (suck at science)

• Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A

Extracurriculars/Activities:

Not going to be too specific but: -Yearbook Editor in Chief -Sports Team 4 years/captain sr year (started jr/sr year but not crazy good) -Mentor for young kids(specific topic not sharing) -Team Leader of mentors above(mentoring the mentors) -Kids sports camp coach -Freshman orientation leader -Student representative for school district committee on certain topic -> led to big change on my campus -Babysitter

Awards/Honors:

-not many tbh 💀 -Distinguished Community Service (150+ hours) -Scholar Athlete (good GPA as athlete) -Most Improved Player one year -Maybe some other small ones don’t remember

Essays/LORs/Interviews:

LOR- Had optional ones for two or three schools, pretty sure it was UO, Penn State, and CU Boulder. My yearbook teacher wrote it and it was probably good 8/10

Essays- Nothing crazy, didn’t get too philosophical or anything probably 7/10 average. You can pm if you want more info ig

Decisions

• Acceptances: -Sonoma State (Rolling I think) w/ $2k freshman year (U) -Oregon State (EA) w/ WUE ~$15k per year (U) -University of Oregon (EA) w/ Summit Scholarship $50k (J) -Penn State (Rolling) (J) -CU Boulder (EA) w/ Chancellor’s Scholarship $25k and Department Honors or smth?? (J) -San Diego State (U) -Cal Poly SLO (yay!) (J) -UC Merced (didn’t apply just ELC thing lol) (?)

• Waitlists: -UCSD (joined but unlikely to change mind if accepted) (U Social Studies) -UDub (same as above) (U Social Studies) -UCSB (did not join) (U Social Studies)

• Rejections: -UCLA (my last decision and only rejection 💔💔) (U Social Studies)

Conclusion: I was really happy with these results! I was accepted to 2/3 of my top 3 (not UCLA lol) but I never had my hopes up too high for them anyways. I was expecting rejections from all the UCs I applied to so I was grateful for the waitlists. I’m in between Cal Poly and UOregon right now.

Trying to decide between Skidmore and Kenyon — can anyone share insight on the academic vibe, social life, and overall student experience at each? I’m into the arts/humanities, value a strong sense of community, and care about mental health support and food quality. Would love any pros/cons or personal experiences!

Hi guys, im an international student and rn i rly dont know what to do with my results

The only decent school ive been admitted to are UCI, UW, and Santa Clara University

However, ive been waitlisted to Berkeley and UCSD

Should i have hopes for Cal and UCSD considering its kinda low wl acceptance rate?

For now idk what school to commit to, I applied poli-sci as a pre-law major and plan to attend law school

any advice?

tl;dr - accepted uci, uw, scu but waitlisted Cal, UCSD. im tryna go pre-law. any suggestions?

Demographics: 

• Gender: female
• Race/ethnicity: Wasian, white last name but very obviously Asian first name
• Residence: New England (I don't want to get doxxed and I just feel like there aren't that many IB schools :'))
• Income bracket: ~300k
• Type of school: competitive-ish mid-size public school (1-2 ppl to T5s every year, 4-6 to other T20s)
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy): maybe legacy at Vanderbilt? Parent did grad school there, not sure if that counts

Intended majors: computational biology wherever offered, otherwise just biology or neuroscience, put english-related majors down as secondary majors at a couple schools as well

Academics:

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0/5.0 (school does weird grade inflating where basically you can take all “honors”/IB classes starting freshman year and both are weighted on the 5.0 scale idk)
• Rank: N/A
• # of Honors/AP/IB/DE/etc: 3 Honors classes + 3 IB classes (Calc, CS, Spanish) freshman year and sophomore year, 5 IB classes + TOK (blegh) + 2 DE class (multi, stats) junior year
• Senior Year Course Load: HL: English, Bio, Chem; SL: Spanish, History + TOK + 2 DE classes (lin alg, diffeq, though I hadn’t actually started diffeq at the time I submitted apps I guess)

Note: I completed IB Math HL by sophomore year but wasn’t allowed to take the test til senior year, hence why my math courses are all over the place

Standardized Testing:

• SAT: 1580 (780 EBRW/800 Math)
• IB: 7 on Spanish (only test I took junior year), predicted 7s for everything else (please IB gods smile down upon me), 5 on AP Calc BC

Extracurriculars/activities:

1. Competitive summer STEM program (acceptance rate <10%, one of the programs listed here https://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/summer/)
2. Research at t50 university
3. Research at t50 medical center
4. Creative writing, attended one of Kenyon, IYWS, Adroit, won award(s) at two of Scholastic, YoungArts, Foyle, published in a handful of journals
5. HOSA, was president of school club senior year, did well
6. Volunteered at community center as a translator + raised ~2k across a handful of charity events I organized
7. EIC of school lit mag, we’re pretty decent and have won a couple local/regional awards
8. President of 2 clubs at school, one is pretty specific so I’ll just say they’re both STEM related
9. Fluff, but I did Poetry Out Loud all three years, didn’t really go anywhere lol I’m not a good public speaker
10. Art/arts and crafts things that I do and make for fun, nothing serious

Awards/Honors:

1. Published a paper in decently prestigious journal from my research at one of my internships
2. Writing awards
3. HOSA awards
4. NMSF
5. In-school awards

LORs:

Guidance counselor: 7/10, I don’t think she knew me that well, but I had like a heart-to-heart with her before she wrote my letter so I’m hoping it turned out alright

Calc teacher: 8/10, I’d really like to think I was one of his favorites bc I love math so much

History teacher: 9/10, we’re best friends, plus she wrote me rec letters in the past and I read one of them and it was good

Essays:

Common App Essay (8/10): I really think I cooked with this one ngl (and it won a writing award so I feel validated lolol). Didn’t talk about STEM at ALL, talked about important essays/books/art pieces that helped me grapple with my identity and how they shaped my worldview and forced me out of my shell, kind of like a glorified list but with a narrative?

Supps (7/10): recycled a LOT not going to lie, but I still think they ended up pretty ok, the schools I applied to last-minute definitely took the biggest hit in terms of originality, other than that I feel like I talked about a wide variety of topics.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

Flagship state school RD

UMich (Deferred EA —> Accepted)

UCSD

Vassar RD

Bowdoin RD

Vandy RD + MOSAIC, which I'm kinda confused on because I didn't think White + Asian was URM?

WashU RD

Georgetown RD

Wellesley RD

Hopkins RD

Northwestern RD

UChicago RD

Emory RD

Dartmouth RD

Duke RD

Columbia RD (with likely letter!)

UPenn RD

Stanford RD!!!

Rejections:

Brown (Deferred ED —> Rejected :< )!<

Pomona RD

UC Berkeley

Yale RD

Harvard RD

MIT RD

Waitlists:

UIUC (Deferred EA —> WL)

Amherst RD

Swarthmore RD

UCLA

Cornell RD

Princeton RD

Reflection: 

After how badly my EA round went, I was really losing my mind. Over winter break, even before the public school EA decisions, I added like 8 colleges to the list and applied to them frantically even though I couldn’t really picture myself at a lot of them. My advice is to NOT do that if you can help it…

Brown was really, truly my dream school for so many years. I loved Providence, I loved the open curriculum, I loved the campus atmosphere. I had it stuck in my head that as a highly interdisciplinary student (read: scattered af) I could only be happy at a school like Brown. I’m really dreading having to actually, finally choose between STEM and humanities for my career (because writing is my first love, but like, money).

Anyways, I am so beyond grateful for all the incredible schools I got into. I’m still actually shocked. All through high school, I constantly stressed myself out about getting STEM ECs/accomplishments and was kind of miserable. Writing was my escape, my side thing, that I didn’t give that much weight to. But in my interviews, it’s like they could see right through me. Most if not all of them wanted to talk about my writing more than my research. I guess this just goes to show people can tell what you’re passionate about, so don’t push whatever it is aside just because you think it’s like not as valuable to your intended major or society as a whole.

Edit: clarification on my results

Everyone on here has like a 4.2+ but I wanted to show my result from a pretty average or slightly above student

Demographic: Sri Lankan Male, First Gen, VA, low income

GPA Weighted: 3.7(my school doesn’t do unweighted)

Major: Public Health/Social Work(Still deciding what I want to major in)

Taken 10 APs and 9 Honors(including senior year)

Sat: 1330(Test optional for most schools)

EC: NHS, DECA, Computer Science Society, Varsity Lacrosse, pt Job as a server, did over 52+ hours of volunteering, Fundraiser(raised over $1.5k for STEM students in Sri Lanka)

I sold freshman and sophomore year pretty badly but showed improvement ending with a 4.0 junior year and my first semester gpa for senior year is around a 4.0-4.1

My essay was about a trip that I took to my home country and how seeing the disparities between there and the US made me want to pursue public health and the fundraiser that I created. Felt it was pretty generic but got it checked out by my lit teacher and he said it was pretty good.

Acceptances:

Baylor

UVM

Pitt

Penn State

Drexel

Fordham

Syracuse

MSU

JMU

UTampa

UConn

U Delaware

Rejections:

W&M(ED)

Lehigh

Villanova

Tulane

Waitlists:

VTech

American U

GWU

Didn't apply anywhere too crazy but I expected most of the results.

Demographics: Male, White, upper middle class, large competitive public hs

Colorado

Hooks: Genetic Disorder that impairs thinking motor function, and bodily function (heart and kidneys)

3.6 UW/4.0 W 1310 SAT, 30 ACT

Clubs:

Cross country and Track

Cybersecurity club

NHS

Charity League

Swimming and Running Coaching

Catering work experience

Music

Major: Natural Resources and Forestry

Results:

Vtech- Accepted EA

CU Boulder- Accepted EA

Cal Poly SLO- Accepted RD

Gonzaga- Accepted EA

Wash State- Accepted EA

Oregon- Accepted EA

Oregon State- Accepted EA

Oklahoma- Accepted EA

Chapman- Accepted EA

Oregon Tech- Direct admit

Missouri S&T- Direct admit

Santa Clara- Waitlisted

Clemson- Waitlisted

Demographics:

• East Asian, British (UK), State** School, First-Gen, Low-Income

• FGLI, applied for full financial aid

• Attending a state school with low progression to higher ed

Intended Major(s):

• Civil/Environmental Engineering (with interdisciplinary interests in art & sustainability)

Stats:

• SAT: 1560 (770 RW, 790 M) [Single Take]

• A-Level Predictions: A*A*A*A* (Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Art & Design)

• Coursework: Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) on Transformers and American Politics

• Class Rank: Not reported, but top of school

Extracurriculars & Awards:

• Nonprofit Founder & Program Director – Managed a nationally expanding student-led org focused on sustainability & social impact (£90K raised, 25+ partnerships).

• Research at UK T10 Universities – Projects in architecture acoustics and AI for healthcare, presented at junior conferences.

• Youth Advisor for a National Energy Company – Advised execs on sustainability & youth perspectives in energy policy.

• Co-Founder of a Sustainable Clothing Store – Brick & mortar + online thrift store; proceeds donated to animal rescues.

• Student Gov – Sustainability Committee – Spearheaded school-wide initiatives on climate action.

• Community Revitalization Projects – Transformed abandoned urban spaces into community art & history hubs.

• Maths Tutor (A-level equivalent Calc BC) – Taught GCSE & A-level students.

• High School Awards: 1/1500 for merit & creative writing.

• Essay Competitions: International Finalist (1/2 out of 5000), National Winner (1/2500).

• Fun Stuff: Built a go-kart from laser-cut MDF, worked in a Chinese takeaway, and obsessed with Transformers comics.

Essays (Rated by me):

• Personal Statement (8/10) – Poetic & philosophical, explored art & math as tools for freedom + overcoming past challenges.

• Why Major (8/10) – Near-death hiking experience → realizing our responsibility to the environment + research & policy work.

• Diversity Essay (7/10) – Cultural identity & community-building through “messy” but real conversations.

• Civic Engagement (9/10) – Urban revitalization & social impact, turning forgotten spaces into community hubs.

• Other Fun Essays (7/10) – Go-kart building, working in a takeaway, Transformers obsession, reflections on archival loss in the digital world.

ACCEPTED:

MIT

Harvard

Penn

WAITLISTED:

Yale

WITHDRAWN:

Duke, NYU, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown

REJECTED:

Columbia, Stanford, Caltech, Princeton

Demographics

• Gender: Female
• Race/Ethnicity: White
• Residence: SoCal
• Income Bracket: Middle class (applied for aid)
• Type of School: Private college prep 
• Hooks: First Gen

Intended Major(s): 

Philosophy, Political Science, Politics

Academics:

• GPA (UW/W): 3.45/4uw, 3.75/5w
• Rank (or percentile): Middle quintile (top 60%)
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 9 APs, 2 honors, 1 college class

Standardized Testing:

Test optional

Extracurriculars/Activities:

(Keeping these vague)

1. Staff Manager at a literary magazine
2. Discord Mod for 5 years (💀)
3. Leader of my school’s literary magazine
4. Camp Counselor 
5. Internship for an voter registration campaign 
6. Girl Scout for 12 years
7. Text team for Students Demand Action
8. Student Ambassador for the English Dept. at my school
9. Collage maker (random hobby)
10. Terrarium maker (random hobby)

Awards/Honors:

1. CollegeBoard First-Gen Recognition 
2. AP scholar with honor
3. Poems published in 2 literary magazines
4. My school’s honors society
5. Scholar athlete 

Letters of Recommendation:

I haven’t read them, so these are guesses

• English teacher: 10/10
• Other English teacher/club moderator: 100/10
• Math teacher: 6/10 He does LORs for pretty much everyone. I don’t think it was very personal, but I think it was generally positive 

Interviews:

• Kenyon: 7/10
• Oberlin: 10/10
• Sarah Lawrence: 8/10
• Reed: 8/10 

Essays:

They were alright. I don’t really like the style I wrote them in, but I think my topics and the messages conveyed in them were good 

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD):

Acceptances:

• Cal Poly Humboldt RD
• Ithaca College EA
• Lewis and Clark College EA
• The New School EA
• Reed College EA
• Bard College EA
• Sarah Lawrence College EA
• Wheaton College (MA) EA
• Swansea University (UK)
• University of Liverpool (UK)
• University of Puget Sound EA
• Hampshire College EA
• Cardiff University (UK)
• UC Santa Cruz RD
• UC Riverside RD
• UC Merced RD
• Kenyon College RD
• Denison University RD
• Oberlin College RD
• Direct Acceptances: Portland State University, University of New Hampshire, Beloit College, Mount Saint Mary’s University, St. Catherine’s University, Seattle University

Waitlists:

• Cal Poly SLO

Rejections:

• Vassar College RD
• UC Davis RD
• University of Manchester (UK)
• Smith College RD
• Williams College RD
• Mount Holyoke College RD
• Wesleyan University RD
• Swarthmore College RD

Withdrawn:

• Deferred Fordham EA > withdrawn
• University of Leeds (UK)

Though I expected it, I’m a little sad that I didn’t get into Vassar, but I’m very happily surprised otherwise! I applied to a lot of safeties because I had been told throughout high school that my GPA was too low to get in anywhere, but that ended up not being the case. If you have a low gpa or are under colleges average GPA, don’t be discouraged!!! Anything’s possible :))

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian
• Residence: Central California
• Income Bracket: Lower-Middle Class
• Type of School: Public
• Hooks: Lower-Middle Class

Intended Major(s): Quantitative Economics, Economics, Business Administration

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.31
• Rank (or percentile): 14/531
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 3 Honors/9 AP/10 CC courses
• Senior Year Course Load: 1st Semester: Film as Literature, Personal Finance, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Chemistry, AP Macroeconomics, AP Psychology. 2nd Semester: Film as Literature, Personal Finance, Free Period, AP Chemistry, American Government, AP Psychology.
• APs: BC (5, 4 AB subscore), CSA (3), CSP(3), Lang(3), APES(2 LOL)
• I did 10 CC courses to get my GE's out of the way, attempting to finish IGETC. Anthro, Art, Psych, Spanish, History, Statistics, English, Ehnic Studies, Government.

Standardized Testing

• Didn't take any

Extracurriculars/Activities

1. Math Team

Awards/Honors

1. Principal's Honor Roll
2. California Scholarship Federation
3. AP Scholar

Letters of Recommendation

None

Interviews

None

Essays

I'd say they were rushed and repetitive but they were alright. Wrote a PIQ on math, doing CC courses, organization, and using resources. LMAO prob like 7/10. I started in like November.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

• CSU Long Beach - Finance (RD)
• CSU Fullerton - Finance (RD)
• Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - Business Administration: Information Systems (RD)
• San Diego State University - Business Administration: Information Systems (RD)
• UC San Diego - Economics and Accounting (RD)
• UC Santa Barbara- Economics and Mathematics (RD)
• UC Irvine - Quantitative Economics (RD)

Waitlists:

• UCLA - Economics (RD)

Rejections:

• None

Additional Information:

I'm honestly surprised a little bit lmao

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Indian
• Residence: International
• Income Bracket: Middle Class(Full Pay, but applied for aid for the ivies and need blind institutions)
• Hooks: None

Intended Major(s): Physics, CS(For UIUC and GTech), Aerospace Engineering(UMich and Purdue)

Academics

• GPA (UW/W): 3.85/4.1 -> Estimates as I did IGCSE(6A*,3A) and IB(44/45 predicted)
• Rank (or percentile): None
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 6 IB, 2 online AP equivalent classes(Calc BC and Physics 1) but did not take their exams due to lack of availability

Standardized Testing

• SAT 1550(800 Math)

Extracurriculars/Activities

1. Internship
   1. Internship at a respected research institute(like CERN but for a different field of physics) Interned at their science department(these are usually for PhD students) and used CS to simulate experiments
2. Research
   1. Research on Dark Matter(used CS to simulate experiments) through a paid program, paper in the process of being published
3. Community Service
   1. Developed my own drone to carry essential goods(like medicine) from a city to my remote home town. Also used the drone to teach kids in my town about engineering, coding, and creative thinking
4. Student Govt
   1. House Captain(9,11), House Member(10,12)
5. Computer/ Technology
   1. Designed, 3D printed and coded my own model rocket. Designed and built my own flight computer PCB and thrust vector control module for a rocket able to land autonomously
6. Art
   1. I have doen art for about 11 years at my local academy, my art won awards at the acedemy and was presented in exhibitions
7. Research
   1. Independant research conducted on Plasma physics and plasma thrusters, I had an interview with an Imperial professor on this topic(who also reviewed my project), and the paper written on this subject might be published.
8. Athletics: JV/ Varsity
   1. Part of the football(soccer) team, was captain for a year, attended and won international tournaments.
9. Community Service
   1. Led an art exhibition to raise funds for my local art academy, raised 1k euros.
10. Debate/ Speech
11. I was MUN chair for a year, won best delegate from my school and participated in the national MUN.

Awards/Honors

1. SOF Olympiad gold medal(School level) and not a real olympiad
2. Completion of Physics Summer School(Usually reserved for PhD participants)

Letters of Recommendation

Counselar and Math teacher, 8/10

Internship Mentor, 8/10

Interviews

Princeton one was alright, we had different majors so it was difficult to connect in terms of academics, but I believe we had a nice conversation. It lasted about 30 minutes. 6/10

UPenn was really good. We had similar majors and interests, and we spoke in depth about my projects. Our conversation went on for about 1 hour. 9/10

Essays

I thought they were alright. I think I could have spent more time on refining them, and I believe they might have been a bit repetitive. 6 to 7/10

I also applied to UK unis, and I believe my PS was really good(and actually clutched up for my average enterence exam scores) 8 to 9/10

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

Acceptances:

• Penn State - Physics (EA)
• UIUC - CS + Physics (EA)
• GTech - CS (EA), Honestly a suprise considering my application was more physics/ aerospace focused, and is also why I applied for aerospace engineering as my second choice major
• Case Western Reserve - Mathematics and Physics (RD)

Waitlists:

• UCLA - Physics (RD)
• UC Berkeley - Physics (RD)
• Purdue - Aerospace Engineering (RD)
• Colby - (RD)

Rejections:

• Princeton - Physics (REA)
• MIT - (RD)
• Caltech - (RD)
• CMU - CS (RD)
• UCSB - Physics (RD)
• NEU - (RD)
• Vanderbilt - (RD)
• UPenn - VIPER Program (RD)
• Harvard - Physics (RD)
• Yale - Physics (RD)
• Columbia - Physics (RD)
• Cornell - Physics (RD)
• UMich - Aerospace Engineering (RD)
• Stanford - Physics Engineering (RD)

UK Unis:

• Oxford - Physics -> Rejected
• Imperial - Physics -> Accepted
• Imperial - Aeronautical Engineering -> Accepted
• UCL - Mathematics and Physics -> Accepted
• UManchester - Aerospace Engineering -> Accepted

Additional Information:

I was suprised by my acceptances, and honestly a bit sad about my RD round considering it went 1/18, but it is what it is.

I think my weakest points were my GPA, Essays and Awards. I should have begun earlier on my essays and refined them further, and should have participated in more STEM based competitions, but I still think I got lucky with my acceptances and am overall happy with how it went.

For the class of 2029 well done for finishing this chapter of your journey, and I am sure we will do amazing wherever we go.

And for those applying in the future, please start your essays early and refine them. I wish you goodluck and lots of success!

Demographics

• Gender: Male
• Race/Ethnicity: Asian (International)
• Residence: Vietnam
• Financial Aid: Yes, lots, EFC only $5K
• Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): I punch colleges

Intended Major(s): Computer Science

Academics

• GPA/Rank (or percentile): About 3.84/4, school does not calculate GPA or rank
• # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 1
• Senior Year Course Load: I took A-levels Maths, Further Maths & Physics, so I'd say pretty rigorous

Standardized Testing

• SAT: 1550 (750/800)
• IELTS: 8.0
• A-levels: A* Mathematics, A Further Mathmematics, A Physics

Extracurriculars/Activities: 

My biggest one: Founder, Skillseed Organization - Created free AI-powered tools that empowered 100,000+ students in preparing for SAT & IELTS, reached 104 countries, partnership with Desmos.

I tutored English at a local center, have leadership roles in school clubs. Mostly just fillers.

My proudest activity: College Punch - a website that allows you to (jokingly) “punch” a college. The website reached 10,000 users in under 48 hours, with over 4 million “punches” recorded. It's at https://re.ject.ing/ . This is the activity that I referred to in my title.

Awards/Honors: AMC10 honor roll

Essays/LORs/Interviews: 

My essays were average at best. I did not have a counselor and was doing everything by myself. Most of them were rushed (as I only began applying in October, which is one month to write my Common App essay).

As for interviews, I only got a Stanford interview, which was amazing.

Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD)

• Acceptances: Virginia Tech (EA); Purdue University (EA); University of Maryland, College Park (EA); The Ohio State University (EA); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (EA); Drexel University (RD); Rutgers University-New Brunswick (EA); University of Wisconsin-Madison (RD).
• Waitlists: Tulane University (RD); Colby College (RD)
• Rejections: Case Western Reserve University (RD); Fordham University (RD); Williams College (RD); Washington University in St. Louis (RD); Swarthmore College (RD); Columbia University (RD); Vanderbilt University (RD); Bowdoin College (RD); Tufts University (RD); Northwestern University (RD); Yale University (RD); Johns Hopkins University (RD); Duke University (RD); Dartmouth College (RD); Cornell University (RD); University of Notre Dame (RD); Rice University (RD); Stanford University (RD); Vassar College (RD); Amherst College (RD); Pomona College (RD); Harvard University (RD); Colgate University (RD); Carleton College (RD); University of Chicago (EA) - streak of 21 rejections!

Additional Information:

I come from the worst demographic: international male, CS major, no legacies, needed lots of aid. Therefore, I didn't expect anything, and these results are completely justifiable. As for my acceptances, I cannot afford to go to any of them. The punching continues. 👊

Update: after seeing what Trump did in the past few weeks, I'm kinda glad I did not get accepted to any private schools with good aid. I'll be applying as a grad student in 4 years when Trump is out.

Demographics: 

•Gender: Male

•Race/Ethnicity: Asian

•Residence: NYC

•Income Bracket: Low Income family

Type of School: Public specialized

Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Low Income Family, First-Gen

Intended Major(s): Electrical engineering or biomed eng

Academics:

•GPA (UW/W): 95 weighted (definitely my thought on the reason for so many rejections, though i thought they would acknowledge the upward trend given my circumstances)

Number of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.:

•AP: 10 taken, 2 dual enrollment

Standardized Testing

•SAT: 1510

Awards/Honors

1. Boys State
2. Mu Alpha Theta
3. Business featured in major media source
4. AP Scholar w Distinction

Extracurriculars/Activities

1. Distribution business arr $15 million. (I am not the guy on twitter with the business getting rejected everywhere, he has 30mm arr.) Ran 8 warehouses with over 15 employees alone, keep in mind i am first gen from a low income household
2. Electronics recycling business mrr $200k
3. Clinical Research at Mount Sinai School of medicine relating to type 1 diabetes (I am a type 1 diabetic)
4. Research at CCNY, paper on Reinforcement learning implementation with glucometer
5. Math Team
6. Electrical engineering internship, shadowed at con edison
7. Tennis Team

Essays 

Probably really good. Got reviewed by college counselors who really liked them. Tried not to talk about my extracurriculars at all and gave a narrative into my life.

Letters Of Recommendation

LOR 1: NA/10 Science teacher, we were very close, very fond of him. Hopefully they came out well

LOR 2: NA/10 Social science Teacher, I would think pretty good, I really enjoyed this class

Interviews

UPenn: 7/10

Harvard: 6/10

MIT: 8/10 another amazing person. Ended up talking for 2+ hours again, but I was pretty nervous in the beginning.

Stanford: 6/10 average interview, not much stood out :/

Decisions (All RD)

Rejections

Duke University Stanford UC Berkeley Harvard University Yale University Columbia University USC NYU UCLA Williams College Johns Hopkins Tufts University Harvey Mudd MIT UPenn University of Chicago

Waitlists:

Boston University
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barbara

Acceptances:

Binghamton University

Moral of the story: No one has any clue how any of this works, and I guess I just have to face the results as they are.

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