caltech full ride是need-based的吗？ zitan21 发表于 2021-02-10 20:59
All scholarships and grants at Caltech are need-based, as the Institute does not have a merit aid program. Undergraduate students who fill out a financial aid application will be automatically considered for scholarships and grants from Caltech and the federal government.
回复 1楼changheruhailiu的帖子https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l9jp5b/perfect_sat_gpa_shawty_might_flee_the_country/ 这个是上中产家庭出身的白人女孩 SAT满分 GPA 4.0/4.72 （基本上高中四年全A) 11门AP 一堆课外活动，从政治到科学 被之大和MIT给Defer, 欧洲的学校倒是录取了一些，她个人说干脆去荷兰读大学吧 我觉得T5还是有可能的，等过段时间再看看 Demographics Gender: Female Race/Ethnicity: White Residence: Suburban Illinois Income Bracket: Upper middle class Type of School: Large, semi-competitive public Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A Intended Major(s): Economics & Mathematics Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.72 Rank (or percentile): N/A but unofficially at least top 4% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 honors, 11 APs, 3 DE Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Sci, AP Euro, AP Gov, AP Bio, AP English, DE Sociology, Film History Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1600 (800RW, 800M) ACT: N/A SAT II: Bio-E (770) AP/IB: US History (5), English Lang (5), Calc BC (5), Macro (5), Micro (4), French (3) Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Political Campaign (11-12, Director of Regional Youth Branch) Science Olympiad (9-12, Officer Position) Math Team (9-12) Junior States of America (11-12, VP) Community Service-Oriented Backpacking Summer Program (9-10) Community Mental Health Initiative (11, Co-Founder) Selective Literature-Oriented Summer Program (11) Democratic Party Summer Internship (11) Volunteer at Bi-Annual Cultural Event (10-12) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. National Merit Semi-Finalist Rensselaer Medal Local Essay Contest National Economics Essay Contest Cum Laude Society Letters of Recommendation Economics Teacher: We had good banter and I got above 100% on his final exam, so I''d say his letter was above average. (6/10) Pre-Calc Teacher/Math Team Coach: Love this lady almost as much as I loved pre-calculus! She''s like my second mom, we''ve known each other for years, so I think this letter was very good. (8/10) Interviews I interviewed for Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Claremont McKenna, Rice, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Mount Holyoke. Honestly, most of them felt pretty bland, except for my Harvard interview, which went amazingly. I demonstrated thorough interest in the school and major for all of them, though. Essays My personal statement was unique and well-written, centering around my personal rivalry with a famous author from my hometown. I thought it was funny, intellectual, and very me. I''d rate it at a (9/10), as writing is my strong suit. All of my supplements were well-written too, especially for UChicago, MIT, and Vanderbilt. Most focused on my passion for literature and my desire to apply economics to social issues. They probably ranged in quality from (6/10) to (10/10). Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) University of Glasgow (Scotland) University of St Andrews (Scotland) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA, 32k merit annually) University of Michigan LSA (USA) Waitlists/Deferrals: University of Chicago (USA) MIT (USA)
这个有特点 Hispanic+LGBTQ ”男“孩 - non-binary 成绩中上，家里算中（低）产，好像要从政的那种，拿到了UMichigan的全奖, 自己认为亮点就是自己是gay Demographics Gender: nonbinary boy type? some schools didn''''t allow me to mark nonbinary so malee i guess AGHKJSDHGFKJSDHGFKJSDFJKN Race/Ethnicity: white mixed puerto rican latino Residence: midwest (michigan) Income Bracket: i literally do not know but i''''d say something like ~50-70k depending on the year my parents own a small business so income really fluctuates Type of School: public, standard large-ish city high school Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): latino & gay? does the gay card count?Intended Major(s): polit sci, gender & sexuality studies, sociology, politics, philosophy & economics depending on the college hehe Academics GPA (UW/W): low 3.8 unweighted/low 3.8 weighted, our school has really weird weighting but if it was normal it''''d be like a 4.2 weighted probably Rank (or percentile): no class rank # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 1 ap soph year, 3 aps + 4 dual enrolled CC classes junior year, 6 ap + 3 dual enrolled classes senior year (do not do this LMFAOOOOO) Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP Calc, AP Comp Sci A, AP Spanish Lang, AP English Lit, Ap Psych, Chinese 202 & Comparative government @ a community college, sexuality in film at a nearby university. List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT: definitely the strongest point of my application lol. 2 scores: a 1490 and 1500 that superscored to a 1550 (790 EBRW, 760 math) AP/IB: apush, ap gov, ap lang : 5 . ap macro : 4 Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): n/a!! Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. worked at parents small business. not going to get into specifics but it is in the dairy product field and i spent a considerable amount of time making and selling dairy products (like 10 hr/week, whole year) school GSA president, managed queer student affairs and advocated for our issues during the school year (1 hr/week during the school year) managed social media and public relations presence for a relatively large foreign affairs nonprofit (5 hr/week, only during the summer and later part of 2020) worked with my county''''s local planned parenthood to provide better sex-ed to students and serve as a community resource, also presented across health classes in the county (2-ish hr/week during the school year) worked on a local prosecutor''''s campaign . did some stuff like campaign outreach and also helped write policy on combatting the school to prison pipeline (15 hr/week during the summer) also worked on a local progressive congressional candidate''''s campaign, basic campaign outreach stuff and managed latino voter outreach :-D (12 hr/week during the summer lmfaooo again never do two unpaid internships during the same primary season back to back) wrote for a teenage literary collective zine for poetry, opinion pieces, media reviews, little stuff like that (1 hr/week during the first semester of my senior year) policy debate team varsity member (2 hr/week max during our season) member of school body government and lead our philanthropy board of a snoozy role though so it didn''''t matter much to me (1 hr/week)Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. LMFAOOOO i literally have nothing here its a little embarrasing AP Scholar with Honor school NHS member Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) ED: brown deferred LMFAOOOO ED-2: tufts, withdrew my application like last night though (sad pensive emoji) EA-2: UMN accepted honors college w/ 10k scholarship EA: UVM accepted honors college w/ something like 100k scholarship? EA: reed college no financial aid though :( RD to depaul: got like 150k total aid package, admitted into the BA/JD program which was pretty cool RD: Wesleyan -- RD: Cornell -- RD: Amherst -- RD: Swarthmore -- RD: Williams -- RD: NYU -- RD: Northwestern -- and perhaps most importantly.... EA: UMICH ACCEPTED WITH A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP....!!!!!!!!!!!!! I''''m not officially committed to michigan yet (unless you count buying copious amounts of merchandise and putting umich ''''25 in your instagram bio) bc of my parents, but I''''m trying to convince them to let me withdraw my applications to other schools because i want to be done with this god awful ordeal and i really Do Not Care About Any Other School at This Point. did i mention its a fucking full ride scholarship to a t25? officially committed to umich as of sunday, January 31....YEOOOO WE DID IT...
要我说，这学生学习好但是没有特点。什么都不错，不如有一个专项。课外活动多，却没有什么实质achievement， 比如mental health initiative， what was accomplished？list 一堆还不如集中讲一个经历 awesomeiris 发表于 2021-02-09 16:36
第三个，印度男孩 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l8woyn/brown_boi_talks_his_way_into_t30swill_update_with/ 成绩在亚裔里大概算中上，家境中产，但是想学政治，自称靠吹牛进T30, 已经被UNC Chapel Hill, USC录取 Brown boi talks his way into T30’s(will update with RD) Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian(Indian) Residence: NC Income Bracket: 130Kish Type of School: Competitive public- dozen or so T20’s each year Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Nah Intended Major(s): Political Science/Public policy Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.75/4.33 Rank (or percentile):50/440ish just outside top 10% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 Senior Year Course Load: AP:Bio/Research-4 honors+1 standard class I got shoved into Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. ACT: 33 (32E, 30M, 35R, 34S) only time I took it AP/IB: Lang(5) Gov(5) Hugeo(5) Pysch(4) Seminar(4) Stat(4) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Executive board member/co-president(weird situation this year)/Former Exec member and chaplain. YMCA leadership/volunteer club. Planned and ran meetings, gave weekly devotions and stuff 5 hrs a week/52 weeks a year Varsity debate- 4 years, event captain, trained novices, pretty successful locally and a small amount of national success 8 hrs a week (average including tournament time Board director- national youth NPO targeting sexual violence through local policy change and education initiatives. I run the chapter program overseeing our 10 state chapters 6 hrs a week 52 weeks 800+ volunteer hours at the Y- This is partially part of the leadership organization but I started before I joined that I do more then the required hrs. Some small stuff no really relevant Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. Literally all just debate stuff lmao NCFL LD national qualifier NSDA nations WSD double octofinals NSDA Academic all American Second alternate qualifier in LD Debate NSDA degree of superior discrimination Letters of Recommendation Debate coach of 4 years /2X teacher- definitely a very good rec, good relationship probably at least 8/10 Pysch teacher- only taught me once but we used to talk about current events and stuff probably a good rec may not be outstanding 6-7/10 Interviews Wake Forest- went well, we went about 15-20 minutes over time. Very conversational and we spent a decent amount of time talking about my Ap Research topic which is on voting and stuff. I did catch myself looking off to the side a bit tho so idk. 7/10 Essays Definitely a highlight, I think my essays were pretty good and at the very least unique Common app: Talked about my thoughts on learning and truth and the constant stream of questions that flow through my mind at all times. Spent a lot of time in this one and looking back on it there isn’t a whole lot I’d change. Supplements UNC: one was on samosas and the connection to my wide spread family the other was on the housing discrimination issue in my city. Both were good but could be improved on ngl. I spent a lot of time working on them though. NC state: Kinda twisted the question back- said the paradigm for creating inclusion was backwards. Wrote it in about an hour not my best work but definitely a different type of essay I’ll update this as I get RD decisions Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: UNC Chapel Hill(EA) NC State (EA) UofSC (EA)+undisclosed scholarship Waitlists: Rejections: RD: William and Mary George Washington Yale WUSTL Wake Forest
第四个 白人，上中产，成绩中上，Bisexual，Male, UMichigan legacy, 家里有人在布朗教书，被Michigan和UNC Chapel Hill 录取 想进哈佛，但是背景不够强，可能哈佛双性恋太多不需要他代表 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l8njl0/small_town_big_business_boi_takes_on_harvard_rea/Demographics Gender: male Race/Ethnicity: white Residence: michigan Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: rural public Hooks: umich legacy (and finalist for a privately-funded full ride), family faculty at brown, rural, bisexualIntended Major(s): applied as business/management/economics where applicable. will hopefully double major in international relations or computer science Academics GPA (UW): 3.931/4.00 Rank: 13/92 # of Honors/AP: (school only offers 5 AP classes and 0 honors classes, counselor wrote in LOR that i have the most rigorous course load in my grade because i take online AP/honors classes) - 4 APs + 1 Honors class not including senior year schedule Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, physics, newspaper, AP CSP, AP calc BC (online), AP micro (online), AP macro (online) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. ACT: 32 (35E, 27M, 36R, 29S) - only sent to georgetown and umich AP: APWH (4), bio (4), gov (online, 5), lang (3 - didn’t submit) Extracurriculars/Activities(9-12) Founder of E-Commerce Book Subscription Service - 22,000 customers/supporters, shipped 25,000 books worldwide, $1,050,000+ in revenue. Manage a team of 25. Routinely collaborate with NYT Bestselling authors and Big Five publishers (20 hrs/wk 52 wks/yr)(9-12) Team Captain of Varsity Quizbowl Team - Increased membership, teach strategy, host meetings and the first team to qualify for the National Tournament in school history (6 hrs/wk 8 wks/yr)(9-12) Head of Drama Tech Crew & Wait Staff - Design light, mic and music queues with director and two student directors. Manage a team of 6 for tech during musical season and a team of 10 during dinner theatre shows. My guidance led to shows placing 2nd at state competition junior year (24 hrs/wk 6 wks/yr)(10-12) Co-Founder of Tutoring Program - 30% of my district doesn’t have access to wifi at home so I co founded a tutoring program to give assistance after school to those who are struggling with their homework. Expanded worldwide junior year. (3 wks/yr 30 wks/yr)(9, 11-12) President of DECA Chapter - Restarted chapter after advisor left. Grew membership to 25 members junior year and then to 88 (more than ¼ of the student body) senior year. Recognition at Districts/State (4 hrs/wk 35 wks/yr)(11-12) Editor-In-Chief of the School Paper - Lead a team of 10 and do typical newspaper duties. Distribute 2,000+ copies bimonthly. Sold 20+ ads junior year bringing in ~$500 (7 hrs/wk 35 wks/yr)(9-12) Family Genealogical Researcher - Do genealogy work on my family. Have traced origins upwards of 40 generations and have identified 800+ direct ancestors. (9 hrs/wk 8 wks/yr)(11-12) Member of National Honor Society - self explanatory (1 hr/wk 20 wks/yr)(9-12) Member of Science Olympiad - self explanatory (12 hrs/wk 4 wks/yr)(9-12) Member of Book Club - self explanatory (2 hrs/wk 5 wks/yr)Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. 2020 National Quizbowl Tournament Qualifier AP Scholar With Honor Quizbowl Top 10 Individual Scorer 10th, 11th and 12th grade for the region Finalized for ICDC at Michigan DECA States 2020 3rd Place DECA Entrepreneurship, 2019 Districts Sent In Application Updates: Company mentioned in 3 BuzzFeed articles and personal articles in Detroit News and Washington Times 2021 DECA States Qualifier, 2nd Place Quizbowl 1st and 3rd Place wins 12th grade season and regional tournament Letters of Recommendation Counselor, AP bio teacher, spanish teacher , precalculus teacher (gtown and MIT only) super close with all four of them and I feel like they have really strong writing skills Interviews Georgetown - lasted about an hour and went really well. the guy was friendly, impressed with me and we had a great conversation. (9/10) Harvard - lasted an hour and was so good!! talked about a range of topics and have kept in touch since. (9/10) UPenn - lasted about 45 minutes. my interviewer had an extremely bad audio connection and i struggled to hear him and had to ask to repeat things a few times. however, he said he was very impressed with me and would send in a good recommendation. (7/10) MIT - lasted two hours. best interview yet. my interviewer and i really vibed and talked about some really in-depth and niche topics that stemmed from my passions. called me for a follow up the following evening. (10/10) UMich - next week for full ride Essays Common App - talked about how as my business grew I found a new family within the book community. (9/10) Supplementals - super niche topics and all highlighted different aspects of my identity to my application. family friend who is a former T10 AO read over my essays and said they were really strong and unique Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: University of Michigan (EA) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (EA) Deferrals Harvard (REA) Awaiting RD Yale UPenn Brown Vanderbilt Duke MIT Northwestern Northeastern Georgetown
第四个 白人，上中产，成绩中上，Bisexual，Male, UMichigan legacy, 家里有人在布朗教书，被Michigan和UNC Chapel Hill 录取 想进哈佛，但是背景不够强，可能哈佛双性恋太多不需要他代表 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l8njl0/small_town_big_business_boi_takes_on_harvard_rea/Demographics Gender: male Race/Ethnicity: white Residence: michigan Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: rural public Hooks: umich legacy (and finalist for a privately-funded full ride), family faculty at brown, rural, bisexualIntended Major(s): applied as business/management/economics where applicable. will hopefully double major in international relations or computer science Academics GPA (UW): 3.931/4.00 Rank: 13/92 # of Honors/AP: (school only offers 5 AP classes and 0 honors classes, counselor wrote in LOR that i have the most rigorous course load in my grade because i take online AP/honors classes) - 4 APs + 1 Honors class not including senior year schedule Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, physics, newspaper, AP CSP, AP calc BC (online), AP micro (online), AP macro (online) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. ACT: 32 (35E, 27M, 36R, 29S) - only sent to georgetown and umich AP: APWH (4), bio (4), gov (online, 5), lang (3 - didn’t submit) Extracurriculars/Activities(9-12) Founder of E-Commerce Book Subscription Service - 22,000 customers/supporters, shipped 25,000 books worldwide, $1,050,000+ in revenue. Manage a team of 25. Routinely collaborate with NYT Bestselling authors and Big Five publishers (20 hrs/wk 52 wks/yr)(9-12) Team Captain of Varsity Quizbowl Team - Increased membership, teach strategy, host meetings and the first team to qualify for the National Tournament in school history (6 hrs/wk 8 wks/yr)(9-12) Head of Drama Tech Crew & Wait Staff - Design light, mic and music queues with director and two student directors. Manage a team of 6 for tech during musical season and a team of 10 during dinner theatre shows. My guidance led to shows placing 2nd at state competition junior year (24 hrs/wk 6 wks/yr)(10-12) Co-Founder of Tutoring Program - 30% of my district doesn’t have access to wifi at home so I co founded a tutoring program to give assistance after school to those who are struggling with their homework. Expanded worldwide junior year. (3 wks/yr 30 wks/yr)(9, 11-12) President of DECA Chapter - Restarted chapter after advisor left. Grew membership to 25 members junior year and then to 88 (more than ¼ of the student body) senior year. Recognition at Districts/State (4 hrs/wk 35 wks/yr)(11-12) Editor-In-Chief of the School Paper - Lead a team of 10 and do typical newspaper duties. Distribute 2,000+ copies bimonthly. Sold 20+ ads junior year bringing in ~$500 (7 hrs/wk 35 wks/yr)(9-12) Family Genealogical Researcher - Do genealogy work on my family. Have traced origins upwards of 40 generations and have identified 800+ direct ancestors. (9 hrs/wk 8 wks/yr)(11-12) Member of National Honor Society - self explanatory (1 hr/wk 20 wks/yr)(9-12) Member of Science Olympiad - self explanatory (12 hrs/wk 4 wks/yr)(9-12) Member of Book Club - self explanatory (2 hrs/wk 5 wks/yr)Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. 2020 National Quizbowl Tournament Qualifier AP Scholar With Honor Quizbowl Top 10 Individual Scorer 10th, 11th and 12th grade for the region Finalized for ICDC at Michigan DECA States 2020 3rd Place DECA Entrepreneurship, 2019 Districts Sent In Application Updates: Company mentioned in 3 BuzzFeed articles and personal articles in Detroit News and Washington Times 2021 DECA States Qualifier, 2nd Place Quizbowl 1st and 3rd Place wins 12th grade season and regional tournament Letters of Recommendation Counselor, AP bio teacher, spanish teacher , precalculus teacher (gtown and MIT only) super close with all four of them and I feel like they have really strong writing skills Interviews Georgetown - lasted about an hour and went really well. the guy was friendly, impressed with me and we had a great conversation. (9/10) Harvard - lasted an hour and was so good!! talked about a range of topics and have kept in touch since. (9/10) UPenn - lasted about 45 minutes. my interviewer had an extremely bad audio connection and i struggled to hear him and had to ask to repeat things a few times. however, he said he was very impressed with me and would send in a good recommendation. (7/10) MIT - lasted two hours. best interview yet. my interviewer and i really vibed and talked about some really in-depth and niche topics that stemmed from my passions. called me for a follow up the following evening. (10/10) UMich - next week for full ride Essays Common App - talked about how as my business grew I found a new family within the book community. (9/10) Supplementals - super niche topics and all highlighted different aspects of my identity to my application. family friend who is a former T10 AO read over my essays and said they were really strong and unique Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: University of Michigan (EA) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (EA) Deferrals Harvard (REA) Awaiting RD Yale UPenn Brown Vanderbilt Duke MIT Northwestern Northeastern Georgetown
changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 16:53
这个亮点是businesse 不是 sex orientation. 一百万利润25个雇员，如果不是家族企业让他去装样子，这个孩子也有申请哈佛的资本。
第五个 华裔女孩，估计是ABC或1.5代，哥哥斯坦福研究生毕业在Michigan当教授，成绩不错，ACT满分，课外活动一般，梦想学校是斯坦福，现在被Michigan和Oregon 州大录取（我猜她家是Washington或Oregon的） 她的课外活动是典型的老中父母推娃方向：芭蕾舞，花样溜冰，钢琴，音乐，画画可惜没有大奖，要是哪一样有个全国冠军肯定能进斯坦福 我觉得如果有个LGBTQ的hook有可能进 Demographics Asian female (Chinese), PNW, upper-middle class (don’t know exact income but def not low enough for financial aid). Non-competitive public high school. Hooks: Slight Legacy at two schools - my older brother graduated from Stanford grad school & is currently a professor at UMich. Intended Major: Political Science STATS GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.35 W (submitted 4.26 W to early schools) School doesn’t rank, class size ~400. Coursework: Most rigorous course-load possible. Took all available honors courses, 1 AP in Grade 10, full IB diploma candidate. ACT: 36 (36 E, 35 M, 36 R, 36 S, 9 W), only took once in Sept. 2019. Didn’t take SAT or any subject tests. AP/IB: AP Stats (5), IB Econ SL (6). ECsFigure Skating: 10 hrs/week, year-round, 9-11. 7+ years, not the most accomplished but I’m passionate and have several connected activities (ex. wrote Math EE on figure skating judging, activity coordinator for skating club). Piano: 8 hrs/week, year-round, 9-12. 12+ years. Won a bunch of period music festivals, passed Level X Test with Honors (highest possible piano exam in my state). Assistant Learn To Skate Instructor: 3 hrs/week, year-round, 9-11. I helped teach group lessons at my ice rink and provided specialized guidance to beginner skaters. National Honor Society: 1 hr/week, 11-12. NHS Officer (Secretary + Historian). Manage communications and social media, coordinate virtual service events. Speech and Debate: 4 hrs/week, 9-12. Qualified for state in INFO (10), placed 2x in Radio (11). Ballet: 3 hrs/week, year-round, 9-12. 4+ years. Art: 5 hrs/week, 9-12. 3+ years of painting lessons. Self-taught digital artist. Online sticker store: 2 hrs/week, 11-12. I own a RedBubble store where I design and sell figure skating-themed stickers! Band (Music Instrumental): 6 hrs/week, 9-10. Marching band (front ensemble), pit orchestra (piano), wind ensemble (percussion). Varsity Letter (9), WE placed 5th at State (10). Other service clubs: 2 hrs/week, 11-12. Co-founder of UNICEF Club, active member of two other clubs, one to raise awareness about human trafficking and the other to help local homeless students. I changed around the order of these ECs for other schools but this was what I submitted for UMich so I’m going with this order! Awards National Merit Semifinalist. Only one selected from my school, index 220. Full IBDP Candidate. Outstanding Chemistry Student Award (American Chemical Association). Grade 9. Selected for Spanish Honor Society. Grade 11/12. Personal Statement: 7/10. Wrote it about my name (I have a Chinese first name but I go by my English middle name) and my relationship between it and the other names I’ve gone by over the years. I don’t think it’s anything special tbh but I’ve received amazing feedback from everyone who has read it! Recommendations Counselor: 6/10. Don’t know her that well but I’ve talked with her a lot thru email and she said I’m a good student lol Physics Teacher: 7/10. I got to read this one, it was very complimentary and made me seem way better than I am but it was pretty generic I think?? I feel like it’s standard for most LORs. Math Teacher: 8/10. I haven’t gotten to read this one but I’ve had her for 3 years and she explicitly told me that she’d write a glowing recommendation <3 Ballet Teacher: 9/10. Haven’t read this one either but we’ve known each other for years, are extremely close, and she’s an amazing writer. Interviews: The only school I interviewed for here was Stanford, it went alright for a first interview and we got along well but it was pretty standard, 6/10. TLDR: Perfect stats, mediocre ECs, good essays and LORs. Early Results Rejected: Stanford (REA) Deferred: N/A Accepted: University of Oregon and Clark Honors College with $16k scholarship (RD but i got my decision a week later so I’m counting it as early). University of Michigan LSA (EA) :D Awaiting: UT Austin, WashU, Rice, Pomona, UBC, Yale, Wellesley.
第五个 华裔女孩，估计是ABC或1.5代，哥哥斯坦福研究生毕业在Michigan当教授，成绩不错，ACT满分，课外活动一般，梦想学校是斯坦福，现在被Michigan和Oregon 州大录取（我猜她家是Washington或Oregon的） 我觉得如果有个LGBTQ的hook有可能进 Demographics Asian female (Chinese), PNW, upper-middle class (don’t know exact income but def not low enough for financial aid). Non-competitive public high school. Hooks: Slight Legacy at two schools - my older brother graduated from Stanford grad school & is currently a professor at UMich. Intended Major: Political Science STATS GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.35 W (submitted 4.26 W to early schools) School doesn’t rank, class size ~400. Coursework: Most rigorous course-load possible. Took all available honors courses, 1 AP in Grade 10, full IB diploma candidate. ACT: 36 (36 E, 35 M, 36 R, 36 S, 9 W), only took once in Sept. 2019. Didn’t take SAT or any subject tests. AP/IB: AP Stats (5), IB Econ SL (6). ECsFigure Skating: 10 hrs/week, year-round, 9-11. 7+ years, not the most accomplished but I’m passionate and have several connected activities (ex. wrote Math EE on figure skating judging, activity coordinator for skating club). Piano: 8 hrs/week, year-round, 9-12. 12+ years. Won a bunch of period music festivals, passed Level X Test with Honors (highest possible piano exam in my state). Assistant Learn To Skate Instructor: 3 hrs/week, year-round, 9-11. I helped teach group lessons at my ice rink and provided specialized guidance to beginner skaters. National Honor Society: 1 hr/week, 11-12. NHS Officer (Secretary + Historian). Manage communications and social media, coordinate virtual service events. Speech and Debate: 4 hrs/week, 9-12. Qualified for state in INFO (10), placed 2x in Radio (11). Ballet: 3 hrs/week, year-round, 9-12. 4+ years. Art: 5 hrs/week, 9-12. 3+ years of painting lessons. Self-taught digital artist. Online sticker store: 2 hrs/week, 11-12. I own a RedBubble store where I design and sell figure skating-themed stickers! Band (Music Instrumental): 6 hrs/week, 9-10. Marching band (front ensemble), pit orchestra (piano), wind ensemble (percussion). Varsity Letter (9), WE placed 5th at State (10). Other service clubs: 2 hrs/week, 11-12. Co-founder of UNICEF Club, active member of two other clubs, one to raise awareness about human trafficking and the other to help local homeless students. I changed around the order of these ECs for other schools but this was what I submitted for UMich so I’m going with this order! Awards National Merit Semifinalist. Only one selected from my school, index 220. Full IBDP Candidate. Outstanding Chemistry Student Award (American Chemical Association). Grade 9. Selected for Spanish Honor Society. Grade 11/12. Personal Statement: 7/10. Wrote it about my name (I have a Chinese first name but I go by my English middle name) and my relationship between it and the other names I’ve gone by over the years. I don’t think it’s anything special tbh but I’ve received amazing feedback from everyone who has read it! Recommendations Counselor: 6/10. Don’t know her that well but I’ve talked with her a lot thru email and she said I’m a good student lol Physics Teacher: 7/10. I got to read this one, it was very complimentary and made me seem way better than I am but it was pretty generic I think?? I feel like it’s standard for most LORs. Math Teacher: 8/10. I haven’t gotten to read this one but I’ve had her for 3 years and she explicitly told me that she’d write a glowing recommendation <3 Ballet Teacher: 9/10. Haven’t read this one either but we’ve known each other for years, are extremely close, and she’s an amazing writer. Interviews: The only school I interviewed for here was Stanford, it went alright for a first interview and we got along well but it was pretty standard, 6/10. TLDR: Perfect stats, mediocre ECs, good essays and LORs. Early Results Rejected: Stanford (REA) Deferred: N/A Accepted: University of Oregon and Clark Honors College with $16k scholarship (RD but i got my decision a week later so I’m counting it as early). University of Michigan LSA (EA) :D Awaiting: UT Austin, WashU, Rice, Pomona, UBC, Yale, Wellesley. changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 17:03
要我说，这学生学习好但是没有特点。什么都不错，不如有一个专项。课外活动多，却没有什么实质achievement， 比如mental health initiative， what was accomplished？list 一堆还不如集中讲一个经历 awesomeiris 发表于 2021-02-09 16:36
看看黑人女孩的 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l7i03l/black_girl_takes_on_college/ 南部，上中产，估计父母是大学以上文凭的，成绩真的很一般，ACT才29，也没有什么拿得出手的课外活动，也没有奖 基本上凭肤色横扫申请的学校，没有任何一所大学拒绝主打亮点是在南方红脖子区长大的黑人，有身份认同危机 Demographics Gender: female Race/Ethnicity: black Residence: Nashville TN Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: private Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Intended Major(s): (biology) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW Rank (or percentile): school doesn’t rank # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 4 APS. Taken all honors classes offered Senior Year Course Load: AP LIT, TA, Anatomy honors, college algebra, Senior research project (racial discrimination in the criminal justice system), Worldview (required religion test), Creative writing, College algebra/ Trig (dual enrollment), Spanish 3 honors Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: didn’t take ACT: ## 29. 30 superscored Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. #1 Freshman class President #2 Biology club #3 African American club #4National honor society #5Key Club #6HomeGoods associate (18 hrs/week) #7 Soccer player #8 violin and clarinet #9 #10 Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. #1 NONE LMAOOO #2 #3 #4 #5 Letters of Recommendation (* AP Lang teacher: 10/10. We hang outside of school, and I’m her TA.)* (US History Teacher. 10/10, we have been tight since freshman year.) InterviewsEssays ( My personal statement was super personal and discussed my identity issues growing up in the Deep South, as one of the only black girls, at my private school... I know, kinda an overused topic, but I had a really cool take on it.)* &amp;#x200B; Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (UNC Chapel Hill EA)(Northeastern EA)-applied test optional(UTK EA)(Loyola Chicago)(Baylor EA)(Howard EA)(University of Miami EA)*(UMICH EA) Waitlists: -none yet Rejections: -none yet *still waiting on: * Vandy RD Emory RD Boston university RD
看看黑人女孩的 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l7i03l/black_girl_takes_on_college/ 南部，上中产，估计父母是大学以上文凭的，成绩真的很一般，ACT才29，也没有什么拿得出手的课外活动，也没有奖 基本上凭肤色横扫申请的学校，没有任何一所大学拒绝主打亮点是在南方红脖子区长大的黑人，有身份认同危机 Demographics Gender: female Race/Ethnicity: black Residence: Nashville TN Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: private Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Intended Major(s): (biology) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW Rank (or percentile): school doesn’t rank # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 4 APS. Taken all honors classes offered Senior Year Course Load: AP LIT, TA, Anatomy honors, college algebra, Senior research project (racial discrimination in the criminal justice system), Worldview (required religion test), Creative writing, College algebra/ Trig (dual enrollment), Spanish 3 honors Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: didn’t take ACT: ## 29. 30 superscored Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. #1 Freshman class President #2 Biology club #3 African American club #4National honor society #5Key Club #6HomeGoods associate (18 hrs/week) #7 Soccer player #8 violin and clarinet #9 #10 Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. #1 NONE LMAOOO #2 #3 #4 #5 Letters of Recommendation (* AP Lang teacher: 10/10. We hang outside of school, and I’m her TA.)* (US History Teacher. 10/10, we have been tight since freshman year.) InterviewsEssays ( My personal statement was super personal and discussed my identity issues growing up in the Deep South, as one of the only black girls, at my private school... I know, kinda an overused topic, but I had a really cool take on it.)* &amp;#x200B; Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (UNC Chapel Hill EA)(Northeastern EA)-applied test optional(UTK EA)(Loyola Chicago)(Baylor EA)(Howard EA)(University of Miami EA)*(UMICH EA) Waitlists: -none yet Rejections: -none yet *still waiting on: * Vandy RD Emory RD Boston university RD changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 17:48
回复 1楼changheruhailiu的帖子https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l9jp5b/perfect_sat_gpa_shawty_might_flee_the_country/ 这个是上中产家庭出身的白人女孩 SAT满分 GPA 4.0/4.72 （基本上高中四年全A) 11门AP 一堆课外活动，从政治到科学 被之大和MIT给Defer, 欧洲的学校倒是录取了一些，她个人说干脆去荷兰读大学吧 我觉得T5还是有可能的，等过段时间再看看 Demographics Gender: Female Race/Ethnicity: White Residence: Suburban Illinois Income Bracket: Upper middle class Type of School: Large, semi-competitive public Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A Intended Major(s): Economics & Mathematics Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.72 Rank (or percentile): N/A but unofficially at least top 4% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 honors, 11 APs, 3 DE Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Sci, AP Euro, AP Gov, AP Bio, AP English, DE Sociology, Film History Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1600 (800RW, 800M) ACT: N/A SAT II: Bio-E (770) AP/IB: US History (5), English Lang (5), Calc BC (5), Macro (5), Micro (4), French (3) Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Political Campaign (11-12, Director of Regional Youth Branch) Science Olympiad (9-12, Officer Position) Math Team (9-12) Junior States of America (11-12, VP) Community Service-Oriented Backpacking Summer Program (9-10) Community Mental Health Initiative (11, Co-Founder) Selective Literature-Oriented Summer Program (11) Democratic Party Summer Internship (11) Volunteer at Bi-Annual Cultural Event (10-12) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. National Merit Semi-Finalist Rensselaer Medal Local Essay Contest National Economics Essay Contest Cum Laude Society Letters of Recommendation Economics Teacher: We had good banter and I got above 100% on his final exam, so I''d say his letter was above average. (6/10) Pre-Calc Teacher/Math Team Coach: Love this lady almost as much as I loved pre-calculus! She''s like my second mom, we''ve known each other for years, so I think this letter was very good. (8/10) Interviews I interviewed for Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Claremont McKenna, Rice, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Mount Holyoke. Honestly, most of them felt pretty bland, except for my Harvard interview, which went amazingly. I demonstrated thorough interest in the school and major for all of them, though. Essays My personal statement was unique and well-written, centering around my personal rivalry with a famous author from my hometown. I thought it was funny, intellectual, and very me. I''d rate it at a (9/10), as writing is my strong suit. All of my supplements were well-written too, especially for UChicago, MIT, and Vanderbilt. Most focused on my passion for literature and my desire to apply economics to social issues. They probably ranged in quality from (6/10) to (10/10). Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) University of Glasgow (Scotland) University of St Andrews (Scotland) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA, 32k merit annually) University of Michigan LSA (USA) Waitlists/Deferrals: University of Chicago (USA) MIT (USA)
其实这个小中男也不错 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l3ni2o/graduated_hs_20_socially_awkward_chinese_roblox/ 这个是2020年毕业的，小中男，西雅图地区，好像是大公校，父母是老留，成绩中上（GPA不高），但是有自己的特色，打游戏组队，录取的学校挺多，有几个小滕，进了NYU Stern Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) Residence: Seattle metropolitan area (Bellevue, WA) School: uncompetitive, non-magnet public school (2700 students, think average SAT in the low 1200s) Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Absolutely none lmao Parents were first-generation immigrants but they got a bachelor's degree at a no-name Chinese uni so I wasn't considered first-gen .-. Intended Major(s): Varied (Economics, Political Science, Business, Computer Science, Undecided, see individual colleges below) Academics GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.73 / 4 UW, no class rank, (~approx 75th percentile UW gpa given school profile) # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 6 Honors, 10 AP classes, 12 AP tests Will note AP count was a bit unusual (was 1 of 3 people out of class of 600 to get National AP Scholar) Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs (Calculus AB, English Literature, Psychology, US Government & Politics), normal HS Physics, Sales & Marketing 1, cooking (1 semester), PE (1 semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT/ACT: 1570 SAT (780 EBRW, 790 Math, 7/7/8 Essay) SAT II: 800 US History, 770 Math 2 (did not report), 710 Literature (did not report) AP/IB: 4s Calculus AB 5s Biology Computer Science A Comparative Government (self-studied) English Language English Literature European History Macroeconomics Microeconomics Psychology US Government & Politics US History Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities: Ran a roblox roleplay group I did the programming for it, scripted a new game, onboarded/trained like 40 staff/developers (10-12) 50,000 members, 10 million place visits, made me like $5k on the side Is now an official LLC registered in a state Also made me lose faith in humanity Washington State Senate Page 1 week in the state capitol, carried mail for state-level politicians (11) Mayoral Internship Jumped on a 501c3 started by city mayor, made a website for them and did basic marketing things (email marketing, sorting lists, A/B testing, the like), lasted 18 months (10-11) DECA Went to state-level competition for an individual roleplay (11-12) JSA Just showed up as a regular member (11) Robotics Literally did nothing at all (9) Swimming was pretty bad at this too (9) Awards/Honors: 9th grade CS Student of the Year National AP Scholar 11th grade School Award for Intellectual Curiosity 2x awards are for nerds Essays/LORs/Interviews: they were okay - I ended up having a local private counselor help me revise all of them and they put my ideas forth pretty clearly/expressively. however i am a very boring individual and no amount of glorifying is going to be able to save that i had an LoR from an economics teacher who recommended me for the intellectual curiosity awards, and a precalc teacher i literally can barely remember the name of lmao interviews with: Carleton College (AO) Claremont McKenna College (alumni) Grinnell College (AO) Macalester College (AO) Washington University in St. Louis (AO) Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (list here): New York University, Stern (Business and Political Economy, RD) Davidson College (Economics and Political Science, RD) Grinnell College (Undecided, RD) Included 25k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Macalester College (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Northeastern University (Economics and Computer Science, RD) Included 14k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years American University (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Washington State University (Computer Science, RD) Included Honors College and 8k/yr merit aid, renewable for two years then 4k/yr, for last two years (In-state: would have brought tuition down to 1k and 5k/yr) Michigan State University (Economics, RD) Included Honors College and 28k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Included 4k travel stipend and 3k research stipend (guaranteed position) Waitlists: (list here) Carleton College (Undecided, RD, eventual reject) University of Richmond (Undecided, RD, eventual accept) Rejections: (list here) Claremont McKenna College (Economics and Political Science, ED1) Washington University in St. Louis (Economics and Political Science, ED2) University of Washington, Foster (Business Administration, RD) Was accepted as a general Arts & Sciences admit, just did not get Foster direct-admit im still salty about this one as an in-state applicant Additional Information: i did pretty shit in hs so stern/davidson/grinnell were nice surprises
看看黑人女孩的 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l7i03l/black_girl_takes_on_college/ 南部，上中产，估计父母是大学以上文凭的，成绩真的很一般，ACT才29，也没有什么拿得出手的课外活动，也没有奖 基本上凭肤色横扫申请的学校，没有任何一所大学拒绝主打亮点是在南方红脖子区长大的黑人，有身份认同危机 Demographics Gender: female Race/Ethnicity: black Residence: Nashville TN Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: private Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Intended Major(s): (biology) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW Rank (or percentile): school doesn’t rank # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 4 APS. Taken all honors classes offered Senior Year Course Load: AP LIT, TA, Anatomy honors, college algebra, Senior research project (racial discrimination in the criminal justice system), Worldview (required religion test), Creative writing, College algebra/ Trig (dual enrollment), Spanish 3 honors Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: didn’t take ACT: ## 29. 30 superscored Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. #1 Freshman class President #2 Biology club #3 African American club #4National honor society #5Key Club #6HomeGoods associate (18 hrs/week) #7 Soccer player #8 violin and clarinet #9 #10 Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. #1 NONE LMAOOO #2 #3 #4 #5 Letters of Recommendation (* AP Lang teacher: 10/10. We hang outside of school, and I’m her TA.)* (US History Teacher. 10/10, we have been tight since freshman year.) InterviewsEssays ( My personal statement was super personal and discussed my identity issues growing up in the Deep South, as one of the only black girls, at my private school... I know, kinda an overused topic, but I had a really cool take on it.)* &amp;#x200B; Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (UNC Chapel Hill EA)(Northeastern EA)-applied test optional(UTK EA)(Loyola Chicago)(Baylor EA)(Howard EA)(University of Miami EA)*(UMICH EA) Waitlists: -none yet Rejections: -none yet *still waiting on: * Vandy RD Emory RD Boston university RD changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 17:48
这个横扫也正常，学校不是最好的，选的学校和专业比较合理。 她是黑人，私校，家境好也许不要FA, full pay 的urm 杀伤力无敌。 她申请的学校基本不是Need blind的。
其实这个小中男也不错 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l3ni2o/graduated_hs_20_socially_awkward_chinese_roblox/ 这个是2020年毕业的，小中男，西雅图地区，好像是大公校，父母是老留，成绩中上（GPA不高），但是有自己的特色，打游戏组队，录取的学校挺多，有几个小滕，进了NYU Stern Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) Residence: Seattle metropolitan area (Bellevue, WA) School: uncompetitive, non-magnet public school (2700 students, think average SAT in the low 1200s) Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Absolutely none lmao Parents were first-generation immigrants but they got a bachelor's degree at a no-name Chinese uni so I wasn't considered first-gen .-. Intended Major(s): Varied (Economics, Political Science, Business, Computer Science, Undecided, see individual colleges below) Academics GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.73 / 4 UW, no class rank, (~approx 75th percentile UW gpa given school profile) # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 6 Honors, 10 AP classes, 12 AP tests Will note AP count was a bit unusual (was 1 of 3 people out of class of 600 to get National AP Scholar) Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs (Calculus AB, English Literature, Psychology, US Government & Politics), normal HS Physics, Sales & Marketing 1, cooking (1 semester), PE (1 semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT/ACT: 1570 SAT (780 EBRW, 790 Math, 7/7/8 Essay) SAT II: 800 US History, 770 Math 2 (did not report), 710 Literature (did not report) AP/IB: 4s Calculus AB 5s Biology Computer Science A Comparative Government (self-studied) English Language English Literature European History Macroeconomics Microeconomics Psychology US Government & Politics US History Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities: Ran a roblox roleplay group I did the programming for it, scripted a new game, onboarded/trained like 40 staff/developers (10-12) 50,000 members, 10 million place visits, made me like $5k on the side Is now an official LLC registered in a state Also made me lose faith in humanity Washington State Senate Page 1 week in the state capitol, carried mail for state-level politicians (11) Mayoral Internship Jumped on a 501c3 started by city mayor, made a website for them and did basic marketing things (email marketing, sorting lists, A/B testing, the like), lasted 18 months (10-11) DECA Went to state-level competition for an individual roleplay (11-12) JSA Just showed up as a regular member (11) Robotics Literally did nothing at all (9) Swimming was pretty bad at this too (9) Awards/Honors: 9th grade CS Student of the Year National AP Scholar 11th grade School Award for Intellectual Curiosity 2x awards are for nerds Essays/LORs/Interviews: they were okay - I ended up having a local private counselor help me revise all of them and they put my ideas forth pretty clearly/expressively. however i am a very boring individual and no amount of glorifying is going to be able to save that i had an LoR from an economics teacher who recommended me for the intellectual curiosity awards, and a precalc teacher i literally can barely remember the name of lmao interviews with: Carleton College (AO) Claremont McKenna College (alumni) Grinnell College (AO) Macalester College (AO) Washington University in St. Louis (AO) Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (list here): New York University, Stern (Business and Political Economy, RD) Davidson College (Economics and Political Science, RD) Grinnell College (Undecided, RD) Included 25k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Macalester College (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Northeastern University (Economics and Computer Science, RD) Included 14k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years American University (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Washington State University (Computer Science, RD) Included Honors College and 8k/yr merit aid, renewable for two years then 4k/yr, for last two years (In-state: would have brought tuition down to 1k and 5k/yr) Michigan State University (Economics, RD) Included Honors College and 28k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Included 4k travel stipend and 3k research stipend (guaranteed position) Waitlists: (list here) Carleton College (Undecided, RD, eventual reject) University of Richmond (Undecided, RD, eventual accept) Rejections: (list here) Claremont McKenna College (Economics and Political Science, ED1) Washington University in St. Louis (Economics and Political Science, ED2) University of Washington, Foster (Business Administration, RD) Was accepted as a general Arts & Sciences admit, just did not get Foster direct-admit im still salty about this one as an in-state applicant Additional Information: i did pretty shit in hs so stern/davidson/grinnell were nice surprises changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 18:37
其实这个小中男也不错 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l3ni2o/graduated_hs_20_socially_awkward_chinese_roblox/ 这个是2020年毕业的，小中男，西雅图地区，好像是大公校，父母是老留，成绩中上（GPA不高），但是有自己的特色，打游戏组队，录取的学校挺多，有几个小滕，进了NYU Stern Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) Residence: Seattle metropolitan area (Bellevue, WA) School: uncompetitive, non-magnet public school (2700 students, think average SAT in the low 1200s) Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Absolutely none lmao Parents were first-generation immigrants but they got a bachelor's degree at a no-name Chinese uni so I wasn't considered first-gen .-. Intended Major(s): Varied (Economics, Political Science, Business, Computer Science, Undecided, see individual colleges below) Academics GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.73 / 4 UW, no class rank, (~approx 75th percentile UW gpa given school profile) # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 6 Honors, 10 AP classes, 12 AP tests Will note AP count was a bit unusual (was 1 of 3 people out of class of 600 to get National AP Scholar) Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs (Calculus AB, English Literature, Psychology, US Government & Politics), normal HS Physics, Sales & Marketing 1, cooking (1 semester), PE (1 semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT/ACT: 1570 SAT (780 EBRW, 790 Math, 7/7/8 Essay) SAT II: 800 US History, 770 Math 2 (did not report), 710 Literature (did not report) AP/IB: 4s Calculus AB 5s Biology Computer Science A Comparative Government (self-studied) English Language English Literature European History Macroeconomics Microeconomics Psychology US Government & Politics US History Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities: Ran a roblox roleplay group I did the programming for it, scripted a new game, onboarded/trained like 40 staff/developers (10-12) 50,000 members, 10 million place visits, made me like $5k on the side Is now an official LLC registered in a state Also made me lose faith in humanity Washington State Senate Page 1 week in the state capitol, carried mail for state-level politicians (11) Mayoral Internship Jumped on a 501c3 started by city mayor, made a website for them and did basic marketing things (email marketing, sorting lists, A/B testing, the like), lasted 18 months (10-11) DECA Went to state-level competition for an individual roleplay (11-12) JSA Just showed up as a regular member (11) Robotics Literally did nothing at all (9) Swimming was pretty bad at this too (9) Awards/Honors: 9th grade CS Student of the Year National AP Scholar 11th grade School Award for Intellectual Curiosity 2x awards are for nerds Essays/LORs/Interviews: they were okay - I ended up having a local private counselor help me revise all of them and they put my ideas forth pretty clearly/expressively. however i am a very boring individual and no amount of glorifying is going to be able to save that i had an LoR from an economics teacher who recommended me for the intellectual curiosity awards, and a precalc teacher i literally can barely remember the name of lmao interviews with: Carleton College (AO) Claremont McKenna College (alumni) Grinnell College (AO) Macalester College (AO) Washington University in St. Louis (AO) Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (list here): New York University, Stern (Business and Political Economy, RD) Davidson College (Economics and Political Science, RD) Grinnell College (Undecided, RD) Included 25k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Macalester College (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Northeastern University (Economics and Computer Science, RD) Included 14k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years American University (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Washington State University (Computer Science, RD) Included Honors College and 8k/yr merit aid, renewable for two years then 4k/yr, for last two years (In-state: would have brought tuition down to 1k and 5k/yr) Michigan State University (Economics, RD) Included Honors College and 28k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Included 4k travel stipend and 3k research stipend (guaranteed position) Waitlists: (list here) Carleton College (Undecided, RD, eventual reject) University of Richmond (Undecided, RD, eventual accept) Rejections: (list here) Claremont McKenna College (Economics and Political Science, ED1) Washington University in St. Louis (Economics and Political Science, ED2) University of Washington, Foster (Business Administration, RD) Was accepted as a general Arts & Sciences admit, just did not get Foster direct-admit im still salty about this one as an in-state applicant Additional Information: i did pretty shit in hs so stern/davidson/grinnell were nice surprises changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 18:37
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/kgo7b0/accepted_mit_caltech_ea/ 这个算半个小中男，父母是华裔+白人，变性人，低收入，成绩老实说不怎么样，也没有大奖，课外活动不算突出。据自己说推荐信写得好 我也不太明白他怎么进了MIT加Caltech, 难道真的是因为自称是变性人？难道是因为低收入? MIT/Caltech 这浓眉大眼的也叛变革命了？ Demographics Gender: Trans guy Race/Ethnicity: Chinese/white Residence: Southern California Income Bracket: 30k-60k Type of School: Title I Public School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none Intended Major(s): applied physics / electrical engineering Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.87 UW | 4.17 W Rank (or percentile): 9/460ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 APs total over 4 years, have taken a few classes at the local community college but nothing fancy this might seem like a kind of low number but is quite above average for my school, I don't think anyone has ever taken more than 10 APs total Senior Year Course Load: 2 APs, 1 Honors, also taking discrete math at local community college Standardized Testing SAT I: 1560 (760RW, 800M) SAT II: Math 2 (800), Physics (800), Chem (800), Chinese w/ Listening (790) AP/IB: Chem (5), World History (5), Physics 1 (5), Eng Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), Calc AB (5), Env Sci (in progress), Calc BC (in progress) Extracurriculars/Activities & Awards/Honors Sorry for putting these into the same section, it was just easier. Science Bowl - captain of A team since 10th grade, maybe 15h/week?, earned 2nd place during 10th and 11th grade at a really competitive regionals (1st place team went on to top 4 at Nationals both years) USAAAO (Astronomy Olympiad) - scored top 20 nationwide, 10h/week? Science Olympiad - no super notable awards (nothing at State ever), a lot of individual medals at Regionals over the years though. Summer Science Program - 60h/wk for 5 weeks over the summer! was super fun! earned a kind of major award (was chosen for it out of 36 students) Ran a volunteering club (President in 12th, member in 10th-11th) - 5h/wk Tutoring, started March 2020 to help with family expenses during covid - 10h/wk Letters of Recommendation I saw the recommendations from #1 and #2 (they voluntarily gave it to me to read over before submitting) but not #3 or #4. My science competition coach - 9/10, said I was one of the top 5 he'd taught in his career (he's been teaching for 30+ years), emphasized the difficulty of a lot of the stuff I'd done throughout high school and essentially gave a play-by-play of all my achievements but in a pretty cool way My AP English Language teacher - 7/10, I really like him and I liked the rec but it was nothing spectacular, pretty short (<1 page) and focused on my personal and academic contributions to the class + how I handled academics along with tutoring people outside of school My college counselor - 8/10; to be clear, she's the college counselor working with a free college prep program that helps low-income kids in my area with applying to college. She said she talked about my less academic struggles throughout hs (financial, personal, etc) and she's written a lot of these letters for students who consistently end up at T20s so I trust that it was good. My research mentor at SSP - 6-9/10; I'm not going to guess as to what they wrote in my letter but SSP was an amazing experience and I like to think that I tried to contribute a lot to it as well, so hopefully they agreed! Interviews Caltech: no interview MIT: interview was just mediocre. I thought my interviewer was super cool and interesting, but we didn't "click" or anything, and we didn't delve into anything overly personal. We just talked about regular interview topics, it was pretty chill and lasted around the expected amount of time. I was really awkward in the beginning lol so it's nice to know that wasn't a dealbreaker. Essays Wrote my Caltech essays first, in a couple days. I didn't like them much tbh but at the time Caltech was very low priority; I just tried to use straightforward language and talk about things that were important to me. I would give them a strong 6/10 lol. Thank you Caltech for accepting me anyway. My MIT essays must have taken a month, but they were my favorite essays of any that I wrote. I feel like if someone asked me to hand them the most honest portrayal of myself, I would hand them my MIT essays lol. The hardest part was probably just deciding on the topics; after that it was pretty smooth sailing. And I found, surprisingly, that I did learn things about myself along the way, as they say you should. I don't want to hazard a guess as to how much the admissions committee liked my essays, but when I submitted them I felt like if they rejected me, I would be content with knowing they entirely knew who they were rejecting. So, to me, they were 10/10. Could've been 1/10 to the adcoms though lol My personal statement was about moving a lot as a child and never really having a sense of "home" but then settling down in one place (the neighborhood I live in now) and how those different perspectives affect the work I want to do in the future—that I want to benefit people across the globe but also strongly value having a tight-knit community to complete my work with. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Caltech MIT Waitlists: TBA Rejections: TBA Additional Information: I also applied to Stanford, Emory, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, and UCB. Will update as those roll in :) Also I was pretty nervous about not having a ton of ECs or APs when I submitted my apps - I've never done a sport and I don't have an exorbitant number of service hours, my friends at other schools would be taking 8 APs a year instead of 8 APs over four years, and all my ECs are pretty narrowly focused on science. So I guess don't worry if you don't have 20 different ECs / didn't have any impressive ECs outside of what you focused on. It's different for different people ofc but I'm glad now that I just did the few activities I really enjoyed in hs instead of tacking on things that I wasn't interested in, but everyone else seemed to have
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/kgo7b0/accepted_mit_caltech_ea/ 这个算半个小中男，父母是华裔+白人，变性人，低收入，成绩老实说不怎么样，也没有大奖，课外活动不算突出。据自己说推荐信写得好 我也不太明白他怎么进了MIT加Caltech, 难道真的是因为自称是变性人？难道是因为低收入? MIT/Caltech 这浓眉大眼的也叛变革命了？ Demographics Gender: Trans guy Race/Ethnicity: Chinese/white Residence: Southern California Income Bracket: 30k-60k Type of School: Title I Public School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none Intended Major(s): applied physics / electrical engineering Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.87 UW | 4.17 W Rank (or percentile): 9/460ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 APs total over 4 years, have taken a few classes at the local community college but nothing fancy this might seem like a kind of low number but is quite above average for my school, I don''t think anyone has ever taken more than 10 APs total Senior Year Course Load: 2 APs, 1 Honors, also taking discrete math at local community college Standardized Testing SAT I: 1560 (760RW, 800M) SAT II: Math 2 (800), Physics (800), Chem (800), Chinese w/ Listening (790) AP/IB: Chem (5), World History (5), Physics 1 (5), Eng Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), Calc AB (5), Env Sci (in progress), Calc BC (in progress) Extracurriculars/Activities & Awards/Honors Sorry for putting these into the same section, it was just easier. Science Bowl - captain of A team since 10th grade, maybe 15h/week?, earned 2nd place during 10th and 11th grade at a really competitive regionals (1st place team went on to top 4 at Nationals both years) USAAAO (Astronomy Olympiad) - scored top 20 nationwide, 10h/week? Science Olympiad - no super notable awards (nothing at State ever), a lot of individual medals at Regionals over the years though. Summer Science Program - 60h/wk for 5 weeks over the summer! was super fun! earned a kind of major award (was chosen for it out of 36 students) Ran a volunteering club (President in 12th, member in 10th-11th) - 5h/wk Tutoring, started March 2020 to help with family expenses during covid - 10h/wk Letters of Recommendation I saw the recommendations from #1 and #2 (they voluntarily gave it to me to read over before submitting) but not #3 or #4. My science competition coach - 9/10, said I was one of the top 5 he''d taught in his career (he''s been teaching for 30+ years), emphasized the difficulty of a lot of the stuff I''d done throughout high school and essentially gave a play-by-play of all my achievements but in a pretty cool way My AP English Language teacher - 7/10, I really like him and I liked the rec but it was nothing spectacular, pretty short (<1 page) and focused on my personal and academic contributions to the class + how I handled academics along with tutoring people outside of school My college counselor - 8/10; to be clear, she''s the college counselor working with a free college prep program that helps low-income kids in my area with applying to college. She said she talked about my less academic struggles throughout hs (financial, personal, etc) and she''s written a lot of these letters for students who consistently end up at T20s so I trust that it was good. My research mentor at SSP - 6-9/10; I''m not going to guess as to what they wrote in my letter but SSP was an amazing experience and I like to think that I tried to contribute a lot to it as well, so hopefully they agreed! Interviews Caltech: no interview MIT: interview was just mediocre. I thought my interviewer was super cool and interesting, but we didn''t "click" or anything, and we didn''t delve into anything overly personal. We just talked about regular interview topics, it was pretty chill and lasted around the expected amount of time. I was really awkward in the beginning lol so it''s nice to know that wasn''t a dealbreaker. Essays Wrote my Caltech essays first, in a couple days. I didn''t like them much tbh but at the time Caltech was very low priority; I just tried to use straightforward language and talk about things that were important to me. I would give them a strong 6/10 lol. Thank you Caltech for accepting me anyway. My MIT essays must have taken a month, but they were my favorite essays of any that I wrote. I feel like if someone asked me to hand them the most honest portrayal of myself, I would hand them my MIT essays lol. The hardest part was probably just deciding on the topics; after that it was pretty smooth sailing. And I found, surprisingly, that I did learn things about myself along the way, as they say you should. I don''t want to hazard a guess as to how much the admissions committee liked my essays, but when I submitted them I felt like if they rejected me, I would be content with knowing they entirely knew who they were rejecting. So, to me, they were 10/10. Could''ve been 1/10 to the adcoms though lol My personal statement was about moving a lot as a child and never really having a sense of "home" but then settling down in one place (the neighborhood I live in now) and how those different perspectives affect the work I want to do in the future—that I want to benefit people across the globe but also strongly value having a tight-knit community to complete my work with. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Caltech MIT Waitlists: TBA Rejections: TBA Additional Information: I also applied to Stanford, Emory, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, and UCB. Will update as those roll in :) Also I was pretty nervous about not having a ton of ECs or APs when I submitted my apps - I''ve never done a sport and I don''t have an exorbitant number of service hours, my friends at other schools would be taking 8 APs a year instead of 8 APs over four years, and all my ECs are pretty narrowly focused on science. So I guess don''t worry if you don''t have 20 different ECs / didn''t have any impressive ECs outside of what you focused on. It''s different for different people ofc but I''m glad now that I just did the few activities I really enjoyed in hs instead of tacking on things that I wasn''t interested in, but everyone else seemed to have changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 20:30
9/460, 这个top 2%，在他的高中很好了。title 1 public school应该和普通高中不太一样。而且特点（science）突出。
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/kgo7b0/accepted_mit_caltech_ea/ 这个算半个小中男，父母是华裔+白人，变性人，低收入，成绩老实说不怎么样，也没有大奖，课外活动不算突出。据自己说推荐信写得好 我也不太明白他怎么进了MIT加Caltech, 难道真的是因为自称是变性人？难道是因为低收入? MIT/Caltech 这浓眉大眼的也叛变革命了？ Demographics Gender: Trans guy Race/Ethnicity: Chinese/white Residence: Southern California Income Bracket: 30k-60k Type of School: Title I Public School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none Intended Major(s): applied physics / electrical engineering Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.87 UW | 4.17 W Rank (or percentile): 9/460ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 APs total over 4 years, have taken a few classes at the local community college but nothing fancy this might seem like a kind of low number but is quite above average for my school, I don't think anyone has ever taken more than 10 APs total Senior Year Course Load: 2 APs, 1 Honors, also taking discrete math at local community college Standardized Testing SAT I: 1560 (760RW, 800M) SAT II: Math 2 (800), Physics (800), Chem (800), Chinese w/ Listening (790) AP/IB: Chem (5), World History (5), Physics 1 (5), Eng Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), Calc AB (5), Env Sci (in progress), Calc BC (in progress) Extracurriculars/Activities & Awards/Honors Sorry for putting these into the same section, it was just easier. Science Bowl - captain of A team since 10th grade, maybe 15h/week?, earned 2nd place during 10th and 11th grade at a really competitive regionals (1st place team went on to top 4 at Nationals both years) USAAAO (Astronomy Olympiad) - scored top 20 nationwide, 10h/week? Science Olympiad - no super notable awards (nothing at State ever), a lot of individual medals at Regionals over the years though. Summer Science Program - 60h/wk for 5 weeks over the summer! was super fun! earned a kind of major award (was chosen for it out of 36 students) Ran a volunteering club (President in 12th, member in 10th-11th) - 5h/wk Tutoring, started March 2020 to help with family expenses during covid - 10h/wk Letters of Recommendation I saw the recommendations from #1 and #2 (they voluntarily gave it to me to read over before submitting) but not #3 or #4. My science competition coach - 9/10, said I was one of the top 5 he'd taught in his career (he's been teaching for 30+ years), emphasized the difficulty of a lot of the stuff I'd done throughout high school and essentially gave a play-by-play of all my achievements but in a pretty cool way My AP English Language teacher - 7/10, I really like him and I liked the rec but it was nothing spectacular, pretty short (<1 page) and focused on my personal and academic contributions to the class + how I handled academics along with tutoring people outside of school My college counselor - 8/10; to be clear, she's the college counselor working with a free college prep program that helps low-income kids in my area with applying to college. She said she talked about my less academic struggles throughout hs (financial, personal, etc) and she's written a lot of these letters for students who consistently end up at T20s so I trust that it was good. My research mentor at SSP - 6-9/10; I'm not going to guess as to what they wrote in my letter but SSP was an amazing experience and I like to think that I tried to contribute a lot to it as well, so hopefully they agreed! Interviews Caltech: no interview MIT: interview was just mediocre. I thought my interviewer was super cool and interesting, but we didn't "click" or anything, and we didn't delve into anything overly personal. We just talked about regular interview topics, it was pretty chill and lasted around the expected amount of time. I was really awkward in the beginning lol so it's nice to know that wasn't a dealbreaker. Essays Wrote my Caltech essays first, in a couple days. I didn't like them much tbh but at the time Caltech was very low priority; I just tried to use straightforward language and talk about things that were important to me. I would give them a strong 6/10 lol. Thank you Caltech for accepting me anyway. My MIT essays must have taken a month, but they were my favorite essays of any that I wrote. I feel like if someone asked me to hand them the most honest portrayal of myself, I would hand them my MIT essays lol. The hardest part was probably just deciding on the topics; after that it was pretty smooth sailing. And I found, surprisingly, that I did learn things about myself along the way, as they say you should. I don't want to hazard a guess as to how much the admissions committee liked my essays, but when I submitted them I felt like if they rejected me, I would be content with knowing they entirely knew who they were rejecting. So, to me, they were 10/10. Could've been 1/10 to the adcoms though lol My personal statement was about moving a lot as a child and never really having a sense of "home" but then settling down in one place (the neighborhood I live in now) and how those different perspectives affect the work I want to do in the future—that I want to benefit people across the globe but also strongly value having a tight-knit community to complete my work with. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Caltech MIT Waitlists: TBA Rejections: TBA Additional Information: I also applied to Stanford, Emory, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, and UCB. Will update as those roll in :) Also I was pretty nervous about not having a ton of ECs or APs when I submitted my apps - I've never done a sport and I don't have an exorbitant number of service hours, my friends at other schools would be taking 8 APs a year instead of 8 APs over four years, and all my ECs are pretty narrowly focused on science. So I guess don't worry if you don't have 20 different ECs / didn't have any impressive ECs outside of what you focused on. It's different for different people ofc but I'm glad now that I just did the few activities I really enjoyed in hs instead of tacking on things that I wasn't interested in, but everyone else seemed to have changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 20:30
看了另一个湾区进了MIT学CS的亚裔男孩，发现共同点是低收入，如果是第一代大学生更有优势。按他的收入，去上MIT应该是一分钱不花。看来MIT有改变个人命运的使命 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l0qx7z/accepted_mit_ea/ Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian Residence: Bay Area Income Bracket: ~30k Type of School: Public Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): First Generation, Low IncomeIntended Major(s): Computer Science Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW / 4.6 W Rank (or percentile): 1/300ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 APs total (3 this year). Also took a bunch of community college classes. Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, 3 College AP Biology, AP Computer Science A, AP English Literature (Full Year) Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics (1st Semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1470 (700RW, 770M) (submitted) SAT II: 790 (Math II) (submitted) AP/IB: AP Calculus AB (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP World History (4), AP Computer Science Principles (4), AP Statistics (4), AP Environmental Sciences (5), AP Physics C: Mechanics (5), AP US Government (5), AP English Language (5) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Engineering Club. Built robots for competitions. President for senior year. (3 years) Math Club. Tutored kids in math, taught them new math topics. (2 years) Key Club. A volunteering club. (2 years) Varsity Volleyball. (4 years) Cross Country. (2 years) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. National AP Scholar Questbridge Finalist Letters of Recommendation Counselor: There is around one counselor per few hundreds of kids, so I didn't really know my counselor that well. Probably your average letter. Math Teacher: I did my best work in my math classes and I had this teacher for all 4 years of my high school. This teacher knew me best out of all my other teachers. AP English Teacher: I had a lot of interesting conversations with them while in their class. Was a teacher who saw and helped my growth in a subject I wasn't that strong at. Interviews MIT: The conversation was a little bit awkward as connecting with the other person wasn't that easy. Stuttered a little as I tried to answer their questions. But nothing too bad. Overall, it was probably average. Essays Topic of main personal statement was mainly talking about my childhood. What it was like to be an immigrant, what things I were able to experience culture-wise, and how I found a place I belonged to. Other Supplemental Topics: Effects of gentrification on my community Volleyball and gaining confidence Observations on what growing up poor means for different people Playing games and making friends Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: MIT (EA) Awaiting Decision: (all RD) Caltech Stanford Columbia USC UC Berkeley UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego Additional Information: For all the private universities, I used the Questbridge application. I didn't get matched with Questbridge, so all my apps were deferred to later application cycles.
看了另一个湾区进了MIT学CS的亚裔男孩，发现共同点是低收入，如果是第一代大学生更有优势。按他的收入，去上MIT应该是一分钱不花。看来MIT有改变个人命运的使命 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l0qx7z/accepted_mit_ea/ Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian Residence: Bay Area Income Bracket: ~30k Type of School: Public Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): First Generation, Low IncomeIntended Major(s): Computer Science Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW / 4.6 W Rank (or percentile): 1/300ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 APs total (3 this year). Also took a bunch of community college classes. Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, 3 College AP Biology, AP Computer Science A, AP English Literature (Full Year) Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics (1st Semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1470 (700RW, 770M) (submitted) SAT II: 790 (Math II) (submitted) AP/IB: AP Calculus AB (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP World History (4), AP Computer Science Principles (4), AP Statistics (4), AP Environmental Sciences (5), AP Physics C: Mechanics (5), AP US Government (5), AP English Language (5) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Engineering Club. Built robots for competitions. President for senior year. (3 years) Math Club. Tutored kids in math, taught them new math topics. (2 years) Key Club. A volunteering club. (2 years) Varsity Volleyball. (4 years) Cross Country. (2 years) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. National AP Scholar Questbridge Finalist Letters of Recommendation Counselor: There is around one counselor per few hundreds of kids, so I didn't really know my counselor that well. Probably your average letter. Math Teacher: I did my best work in my math classes and I had this teacher for all 4 years of my high school. This teacher knew me best out of all my other teachers. AP English Teacher: I had a lot of interesting conversations with them while in their class. Was a teacher who saw and helped my growth in a subject I wasn't that strong at. Interviews MIT: The conversation was a little bit awkward as connecting with the other person wasn't that easy. Stuttered a little as I tried to answer their questions. But nothing too bad. Overall, it was probably average. Essays Topic of main personal statement was mainly talking about my childhood. What it was like to be an immigrant, what things I were able to experience culture-wise, and how I found a place I belonged to. Other Supplemental Topics: Effects of gentrification on my community Volleyball and gaining confidence Observations on what growing up poor means for different people Playing games and making friends Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: MIT (EA) Awaiting Decision: (all RD) Caltech Stanford Columbia USC UC Berkeley UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego Additional Information: For all the private universities, I used the Questbridge application. I didn't get matched with Questbridge, so all my apps were deferred to later application cycles. changheruhailiu 发表于 2021-02-09 20:54
又一个进了MIT和西北的样本 https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/ks0s6g/firstgen_applicant_from_the_midwest_realizes_hes/ 白男，第一代移民（好像是波兰人），第一代大学生，低收入，成绩还可以，没有大奖。进了MIT（EA）和西北(ED), 按规矩只能去西北，准备学医好像。父母高中都没毕业，算是逆境中奋进的典范 Demographics Gender: Male Race: White Residence: Midwest Bracket: Lower Middle Class Type of School: Public, Big City Hooks: First-generation college student, first-generation immigrant Intended Major: Biology/Pre-med Academics GPA: 3.91 UW / 4.77 W Class Rank: 13/775 Honors/APs/IBs/Dual-Enrollment/etc.: 11 Honors, 3 APs: APUSH (4), Bio (5), Chem (5), 7 IBs (Senior Year included): Math Studies SL (7), Rest in spring Two APs outside of school: AP Calc AB (5), AP Calc BC (5) Senior Year Courses: IB Lang. + Lit. HL, IB History HL, IB Film HL, IB Bio SL, Theory of Knowledge, IB French HL, AP Gov. Test Scores SAT I: 1550 (760 ERW, 790 M) SAT II: Math II (800), Chem (800) ACT: 35 (36 M, 36 S, 35 W, 34 R) Extracurriculars Volunteered at local church working at the food pantry for the poor and as a babysitter at the daycare they provided. Volunteered at my polish school as an assistant teacher and as a bookkeeper, also worked in maintenance. Math tutor since freshman year for students in high school, teaching mainly algebra, geometry, trig, pre-calc, and calc. Worked in my dad''s construction company Started a after-school course at my school to teach other students how to code in Python. Shadowed at children''s hospital Worked at a local polish publication in my area as a columnist. Was a part of a internationally-recognized polish folk group that (before COVID) traveled about 5 months in the year throughout the world. Also was a student teacher in the younger categories in this group. Awards Student of the Month (High School) x5 School Honor Roll Multiple literary contests for my poems and columns that I have written. LORs Biology Teacher: 9.5/10, Kind of the only teacher that I was actually close with in school, to the point that we are on a first-name basis. Wrote about my progress from not paying attention in his class to becoming a hard worker. Mentioned my constant obsession with asking for more resources. History Teacher: 9/10, The only other teacher that has seen my growth due to IB classes being two-year courses. Talked about my improvement as a writer and leadership in the classroom. Mentioned a story about the time I got stuck in the history department''s walk-in safe. Counselor: 6/10, Kind lady, but never spoke to her before senior year. She had my mother call and talk about me so that she could better understand who I am. Polish School Principal: 8/10, Wrote about my evolution as a student and all the various organizations in the polish community that I participated in over the years. Probably the most personal letter of them all as she has known me since I was 3. Personal Doctor: 10/10, Talked about his experiences with me as his patient and how those translated to me eventually shadowing at the same hospital. Mentioned our mutual friendship and plans to work on research papers in the near future. EssaysTalked about my life growing up with high school dropout parents and with a severe medical disorder. Must''ve been good because the teacher who looked at all of my essays had nothing but compliments to give. Decisions Acceptances: Northwestern University MIT I was really shocked that I got in to either school, kinda felt bad that I had to withdraw from MIT, but I still get to go to the school of my dreams next year!
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其实，就我所知道的，好多上藤的娃都是自推娃。
在读书的时候跟聪明人在一起会舒服很多
我以前读书的时候不觉得什么，工作后发现有时候的确有些人会给你带来精神上的负担，一个问题怎么解释也解释不通，必须耐心的解释好几遍还要考虑对方的心情，观察对方的情绪变化
人大了就还好，本身core personality立得住，所以也无法被外人动摇；但年纪还小，良师益友真的多多益善
强烈推荐选择caltech
其实可以算一算，top 10里的学校每年大约招1700左右, 其中20%~22%是亚裔，亚裔中算1/3是华裔，然后再平均到每个州，就知道能不能，值不值得推到那个程度了。
All scholarships and grants at Caltech are need-based, as the Institute does not have a merit aid program. Undergraduate students who fill out a financial aid application will be automatically considered for scholarships and grants from Caltech and the federal government.
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这个是上中产家庭出身的白人女孩
SAT满分 GPA 4.0/4.72 （基本上高中四年全A) 11门AP 一堆课外活动，从政治到科学
被之大和MIT给Defer, 欧洲的学校倒是录取了一些，她个人说干脆去荷兰读大学吧
我觉得T5还是有可能的，等过段时间再看看
Demographics Gender: Female Race/Ethnicity: White Residence: Suburban Illinois Income Bracket: Upper middle class Type of School: Large, semi-competitive public Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A Intended Major(s): Economics & Mathematics Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0/4.72 Rank (or percentile): N/A but unofficially at least top 4% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 10 honors, 11 APs, 3 DE Senior Year Course Load: AP Comp Sci, AP Euro, AP Gov, AP Bio, AP English, DE Sociology, Film History Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1600 (800RW, 800M) ACT: N/A SAT II: Bio-E (770) AP/IB: US History (5), English Lang (5), Calc BC (5), Macro (5), Micro (4), French (3) Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Political Campaign (11-12, Director of Regional Youth Branch) Science Olympiad (9-12, Officer Position) Math Team (9-12) Junior States of America (11-12, VP) Community Service-Oriented Backpacking Summer Program (9-10) Community Mental Health Initiative (11, Co-Founder) Selective Literature-Oriented Summer Program (11) Democratic Party Summer Internship (11) Volunteer at Bi-Annual Cultural Event (10-12) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. National Merit Semi-Finalist Rensselaer Medal Local Essay Contest National Economics Essay Contest Cum Laude Society Letters of Recommendation Economics Teacher: We had good banter and I got above 100% on his final exam, so I''d say his letter was above average. (6/10) Pre-Calc Teacher/Math Team Coach: Love this lady almost as much as I loved pre-calculus! She''s like my second mom, we''ve known each other for years, so I think this letter was very good. (8/10) Interviews I interviewed for Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Claremont McKenna, Rice, Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Mount Holyoke. Honestly, most of them felt pretty bland, except for my Harvard interview, which went amazingly. I demonstrated thorough interest in the school and major for all of them, though. Essays My personal statement was unique and well-written, centering around my personal rivalry with a famous author from my hometown. I thought it was funny, intellectual, and very me. I''d rate it at a (9/10), as writing is my strong suit. All of my supplements were well-written too, especially for UChicago, MIT, and Vanderbilt. Most focused on my passion for literature and my desire to apply economics to social issues. They probably ranged in quality from (6/10) to (10/10). Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands) University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) University of Glasgow (Scotland) University of St Andrews (Scotland) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA, 32k merit annually) University of Michigan LSA (USA) Waitlists/Deferrals: University of Chicago (USA) MIT (USA)
Hispanic+LGBTQ ”男“孩 - non-binary
成绩中上，家里算中（低）产，好像要从政的那种，拿到了UMichigan的全奖, 自己认为亮点就是自己是gay
Demographics Gender: nonbinary boy type? some schools didn''''t allow me to mark nonbinary so malee i guess AGHKJSDHGFKJSDHGFKJSDFJKN Race/Ethnicity: white mixed puerto rican latino Residence: midwest (michigan) Income Bracket: i literally do not know but i''''d say something like ~50-70k depending on the year my parents own a small business so income really fluctuates Type of School: public, standard large-ish city high school Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): latino & gay? does the gay card count? Intended Major(s): polit sci, gender & sexuality studies, sociology, politics, philosophy & economics depending on the college hehe Academics GPA (UW/W): low 3.8 unweighted/low 3.8 weighted, our school has really weird weighting but if it was normal it''''d be like a 4.2 weighted probably Rank (or percentile): no class rank # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 1 ap soph year, 3 aps + 4 dual enrolled CC classes junior year, 6 ap + 3 dual enrolled classes senior year (do not do this LMFAOOOOO) Senior Year Course Load: APES, AP Calc, AP Comp Sci A, AP Spanish Lang, AP English Lit, Ap Psych, Chinese 202 & Comparative government @ a community college, sexuality in film at a nearby university. List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT: definitely the strongest point of my application lol. 2 scores: a 1490 and 1500 that superscored to a 1550 (790 EBRW, 760 math) AP/IB: apush, ap gov, ap lang : 5 . ap macro : 4 Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): n/a!! Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. worked at parents small business. not going to get into specifics but it is in the dairy product field and i spent a considerable amount of time making and selling dairy products (like 10 hr/week, whole year) school GSA president, managed queer student affairs and advocated for our issues during the school year (1 hr/week during the school year) managed social media and public relations presence for a relatively large foreign affairs nonprofit (5 hr/week, only during the summer and later part of 2020) worked with my county''''s local planned parenthood to provide better sex-ed to students and serve as a community resource, also presented across health classes in the county (2-ish hr/week during the school year) worked on a local prosecutor''''s campaign . did some stuff like campaign outreach and also helped write policy on combatting the school to prison pipeline (15 hr/week during the summer) also worked on a local progressive congressional candidate''''s campaign, basic campaign outreach stuff and managed latino voter outreach :-D (12 hr/week during the summer lmfaooo again never do two unpaid internships during the same primary season back to back) wrote for a teenage literary collective zine for poetry, opinion pieces, media reviews, little stuff like that (1 hr/week during the first semester of my senior year) policy debate team varsity member (2 hr/week max during our season) member of school body government and lead our philanthropy board of a snoozy role though so it didn''''t matter much to me (1 hr/week)Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. LMFAOOOO i literally have nothing here its a little embarrasing AP Scholar with Honor school NHS member Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) ED: brown deferred LMFAOOOO ED-2: tufts, withdrew my application like last night though (sad pensive emoji) EA-2: UMN accepted honors college w/ 10k scholarship EA: UVM accepted honors college w/ something like 100k scholarship? EA: reed college no financial aid though :( RD to depaul: got like 150k total aid package, admitted into the BA/JD program which was pretty cool RD: Wesleyan -- RD: Cornell -- RD: Amherst -- RD: Swarthmore -- RD: Williams -- RD: NYU -- RD: Northwestern -- and perhaps most importantly.... EA: UMICH ACCEPTED WITH A FULL RIDE SCHOLARSHIP....!!!!!!!!!!!!! I''''m not officially committed to michigan yet (unless you count buying copious amounts of merchandise and putting umich ''''25 in your instagram bio) bc of my parents, but I''''m trying to convince them to let me withdraw my applications to other schools because i want to be done with this god awful ordeal and i really Do Not Care About Any Other School at This Point. did i mention its a fucking full ride scholarship to a t25? officially committed to umich as of sunday, January 31....YEOOOO WE DID IT...
大部分孩子，没中介包装，都这样。能看出来学习是真不错。
同意，没有national级别的大奖，MIT估计不考虑
Brown boi talks his way into T30’s(will update with RD)
我觉得这个娃相当优秀了，尤其学习，将来大学毕业走入社会也会混得不错的。
你的意思是美国大学喜欢选偏才？周围好多推体育的，我真的很好奇，如果不是顶尖的体育选手，对申请好大学有多少用处？
白人，上中产，成绩中上，Bisexual，Male, UMichigan legacy, 家里有人在布朗教书，被Michigan和UNC Chapel Hill 录取 想进哈佛，但是背景不够强，可能哈佛双性恋太多不需要他代表
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l8njl0/small_town_big_business_boi_takes_on_harvard_rea/ Demographics Gender: male Race/Ethnicity: white Residence: michigan Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: rural public Hooks: umich legacy (and finalist for a privately-funded full ride), family faculty at brown, rural, bisexual Intended Major(s): applied as business/management/economics where applicable. will hopefully double major in international relations or computer science Academics GPA (UW): 3.931/4.00 Rank: 13/92 # of Honors/AP: (school only offers 5 AP classes and 0 honors classes, counselor wrote in LOR that i have the most rigorous course load in my grade because i take online AP/honors classes) - 4 APs + 1 Honors class not including senior year schedule Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, physics, newspaper, AP CSP, AP calc BC (online), AP micro (online), AP macro (online) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. ACT: 32 (35E, 27M, 36R, 29S) - only sent to georgetown and umich AP: APWH (4), bio (4), gov (online, 5), lang (3 - didn’t submit) Extracurriculars/Activities (9-12) Founder of E-Commerce Book Subscription Service - 22,000 customers/supporters, shipped 25,000 books worldwide, $1,050,000+ in revenue. Manage a team of 25. Routinely collaborate with NYT Bestselling authors and Big Five publishers (20 hrs/wk 52 wks/yr) (9-12) Team Captain of Varsity Quizbowl Team - Increased membership, teach strategy, host meetings and the first team to qualify for the National Tournament in school history (6 hrs/wk 8 wks/yr) (9-12) Head of Drama Tech Crew & Wait Staff - Design light, mic and music queues with director and two student directors. Manage a team of 6 for tech during musical season and a team of 10 during dinner theatre shows. My guidance led to shows placing 2nd at state competition junior year (24 hrs/wk 6 wks/yr) (10-12) Co-Founder of Tutoring Program - 30% of my district doesn’t have access to wifi at home so I co founded a tutoring program to give assistance after school to those who are struggling with their homework. Expanded worldwide junior year. (3 wks/yr 30 wks/yr) (9, 11-12) President of DECA Chapter - Restarted chapter after advisor left. Grew membership to 25 members junior year and then to 88 (more than ¼ of the student body) senior year. Recognition at Districts/State (4 hrs/wk 35 wks/yr) (11-12) Editor-In-Chief of the School Paper - Lead a team of 10 and do typical newspaper duties. Distribute 2,000+ copies bimonthly. Sold 20+ ads junior year bringing in ~$500 (7 hrs/wk 35 wks/yr) (9-12) Family Genealogical Researcher - Do genealogy work on my family. Have traced origins upwards of 40 generations and have identified 800+ direct ancestors. (9 hrs/wk 8 wks/yr) (11-12) Member of National Honor Society - self explanatory (1 hr/wk 20 wks/yr) (9-12) Member of Science Olympiad - self explanatory (12 hrs/wk 4 wks/yr) (9-12) Member of Book Club - self explanatory (2 hrs/wk 5 wks/yr) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. 2020 National Quizbowl Tournament Qualifier AP Scholar With Honor Quizbowl Top 10 Individual Scorer 10th, 11th and 12th grade for the region Finalized for ICDC at Michigan DECA States 2020 3rd Place DECA Entrepreneurship, 2019 Districts Sent In Application Updates: Company mentioned in 3 BuzzFeed articles and personal articles in Detroit News and Washington Times 2021 DECA States Qualifier, 2nd Place Quizbowl 1st and 3rd Place wins 12th grade season and regional tournament Letters of Recommendation Counselor, AP bio teacher, spanish teacher , precalculus teacher (gtown and MIT only) super close with all four of them and I feel like they have really strong writing skills Interviews Georgetown - lasted about an hour and went really well. the guy was friendly, impressed with me and we had a great conversation. (9/10) Harvard - lasted an hour and was so good!! talked about a range of topics and have kept in touch since. (9/10) UPenn - lasted about 45 minutes. my interviewer had an extremely bad audio connection and i struggled to hear him and had to ask to repeat things a few times. however, he said he was very impressed with me and would send in a good recommendation. (7/10) MIT - lasted two hours. best interview yet. my interviewer and i really vibed and talked about some really in-depth and niche topics that stemmed from my passions. called me for a follow up the following evening. (10/10) UMich - next week for full ride Essays Common App - talked about how as my business grew I found a new family within the book community. (9/10) Supplementals - super niche topics and all highlighted different aspects of my identity to my application. family friend who is a former T10 AO read over my essays and said they were really strong and unique Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: University of Michigan (EA) University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (EA) Deferrals Harvard (REA) Awaiting RD Yale UPenn Brown Vanderbilt Duke MIT Northwestern Northeastern Georgetown
那个白人中产女孩，绝对好雇员，那种能干仔细overachiever. 后面的Latino gay, sat也1500以上了，这个profile 去 U Michi, 也不算过分了。他申请文书写好点再高也很有戏啊。 那个印度男孩选的专业对亚裔没那么排斥。但是一般国人也不愿意孩子选政治。 总得看都不意外。美国大学也不能说不看学术，基本上喜欢任意方面三个sigma 以外的人。
这个亮点是businesse 不是 sex orientation. 一百万利润25个雇员，如果不是家族企业让他去装样子，这个孩子也有申请哈佛的资本。
华裔女孩，估计是ABC或1.5代，哥哥斯坦福研究生毕业在Michigan当教授，成绩不错，ACT满分，课外活动一般，梦想学校是斯坦福，现在被Michigan和Oregon 州大录取（我猜她家是Washington或Oregon的） 她的课外活动是典型的老中父母推娃方向：芭蕾舞，花样溜冰，钢琴，音乐，画画可惜没有大奖，要是哪一样有个全国冠军肯定能进斯坦福
我觉得如果有个LGBTQ的hook有可能进
Demographics Asian female (Chinese), PNW, upper-middle class (don’t know exact income but def not low enough for financial aid). Non-competitive public high school. Hooks: Slight Legacy at two schools - my older brother graduated from Stanford grad school & is currently a professor at UMich. Intended Major: Political Science STATS GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.35 W (submitted 4.26 W to early schools) School doesn’t rank, class size ~400. Coursework: Most rigorous course-load possible. Took all available honors courses, 1 AP in Grade 10, full IB diploma candidate. ACT: 36 (36 E, 35 M, 36 R, 36 S, 9 W), only took once in Sept. 2019. Didn’t take SAT or any subject tests. AP/IB: AP Stats (5), IB Econ SL (6). ECs Figure Skating: 10 hrs/week, year-round, 9-11. 7+ years, not the most accomplished but I’m passionate and have several connected activities (ex. wrote Math EE on figure skating judging, activity coordinator for skating club). Piano: 8 hrs/week, year-round, 9-12. 12+ years. Won a bunch of period music festivals, passed Level X Test with Honors (highest possible piano exam in my state). Assistant Learn To Skate Instructor: 3 hrs/week, year-round, 9-11. I helped teach group lessons at my ice rink and provided specialized guidance to beginner skaters. National Honor Society: 1 hr/week, 11-12. NHS Officer (Secretary + Historian). Manage communications and social media, coordinate virtual service events. Speech and Debate: 4 hrs/week, 9-12. Qualified for state in INFO (10), placed 2x in Radio (11). Ballet: 3 hrs/week, year-round, 9-12. 4+ years. Art: 5 hrs/week, 9-12. 3+ years of painting lessons. Self-taught digital artist. Online sticker store: 2 hrs/week, 11-12. I own a RedBubble store where I design and sell figure skating-themed stickers! Band (Music Instrumental): 6 hrs/week, 9-10. Marching band (front ensemble), pit orchestra (piano), wind ensemble (percussion). Varsity Letter (9), WE placed 5th at State (10). Other service clubs: 2 hrs/week, 11-12. Co-founder of UNICEF Club, active member of two other clubs, one to raise awareness about human trafficking and the other to help local homeless students. I changed around the order of these ECs for other schools but this was what I submitted for UMich so I’m going with this order! Awards National Merit Semifinalist. Only one selected from my school, index 220. Full IBDP Candidate. Outstanding Chemistry Student Award (American Chemical Association). Grade 9. Selected for Spanish Honor Society. Grade 11/12. Personal Statement: 7/10. Wrote it about my name (I have a Chinese first name but I go by my English middle name) and my relationship between it and the other names I’ve gone by over the years. I don’t think it’s anything special tbh but I’ve received amazing feedback from everyone who has read it! Recommendations Counselor: 6/10. Don’t know her that well but I’ve talked with her a lot thru email and she said I’m a good student lol Physics Teacher: 7/10. I got to read this one, it was very complimentary and made me seem way better than I am but it was pretty generic I think?? I feel like it’s standard for most LORs. Math Teacher: 8/10. I haven’t gotten to read this one but I’ve had her for 3 years and she explicitly told me that she’d write a glowing recommendation <3 Ballet Teacher: 9/10. Haven’t read this one either but we’ve known each other for years, are extremely close, and she’s an amazing writer. Interviews: The only school I interviewed for here was Stanford, it went alright for a first interview and we got along well but it was pretty standard, 6/10. TLDR: Perfect stats, mediocre ECs, good essays and LORs. Early Results Rejected: Stanford (REA) Deferred: N/A Accepted: University of Oregon and Clark Honors College with $16k scholarship (RD but i got my decision a week later so I’m counting it as early). University of Michigan LSA (EA) :D Awaiting: UT Austin, WashU, Rice, Pomona, UBC, Yale, Wellesley.
这孩子也很厉害，和头一个白人女孩比较像。
说的好像特长说有就有似的。普通孩子再努力也就是学习好。
就是这样，在中国可以靠学习好进top2, 在美国完全没希望。
如果不是特别厉害的，我猜是不是表明孩子能坚持做一件事。 还有就是如果花大量时间搞体育，学习还很好，说明孩子还有上升空间。不功利的讲，搞体育，对孩子成长非常有好处。在不放弃学习的前提下，推体育非常好。
看后面花滑的姑娘。 大学不看过程看结果。没大奖啥也表明不了。
这个是一百万销售额，不是利润。卖了25000本书
如果是他一个人搞起来的，确实不错
看得抑郁了，感觉变个性才能上大学了
我也这么觉得
南部，上中产，估计父母是大学以上文凭的，成绩真的很一般，ACT才29，也没有什么拿得出手的课外活动，也没有奖
基本上凭肤色横扫申请的学校，没有任何一所大学拒绝 主打亮点是在南方红脖子区长大的黑人，有身份认同危机
Demographics Gender: female Race/Ethnicity: black Residence: Nashville TN Income Bracket: upper middle class Type of School: private Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Intended Major(s): (biology) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW Rank (or percentile): school doesn’t rank # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 4 APS. Taken all honors classes offered Senior Year Course Load: AP LIT, TA, Anatomy honors, college algebra, Senior research project (racial discrimination in the criminal justice system), Worldview (required religion test), Creative writing, College algebra/ Trig (dual enrollment), Spanish 3 honors Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: didn’t take ACT: ## 29. 30 superscored Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. #1 Freshman class President #2 Biology club #3 African American club #4National honor society #5Key Club #6HomeGoods associate (18 hrs/week) #7 Soccer player #8 violin and clarinet #9 #10 Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. #1 NONE LMAOOO #2 #3 #4 #5 Letters of Recommendation (* AP Lang teacher: 10/10. We hang outside of school, and I’m her TA.)* (US History Teacher. 10/10, we have been tight since freshman year.) Interviews Essays ( My personal statement was super personal and discussed my identity issues growing up in the Deep South, as one of the only black girls, at my private school... I know, kinda an overused topic, but I had a really cool take on it.)* &amp;#x200B; Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (UNC Chapel Hill EA) (Northeastern EA)-applied test optional (UTK EA) (Loyola Chicago) (Baylor EA) (Howard EA) (University of Miami EA) *(UMICH EA) Waitlists: -none yet Rejections: -none yet *still waiting on: * Vandy RD Emory RD Boston university RD
过分了，这个race能不能随便填啊，想直接填black了
我家娃成绩什么，各项都很好，就是没有大奖。空闲时间都花在打球上，周末常出去比赛，他喜欢。搞体育对孩子的成长非常好
CMU,MIT没录取，决定去州大Honor CS，我觉得很好
那个黑人女孩还行吧，GPA怎么也有4了。她也没报大藤。
不管肤色，这个女生已经很牛了
Be unique.
我也这么觉得
其他不想说，但是weighted gpa 才4.72真的不多
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l3ni2o/graduated_hs_20_socially_awkward_chinese_roblox/
这个是2020年毕业的，小中男，西雅图地区，好像是大公校，父母是老留，成绩中上（GPA不高），但是有自己的特色，打游戏组队，录取的学校挺多，有几个小滕，进了NYU Stern
Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) Residence: Seattle metropolitan area (Bellevue, WA) School: uncompetitive, non-magnet public school (2700 students, think average SAT in the low 1200s) Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): Absolutely none lmao Parents were first-generation immigrants but they got a bachelor's degree at a no-name Chinese uni so I wasn't considered first-gen .-. Intended Major(s): Varied (Economics, Political Science, Business, Computer Science, Undecided, see individual colleges below) Academics GPA/Rank (or percentile): 3.73 / 4 UW, no class rank, (~approx 75th percentile UW gpa given school profile) # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 6 Honors, 10 AP classes, 12 AP tests Will note AP count was a bit unusual (was 1 of 3 people out of class of 600 to get National AP Scholar) Senior Year Course Load: 4 APs (Calculus AB, English Literature, Psychology, US Government & Politics), normal HS Physics, Sales & Marketing 1, cooking (1 semester), PE (1 semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT/ACT: 1570 SAT (780 EBRW, 790 Math, 7/7/8 Essay) SAT II: 800 US History, 770 Math 2 (did not report), 710 Literature (did not report) AP/IB: 4s Calculus AB 5s Biology Computer Science A Comparative Government (self-studied) English Language English Literature European History Macroeconomics Microeconomics Psychology US Government & Politics US History Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities: Ran a roblox roleplay group I did the programming for it, scripted a new game, onboarded/trained like 40 staff/developers (10-12) 50,000 members, 10 million place visits, made me like $5k on the side Is now an official LLC registered in a state Also made me lose faith in humanity Washington State Senate Page 1 week in the state capitol, carried mail for state-level politicians (11) Mayoral Internship Jumped on a 501c3 started by city mayor, made a website for them and did basic marketing things (email marketing, sorting lists, A/B testing, the like), lasted 18 months (10-11) DECA Went to state-level competition for an individual roleplay (11-12) JSA Just showed up as a regular member (11) Robotics Literally did nothing at all (9) Swimming was pretty bad at this too (9) Awards/Honors: 9th grade CS Student of the Year National AP Scholar 11th grade School Award for Intellectual Curiosity 2x awards are for nerds Essays/LORs/Interviews: they were okay - I ended up having a local private counselor help me revise all of them and they put my ideas forth pretty clearly/expressively. however i am a very boring individual and no amount of glorifying is going to be able to save that
i had an LoR from an economics teacher who recommended me for the intellectual curiosity awards, and a precalc teacher i literally can barely remember the name of lmao
interviews with: Carleton College (AO) Claremont McKenna College (alumni) Grinnell College (AO) Macalester College (AO) Washington University in St. Louis (AO) Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: (list here): New York University, Stern (Business and Political Economy, RD) Davidson College (Economics and Political Science, RD) Grinnell College (Undecided, RD) Included 25k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Macalester College (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Northeastern University (Economics and Computer Science, RD) Included 14k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years American University (Political Science, RD) Included 18k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Washington State University (Computer Science, RD) Included Honors College and 8k/yr merit aid, renewable for two years then 4k/yr, for last two years (In-state: would have brought tuition down to 1k and 5k/yr) Michigan State University (Economics, RD) Included Honors College and 28k/yr merit aid, renewable for four years Included 4k travel stipend and 3k research stipend (guaranteed position) Waitlists: (list here) Carleton College (Undecided, RD, eventual reject) University of Richmond (Undecided, RD, eventual accept) Rejections: (list here) Claremont McKenna College (Economics and Political Science, ED1) Washington University in St. Louis (Economics and Political Science, ED2) University of Washington, Foster (Business Administration, RD) Was accepted as a general Arts & Sciences admit, just did not get Foster direct-admit im still salty about this one as an in-state applicant Additional Information: i did pretty shit in hs so stern/davidson/grinnell were nice surprises
同意，如果学工程，大学学校本身不是特别重要
挺好啊，至少出来工作不愁，轻松混个中产。
这个不需要证明，自己填就是了
看他/她想学什么专业了，其实很多私校第一年是undecided，可以报个冷门一点的专业，进去以后再改呗
EA可以，ED不行
有的是定位不准，大学有”yield protection", 如果不是特别自信的藤校看到特别优秀的事情人，估计录取了孩子也不来，干脆就据了
RD的时候有时候运气好，捡个漏，不过机会太小，不保险。
在后面等RD的高中生非常焦虑，家长多鼓励，多配合
REA/SCEA/ED不能同时报多个学校。今年情况特殊，有人是第一个ED被拒，准备RD另外的学校的时候对方通知她可以申请ED II。
我觉得避开特别热门的专业机会比较多
全国奖很难拿。
有一种是学校组织的，像是普林斯顿举办的全国比赛要是名次好的的话普林斯顿招办会写信希望你申请。
手写的信奥。。
大家可以留意下这种比赛。
谢谢，我问他了，想学政治，但又并不想后面学法律。我想让他学商学院的管理或者政治经济学，听说纽大的商学院有，不过学校排名太好，怕够不上呀。男孩子GPA比不过女孩子，AP我预计11年级结束也就6门吧
这个横扫也正常，学校不是最好的，选的学校和专业比较合理。 她是黑人，私校，家境好也许不要FA, full pay 的urm 杀伤力无敌。 她申请的学校基本不是Need blind的。
Unweighted 4.0,我家的孩子做不到，她高中一个年级做到的得是5%以内了。
unweighted GPA 4.0 的难度各个学校之间可以差很多。我们公校高中听说有15%-20%。
标考1570, 有特色有passion。 小藤在哪儿？
Overqualified. 普通学校知道他们只是保底的学校，录取了也不会来，索性先拒了你，这样还能提高acceptance rate
能不能给个链接？
挺好的，我们这里周内排名第五的公立高中，每年成绩最好的亚裔男娃几乎都是去州大，州大理工科强，学科多，对孩子确定以后graduate school的专业挺有帮助
这个和我家差不多，连目标大学和专业都一样
weighted gpa各地算法不同，在我们这儿算是不错的，把middle school上的好几门高中课程带过来，加上PE，ART必修课，根本上不了4.8
能上州大的Honors program非常好，恭喜
这个算半个小中男，父母是华裔+白人，变性人，低收入，成绩老实说不怎么样，也没有大奖，课外活动不算突出。据自己说推荐信写得好
我也不太明白他怎么进了MIT加Caltech, 难道真的是因为自称是变性人？难道是因为低收入? MIT/Caltech 这浓眉大眼的也叛变革命了？
Demographics Gender: Trans guy Race/Ethnicity: Chinese/white Residence: Southern California Income Bracket: 30k-60k Type of School: Title I Public School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): none Intended Major(s): applied physics / electrical engineering Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.87 UW | 4.17 W Rank (or percentile): 9/460ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 8 APs total over 4 years, have taken a few classes at the local community college but nothing fancy this might seem like a kind of low number but is quite above average for my school, I don't think anyone has ever taken more than 10 APs total Senior Year Course Load: 2 APs, 1 Honors, also taking discrete math at local community college Standardized Testing SAT I: 1560 (760RW, 800M) SAT II: Math 2 (800), Physics (800), Chem (800), Chinese w/ Listening (790) AP/IB: Chem (5), World History (5), Physics 1 (5), Eng Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), Calc AB (5), Env Sci (in progress), Calc BC (in progress) Extracurriculars/Activities & Awards/Honors Sorry for putting these into the same section, it was just easier. Science Bowl - captain of A team since 10th grade, maybe 15h/week?, earned 2nd place during 10th and 11th grade at a really competitive regionals (1st place team went on to top 4 at Nationals both years) USAAAO (Astronomy Olympiad) - scored top 20 nationwide, 10h/week? Science Olympiad - no super notable awards (nothing at State ever), a lot of individual medals at Regionals over the years though. Summer Science Program - 60h/wk for 5 weeks over the summer! was super fun! earned a kind of major award (was chosen for it out of 36 students) Ran a volunteering club (President in 12th, member in 10th-11th) - 5h/wk Tutoring, started March 2020 to help with family expenses during covid - 10h/wk Letters of Recommendation I saw the recommendations from #1 and #2 (they voluntarily gave it to me to read over before submitting) but not #3 or #4. My science competition coach - 9/10, said I was one of the top 5 he'd taught in his career (he's been teaching for 30+ years), emphasized the difficulty of a lot of the stuff I'd done throughout high school and essentially gave a play-by-play of all my achievements but in a pretty cool way My AP English Language teacher - 7/10, I really like him and I liked the rec but it was nothing spectacular, pretty short (<1 page) and focused on my personal and academic contributions to the class + how I handled academics along with tutoring people outside of school My college counselor - 8/10; to be clear, she's the college counselor working with a free college prep program that helps low-income kids in my area with applying to college. She said she talked about my less academic struggles throughout hs (financial, personal, etc) and she's written a lot of these letters for students who consistently end up at T20s so I trust that it was good. My research mentor at SSP - 6-9/10; I'm not going to guess as to what they wrote in my letter but SSP was an amazing experience and I like to think that I tried to contribute a lot to it as well, so hopefully they agreed! Interviews Caltech: no interview MIT: interview was just mediocre. I thought my interviewer was super cool and interesting, but we didn't "click" or anything, and we didn't delve into anything overly personal. We just talked about regular interview topics, it was pretty chill and lasted around the expected amount of time. I was really awkward in the beginning lol so it's nice to know that wasn't a dealbreaker. Essays Wrote my Caltech essays first, in a couple days. I didn't like them much tbh but at the time Caltech was very low priority; I just tried to use straightforward language and talk about things that were important to me. I would give them a strong 6/10 lol. Thank you Caltech for accepting me anyway. My MIT essays must have taken a month, but they were my favorite essays of any that I wrote. I feel like if someone asked me to hand them the most honest portrayal of myself, I would hand them my MIT essays lol. The hardest part was probably just deciding on the topics; after that it was pretty smooth sailing. And I found, surprisingly, that I did learn things about myself along the way, as they say you should. I don't want to hazard a guess as to how much the admissions committee liked my essays, but when I submitted them I felt like if they rejected me, I would be content with knowing they entirely knew who they were rejecting. So, to me, they were 10/10. Could've been 1/10 to the adcoms though lol My personal statement was about moving a lot as a child and never really having a sense of "home" but then settling down in one place (the neighborhood I live in now) and how those different perspectives affect the work I want to do in the future—that I want to benefit people across the globe but also strongly value having a tight-knit community to complete my work with. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Caltech MIT Waitlists: TBA Rejections: TBA Additional Information: I also applied to Stanford, Emory, UCSD, UCSB, UCLA, and UCB. Will update as those roll in :) Also I was pretty nervous about not having a ton of ECs or APs when I submitted my apps - I've never done a sport and I don't have an exorbitant number of service hours, my friends at other schools would be taking 8 APs a year instead of 8 APs over four years, and all my ECs are pretty narrowly focused on science. So I guess don't worry if you don't have 20 different ECs / didn't have any impressive ECs outside of what you focused on. It's different for different people ofc but I'm glad now that I just did the few activities I really enjoyed in hs instead of tacking on things that I wasn't interested in, but everyone else seemed to have
挺好的啊，在当地得到教授的重视，各种机会也会随来
9/460, 这个top 2%，在他的高中很好了。title 1 public school应该和普通高中不太一样。而且特点（science）突出。
不是很明白，trans很容易吗，看他自述一直居无定所而且家里也不富，说trans就trans了？
https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/l0qx7z/accepted_mit_ea/
Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian Residence: Bay Area Income Bracket: ~30k Type of School: Public Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): First Generation, Low Income Intended Major(s): Computer Science Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.0 UW / 4.6 W Rank (or percentile): 1/300ish # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: 12 APs total (3 this year). Also took a bunch of community college classes. Senior Year Course Load: 3 APs, 3 College AP Biology, AP Computer Science A, AP English Literature (Full Year) Multivariable Calculus, Differential Equations, Discrete Mathematics (1st Semester) Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1470 (700RW, 770M) (submitted) SAT II: 790 (Math II) (submitted) AP/IB: AP Calculus AB (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP World History (4), AP Computer Science Principles (4), AP Statistics (4), AP Environmental Sciences (5), AP Physics C: Mechanics (5), AP US Government (5), AP English Language (5) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Engineering Club. Built robots for competitions. President for senior year. (3 years) Math Club. Tutored kids in math, taught them new math topics. (2 years) Key Club. A volunteering club. (2 years) Varsity Volleyball. (4 years) Cross Country. (2 years) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. National AP Scholar Questbridge Finalist Letters of Recommendation Counselor: There is around one counselor per few hundreds of kids, so I didn't really know my counselor that well. Probably your average letter. Math Teacher: I did my best work in my math classes and I had this teacher for all 4 years of my high school. This teacher knew me best out of all my other teachers. AP English Teacher: I had a lot of interesting conversations with them while in their class. Was a teacher who saw and helped my growth in a subject I wasn't that strong at. Interviews MIT: The conversation was a little bit awkward as connecting with the other person wasn't that easy. Stuttered a little as I tried to answer their questions. But nothing too bad. Overall, it was probably average. Essays Topic of main personal statement was mainly talking about my childhood. What it was like to be an immigrant, what things I were able to experience culture-wise, and how I found a place I belonged to. Other Supplemental Topics: Effects of gentrification on my community Volleyball and gaining confidence Observations on what growing up poor means for different people Playing games and making friends Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: MIT (EA) Awaiting Decision: (all RD) Caltech Stanford Columbia USC UC Berkeley UCLA UC Irvine UC San Diego Additional Information: For all the private universities, I used the Questbridge application. I didn't get matched with Questbridge, so all my apps were deferred to later application cycles.
大概是transgender, 不是transsexual，不需要吃药打针，自己宣传是女的就行了
另外主要可能还是因为家里收入低。在南加州年收入3万到6万的家庭是做什么的？难道是在麦当劳打工的？
这男生还可以claim下 女孩子可以claim成变性人么
6年级就是middle的第一年？
不错不错~
赞专业分析！！！
是啊，小中男的确是前路漫漫啊
你这样其实挺幸福的，就怕父母都是top2，然后雄心壮志
理论上应该是可以的。。。自称是 dyke，要求学校提供专门的厕所和更衣室
她申的也都是些很烂的学校，华人估计还看不上。
你看hook只有那么几个：Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.) 这里大部分家长都没法给孩子URM，First Gen， Legacy。Geographic估计也不行，华人都往高薪的地方集队。剩下家长能做的就是推体育了。有些体育项目花费太高，特别是单项运动。竞争的对手pool相对好一些。所以才会出现好莱坞明星和亚裔父母包装孩子成sport recruit, 啥划船，击剑等等。要是篮球，橄榄球就没有那么容易了。
就是，大部队在后面呢，现在就是早申的结果和州大 不要焦虑了
小中男是2020年的
这个为啥MIT ？没有一点突出的。家庭收入真是很低的。 他申请的都是好学校呢
能展开讲讲吗？ URM是什么？ First gen 是说在国外长大，后来才来美国的？ 变性也是Hook太误导孩子人生观了吧 Legacy必须是直系亲属是吗？父母兄弟姐妹？
Demographics Gender: Male Race: White Residence: Midwest Bracket: Lower Middle Class Type of School: Public, Big City Hooks: First-generation college student, first-generation immigrant Intended Major: Biology/Pre-med Academics GPA: 3.91 UW / 4.77 W Class Rank: 13/775 Honors/APs/IBs/Dual-Enrollment/etc.: 11 Honors, 3 APs: APUSH (4), Bio (5), Chem (5), 7 IBs (Senior Year included): Math Studies SL (7), Rest in spring Two APs outside of school: AP Calc AB (5), AP Calc BC (5) Senior Year Courses: IB Lang. + Lit. HL, IB History HL, IB Film HL, IB Bio SL, Theory of Knowledge, IB French HL, AP Gov. Test Scores SAT I: 1550 (760 ERW, 790 M) SAT II: Math II (800), Chem (800) ACT: 35 (36 M, 36 S, 35 W, 34 R) Extracurriculars Volunteered at local church working at the food pantry for the poor and as a babysitter at the daycare they provided. Volunteered at my polish school as an assistant teacher and as a bookkeeper, also worked in maintenance. Math tutor since freshman year for students in high school, teaching mainly algebra, geometry, trig, pre-calc, and calc. Worked in my dad''s construction company Started a after-school course at my school to teach other students how to code in Python. Shadowed at children''s hospital Worked at a local polish publication in my area as a columnist. Was a part of a internationally-recognized polish folk group that (before COVID) traveled about 5 months in the year throughout the world. Also was a student teacher in the younger categories in this group. Awards Student of the Month (High School) x5 School Honor Roll Multiple literary contests for my poems and columns that I have written. LORs Biology Teacher: 9.5/10, Kind of the only teacher that I was actually close with in school, to the point that we are on a first-name basis. Wrote about my progress from not paying attention in his class to becoming a hard worker. Mentioned my constant obsession with asking for more resources. History Teacher: 9/10, The only other teacher that has seen my growth due to IB classes being two-year courses. Talked about my improvement as a writer and leadership in the classroom. Mentioned a story about the time I got stuck in the history department''s walk-in safe. Counselor: 6/10, Kind lady, but never spoke to her before senior year. She had my mother call and talk about me so that she could better understand who I am. Polish School Principal: 8/10, Wrote about my evolution as a student and all the various organizations in the polish community that I participated in over the years. Probably the most personal letter of them all as she has known me since I was 3. Personal Doctor: 10/10, Talked about his experiences with me as his patient and how those translated to me eventually shadowing at the same hospital. Mentioned our mutual friendship and plans to work on research papers in the near future. Essays Talked about my life growing up with high school dropout parents and with a severe medical disorder. Must''ve been good because the teacher who looked at all of my essays had nothing but compliments to give. Decisions Acceptances: Northwestern University MIT I was really shocked that I got in to either school, kinda felt bad that I had to withdraw from MIT, but I still get to go to the school of my dreams next year!