楼主真心不太懂，但是非常好奇，所以想问大家怎么看，原帖子在这： https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/mprjdj/your_friendly_neighborhood_asian_male_in_stem_w/https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/muufgg/asian_gets_got_by_nearly_every_school/ Your friendly neighborhood Asian male in STEM w/ decent results Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: East Asian Residence: PA Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class Type of School: Private School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): haha nope Intended Major(s): Something CS related with a dash of music and cognitive science (didn’t really apply directly to CS to any of my reaches, but always put down something closely related STEM major) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.96 W (school doesn’t do UW, but probably 4.0) Rank (or percentile): N/A # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: 14 Honors, 8 APs Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP CSP, Advanced Applied Math, Two semester-long honors history electives, Two semester-long honors English electives, Band Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I w/ essay: 1560 (760RW, 800M, 24 on essay) ACT: N/A SAT II: Physics (800), Math II (800) AP/IB: All 5''''s Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Chess – school team captain and also play on my own, ~2000 ELO Sax – school first chair, District and All-state qualifier (4 yrs) Research/Science Fair – Did botany and CS projects, with county, state, and regional awards (4 yrs) Soccer – Central midfielder, JV 2 years and varsity 2 years (4 yrs) Summer research – worked as a team lead for a local professor in junior year summer, ultimately published an article and featured as the first author (1 yr) Asia Club – club member and later became co-president; organized and participated in various cultural activities (4 yrs) Student Government – Class senator in junior and senior year (2 yrs) Community service – volunteer and later became senior leader; helped at partner school, organized school fundraisers, and starting middle school tutoring partnership (3 yrs) Writing Center – selected by faculty in grade 10 to be student advisor; meet one on one with students to help advise their writing (3 yrs) Music Producer – wrote, recorded, and produced songs on my own using samples from my sax (2 yrs) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. Chem Olympiad 2020 National Finalist *Name of Regional Tri-State Science Fair* 2nd place CS Harvard Book Award Harry R Williams Prize (school award for chem) AMC 10 Certificate of Distinction Letters of Recommendation Never saw any of my recs, so I won’t judge the strength of them, but… Physics teacher: Had him in 9th grade and talked with him for my science research all throughout 10th and 11th grade. Also took two classes with him senior year. We were pretty tight. English teacher: Took 9th grade English and an honors English elective with them in 11th grade. We weren’t that close, but my counselor said they wrote a really good rec. Counselor: She seemed to like my package but also seemed a little indifferent towards me, so IDK. Additional recs: One from the professor I did research with and another from my music teacher. Interviews Stanford: Not good. It was my first interview and my interviewer structured it like a question and answer, so it felt really cold (2/10) Harvard: Meh. Interviewer kept asking me to “tell me about yourself” until I eventually ran out of things to say (3/10) Penn: Amazing! It was over the phone, but we really hit it off, and they said I’d be a good match for the specific program at the school (10/10) Duke: Also pretty good. We connected over music, and they seemed interested in the EC’s and stuff I was doing (8/10) Cornell: Not bad. It didn’t feel like an interview, and I was basically asking them questions the whole time. Interviewer was really friendly and nice though (6/10) Princeton: Whatever. Interview went well until they asked for “my greatest challenge,” and then I folded (4/10) Essays CA essay: Hard to gauge my own writing, but I wrote about organizing an eating contest at my school. (maybe 6-7/10) Supplements: Differed between schools. I’d say my Stanford essays were 7-8 out of 10, my Michigan essays 1-2/10, and everything else somewhere around 5/10. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Pitt w/ honors (rolling) GA Tech (EA) UNC-CH (EA) Purdue w/ honors (EA) Swarthmore (RD) UC Berkeley – Engineering undeclared (RD) Duke (RD) Cornell (RD) Waitlists: Michigan (EA) – deferred then waitlisted Harvey Mudd (RD) Penn (RD) Harvard (RD) Rejections: Stanford (REA) – deferred then rejected Caltech (RD) Princeton (RD) Additional Info Attached the abstract and citation of the research paper I co-published in the Add’l Info section on CA, and also sent in a music portfolio wherever I could. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Asian gets got by nearly every schoolDemographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Korean) Residence: Northeast Income Bracket: <25K Type of School: Highly competitive feeder school Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A Intended Major(s): Mech/Aerospace Engineering, Math/Phys Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.86UW, 4.12W Rank (or percentile): Doesn''''t rank. but probably top 10% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: Multivariable Calc and Linear Algebra (Dual enrollment), 10 APs, 9 Honors, 4 Regular Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc and Linear Algebra, AP Physics C (both E&M and Mech), AP MacroEcon, Honors English Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1540 (740RW, 800M), taken once ACT: Never took it SAT II: Math 2 (800), Bio E (780), Chem (800) AP/IB: BC Calc (4), Enviroscience (5), Music Theory (5), Psych (5), Chem (4), Biology (4), CS A (4), US History (4) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Violinist in a highly selective orchestra in Northeast (don''''t want to name for privacy''''s sake) Part of a highly selective local research program for astrophysics (don''''t want to name for privacy''''s sake) Questbridge Finalist/Scholar Manager of two separate tutoring programs Tutored Math, Science, and Violin Science Bowl (Captain of one of the low-level teams) A couple of other chamber groups and orchestras (All States for both Choir and Orchestra) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and TKD practitioner A bunch of community service stuff NHS Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. US Earth Science Olympiad Camp Qualifier Two-time AIME Qualifier AP Scholar with Distinction Scholastic Flash Fiction Honorable Mention Honor Roll I guess Letters of Recommendation Precalc teacher (11th Grade teacher) (7/10) - He did recognize I was a decent student so I think he wrote a favorable recommendation. I didn''''t know him outside of class though so nothing special. Chemistry teacher (11th Grade teacher) (7/10) - Same reasoning as Precalc teacher Physics Teacher (12th Grade teacher) (9/10) - He does know me a bit outside of class and I am pretty sure I am one of his favorite students. So it was probably better than the other ones. Interviews UPenn (5/10) - Decent interview. We connected a little bit but there wasn''''t anything special. Nothing glaringly bad though. She seemed like she was vaguely going through a list, which is what I expected. Duke (8/10) - I really liked my interviewer and we had a good time. We were definitely not the same major but she was very responsive to my questions and I ended up feeling very good about the interview afterward. Northwestern (4/10) - It was very clear that he was not very interested in what I had to say and was just going down a list. It is what it is. Tufts (8/10) - We connected pretty well immediately, and connected even better halfway through when I learned she went to my high school. This interview felt pretty good. Princeton (9/10) - She said some really nice things to me. It was a pretty solid interview. We talked for an hour and a half. Harvard (9/10) - He said I was the type of student that deserves to go to Harvard. Similar to the Princeton interview. It was a solid interview as well. Stanford (8/10) - We talked about our interests in classical music even though we had different tastes. It was still pretty interesting. Columbia (7/10) - Decent interview. Not much to say about this one but it was fine. Essays Since I applied through the Questbridge National Match, I didn''''t have a common app at first but there was a really long essay I had to write. I wrote about my struggles as a minority by using Kafka''''s Metamorphosis as an analogy for my experience. When I got deferred from the eight schools I applied to for the early round, I changed my essay to talking about jumping off a bridge as a metaphor for having to relearn the violin. I spent a decent amount of time on these, and I did show them to a couple of people who said they were pretty good and unique. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: UVA (RD) UMass Amherst (RD) Waitlists: Northeastern University (RD) Rejections: Harvard (RD) Tufts (RD) Princeton (deferred, EA) Stanford (deferred, EA) Columbia (deferred, EA) MIT (deferred, EA) Northwestern (deferred, EA) UChicago (deferred, EA) UPenn (deferred, EA) Yale (deferred, EA) Brown (RD) Caltech (RD) Dartmouth (RD) Duke (RD) Rice (RD) WashU St.Louis (RD) Vanderbilt (RD)
楼主真心不太懂，但是非常好奇，所以想问大家怎么看，原帖子在这： https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/mprjdj/your_friendly_neighborhood_asian_male_in_stem_w/https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/muufgg/asian_gets_got_by_nearly_every_school/ Your friendly neighborhood Asian male in STEM w/ decent results Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: East Asian Residence: PA Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class Type of School: Private School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): haha nope Intended Major(s): Something CS related with a dash of music and cognitive science (didn’t really apply directly to CS to any of my reaches, but always put down something closely related STEM major) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.96 W (school doesn’t do UW, but probably 4.0) Rank (or percentile): N/A # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: 14 Honors, 8 APs Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP CSP, Advanced Applied Math, Two semester-long honors history electives, Two semester-long honors English electives, Band Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I w/ essay: 1560 (760RW, 800M, 24 on essay) ACT: N/A SAT II: Physics (800), Math II (800) AP/IB: All 5''''s Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Chess – school team captain and also play on my own, ~2000 ELO Sax – school first chair, District and All-state qualifier (4 yrs) Research/Science Fair – Did botany and CS projects, with county, state, and regional awards (4 yrs) Soccer – Central midfielder, JV 2 years and varsity 2 years (4 yrs) Summer research – worked as a team lead for a local professor in junior year summer, ultimately published an article and featured as the first author (1 yr) Asia Club – club member and later became co-president; organized and participated in various cultural activities (4 yrs) Student Government – Class senator in junior and senior year (2 yrs) Community service – volunteer and later became senior leader; helped at partner school, organized school fundraisers, and starting middle school tutoring partnership (3 yrs) Writing Center – selected by faculty in grade 10 to be student advisor; meet one on one with students to help advise their writing (3 yrs) Music Producer – wrote, recorded, and produced songs on my own using samples from my sax (2 yrs) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. Chem Olympiad 2020 National Finalist *Name of Regional Tri-State Science Fair* 2nd place CS Harvard Book Award Harry R Williams Prize (school award for chem) AMC 10 Certificate of Distinction Letters of Recommendation Never saw any of my recs, so I won’t judge the strength of them, but… Physics teacher: Had him in 9th grade and talked with him for my science research all throughout 10th and 11th grade. Also took two classes with him senior year. We were pretty tight. English teacher: Took 9th grade English and an honors English elective with them in 11th grade. We weren’t that close, but my counselor said they wrote a really good rec. Counselor: She seemed to like my package but also seemed a little indifferent towards me, so IDK. Additional recs: One from the professor I did research with and another from my music teacher. Interviews Stanford: Not good. It was my first interview and my interviewer structured it like a question and answer, so it felt really cold (2/10) Harvard: Meh. Interviewer kept asking me to “tell me about yourself” until I eventually ran out of things to say (3/10) Penn: Amazing! It was over the phone, but we really hit it off, and they said I’d be a good match for the specific program at the school (10/10) Duke: Also pretty good. We connected over music, and they seemed interested in the EC’s and stuff I was doing (8/10) Cornell: Not bad. It didn’t feel like an interview, and I was basically asking them questions the whole time. Interviewer was really friendly and nice though (6/10) Princeton: Whatever. Interview went well until they asked for “my greatest challenge,” and then I folded (4/10) Essays CA essay: Hard to gauge my own writing, but I wrote about organizing an eating contest at my school. (maybe 6-7/10) Supplements: Differed between schools. I’d say my Stanford essays were 7-8 out of 10, my Michigan essays 1-2/10, and everything else somewhere around 5/10. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Pitt w/ honors (rolling) GA Tech (EA) UNC-CH (EA) Purdue w/ honors (EA) Swarthmore (RD) UC Berkeley – Engineering undeclared (RD) Duke (RD) Cornell (RD) Waitlists: Michigan (EA) – deferred then waitlisted Harvey Mudd (RD) Penn (RD) Harvard (RD) Rejections: Stanford (REA) – deferred then rejected Caltech (RD) Princeton (RD) Additional Info Attached the abstract and citation of the research paper I co-published in the Add’l Info section on CA, and also sent in a music portfolio wherever I could. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Asian gets got by nearly every schoolDemographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Korean) Residence: Northeast Income Bracket: <25K Type of School: Highly competitive feeder school Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A Intended Major(s): Mech/Aerospace Engineering, Math/Phys Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.86UW, 4.12W Rank (or percentile): Doesn''''t rank. but probably top 10% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: Multivariable Calc and Linear Algebra (Dual enrollment), 10 APs, 9 Honors, 4 Regular Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc and Linear Algebra, AP Physics C (both E&M and Mech), AP MacroEcon, Honors English Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1540 (740RW, 800M), taken once ACT: Never took it SAT II: Math 2 (800), Bio E (780), Chem (800) AP/IB: BC Calc (4), Enviroscience (5), Music Theory (5), Psych (5), Chem (4), Biology (4), CS A (4), US History (4) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Violinist in a highly selective orchestra in Northeast (don''''t want to name for privacy''''s sake) Part of a highly selective local research program for astrophysics (don''''t want to name for privacy''''s sake) Questbridge Finalist/Scholar Manager of two separate tutoring programs Tutored Math, Science, and Violin Science Bowl (Captain of one of the low-level teams) A couple of other chamber groups and orchestras (All States for both Choir and Orchestra) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and TKD practitioner A bunch of community service stuff NHS Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. US Earth Science Olympiad Camp Qualifier Two-time AIME Qualifier AP Scholar with Distinction Scholastic Flash Fiction Honorable Mention Honor Roll I guess Letters of Recommendation Precalc teacher (11th Grade teacher) (7/10) - He did recognize I was a decent student so I think he wrote a favorable recommendation. I didn''''t know him outside of class though so nothing special. Chemistry teacher (11th Grade teacher) (7/10) - Same reasoning as Precalc teacher Physics Teacher (12th Grade teacher) (9/10) - He does know me a bit outside of class and I am pretty sure I am one of his favorite students. So it was probably better than the other ones. Interviews UPenn (5/10) - Decent interview. We connected a little bit but there wasn''''t anything special. Nothing glaringly bad though. She seemed like she was vaguely going through a list, which is what I expected. Duke (8/10) - I really liked my interviewer and we had a good time. We were definitely not the same major but she was very responsive to my questions and I ended up feeling very good about the interview afterward. Northwestern (4/10) - It was very clear that he was not very interested in what I had to say and was just going down a list. It is what it is. Tufts (8/10) - We connected pretty well immediately, and connected even better halfway through when I learned she went to my high school. This interview felt pretty good. Princeton (9/10) - She said some really nice things to me. It was a pretty solid interview. We talked for an hour and a half. Harvard (9/10) - He said I was the type of student that deserves to go to Harvard. Similar to the Princeton interview. It was a solid interview as well. Stanford (8/10) - We talked about our interests in classical music even though we had different tastes. It was still pretty interesting. Columbia (7/10) - Decent interview. Not much to say about this one but it was fine. Essays Since I applied through the Questbridge National Match, I didn''''t have a common app at first but there was a really long essay I had to write. I wrote about my struggles as a minority by using Kafka''''s Metamorphosis as an analogy for my experience. When I got deferred from the eight schools I applied to for the early round, I changed my essay to talking about jumping off a bridge as a metaphor for having to relearn the violin. I spent a decent amount of time on these, and I did show them to a couple of people who said they were pretty good and unique. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: UVA (RD) UMass Amherst (RD) Waitlists: Northeastern University (RD) Rejections: Harvard (RD) Tufts (RD) Princeton (deferred, EA) Stanford (deferred, EA) Columbia (deferred, EA) MIT (deferred, EA) Northwestern (deferred, EA) UChicago (deferred, EA) UPenn (deferred, EA) Yale (deferred, EA) Brown (RD) Caltech (RD) Dartmouth (RD) Duke (RD) Rice (RD) WashU St.Louis (RD) Vanderbilt (RD)
ED = Early Decision (binding) EA = Early Action (non-binding) REA = restricted early action SCEA = single choice early action == REA RD = regular decision
我们家小朋友被GA tech, uva, umd CS录取。可能最后去UMD， 因为有scholarship，他自己觉得被重视。去了GA tech campus, at first he was fine, but then he was afraid of going after the atlanta shooting.
我们家小朋友被GA tech, uva, umd CS录取。可能最后去UMD， 因为有scholarship，他自己觉得被重视。去了GA tech campus, at first he was fine, but then he was afraid of going after the atlanta shooting. Zuwawa 发表于 2021-04-21 21:51
楼主真心不太懂，但是非常好奇，所以想问大家怎么看，原帖子在这： https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/mprjdj/your_friendly_neighborhood_asian_male_in_stem_w/https://www.reddit.com/r/collegeresults/comments/muufgg/asian_gets_got_by_nearly_every_school/ Your friendly neighborhood Asian male in STEM w/ decent results Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: East Asian Residence: PA Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class Type of School: Private School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): haha nope Intended Major(s): Something CS related with a dash of music and cognitive science (didn’t really apply directly to CS to any of my reaches, but always put down something closely related STEM major) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.96 W (school doesn’t do UW, but probably 4.0) Rank (or percentile): N/A # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: 14 Honors, 8 APs Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP CSP, Advanced Applied Math, Two semester-long honors history electives, Two semester-long honors English electives, Band Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I w/ essay: 1560 (760RW, 800M, 24 on essay) ACT: N/A SAT II: Physics (800), Math II (800) AP/IB: All 5''''s Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Chess – school team captain and also play on my own, ~2000 ELO Sax – school first chair, District and All-state qualifier (4 yrs) Research/Science Fair – Did botany and CS projects, with county, state, and regional awards (4 yrs) Soccer – Central midfielder, JV 2 years and varsity 2 years (4 yrs) Summer research – worked as a team lead for a local professor in junior year summer, ultimately published an article and featured as the first author (1 yr) Asia Club – club member and later became co-president; organized and participated in various cultural activities (4 yrs) Student Government – Class senator in junior and senior year (2 yrs) Community service – volunteer and later became senior leader; helped at partner school, organized school fundraisers, and starting middle school tutoring partnership (3 yrs) Writing Center – selected by faculty in grade 10 to be student advisor; meet one on one with students to help advise their writing (3 yrs) Music Producer – wrote, recorded, and produced songs on my own using samples from my sax (2 yrs) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. Chem Olympiad 2020 National Finalist *Name of Regional Tri-State Science Fair* 2nd place CS Harvard Book Award Harry R Williams Prize (school award for chem) AMC 10 Certificate of Distinction Letters of Recommendation Never saw any of my recs, so I won’t judge the strength of them, but… Physics teacher: Had him in 9th grade and talked with him for my science research all throughout 10th and 11th grade. Also took two classes with him senior year. We were pretty tight. English teacher: Took 9th grade English and an honors English elective with them in 11th grade. We weren’t that close, but my counselor said they wrote a really good rec. Counselor: She seemed to like my package but also seemed a little indifferent towards me, so IDK. Additional recs: One from the professor I did research with and another from my music teacher. Interviews Stanford: Not good. It was my first interview and my interviewer structured it like a question and answer, so it felt really cold (2/10) Harvard: Meh. Interviewer kept asking me to “tell me about yourself” until I eventually ran out of things to say (3/10) Penn: Amazing! It was over the phone, but we really hit it off, and they said I’d be a good match for the specific program at the school (10/10) Duke: Also pretty good. We connected over music, and they seemed interested in the EC’s and stuff I was doing (8/10) Cornell: Not bad. It didn’t feel like an interview, and I was basically asking them questions the whole time. Interviewer was really friendly and nice though (6/10) Princeton: Whatever. Interview went well until they asked for “my greatest challenge,” and then I folded (4/10) Essays CA essay: Hard to gauge my own writing, but I wrote about organizing an eating contest at my school. (maybe 6-7/10) Supplements: Differed between schools. I’d say my Stanford essays were 7-8 out of 10, my Michigan essays 1-2/10, and everything else somewhere around 5/10. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Pitt w/ honors (rolling) GA Tech (EA) UNC-CH (EA) Purdue w/ honors (EA) Swarthmore (RD) UC Berkeley – Engineering undeclared (RD) Duke (RD) Cornell (RD) Waitlists: Michigan (EA) – deferred then waitlisted Harvey Mudd (RD) Penn (RD) Harvard (RD) Rejections: Stanford (REA) – deferred then rejected Caltech (RD) Princeton (RD) Additional Info Attached the abstract and citation of the research paper I co-published in the Add’l Info section on CA, and also sent in a music portfolio wherever I could. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Asian gets got by nearly every schoolDemographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: Asian (Korean) Residence: Northeast Income Bracket: <25K Type of School: Highly competitive feeder school Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): N/A Intended Major(s): Mech/Aerospace Engineering, Math/Phys Academics GPA (UW/W): 3.86UW, 4.12W Rank (or percentile): Doesn''''t rank. but probably top 10% # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: Multivariable Calc and Linear Algebra (Dual enrollment), 10 APs, 9 Honors, 4 Regular Senior Year Course Load: Multivariable Calc and Linear Algebra, AP Physics C (both E&M and Mech), AP MacroEcon, Honors English Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I: 1540 (740RW, 800M), taken once ACT: Never took it SAT II: Math 2 (800), Bio E (780), Chem (800) AP/IB: BC Calc (4), Enviroscience (5), Music Theory (5), Psych (5), Chem (4), Biology (4), CS A (4), US History (4) Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Violinist in a highly selective orchestra in Northeast (don''''t want to name for privacy''''s sake) Part of a highly selective local research program for astrophysics (don''''t want to name for privacy''''s sake) Questbridge Finalist/Scholar Manager of two separate tutoring programs Tutored Math, Science, and Violin Science Bowl (Captain of one of the low-level teams) A couple of other chamber groups and orchestras (All States for both Choir and Orchestra) Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and TKD practitioner A bunch of community service stuff NHS Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. US Earth Science Olympiad Camp Qualifier Two-time AIME Qualifier AP Scholar with Distinction Scholastic Flash Fiction Honorable Mention Honor Roll I guess Letters of Recommendation Precalc teacher (11th Grade teacher) (7/10) - He did recognize I was a decent student so I think he wrote a favorable recommendation. I didn''''t know him outside of class though so nothing special. Chemistry teacher (11th Grade teacher) (7/10) - Same reasoning as Precalc teacher Physics Teacher (12th Grade teacher) (9/10) - He does know me a bit outside of class and I am pretty sure I am one of his favorite students. So it was probably better than the other ones. Interviews UPenn (5/10) - Decent interview. We connected a little bit but there wasn''''t anything special. Nothing glaringly bad though. She seemed like she was vaguely going through a list, which is what I expected. Duke (8/10) - I really liked my interviewer and we had a good time. We were definitely not the same major but she was very responsive to my questions and I ended up feeling very good about the interview afterward. Northwestern (4/10) - It was very clear that he was not very interested in what I had to say and was just going down a list. It is what it is. Tufts (8/10) - We connected pretty well immediately, and connected even better halfway through when I learned she went to my high school. This interview felt pretty good. Princeton (9/10) - She said some really nice things to me. It was a pretty solid interview. We talked for an hour and a half. Harvard (9/10) - He said I was the type of student that deserves to go to Harvard. Similar to the Princeton interview. It was a solid interview as well. Stanford (8/10) - We talked about our interests in classical music even though we had different tastes. It was still pretty interesting. Columbia (7/10) - Decent interview. Not much to say about this one but it was fine. Essays Since I applied through the Questbridge National Match, I didn''''t have a common app at first but there was a really long essay I had to write. I wrote about my struggles as a minority by using Kafka''''s Metamorphosis as an analogy for my experience. When I got deferred from the eight schools I applied to for the early round, I changed my essay to talking about jumping off a bridge as a metaphor for having to relearn the violin. I spent a decent amount of time on these, and I did show them to a couple of people who said they were pretty good and unique. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: UVA (RD) UMass Amherst (RD) Waitlists: Northeastern University (RD) Rejections: Harvard (RD) Tufts (RD) Princeton (deferred, EA) Stanford (deferred, EA) Columbia (deferred, EA) MIT (deferred, EA) Northwestern (deferred, EA) UChicago (deferred, EA) UPenn (deferred, EA) Yale (deferred, EA) Brown (RD) Caltech (RD) Dartmouth (RD) Duke (RD) Rice (RD) WashU St.Louis (RD) Vanderbilt (RD)
Your friendly neighborhood Asian male in STEM w/ decent results
Demographics Gender: Male Race/Ethnicity: East Asian Residence: PA Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class Type of School: Private School Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): haha nope Intended Major(s): Something CS related with a dash of music and cognitive science (didn’t really apply directly to CS to any of my reaches, but always put down something closely related STEM major) Academics GPA (UW/W): 4.96 W (school doesn’t do UW, but probably 4.0) Rank (or percentile): N/A # of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc: 14 Honors, 8 APs Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP CSP, Advanced Applied Math, Two semester-long honors history electives, Two semester-long honors English electives, Band Standardized Testing List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported. SAT I w/ essay: 1560 (760RW, 800M, 24 on essay) ACT: N/A SAT II: Physics (800), Math II (800) AP/IB: All 5''''s Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A Extracurriculars/Activities List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc. Chess – school team captain and also play on my own, ~2000 ELO Sax – school first chair, District and All-state qualifier (4 yrs) Research/Science Fair – Did botany and CS projects, with county, state, and regional awards (4 yrs) Soccer – Central midfielder, JV 2 years and varsity 2 years (4 yrs) Summer research – worked as a team lead for a local professor in junior year summer, ultimately published an article and featured as the first author (1 yr) Asia Club – club member and later became co-president; organized and participated in various cultural activities (4 yrs) Student Government – Class senator in junior and senior year (2 yrs) Community service – volunteer and later became senior leader; helped at partner school, organized school fundraisers, and starting middle school tutoring partnership (3 yrs) Writing Center – selected by faculty in grade 10 to be student advisor; meet one on one with students to help advise their writing (3 yrs) Music Producer – wrote, recorded, and produced songs on my own using samples from my sax (2 yrs) Awards/Honors List all awards and honors submitted on your application. Chem Olympiad 2020 National Finalist *Name of Regional Tri-State Science Fair* 2nd place CS Harvard Book Award Harry R Williams Prize (school award for chem) AMC 10 Certificate of Distinction Letters of Recommendation Never saw any of my recs, so I won’t judge the strength of them, but… Physics teacher: Had him in 9th grade and talked with him for my science research all throughout 10th and 11th grade. Also took two classes with him senior year. We were pretty tight. English teacher: Took 9th grade English and an honors English elective with them in 11th grade. We weren’t that close, but my counselor said they wrote a really good rec. Counselor: She seemed to like my package but also seemed a little indifferent towards me, so IDK. Additional recs: One from the professor I did research with and another from my music teacher. Interviews Stanford: Not good. It was my first interview and my interviewer structured it like a question and answer, so it felt really cold (2/10) Harvard: Meh. Interviewer kept asking me to “tell me about yourself” until I eventually ran out of things to say (3/10) Penn: Amazing! It was over the phone, but we really hit it off, and they said I’d be a good match for the specific program at the school (10/10) Duke: Also pretty good. We connected over music, and they seemed interested in the EC’s and stuff I was doing (8/10) Cornell: Not bad. It didn’t feel like an interview, and I was basically asking them questions the whole time. Interviewer was really friendly and nice though (6/10) Princeton: Whatever. Interview went well until they asked for “my greatest challenge,” and then I folded (4/10) Essays CA essay: Hard to gauge my own writing, but I wrote about organizing an eating contest at my school. (maybe 6-7/10) Supplements: Differed between schools. I’d say my Stanford essays were 7-8 out of 10, my Michigan essays 1-2/10, and everything else somewhere around 5/10. Decisions (indicate ED/EA/REA/SCEA/RD) Acceptances: Pitt w/ honors (rolling) GA Tech (EA) UNC-CH (EA) Purdue w/ honors (EA) Swarthmore (RD) UC Berkeley – Engineering undeclared (RD) Duke (RD) Cornell (RD) Waitlists: Michigan (EA) – deferred then waitlisted Harvey Mudd (RD) Penn (RD) Harvard (RD) Rejections: Stanford (REA) – deferred then rejected Caltech (RD) Princeton (RD) Additional Info Attached the abstract and citation of the research paper I co-published in the Add’l Info section on CA, and also sent in a music portfolio wherever I could.
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Asian gets got by nearly every school
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DS灰飞烟灭是什么意思？
这倒不奇怪。我一个亲戚，被MIT录了，倒被Rice拒了。大学admission是个black box。
UC穷啊，需要外州来的revenue。这不是我说的，是一个college advisor给家长们说的。it is the reality
悄悄地说一句，拿国际竞赛大奖的好像都不高，大概就是用脑过度吧
🛋️ 沙发板凳
亚男要求必须高，可能AP成绩不理想，GPA也差了点
top 10%都差点没学上。。。。
加州小孩都挤CS，还都想进UCB，然后回头抱怨录取结果不理想，哪里有那么好的事呢。自己心里得有点数，USB的CS系不可能无限扩容，一共只能招那么点人。除非是巨牛，要想读CS就不要太纠结名校，要有名校情结就得在专业上compromise。折衷一下，也可以另辟蹊径，比如学校有没有更冷门一点的和CS接轨的program，DS、EE之类的；实在不行stat、math也可以，同时修一些CS的课程；或者提前了解转专业容易不容易，申个冷门专业/undeclared，进去之后再转。
第二个孩子，因为有financial need，会很困难，而且选校定位和自己实力严重不符，申那一堆藤校是当买彩票吗？就算买了彩票也得多申几个保底啊。
2xAIME，AP Calc是4分，给人很不好的矛盾印象，是不是这娃没潜力了？ 当然最主要还是GPA太低，EC都是锦上添花，GPA是根本
同意这个.
是啊，亚裔男娃主推数学+音乐EC这条路已经没戏了
AP Calc BC的5分率有45%，这个拿到4分还是2xAIME有点说不过去。
奥数不等于高数，他为了升学，奥数还行，但是对正经数学一点也不重视。
成绩不是特别出色，推荐信和Essay都不行，也就这结果了。。 看他申请的学校和interview感觉，小孩子自我感觉非常好，实际情况和预期有出入，
我觉得第二个孩子，如果家长及时干预，让他更focus的申请几间 让他在推荐信，在Essay，在Interview方面能多准备准备 效果可能会更好。。
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恭喜牛娃, ＵＶＡ非常好．能不能分享一下？
你不正好 好好收拾这些孩子
来给你带来更大的心理满足感，
一举两得！👍
ED = Early Decision (binding) EA = Early Action (non-binding) REA = restricted early action SCEA = single choice early action == REA RD = regular decision
让小孩贷点款吧，以后工作了慢慢还
都是这样的，随行就市。。。要省钱只能考本州旗舰州大。或者真是家里收入低
可能定位不对，REA申请斯坦福。
同意，第二个孩子家庭收入2万5以下？赤贫啊？
TJ 的 4.13 的gpa基本百分之95的可能进不了UVA
那你猜他这个feeder 公校是啥？
应该不是太好的公校，整体gpa 不会很强
umd cs 不如GA, cs排名是不是比uva 还好些。uva 校园更漂亮。
好吧，主要是highly competitive feeder school+Korean+uva , 觉得没几所。 你说的gpa是对的。
这才是真理。现在一般学校也揭不开锅了，哪里有那么多free ride 送人
明显是Boston Latin 啊
是啊，所以小朋友在GT and umd中选择，但他自己好像偏向UMD了.
Umd 毕业生去向很好的。 直接录cs都不容易，何况还有奖，一定是超牛蛙！恭喜🎉🎉
你可以看看这个女孩两年前的视频，她的成绩很好，最后也是去了UMD的CS，因为是instate，而且有scholarship。
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多谢。
他的GPA是4.91, all state orchestra， 学校的中国学生会副主席。所以我们挺proud of他的。
对，第一个上的私立高中。家里算upper middle class。估计没有要求任何financial aid
Thanks for sharing!
有的学校90-93分只能拿A-，A-对应的GPA是3.67. 所以第二个男生3.86，如果所在学校在我说的那类学校里，GPA肯定不算差。有的学校还会比较严格的按照百分比给A/B/C。所以说学校和学校间的GPA差别很大的。
不需要太多pre cal的知识也能AIME的。
CS吗？CS就是热门，UCSD CS也很好。 总体成绩挺好的，硬要鸡蛋里挑骨头的话小中男的标配AIME有伐？
qualify AIME, 就是AMC10 考的成绩决定的，可能比honor roll 还要低。 AMC10 基本考到几何，所以完全有可能，不分裂
大学会重新算的。
我也以为家里穷学习好的，会特别容易被好学校录取，给减免学费呢。
看大家的回复，目前看来需要financial aid是会降低录取的机会的。
Qualify AIME就是进了Honor roll
内卷吧，感觉湾区学校里这样的孩子很多
因为是本州吧。 CMU, GA 这些没申吗？
Quest bridge可以，低收入福利。
应该是两个原因： 1。在亚裔的申请人pool里不够突出 2。低收入需要学杂费全免
如果这个申请人是非裔或西裔，那横扫的可能性就大多了。
不过他如果收入这么低，不是应该通过Questbridge申请么？没见他提这个，难道是打错了，实际上是小于250K？
韩国日本和中国一样喜欢用万进制单位。。。
第二个申请了这么多REA是用了questbridge了吧？他这成绩在亚裔里确实不够优秀。
对，看到评论里他自己也说是因为Questbridge National Match才能EA那么多
这数据和EC，像我湾区朋友的孩子。四年前申请UC学校也是这个结果，最后他去UCSD，本科工程，当年也是郁闷了半天
这个成绩如果申请加州以外的私校，应该还是可以进T20的（Duke，WashU，Vandy）
可能是不愿意花那么多学费吧
都waitlist了。
赤贫，对于黑人西裔是逆境出污泥而不染的加分项，对亚裔却成了减分项。这些孩子太不容易了
哎，华人娃太难了。
不是这样的，通过QB进入好学校的亚裔不少。这第二个孩子进的是UVA，也是个非常好的学校。
比不上，都是牛蛙
哦看到是qb的。
念得不错，去年毕业后找工作很顺利
USACO拿了个Silver。 小孩不愿意搞任何补习班和升学指导。 想着不爬藤，就上个好州大，还没敢申请EECS。
也许是推荐信和essay缺一点点Highlight？
求科普，qb是什么
哦哦 爬楼看到了 questbridge
UC 不看推荐信的