Class of 2025 College Results thread

[Anonymous]

Also please include gender

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State: PA
Public/Private HS: Public
Weighted/UW GPA (both): 4.6 (4.0_
#AP/IB/DE: 14 APs (Eight 5s on the test so far)
SAT/ACT: 1560
EC’s/honors (generally): National Merit Finalist, Four music awards, four Rowing awards. ECS: Rowing: 4 years, MVP and Captain. Music: Four instrument and juried choirs. Worked in the family business for four years.

Where applied and result:
ED1: Penn (rejected)
ED2: Uchicago (rejected)
EA: Penn State (accepted)

RD:

Yale (legacy): Rejected
Princeton: Rejected
Dartmouth: Rejected
COrnell: Waitlisted
Northwestern: Waitlisted

Where attending: Penn State

Geez. Sorry. That stinks. No offense to Penn State, but your kid deserves better. Does Yale only count legacy if ED?

Potentially. Luckily he really likes Penn State and is happy to go there. Part of the reason he only applied to a few other schools. We were a bit shocked though!

I hope Penn State at least gave him some merit and/or a special program.

I'm sorry but am glad he's happy to go to Penn State!

[Anonymous]

State: VA
Public/Private HS: Public
Weighted/UW GPA (both): 4.3/ 4.0
#AP/IB/DE: 11 AP, 3 DE
SAT/ACT: 1510 (790 M, 720 E)

EC’s/honors (generally): nonprofit internship, jobs, JV/V sport 4 years/JV captain, club sport, volunteer coach, volunteer tutor, school clubs with some leadership (VP, chair), president’s volunteer award, NHS, AP w/distinction, NHS

Male, and applied either systems engineering or Econ/business

Where applied and result:
ED1 Dartmouth Econ/rejected
ED2 Vanderbilt Econ/deferred

EA
Accepted:
IU Kelley, JMU business, Ohio St engineering, PSU engineering, Pitt business, VT engineering, UF engineering

Deferred:
UVA engineering, Michigan engineering, GT engineering

RD
Accepted:
Vanderbilt, Michigan, BU business

Waitlisted:
UVA, GT, Cornell engineering, Middlebury Econ, UVA, UNC business, UCLA business

Rejected:
Wash U business, USC engineering, Columbia engineering, UCB engineering

Where attending: Vanderbilt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State: VA
Public/Private HS: Public
Weighted/UW GPA (both): 4.3/ 4.0
#AP/IB/DE: 11 AP, 3 DE
SAT/ACT: 1510 (790 M, 720 E)

EC’s/honors (generally): nonprofit internship, jobs, JV/V sport 4 years/JV captain, club sport, volunteer coach, volunteer tutor, school clubs with some leadership (VP, chair), president’s volunteer award, NHS, AP w/distinction, NHS

Male, and applied either systems engineering or Econ/business

Where applied and result:
ED1 Dartmouth Econ/rejected
ED2 Vanderbilt Econ/deferred

EA
Accepted:
IU Kelley, JMU business, Ohio St engineering, PSU engineering, Pitt business, VT engineering, UF engineering

Deferred:
UVA engineering, Michigan engineering, GT engineering

RD
Accepted:
Vanderbilt, Michigan, BU business

Waitlisted:
UVA, GT, Cornell engineering, Middlebury Econ, UVA, UNC business, UCLA business

Rejected:
Wash U business, USC engineering, Columbia engineering, UCB engineering

Where attending: Vanderbilt

Congrats. Are you getting aid from Vanderbilt or full pay?

[Anonymous]

No financial aid anywhere. Varying amounts of merit- small award at Vanderbilt, insignificant to total cost.

[Anonymous]

Don't forget to add their height, weight, eye color, shoe size, favorite color and finally their favorite children's book they had you read to them over and over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget to add their height, weight, eye color, shoe size, favorite color and finally their favorite children's book they had you read to them over and over.

Right lol. People are lucky anyone willingly posts to be diced and sliced, much less make demands on extra info people should include.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't forget to add their height, weight, eye color, shoe size, favorite color and finally their favorite children's book they had you read to them over and over.

Appreciate the sense of humor but I think that most of the data points are helpful. Not sure if I need gender. But the rest makes it more useful.

[Anonymous]

None of it is useful. You are trying to make something out of a few facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of it is useful. You are trying to make something out of a few facts.

exactly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State: PA
Public/Private HS: Public
Weighted/UW GPA (both): 4.6 (4.0_
#AP/IB/DE: 14 APs (Eight 5s on the test so far)
SAT/ACT: 1560
EC’s/honors (generally): National Merit Finalist, Four music awards, four Rowing awards. ECS: Rowing: 4 years, MVP and Captain. Music: Four instrument and juried choirs. Worked in the family business for four years.

Where applied and result:
ED1: Penn (rejected)
ED2: Uchicago (rejected)
EA: Penn State (accepted)

RD:

Yale (legacy): Rejected
Princeton: Rejected
Dartmouth: Rejected
COrnell: Waitlisted
Northwestern: Waitlisted

Where attending: Penn State

Thank you for sharing PP - your kid sounds great and will succeed anywhere. My kid now in grad school is good friends with a Penn State grad who he says is the smartest/nicest person he's ever met, fwiw.

This is a good lesson for future applicants though - you need some schools between your safety and high reaches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:None of it is useful. You are trying to make something out of a few facts.

Actually it is useful. If you see enough applications and you put them into context, trends absolutely emerge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:State: VA
Public/Private HS: Public
Weighted/UW GPA (both): 4.3/ 4.0
#AP/IB/DE: 11 AP, 3 DE
SAT/ACT: 1510 (790 M, 720 E)

EC’s/honors (generally): nonprofit internship, jobs, JV/V sport 4 years/JV captain, club sport, volunteer coach, volunteer tutor, school clubs with some leadership (VP, chair), president’s volunteer award, NHS, AP w/distinction, NHS

Male, and applied either systems engineering or Econ/business

Where applied and result:
ED1 Dartmouth Econ/rejected
ED2 Vanderbilt Econ/deferred

EA
Accepted:
IU Kelley, JMU business, Ohio St engineering, PSU engineering, Pitt business, VT engineering, UF engineering

Deferred:
UVA engineering, Michigan engineering, GT engineering

RD
Accepted:
Vanderbilt, Michigan, BU business

Waitlisted:
UVA, GT, Cornell engineering, Middlebury Econ, UVA, UNC business, UCLA business

Rejected:
Wash U business, USC engineering, Columbia engineering, UCB engineering

Where attending: Vanderbilt

The math is incorrect here. With 11APs weighted gpa has to be higher if unweighted is 4.0
The spread between unweighted and weighted has to be larger. So one of these numbers are incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:None of it is useful. You are trying to make something out of a few facts.

Actually it is useful. If you see enough applications and you put them into context, trends absolutely emerge.

umm there are 2 responses. more of us would respond if it wasn't so needy and nit-picky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State: VA
Public/Private HS: Public
Weighted/UW GPA (both): 4.3/ 4.0
#AP/IB/DE: 11 AP, 3 DE
SAT/ACT: 1510 (790 M, 720 E)

EC’s/honors (generally): nonprofit internship, jobs, JV/V sport 4 years/JV captain, club sport, volunteer coach, volunteer tutor, school clubs with some leadership (VP, chair), president’s volunteer award, NHS, AP w/distinction, NHS

Male, and applied either systems engineering or Econ/business

Where applied and result:
ED1 Dartmouth Econ/rejected
ED2 Vanderbilt Econ/deferred

EA
Accepted:
IU Kelley, JMU business, Ohio St engineering, PSU engineering, Pitt business, VT engineering, UF engineering

Deferred:
UVA engineering, Michigan engineering, GT engineering

RD
Accepted:
Vanderbilt, Michigan, BU business

Waitlisted:
UVA, GT, Cornell engineering, Middlebury Econ, UVA, UNC business, UCLA business

Rejected:
Wash U business, USC engineering, Columbia engineering, UCB engineering

Where attending: Vanderbilt

The math is incorrect here. With 11APs weighted gpa has to be higher if unweighted is 4.0 The spread between unweighted and weighted has to be larger. So one of these numbers are incorrect.

Oh yes I was wrong. Unweighted went down first semester because of a B+ in AP Spanish, first one ever. Will be closer to 4.4/ 3.9x at graduation, will probably end with a B+ in that AP this year (senior).

No weighting in honors where we are, just AP and DE. Was 4.22/ 4.0 end of junior year when applied. This year all AP/DE. Last year 5/7 AP, 2 regular (an elective and Spanish 5). 1 AP in 10th.