What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:800M/690L
Upper 700s on SAT IIs
National awards
Leadership
IB Diploma
3.98 GPA
Weighted rank #5
Strong alumni interview

Accepted to everywhere (MIT, Duke, Cornell, bunch of other places)
Rejected Stanford (I didn't apply early binding and 3 people from my hugh school were accepted in the binding round).

You didn't tell us where you went??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is kinda interesting both in terms of what was needed for admittance then vs now, and also how some colleges have changed. (Several posters from 1980s were accepted to uva but denied/WL at William and Mary!) it also shows that the system was pretty random in the past, too.

Things started changing in the 1990s, especially the late 1990s. Population of US is much bigger now but the same number of colleges and universities. The past was much more regionally focused while schools today are much more national. The Ivy Leagues and elite LACs didn't carry the same mystique they currently do; it was a much more self-selective pool of applicants largely drawn from the upper middle classes and especially those whose families had a tradition of going to private colleges. Most of the country, especially outside the east coast, viewed getting into the flagship state university as all was needed for a great education. SAT scores themselves have been reweighted several times. The change to electronic applications rather than hand written essays made it much easier to apply to multiple colleges. It snowballed from there.

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The system needs to get away from prep and culled information, but it will never happen. There are simply too many applicants.

This. Your kids are now competing with tens of thousands of wealthy foreign applicants each year. That really didn't start to ramp up until after 2000 or thereabouts. There was so much less competition prior to 2000.

Agreed. My Ivy had a few international students in the late 1990s but today it has far more. Student body is still the same size. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what it means for domestic applicants without major hooks.

Bullshit. It's still only 5% overseas students at Ivies, collectively.

Brown is 15% undergrad, Dartmouth 13% undergrad, Penn 11% undergrad, Yale about 20% but this may also include grad students - all from a quick google.

Ivies have proactively grown their international student bodies in the last 20 years as part of their mission. I must admit I'm a bit mixed about it.

[Anonymous]

Early 90s
Valedictorian
ACT 36
SAT 1480
5s on four APs

Full ride to Indiana University. Laid the foundation for my entire professional future. Still deeply, deeply grateful to them.

[Anonymous]

mid80s
suburban NoCal high school
GPA = approx 3.7, top 10 percent of class
1360 SAT
SAT IIs were in 700s but I don't remember precise scores
Extra curriculars largely music -- marching band, youth orchestra, honor band, other ensembles

UC Davis -- admitted
Whitman -- admitted
Bryn Mawr - admitted
Stanford -- rejected
Amherst -- waitlisted, which I naively thought was hopeful but was really a soft reject

[Anonymous]

1989

SAT. Verbal 790. Math 600
3.7 or so
No ECs my parents were poor and I had to work 30-40 hours a week

Accepted
WI Madison Honors
Hamilton
Colgate
Smith
Tufts
UVA

Attended UVA out of state as offered most money

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1989

SAT. Verbal 790. Math 600
3.7 or so
No ECs my parents were poor and I had to work 30-40 hours a week

Accepted
WI Madison Honors
Hamilton
Colgate
Smith
Tufts
UVA

Attended UVA out of state as offered most money

Sorry meant to include denied: Williams, Dartmouth, and Northwestern

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a town a lot like Bethesda but in the Midwest.
A lot of us prepped for SAT we took Stanley Kaplan, and many of us took test twice. I graduated in 1989.

[Anonymous]

HS class of 2000
4.86 weighted GPA, straight As, IB diploma, valedictorian of 800
1530 SAT, 800 writing
Some ECs but nothing award-level

Accepted: Columbia, Georgetown, NYU, BU (Trustee Scholarship - full ride), Chicago, Penn, Berkeley
Rejected: Stanford
Waitlist: Harvard

[Anonymous]

Class of 1979.

Unweighted GPA of 3.8. 3 APs. 1320 SAT.

Accepted to all four schools I applied to: Northwestern, Georgetown, Drexel, and St. John's. Went to Northwestern.

[Anonymous]

1986
1490 or 1500 SAT
3.8 GPA no one at my school had a 4.0.
4/140
From top NYC Private

Brown- Deferred then accepted
Duke- Accepted and went
Cornell- Accepted
Northwestern-Accepted
JohnsHopkins-Accepted
Wesleyan- weirdly denied, it was my safety

[Anonymous]

Late 80s
Suburban MD public school
SAT 1480
GPA 3.96
Top 10 in class of 500
Lots of school awards but horrible ECs, just music
Chicago: accepted
Oberlin: accepted
Bowdoin: accepted
Williams: accepted
Amherst: WL
Harvard: rejected
Princeton: rejected

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HS class of 2000
4.86 weighted GPA, straight As, IB diploma, valedictorian of 800
1530 SAT, 800 writing
Some ECs but nothing award-level

Accepted: Columbia, Georgetown, NYU, BU (Trustee Scholarship - full ride), Chicago, Penn, Berkeley
Rejected: Stanford
Waitlist: Harvard

where did you go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HS class of 2000
4.86 weighted GPA, straight As, IB diploma, valedictorian of 800
1530 SAT, 800 writing
Some ECs but nothing award-level

Accepted: Columbia, Georgetown, NYU, BU (Trustee Scholarship - full ride), Chicago, Penn, Berkeley
Rejected: Stanford
Waitlist: Harvard

where did you go?

Chicago for personal reasons, and it has worked out well, but will always have a soft spot for Columbia.
I will say that there was no grade inflation at Chicago and after having breezed through high school, it was not easy to get As at Chicago.

[Anonymous]

That is insanely high weighted GPA 4.86. Wonder if ECs plays a major role or it largely varies by individual schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1990
3.95
1480
Cornell accepted
Princeton denied
Dartmouth denied
Delaware honors (free tuition/free r&b/stipend) attended

Do you think the Ivies discuss their applicants? Even though the schools are highly competitive, it seems like there would still be more students receiving offers from more than one.