What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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Anonymous
Same. I took it with no preparation. That’s when I realized the test benefitted rich people, because they could pay for tutoring. That was some early learning as to how the world works. |
Anonymous
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Late 80s
3.9 GPA 1400 SAT Cal - WL UCLA - accepted UCSD - accepted UC Davis - accepted UC Santa Barbara - accepted Cal Poly SLO - accepted Stanford - rejected Attended UCSD |
Anonymous
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Class of 1998
GPA: 3.8 SAT: 1290 Strong ECs/work history/music Vassar - deferred then rejected Colby - rejected Bates - rejected Bowdoin - rejected Middlebury - rejected Wesleyan - rejected Connecticut College - waitlisted Hamilton - accepted |
Anonymous
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Early 90s
Top 5 in class (out of approx. 95 students) 1300 SAT Lehigh ED (no other applications). |
Anonymous
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1987
1500 SAT Don't recall GPA but ranked 15th out of 500 at very good public. No hooks. No parental help. Applied to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Williams, Amherst, Smith, UVA. Got in everywhere. Would NEVER happen today. |
Anonymous
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1993
4.2 (inflated by weighted AP classes) 1330 Not in the top 10 of my class of 300ish, maybe in the top 25 (certainly top 10 percent) U of Md - accepted with small scholarship plus Honors Program, which was fairly new at the time It was the only place I applied. I had to go in-state and I knew for sure that I would be accepted. |
Anonymous
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Everyone is so young here. When I graduated GPA on the scale to 4.0 was not used. No extra credit for Honors. So 100 was highest GPA possible.
Literally no one has a 100 graduating average. Even if you got an A in every class since As were 90-100 that was near impossible and we had no make up tests or late assignments unless like surgery with a note. Even damn gym teacher, my cooking class elective graded that way. I recall I made a lousy cake and got a 74. |
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1990 for me
GPA was about 3.7. SAT was a 1410 Accepted: UConn, Colby, Brown, Rice Rejected from Harvard and Waitlisted from Bowdoin DH GPA was 3.8 SAT was a 1470 Accepted: Rutgers, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, and Duke Rejected from MIT and Yale |
Anonymous
| Perfect stats and solid EC, waitlisted at all ivies, admitted to few other similar level schools in T20. Disadvantaged due to race, Uber competitive high school and geography. |
Anonymous
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1980
1330 SAT B+ average at a top private school here Middlebury rejected Carleton accepted UVM accepted Colorado-Boulder accepted I think there were a few more but don’t remember I didn’t really know what i was doing for college. I did much better for grad school - accepted at 5 top schools including 3 ivies. |
Anonymous
| Ironically, attending Ivies and some other T20 wasn’t affordable due to high parental EFC but student’s inability to afford it due to lack of aid and ineligibility to get large loans. These schools are very overpriced for students from donut hole families. |
Anonymous
You obviously haven’t got a clue. |
Anonymous
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1992
3.9 1110 SAT George Mason--accepted with full academic ride My parents were getting divorced at the time. I was adrift and only applied to on an Ivy for grad school. |
Anonymous
| 1990. Straight As, lots of AP 5s (for that era), 1560, valedictorian of competitive suburban public high school but extracurriculars were nothing special, Harvard early decision. |
Anonymous
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Amazing how much has changed.
Did anyone take APs before their senior year back in the 80s? I don't remember that at all. Crazy that our kids start taking them freshman year now. |