What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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Anonymous
| Pushing back against the college board is a good thing. Why does this zillion dollar testing company get to have so much influence and control. They got way too big and powerful and now will have to tolerate the backlash. |
Anonymous
Me too. In 1979 |
Anonymous
| Someone point the geezers to the grandma's and grandpa's site. |
Anonymous
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1985
1500 SAT (I think -- 780 Verbal, 720 Math?) no AP 4.0 unweighted Slightly weird situation; I graduated a year early and spent the year as an exchange student in Europe. Decent extracurriculars but nothing earth shattering. Applied to Brown, Cornell and Yale. Accepted by Brown and Cornell; Yale declined to admit me. |
Anonymous
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number 1 in my class
1510 Sat Student Council President In to all 8 Ivys. MIT Stanford 1985 |
Anonymous
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1983
don't remember GPA but top 20/800 SAT was something like 1400 accepted: Penn, Cornell, Swarthmore, Vassar, GT WL: Brown Reject: Yale |
Anonymous
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This thread is really fun. What a different world it was.
1992 here. White male, first-gen (which was not a term that I was aware anyone used back then, and I don’t know the extent to which that was a “hook” at that time, if it was at all). Mediocre small-town public high school; maybe 25% of grads went to 4-year colleges. GPA: 4.2 weighted, 4.0 unweighted, 1st in class of 155. SAT: 1500 (790 math, 710 verbal). I remember this because pre-1995, this really was exceptionally high. (ACT: 33. Which is hilarious because I took it after the SAT. Made no sense at all to even take the ACT, let alone submit it.) And of course, had no test prep or guidance of any kind. Although in fairness, particularly on the SAT, prep actually didn’t matter much back then because it was much less amenable to significant improvement with prep (analogies, etc.). Played three sports, one pretty well. National Merit Scholar. No interesting ECs or national awards or the like. Denison: accepted with full tuition merit scholarship Kenyon: accepted with full tuition merit scholarship Miami University (Ohio): accepted with full tuition merit scholarship Didn’t apply to Ivies, etc., because I preferred to stay closer to home and go to college for free. I just assumed I’d get in if I had applied, which seems pretty presumptuous of 17-year-old me, but judging by most of these posts, I might have been right. A similar kid today would have the same gambler’s odds all our kids currently do. |
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Came to the country in April of Junior year, started school in May, Junior year over in June. Counselor said to go take SAT, so I did. No idea about GPA; school gave number scores, but my senior year average was 97 point something at a TERRIBLE school in the Bronx. SAT 1280. Applied to Fordham U and City College. Went to City as there is no way to pay for a private U when you can barely pay $625 a semester at public, even with a partial scholarship. This was in 1988.
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Anonymous
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From the Midwest. 3.6 or so GPA a lot of APs for the times (graduated in 1989) 1420 SAT. Perfect Verbal, not so great Math. 5s on several AP exams.
Accepted WI Madison UVA U of Illinois Berkeley Vanderbilt Williams Swarthmore Hamilton U of MN I had never been out of my state and I needed a lot of aid. Never visited most of the schools. Didn’t really know what I was doing. Ended up at UVA with a full ride. Georgetown for graduate school. |
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1991
Terrible public high school in rural WV Close to 4.0 unweighted; no APs at my school but I had a handful of college credits from Marshall Univ 1470 SATs Admitted Princeton, Brown, Swarthmore, Oberlin Rejected nowhere |
Anonymous
| My parent worked at a PSU satellite campus for a decade so we got 75% off tuition if I went there. I found out really early in the fall that I got into main campus, so I didn’t bother applying to other schools. I had 3.95 GPA. |
Anonymous
| Class of 2000. International, top of the class in magnet HS similar to TJ, 1530 or 1540 SAT. Made it to the math Olympiad at the national level. The only EC was modeling but I was pretty serious about it and I had print work in Grazia and Bravo. Admitted to Yale, Columbia, Brown, Chicago, Cornell, Pomona. Rejected from Claremont. |
Anonymous
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I don't remember my stats from 1985, but I do remember that one kids got 1600 and was investigated and had to retake because it never happens. Then I remember that one kid had a 1490, which really impressed everyone, and he went to Princeton. Valedictorian went to Cornell.
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