Accepted to Ivy stats

[Anonymous]

1540 SAT
All As, hardest curriculum
Top NY private
Competitive summer research program
Female math major
Legacy
Hispanic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1500
Legacy
3.9 GPA unweighted
Accomplished musician
Great recommendations
White
Accepted at Harvard

What's considered "accomplished musician"? Thanks.

at 17, no less.

[Anonymous]

Yale EA

1600 SAT
3.99 unweighted GPA
14 AP classes
President Student Body
Captain Cross Country
Over 750 volunteer hours with the same charity

White, non-legacy, no hooks, not first generation. Nice kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale EA

1600 SAT
3.99 unweighted GPA
14 AP classes
President Student Body
Captain Cross Country
Over 750 volunteer hours with the same charity

White, non-legacy, no hooks, not first generation. Nice kid.

Regular Public high school (not in DC).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale EA

1600 SAT
3.99 unweighted GPA
14 AP classes
President Student Body
Captain Cross Country
Over 750 volunteer hours with the same charity

White, non-legacy, no hooks, not first generation. Nice kid.

Congratulations!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale EA

1600 SAT
3.99 unweighted GPA
14 AP classes
President Student Body
Captain Cross Country
Over 750 volunteer hours with the same charity

White, non-legacy, no hooks, not first generation. Nice kid.

F/A or full pay?

[Anonymous]

3.4 GPA
29 ACT
1 AP Class
No EC
Legacy URM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3.4 GPA
29 ACT
1 AP Class
No EC
Legacy URM

Congratulations!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Princeton early

1580
4.8 weighted
Many ECs with leadership
12 APs
Asian
Large public hs, competitive state

Very charismatic person with probably excellent letters

Similar stats, rejected. LOR matters, pick someone who knows you well AND has time and ability to write heartfelt and convincing letters.

Maybe part of this also has to do with where the application ranks in the readers' queues.

Some application readers might be a lot more conscientious than others. Some might simply skip over half of the applications and not even look at them at all. So, it could be that one kid gets in and a nearly identical kid doesn't because one kid had a good reader and one had a bad reader.

[Anonymous]

SAT 1600
4.0 UW, 4.7 W
Math AIME qualifier for past 6 years
USABO finalist
Got into top research summer program
Accepted to Harvard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale EA

1600 SAT
3.99 unweighted GPA
14 AP classes
President Student Body
Captain Cross Country
Over 750 volunteer hours with the same charity

White, non-legacy, no hooks, not first generation. Nice kid.

F/A or full pay?

Yale is need blind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3.4 GPA
29 ACT
1 AP Class
No EC
Legacy URM

What?

[Anonymous]

How do you know if you got a strong recommendation letter?

[Anonymous]

Can someone post stats for MIT admits? I understand it is not an Ivy, but will be good to know

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you know if you got a strong recommendation letter?

Such a good question. My kid moved across country to a new school, then covid hit. Barely knew the teachers who wrote her recs. Very high stats and ECs, good essays of her own, but the letters of recommendation were likely meh at best. I'm sure it matters.