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[quote=Anonymous]Class of 1998, high performing private school in a mid-tier city. Quintessential upper middle class white student from an educated family. 
SAT scores: 1440
Class rank: school didn't rank (only 80 in my year) 
No official AP classes (school didn't offer them but allowed us to take AP exams on our own, which many did and I took four, all 5 scores) 
Leadership: only one, captain of tennis team. Wrote for school paper all four years. No other special hooks. 
SAT II scores: 800, 800. 740.

Accepted: Brown, Penn, Duke, Amherst, Bowdoin, Haverford, Kenyon, Davidson. 
WL: Dartmouth (I'd applied early) 
Rejected: Yale

Not unhappy about the Dartmouth WL as it transpired. I'd fallen in love with the campus and outdoor setting but by the time the ED decisions rolled around I was having second thoughts and the initial disappointment was mitigated with a bit of relief. Whoever reviewed my application at Dartmouth must have not liked me because I ended up getting into a bunch of comparable schools. And I thank the admissions offer who rejected me because I went to Brown and had a wonderful time.

Probably wouldn't get in today. I'd most likely be lucky to get into Haverford or Davidson or Bowdoin these days too. Kenyon was my safety. I remember the college counsellor trying to persuade me to include a few more safeties but I reasoned that I was happy enough to go to Kenyon and was 100% confident I'd get in and my parents had capped the number of applications to 10 and I didn't want to waste it on more safeties.

I do remember my parents saying that college admissions at the time (1990s) was so much more competitive than in their day (mid 1960s).

Kids from my school were getting into Penn with SAT scores in the 1200s-1300s and not even honors classes. But they did have special hooks. Lacrosse for several of them. At the time Chicago was accepting 70% of applicants but it was a self-selective pool to some degree. So many of us laughed at applying to Chicago because it was seen as geeky and dorky. [/quote]

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