Anonymous wrote:1984
GPA 97/100 unweighted
Ranked 2/300 from a NYC suburban high school
Class president
1300 something SAT
State rep at National leadership conference
ED acceptance to UPenn

Did they have ED in 1984? I do not remember it?

I don't remember my HS GPA. It was over 3.0, but I got into Towson, Salisbury, and McDaniel. Towson c/o 2008 alum with a 1080 SAT.

1991 3.5, 25 ACT/3.0 college transfer

Accepted JMU, VCU, GMU
Denied VA Tech (STILL bitter)

Applied in fall of ‘98
4.0 gpa, valedictorian
1510 SAT
ED Dartmouth accepted

Anonymous wrote:I remember my SAT score because my goal was to break 1000 and I got a 1010. I was so happy. I told my mom that she could cancel the SAT test for the next month since I reached my goal. She said no since she already paid for it and she wouldn't get a refund. That scores was just under 1000. I can remember that from 1992 but nothing important about what's going on now.

Where did you end up going?

My SATs weren't a lot higher at 1150 or so, even though my GPA was around 3.6. This was in 1980, so I've read that means the SAT scores would be a bit higher with the current scoring. I went to Miami University in Ohio. I don't think my GRE scores were stellar either, but I managed a full ride for graduate school.

1984
GPA 97/100 unweighted
Ranked 2/300 from a NYC suburban high school
Class president
1300 something SAT
State rep at National leadership conference
ED acceptance to UPenn

1984

Asian from a small town in rural South, no APs offered. UW GPA was 3.9+? SAT 1360, ACT 32

Admitted: Columbia, Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Berkeley, Tulane

Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown

I remember my SAT score because my goal was to break 1000 and I got a 1010. I was so happy. I told my mom that she could cancel the SAT test for the next month since I reached my goal. She said no since she already paid for it and she wouldn't get a refund. That scores was just under 1000. I can remember that from 1992 but nothing important about what's going on now.

1989 grad
3.4 GPA
1170 SAT

Applied to one school on a whim after an unstructured gap year and got in: UMD

1991 graduate
1220 SAT
GAP: 3.7 (I think, school didn't weight GPA, but I took mostly honors and a few AP's)
Decent public school (lots of classmates went to ivies); average EC's

Accepted
Vanderbilt (attended)
Emory U.
U. of Richmond
Boston College
Indian U. (honors program)
UVM

Wait listed:
UVA (out of state)
Wake Forest

Rejected:
Northwestern
Dartmouth

1990 graduate
1420 SAT, 2nd in my class, small town, no AP classes. I think I had a 97 or 98 average

Accepted: Penn State (applied to one affordable school which was my main concern). I was clueless.

1992 grad

3.8 GPA
1210 SAT

tons of volunteer experience including several national awards
varsity sport

Stanford - decline
UC Berkeley - deferred acceptance for Spring Semester
UCLA - admit
UC Irvine - admit
Cal State Fullerton - admit
Reed College - admit

Fall 1996
GPA 2.7 (this included APs that I did well in, but some of my other grades were dismal)
SAT 1430

Accepted:
ECU
WVU (attended)
Wake Forest
GMU

Rejected:
VA Tech

I think the only reason I got into the schools I did was because I was involved in a specialized creative pursuit and had a related letter of recommendation. I am so scared of my kids performing as poorly in HS school as I did.

SAT: 1350
GPA: my school didn't do them but A/A- average
Top private school in NYC

Princeton - no
Yale - no
Williams - no
Bowdoin - waitlisted
Hamilton - yes
UVM - yes
St. Lawrence - yes

7 kids in my class when to Princeton, 5 to Yale, 4 to Williams. I didn't have as good stats. Competition was fierce.

Fall 1990

Class valedictorian
1410 SAT
Small town in TX did not offer AP classes

Accepted
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
University of Texas

Rejected
Harvard
Yale