Anonymous
03/03/2022 14:03
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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.
Anonymous
03/03/2022 09:30
Subject: Re:What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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
03/03/2022 03:06
Subject: Re:What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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
03/02/2022 23:44
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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
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
03/01/2022 22:35
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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.
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.
Anonymous
03/01/2022 22:18
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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.
Anonymous
03/01/2022 22:16
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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.
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.
Anonymous
03/01/2022 20:36
Subject: Re:What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
1983
don't remember GPA but top 20/800
SAT was something like 1400
accepted: Penn, Cornell, Swarthmore, Vassar, GT
WL: Brown
Reject: Yale
don't remember GPA but top 20/800
SAT was something like 1400
accepted: Penn, Cornell, Swarthmore, Vassar, GT
WL: Brown
Reject: Yale
Anonymous
03/01/2022 17:08
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
number 1 in my class
1510 Sat
Student Council President
In to all 8 Ivys.
MIT
Stanford
1985
1510 Sat
Student Council President
In to all 8 Ivys.
MIT
Stanford
1985
Anonymous
03/01/2022 16:56
Subject: Re:What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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.
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
03/01/2022 16:29
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Someone point the geezers to the grandma's and grandpa's site.
Anonymous
03/01/2022 16:28
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
Anonymous wrote: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.
Me too. In 1979
Anonymous
03/01/2022 10:29
Subject: What were YOUR Stats and where did you get accepted/denied
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.