Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Good lord! Impressive stats, PP. Williams' loss for sure.

Seriously that college must be idiotic. It isn’t Princeton; there’s no reason that student didn’t get in.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Could you share an example of why X school?

Np.

It needs to be so unique it could never be written about another college. Each essay should take a ton of time to research and customize. Then create a unique one-of-a-kind framework.

My DD showed me hers today for a T10 - blew me away. So much thought, research and storytelling tied into her own interests.
Beautifully beautifully done.
Not sure it will move the needle but if given the shot, take the shot.

Anonymous wrote:Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Could you share an example of why X school?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Diversity?

Cisgender straight white male
No hooks

Just took it really seriously and it showed.

Don’t most of us take it seriously? Also, test optional sounds much less serious to me than most

Perhaps I should say that a) everything he did for school and EC came from a genuine inherent desire and had zero to do with thinking about if it would help him with college. That came through clearly in his essays.

And b) college counseling office was clear that with the grades and EC, testing couldn’t help or hurt him. So why stress? They were right.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Diversity?

Cisgender straight white male
No hooks

Just took it really seriously and it showed.

Don’t most of us take it seriously? Also, test optional sounds much less serious to me than most

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Diversity?

Cisgender straight white male
No hooks

Just took it really seriously and it showed.

Anonymous wrote:Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Diversity?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite.

In at Tufts.
4.0 UW/4.5 W
12 APs by graduation
1530 SAT

Congratulations! Great school

+1
High stats DC is a first year and loves it.

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown REA, accepted
4.0 UW, rank 1 out of 600
13 APs (7 through Junior years with 5 5s, a 4 and a 3) and highest rigor at school
1500 SAT (760v, 740m)
2 sports, job, volunteering, a little bit of leadership

Fantastic!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

DC was rejected last year from Williams ED. Ranked #2 in class, 35 Act, 13 APs, great ECs although not quite at a national level. Williams is extremely tough ED. The good news is that DC got into a couple Ivies, an Ivy+, and a couple WASPs in RD. Admissions are pretty unpredictable at that level but it usually works out in the end.

It's good to hear these stories of setbacks and things working put in the end. It's been a stressful process

Admit to top 10 school
4.4 unweighted gpa
One AP
Test optional— did not submit scores
Strong EC
Excellent essays that showed exactly why X school
Very good recommendations

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite.

In at Tufts.
4.0 UW/4.5 W
12 APs by graduation
1530 SAT

Congratulations! Great school

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Weird decision of applying to Williams in the first place. You're too good for them.

Ummm, maybe it was the school that PP's DC liked best

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Congrats, all! W&M, GMU, and Georgetown are all fantastic schools.

You are trying to start drama

???

They are fantastic schools, and this board could use some positivity. I don't subscribe to the inane belief of a rigid collegiate hierarchy. I work at a university that is consistently ranked worse than all three schools. Yet, we produce great outcomes for our students, much like W&M, GMU, and Georgetown. This forum exists in a weird bubble, and people here love to wallow in the narcissism of small differences.

Anonymous wrote:Williams rejection
35
1590
4.0 | 16 APs w/ post-math classes in Linear Algebra and Calc 3
Applied as Math major
USAMO silver, Math Tutor, Pottery Instructor, Youth City Council, various state Model UN awards, summer research project with professor in stats and urban planning.
DC is now hoping for Princeton, Berkeley, or Uchicago.

Good lord! Impressive stats, PP. Williams' loss for sure.