上来替朋友报个喜 -- 都是牛校啊！

一大早收到朋友发来的信，她女儿被这些牛校录取了！

Accepted:

Princeton, Upenn Jerome Fisher Program, Columbia, Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell, John Hopkins BME, Northwestern，cmu ....

Waitlisted:

Harvard and MIT

吼吼～～牛妈牛爸培养出来的牛闺女！

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子女坛上传来的捷报 by 一家三口


球妈大公子：Cornell
球妈二公子：MIT，Stanford，Yale
草学究公子（我暂且这么说）；Princeton， Stanford ， MIT
MOM3爱女，：UCLA
huyaa爱女：UCLA
大奔爱女：Stanford, Duke, Cornell, WashU, Vandy, and State U.
HorseMom爱女： Princeton
white_sky爱女：Harvard Princeton Columbia，rejected by Upenn and Dartmouth and in waitling list Cornell and Yale.
SAT I: 2400, SAT II: Math II, Chemistry, and Physics 3 x 800 (All test taken in once)
GPA: 3.79 (unweighted) and school rank: 2/350
Awards: two chemistry, several Math, one debate and ... among them, one chemistry award and the debate award are the second place in our province. HS is Canadian public school.
lee05 公子：Princeton
foxwalk公子：UCB and Dartmouth (My son could not get in H,P, in the waiting list on Y)
snow_snow公子： Harvard and Princeton
SATI 2320;
SAT II: Math II, Chemistry, and Physics 3 x 800 (All test taken in once)
All classes are 'A' or 'A+'; GPA: 4.4;School rank: 1/250; School is public school.
AP: 11 classes. all 5's for 6 taken.
3 years class president; school Forensics Captain; school orchestra vice chairman
Awards: 4 years State Forensics first place; 4 years State orchestra perform first place; a bunch of leadership awards( State, Regional, schools); State scholar
As school representative, attended State HS leadership camps and seminars.
Tennis JV team.
volunteering in local senior care.
have a part time job.
乐乐逍遥公子：Penn
abc6698爱女：Duke, U. Wash, UVA and UNC (Yale rejected)
数学大侠爱女：Princeton
12451爱女：MIT， Harvard
TwoCent爱女: Harvard, Princeton and, MIT
紫阳花爱女:Harvard,Yale
alex1234公子:Yale SCEA and top 3 lac
西西: MIT, Stanford 其他不详
shipwmao 侄儿：Duke， Princeton，UPenn Science-Business Co-program. (20 admitted in the program)
SAT: 2400
ACT:36
Harvard, Yale: waiting list

Big_Benz爱女：applied to 8 schools, got in Stanford, Duke, Cornell, WashU, Vandy, and State U. Waitlisted at Tufts and rejected from Harvard.
catelinw公子，MIT，Yale
A_Momy’s LD's colleague's公子 : Yale EA.
一缕斜阳公子： USC ， Carnegie Mellon
shyypsh朋友的公子：UVA， UCB
子丹爱女：Caltech
逍遥在我公子：UCB
hollygreen爱女：Columbia, Duck, Johns Hopkins, Wash U, Vanderbilt,
UCLA, State U
LuMa 爱女：Penn, Brown, U Chicago, Wellesley, Northeasten (Waiting listed:Columbia, Yale. Rejected:Harvard)
事事随缘爱女： MIT， Harvard，Stanford
NJ10爱女: Caltech MIT, Harvard, and Princeton
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后面新出来的

1230公子：Stanford, U of Chicago, Wash U, （Harvard waiting list).

加拿大PINKAPPLE 爱女：CORNELL，NORTHWESTERN，WASH U IN LOUIS

红叶飘爱女：Duke,U of Chicago,Rice,UCB,NYU,UM(Hor-pro),UT(Hor-pro)。Harvard在waiting list。
女儿想学商业经济方面，属于那种有点小聪明没有大智慧的那种，学校学习的事我们几乎没管过的。我们在TX，综合各方面条件，目前倾向于在Duke,UChicago,Rice之间选择，想听听大家的意见。
还有，谁知道Harvard waiting list有多少机会可以进去？今年情况特别，请高人给分析预测一下。

大雪飞扬公子: UCB, Wash U , U Chicago, Duke, Dartmouth, NW, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Cornell,Columbia
去年SAT成绩出来，就２２００多，看了冒一冒泡的帖子，对申请好大学没有报多大希望，今年的可能失误是前５名的大学就报了Harvard, MIT都被据。我们还申请了３０多名２所大学，６０多名２所大学，都被录取。GPA很高，3.9几（sorry我忘了具体数字），到毕业有１４门AP，破了校记录（他自己一定要选）。因为转学，以前的几门科没有被count,刚开始在全年级就３００多名，每学期下来升很多，到申请前是全年级２６名共５００多学生。实际上他应该是第一，counselor写推荐信时解释了这一点，不知道有没有管用。到目前为至，就英语得过B,其他课全A,今年的学生会主席，3个Club的头, n多的奖牌，但最好就是数学竞赛州里的金牌。SATII Math 800, Ph 760, Bio 780,大概就这些

追月逐日:普林斯顿, 康奈尔, 威尔斯利, 史密斯女校 (哈佛，耶鲁拒绝）
SAT1　总分2320分（其中数学、阅读满分，各为800分，作文未写完，语法有错题，为720分）；SAT2　数理化三科全为满分800。AP（大学先修课程）课已考三门，待考五门，全为理科较高学术难度的科目；她的钢琴已获专业演奏级文凭，参加过国际性比赛，拿过加拿大全国钢琴比赛第五名，美国州级、加国省级比赛第一名，地区、市级比赛若干次第一名；她有多门语言能力，按水平衡量，依次为英文、中文、俄文、法文、德文；她担任学校乐队钢琴伴奏、义务为社区演出多次；参加学校环保社团，是主要负责人，担任学生会委员；她还是社区老人院义工，每周两次四小时在老人院义务工作；她兼职英文及数学家教和钢琴收费伴奏，并有一暑期在著名国际性大公司做实习生一个月。

兰卉公子：
Applied:13
Got in:9 Princeton,Cornell,Brown,Duke,Carnegie Mellon,UM,UVa ,UC Berkeley,Rice
Waitlisted:3 Harvard, MIT,CalTech
Rejected:1 Stanford
红豆红爱女：Sheridan, Animation

alex1234 公子： Yale， Oxford
accidental ivy kids?
I have two kids. The elder daughter went to one of the top ivies N years ago. I can't take any credit in her achievment. In fact, she took much more responisblities/obligations than most the kids at her age. I can only be grateful that I had her. I'll keep her story short as I know I'm getting old :) and can't stop myself from bragging as soon as I start talking about her even though I didn't do anything help her.
She came to US at 7. The only Bs she got was in first year she came here. Lost mom at 14. At 15, I handed signed checkbook to her and we had never had late unpaid bills. At 16, she packed lunches and afternoon snack for her and her little brother every morning, picked up him in the afternoon from his afterschool, many time had to go to principle's office to deal with the trouble the little one made in school, went back to her school for her activities while the little boy sitting at the back of room. With an ATM card I gave her in high school, she took care of the grocery and household items. The little one never run out the clean cloth, never had unfit socks/shoes. I had no idea of college application when she was in high school. She took care of that, seeking advice from teachers and counselors. She got in two of 4 top colleges she applied.
Now the second one is a totally different story. We are still amazed that yale took him early, with his 3.82 GPA(removing the 9th grade, then it would look a lot better) and no major awards/leadership positions. He does have good but not perfect test scores. Those scores are the only things he has that fall into yale's top 50% admitted students. He's going to Oxford, not Yale though.
My son is a more than 10 years younger than his sister. He didn't experience the financial difficulties and constant school moving that was part of his sister's early life. I don't know whether this is the reason. It seems the things that motivate him are quite different from his sister. He seems never bothered to be the best one in order to get others praise him. It's other people's feeling that could affect him. A simple no is never a no to him until he's convinced the reason and he's hard to be convinced. This got him in plenty troubles in school for breaking various rules. In first grade, teacher said they had to hand in homework second day. Guess what, he didn't bother to do that and just took another kid's homework, erase the poor kid's name, put his name on and handed in cause the teacher never said they had to hand in their own homework. Well, when the teacher called out that kid in the class and asked him why he didn't hand in the homework, the poor kid started crying. Now he felt guilty and spilled the beans to the teacher himself. Maybe it's these kinds of mischiefs of parsing and twisting teacher's words made some teachers really uncomfortable with him and we were pushed to let him skipped two grades. He was in suspension for some trouble on the day when he graduated from elementary school and could not participate the ceremony.
家内副主公子：俺儿是宾大一年级学生。他很喜欢宾大。第一学期得全A。
他没有申请HPS，觉得不FIT.被YALE延迟决定，后被拒。被COLUMBIA放在未停利斯特，后被拒。
被录取得学校：PENN,DUKE,DARTMOUTH,CORNELL,UOFCHICAGO,NORTHWESTERN,JOHNS HOPKINS.密西根和本州大学。其中芝加哥大学和本州大学给他全额奖学金。
最后他决定去宾大。我和孩他娘尊重儿子的决定，尽管我们要付全费

儿高中四年获全A。五百二十多应届毕业生中排第二。他学校不排名次。去年3月学校告诉他准备在毕业典礼上发言时才知道他是第二名。ACT成绩满分。SAT 两千二百多分。10门AP.
儿子能被TOP大学录取因素很多。除他个人努力外，老师和学校顾问写的推荐信起了很大作用。儿子善良，正直，尊敬老师，关心同学,对朋友极忠。大考前夜不管多晚如有同学来电话问问题他总是热心回答。他是PRE-MED CLUB的PRESIDENT,校网球队主力队员。另外他还参加了学校的辨论队，数学队，象棋队。在医院做了4年义工。前年夏天他得到一份帮助低收入家庭申请补助的工作。每小时7美元。时间不定，有时一天只有一小时。除去车票，午饭钱他根本不挣钱。他还是很认真的去做。
他曾经能背诵近200首古诗词。张若虚的（春江花月夜）至今仍流利背出。
他上高中后仍弹钢琴，只不过“晒网”次数太多。电子游戏一玩就忘了钟点。现在放假回家就弹吉他。
俺儿高中期间很贪玩。让他背SAT单词他就打哈欠。气的俺胃疼。
得知耶鲁给他延迟后他伤心了几个小时。第二天又代表学校去参加辨论比赛去了。
我觉得看学校很重要。除密西根大学外，我们参观了儿子申请的所有学校。加上HP,BROWN.其中PENN和DUKE还去了两次。开车看学校，全家齐上阵（包括狗儿）很快乐。
儿子没要芝加哥大学四年全奖说心里话我真觉得可惜。后来请教一对犹太夫妻朋友。他们说如果你们经济上能负担起的话还是听孩子的意见为好。俺儿就是想离家远点。早知道高中三年时搬到别的地方就好了（开玩笑）。
帮助孩子选择FIT的学校是咱家长的责任。要多听孩子们的意见，尊重他们的选择。
COLLEGE CONFIDENTIAL网大家可做参考。祝大家的孩子们都能上他们想去的学校！

dukp公子：已被Cornell,Emory,Notre Dame, and UVa(inState)录取。他想学医。
He is 1/400 in public school. GPA4.8 and lot of leadships.
wait lists 哈佛，耶鲁，Stanford,Upen, JohnHP

乐乐逍遥公子：UPenn ED
每年都要去学校，参加 Top 20 （ 20/750 ）的表彰大会，在会上，毕业生们要自我介绍一下，自己去了那所学校。去年的基本情况是这样：排名第一的，是位韩国男孩。他被 Columbia, UCB, UCLA , Duke 录取，去了 Duke ，因为这所学校给了奖学金。 他的情况是： SAT 过了 2200 ， SAT 2 ，三门过了 750 ，是学校学生会的成员， 11 年级网球队员。
有 2 个去了哈佛，一个是男孩，靠体育去的，跑步在州里，有很好的名次。 另一个是女孩，学习和踢足球都很棒，这个女孩和我儿子一起，去年被评为学校的优秀运动员（ 4/3000 ），在学校里很牛。我还很清楚地记得，她向家长们报告，要去哈佛上学时的兴奋，激动的神情。去了学校半年后，听儿子说，她觉得在哈待着不愉快（可能是每个人 都很牛吧），就转回我们这的一所很好的州立学校。
有 2 个去 Stanford 的，其中的一个是，小时候，从南斯拉夫移民来的，在他的作文里，写了 90 年代初期，南斯拉夫打仗时，他要跟着父母，到处躲藏，变成了无家可归的孩子，那时的感受，一定很不同寻常。他说，要学政治，外交专业，将来变成一个，和平使者，争取让更多的人知道和平的重要性。（普通的表现，当然 SAT 要过 2100, 申请大学时，作文非常重要 ）。 另外一个也是比较一般的表现，她是墨西哥人，爸爸是从 S 毕业的。 其余的孩子 (Top 20 里的 ) ，基本上去了 UCB, UCLA, UCSD, USC 这样的好大学。
再说说今年，排名第一的，是个白人男孩，被 P, Y, S and Caltech 录取了，这孩子 4 年下来，一直是年级第一，从来没拿过 B 。记得 9 年级时，儿子跟我说：“妈，我争取保住，现在第二名的成绩吧，第一的同学，早在暑假就去修课了， 9 年级一上来，他选的课就比我选的课 GPA 高，我就是都不拿 B, 也不可能拿第一”。看来，暑假早修课也是有好处的，只是我家孩子要享受暑假的好时光，咱也没办法。这个男孩儿，绝顶聪明，有过目不忘的本事，到 11 年级结束时，修了 8 门 AP 且全部 5 分。还拿了很多 OCAD 的 奖，是一个 CLUB 的主席，没参加什么体育队 ( 现在想想，如果，你的孩子体育不好，但在学习上，能有很棒的成绩，去好学校，还是有戏的 ) 。
再有，就是我儿子，因为喜欢 Penn 的 Wharton 商学院，被 ED 录取，不可以再报其它的学校。
接下来的，是一个女孩，她是校学生会和网球队的成员， Sat 过 2300 ，三门 Sat2 过 750 ，被 Caltech 和 U.Chicago 的经济系录取。其余的孩子 (Top 20 里的 ) ，和去年一样，基本上去了 UCB, UCLA, UCSD, USC 这样的学校。
其实，每个上大学的小孩，经历都不一样，能上什么样的大学，除了实力以外， 运气也很重要。
我们学校，是一所普通的公立高中。有机会，再写写，我们当时，是怎么选高中的。

朋友女儿：Princeton, Upenn Jerome Fisher Program, Columbia, Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell （奖励免一半学费）, John Hopkins BME, Northwestern，cmu （Harvard and MIT waiting list. Yale reject)
SAT1 2370 (math 800), AP 12门，已考六门（5分），待考六门, school rank 1/450