Objective:
ACT: 34 (32E, 32M, 36S, 36R)
SAT II: Bio E 740, Literature 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.76 UW
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 13%
Senior Year Course Load: 8 IB Classes
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Montana Student of the Year, University of Montana Best delegate award, Presidents Service Award Gold, National Park Service Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- Redesigned my city’s public transit network to make it more accessible for low-income students.
- (President) of Model UN
- (President) of Academic World Quest
- (Director) of School’s TV channel
- (President) Girls who code chapter in Montana
- Documentary filmmaker
- Basic stuff (NHS, student gov, and action committee)
Job/Work Experience:
- Worked at a local community movie theater
- Intern at an environmental consulting firm
Volunteer/Community service:
- Teach Young Girls to Code (via Girls Who Code)
- Muir Woods (National Park) Volunteer Ranger
- Ecology speaker ( Muir Woods)
- Forestry volunteering
- Muir Woods (National Park) Volunteer Ranger (over 100 hour
Summer Activities:
- Summer classes at Yale
- Filmed a documentary
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common app (9/10) Wrote it on Socks
Supplemental (8/10) Wrote it about my love for marine life and public transit
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1 (10/10): “I’ve never had a student like her in my 15 years of teaching”
Teacher Rec #2 (6/10): Lukewarm
Counselor Rec (10/10): Was amazing
Additional Rec (if any) (9/10): Written by the principal, talked about my contributions to the school
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 10/10 The interview was my first and by far my best. The interview lasted two hours and ended with my interviewer telling me that I gave her hope for the next generation.
Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Environmental Science and History/IR
State (if domestic applicant): Montana
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: 1/2 Asian 1/2 White
Income Bracket: >$100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflections: I was so sure that I was going to be waitlisted or rejected but I managed to get in. This just showed me that it isn’t all about stats. Colleges really do perform holistic admissions.
Strengths: Test scores, essays, EC’s, and Recommendations
Weaknesses: Class rigor and GPA
Accepted:
Bowdoin (Most Prestigious Scholarship Chamberlain Scholarship)
Wellesley
Carleton
Claremont Mckenna College (Merit Scholarship)
NYU
UChicago
Reed
Bryn Mawr (Merit Scholarship 48k)
Mount Holyoke (Merit Scholarship 100k)
Scripps (Merit Scholarship 90k)
Smith (Merit Scholarship)
St.Olaf (Merit Scholarship 80k)
Kenyon (Merit Scholarship 60k)
Oberlin (Merit Scholarship 72k)
Grinnell (Merit Scholarship 92k)
Waitlisted
Stanford
Washington University in St.Louis
Tulane
Columbia
Colby
Northeastern
Rejected:
The University of Florida ??
Florida State University
Denison College
Harvard
Brown (ED Deferred)
Pomona
Barnard
Yale
Duke
Northwestern