Decision: Not Matched
Schools Ranked: Yale, Stanford, Scripps, Tufts, Wesleyan, Swarthmore, Wellesley, Columbia, Vassar, Pomona, Princeton, Brown
Objective:
- [] SAT I (Comp, Essay, CR, M, CW): 2230 (CR 750 / M 700 / CW 780)
[] ACT (Comp, Essay, Eng, Math, Read, Sci): 32 (E 35 / M 29 / R 35 / S 28)
[] SAT II (Type, Score): Lit: 770 / US History: 720 / Math 2: 660
[] Weighted GPA (out of ??): 3.98
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.78
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 42/760
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geo (4), Bio (4), Calc AB (5), US History (4), Macro (3), Micro (4), Physics 1 (3)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Spanish Lang, AP Euro, Honors Gov, Honors Art History, another art class
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): QB finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, NMSP Commended Student, 8 years of the same national piano award, misc. community/school awards
Subjective:
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[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): GSA (president 12th), feminist club (president 12th), 2 leadership/student council things (director of fundraising 10th-11th, VP 12th), piano out of school
[] Job/Work Experience: 6 years of babysitting (lol)
[] Volunteer/Community service: LGBT center (100ish hours); local food pantry (40+ hours)
[] Summer Activities: community college course, volunteering, working
[] Essays: 9.5/10 (my school is a writing-focused program and I worked on them for months)
[] Teacher Recommendations: English teacher: 8/10 (rushed but she knew me well); Calc teacher: ?/10 (probably pretty good? teacher is a weird guy though)
[li] Counselor Rec: 10/10 (she has known me and my family/our personal situation really well for 3 years)[/li][/ul]
Other
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[] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[] School Type: very large Magnet/Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Woman
[] Income Bracket: ~20k
[] Assets: very little
[] Property: 0
[] Extenuating Circumstances: Parents have been divorced for 8 years, both are low-income. I spend 99% of my time with my mom, and my stepdad (her husband) is unemployed. Also I’m not first-gen on paper bc my dad has a degree but he’s barely in my life so.
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I have a serious chronic illness (why I have relatively low AP scores and GPA, easier course load this year, no job, etc.) and I assume it’s ~inspirational~ that I’ve still done relatively well.[/li][/ul]
Why you think you were matched/not matched and general comments: I definitely have a lot of disadvantages in some areas but I’m privileged in some other areas. This whole process felt like it could’ve gone either way the whole time, and I know match wasn’t my only chance. Whatever happens I feel good that I did it!