<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2090 (680CR 680M 730M) First try, didn’t retake, didn’t send
[</em>] ACT: 30 composite both times, grr! (Best breakdown 29R, 35E, 31S, 29M)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 700 USH, 640 Spanish w/o listening
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86 (self-calculated - school doesn’t actually put UW GPAs on transcripts. My weighted cumulative one at time of submission was 4.03, 1st semester senior year GPA was 4.48)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): USH (4), Spanish Language (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Psych, AP Latin:Vergil, AP Calc AB, Environmental Science, Greek 2
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Latin Exam Gold Medal (9th, 10th, 11th), National Spanish Exam Silver Medal (11th), National Merit Commendation
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School LitMag (Exec. Editor 10th-12th); Student Govt. (Disciplinary Committee 10th/11th, Class President 12th); Key Club (Co-President 12th); Shield (student ambassador society, helped at school events a lot); member of school varsity XC, varsity soccer, and varsity track teams
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/A
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at public library 10th-12th, Native plant restoration/Beach dune preservation project 6th-12th, Lots of random projects - total 150+ hrs.
[<em>] Summer Activities: Summer after 9th earned A in French 1A course at local community college, Summer after 11th earned A in graduate level Intensive Japanese course at Monterey Institute of International Studies. Had surgery on cleft lip summer after 10th, but didnt mention that on apps (want to get into college on my own merit, not make excuses [shrug])
[</em>] Essays: Common App was about learning how to knit - sounds awk but strangely fantastic and totally me! 9/10, I think.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Waived right to read both, as per school policy. Classics teacher has taught me every year since 9th grade and knows me well, so I’m sure his was glowing. Precalc was probably pretty generic.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also waived right to read. She joined our school just this year so she only had about two months to get to know our entire grade, but she probably had a good impression of me because of the old counselor’s notes and her interactions with me as class president. I’m assuming her rec was good, although not raving.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes… but totally not getting any!
[</em>] Intended Major: International Relations (want to double major in IR and Linguistic Anthropology but for the sake of the application just put IR).
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] School Type: Small/selective private Episcopal. ~50 students per grade. I see you judging.
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: $250,000+ (awk because w/ 6 members in our household, and none currently in college, on paper we seem pretty affluent but in reality we’re not so much)
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): N/A
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Not really sure… I’m pretty strong all around but not really outstanding anywhere. Maybe that’s why when I applied early to make the JES scholars deadline, I didn’t actually get the scholarship? Idk.
[</em>] Weaknesses: ACT scores are good, but not fantastic? I also didn’t actually have any contact with the college except for a panicked “oh my god I’ve never actually interacted with your college but I promise I’m genuinely interested” email to my AdCom when asked for an application update.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: The majority of people who apply from my school get accepted, so I’m thinking we just have a strong relationship with Scripps? I also fit the average admitted students’ stats pretty well.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted GWU, NYU, Scripps College; Waitlisted UCLA; Rejected Brown University (deferred ED alas, my dream school no more!), Pomona College, UC Berkeley
[/ul]General Comments:
Scripps seems like a great fit for me, but without any aid I’m not sure that it’s a financially viable option. I guess I’ll wait until the acceptance packet arrives in the mail before making a final decision, though!</p>