Admissions Decisions Class of 2020

@dirtysprite2 I don’t know of anyone else that’s heard besides the batch that went out in late December. I doubt that they’re done sending out letters. I know so many people from my school who applied and have not heard back yet. I think with the holidays coming in December, they didn’t get to all of the applications. I would expect more will go out next week with the interview weekend coming up so soon.

thanks!

do you know when the interview weekend is? @Chopinspiano

@dirtysprite2 Feb 5th and 6th.

Decision: Accepted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2320 (770 math 770 cr 780 writing)
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.597
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10/337
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: a lot haha
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nm semifinalist, SASEF 4th overall, Yale science & engineering award, national spanish exam silver

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): bleh too much. important stuff: philosophy club president, sci bowl, scholars bowl, spanish club/ honors society vp, model un
Job/Work Experience: research assistant
Volunteer/Community service: founded a club that fund-raises for compassion international
Summer Activities: got a grant thro NIH to work at UTK’s enviro biotech lab, did some traveling, and enjoyed not being in school :wink:
Essays (rating 1-10, details): eh. not my best 6
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):

Teacher Rec: 10 from one 6 from another. the second one did it super last minute even tho I asked her months ago >:(
Counselor Rec: 9 she doesn’t know me super well, but i think she wrote me a good rec

Other:

Applied for Financial Aid?: yep? i think?
Intended Major: wow idk this question stresses me out
State (if domestic applicant): TN
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: mid size public school, one of the best in the state, so super competitive
Ethnicity: white
Gender: f
Income Bracket: >100
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): not so much

Reflection: yay! I got into college!

Strengths: recs, extracurriculars
Weaknesses: essays
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: numbers
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: USC Columbia honors

General Comments: going to the honors college interview weekend, and I’m super pumped! Hope to get to meet some of you there!

Congrats @hogwarts2019 . My son was also accepted to Honors and invited to interview weekend.

Thank you @carolinamom2boys, hope to meet you all there!

Finally heard back! Accepted!
Biology Major!

Still haven’t relieved my snail mail acceptance though…just online. Its taking forever! Anyone else’s taking a long time???

Accepted OOS! biology major also!!