Did not see one. Here we go.
STATS:
ACT (breakdown): 31(E29,M35, R31, S30)
Weighted College GPA: 4.0. HS:3.9/4.0
Major: Sociology
School: California Community College
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Math tutor at EOPS office, SI for STEM, Peer Mentor at International Student Center
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Teaching Assistant at Mandarin-Immersion Program
Atheletics: Table Tennis National Trial
[ *] Essays: Not bad
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Good
[ *] Interview: NO
[ *] Supplementary Material (portfolio, etc.): NO
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant): China
[ *] Strengths: probably essays
[ *] Weaknesses: low ACT score
[ *] Where else did you apply: Pomona, Wesleyan, Grinnell, Bowdoin, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Hopkins, Stanford, Swarthmore, Upenn, Williams, Columbia, UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCSB, UCI
[ *] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Pomona rejected, UCSD/UCSB accepted
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[ b]General Comments: Good luck guys!!
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 680 M, 790 CR, 720 W (2090)
ACT: 30
SAT II: None
College GPA (out of 4.0): 3.55
Pursuing major/study: Political Science and History
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Ambassador, mentor in disadvantaged youth program, (founder) international relations discussion group, student organizer for Sanders campaign
Job/Work Experience: Editorial internship at a major news media organization past two summers, year long position as a contributor and lower level editor at the same organization. Also work for a political fact-checking company.
Volunteer/Community service: Co-founder of a grassroots group that has organized worker strikes and protests to (successfully) increase wages at multiple businesses in the metropolitan area (second largest in our state), prevented tuition increases in the area, etc. Volunteer organizer and trainer for local and state level political campaigns.
Summer Activities: See “job” and “volunteer work”
Essays: Great. Personal about my own struggles with how school, politics, and race have negatively and positively affected my life. Essay about death of a friend as well.
Teacher Recommendation: One was amazing, one was good.
Additional Rec: Rec from Lead Editor at said news organization (amazing; alumni from Ivy) and from an adjunct professor at a top ten school I’ve known for a few years.
Interview: None
Other
School Type: Community College
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~$45k
Hooks: Black, first generation American but my father has graduated from college. Failed out of my first college then enrolled in community college. I’m now an honors student and completed my own independent research project which I’ll be presenting at a statewide conference.
Reflection
Strengths: Made clear my field of study (politics), how well-versed I was in it, and my clear academic need for transfer.
Weaknesses: The fact I failed my first tew semesters of college. My GPA isn’t HIGH (3.55 GPA, 3.7+ as of midterm) largely because of my job and community commitments. I have a weak ACT and “average” SAT because I haven’t retaken it since high school.
Where else did I apply: Brandeis, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Hampshire, JHU, U of Chi, Georgetown, WUSTL, Yale, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, Northwestern.
@NovusCannis I think you have a good shot!! Have you heard back from any other school yet?
@calvinwong thanks! I hope so, I won’t hear back from any school until mid April (Hampshire) then every school in May. The problem is that I really have no real gauge cause I don’t know how they’ll take the holistic approach. This is my second semester at this school, doing great, but I bombed my first two a year ago in university. So fingers crossed. I think you have good chances too!
Got into Hampshire! The rest in the next few weeks fingers crossed
@NovusCannis Congrats!! Which one is your top choice?
I would LOVE Harvard but Amherst is my top pick all things considered. The town and campus are gorgeous, small, and it aligns perfectly with what I want to study. You?
@NovusCannis Well, put aside the chances, I would hell yeah LOVE to go attend Stanford. To be realistic, Amherst, Upenn, Hopkins and Brown would be my choices.
hey guys,
do you know when the decisions will be send out? have you gotten any e-mails recently?
good luck 
@szafir no, I did not hear back. I guess it would be mid May since it was usually around that time
I got an email from admissions asking me to email them my Transfer Midterm Report. I didn’t realize I needed to do anything else since everything was complete on the acdata webpage.
Hopefully this doesn’t hurt me too much.
That’s not a required piece of the application so I guess they want to see how you’re doing? Anyone from past years know if a midterm report request is a good sign / bad sign / insignificant?
Oh, I didn’t know that. Hopefully it’s not a bad thing rather a good sign or insignificant
How long ago did they email you? It’s probably not a bad thing if I had to guess - how many credits do you have completed?
Was emailed on Friday. They wanted it scanned and emailed by the 26th. I have 40something credits completed.
Hopefully a former transfer applicant can chime in. Anyone else get a midterm report request?
Did you guys just get the email with their pre-notification?
@sam998 yes, I did! I had a small heartattack, thinking oh no, here it comes.
Yes! So I guess we will all know before May 15th, good luck guys!