Can more graduated seniors do "actual results" threads?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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9:
English 9H: A-, A-
Biology H: A-, B+
Geometry CP: A-, A-
Spanish 2 CP: A-, B
Career Prep: B (z_z)
Auto Safety: A
Health: A
Art Media: B, A
WGPA: 4.04UW: 3.7
10:
English 10H: A-, A
Chemistry H: A-, A
Spanish 3 CP: A-, A-
Algebra 2 CP: A, A
Computer Graphics: A, A
Euro AP: A, A
WGPA: 4.27
UW: 3.85
11:
English 11AP: A, A
Chemistry AP: B, B
Math Anal CP: A-, A-
Psych AP: A, A
APUSH: A-, A-
Advanced Computer Graphics: A, A
WGPA: 4.35
UW: 3.85 (3.8472)
UCGPA: 4.29 (if English H is not counted)
12
Physics C AP: A, A
English 12AP: A, A
Stat AP: A, A
Comp Sci AP: A, A
Human Geo: A, A
US Gov AP/Econ H: A, A

12 APs total (11 AP classes, 1 honors to self-taught [Econ])
Test scores:
SAT I: 2320 (780 CR, 780 W, 760 Math)
SAT II: 770 Chem, 790 USH–660 Math II (most likely will retake or not send)
PSAT: 205

ECs:
Editor and writer for a blog about travel with special needs children
Clubs:
President and founder of Linguistics Club (11, 12)
Founding member of MUN (12)
Editor of Literary Chronicles (11, 12)
Volunteering at Rec Center (9)
Member of Philosophy Club (9, 10)
Member of Red Cross Club (10, 11, 12)
-Activities Coordinator (12)
Member of “padder” club-volunteering, etc. (11, 12)

Community Service:
Red Cross: approx. 40 hours (18 hrs/year)
Friendship Circle (11, 12): 40 hours (33 hrs/year)
Rec Center: 20 hrs (20 hrs/year)
Youth Leadership Congress:
20 meetings, 40 hrs/year
-Web Moderator (11), unknown (12)
Community Emergency Response Team: 18 hours training, 4 events participated)
Certified in First Aid and CPR

Other:
Hebrew High School (9, 10)

Work Experience:
Editor for blog about autistic rights and activism (10, 11, 12)

Awards:
AP scholar w/ Distinction
National Merit Commended
Some writing contests? (I don’t know if Teen Ink publication counts)
Honor Roll
CSF (all years)

Accepted:
UC Berkeley
USC (full tuition)
UCSD
UC Santa Barbara (Regents, Honors)
Tulane (full tuition)
Emory
University of Miami (20,000/year)
NYU

Waitlisted:
UCLA
Rice
Claremont McKenna

Rejected:
UChicago
WashU
Stanford

Attending:
USC

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@TheIllusionist

shut up nerd. that was one of the most crybaby posts i’ve ver heard

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Call it what you want but that is how I felt. I definitely don’t feel that way right now. The melodramatic phase is over. Also, I wouldn’t go around trying to use nerd as an insult on CC. Most of us, including yourself, are probably intelligent human beings that embrace their level of intellect.

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Rejected:
Brown (was deferred from early decision)
UPenn
Wesleyan University
Waitlisted:
Johns Hopkins
Accepted
Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg (With $15,000 presidential scholarship)
and Lafayette (With $31,000 tuition exchange)

I’m a white male living in the suburbs of eastern Pennsylvania and going to a good but not great public school.

Stats:
GPA- 87.37UW\94.912W for freshman-junior years, and 89.86UW\102.6W for senior year so far
Rank- 62 of 424 (14.6%)as of the end of junior year. It should be somewhere around the mid\high 40s right now
SAT- 760M 760CR 680W 1520\2200, I only took them twice and with nearly identical scores
SATII- MathII 760, and US History 770, only took them once
APs- 5 in American History, 4 in English Language, 5 in Macroeconomics, and 4 in American Government (I took all of these junior year, my school doesn’t allow AP classes before that)
Senior Courses: AP Physics B (2 credits), AP Psychology, AP European History, AP English Literature, AP Microeconomics, CP Statistics (the only math that fit in my schedule), and CP Etics.
I have taken almost entirely honors\AP classes all four years.

ECs:
Scholastic Scrimmage (general knowledge quiz bowl team), captain. I’ve been involved since freshman year and have been on varsity since sophomore year. Sophomore year we were in conference semifinals and the semifinals of a 40 school regional tournament. Junior year we were 2nd place in our conference and in the semifinals of the same regional tournament. This year we went 23-2 in the regular season and won the conference championship (which our school hadn’t won since 1999), qualifying us for nationals, which we will attend in June. In the PBS tournament I’ve been made a team captain for the all stars match. I was selected for this position out of 17 school teams.
Debate, cross examiner, on the finals team this year, we were conference champions last year. This year were 18-2, and took second place in our conference.
Philosophy Society, president
Students for Political Action, libertarian party chairman
Young Republicans Club, vice president
Chess, varsity (I was undefeated this year)
Mock Trial Court, I’m one of only seven students to make it on the team. This was our first year of competition and we won our district (the largest district in PA) and are now one of only 21 teams who haven’t been eliminated yet.
Creative Writing Club, executive committee officer since sophomore year
Principal Student Advisory Board
Library Advisory Board
Won 2nd Best Representative at Pennsylvania Model State Assembly last year
Voted “Class Einstein” in senior superlatives
I’ve worked at my local library since the end of my freshman year.

My essay is “very good but wouldn’t be amazing to Ivy League schools”, according to people who used to be admissions readers.
One of my teacher recommendations is going to be very good and the other is going to be absolutely fantastic. My counselor rec is going to be average.

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Accepted: Cornell, WUSTL, Boston College, UVM
Waitlisted: Brown, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Middlebury
Rejected: Dartmouth, Duke

Attending: Cornell

White male, NY, no hooks
Public HS

GPA: 3.90/4, 96.2/100, UW
Rank: 13 of 406 (rank is unweighted)
ACT: 35 (superscore), 34 (one sitting)
SATII: MathII 800, Physics 790, USHistory 790
APs: World History 5, US History 5, Physics B 5, English Language 5, Calculus BC 5
(10 total APs at graduation)

Extra:
Varsity Baseball, Speech and Debate, Math League, Science Olympiad, Community Service, etc.

Solid essays.

Not disappointed, not overly ecstatic. Happy about where I ended up and glad the wait is over.

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LOL I have a 3.3 GPA and I can’t take AP until senior year. I love when I see “3.8 GPA, varsity basketball, baseball, and soccer captain, president of NHS-unremarkable application”

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Accepted: UConn (EA), Northeastern (EA, full-tuition via National Merit), UChicago (EA), Carleton, Amherst, Columbia
Waitlisted: Yale (stayed on), Rice (did not pursue)
Rejected: Harvard, Brown

Objective:

[ul]
[<em>]GPA: 4.25W, 3.8ishUW
[</em>]SAT: 2390 (790M, 800CR, 800W - 10E)
[li]SATII: 790 Chemistry, 790 U.S. History, 740 Spanish (non-listening)[/li][/ul]

Subjective:

  • [<em>]Extracurriculars: bassist in school orchestra and jazz band (plus a few local festivals and whatnot), co-founder and -captain of debate team, member of school litmag, part-time work at a local hotel’s banquet halls, etc.
    [</em>]Awards: nothing notable – NMF, Brandeis Book Award, some kind of AP Scholar thing
    [<em>]Essays: probably my best asset; wrote about people I work with for the Common App.
    [</em>]Recs: didn’t read, don’t feel like speculating lol. I assume they were both good though.

Miscellany:

[ul]
[<em>]State: CT
[</em>]School type: decent public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Sex: Male
[li]Hooks (?): Not sure. I sent in a music supplement to all my schools except Rice, Harvard, and Brown, and didn’t get into any of them, but got in everywhere else… Hmmm. I do play an unusual orchestral instrument so it may have helped.[/li][/ul]

Final comments: Still deciding between Columbia, UChicago, and Amherst. Columbia gave me fantastic financial aid; still no word from Chicago or Amherst, but it’s nice to know I can definitely attend one of the three. This admissions process is so stupid and random, and it really brings out the worst in people. I highly recommend that future applicants keep their admissions junk to themselves. Don’t make it public knowledge where you applied, where you got in, how much financial aid you got, etc. It gets awkward, especially when Ivy Day rolls around and people’s egos are shattered. Also, anyone who judges someone else based on whether they were admitted to a school with a <25% acceptance rate (or really, any acceptance rate) is a moron.

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Seeing all you guys with 2300s on the SAT and still only getting acceptances from safeties is crushing my college dreams. I pray that I won’t be cheated like that when I become a senior.

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Applied: Suffolk County Community College
Accepted: Suffolk County Community College
Rejected:
Attending: Suffolk County Community College

School Type: Public
Location: New York
Race/Gender: Human/Male

SAT Scores 1330: (Math: 400, Critical Reading: 470, Writing: 460)
(Only took the SAT’s once and didn’t take a preparation test)

Weighted avg. of 87.7 for Senior year
Weighted avg. of 73.4 for Junior year
(They didn’t give GPA’s and I don’t have access to Freshman and Sophomore avg’s but I know I fell somewhere btwn my Senior and Junior yr in terms of performance.)

Extra-curriculars:

  • Track Team (1/2 yr)

Work Experience:

  • McDonalds for about 2 years

Additional Notes: I have no problem sharing this with the world. In High School, I didn’t apply myself. I am now in Community College with a GPA of 3.5, on the Deans List, in the Honors Program and in a totally different mindset then when I was back then. I have a semester left and I plan on getting all A’s. Live and learn.

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i live in suffolk!
did you go to melville by any chance?
and it’s great to see that suffolk has worked out so well for you, congratulations :slight_smile:

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No, your close! I’m from the Babylon area. Wait, isn’t Melville apart of HHH??

And SCCC is great, I attend the Grant campus. It’s a beautiful campus, lots of greenery and nice buildings: mature environment. Tutoring is very good for the most part and the Business department is great! <em>Most</em> of the staff and professors are very friendly and helpful. I just hate the fact that the cafeteria food is disgusting AND overpriced and there is not that much of a campus life at all, but I guess that’s Community College for ya.

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it’s part of Three Village. i’m currently a junior there :slight_smile:
and i might be taking a course at suffolk this summer so that’s great to know, tyvm for the info!

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The final results!

Accepted: Bard, Bennington, Hampshire, Allegheny, University of Vermont, University of Rhode Island, Green Mountain College, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Geneseo

Waitlisted: Sarah Lawrence (if only they looked at SATs!)

Rejected: Vassar, Macalaster, Colby, Hamilton

Objective:

GPA: 3.4-3.5 UW, 3.75W
SAT: 800 CR 580 M 720 W 2100 total
SAT II: 800 Lit 750 US History

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: Music related, social justice/charity/activism related
Work: 3 years at a job probably not seen all too often on applications
Awards: HA
Essays: Pretty solid common app one that was sort of light and witty but hopefully revealed some depth; individual school essays varied.
Recs: One decent, one very good/and personal, one nice but obviously from a template

Final thoughts: One word of advice: don’t apply early decision without really thinking hard about it first. I applied early decision to Vassar almost on a whim, and while I would probably have been happy there, I’m glad I didn’t get in. Instead, I got into the college that I originally wanted to, before I was swayed by the prestige of Vassar (Bard). I have a friend who did get in ED to a school she now doesn’t want to attend. I’m sure things will work out for her, but I would advise caution.

ANYWAY I’m very happy with how things turned out. I’m probably going to Bard, the first school I really fell in love with, without taking out completely crippling loans. Good luck those reading through this thread next year!

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Applied: Swarthmore, Pomona, Wesleyan, UCLA, Bryn Mawr, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Barnard, Scripps, Mills, Brandies

Accepted: Swarthmore, Pomona, Bryn Mawr (merit), Smith (merit), Mount Holyoke (merit), Barnard, Scripps, Mills (merit) and Brandies (also UC Merced though I did not apply lol)

Waitlisted (did not accept place): Wesleyan

Rejected: UCLA

SATs: 2040: 760 CR, 700 W, 580 M Subject Tests: 710 Lit, 680 US History

APs: APUSH (5)

IBs: HL Bio, HL English, HL History, HL1 Spanish (SL), SL Econ, SL Math Studies (IB Diploma Candidate)

GPA: 4.0 weighted, 3.8 UW, 4.6 Sr Year

ECs:
Ballet Class
Teaching Ballet to Autistic kids
Teen Court
Heifer fundraiser dinner (organized and hosted)
AIDS Walk
Science tutor

Class rank: top 15%

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Accepted: UCB, UCLA, UCD, UCSD, UCI, UCSB, Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Duke

Waitlisted: Brown, Cornell, Penn, Washington U. in St. Louis, Johns Hopkins

Denied: Northwestern, Rice, Stanford

Planning to Attend: Duke (majoring in Neuroscience and pre-med discipline)

SAT I (breakdown): 2210- 680 CR, 750 M, 780 W, Essay: 11/12
SAT II: SAT II Biology M: 790, SAT II Math L2: 760, SAT II U.S. History: 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0, 4.79 weighted
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/256
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Biology (5), APUSH (4), AP English Lang. (5), AP Calculus AB (5), AP Calculus BC (5), AP Chemistry (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP French Language, AP English Lit., AP Statistics, AP Environmental Science, Econ/Govt (required to graduate)

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): California State Legislature Assembly Leadership Award in Health, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, President of French Honors Society, MVP of Varsity Tennis team
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Youth Leadership Institute, President of Health Committee, passed a bill concerning health in schools, Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra, Founder President of Cultural Diversity club and Tennis club, etc.(these were major ones)
Job/Work Experience: Kaiser Perm. LAUNCH Summer Youth Employment program paid intern in Radiology
Volunteer/Community service: Canal Alliance, Member of California Scholarship Foundation, Peer Tutoring after school, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Marin Indian American Association
Summer Activities: UC Davis COSMOS program, UC Berkeley ATDP program, Kaiser job

Final Thoughts: To those applying next year, make sure you do something for your community, be a leader, not just for college but to build your personality. As always get good (better than mine to be safe) SATs and a high GPA in a rigorous courseload. With unique, passionate essays, I’d say you’re pretty much good. Choose a wide range of colleges, with more reaches than matches if you seem borderline (like me), as I got into Duke. Good luck.

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This was a very tough year for RD acceptances. The message to my younger twin siblings is focus on a college you really like and apply ED.

Accepted: University of Virginia (attended summer program sophomore and junior years and received recommendations from instructors there), William & Mary, Wake Forest, Ohio State (honors and big scholarship), Virginia Tech (honors)

Wait List: University of Chicago (took self off), Duke (still on), Johns Hopkins (took self off) – Surprised I made wait list at all three – both parents Duke legacies and this may be why I made that one but hope springs eternal

Rejected: Vanderbilt (this one stung because I attended Vandy’s summer program senior year, and my main instructor, who is graduate student there, gave me a glowing recommendation; also this was my first choice, and I still think it is an awesome school)

wGPA 4.3 (one B in high school; AP worth five and no extra credit for numerous intensified or honors courses)

Top 2-3% at Top 100 HS in NOVA

AP 5’s – BC Calculus, Psychology, US History, Euro History

AP 4 – English Composition

Sr. Year Taking French 6 AP, Gov’t AP, Physics C (E, E&M) AP, and Multi-Variable Calculus (but no AP English Literature, probably a mistake on my part)

SAT 2130 (one sitting)

EC’s – Varsity track and cross country, HS math competitions, science and geography awards at regional level, several academic clubs, including history,math, and french; decent volunteer work (long term) including at nursing home and historical society

Strong teacher and GC recommendations

Solid essays, especially UChicago – comparing Plato with Play Doh (really cool topic)

Have not made final decision yet – want to major in physics or math, and it is between UVA, W&M, or OSU

Good luck to all as you wrestle with where to apply next year!!!

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Accepted: UPortland, Seattle U, U of Washington, Northeastern, UChicago EA, Georgetown EA, GWU, Stanford, Boston U

Waitlisted: Tufts

Rejected: Yale, Columbia

Objective:

GPA: 4.0 UW
SAT: 800 CR 720 M 760 W 2280 total
SAT II: 800 Lit 780 US History 700 Math II 710 Bio-E

Subjective:
Extracurriculars: founded a nonprofit that has raised $500,000; volunteered 1000+ hours for a children’s hospital; state-ranked public forum debate and oratory speech; published magazine article
Work: 2 years at a gourmet pizza restaurant
Awards: Nat’l Spanish Exam silver; President’s Award in Community Service gold 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011; Sen Murray’s Golden Tennis Shoe Award (prestigious in WA state); Nat’l Merit Scholar (yes, with the NMSQT money); ummm I know there’s more…
Essays: I think they were good…
Recs: my counselor loves me, mu debate coach wrote one, and I had an extra from US Senator Patty Murray

Final thoughts: I’m honestly shocked by Tufts and really sad about Columbia, but Yale I wasn’t expecting…they love leadership, and while I have tons I doubt it would make it through a filter (ie no church stuff–I’m irreligious–and no ASB whatsoever).

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Applied: MIT, Princeton, Williams, Duke, Penn, Michigan, Alabama, Minnesota

Rejected: MIT (deferred EA), Princeton

Waitlisted: Duke, Williams

Accepted: Michigan (EA plus Honors), Alabama (Full Ride), Minnesota (20k per year), Penn

Attending Penn!!!

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2210
SAT I superscore (breakdown): n/a
ACT (breakdown): 35: 35E, 34M, 35R, 35S
ACT superscore (breakdown): 35
SAT II: 800 Chemistry, 800 Math II, 800 Latin, 800 US History
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.99
Weighted GPA: 4.386
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/230 Weighted (6/230 UW)
AP (place score in parentheses): 5s on US History, Chemistry, Calculus AB, Macroeconomics, Latin Vergil
IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, World History, AP Calculus BC, AP Lit, Latin IV, Band
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
NMSF, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, 2x National Latin Exam Gold Medal (although none of these are major lol)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Various music group-Marching Band (Section leader 11-12), Symphonic Band, Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra, Pit Orchestra, Private lessons, Solo and Ensemble, etc; Quiz Bowl (Captain 11-12); Science Olympiad; Latin Club (Treasurer 11, President 12); Math Club (VP 12); Boys State
Job/Work Experience: Worked at grocery store for 2 summers, like 25 hrs per week
Volunteer/Community service:
Mentoring (listed on common app but not on

State (if domestic applicant): Michigan
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public (<1000 kids)
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100k or so
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
None, unless being from a ‘rural’ area counts. And my town is not THAT rural anyway…like 10,000 people.

Reflection
Strengths: Scores, GPA, rigor.
Weaknesses: No major awards, ECs not deep enough.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: See weaknesses
What would you have done differently?:
Not stressed as much. Penn '16 yo.

Thanks CC; it was fun. Goodbye.

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(update on previous post with all college results)

School Type: Large Public (+2000 students)
State: California
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket (combined): +200k (unfortunately meant no aide to school like Carnegie Mellon and USC, which we could afford, but would be huge burden)

GPA UW (10-12): 4.00
GPA W (10-12): 4.3333
GPA UW (9-12): 4.00
GPA W (9-12): 4.2174

COURSES:

10th Grade Courses:
English II
Algebra II Honors
Comp Sci AP (4 on exam)
Contemp. Media II (fine art)
PE (2 years required to graduate)
World History
Spanish I

11th Grade Courses:
US History
Chem AP Lab
Chem AP Lecture (5 on exam)
Math Analysis Honors (equivalent of Trig+first trimester of Calc)
English III
Spanish II
Statistics AP (4 on exam)
Game Programming

12th Grade Courses (with first semester grades when applicable):
Spanish III (took during summer, A’s both semesters)
Calc BC AP - A
Physics AP - A
English AP - A
Economics (1st semester)/ AP Gov (2nd semester) - A
Math Tutoring - A

Also, for languages, I have taken Spanish for 3 years, but I speak fluent Russian as well, it was my first language

TEST SCORES:

ACT Composite: 33
Math: 36
English: 33
Science: 30
Reading: 34
Combined English/Writing: 31

SAT II:
Math II: 790
Chemistry: 790

Class rank: top ~5% (unsure though, school doesn’t do rank)
Class size: 537

EC’s and Awards: CSF (California Scholarship Federation, 4 years), AP Scholar, Boys Tennis Team MVP (11th grade), Tradition of Excellence Award (for maintaining 4.0+ GPA grades 9-11), Boys Tennis Team Co-Captain (10th grade), Boys Varsity Tennis Captain (12th grade), Boys Varsity Tennis (4 years), 50+ Volunteer hours (assorted, but longest commitment was to City Hall last summer, about 20-30 hours total), Link Crew (helps new high-schoolers to adapt to my school, 12th grade), and my trump card, Chess: I am ranked in the top 100 in the United States for my age and have earned over $2500 competing in professional tournaments (a lot of which went towards College , have dedicated around 1500-2000 hours total (my current rating is 1950, if you know what that means)

Colleges
Major: Engineering (not 100% sure which kind)

Accepted:
Cal Poly SLO
UCSB (with Regents Scholarship)
UCSD
UC Davis
Penn State
Clemson University (OOS, but given money so only in-state cost)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon
USC (spring admission)

Waitlisted:
UCLA
Rice University

Denied:
UC Berkeley
Cornell University
Cooper Union
Harvey Mudd

1500

My official resignation from CC. After this post, I am forbidding myself from ever signing on to this website again (until med school apps roll around :P)

Applied: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UGA, GA Tech, UNC-CH, USC, Duke, Emory, Vandy

Rejected: Princeton (deferred EA)

Waitlisted: Harvard

Accepted: Duke (Robertson semi, did not receive), Yale, UNC-CH (Robertson semi, did not receive), UGA (Bernard Ramsey Scholar/FF Finalist), GT (President’s Scholar), Emory (Emory Scholar), Vanderbilt (Cornelius Vanderbilt Scholar), USC (Presidential Scholar)

Attending Emory or Vandy

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2360 (800CR, 790M, 770W)
SAT I superscore (breakdown): n/a
ACT (breakdown): n/a
ACT superscore (breakdown): n/a
SAT II: 750 Spanish, 790 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95 ish?
Weighted GPA:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/350
AP (place score in parentheses): 5s on seven exams, 4 on one
IB (place score in parentheses): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: AP Econs, AP Phys B, Multivariable Calc, AP Lit, AP Stats, Journalism 2,
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Natl Merit, Natl AP Scholar, Coke Scholar, many major science competitions (not like siemens or isef but similar), and lots of other little ones

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): president of 3 clubs (one of which i founded), officer of 2 others, member of two others
Job/Work Experience: tutoring
Volunteer/Community service: a lot of community work, including founder of a community program)

State (if domestic applicant): GA
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Azn
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 150k (don’t qualify for financial aid)
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection
Strengths: Scores, rigor, ECs, recs
Weaknesses: Grades not that great, interviews
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: grades probs, maybe seemed like i did too much? and my poor interviewing skills cost me a couple of scholarships ):
What would you have done differently?: practiced more for interviews lol