Any advice/suggestions is welcome
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2180 (M:760, W:750 essay 11, CR: 670) should i have taken it again you think?
ACT (breakdown): haven’t taken it
SAT II: Chem 750, math II 780
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): around 3.85, W: 4.6
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): BC (5), Chem(4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Euro, AP Comp. Gov.,H English, and H Chinese, taking a multivar class at Yale, too
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): CTY Talented Youth search in 8th grade
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): FBLA, Investment club (helped find a school funding aspect to this), wrestling V 9-12, XC 9-10 jv, track 9 jv, independent stock investor (I put in 2 hours a week toward research)
Job/Work Experience: private tutor at Kumon and for a little while at mathnasium, caddy, private contractor at indian weddings as a waiter (family needs help w/ income)
Volunteer/Community service: 100 hrs at local hospital-- is that too little?
Summer Activities: internship at mathnasium, have to caddy for family income, I play golf for fun
Essays: i wrote them lol, and I thought they were all 9/10 each
Teacher Recommendation: calc and english teacher probs 8 or 9/10 each
Counselor Rec: meh 8/10 generic
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: N/A
Applied for Financial Aid?: I will
Intended Major: Finance
State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: hispanic
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: <70k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, first gen
Reflection: I hope I get in. It may be cliche, but I think I worked my ass off with everything going on.
Strengths:
What you tried to focus on in your application - my maturity/independence (parents divorced/work all day) and love for business/math
Weaknesses: SATs? GPA too?
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/deferred/rejected:
The most unique thing in your application: overcoming hardships-- obesity, parents divorced/work all day