Decision: deferred
College: LSA
[ b]Objective:**
SAT I (breakdown): 2110 (720 CR, 680 M, 710 W)
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II (place score in parentheses):
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): school doesn’t provide GPA, but 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
AP (place score in parentheses): 3 (school only offers 12 total APs, but I’ve taken 4 honors courses as well) - US History score = 5
IB (place score in parentheses):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Environmental Science, AP World, Advanced Latin 5, Calculus (2 trimesters), English, graphic design, PE, inward pilgrimage (religion course)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Scholar, Commended
[ b]Subjective:**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): 3 years of Business Club (Co-head), 2 years of mock trial, 4 years of current events club, 2 years as peer tutor in school writing center (not that many get asked), 3 years of varsity lacrosse, 1 year of jv squash, 1 year of jv soccer, 1 year of varsity tennis
Job/Work Experience: summer restaurant job, caddy at nearby golf course
Volunteer/Community Service: summer internship at non-profit, camp counselor at local church camps
Summer Activities:: (see job and community service)
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common app essay - 9 (worked very hard on it and made it personal), Michigan essays - 9 (edited them a lot to make them very detailed)
Teacher Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):: history teacher - 9 (he knew me well, I did great in his class, and he seemed excited to write it), physics teacher - 7? (she liked me and i did well in the class but didn’t know me that well)
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details):: likely about a 6-7, he doesn’t know me that well
Additional Rec (rating 1-10, details)::
Interview:
[ b]Other**
Applied for Financial Aid?no
State (if domestic applicant): PA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
Income Bracket: don’t need financial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[ b]Reflection**
Strengths: high school grades, history teacher letter of recommendation, National Merit scholar commendation, internship, coarse load (at my school it’s pretty rigorous), recently wrote letter acknowledging deferral and explaining UM was top choice and did well first semester
Weaknesses: not many academic awards, SAT math as high as I’d like
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: possibly waiting on first trimester grades or seeing if I am truly interested in going (I did an official tour and info session right before the application was due, so it may look like i didn’t really care)
Where else you are applying or have already applied: rejected ED from Vandy
if anyone can provide any opinion/ideas about if my chances of now getting in for RD, that’d be great. for my school, my “stats” are strong and UM was down as a possible by my counselor, but now who knows. thanks for any help you guys can provide, you’re all more knowledgeable than me lol.