<p>Sorry, I am technologically challenged, so my department is not in your specified font. Anyways, I applied through primary/alternate: Primary is A & S for English, Alternate is AAP for fine arts.</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR, 780 WR, 650 and 640 M (yeah, math was a tanker)
ACT: 28 and 30. Superscored is 31. The cherry on top is my 36 in English.
SAT II: 710 Lit, 710 World history, 710 US history, 580 French (ignore, please!)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I dunno. Out of 100 it is 95-ish.
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/322
AP (place score in parenthesis): World (5), US (5), Eng lang (4), Chem (3)
Senior Year Course Load: APs French, Eng Lit, US Gov’t, Bio. non-ap is Calc Honors. Independent Study in Art. Orchestra (Yup, it’s a “pseudo-passion”.)
Major Awards: None. Really. Only local, ho-hum awards.</p>
<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society (Secretary), National Art Honor Society, Chamber Orchestra, artwork (sent in a portfolio)
Job/Work Experience: retail in tourist area throughout high school.
Volunteer/Community service: Hah. I wish. I am very dispassionate about my community. I’ve only helped to paint murals in various places and won a memorial day poster contest.
Summer Activities: art camp, pre-college program at Skidmore College in studio art. Work.
Essays: Common App is about my artistic passion/work ethic. My Cornell essays sucked, in my opinion.
Teacher Recommendation: I guess that they sufficed because I’ve already gotten into SUNY Geneseo, a small, rather competitive state school
Counselor Rec: Sufficed. I was sort of a nuisance to her in the beginning of this year, but she’s cool with it.
Additional Rec: Art Teacher who adores me, not gonna lie.
Interview: Really dumb. Like talking to your average suburban book-club soccer mom neighbor who was obviously smart enough to get into Cornell, but otherwise has been dumbed down by the role that society has given her.</p>
<p>Other:
State (if domestic applicant): NY, ruh-pree-SENT!
School Type: Suburban public well-sized high school (more than 300 kids per grade).
Ethnicity: this is where I am disadvantaged. Chinese-American. Taiwanese, to be exact.
Gender: Female. My gender won’t help me because I am not into math, science or engineering.
Income Bracket: Below $ 60,000. I am definitely in this for the financial aid.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Hah. More like, ORM. Well, my artistic ability may count for something.</p>
<p>Reflection: Um, not yet. Will let you know, I promise.</p>