<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 750 M 780 R 800W 9 (2330) (1st sitting)
• SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800 780 800 9 (2380) (took it twice)
• ACT (breakdown):
• ACT superscore (breakdown):
• SAT II (subject, score): 800’s Chem, Math, Bio E, Physics
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.79
• Weighted GPA: 4.4
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School does not rank
• AP (place score in parentheses): Calculus BC-A(5), Chemistry-A (5), Biology-A (5), APUSH –A (4), Spanish Lang-B (4), English Language Composition-A (3), European History-A (3)
• IB (place score in parentheses):
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics, AP Statistics, AP Gov/Macroecon, Guitar, Chemical lab technician, English 12 CP, EPGY Online Intermediate C Programming(A)
• Number of other applicants in your school: 3 accepted in EA (6 rejected in regular)
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): None
• Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): NMSQT finalist, NHRP Scholar with distinctions, National AP Scholar with distinctions</p>
<p>Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): A lot with leadership in almost each one. I even went to nationals for table tennis and I founded 2 local table tennis programs as well as one club. I even had a research internship at a cancer diagnostics startup where I wrote part of a clinical analysis. 12 years piano player receiving guild diploma this June.
• Job/Work Experience: none
• Volunteer/Community Service: Soup kitchen, food bank work and homeless sandwich program founder, worked at a space museum for an entire summer operating telescopes
• Summer Experience: Summer Research Internship at a start-up, EPGY Summer Program- Discrete Math, EPGY Online C Programming</p>
<p>Writing (Subject, 1-10 rating, details):
• Essays:
o What You Do For Pleasure: play video games (7/10, world full of second chances and redemption)
o Department at MIT: Course 6-7 (8/10, Computational Biology)
o Trait Most Proud Of: Creativity and sense of humor, (9/10, allowed me to establish meaningful relationships with people all over the world)
o World You Come From: multicultural school, table tennis, tutoring (10/10, pretty dang good)
o Significant Challenge: breaking my foot (10/10, ended my career as a major soccer player and cross country runner)
o Additional Essay/QB Essays: I just talked about my time at EPGY, MIT WISE, and self-studying for the AP Physics C exam this year
• Recommendations (teacher’s subject, 1-10 rating, details):
o Teacher Recommendation #1: Honors Physics/AP Physics teacher(Didn’t see it but I’m definitely in his top 5 favorite students, 10/10)
o Teacher Recommendation #2: Honors English, sophomore year (Didn’t see it but 9/10 for sure. showed improvement in my writing throughout the year and I know he liked me. However, from a 10th grade teacher so that good have been bad for me)
o Counselor Rec: ??? (I’m from a huggeee public school so I have no idea what to expect)
o Additional Info/Rec:
• Interview: 9/10 It was in person at a local coffee shop with a MIT PhD working in Berkeley
• Art Supplement:</p>
<p>Other
• Date Submitted App: 12/18 I think
• U.S. State/Territory or Country: Ca
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket Range: $100k+
• Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athlete, development): </p>
<p>Reflection
• Strengths: SAT’s, Essays, Research at Start-Up, Positive Grade trend 2 B’s in 9th , 1 B in 10th, 0 B in 11th
• Weaknesses: Freshmen Grades, no major awards
• Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: 3 others were accepted in EA, MIT has never admitted more than 3 in one year from my school
• What would you have done differently?:Apply Early to MIT</p>
<p>Other Factors: </p>
<p>Where else were you Accepted/Rejected: Accepted-USC (1/2 Tution), UI Urbana (Achievement + Engineering Scholarship), CMU, U Michigan, UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UC Irvine (Honors), UCSB&UCD (Regent), WAITLIST- WUSTL, MIT, Rice, Northwestern REJECTED: Stanford (EA), Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, UPenn, Cornell</p>
<p>General Comments & Advice: Congratulations to everyone else who was accepted! To those waitlisted or rejected: Keep believing in yourself</p>