Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1340
ACT (breakdown): 33
SAT II: French 590, Literature 680, World History 790
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 15%
AP (place score in parenthesis): US Gov’t 5, AP US History 4, AP Lang 5
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP Lit, Dual Enrollment French 4, AP Stats, AP Micro, Honors Physics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Harvard Book Award
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Speech and Debate (2 time national qualifier, team president), Academic Challenge, Science Club, Math Club, International Club (this is a combo of French, Latin, Chinese, and Spanish club. I’m the head of the French part.
Job/Work Experience: I’ve worked at Goodwill for about a year
Volunteer/Community service: I run/created a STEM club for elementary school girls in my town
Summer Activities: summer jobs
Essays (rating 1-10, details): All of them were 8-9 I think. I had two English teachers read them and they both said that they were good.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10. I really connected with this teacher (AP Lang) when I had him and we still keep in touch a lot and talk a lot outside of school. He also has a lot of experience writing letters of rec.
Teacher Rec #2: 8-9. I had her for French for 2 years in a row, so I think that she knows me pretty well. She doesn’t write many recommendations though, so I don’t know if it was as good as the first one.
Counselor Rec: 8-9. My counselor has been doing this for a long time, and I think that she knows me better than a lot of the other students at my school.
Additional Rec: N/A
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: International Affairs/Relations
State (if domestic applicant): Ohio
Country (if international applicant): USA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: <75k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None really, unless LGBT counts, I brought it up in essays.
Reflection
Strengths: Test scores, letters of rec
Weaknesses: GPA, essays maybe
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I’m not entirely sure. Maybe class rank. I’ve seen a lot of other people with worse stats than me be accepted.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected:
Accepted:
George Mason University
Northeastern University
Wait-listed:
UCLA
Deferred:
Georgetown (EA)
Rejected:
Boston U
Still Waiting:
NYU
George Washington
Georgetown (RD)
Brown
Berkeley
General Comments : I don’t really understand why I didn’t get in, but I still have chances at other schools. Good luck to everyone.