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[aB][asize=4][acolor=#FFA500]Decision: Deferred [/color][/size]**
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 710 Reading, 530 Math (ugh), 620 writing
ACT (breakdown): 31 ENG, 24 MAT, 33 READ, 25 SCI, 30 WRITING
SAT II: none
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/32 (small early college)
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: all college courses; general bio (A), american history 1 (A), stats (A), intro to sociology (A), senior seminar (high school class, A)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Robert Scott Leadership Award (state-wide award for CC leaders), other than that I don’t thinkI had anything major, I’m at a very rural early college high school, I got student of the semester a bunch of times at my high school but we are so small that pretty much everyone gets at least one at one point
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS (secretary), my community college’s Student Gvt (vice president), peer tutor, rec volleyball (no sports at my school), school newspaper (editor-in-chief), School Improvement Club, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, viola, ukulele)
Job/Work Experience: worked at grocery and ice cream shop 15-18 hrs a week. Got promoted to shift manager at my job at the ice cream shop.
Volunteer/Community service: intern at nonprofit 18hrs/week for like 6 months, tutored elementary school students at an at-rick school, volunteered at local animal shelter, food drives with NHS, track meet volunteer
Summer Activities: Full-time intern at non-profit, took two summer classes, one high school, one college
Essays (rating 1-10, details):Common app essay was pretty strong, I would give it a 9. I wrote about what life is like trying to balance two cultures when you’re biracial. Since I’m Cuban I brought in some historical stuff about the travel ban etc
UNC essay was probably an 8, I picked the one about a new amendment and said everyone should be required to work a minimum wage job
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: 10, high school english teacher that had me for three years. absolutely love her!
Teacher Rec #2: 9, college professor I’ve had three semesters in a row for English. we talked about feminism a lot after class for hours haha
Counselor Rec: 8/10, she started at the beginning of my senior year so I tried to get to know her well
Additional Rec: had my bosses at my internship write me one, I’m pretty sure it was excellent because I worked really hard for them
Interview:
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: fafsa
Intended Major: BS in Psychology
State (if domestic applicant): NC
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: SMALL rural early college high school, 170ish students total
Ethnicity: Latina (Cuba, Guatemala) and white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: less than 50k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first gen. college, Latina, my uncle graduated in 2012, taking mostly college courses throughout hs
Reflection
Strengths: The fact that I’m basically a college student, my recs and essays
Weaknesses: DEFINITELY my test scores and my GPA. so so crappy, the EA pool was incredible this year.
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I definitely think I was deferred because of my grades. I had two semesters of a lot of B’s because I was really depressed (not mentioned anywhere on my app), and I think they want to see how my senior year is going. luckily I’m medicated now and I made straight A’s last semester so we’ll see. Probably not rejected because I’m Latina and In-state
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: accepted at Meredith College with a 20k/year scholarship (biggest one that you don’t have to compete for!), waiting on NCSU in March, a couple other safeties like UNCC and ECU but I don’t care about them
General Comments : I was crushed when I saw I was deferred. I was half expecting it due to my GPA and scores, but it hurt a lot. Luckily I retook both tests and did better and my GPA has went up. I am hoping it is enough because you all on this thread are insanely smart and I’m lucky they didn’t outright reject me! If you all think I will be accepted during the RD round please let me know, the waiting was agonizing and I need that glimmer of hope. Good luck to all of the other deferred students, and congrats to the accepted ones!
