<p>Decision: Accepted to the College</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[li] **SAT I <a href=“breakdown”>/b</a>: 730 CR, 800 W, 770 M[/li][li] ACT: 33 (36M, 33R, 33W, 30S)[/li][li] SAT II: 700 USH, 800 Math2, 780 Chem[/li][li] GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95? (only 1 A- 9-11 grades)[/li][li] **Rank<a href=“percentile%20if%20rank%20is%20unavailable”>/B</a>: 1 or 2 out of 202[/li][li] **AP<a href=“place%20score%20in%20parenthesis”>/b</a>: Chem (5), Stat (5), APUSH (5)[/li][li] **Senior Year Course Load: **Health, AP Lit, AP Physics C: E&M, Honors Physics, AP Calc BC, French V, AP Comp Sci[/li][li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none (several small math awards, school awards, AP Scholar, National Merit Commended)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[li] Extracurriculars<a href=“place%20leadership%20in%20parenthesis”>/B</a>: Math Team (captain), another regional math team, academic team, gymnastics, concert band (section leader), jazz band (section leader)[/li][li] Job/Work Experience: clarinet tutor, worked at Chinese restaurant 2 summers[/li][li] Volunteer/Community service: freshman year, traveled to NYC and volunteered for an entire week; around 30 hours sprinkled throughout soph & junior years[/li][li] Summer Activities: **worked in restaurant, had internship at a nonprofit math magazine last summer, traveled some, studied (sigh), etc. [/li][li] Essays: used my common app essay for the background one (teachers told me it was good, i worked for a looooooong time perfecting it)[/li]EC essay was a bit long, but had a good message about my years in gymnastics
my why the college essay was very determined-sounding and ambitious. i basically said all that’s missing from georgetown is me. quite cute
[li] Teacher Recommendation: i had 3 teacher recs (assuming all 8/10 or above) and [/li][li] Counselor Rec: my counselor rec was a rehash of my ECs but she said i was “one of the most amazing students” she has ever met[/li][li] Additional Rec: n/a[/li][li] Interview: **connected with my interviewer (he was a lawyer) and he seemed pleased with our convo. it was mostly informational and he got me really excited about GU actually!</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Massachusetts
[</em>] School Type: good public (around 800 kids) sends a couple kids to top-tier schools each year
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) <–antihook!
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: less than 30,000 (but we have a lot of assets)
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation college in the US? i’m a permanent resident too, but i don’t think that affects anything</p>
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: essay content and style, i think i matched georgetown’s preferred student profile of high test scores and high rank. i think my english teacher wrote me a really excellent rec letter as well. my personality and aspirations definitely shined through my app
[</em>] Weaknesses: difficult demographic (female asian from MA…seriously, how many thousands of those are out there?), my only liberal arts SAT2 was kind of low (700), and i wrote my essays the night they were due
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: for reasons mentioned above
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i’ve been accepted to Babson (52k a year) and fordham already. waiting on UChicago mostly.</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
really happy about this! couldn’t be more excited to be a Hoya (if UChicago doesn’t work out). the most important part of holistic admissions is to show what kind of person you are. don’t be worried that you have to be this EC-superhero or have won Intel science fair or whatever to gain entrance into a school like georgetown. be YOU (with good grades and test scores) and YOU might surprise yourself</p>
<p>good luck to everyone in their future endeavors!</p>
