Decision: Accepted
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1420 total - 720 in reading & 700 in math
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: 610 in World History and 700 in Literature
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (My school only does unweighted)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2
AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A I took AP Chem and got a 98 but I didn’t send my score
IB : not offered at my school
Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Calculus AB, Government, Economics (2nd Semester), AP Biology, College Advisory, Weight Training
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I won NFTE BizCamp last summer (it’s an entrepreneurship program & I created a prosthetic business) [idk if that’s a major award], Honor roll & Principal’s List all four years, National Honor Society
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society (president - 2yrs), Student Government (President), Varsity Swim (2 Yrs), Varsity Track (1 Yr) Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief 3 Years) STEM Club, Model UN, Black Student Union (Founder)
Job/Work Experience: Never had a job
Volunteer/Community service: I love community service, I had 400+ hours, they didn’t ask my hours though. I tutor kids in history, algebra, calculus, english, Spanish, biology and whatnot. I organized volunteer trips to a soup kitchen as head of National Honor Society, I help out at school a lot, volunteer at/organize school tours, orientation and did the High School Fair twice. Did events at my school where we gave gifts to teachers who were having a rough time, and holiday teacher gifts.
Summer Activities: I work as a camp counselor every summer. Got paid last year but not the others. My camp has a special CIT program that includes leadership training, so I did that three summers ago.
Essays (rating 1-10, details): 10 for all; personally I loved my essays
Common App/Essay One: 10 - I talked about the cultural dissonance I felt in my Nigerian-American identity. I grew up in New York not surrounded by other Nigerians but by a wealth of cultures connected by the English language, an environment where homogeneity was celebrated, making it hard for me to hold onto my Nigerian identity. And how different my experience was growing up here, I was connected to Nigeria throigh food, music, and values but I didn’t feel like enough because I didn’t grow up in Nigeria surrounded by the culture or langugae, making me question my credibility. I talked about how this uncertainty permeated my identity, and how I was able to reconcile with my cultural identity through books. The writings of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which helped me see my experiences were universual and therefore authentic because the characters were like me despite being Nigerian-born. I talked about how I learned that being Nigerian was not a monolithic experience and so there was no reason why it couldn’t include me. I also talked aboout like how people judge my “Nigerianness:” and how it doens’t bother me anymore, because my identity cannot be invalidated, and there was a cute hook related to this, that I connected back to at the end.
Short Essay: 10 - I wrote about the newspaper, its significance to me. I talked about how I grew as a writer, how leading the staff changed and taught me. I wrote about the work that went into making the newspaper, and the pride I felt when I first held the finished product as editor-in-chief my sophomore year. I wrote about how we all came from different walks of high school, which made us stronger as a staff, and the importance of the different skills and passions they brought to each article, and how I was honored to work with them.
Essay Two: 10 - I talked about true education and how to me, it was about being able to engage with diverse people and cultures, and how that brings about self-awareness, and how it helps me because I want to be a writer, and how I can become a truly educated writer via Gtown. I talked about the english classes, what they would teach me, the small class sizes and how that helps with persepctives and help w/ professors. I also talked about the Jesuit values of Gtown, the importance and how it aligns w/ my values. I also talked about cross cultural communciation and how that is the basis of interactions. All in all, I talked about how Gtown would be the best place for me to educate myself as a writer & fuly formed human being.
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): 10? I only saw one by accident, but that was before he edited it. I have great relationships with those teachers. I asked my 11th grade Physics teacher, and my 11th grade English teacher.
Teacher Rec #1: Physics teacher - I know him really well, he’s one of my favorite teachers, I got a 98 in his class, I tutored some of the kids in Physics, we get along great. He sent it to me by accident before he re-edited it but it was pretty good.
Teacher Rec #2: My English teacher who I love, her class was amazing, I’m her favorite student in all her years teaching she said, and we get along great. She’s a great writer and she knows a lot about me, my writing abilities, me as a student and a person around school so I think it was good.
Counselor Rec: My college counselor wrote it, at this point in time, she liked me a lot, so it was pretty good I’m guessing. I didn’t see it but we had a good relationship then.
Additional Rec: I didn’t do an additional rec, not that I know of, my counselor may have sent in one from my 11th grade Algebra 2/Trig teacher, it would be pretty good. She taught me in 11th and 9th grade, and I was a good student, I tutored some of her students, and she was the NHS advisor.
Interview: It was really nice, we got along great. We had so much to talk about, the conversation flowed, I learned a lot about the school and her experience there. She said she was really impressed by me, the things I’ve done and the way I carry myself. It was one of my favorite interviews, and it helped me really love the school. I talked a lot about writing, why I want to be a writer and stuff like that.
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: English
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: female
Income Bracket: Oop I don’t know, my parents don’t let me see financials, but I think it’s <$30k, they don’t make a lot.
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I started a BSU at my school, the prosthetic thing, I don’t know. Oh, I got a grant fund thing at my school for the arts because of some article I wrote in the school newspaper.
Reflection
Strengths: My interview, essays, SAT score
Weaknesses: idk lol
Why you think you were accepted: My essays and interviews mostly.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: I applied all RD, so I haven’t heard back from everything yet.
Accepted: Boston College, Colgate, Franklin & Marshall, Ithaca, Northwestern (Medill School of Journalism)[today!!], Syracuse (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications), Washington University in St.Louis (WashU), Wheaton, and Cornell. Cornell sent me an email on the 13th that I’d be offered admission.
Rejected: Clark University
The rest haven’t come out yet: NYU, Tufts, Wesleyan, Bucknell, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, UPenn, Yale
@123Mom123 you asked
tried to put a lot of info
And I’m proud of my SAT score.
man, gtown’s my dream uni, why does this have to be like that