<p>Decision: Waitlisted - College</p>
<p>Objective:
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<p>[li]SAT I (breakdown): 2190 superscore - 800 Math, 700 CR, 690 W</p>[/li]
<p>[li] ACT: did not take</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: 710 US History, 650 Literature, 650 Math II</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9 unweighted, 4.75 weighted</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 7/343</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB (4), US History /li, Language & Comp (4)</p>
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis): none</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Government, AP Calc BC, AP Literature, AP Psych, Honors Forensics, Honors Physics, Digital Media, Gym</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar</p>[/li]
<p>[ /list][ b]Subjective:**[list]</p>
<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Class of 2013 - Treasurer (2 yrs), FBLA - Treasurer (3 yrs member, 1 yr T), NHS - Vice Pres (2 yrs member, 1 yr VP), Varsity Swimming (3 yrs), Model Congress - Star Party Whip (1 yr)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: Mad Science - Aug 2009-June 2010, Six Flags - August 2010-October 2011, Sonic Drive In - September 2012-present</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service: Church retreat leader every summer for 40+ hours in a week, 4 summers totalling over 160+ hours; NHS peer tutoring after school for a half hour 3 times a week</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities: Jersey Boys State, work</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: Excellent; one was about my church youth group (appealing to the Catholic side!) and the other was my political and law ambitions</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Teacher Recommendation: one was excellent for charcter and one was excellent for achievement EXCEPT it was included that i was VP of Spanish NHS… which I’m not even part of o_0</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Counselor Rec: Good, explained why I could not take more than 2 yrs of Foreign Language, etc.</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Additional Rec: none</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Interview: Excellent… beat out my Princeton one by a mile and I thought that one was very good. I was very calm and collected and was able to have almost an hour of valuable conversation</p>[/li]
<p>[ /list][ b]Other**</p>
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Country (if international applicant):</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: Public, 6 years old</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: White</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: Male</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket: ~100k</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>[/li]
<p>[ b]Reflection**</p>
<p>[li] Strengths: SAT scores, progressive GPA since freshman year, well roundedness… I’ve been nonstop busy since Junior year lol</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Weaknesses: SAT II scores, the one recommendation mishap, and possibly my rank…? </p>[/li]
<p>[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was definitely a competitive applicant but I may be too “average”… there my be too many middle class white males from the suburbs with grades similar, so I may have not stood out THAT much</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: [/li]Accepted: George Mason (Honors), Rutgers (Honors), Boston University
Rejected: Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn
Waitlisted: Georgetown</p>
<p>General Comments:</p>
<p>I reached for the stars but ultimately fell short… I still have a chance to get of this waitlist, even though it is rather minimal, but I now have to wait another month and a half and have to fight off the ever growing force of Senioritis! My grades have gotten better since the mid-year report, though, so hopefully I stand out enough in the wait list process or, dare I saw it, extended wait list… Best of luck to everyone else who got accepted or put on the wait list! And to everyone who didn’t I envy the sense of closure you have after all of this! We will all succeed and ever have this bond of CC in us lol.</p>
