<p>Well, you clearly have a focus point - writing is obviously your strong point, and that’ll show even if you tried to hide it.</p>
<p>With that said, I put math, violin, tennis, latin, and quiz bowl, and I enjoyed great success this year. I think they like to see you experimenting with different stuff - adcoms don’t expect all high school seniors to exhibit direction in one particular path.</p>
<p>haha I actually get around 7ish hours of sleep and thats good enough for me. I think its becuz all the AP kids like me in our school never get homework. Our teachers just lecture and our grades are 80% tests and quizzes taken over the semester and 20% final exam, so its pretty chill. And all of my misc clubs only meet like once or twice a month except for band. </p>
<p>I’ve been speaking English, Oriya, Assamese and Kashmiri since I was born and I can communicate, read and write in those languages with no trouble at all. I’ve been learning Spanish in school since the 5th grade, and I just took the AP Spanish Language exam which I think I got at least a 4 on. I do have trouble sometimes understanding when people have very strong indegenous accents, especially from Mexico and Latin America because I’m taught Andaluis, and I can speak and communicate extemely well with most from Spain. I’ve been learning French since around freshman year, and I can have a regular normal conversations in it, and I did win the gold medal on the National French Exam, so I would say that I’m very good. </p>
*copy and pasted from Princeton Class of 2010 RD Decisions</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:
Fee Waiver Used?: No
SAT I (by section): N/A
SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 800 Ecological Biology, 800 Modern Hebrew
ACT: 36
APs: 17 AP Tests; 14 5’s, 3 4’s
IBs: N/A
GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.0 UW
Rank: N/A
Senior Yr Courseload: Hard stuff
Number of Apps from Your School: ~10
Other stats: AP State Scholar, National Merit Finalist, QuestLeadership Scholar, TASP
Subjective:
ECs listed on app: President of FBLA, Editor of School Newspaper
Essays (subject and responses): Fantastique
Teacher Recs: Good
Counselor Rec: Good
Interview (feel and general location): At my school/on the phone, very quick, professional
Hook (if any): TASP, I’m an Indian-American girl who studies Hebrew, I’m fluent in six languages.
Location/Person:
State or Country: Oklahoma/New Hampshire
School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Boarding
Ethnicity: Indian
Income Bracket: Upper Middle Class
Gender: Female
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Overall very strong?
Other Factors: N/A
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I was accepted to Oxford, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Williams, Penn (Huntsman), and Princeton! A very tough decision .</p>