<p>I’m trying to think through my application and I can’t find anything that I think really makes me different from you. I haven’t read your essays so don’t take this personally, but I think my essays had alot of heart and passion. Maybe it was your essays?
I’m also a National Merit Semi-Finalist and National AP Scholar and it doesn’t seem like you have anything like that. (Your Model UN awards would be more EC awards in my opinion.) And by no means am I criticizing your GPA or rank, but I have a 4.0 UW, 4.78 W (when I sent it in), and 3/~550 rank.</p>