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[ *]SAT II:
[ *]ACT:
[ *]GPA:
[ *]Rank:
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays:
[ *]Teacher Recs:
[ *]Counselor Rec:
[ *]Supplementary Material:
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location:
[ *]High School Type:
[ *]Ethnicity:
[ *]Gender
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
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[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 1550
[ *]SAT II: Math II 800, Physics 800
[ *]ACT: 35
[ *]GPA: 4.42 weighted, 3.8 unweighted
[ *]Rank: School doesn’t rank
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP lang, Micro, Macro: 5 AP Physics, USH, 4, World: 3
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[ *]Essays: Was told they were great
[ *]Teacher Recs: White hot.
[ *]Counselor Rec: Probably eh
[ *]Supplementary Material: Had none.
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nope.
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[ *]Location: VA
[ *]High School Type: Public
[ *]Ethnicity: White
[ *]Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Tutoring, computer club
[ *]Awards: Science fair winner, some ap stuff.
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:
Damn. Guess great scores aren’t enough.[ /list]
I wrote this all before my decision to minimise bias.
[size=+1][ color=red][ b]Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]
**Stats:[ /b][ list]
[]SAT: new one, 1530 (770 math, 760 English)
[]SAT II: 770 bioe, 770 chemistry, 800 math2
[]ACT:34 (33E, 35M, 32R, 34 S, 27W)
[]GPA: 4.4 weighted, 3.88 unweighted?
[]Rank:5
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 3 on world history, 4 on bio, 5 on psych, Calc ab, physics 1, English language.
[ /list][ b]Subjective[ /b][ list]
[]Essays: I poured a lot of effort into these essays. I tried to come off as genuine as possible to give the officers something special to read. My Why Caltech essay was very quirky and my What do you do for fun essay was the quirkinest thing I have ever written. I’m not a particularly great writer, I get Bs in English, but my content is original and that’s what matters. I cannot stress enough how much time and effort you need to put into your essays.
[]Teacher Recs:I had my super quirky math teacher write me a letter of rec along with my academic decathlon coach and my calculus teacher. I never read any of them, but I’m sure they put their hardest into it because I’m one of their favorites. I might be the quirky math teacher"s favorite because I made answer keys to my own tests haha.
[]Counselor Rec: super generic, doubt she knows my name
[]Supplementary Material:uh, none?
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I guess I’m pretty quirky.
[ /list][ b]Personal[ /b][ list]
[]Location: California
[]High School Type: public
[]Ethnicity: Pakistani
[]Gender male
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[]Extracurriculars:ultimate frisbee all 4 years, coding club here and there, president of arduino club, boy scout(not Eagle), black belt, tutoring for free. I had an internship at a local university where I did some chemistry labs and stuff. Academic decathlon.
[]Awards: tons of stuff from academic decathlon, California is the most competitive state and I snagged a couple medals at the state competition. Other than this, ap scholar blah blah blah you know the whole generic award group.
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list] Yeah I didn’t have high hopes coming in because of my lack of Extracurriculars and stuff, so I wasn’t that disappointed. I was up late because I couldn’t sleep which is a terrible decision, if any juniors are reading this or seniors who haven’t heard from any colleges yet DON"T DO THAT.
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT II: Math II 800, Chemistry 790
[]ACT: 36
[]GPA: 4.0 UW
[]Rank: 1
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP CS, Calc AB & BC, US History 5. Perfect score on APCS.
[]Misc: Took classes junior/senior year at state university.
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Not stellar, but I felt like they were good
[]Teacher Recs: Good.
[]Counselor Rec: Probably good.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Speech, Debate, Quiz Bowl 4 years. Taught a programming class at the middle school.
[li]Awards: 3x speech national qualifier, state speech finalist, state debate quarterfinalist. National Merit Semifinalist.[/ul][/li]
I was hoping for deferral. The rejection was somewhat crushing… hopefully the rest of my applications go alright.
Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2400 superscore
[]SAT II: 800s in Math II and Chemistry
[]ACT: lol what
[]GPA: 4.85 weighted
[]Rank: if my school ranked we’d all hate each other, thank the lord we don’t
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 2 time AIME Qualifier, 5s in AP Chemistry, AP Computer Science A, AP Calculus BC, AP Biology, AP Physics C Mechanics, AP Physics C E&M, AP Psychology, AP Language and Composition
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I think they went well? I wrote them all sort of last minute but my AP Lang teacher reviewed them for me, she’s a sweetheart
[]Teacher Recs: Humanities was good (from aforementioned AP Lang teacher), STEM was okay, it was from a teacher in a class where I was 2 years ahead, but I was hella scared to ever speak up as a result
[]Counselor Rec: Each counselor has like 40 people per grade assigned to them, but I knew him a bit better than the rest so I think it went well?
[]Supplementary Material: I had a letter from my research mentor, who is really cute and old
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): LOL I wish, I submitted a research paper though?
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: the wonderful, freezing NE
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: F
[/ul]Other[list]
[]Extracurriculars: So much random stuff, but I had the general few (SciOly, CS Club) plus a few related to my flamboyant attraction to females (Gay Straight Alliance, Literature Magazine (AKA the other place GSA kids go to read and write gay fanfics and emo poetry about our homophobic society :D))
[]Awards: Dime a dozen SciOly awards, some community stuff for being a women who squints at a computer screen while binge eating when her code refuses to compile, some international recognition for smaller competitions like Future Problem Solving
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:/list I’m overjoyed but sort of numb, because unfortunately $$$ is a thing my family has to deal with and I’m not entirely sure how Caltech finaid works XD
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: Didn’t Report
[]SAT II: 800 Phys, 800 Math II, 800 Bio E
[]ACT: 36 Comp (36 M, 36 E, 36 S, 35 R)
[]GPA: 4.00 (UW)
[]Rank: 6/674
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
5 Human Geo (9)
5 Stat (10)
4 Phys 1 (10)
4 World History (10)
5 Phys C: E&M (11)
4 Phys C: Mech (11)
5 Lang (11)
5 Calc BC (11)
4 Bio (11)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[li]Essays:[/li]-CommonApp (Interest Prompt): Talked about RuPaul’s Drag Race and what it means to me
-3 Experiences: (1) Smithsonian Air and Space, (2) visiting my sister’s research lab, (3) joining SciOly
-Books: The Sun Also Rises, Fahrenheit 451, Cat’s Cradle
-Ethical Dilemma: I snitched on a friend
-Unusual fun: talked about collecting pens
-Community: talked about being queer and about inclusivity
-Why Caltech: bc unlimited students
[]Teacher Recs:
-My Physics teacher who’s also my SciOly coach. Practically my best friend.
-My AP Lang teacher, he thought I was pretty cool.
[]Counselor Rec: She barely knows me bc we have such a big school
[]Supplementary Material: None, probably my biggest weakness.
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Basically just being queer idk 
#CaltechIsHomophobic
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Metropolitan Atlanta
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Indian American
[]Gender: Genderfluid
[/ul]Other[list]
[]Extracurriculars:
-Academic Decathlon, Captain
-SciOly, Captain
-Academic Team
-Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica, President
-Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society), Project Manager
-NHS, NEHS, SNHS
[]Awards:
-Nothing major besides #1 in the state of Georgia for Academic Decathlon
-JK, also GHP after my sophomore year
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I honestly never saw myself getting full out rejected… I thought deferred worst case :([/li][ /list]
Deferred
Stats:
SAT: 750 reading, 800 math
SAT II: Math II 800, Physics 800
GPA: 4.21 UW out of 4.3
Rank: 1
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP CS, BC Calc, Physics C E&M, Physics C Mechanics. All 5s
Subjective
Essays: IDK, I think they are good
Teacher Recs: Good.
Professor Rec from UChicago: I think it is good
Counselor Rec: Probably good.
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None.
Personal
High School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Other
Extracurriculars: Math Team(captain), FTC Robotics(captain), Tutoring
Awards:
USAMO qualifier
AIME qualifier
FTC regional Champion
Math Team State runner-up
Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2340
[]SAT II: 790 Math II, 790 Bio E
[]GPA: 3.97 UW, 4.6 W
[]Rank: 9 of 857
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Full IB Diploma, so far I’ve taken 8 APs, AP Human(5), AP Chem(4), AP Lang(5), APWH(5), AP Lit (4), AP Bio (5(, AP Calc BC (5), APUSH (5)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I thought they were just okay but maybe they liked them! I had this weird metaphor about flowers and stew for the diversity essay. I liked my Why Caltech essay though.
[]Teacher Recs: Good
[]Counselor Rec: I’m sure it was good.
[]Supplementary Material:
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): I would say race but apparently Caltech doesn’t do affirmative action.
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Southern California
[]High School Type: Big public high school with lots of IB and AP offerings
[]Ethnicity: Black
[]Gender: Female
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: They’re my weak point. Math Club Treasurer, Astronomy Club, Garden Club, Readers Club, “Math Team” Member, babysitting brothers (one is severely autistic), helping with my mom’s business sometimes…,learning piano (just for fun)
[]Awards: Nothing special
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: See, you don’t have to be super extraordinary to get in! Good luck guys![/li][/ul]
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]ACT: 35 (E35 M36 R34 S36)
[]GPA: 4.23/4.3 (highest possible=4.3)
[]Rank: Not offered
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP9
[/ul]**Subjective /b][ul]
[li]Essays: I think they are fine[/li][]Teacher Recs: I think they are fine
[]Counselor Rec: I think it is fine
[]Supplementary Material: 2 research papers
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): None
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: US
[]High School Type: Private boarding
[]Ethnicity: International (China, w/o green card)
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Science/math stuff, peer tutoring, NHS, programming internship, independent mathematics research, summer research with an MIT professor in mathematics modeling (with recommendation)
[]Awards: Intel ISEF Grand award 3rd mathematics, AJAS/AAAS, USAMO qualifier (index 240+), USAPhO silver, all state orchestra, and other stuff (and possibly some award from the Regeneron STS)
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: No bragging… I have no idea… Probably because the international pool is too competitive (Hard for applicants w/o IMO/IPhO/IOI/IChO/IBO especially Chinese Male) or the recommendations have problems?
[/ul]
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 780 M, 750 W, 710 CR (2240/2400)
[]SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Physics, 770 Bio-M
[]ACT: N/A
[]GPA: 4.27 W, 3.91 UW
[]Rank: N/A
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: ABSOLUTE TRASH. Very trite and generic
[]Teacher Recs: idk, wasn’t allowed to read
[]Counselor Rec: idk, wasn’t allowed to read
[]Supplementary Material: N/A
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: US
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Indian
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Very very very few of these… The main one was my “research internship” (not really an internship, more like a volunteer activity) at my local university.
[]Awards: No major ones. I did get AP Scholar with distinctio, but so did every other applicant.
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul]
Advice: Don’t be boring, like I am. Test scores are not enough, of course.
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2290 (720 CR, 770 M, 800 W)
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 Bio M
[]ACT: Never took
[]GPA: 3.91 uw, 4.41 w
[]Rank: NA
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 (Chem, WH, USH, Lang, Physics 1, Calc AB) 4(Bio)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I’d say overall 7.5/10
[]Teacher Recs: Chem Teacher 10/10, Physics and History 8/10
[]Counselor Rec: Not sure but prob 9/10
[]Supplementary Material: N/A
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): N/A
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: CA
[]High School Type: Large competitive public
[]Ethnicity: Asian
[]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Captain and founder of my school’s squash team (non-CIF sport), President of ACS Chemistry Club. Captain of Varsity Academic Team (Something local to the San Diego area), SD Youth Symphony, S+D, other general activities
[]Awards: Chem Oly National Finalist with Honors (Top 150). Nationally Ranked 120 in Squash, won a few tournaments. Nothing else was rly major (AP awards, invited to a symposium, etc.)
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I thought I’d at least get deferred but I still wasn’t really expecting much because I’m an asian guy. I also heard Caltech favors kids who do research over ppl like me who did STEM competitions instead. Now I guess i just wait for MIT?!?!
[/ul]
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: Didn’t report
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 720 Bio M
[]ACT: 35
[]GPA: (no GPA)
[]Rank: (school doesn’t do ranks)
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): GCSEs: 12As, AS: 4As, A-level predictions: 4As, an A and another A in an AS
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: I thought my essays were really great actually. I spoke about blindfolded chess for the fun question and about my history of international education for diversity. Why Caltech was pretty good as well; it referenced everything I wanted in a college and sounded fun.
[]Teacher Recs: In retrospect, I didn’t pick the best teachers I could have done. I think they were decent but nothing stand-out.
[]Counselor Rec: I’d only spoken to this woman about three times before so I think it was the recommendations that let me down
[]Supplementary Material: I submitted a research paper on orthopedic medicine
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): If only…
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: London
[]High School Type: Private
[]Ethnicity: Australian born, British-Chinese
[]Gender: F
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Piano at diploma standard, MUN, debate, various choirs, chairman of astronomy society and chess club (both started by me), musical theater, kickboxing captain, kickboxing and martial arts at a national level
[]Awards: Gold awards in all British Maths challenges, merits in a some science olympiads, music awards, sports prizes (I can’t be bothered to list everything)
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] To be honest, I’m international and the Caltech international acceptance rate is craaaaaazy. I wasn’t expecting to get in (although I would’ve been ridiculously happy) so I suppose it’s not too bad. I have UK unis to prepare for and regular applications to start.
Accepted
Stats:
SAT (post March 2016): 1540 (790 RW, 750 M)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 730 Physics
ACT: Nope
GPA: 3.87 uw, 4.43 w
Rank: 24/1276
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 (BC Calc, Stats, Comp Sci, English Lang, Spanish Lang, HGAP, Euro) 4(APUSH, WHAP)
Subjective
Essays: Idk maybe 7 or 8/10
Teacher Recs: Calc teacher liked me but she had a lot of letters to write so 7/10
APUSH teacher told me I was his favorite student in the past few years so 10/10
Counselor Rec: School has system where the teachers basically write the counselor rec letter so 8/10
Supplementary Material: Instructor evaluation from a summer program I did
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): URM I guess
Personal
Location: TX
High School Type: Large somewhat competitive public
Ethnicity: Black/African American
Gender: M
Other
Extracurriculars: Vice President of Computer Science Club, former captain of Quiz Bowl team, NHS and all that good stuff that everyone does, part of my church’s tech team
Awards: Not much, National AP Scholar and NMSF, some awards from the NAACP
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I had little hope that I was even going to be deferred so this came as an absolute shock, reminder to everyone to never count yourself out cause you think you’re not good enough 
Deferred
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: n/a
[]SAT II: 800 math 2, 800 bio e, 730 world history (lmao)
[]ACT: 35 composite
[]GPA: w 4.83
[]Rank: 1
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 calc bc self studied (ab subscore 5), 5 bio, 5 world history, 4 chem, 4 physics 1
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: 8.5/10 I was pretty happy with all but the honor code essay
[]Teacher Recs: 10/10 I have amazing bio and english teachers
[]Counselor Rec: 7/10 because I never get to talk to her (big school + only 4 counselors)
[]Supplementary Material: internship at UCSD and programming research at IIT (2 years)
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): graduating early, but that might have worked against me
[/ul]Personal[ list]
[]Location: socal
[]High School Type: public
[]Ethnicity: Korean 1st generation
[]Gender: F
[/list]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: decent I guess - co-founder/president of science fair and art therapy club (fundraising and volunteer work), personal science/programming blog, 180 hours community service
[]Awards: GSDSEF 2nd place (county science fair)
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[/ul] It sounds pathetic but I’m so happy that I was deferred. Acceptance would’ve been ideal but I honestly thought I didn’t have a chance at top schools because of my age/relatively weak extracurriculars. I’ll probably get rejected from MIT but I have more confidence now for my regular schools
Deferred
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 2280 (730 CR, 750 W (come on… I got 12 on the essay), 800 M)
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chemistry, 800 Physics
[]GPA: 4.0 (currently)
[]Rank: idk
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AIME once, AP Chinese, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics I, II, E & M, C, APLAC, APCS (5), AP Stats (4)
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Wrote about hip-hop dance for commonapp and how it impacted my life and how it became my creative outlet, badminton team pranks, research ethics, school community. Books: Power of Habit, and 2 other programming textbooks.
[]Teacher Recs: One from APCS, one from French
[]Counselor Rec: Meh
[]Supplementary Material: One of my award winning research papers + research professor rec
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Cali
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: Asian Robot
[]Gender: Male
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Research, research, and research, labs in Boston, UCSB RMP, remote intern with Harbin Professor, robotics. Dance, Badminton Team Captain and varsity player, CS Club President, Breakdance club, FBLA, President of clubs in my middle school, FHS, local campaigning, volunteering to help kids with autism, etc.
[]Awards: Siemens Semifinalist, bunch of other research awards, 5 research papers, USACO Platinum, AIME, a ton (I mean a crap load) of FBLA Awards, athletic awards, French contests, etc.
[*]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:Damn! This is my dream school! Too bad, at least I didn’t get rejected, being an asian male with a crappy SAT score. Really thought I was a good fit for Caltech, given my extensive research background. Good luck/congratulations to all! [/ul]
Accepted
Stats
SAT: 2380 (800 M, 800 R, 780 W)
SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics
ACT: No
GPA: 3.78 uw, 4.21 w
Rank: School doesn’t rank
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 (AP Calc AB, AP Calc BC, AP US History, AP Micro, AP Physics 1, AP Physics 2, AP Comp Sci), 4 (AP Euro, AP Chem)
Subjective
Essays: I think they were pretty good overall. My best essay was Why Caltech (9/10), while my worst was the ethics (6-7/10)
Teacher Recs: 8-9/10
Counselor Rec: 8/10
Supplementary Material: None
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Recruited tennis athlete (but it wasn’t an “official” recruit; I just visited, hit with the team, and talked to the coach.)
Personal
Location: New Jersey
High School Type: Private, very small
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Other
Extracurriculars: Second Singles (9-11) and First Singles (12) in Varsity Tennis, Co-Captain (11) and Captain of Math League (12), Captain of Tennis Varsity Team (12), Tutoring Club (12), Multicultural Club (9-10), Welcome Wednesdays (performing for lower school students during Wednesday mornings) (9-12), Editor/writer for Newspaper Club (10-12), Robotics Club coder (12), Relay For Life (10-12), Model UN (9), Admissions Ambassador/Tour Guide (9, 12)
Awards: I’m just going to paste what I have on my resume (and it’s a little long, sorry!) so here goes:
-NJ Music Teacher Association (NJMTA) piano competition: Second place (11);
-Participant in the Chopin International Competition at Hartford, CT (11)
-Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition: Grand prix prize (10, 11)
-Forte International Piano Competition: First place and monetary award after three rounds in the senior category (10);
-NY Piano Teacher Congress Competition: Third place (9,10);
-Crescendo International Piano Competition: Grand prize (10)
-Steinway Scholarship Competition: First place and monetary award in the junior category (9)
-West Chester Pre-Collegiate Piano Competition: Second place and monetary award in the junior category (9);
-Impact Young Artist Competition: First prize (9)
-Selected to play in master classes with Victor Rosenbaum (9), Joseph Kalichstein (9), Peter Mack (12), and as solo pianist with the North Shore Long Island Symphony (8)
-High honors in NJMTA spring auditions (8-11)
-Honor Roll (9, 10, 11)
-AP Scholar with Honor (10)
-National AP Scholar (11)
-National Merit Scholar Commended by earning a PSAT score of 221 out of a total score of 225(12)
-Qualified for Presidential Award Candidacy by earning 800 on both SAT math and reading sections (12)
-Highest score on the American Mathematics Competition 10 Test in the school (9)
-Highest average score on Math League competitions in the school (9, 10)
-Chosen by teacher for excellence in the course: Honors Pre-Cal (9), AP Computer Science (10), AP Physics 1
-Winner (11) and Finalist (12) of NJ Prep B Tournament, Finalist in NJ Somerset County Tournament (10,11)
These aren’t really awards, but I’ll paste in the rest of my resume:
-Self-studying AP Physics C and AP Macroeconomics (Spring 2017)
-Advanced Placement/Early Action Program (Carnegie Mellon University, Summer 2016), two undergraduate Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering courses: Concepts of Mathematics (9 units) and Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering (12 units)
-Self-studied AP Physics 2 (Spring 2016)
-Hackathon (May 2016, Milburn High School, NJ)
-Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Changing the World via Venture Creation (Columbia University, Summer 2015), volunteered to be CEO of my business company, placed 3rd out of 25+ groups, won award for “Most Representative of Entrepreneurship Spirit”
-ID Tech Camp: iPad & iPhone App Development with Swift & Xcode (Princeton University, Summer 2015)
-Developed a book exchange app for my school, which I will continue to work on through senior year
-International Institute for Young Musicians Summer Music Academy (University of Kansas, Summer 2014)
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?
Pretty much anything can happen. My uw GPA of 3.78 isn’t bad, but I thought that was one of my low points because it wasn’t the best compared to many applicants. I think that an interesting essay really helps too, and I had fun just sitting back and writing an essay about how I completely messed at cooking a salmon dish. Just be yourself, but don’t try too hard to be unique. I’m an Asian and I wrote about my love for piano. It was one of my most genuine passions, and I really think it shone through in my essay. Good luck to the rest of you guys and I hope to see you next year!
Rejected
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: 1560
[]SAT II: 800 on math 2, 780 on chem
[]ACT: 34 but didn’t submit
[]GPA: 4.42
[]Rank: 12th but our school doesn’t submit
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 5 on AP CS, 5 on BC Calc
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: 7/10, spent a lot of time on them
[]Teacher Recs: 7/10
[]Counselor Rec: 8/10
[]Supplementary Material: none
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): none
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: Massachusetts
[]High School Type: Charter
[]Ethnicity: Indian
[]Gender M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: Taekwondo (3rd?-11th), Math Team (7th-12th), tutoring (10th-12th), 400-level math course at Boston University over the summer, internship at tech/healthcare startup (3 summers), a bunch more mathy stuff, Model UN (12th). also I’ve taken/am taking courses in multivariable calc, linear algebra, differential equations, complex analysis, database design, cybersecurity
[]Awards: a lot of math team awards from local to national, have done AIME 3 times and scored 4, 6, 6. silver medal on National Spanish Exam. 2 gold medals from Taekwondo competition
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I think the main thing I was lacking was research. I feel like Caltech has a pretty heavy emphasis on research. I wasn’t really expecting to get in anyways but it sucks to not even be deferred. [/ul]
Accepted
Stats:[ul]
[]SAT:
[]SAT II: Math II 760, Chemistry 760
[]ACT: 35
[]GPA: 4.93
[]Rank: Top 9%
[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 4 Bio, 4 World History, 4 APES, 5 Calc AB, 5 English Lang, 4 US History, 4 Chem, 3 Physics 1
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[]Essays: Very happy with how they turned out
[]Teacher Recs: Pretty Good
[]Counselor Rec: Good
[]Supplementary Material: none
[]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Recruited Athlete - Volleyball
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[]Location: California
[]High School Type: Public
[]Ethnicity: White
[]Gender: F
[/ul]Other[ul]
[]Extracurriculars: volleyball, volunteer groups, club board member, Deaf community member (I know ASL)
[]Awards: County Science Fair winner, State Science Fair participant, Intel ISEF semi-finalist, National Merit Commendation
[]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: I think they definitely look for an interest in STEM shown through clubs or extracurriculars. I think Science Fairs helped me in this aspect, since I’m not in any science clubs. [/ul]
Just take out the spaces and pick your result:
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[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *]SAT: 1580
[ *]SAT II: math, physics 800
[ *]ACT: not
[ *]GPA: 91.88 (13 APs in total tho)
[ *]Rank: idk
[ *]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Chem, Seminar, Calc BC, Stats, English, European History, Physics C 5, US History 4
[ *]Essays: deceent I guess
[ *]Teacher Recs: my teachers kinda loved me
[ *]Counselor Rec: my counselor kinda likes me a lot
[ *]Supplementary Material: decent I guess worked some internship, wrote a math paper, blob blob. Took college courses.
[ *]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
[ *]Location: VT
[ *]High School Type: Private/Public
[ *]Ethnicity: Korean
[ *]Gender M
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *]Extracurriculars: Math club, science club, MUN, internship at microsoft and stuff, Varsity indoor and outdoor track, student government, class counsel, NHS, tutoring,
[ *]Awards: won math league in District 3 in VT 3 times, our math team state champ 3 years in a row, top 1% in VT for math, went on Vermont all star team for national math competition thing, won some 2nd and 3rd places in New Hampshire Science Olympiad, AP scholar, high honors, and stuff.
[ *]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:[ /list] I guess stuffs are not enough for Caltech 
hopefully MIT will turn out better.