<p>** Decision:
Accepted**</p>
<p>[li] ACT: 31</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: math 2c 800, japanese 710</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA : 4.9/5.0</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): japanese 5</p>[/li]
<p>[li] IB (place score in parenthesis): total score at mid-30s</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: IB Korean A1 HL, English A2 HL, Japanese B SL, History HL, Math SL, Bio SL, Film SL</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): not much…just debate tournaments and muns. these weren’t even international. oh plus some forum awards about north korea human rights.</p>[/li]
<p>[/list]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in
parenthesis): MUN club, host in-school mun two times. debate club(vice captain), became representative of my high school at the admissions info session(my high school is a pretty prestigious one in my country), research works in japan and china, photo exhibition in my school, choir activities, girls’ basketball team
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: tour guide, translator, and many other works at Pearl S. Buck Memorial Hall South Korea. 4 yrs.
[</em>] Essays: i thought this was one of my weaknesses, but luckily i guess the admission officers got a good impression. there came some handwritten notes complimenting on my commonapp essay from other schools.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: very good. one of the teacher is actually from liberal arts college(haverford). i think they did a wonderful job in explaining how i would thrive in a liberal arts curriculum.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good
[<em>] Additional Rec: from my club activity advisor.
[</em>] Interview: none
[<em>] Supplementary Material(if any):none
[/ul] b]Other**[ul]
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): south korea
[<em>] School Type: foreign language high school
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian
[li] Gender: female</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: um…the thing is, i really cant get it myself either…
[</em>] Weaknesses: ib score definitely. act score
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/
waitlisted/rejected:
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/
waitlisted/rejected:
[<em>] accepted: colby, smith, grinnell, colgate, bryn mawr, brandeis, etc
[</em>] waitlisted: oberlin
[li] rejected: haverford(early)[/li][/ul][ b]General Comments:**
it was TOTALLY UNEXPECTED, considering my deplorable ib score
it’s still unbelievable to me…</p>