<p>Trinity/Pratt?</p>
<p>Anyway…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>((In the meantime, has anyone heard back about the McKenna Achievement Awards? I didn’t see anything, but I figured if they full-out rejected me from it they’d mention it somewhere…))
edit: I found it - it’s in my inbox. All I can say is yay!!!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): M 750 CR 750 W 740 (1500/2240)
[</em>] ACT: 35 overall, 36 math/science, 35-33 for the rest
[<em>] SAT II: Bio 780 USH 770 Math II 750
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.77 UW
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): probably 15% in terms of GPA, but I’d give myself top 1% for rigor of schedule
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): USH and both Econs - 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Euro History, AP Spanish Lit, English 12 (no AP English at my school) Int’l Human Rights, Creative Writing
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, nominated to apply for Presidential scholar award, Presidential Gold Award for Community service, etc.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Head of current events club, 2 years, STAND, Improv group, lots of theatre/voice, various thirds/JV sports, science bowl, stock market club
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: as I just turned 16 last fall, only oddjobs - babysitting, tutoring, working at the school bookstore… also unpaid internship with local politician
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 600+ hours between tutoring (unpaid), volunteering as a camp counselor, girl scout activities, and working as a CCD teacher
[</em>] Summer Activities: unpaid camp counselor, programs at Brown/Harvard (H for credit)
[<em>] Essays: One about Raphael Lemkin, inventor of the word ‘genocide’, and his contributions to International Law. My common app was about teaching CCD - spreading free thought/tolerance instead of indoctrination
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: All 3 very good from what I know. I think it helps that one was from my econ teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Also very good from what I know
[</em>] Additional Rec: N/a
[li] Interview: The worst part… I had been up since 2am local time (east coaster…) and was dead-tired, so I wasn’t exactly articulate. Plus, it didn’t help that my dad called me in the middle of it! (Of course, I was too tired to remember to silence my cellphone… 0_o)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CT
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: elite boarding school, probably in the top 20
[</em>] Ethnicity: European-American
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: It’s changed alot since the application process started, but at all times in my life I’ve fallen under the large umbrella of ‘middle class’
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My age? I’m pretty vanilla.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: For this one, I’d have to say test scores and maybe ECs.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Interview. I’m a terrible interviewer, especially when I am sleep deprived. It shocks me that they didn’t automatically prohibit me from applying.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred//waitlisted/rejected:
It doesn’t entirely shock me as they /did/ fly me out for the McKenna Achievement Scholarship weekend, but I’m still a bit astounded they chose me as a finalist for that at all. There are some, scratch that, lots of qualified applicants in this field. Maybe my interest level, general obsession with econ/polisci, and leadership/community service helped? I dunno.
[/ul]General Comments:
Congrats to all of you who got in, sorry to those who didn’t, and have a good night!
2/3 for my top 3 choices; only have to hear from Harvard next! *grimace</em></p>
PS: I didn’t know CMC had Pratt or Trinity ;)</p>