<p>Decision: Accepted
SATs: 800 Verbal, 670 Math, 760 Writing: 2230.
SAT IIs: 800 Literature, 800 US History, 800 World History.
ACTs: 32.
Extracurriculars: Literary Magazine EIC, Newspaper Editor, Drama Club (Actor, more productions than anyone), Spanish Club, NHS, National Hispanic Honors Society.
Awards: National Merit Commendation, Fairfield University Book Award.
Community Service: I TA’d at a mostly bilingual preschool for years, clocking over 100 hours.
GPA: 3.9 weighted out of…4.5?
All honors/APs in humanities/languages. I got a C- in Chem Honors sophomore year. My school doesn’t rank.
White, Jewish male from a small, affluent public HS in North Jersey. I got my recommendation from my AP English Language and AP English Lit teacher, and applied as an Art History major (History as second option.) My “Majors” essay talked about Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert, and used it to summarize my theory about both the “internal” (ultimately non-translatable, literary, emotional, personal) and “external” (contextual, historical, comparative) aspects of an artwork, and then talked about the intrinsic importance of translation in the field of Art History. My Common App Essay was about the human venture for perfection, and about how the inability to attain that perfection creates art. It used Glastonbury Abbey, a ruined Gothic abbey in W. England, and Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way to make that point.</p>
<p>I’m admittedly most likely not going to Johns Hopkins, though…since I already got into UChicago and am still waiting to hear from Yale. But it’s a wonderful school.</p>