***Official Class of 2015 Decisions Thread***

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2240: CR - 740, M - 740, W - 760, 8 Essay
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: Math II - 800, Chem - 730
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 93%
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Biology SL-5, Math SL-6
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: French 20IB/30IB, Physics 20IB/30IB, Chemistry 30, Social 30-1, English 30-1
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Honor Society, Gauss Math Contest
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity basketball and football, Air Cadets, Acting and Modelling Agency, Debate, etc
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Basketball Referee
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Church youth volunteer, Business office at school, etc
[<em>] Summer Activities: N/A
[</em>] Essays: Decent, were written about my experiences living in several different countries
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Average (he put very demanding for my schedule as opposed to most demanding)
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: Yale and Princeton, both went very well
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): N/A
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): Canada
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Black
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: $100000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): (Thought I was URM, guess not)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Nothing really
[<em>] Weaknesses: SAT could’ve been higher, counsellor recommendation
[</em>] ACCEPTED: McGill, Calgary, UBC
[<em>] WAIT-LISTED: Yale
[</em>] REJECTED: Harvard, Cornell, Stanford, Duke (ED), Princeton
[/ul]</p>

<p>TOTALLY forgot to post stats here</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): CR 730 M 800 W 800 Composite 2330
ACT: N/A
SAT II: MathII 800, Physics 780
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93, or 93.6/100
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%, exact rank unknown
AP (place score in parenthesis):
Macro-economics (4), Micro-economics(4), Psychology (4), Calculus AB (4), English Language (3) (I know… they’re all bad) Taking: Physics C, Statistics, Chemistry, Calculus BC</p>

<p>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load: Economics, Independent Studies Math, English (AP Lit got cancelled due to low enrollment), History (no AP History offered at my school), AP Bio, AP Physics B, AP Chem, Peer Tuturing</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
AIME x 2
CMO (Canadian Mathematical Olympiad) x1
Medals from table tennis tournament
Fermat Contest National Champion</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity Table Tennis (Captain 9,10,11,12, won a lot of medals and awards)
Recreational Table Tennis Club(President 9,10,11,12)
School tutoring club (Co-founder and President, 12)
Math Club (President, 9,10,11,12)
JV Basketball (9,10)
Student Council (11,12)
Job/Work Experience:
Basketball Columnist/ Freelance Translator (11,12)
Math/Physics Tutor (9,10,11,12)
Volunteer/Community service:
Youth Camp counselor (10,11,12)
School Teaching Assistant (10,11,12)</p>

<p>Summer Activities:</p>

<p>SIMUW (Summer Institute of Mathematics at University of Washington) - 2009
AwesomeMath - 2010
Essays: Assuming good
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see. Assuming decent
Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it
Additional Rec: Not sending one
Interview: Haven’t had it yet</p>

<p>Others:</p>

<p>School Type: Mediocre public
Race: Asian
Gender: Male
Hook: ABSOLUTELY NONE</p>

<p>Results:</p>

<p>Accepted to: Duke (Trinity, attending), Boston College (Honors), University of Waterloo (National scholarship), McGill University</p>

<p>Waitlisted at: Northwestern, Amherst, WashU</p>

<p>Rejected by: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Penn Wharton (ED)</p>

<p>Can’t say I’m perfectly content with the overall result, but still thrilled to be a Blue Devil!</p>

<p>@mathematicism</p>

<p>Off topic, there is TT here in the CARY and Raleigh area, if you would like to continue. We have several 2000+ players.</p>

<p>Cary: Mondays: Bond Park Senior Center
Cary: Wednesdays: Herb Young Community Center
Cary: Friday: Middle Creek Community Center
Raleigh: Friday: Brier Creek Community Center</p>

<p>Welcome to the Triangle area.</p>

<p>Vinsim.</p>

<p>impressive stats.</p>

<p>People should start posting here for the class of 2019!</p>

<p>maybe we should start a new thread… got into princeton early tho (and I get extra help to acclimate to studying abroad and in the immigration status lolz)</p>