<p>I got in. I have a 4.4 GPA weighted.</p>
<p>congratz everyone! See you all there c:</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected - SEAS</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2290: 760 CR, 770 M, 760 W
ACT:
SAT II: Physics: 800, Chemistry: 800, Math IIC: 800
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.46
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/438
AP (place score in parenthesis): Comp Sci A (5), World (4), AP Calc AB (5), AB Calc BC (5) US Hist (5), Chemistry (5), Physics B (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, Multivariable Calc/D eq, Bio Research, AP Bio, AP lang and comp, AP U.S Government, AP Comp Gov, Art I (needed fine art credit)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, 2nd at regional science fair, chemistry olympiad state finalist
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Girl Scouts (gold award), county student board member representing high school, tennis (Breakout athlete award for undefeated season + school sportsmanship award), various honor societies
Job/Work Experience: none
Volunteer/Community service: library, homeless shelter, organizing food drive, various others involved with girl scouts
Summer Activities: JHU CTY, UPenn bioengineering summer program (wanted to learn more about my inteded major)
Essays: ok
Teacher Recommendation: don’t know
Counselor Rec: don’t know
Additional Rec: don’t know
Interview: none
Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): VA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: suburban public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Income Bracket: high
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: senior year grades dropped, lack of good ECs, and because there’s a point where admissions is random :-(</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted - SEAS</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2070 (630 CR, 690 M, 750 W, 8 Essay)
[</em>] ACT: 29
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Bio E, 650 Math 2
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 97.36/100
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/308
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 US History,5 US Gov.,5 Biology, 4 World History
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Language, AP Chemistry, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calculus BC, Adv. Chem 2(pre-AP Chem), Intermediate Band
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Acheivement, Questbrisge College Match Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years Marching Band (12th-Tuba Section Leader), 3 years Environmental Club (12th-President), 2 years Interact, 2 years Beta Club, 3 years National Honor Society, 1 year Empower CSHS (co-founder)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: 5-week summer internship @ UGA College of Pharmacy
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Adopt-A-Highway, Food Shelter, Humane Society, School Rain Garden
[<em>] Summer Activities: Internship mentioned before…visiting grandparents (used to my advantage in essay)
[</em>] Essays: Can’t remember right now, but all of them went back to overcoming financial hardships.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Amazing!!! I have a good relationship with nearly all of my teachers.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also amazing. My counselor and I are quite close.
[<em>] Additional Rec: None
[</em>] Interview: None</p>
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Georgia
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: ~37,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First Generation, low-income</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays and recommendations
[</em>] Weaknesses: Test scores
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays and Recommendations. I made my essays super personal (why not? I knew it would help admissions know me better)
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Waitlisted (University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt), Rejected (MIT,Cornell)
Accepted (Brown University, Emory, Carnegie Mellon and UGA)</p>
<p>[/ul]General Comments:
Questbridge helped pay for 10 of the 14 schools that I applied to (it rocks). The other 4 were covered by collegeboard waivers.</p>
<p>My b - accidentally posted in the 2016 thread. Mod delete?</p>